Hidden in a private library in Istanbul is an extraordinary 300-page manuscript: an unpublished account of an Irishman’s trip to Jerusalem in 1789. His name was Buck Whaley, and a new biography reveals his incredible story. He was the rake and the mad gambler who made it to Jerusalem thanks …
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Bernie Sanders’ new speechwriter has a controversial past
Bernie Sanders first hired his new speechwriter, David Sirota, 20 years ago, shortly after Sirota was fired from a mayoral campaign over his connection to a fake website that was making the promotion of a racist quote, taken out of context, from a black opponent. In 1999 in Philadelphia there …
Read More »Bernie Sanders’ new speechwriter attacked Democrats for unofficial employee
David Sirota, a reporter who was selected as Senator Bernie Sanders’ speechwriter for 2020, worked for the campaign unofficially for months as he simultaneously attacked other Democratic candidates on Twitter. According to The Atlantic, Sirota deleted around 20,000 tweets on Monday, a day before it was announced that he was …
Read More »Bernie’s new speechwriter applauded “Chavez’s economic miracle”
A Leftist journalist who has just been added to the staff of Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., once celebrated Hugo Chavez’s leadership in Venezuela, saying that “his brand of socialism has achieved real economic gains”. The Sanders campaign announced Tuesday morning that David Sirota would join as a communications advisor and …
Read More »2013 Op-eds from Bernie Sanders’ speechwriter: “Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber is a White American”
During a time when police vigorously pursued suspects following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, a senior communications advisor and speechwriter for 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wrote: âHopefully the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American “- then confidently doubled down hours later, in a separate room titled,” I still …
Read More »Bernie Sanders campaign hires David Sirota, journalist with a history of bashing other Democrats | New
Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign announced on Tuesday that it had hired Denver-based liberal journalist David Sirota as senior communications advisor and speechwriter, from more than a dozen senior national officials added to the organization of democrats. It was then that Twitter erupted and the charges began to fly. An …
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