You can't #FeeltheBern because steel can't melt.
Bernie Sanders picked Cornel West, an unhinged radical picked by another unhinged radical, for the DNC platform committee. Among all his other ugliness, West flirted with 9/11 Trutherism.
When asked Wednesday if he believes 9/11 was an inside job — just like the “truthers” he was standing alongside today at an address during the Million Muslim March in Washington, D.C. — outspoken progressive activist and professor Cornel West had this to say:
“I just don’t know. My hunch is that I think that bin Laden certainly had something to do with it, and so I try to listen and raise questions and allow them to engage in their investigation, but I haven’t spent as much time as they have. But at this point, I’m still uncertain.
“I think there might be a possibility, but my hunch is that [with] bin Laden’s…definitive investment he must have had something to do with it. But the thing is, what they express is a profound distrust in the government and a profound distrust in the government’s intelligence, and I have that distrust, too, so I’ve got to be open-minded.”
So does Bernie.
In May 2007 West, along with Marxist professor Manning Marable, signed a letter drafted by the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The letter called for "Black America" to participate in a rally protesting the 40th anniversary of Israel's "illegal occupation" of the West Bank, and to help "build our country’s support for Palestinian human rights."
In 2006 West visited Venezuela, which President Hugo Chavez was transforming into a socialist state. Praising the Venezuelan government -- which had nationalized industries, imprisoned or killed its opponents, and openly threatened the United States -- West explainedthat he had made the trip in order “to see the democratic awakening taking place” under Chavez.
Nothing there for Bernie Sanders to disagree with.