Politico reports
A top staffer at the Democratic National Committee has apologized after suggesting that the organization use Bernie Sanders’ religious beliefs against him in the Democratic primary.
One email among the thousands of internal DNC messages released this week by Wikileaks showed DNC CFO Brad Marshall questioning Sanders’ Jewish faith, and suggested that painting the candidate as an atheist “could make several points difference” in several late primary contests.
After the classy subject heading "no shit," Marshall wrote/typed
It might may (sic) 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.
The chief executive officer replied "amen" and Charlie Pierce comments
Amen?
Who thinks like this?
OK, most political consultants think like this because many of them are reptiles. But the really smart reptiles do not write stuff like this down. They whisper it among themselves and then, glory be to the god of coincidence, the embarrassing question gets asked a few months down the line when it will damage the target the most.
Obviously, the most serious question the e-mail poses is what the Democratic National Committee was doing lobbying for one of the candidates running for its party's presidential nomination. Close behind would be the understanding of the role of a Chief Financial Officer in setting campaign strategy.
Yet, another question arises: in what universe is "peeps" still a thing? Now rarely used, when in vogue, it was employed primarily by people under 25 and older people pretending they were otherwise. And it was not popular among Southern Baptists in Kentucky and West Virginia. Brad Marshall should be fired if for no other reason than using "peeps" in an e-mail in 2016.
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