Days after being called a "whore," Hillary gets money thrown at her by Sanders supporters

[bigtree]

Eric Boehlert ‏@EricBoehlert 4h4 hours ago
Days after being called a "whore," protesters throw money at her. must be fun running for POTUS as a woman...

Eric Boehlert ‏@EricBoehlert 2h2 hours ago
last wk Obama attended Hollywood fundraiser where tix cost $33K. wonder why progressives didn't throw money and at him call him "whore"

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. Do they have to make everything sexist...

Bernie Sanders is not running against Obama... Hillary and her supporters need to understand that and get over it.

[pkdu]

7. You......-------->

<-----------point


Calling a woman a whore and throwing dollar bills , classless...just classless.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

9. Can you provide video of these protesters calling Hillary a whore?

I'll be waiting

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

23. {crickets}

[pkdu]

30. OH they saw the whore calling in NY, have no fear of that. Nt

[dsc]

33. that isn't what the OP or the tweet says

It isn't his or the OP's fault you can't or won't read English. It says days after, It says it quite clearly.

[bjo59]

56. Oh just make up any old thing you want.

As a woman, I really, really, really find it extremely distasteful when people use the phenomenon of sexism so utterly cynically. But the corporate media have fattened us all up on a constant diet of cynicism and an ethics of "the ends justify the means" and "winner takes all" so .... sigh ..... what can one expect?

[Bobbie Jo]

12. What on earth does the OP

have to do with "running against Obama?"

It's a comparison about how they were treated under similar circumstances.

Whooooosh!

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

19. Circumstances are NOT similar....

Hillary is running for the nomination, as is Sanders.

Obama is NOT running for a nomination or for President.

[Bobbie Jo]

25. Yes

What?

Thanks for clarifying.

[sheshe2]

41. Great clarification!

[ThePhilosopher04]

20. They have no credibility on real issues

so they resort to baiting on gender, race, and religion. A sign of real desperation.

[sheshe2]

43. Despiration is calling Hillary a whore! nt

[ThePhilosopher04]

53. Corporate Whore, and the shoe fits. She doesn't like it because it hits her where she lives.

[sheshe2]

57. He said Democratic whore. nt

[ThePhilosopher04]

61. Democratic Corporate Whore to be exact.

[CorporatistNation]

71. Yes That Is The Two party System That Is ONE That We Have... The MONEY Party!

TRUTH...

[Pisces]

104. Only if it is.

[cwydro]

2. It's sad, isn't it?

I think the sexism is even more obvious than the racism with Obama.

Our country is so far behind .

[gabeana]

89. I know your right

the sexism of accusing anyone of sexism who criticises Hillary and those people like Albright and Steinham basically saying all women should vote for Hillary because she is a women, now that is sexism

[SusanCalvin]

3. Oh please.

Not everything is sexist. Some things are corporatist.

And nobody called her personally a "whore." It was meant to apply to a lot of elected officials. And it was meant in a corporate manner in any case.

(Yes, I know that word should not have been used in any case. But it was not applied directly to her nor meant only for her.)

[sheshe2]

46. I cannot believe you are even defending this. NT

[SusanCalvin]

63. Uh, I'm not defending the OP.

I'm vehemently disagreeing with it.

[840high]

91. Hillary supporters immediately

assumed it was about her. Wonder why?

[panader0]

4. All of those protestors called her a whore?

C'mon bigtree......

[Joe the Revelator]

15. The longer this goes, the more sharks he's jumped.

[gabeana]

90. WHo Jumped Bernie?

if so what a active imagination you have

[Maru Kitteh]

84. Where does the post say all of the protesters called her a whore?

[Perogie]

5. If you're going to claim someone called Hillary a whore please post the link

I think you will find that the phase was Corporate whore.

[Bjornsdotter]

6. Let me help you out here

1. Obama is not running for president

2. The throwing of the money was directly related to the incredibly, expensive price of the fundraising dinner at the Clooney's.

[SusanCalvin]

18. Exactly, thank you.

They're really grasping at straws here....

[Thinkingabout]

64. What was the fund raised trying to do, raise money for down ticket candidates.

Sanders has received $10,000 in the past from a Hillary find raiser, we need a Democratic congress to get progressive ideas passed. How much did their fund raiser get?

[Bjornsdotter]

73. Please stay on topic

...the topic was about the money being thrown at Hillary and an attempt to link it to sexism.

I have no idea how much the Clooney extravaganza raised.

[Thinkingabout]

76. How about giving the real reason for the fund raiser, we are talking about a fund raiser

Go back and read the OP again, "fund raiser" was there.

[Bjornsdotter]

81. The primise of the OP was to link

.......sexism and the money being thrown. Just because a word is there does not mean it is the subject, but you already knew that.

