Joy Reid and New York Times writer float theory that Russian bots are boosting Tulsi Gabbard

[mystery-ak]

Joy Reid and New York Times writer float theory that Russian bots are boosting Tulsi Gabbard
by John Gage
 | August 01, 2019 05:34 PM



MSNBC host Joy Reid and New York Times writer Wajahat Ali floated the idea that Russian bots are boosting Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's presidential bid on Twitter.

"Beware the Russian bots and their promotion of Tulsi Gabbard and sowing racial dischord [sic], especially around Kamala Harris," said Ali, who contributes both to the Times and CNN.

"It is notable that her purpose in these debates has been specifically to take Harris down," Reid responded to Ali's tweet.

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[Sanguine]

They really want to get Gabbard out of the race.  I'm not sure I understand why the concerted effort.

[PeteS in CA]

They really want to get Gabbard out of the race.  I'm not sure I understand why the concerted effort.

Maybe because she went after Kammy's record as SF DA and CA's AG? She committed truth about Kammy.

[Sanguine]

Maybe because she went after Kammy's record as SF DA and CA's AG? She committed truth about Kammy.

All the Google/Twitter stuff happened weeks ago. 

[Elderberry]

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Quick Gabbard vs. Harris Debate Roundup
August 1st, 2019

https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=41421

-----Tulsi Gabbard — who seems to have a genuine animosity towards Harris — ate her Wheaties before this debate and just ripped Harris’s record as a prosecutor: “There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” That generated applause from the crowd in the Fox Theater in Detroit.

Gabbard continued: “She blocked evidence — she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep a bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”

The Harris response was to ignore all of the specific accusations: “I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work that needs to be done. And I am proud of that work. And I am proud of making a decision to not just give fancy speeches or be in a legislative body and give speeches on the floor, but actually doing the work of being in the position to use the power that I had to reform a system that is badly in need of reform.”

Except Gabbard wasn’t giving a “fancy speech,” she was making specific accusations, and Gabbard had the facts on her side: on the marijuana prosecutions, on the laughing, on the blocking of the evidence, on the prison labor, and on the bail system. Rather than defend any of the specific decisions, Harris preferred to simply assert she had reformed the criminal justice system. Maybe she had, but not on the policies Gabbard listed.

Gabbard smelled blood and repeated the accusation: “In the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. (APPLAUSE) There is no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor owe — you owe them an apology.”

Harris responded, “My entire career I have been opposed — personally opposed to the death penalty and that has never changed.” Again, notice how Harris answers a question that wasn’t asked. Gabbard didn’t say she supported the death penalty, she said she blocked evidence that ultimately exonerated an innocent man.

But Harris then responded in the worst possible way: “I think you can judge people by when they are under fire and it’s not about some fancy opinion on a stage but when they’re in the position to actually make a decision, what do they do.”

Yes, Harris dismissed the only Iraq War veteran on the stage as not knowing what it’s like “under fire.”

More at link.