Another flagrant example of anti-Sanders propaganda last year came when WaPo’s (and MSNBC’s) Jonathan Capeheart claimed that Sanders was lying about being pictured leading a civil rights protest in his college days. This was an attempt to “Swiftboat” Sanders — using Karl Rove’s tactic of hitting a candidate where they are strongest.
It only took a few days for the original photographer to confirm that this was indeed a picture of Sanders. But Capeheart never made a clean retraction and instead tried to finesse his role as a journalist who shouldn’t be held to picky standards of factual reporting.
After this, Capeheart was attacked so severely on the article and his Twitter account for obvious bias that he had to close it from public access.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/02/11/stop-sending-around-this-photo-of-bernie-sanders/?utm_term=.766f1901cf8b
