Posted on 08/15/2015 6:39:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last Saturday, for the second time in a month, protesters who identified themselves as members of the Black Lives Matter movement leapt onstage to interrupt a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
“I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, even with all of these progressives, but you’ve already done that for me,” said Marissa Johnson, who was roundly booed before demanding and receiving a four-minute moment of silence for the death of Michael Brown, as Sanders stood behind her and fellow protester Mara Willaford.
The Seattle protest sparked a particularly strong counter-reaction, especially among the white liberals who form the core of Bernie Sanders’ base. Sanders is not the frontrunner to win his party’s nomination. Many on both the left and right are asking: Why him?
Sanders currently trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, whose events have not yet been successfully interrupted, by 38 points in Quinnipiac’s most recent national poll. He has made criminal justice reform a tentpole issue early in his campaign. Jeb Bush, who trails Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by 10 points, allegedly reached out to local Black Lives Matter leaders a night before, then was shouted down at a campaign event less than 24 hours later.
Why protest Bernie and not Hillary? Why Jeb and not Trump?
Interviews with 10 members of both local and national branches of Black Lives Matter—as well as with the political campaigns they’ve tested—reveals no single, easy answer. It’s one part logistical—from the less stringent security of a second-tier candidate to the simple timing of a speech.
And it is another part—a larger part—purely organizational.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Who runs it? Please! The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy, of course!
Yeah, the Nazi collaborator Soros is probably deeply into it.
Same people.
ping
LMAO!
DOJ
Good starting place...
Someday - when the press gets their pride back - they'll look into liberal scams and lies... I choose to believe it's possible...
It wouldn’t surprise me.
That's my bet too.
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