Hillary collected her maximum amount before monies were funneled elsewhere. Also Hillary attended another fundraiser the same day....entry price $2700.

[Thinkingabout]

82. I know this, as she has raised money before and donated $10,000 to Sanders campaign

When he was running for the Senate, down ticket candidates. Oh, I don't need my post rewritten or told what I can and can not have in my post.

[Bjornsdotter]

83. You were attempting to deflect

....from the premise of the OP.

Fail....

[Thinkingabout]

85. And in turn you have attempted to defect, goodbye

[Bjornsdotter]

86. Bye....have a good night!

[Eric J in MN]

8. This is garbage. Progressives didn't call HRC a 'whore.'

Dr. Song, MD, a speaker at a Sanders rally, said we should stop electing "corporate Democratic whores." He promptly apologized.

[CrowCityDem]

22. They sure did (disgustingly) cheer it.

[SusanCalvin]

32. He was not speaking just of her.

And while the verbiage could have been improved, I agree with the sentiment.

[dsc]

36. so which is it

he didn't call her a whore or he did but he also called other people whores?

[SusanCalvin]

38. He called corporate democrats "whores."

I disagree with the term for a number of reasons, but agree with the sentiment.

[dsc]

47. and mentioned her as a specific example

If someone had named Obama and then talked about corporate lawn jockeys no one, not a single solitary person, would say that was OK. I fail to see any difference at all with listing the only woman who has ever won a presidential primary and then talking about corporate whores and what my analogy.

[SusanCalvin]

50. I already said the choice of word was unfortunate, and he apologized.

However, I agree with what I believe was meant.

[sheshe2]

51. Oh, that makes everything pretty then...

He was not speaking just of her.

For the love of Gawd!

[SusanCalvin]

59. No it does not. Didn't say so.

Disagree with choice of word. Agree with sentiment. And the throwing money was not sexist by any rational interpretation. Which is why I got involved in this thread.

[sheshe2]

69. Tossing money at Hill

was sexist. That is how you treat a whore. It was meant to malign and demean her.

[SusanCalvin]

74. I can see that we will never see this the same way,

Much less agree. So I'm out.

[TheCowsCameHome]

10. Still got nothin'........

[Else You Are Mad]

11. The implication was that...

Hillary is the embodiment of greed NOT that she is a whore. In fact the gentleman that used the term 'corporate whore' was not associated with those throwing the money.

But, please spin away.

[SusanCalvin]

80. Exactly.

And I'll give an example of greed - giving those corporate speeches when she already had plenty of money and knew good and well she was going to run for president.

[Joe the Revelator]

13. You should be ashamed of yourself

Posting bullshit like this.

[dchill]

14. Look up "conflation."

And get a clue while you're at it.

[geek tragedy]

16. Another 50 days of these people nt

[morningfog]

39. 98 days until the convention.

[geek tragedy]

48. This forum disappears June 14 at the latest.

Whether Sanders wants to foment a leftwing Brooks Brothers riot in an effort to disenfranchise all the black voters who provided Hillary with her margin of victory in the primary will be up to him. I don't think his ego is that out of control, but we will see.

But here on June 14 the primary voting will be over, and there will be a winner and a loser, whether the loser acknowledges reality or not. Then it will be general election mode here.

[morningfog]

52. Your comment on disenfranchising black voters is silly.

This forum will last until one candidate concedes.

[geek tragedy]

60. No, that is exactly what Sanders would seek if he tries to argue the

superdelegates to overrule the voters.

The election is over when the voting is over. Sanders can pretend to be the nominee all he wants, he'll just get laughed at.

[morningfog]

66. It's silly. The super delegates are part of the process, the rules.

It would not be Sanders disenfranchising anyone, it is the DNC who made the rules. If Sanders went to the convention 50-100 delegates behind Hillary, for example, and the super delegates broke in favor of Bernie, he would not have disenfranchised a single voter. If anyone had, it would the DNC and the super delegates.

Further, you can't claim that the 50-100 pledged delegate difference can be reduced to African American voters. It is just silly.

[geek tragedy]

68. Democratic Super delegates who prefer the Democrat

are not going to override the votes of Democrats in order to steal the Democratic nomination on behalf of a non-Democrat.

We'll see what kind of human being Sanders is in the first two weeks of June.

[morningfog]

70. I don't expect the supers to break from the pledged delegate winner.

But if they did, it's in their discretion and the recipient would not be disenfranchising black voters.

[geek tragedy]

79. That certainly would be the takeaway and it would tear the party apart if they did that.

Sanders would lose superdelegate support if he tried that kind of stunt--no way would Jeff Merkley and Keith Ellison support that kind of effort.

The media would have a field day with him. So would late night comedians/talk shows.

We'll see what kind of person he is.

