Eric Zuesse
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Eric Zuesse
During the Democratic candidates’ debate on February 7th, Elizabeth Warren said that “everyone on this stage except Amy and me is either a billionaire or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending” and the ABC ‘news’ crew failed to call her out on the lie, and even Bernie Sanders (who receives no help from any billionaire and who also refuses PAC money) declined to call her out on it. Furthermore, according to Forbes, on November 18th, “Here Are The Billionaires Funding The Democratic Presidential Candidates”, Elizabeth Warren has received donations from six billionaires, and Amy Klobuchar has received donations from 21 billionaires. Only one candidate received no money from any billionaire: one billionaire had tried to donate $470 to Sanders’s campaign, but as soon as it was called to his attention, he ordered the money returned to the donor. Huffington Post headlined on February 8th “Democrats Bash Michael Bloomberg For Trying To Buy The Nomination”, and reported that,
Warren noted that “Everyone on this stage except Amy and me is either a billionaire, or is receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending … I think the way we build a democracy going forward is not billionaires reaching in their own pockets, or people sucking up to billionaires.”
And their reporter likewise failed to point out that the assertion from her was a lie.
Was it a lie? Or was Warren simply not aware that six billionaires had donated to, and her campaign had actually received and kept money from, six billionaires? Wouldn’t that be remarkably sloppy from her? On the other hand, given that most of the former supporters whom she has lost have gone to Sanders — the only candidate who does reject both PAC money and billionaires’ money — a reasonable assumption would be that she was quite conscious of her assertion’s overstating her lack of corruption and understating Sanders’s lack of corruption.
Consequently, the reasonable interpretation of all this would be: Elizabeth Warren lied and the ‘news’ media have simply ignored it.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of this site. This site does not give financial, investment or medical advice.
Of course they ignored it. Elizabeth Warren lying isn’t news!
True, but when the ‘news’-media ignore a lie so blatant as that, the blatancy of the ‘news’-media’s not doing what is supposed to be their job is especially newsworthy. Perhaps what is especially newsworthy in the U.S. is what’s the most censored-out from the ‘news’ that is published.
PS: This article was rejected by The Saker, saying simply “too short.”
You may be too much of an agnostic for his taste.
Lies are always useful, one way or another.
No one appreciates my sarcasm anymore. 🙁
another good piece Eric, solid reporting. Although one could make a solid case, as DarkMan has, that Warren lying isn’t news…
It’s not the only thing she’s lied about.
Trump’s just jealous that she might have an easier time attaining that skin tone he so much adores on himself.
The fact the Pocahontas opens its sewer hole can only be taken as lies. Nothing else comes out of a sewer, only bovine and human excrement.
warren is now acting a bit like hillary – tossing out lies when there is a big audience…is warren being directed by the dnc in its effort to stop the bernie momentum? warren does not show leadership….if elected, she will do as she is told….
Democracy is the 50% most educated hoarding all the land, wealth and political power. Causing the 50% working-poor to refuse to vote.
Causing the 25% most wealthy to win all elections and hoard 75% of the wealth.
You should have added, the 50% most educated in liberal arts, gender studies and basketweaving, who can’t get a job on graduation, so have to stoop to politics and dumpster-donor-diving to make ends meet.
That’s hardly news. What would be really newsworthy would be (for anyone but Trump of course):
“So and so politician, journalist et. al. lied and the news media DIDN’T ignore it.”