Sanders' New York supporters showed their true selves today.

[RandySF]

And if Bernie does not denounce those who call his opponents "whores", he shows that is more than happy to wag his bony finger over name-calling while others do his dirty work. Lee Atwater would be proud.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. Oh lawd we need the smelling salts in here

[WhiteTara]

2. would you say your candidate is a bastard?

I didn't think so. You are definitely hard core.

[Fawke Em]

70. Since his parents were married, no.

Please refrain from using outdated terms. "Corporate Whore" isn't outdated. In fact, it's quite new. Do keep up.

[WhiteTara]

91. You're quite the clever thing, aren't you.

[guillaumeb]

5. It seems like every other post by a Clinton supporter is a variation

on this theme that Sanders is personally responsible for everything said by anyone who supports him.

[TCJ70]

9. Since they hate double standards so much...

...we should start holding Hillary responsible for everything her supporters say.

[guillaumeb]

13. I just did with a post. Feel free to read and recommend.

[dsc]

22. and how many times did we hear about what McCaskel said or what other supporters of Hillary said?

[Sky Masterson]

7. They should of just said "W" instead of "whores"

Because that made it okay in a "C.P. time" kind of way.

[CrowCityDem]

3. He does need to tamp down the rhetoric.

He hasn't done much of anything to keep the most fervent of his supporters from becoming abhorrent slur-throwers. This, since it happened on his stage, requires an apology.

[revbones]

8. Perhaps if your candidate didn't tell so many blatant lies, strong language wouldn't be necessary...

[riversedge]

20. Vile language at an open air rally is NEVER called for. Were there kids in the audiance?

[revbones]

21. "Vile" Really? Are you typing on a steam powered computer from Victorian England?

Sheesh. No comment from you about the CP Time joke either I bet.

[Perogie]

78. That was funny

[revbones]

90. Thanks! lol. nt

[CrowCityDem]

23. Can you not see the unholy sexism of calling a female candidate a "whore"?

[revbones]

24. Perhaps if you took off your sexism-colored glasses, stepped back,

and honestly looked at the situation and your ridiculous statement just now, you might realize your error.

[CrowCityDem]

34. The connotations of "whore" are quite clear, and quite disgusting.

[beam me up scottie]

42. Who called a female candidate a whore? Link please?

[Fawke Em]

71. Since the speaker was callling out ALL "Democrats" who suck on the corporate teet...

No.

The comment was, "Corporate Democratic Whores." It was plural.

Why do you automatically think of your Girl Wall Street when that's said? That would be on you, hon.

[apcalc]

36. Rated as

The most honest politician out there.

[revbones]

53. Sure. That's why her unfavorables are as bad as Trump. nt

[beam me up scottie]

4. *clutches pearls, swoons*

Remembers it's been acceptable to call people media and corporate whores for years on DU, recovers and goes off to watch another spectacle.

[Downwinder]

6. What should they call them?

[hobbit709]

10. Persons of negotiable virtue.

[Downwinder]

25. I like that better than

"a venal or unscrupulous person." From Webster.

[RandySF]

12. I could call Jane Sanders a crook.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. And yet you are demanding apologies for a vague lable meaning 'corrupt persons'?

What a hypocritical license you allow yourself.

[Downwinder]

19. So?

[beam me up scottie]

43. In that context the word does mean crook.

[Petrushka]

44. And, then, there's the Clintons' theft of White House furniture, etc. --->

https://www.americarisingpac.org/bill-clinton-jokes-president-taking-govt-property-white-house-like-hillary/

[RandySF]

50. Are you a Republcan?

This is a right wing PAC.

[Petrushka]

67. Didn't know it's "...a right wing PAC."---and, nope, I'm not a Republican. However . . .

. . . that link was one of the first ones to pop up when I did an online search. Here's
another one (hopefully, not considered "right wing" too!) --->

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121856&page=1

[ibegurpard]

92. And people would argue about it

But no one would take issue with the word. A whore is a person who trades sex for money. In a political sense it is a politician who trades votes and access for money and campaign help. It's an apt comparison. Trying to make it about misogyny is an example of fake outrage.

[hrmjustin]

11. Don't hold your breath.

[ibegurpard]

94. No please DO

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Yeah I hear it was a very large crowd, that must really grate your cheese, eh RandySF?

nt

[Luminous Animal]

15. Dr. Song did not call Bernie's opponents whores. He called Democrats who are toadies to corporations

corporate whores.

Suddenly, DU is all atwitter about the use of the word "whore" after it has been used thousands of times to characterize corporate whores, media whores, and attention whores.

Hell, Cindy Sheehan was lambasted over and over again as an attention whore as was Palin.

Never once saw Skinner issue an apology.

[Fawke Em]

73. Yet they still aren't worried about the Southern "Democrats" who threw LGBT under the bus.

That doesn't bother them... at all!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511728442

[pantsonfire]

16. Don't engage....n/t

[Bonobo]

17. Are you the same people that chastised for using "CP Time" as a political tool?

Your poutrage is hilarious!

