“I do not want this race to be about race,” Evans said in 1999, calling the site in question an example of “dirty tricks.” The website took a comment that White had made in a broader interview with a Spanish-language weekly, Al Día, and presented the line as if it were an anti-white slogan: “The black and the brown, if we unite, we’re going to control this city.” Local reporters in Philadelphia received emails directing them to the site as though it were part of John White’s campaign. He called Sirota “overzealous” at the time. Evans, who is now a Democratic member of Congress, fired Sirota. But the race got intense early, and David Sirota, then working as the deputy campaign manager for Evans, was part of an effort to cut down White’s support: creating a bogus website, purporting to be the official home page of the White campaign, and using it to promote a racially charged quotation, deliberately taken out of context. Three of the candidates were African American: John White, Dwight Evans, and John Street, all of them friends going back years. In 1999, in Philadelphia, there was a crowded Democratic primary for mayor. Visit podcastchoices.Bernie Sanders first hired his new speechwriter, David Sirota, 20 years ago, shortly after Sirota was fired from a mayoral campaign for his connection to a bogus website that promoted a racially charged quotation, taken out of context, of a black opponent. Visit /adchoicesĢ022 Useful Idiots, LLC | Cumulus Podcast Network It’s all this, and more, on the Halloween episode of Useful Idiots. And NO we’re not comparing Trump to Hitler. If you want to donate to indie media (and not have to hear ads), become a subscriber today to hear our chat with David about an important study about the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism. To help this, we’re starting ad reads this week. Heads up: this week, we have begun donating a large portion of our profits to the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press to help independent journalists in need. And don’t worry, there’s some poop stuff in here too. Plus, Dems are cutting everything Dem voters want in their bill, and so much more vaccine debating. Listen to this interview with the exceptionally interesting, intelligent and prolific David Sirota, and then listen to Meltdown on Audible. If Dems keep wasting their time in power, they’re going to stop holding power and push people into the arms of people like Trump, which is what happened in 2016. You're proving to me that democracy doesn't matter.’" I have to support you only because of democracy. You're saying we got to get Donald Trump out of here because he's not helping people. I just used democracy to put you in power. What you're saying to voters is that democracy doesn't matter.Īnd if you do that, there's going to be a lot of voters who say, ‘Look, I just voted for you. You choose your corporate donors and you betray your promises to voters. “Democrats get elected promising to help people, promising various programs to directly help people.Īnd then you get into power and you shield your corporate donors who don't want that change. On this week’s show, award-winning journalist David Sirota justly rips Democrats for not only selling out the American people but for enabling Right Wing authoritarianism: Subscribe at for an ad-free listen and extended interview
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