Bernie supporter, Sarah Silverman, now also picking a fight with a potential VP candidate.

[thesquanderer]

18. No, I am not assigning feeling/intent. Rather...

...I am merely saying that, due to the vagueries of language, I cannot be 100% sure what she meant. One can legitimately hear those same words with different meanings. So it's not that I am assigning something you are not, but instead you are sure of something that I believe we have no way to be sure of.

Political rhetoric is tricky... it is designed to be manipulative. She could have been sincere in saying she didn't believe he was a racist, yet might still have wanted to place that doubt in the minds of some portion of the electorate, since that would play to her political advantage. That is, it's not only a question whether she believes A or not-A, but also, regardless of what she believes, what she wants some other people to believe, or at least to consider as a possibility. There's no doubt that attack was pre-planned and not spur of the moment, which also means almost certainly that great care was put into the exact wording she would use.... and she did choose wording that is a classic example of a way to accuse someone of something without the accountability of having accused them of something.