[Sky Masterson]

28. CP Time meant "Corporate Pandering time"

(Also it could be interpreted as Black people are slow)
They are blind to Hypocrisy

[mcar]

26. K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

27. I present 3 OP's by RandySF in which people use the term 'media whore' with no reprimand from Randy

2009
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5137276

2011
http://www.democraticunderground.com/100255400
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1005231


2015
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026859417

Some are 'corporate whore'. These are YOUR threads, people talking to you. And you never once objected.

Why is that?

[ecstatic]

37. Except Bernie's surrogates were referring to one specific woman-

the Democratic frontrunner and likely nominee. Big difference.

[Bluenorthwest]

62. Except- No. You seem to have trouble with singular vs plural. One surrogate used this term, not the

plural 'surrogates' which you use. The surrogate (singular) said this-
"corporate democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma"

'Whores' is the plural, and thus not about one specific person. Whore would be specific, singular. Whores is plural. And what's more is that he defines being beholden to big pharma as the defining quality of said multiple politicians of low virtue.

We often hear 'it's the math' about elections but today it's the English. Plural. Singular.
Tomorrow's lesson, the difference between 'imply' and 'infer'.

[Barack_America]

38. Oh SNAP!!!

[hellofromreddit]

39. In that context

Those were a lot less insulting to prostitutes--though the Rubio one got close.

The stuff said today was really over the top. Those people have it bad enough without being called politicians.

[islandmkl]

41. goddam!! i love the internet...

[beam me up scottie]

46. Holy shit, your research skills are second to none, Blue!

I demand Randy apologize to us right now!!

[Bluenorthwest]

57. But RandySF will not summon the basic decency to explain his situational outrage at this word.

He's in a high dudgeon over something he usually has no reaction to whatsoever. None. For years and years. Because it's Bernie.

[RichVRichV]

49. Hahahaha!

Well done Bluenorthwest! I think you just won this thread.

[morningfog]

58. Ouch randy.

[AzDar]

60. Well... THIS is hilarious.

Well-done, BNW!

[Politicalboi]

29. Taking money for favors

Who does that? Who's fault is THAT? Some people are getting angry, and the truth comes out. That's what we call politicians who take money for bribes. It's NOT sexism. That word works for both genders.

[jmg257]

30. On behalf of Sanders, I apologize to prostitutes everywhere.

And especially the Bay Area where the pimping and whoring will continue at a glamorous dinner this weekend.

[HERVEPA]

31. One

[noretreatnosurrender]

32. Please Spare Us

the faux outrage. Lee Atwater? You obviously haven't got a clue. Sorry but you're stuck with David Brock. There isn't anyone on the Sanders team that's ever going to come close to Brock. Nice try though. I'm sure it bothers you deep down that you have Brock or you wouldn't try to spin this like you're doing but you just have to face it - You do have Brock and he's not going away.

[apcalc]

33. His campaign

Has some really nasty supporters. It is an embarrassment to the Democratic party.
Reminds me of Trump's campaign on the other side.

He tacitly supports it at this point.

Just awful.

[Surya Gayatri]

74. The many parallels between the Sanders and Trump campaigns should be alarming to any genuine Dem.

The victimhood schtick used to rationalize incompetence, i.e. the NYDN interview was an "inquisition", the RNC rules are unfair, yada, yada, yada.

UNFAIR, RIGGED, BIASED...everything and everybody is against us, Waaaaaaah!

The laughable excuses for refusal to release detailed tax histories, i.e. too busy to get home and open the file cabinet, being audited--so no can do. LOL!

The openly misogynist and dismissive body language, rhetorical choices, and vocabulary.

[riderinthestorm]

35. Lol, go with that. Prude alert noted. nt

[Jackilope]

40. Misplaced anger?

Rob me of my retirement, push your thumb down on me while I pay more in taxes than the Corporate Overlords, grease the palms of Democratic and Republican elected so they serve corporations as opposed to people, strip me of labor rights, ship my job away with trade deal language, send my children to unjust war, and send me to jail for not paying bills on time or taping abuses on my cell phone camera. But DARE to call these actions or the people who enable this rigged system "Corporate Whores"?!?!?! GASP!

Seriously?

I think we are long over due in calling out the grand theft happening to us what it is. Let's not clutch pearls. We are being sold out and our finances, our environment, the future for our kids is being compromised by GREED. Those that enable the corporate cheats and thieves aren't are friends. Let's call it what it is.

[QC]

45. Somebody fetch Aunt Pittypat's smelling salts!

[islandmkl]

47. what is your personal favorite phrase for 'CORPORATE WHORE'?...

because a lot of us would like something new to call them...

i hope it is as effective....you know, triggers the right response from the intended targets...

you know, like 'corporate whore' triggered in you...

[MFM008]

48. prude?

Fossil,ancient, antiquated, creaky, hoary, primeval, rusty, elderly, pre-historic, relic, moth eaten, old goat, fogey, cranky, would never fit one of the candidates on the democratic side . ( hint B.S.)

