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: