So really weird thing has been happening these last few days that doesn't involve Donald
Trump or republicans in any way.
It's actually a weird thing happening on the left and what seems to be happening is that
you have establishment Democrats out there lead apparently by Neera Tanden, the president
of the Center for American Progress, saying that there is some kind of coordinated attack
amongst the so called Bernie Bros against Beto O'Rourke.
So all the establishment has come out and they're defending Beto O'Rourke, talking about
how great he could be as a candidate in 2020.
Maybe he should run, maybe you shouldn't.
They're not completely decided.
I'm not going to put words in their mouth, but they are defending him tooth and nail
against information that has come out from investigative journalists.
David Sirota talking about all of the fossil fuel employees who have given Beto work money,
a valid criticism, a factual criticism, which is the most important part of it.
But you have these folks on the establishment side saying that Sirota is part of a broad
campaign with the people like Elizabeth Brunig from the Washington Post, uh, attacking Beto.
Because they've coordinated this because they feel like Beto is somehow a threat to Bernie
Sanders in Iowa and then bad things will happen to Bernie so these people have this conspiracy
to take down.
The whole thing is absolutely bonkers and there's no truth to any of it.
I mean, here's what Neera tanden again, President Center for American progress tweeted out the
other day said Brunig, referring to Elizabeth Brunick, who I just mentioned, peace and post
on Beto is just the latest attack by a supporter of senator sanders on Beto joining Jelani,
Jacobin and Sirota feels a bit orchestrated and clearly they are worried.
The only thing we're worried about, Neera, is you spreading these asinine conspiracy
theories to your hill, bought followers on twitter who then take it up and pass it along
to other folks.
Listen, this is not meant in any way to be an attack on Beto O'Rourke.
This is not.
Please don't take it as such.
I like Beto O'Rourke.
I have issues with him.
I have questions about him.
We don't know enough about him and yeah, I think elevating him as the 2020 candidate
right now, immediately after he comes off that loss, they be all be at a close loss
to Ted, lose a Ted Cruz.
Uh, it was still a loss.
It was still a loss.
So you may get excited because he energized people all around the country.
But was that really excitement for Beto or was that excitement?
Because literally everyone hates Ted Cruz.
You don't know that and you're already ready to elevate him to 20, 20 status.
Give it a break, give it a rest.
But more importantly, doesn't it seem odd to everybody out there that we have so many
people rushing to Beto's defense and just trying to shove him down our throats as the
presumptive nominee?
Can we just let the play out?
Can we stop with this?
Like, Oh, you attack better, but what about Bernie?
What about Bernie?
For the love of God?
I got issues with Bernie to.
I'm not ready to put any of my weight behind any candidate and I don't even have any weight
except around my gut right now.
But I'm not going to jump in and say, I want this person over this person, or I want this
one over this one.
I want to see who's actually gonna run for president, and then we'll go from there.
Maybe we'll have some good ones.
Maybe we won't, but if you think that any of us are just going to go easy on the Dem
nominee because they're a democrat, if you think that if they have a dirty pass, we're
not going to work to expose it.
You're wrong.
That's not how this works Neera.
It's not how this works.
Other establishment type folks, we're not supposed to be cheerleaders so you can get
mad at people like David Sirota all you want, but that doesn't make what they're saying
untrue.
They're reporting the facts as the media is supposed to do and if it hurts your candidate,
well that sucks for you.
Right?
Maybe you should have picked somebody that didn't have that kind of a past, and I'm not
even saying Beto work does.
I'm just saying stop getting mad at journalists.
Stop repeating trump's lies about them.
How about you just accept the fact that nobody is perfect and they all have skeletons in
their closet that has to be dealt with?
Yes.
Even people like Bernie Sanders and those are bridges we have to cross when we get there,
but right now we're still looking at a huge field of possible contenders, many of whom
wouldn't even make it past the first debate as we saw back in 2015 with the Democrats.
So why don't we hold off on trying to shove any one candidate down people's throats until
we at least know who is officially going to run for president.
Can we all agree on that for just a few minutes here?
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