DNC CEO on suggested attack on Sanders’ religious belief: “AMEN”

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Ed Morrissey:

John blogged about this last night, but it’s worth a deeper look — because this attack on Bernie Sanders’ religion goes higher than the first reports show. The Intercept’s Sam Biddle found this nugget in a trove of hacked DNC emails released yesterday by Wikileaks from Brad Marshall, the party’s chief financial officer, from early May. As primaries in Kentucky and West Virginia approached, Marshall proposed getting “someone” — presumably from the media — to press Bernie on just how Jewish he really is. But it’s the follow-up that should really raise eyebrows:

From:MARSHALL@dnc.org
To: MirandaL@dnc.org, PaustenbachM@dnc.org, DaceyA@dnc.org
Date: 2016-05-05 03:31
Subject: No shit
It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist.

In case readers can’t get exactly what Marshall was aiming to do to Sanders, he sent this follow-up two minutes later:

From:MARSHALL@dnc.org
To: MirandaL@dnc.org, PaustenbachM@dnc.org, DaceyA@dnc.org
Date: 2016-05-05 03:33
Subject: Re: No shit

It’s these [sic] Jesus thing.

Marshall seems to be aiming at more than just insinuating that Sanders is a Godless heathen to the voters in the Bible Belt. He wants to highlight Sanders’ Jewishness, apparently figuring that his “Southern Baptist peeps” will reject Sanders either way. Five days later, Sanders clobbered Hillary Clinton in West Virginia, and nearly won in Kentucky a week after that. It seems that Marshall didn’t know his “Southern Baptist peeps” as well as he thinks he does — and those Southern Baptist peeps might be wondering why Marshall and the DNC thinks so little of them, too.

So what was the official response to Marshall’s plan within the DNC? One of the addressees on Marshall’s proposal was his boss,  DNC chief executive officer Amy Dacey. Did she rebuke Marshall, rejecting the use of religious belief to attack a candidate running in the primaries they ran as supposedly independent arbiters? Not at all:

From:DaceyA@dnc.org
To: MARSHALL@dnc.org, MirandaL@dnc.org, PaustenbachM@dnc.org
Date: 2016-05-05 12:23
Subject: Re: No shit

AMEN
Amy K. Dacey | Chief Executive Officer
Democratic National Committee

Sanders complained a lot about the DNC rigging the primary system to make sure he had no chance of beating Hillary Clinton. This e-mail exchange certainly makes it clear that the DNC at its top echelon had conspired to kneecap his campaign. Even if the plan never came to fruition, the hostility toward Sanders and the intent to ensure his defeat is plain to see. And it seems few if any ethical lines were uncrossable in their pursuit of victory for Hillary in the primaries.

Donald Trump seized on the story this morning:

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Sanders is a socialists communists and secularists leftists old scoundrel who favors Big Goverment and the NEW WORLD ORDER just like Hillary and Obama want

When it came to who would take the votes of the ”gimme-dats,” there was a real competition between Hillary and Bernie.
Bernie was doing extremely well, as he was promising to forgive college loans, hand out free internet, make college free, and so on.
Hillary was using the DNC to do some of her dirty work yet still she was forced to pull further to the left than she had planned.

Now that Bernie’s out of the way, she picks a more moderate-to-left VP so she can be seen to be tacking back toward the center (really still the Left, but not as far out there.)

These Wikileaks would be damning – if her constituency bothered to read and understand them.