Bernie just tweeted that the Corporate Whores remark was inappropriate and not aceptable

[Armstead]

I don't do the Twitter thing, so you'll have to look it up.

But heard it on Morning Joe when Clair McCaskill was castigating him for not apologizing and one of the hosts interrupter her to inform her of that.

"Well, he should have spoken out last night at the rally" was her response.

Like yeah, he's going to embarrass a guy from the podium like that.

Anyway, Bernie has disavowed it, so hopefully that will put Manufactured Hurt Feelings #606 to rest.

[hobbit709]

1. Don't hold your breath. The Poutrage Brigade will be like a terrier with a rat.

[Armstead]

4. Awwwwww

[virtualobserver]

2. I'm sure that he didn't even hear it last night......

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. OK, let's move on to the next poutrage.

[democrank]

5. If McCaskillk is indeed outraged over offensive remarks

she should start commenting on Hillary`s hit man, David Brock.

[beam me up scottie]

6. Not Good Enough Bernie!!!

He should have whooped the guy and needs to personally apologize to everyone on earth.

Until then the poutrage generator will remain at full throttle.

[Fawke Em]

7. Has Hillary apologized for her bigot surrogates, yet?

[B Calm]

8. To rest, lol. Not when they have marching orders to sling mud. Your comment on Manufactured

Hurt Feelings is Spot On!

[elana i am]

9. tweet

Bernie Sanders ‏@BernieSanders 8m8 minutes ago

Dr. Song's comment was inappropriate and insensitive. There's no room for language like that in our political discourse.

this is one time when i don't agree with sanders. i don't think he should have apologized for this and i don't think it was an inappropriate or insensitive comment. dr. song was making an important point and we pussyfoot around the reality too much with the soft obsequious language.

dems ARE a bunch of corporate whores. we need to come to terms with that and try to get something done.

[virtualobserver]

15. Although the term is technically correct, it is a distraction....the goal is to win NY.......

and this manufactured controversy isn't worth Bernie's time.

[CrowCityDem]

19. So the one thing you don't agree with

is that we should be respectful to one another, and not use inflammatory, sexist language. How upstanding of you.

[JoePhilly]

10. Bernie should start using that term.

Many of his supporters here on DU think it's an excellent term.

Just check some of the threads about it.

Or just look at the post right before this one.

[Armstead]

23. Discourse on a discussion board or friends at home is different and you know it

As I said, for years that term has been used here regularly....especially pertaining to the GOP but sometimes to Democrats too.

Did you get all upset and righteous when Cheney would be referred to as a corporate whore? Did you stand up and say "I disagree with Cheney but it is sexist and crude to use the term corporate whore to describe him"....?

If you ever did, you have every right to criticize this. If not...well

[JoePhilly]

26. So ... Bernie, as a strong leader, should adopt that term in reference to Hillary ...

.... right?

See, I don't think its an appropriate term to use for any female democratic candidate. Bernie has agreed with me.

The guy who used that term THIS TIME, is not some poster on DU. He was a speaker at a Bernie campaign event.

We've already learned that many Bernie supporters thought it was ok for anonymous DU members to call Hillary that.

Today, Bernie supporters are claiming, very clearly, that its perfectly ok for a speaker at a Bernie event to use that term too.

So, I hope Bernie listens to his supporters and starts using the terms they want him to use.

[Armstead]

27. I'm not going to parse language about the use of one speaker's exact phrasology

And Sanders disavowed it.

And once the election is over, I'm sure none of the delicate DUers will ever refer to the GOP with that term ever again.....suuuuuure.

[frylock]

31. Have you considered sending your resume to the Bernie campaign?

You have so many great ideas that I'm sure they would appreciate.

[livetohike]

11. Too late. People are cheering at the rally after that

comment and what was Sanders reaction? Was he smiling and clapping? Maybe someone has footage.

[dsc]

12. If he had called Obama a racial slur

he would have embarassed him. But some how sexist slurs are different.

[QC]

13. Brock's Ministry of Truth is working on Manufactured Hurt Feelings #607

even as we speak, and we will know the moment it drops from the end of the assembly line.

I have to say, though, that when I hear somebody say something like "whore" or "asshole," I don't immediately think, "OMG!!! They're talking about me!!!"

And when it comes to public officials who sell out to corporate interests, there are few better examples than McCaskill, who is nothing more than a Republican in a donkey suit.

[Armstead]

24. I'm sure he has his copy of Emil;y Post handy for the debate tonight

..of course they'll ignore the Rules of Etiquette and Good Taste for whatever Clinton might do or say...But with Bernie they'll go after him if his cufflink is buttoned the wrong way.

[Jefferson23]

14. I knew he would. I did not like the remark either...it is generically used yet one can't deny

Clinton is his only challenger and a woman..so it was wrong imo.

[Godhumor]

16. Glad he acknowledged the remark

Not sure I agree a tweet is the best way to handle it, but glad he owned it.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Again, each time "corporate whores" is mentioned, it draws attention to corporatocrisy.

.


While trying to cast one in bad light, it draws attention to what and who the "corporate Democratic whores" are.


And the word is pluralized, meaning more than one.



wiki:

Corporatocrisy: is a term used to refer to an economic and political
system controlled by corporations and/or corporate interests


.

[FlatBaroque]

18. Claire McKaskill - WHORE /

[leftynyc]

20. We can always

count of Sen Sander's supporters to keep it classy. Well done!!!

[frylock]

32. It's not class on the same level of likening a Jewish candidate's rally..

to a Hitler rally, but you take what you can get.

[leftynyc]

33. Where did I do that?

Where do you find a post of MINE that compares anything to the nazis?

[frylock]

35. Wasn't you, but it was one of Secretary Clinton's supporters keeping it classy.

[bklyncowgirl]

21. He should Also apologize to sex workers for allowing them to be compared to politicians

As the old joke goes; "We have already established what you are madam, the only question remaining is the price."

[Lizzie Poppet]

22. Good if him, I guess...but nothing to apologize for.

Except perhaps to sex workers...

[Autumn]

25. Hows, it go? If you throw a rock into a pack of wild dogs, the one you hit will always holler.

McCaskill sure does holler a lot, guess she got hit.

[seabeyond]

28. Wait, you are worried about a mans feeling for calling Clinton a whore, more than women listening to

a man call women whores?

[Armstead]

29. It is a term that has been widely used for a long time to describe....

people who sell their political position, media influence or otehr professional skills inappropriately to the highest bidder.

It the word honestly offended you when it was used against the GOP or others you disagree with, you can complain.

But if you either used it, or never objected when it was used to describe Bush or Romney or anyone else...

[seabeyond]

30. Throw whore at a woman, and it is gonna sound like a person is calling a woman a whore.

That is reality. We are called it often enough. From the age of 12 for the rest of our life. I get as a man you do not get it, but throw whore at a woman, and it is going to sound like you called a woman a whore.

Which is so unfair? That a man has to understand throwing whore out to a woman, is going to come off sounding like you are calling a woman a whore? Or, women being called whores so often, that regardless, throwing whore out at a woman is going to sound like you are calling a woman a whore?

[Zira]

34. That was very racists of him... No wait. Child superpredator was racist and we still haven't

gotten an apology from either Clinton.

She attacked that black woman who asked her to apologize.

And Bill defended the term last week.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

36. I will follow Bernie's lead and only refer to her as the "corporate Princess".

[Armstead]

37. That'll go over well