Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumZerlina Maxwell was recently called out as having Bernie Derangement Syndrome.
The proof, a highly edited and deceptive video put out by a Sanders front group that goes by MSDNC. The contributors are: @spittingback, a huge Nina Turner fan who trashes Democrat after Democrat including their staff. It is a one hundred percent Sanders account. Their main target is anything Biden or Clinton. Pretty sure they think Clinton is still running.
@_memorable2, a twitter handle that says "I make Bernie vids and graphics." This person sticks to two things. Loving Sanders and trashing Biden.
Last is @greg06897, who says if you will never vote for Bernie then you are either "don't care" or are and "asshole." This person enjoys comparing Biden to Trump and absolutely trashing the Democratic Party.
These are the people calling a strong and accomplished woman of color "deranged."
Here is who they put together a highly edited video together to attack as having "Bernie Derangement Syndrome."
Zerlina Maxwell
Zerlina Maxwell is an American political analyst, commentator, speaker, and writer. She writes and speaks about rape culture, sexual assault, gender inequity, sexual consent, racism, and similar topics.[1][2] She is herself a survivor of sexual assault and describes herself as a survivor activist.[1][3]
Maxwell has appeared frequently on CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC as a commentator and has written for the Washington Post, JET Magazine, The American Prospect, Black Enterprise, CNN.com, the Huffington Post, Salon.com, and Ebony.com.[4][5][6] Her Twitter account was named by The New York Times as "A Twitter Voice to Follow" in 2012,[7] as one of "Salons Twitter 50" in 2012,[8] and one of TIME's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2014.[9] The Cut magazine's Kaitlin Menza said that Maxwell as "has built a career around expressing her political opinions with wit and intelligence."[6]
Maxwell worked as a field organizer for the 2008 Obama presidential campaign,[10] and was Director of Progressive Media for the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.[6] She is now Director of Progressive Programming for SiriusXM, and hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM, "Signal Boost."[6] In September 2017, Maxwell interviewed Hillary Clinton for a SiriusXM Progress Town Hall.[11]
Wikipedia
Zerlina Maxwell is a political analyst and contributing writer for EBONY.com, theGrio.com, and Feministing.com. She writes about national politics, candidates, and specific policy and culture issues including domestic violence, sexual assault, victim blaming and gender inequality. She has consulted with the United States Department of State to promote the use of social media by students in the West Bank. Her writing has also appeared in JET Magazine, on CNN.com, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, TheRoot.com Salon.com, and RawStory.com. She is also a frequent guest on Make It Plain with Mark Thompson on Sirius XM Left and on Fox News.
Netroots Nation
Zerlina Maxwells Secret to Taking On Sean Hannity
Zerlina Maxwell has built a career around expressing her political opinions with wit and intelligence. Her Twitter feed gained the attention of President Barack Obama first, then Hillary Clinton, who hired her to lead the progressive-media outreach during her presidential campaign. Maxwell is now the director of progressive programming for SiriusXM, where she also has her own weekly radio show, Signal Boost. She regularly appears as a political analyst on prime-time TV, and speaks about sexual assault and other topics at colleges in engagements across the country. Here, she shares how she gets it all done.
On her morning routine:
I work out as soon as I wake up. I do Beachbody or Insanity videos on my iPad. I try really hard not to look at my phone until Im done working out. My commute is at least 45 minutes, so I can listen to a good chunk of an audiobook in that time. I have an Audible subscription. I am reading a lot of books on communication and management because Im in my first real management position right now. And Ill catch up on the news. Im flagging things, sending them to my producers so I can make sure were covering all the breaking stories. Im always reachable en route all the producers are on a group chat because who knows how long the rides going to take. The subways are a hot mess.
On her day-to-day:
Im the director of progressive programming at SiriusXM. I started here in February 2017, after the Hillary campaign. The majority of my day is managing my in-box, managing my team, talking to my producers. I hate meetings. I hate them. I hate meetings, because I like to do stuff. You have all this work to do and youre sitting here in this meeting that is pointless. I dont like conference calls either. I come from campaigns, where youd have like 55 field offices calling in. Luckily, we dont have a lot of meetings here.
The Cut
I find it to be nothing short of disgusting to attack a person who is fighting for us. I see it as similar, and might be perpetrated by a similar person or group, to the old Stockholm Syndrome garbage that was promoted by a small group about five years ago and was directed at minorities.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Me.
(35,454 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DoctorJoJo
(1,134 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
comradebillyboy
(10,119 posts)He melts down if he has to deviate from his stump speech.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)But she didnt impress me much when she was on Maher's Show recently and said the statue of Ralph Cramden outside an NYC bus terminal should come down. She did a poor job of defending her position and seemed to realize it was extreme by the end.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)You challenged one of her spoken positions without using deception or the word deranged.
Well done.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)Im surprised/not surprised that defenders of the junior senator from Vermont are attempting to make that case.
Id think they would have bigger things to tackle right now than a Sirius XM host and MSNBC panelist. And thus ends the surprised part of the post.
I am not surprised at the level of venom being directed at a Sanders critic by Sanders devotees.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Cha
(295,926 posts)They have no idea how they push away POC voters with their insults.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)Mainly because she is a strong voice for all liberals and she often challenges me to think outside my biases.
It's funny to me that Bernie is the one who crapped out at the She the People conference with his ham handed answer to addressing concerns of women of color. He has a major flub and his fanboys rush to his rescue by...attempting to tear down those calling out Bernie. It's ridiculous and I wish more folks could see through that crap. Yes, Zerlina worked for Hillary, yes she is asking and calling on Sanders to "be better" in the way he approaches issues of race. No that doesn't make her deranged. If people actually listened to her for more than a few sec edited sound bite, they might know that.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(295,926 posts)crap.. Thank You so much for your OP, Weekiwater!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
mcar
(42,210 posts)Her attackers, not one bit.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
betsuni
(25,135 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)see the full appearances of Bernie at She the People, and Zerlina on Real Time. I saw both, so I know that attack video is full of sh*t. Bernie was unable to answer direct questions and kept pivoting towards his stump speech, which is why ZM said what she said.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(295,926 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
KitSileya
(4,035 posts)What does it say about some of our posters here when they post the leftie equivalent of James O'Keefe's doctored videos? It's not the first time either - remember the video of Diane Feinstein? Juries, or the admins if the juries end up leavibg it (like they left the infamous Stockholm Syndrome OP - so horribly racist) should remove such OPs and put the posters in time out.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)following one person as if he were a demigod whose every utterance is divine perfection.
Like those examples you provided. THAT's derangement.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(295,926 posts)too much.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tarheel_Dem
(31,211 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden