{"id":49706,"date":"2016-04-08T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49706"},"modified":"2016-05-15T23:01:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T03:01:30","slug":"sanders-begins-his-death-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/04\/sanders-begins-his-death-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Begins His Death Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coming off what may be a record week in the history of fact checking, Bernie goes for a blow out.<\/p>\n

In less than a week, Sanders has garnered 10 pinocchios from the Washington Post and a ‘false’ and ‘mostly false’ from Politifact. In just 5 days.<\/p>\n

But that wasn’t good enough for Sanders. He decided to continue the death spiral with more lies by surrogates, and a huge whopper today about being invited to the Vatican by the pope.<\/p>\n

Sanders earlier on Friday said, \u201cthis is an invitation from the Vatican, from a pope that I have enormous respect for in term of the level of consciousness that he\u2019s raising on the need to have morality in our economy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Turns out, the pope has nothing to do with the invitation. In fact, the President of the organization hosting the event hadn’t been contacted about the visit at all, and\u00a0Sanders may actually have asked<\/em> for the invitation:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president of the academy organizing this event has not been contacted with monumental discourtesy,\u201d she said, referring to herself.\u00a0Sanders \u201cmade the first move two or three days ago,\u201d Archer said. \u00a0\u201cHis use of it is clearly a pretext. There are just 20 academics and there will be nothing of policy relevance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The actual official who extended the invitation declined to say who made the first contact, Sanders or the Academy hosting the conference.<\/p>\n

And the office of the Pope quickly issued a statement to set the record straight:<\/p>\n

Father Federico Lombardi, the Pope\u2019s spokesman, said Sanders had been invited \u201cnot by the pope but by the pontifical academy of social sciences.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Getting desperate for a meaningful win, and wanting to make sure the donations keep pouring in, Sanders is flailing around to try and change the discussion about his losing campaign and litany of lies. Unfortunately, his solution is to make the lies bigger and more outrageous. Looks like a great way to run a presidency, doesn’t it? If you can lie about the Pope, lying about something like weapons of mass destruction would be child’s play.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Politico has more:<\/a><\/p>\n

“How did this come about?” co-host Mika Brzezinski said of the invitation.\u00a0“It was an invitation from the Vatican,” Sanders replied.<\/p>\n

But the invitation was actually made by Marcelo S\u00e1nchez Sorondo, the chancellor of the pontifical academy, an autonomous institution that receives some funding from the Holy See but is not officially part of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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source: http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/politics\/articles\/2016-04-08\/sanders-accused-of-discourtesy-in-seeking-vatican-invitation<\/span>
\n4\/7 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Three Pinocchios<\/strong> :\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2016\/04\/07\/sanderss-incorrect-claim-that-clinton-called-him-not-qualified-for-the-presidency\/
\n4\/6 False<\/strong>\u00a0:\u00a0http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/apr\/06\/bernie-s\/bernie-sanders-has-released-few-tax-returns-compar\/<\/span><\/span><\/em>
\n4\/5 \u00a0Four<\/strong>\u00a0Pinocchios<\/strong> :\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2016\/04\/05\/bernie-sanderss-false-claim-that-he-has-released-his-full-federal-tax-returns\/<\/span>
\n4\/4 \u00a0Mostly False<\/strong>\u00a0:\u00a0http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2016\/apr\/04\/bernie-s\/bernie-sanders-says-wall-street-tax-would-pay-his-\/<\/span>
\n4\/3 \u00a0<\/strong>Three Pinocchios<\/strong> :\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/fact-checker\/wp\/2016\/04\/02\/fact-checking-the-clinton-sanders-spat-over-big-oil-contributions\/<\/span>
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