[Warren Stupidity]

51. 153 million dollars.

[noretreatnosurrender]

52. Sanders' New York supporters showed their true selves today.

They sure as hell did. 48,000 of them came out to support Bernie!

Hello New York!

[dchill]

54. Yes, I'm sure this is it - the one thing you've been looking for.

The thing that will BRING HIM DOWN!!! If he doesn't prostrate himself before your highnesses of truth and propriety, then the gods and goddesses of decency and purity will erase his name from all ballots to come!

[litlbilly]

55. Randy, you might want to look up the word in the dictionary.

[RandySF]

56. I know the word

I actually finished school and put it to better use.

[workinclasszero]

59. If you fail to worship St Bernie

you are a whore!

Got that democrats!?

[Avalon Sparks]

61. Bony fingers are better than Kankles...

Just my opinion......

[IdaBriggs]

63. Do you mean this issue --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511727572

Where she is called a "corporate Democratic whore"?

That's the bit that upsets you AND NOT THE FACT SHE SUPPORTS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVING NO MEDICAL COVERAGE?

Be grateful "corporate whore" is the language used here, because the words that go through my mind are much less polite.

And visit this thread http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511727002 for a laugh - you're fake outrage over nonsense is showing.

[dinkytron]

64. When Hillary apologizes for the racist jokes I've been told are in the unreleased transcripts,Bernie

will denounce whatever phantom nutcase you are making a fuss about in this post. See how it works?!!

[Logical]

65. Are you just messing with us or actually believe the bs you post? Nt

[Gwhittey]

66. Do you also

Want all Muslims to speak out aginst ISIS every time they act out? Do you want BLM to also protest black on black crime? Quack like a Elephant you will be taking as a Elephant. Stop with GOP broad brush crap.

[ThePhilosopher04]

68. The term used was corporate whores and the shoe fits. Quit being soft.

[Fawke Em]

69. I know! Wasn't it great! I love for people to tell the truth!

[Surya Gayatri]

72. He's NEVER run a negative campaign...riiiiight. Unconscionable and unprincipled.

In his desperation, he's showing his true colors.

And, they're not pretty.

[hellofromreddit]

75. Can't attack Sanders--that never works

...so attack his supporters.

Way to unify.

[LexVegas]

76. Sexism from the Sanders campaign....again. nt

[Broward]

77. The corporate whores in the Dem Party are helping destroy

the economic lives of most Americans.

[PeoViejo]

79. Let's call her a 'Political Barfly'

It seems more technically accurate.

[PeoViejo]

81. Always looking for that 'Big Score.'

Her Bank Account says so, at least what's visible on the surface.


Five shell corporations and there's no Hanky Panky going on. C'maahn' You think I was born Yesterday? Feh.

[DrDan]

80. and his DU supporters are doing similarly this morning

[PeoViejo]

85. Doing what? Responding to the bullshit from Camp Hillary?

You think we should be quiet and quit disturbing the Coronation?


Hillary will never be Queen; not even for a Day.

[DrDan]

86. okee dokee

[HillareeeHillaraah]

82. I don't think Bernie should apologize

I think he should say it again and again. I hope he calls her "a corporate Democratic whore" on national television tonight. I hope he follows up with "every woman who is a democrat who doesn't agree with my vision for America's future is a some kind of a whore."

I really want America to see that. Let's not call for him to denounce it. Let's have him and his campaign own it. Let's have Paul Song use it in every introduction before every speech Sanders makes.

Then let's see how America votes.

[Fawke Em]

83. Are you guys gonna apologize for these bigots?

[HillareeeHillaraah]

89. Nope

Because sneaking in under the trans umbrella are non-trans people, men in particular who are NOT gender dysphoric but instead are men who get a stiffy putting on a dress and visually, verbally and sometimes physically assaulting women, taking away women and girls' sense of privacy and safety which is why we have sex segregated spaces for natal women in the first place. Many say it doesn't happen, women are not being violated by transwomen and let me state empirically: that I agree with. But they are being violated by autogenphiles.

Google it and learn.

Its a complicated issue and if I have to choose one side or the other to protect, I fall on the side of rights of natal women. I also support looking for a solution that keeps both sides feeling safe. People gotta pee after all. And really, it's not bathrooms, it's locker rooms, homeless shelters, hospitals and jails where it gets complicated.

Edit: this is really off topic but you asked. I responded. I won't be participating in a back and forth over this - not here. It's off topic. Peace.

Note to jury: I am not anti Trans. I am homosexual myself. I don't advocate violence towards anyone. I am only stating an opinion in a calm manner.

[ibegurpard]

93. And your mask is certainly off

[HillareeeHillaraah]

95. Wasn't wearing a mask.

I just happen to be a woman with an opinion on a complex issue.

[Cobalt Violet]

84. another scolding sander's supporters thread.

Nagging isn't a winning strategy.

[PeoViejo]

87. A bowl of Chicken Soup works better

..but that isn't Hillary.

[Smarmie Doofus]

88. Are you sure you know what the word means?

whore
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whore