Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) distanced himself from the remarks of a surrogate who slammed “corporate Democratic whores” during a massive Wednesday night rally in New York City.
“Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us,” Paul Song, a health care activist, told the crowd of around 27,000 people.
Song later said he wasn’t referring to Clinton, and apologized for using the words to describe “some in Congress.”
I am very sorry for using the term “whore” to refer to some in congress who are beholden to corporations and not us. It was insensitive.
— Paul Y. Song (@paulysong) April 14, 2016
Early Thursday morning, Sanders tweeted the comment was “inappropriate and insensitive.”
Dr. Song’s comment was inappropriate and insensitive. There’s no room for language like that in our political discourse.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 14, 2016
Watch the remarks via the Washington Free Beacon:
Apology not accepted.
We’re to the point where scorched earth campaigning is detrimental. Let’s not blow this next election, people.
So Dr. Paul Song, a surrogate of Senator Sanders, just called the President of the United States, the father of the Affordable Care Act, a corporate Democratic w==== at a major Sanders rally. The transcript leaves little doubt about the people he was talking about, and the President would be at the top of the list, just after Secretary Clinton. This foul comment was greeted with applause by the attendees. It just gets worse and worse. Democrats are now w====s.
The problem, as I see it, is that the Sanders campaign has become so ugly that it is becoming less and less likely that he will be able to erase the damage he has done, or that he will even want to. He is now committed to this type of campaign and will only dig deeper and deeper.
I don’t see a way out for him.
(PS: He would NEVER unite the Democratic Party in the 1% chance of his being the nominee. NEVER!!! He would destroy it.)
(PPS: Hindsight is 20/20. We (the Democratic Party) should never have let him run as a Democrat. I believe that the choice was ours.)
Why? Dude gave a simple, but actual apology. It’s nice to see that for once, and we should encourage them to do that more often. Rejecting them when made is counterproductive.
Tweet was not from Sanders himself, but from his staff. He takes personal responsibility for NOTHING.