[Warren Stupidity]

17. One candidate is raising money from regular people

27 dollars at a time, the other is raising money from the 0.01%, 350,000 dollars at a time.

I'm with the people's candidate.

[k8conant]

21. Why were the protesters called a "whore"?

[Bonobo]

26. You beat me to it! nt

[ky_dem]

29. LOL

grammar always wins

[SusanCalvin]

54. Yeah, why singular?

Was there just one protester?

[Bonobo]

24. Protesters were called whores?

Do you know what a misplaced modifier is?

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-misplaced-modifiers.html

[Depaysement]

27. What did she do with the money they threw at her?

Collect it and speak 2-3 seconds?

[SusanCalvin]

35. .

[Autumn]

28. So wrong to call protesters whores

[KingFlorez]

31. A ridiculous stunt

Such is the behavior of supporters of a campaign that is losing the delegate count and set to fall further behind.

[SusanCalvin]

37. I thought it was a very good stunt. nt

[KingFlorez]

40. Good for you

Unfortunately it doesn't get Sanders any delegates, but moral victories are always nice for some people.

[SusanCalvin]

45. Of course it doesn't, directly.

Didn't even say it was a moral victory.

But I don't think it will lose him any delegates either. And I think it made a good point and got attention.

[morningfog]

34. Lol. The dredges.

[Fawke Em]

42. No one called her a whore.

Boehlert is a fucking idiot.

[Goblinmonger]

49. This whole Pope thing going completely the opposite of what you predicted

really has got y'all in a tizzy, hasn't it.

And Mr. Boehlert should know better as a writer than to misplace a modifier like that. I mean, that's a grammar test example if I ever saw one.

[AgingAmerican]

55. Nobody called Hillary a whore

Except her own supporters. Her campaign has descended into madness.

[bigtree]

72. you had respect for me?

...and you write all of this?

I have NEVER come onto a thread of yours and called you out, much less like this. You need to check the definition of respect.

[Octafish]

62. No one called her that.

Sad when all you have for supporting your candidate is to make stuff up.

[Bonobo]

65. I'm overjoyed that I helped with your grammar! nt

[HooptieWagon]

67. Still butthurt?

[RazBerryBeret]

77. THIS is what the next 4 years will be like....

if she manages to reach the WH. I'm a woman and I'm not ready for this.

[Bluenorthwest]

99. Remember the OP is a man, a heterosexual male.

His agenda is a straight male agenda, by definition.

[Luminous Animal]

78. I love this post like butter.

[beedle]

87. What the fuck is wrong with a whore?

really? They do work that usually is a result of circumstances beyond their control.

They are usually forced into their situations. It's like calling someone 'middle class' as an intended insult.

The sexism, if there is any, comes from the 'Johns' that use the service, and the morons that think being called a 'Whore' just means you're being negatively equated as a female sex worker. The ignorance and stereotyping is breath-taking.

If any of the females in my family were discovered to be sex workers I would still proudly call them my family ... if they were discovered to be in a government position, taking money from large corporations and then writing laws that benefited the people giving them money over the average citizens, I would no longer consider them part of my family.

Hillary should strive to be as open and honest as a sex worker.

[AzDar]

107. ...

[jmg257]

88. How much did she pocket this time?

$$ $$

[passiveporcupine]

92. This is rich

I haven't had a good gut laugh like this in awhile.

[bluedigger]

93. It's a ridiculous conflation in the first place.

When people give money to a whore they have a reasonable expectation of services being provided in exchange. This is more a case of people throwing good money after bad money if one must make an analogy.

[Lucinda]

94. Charming people.

[Scuba]

95. "Sure I'll take money from anybody, but I'm the victim here, remember?"

[Vinca]

96. Okay, Hillary supporters. You've convinced me.

Apparently she is a sensitive, tender flower who is easily intimidated and prone to hiding in corners. You're right . . . she shouldn't be commander-in-chief. If dollar bills are so upsetting, how will she deal with Vlad? How will she deal with Trump?

[Odin2005]

97. WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!!!

[Bluenorthwest]

98. Yes, showers of $$ are very, very sexist

Odd that the OP sees Stepp Blatter as a sex symbol but to each his own is my motto!!!!

[Bluenorthwest]

100. Money Shower- Hard Rock Casino

[Bluenorthwest]

101. money shower on Gurdass Maan

huge lot of Indian currency notes being showered on Gurdass Maan, the living legend of Punjabi Muse, by A Famous Saint in Punjab.

[whatchamacallit]

102. Another pathetic pile-o-poo

[workinclasszero]

103. "Days after being called a "whore," Hillary gets money thrown at her by Sanders supporters"

Sickening!

[Warren Stupidity]

105. day after day ridiculous over the top completely dishonest posts attacking sanders and supporters

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

106. Another, poor Hillary thread. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her?