On Tuesday, following a rally at SUNY-Purchase, Greenpeace activist Eva Resnick-Day confronted Hillary Clinton, asking her whether she would stop taking money from the fossil fuel industry. Clinton, frustrated, jabbed her finger in Resnick-Day’s face: “I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me.”
Table tennis semipro and cannabis enthusiast Susan Sarandon is among the most prominent celebrity endorsers of Bernie Sanders, which makes her public statements matters of great import to political commentators, columnists, and assigning editors. Today, everyone is mad because she said she’d support Trump if Hillary Clinton won the nomination.
Bernie Sanders just scored a major victory in Washington—one of the largest remaining states. And with around 75 percent of the vote, the Sanders campaign finally got the sort of win its been aching for.
Bernie Sanders is still suing the Democratic National Committee over its decision to suspend his access to their voter database, as sure a sign as any that settlement talks aren’t going so well.
People often say that conservatives aren’t funny. In all honestly, that’s probably true. We need to look no further than Stephen Colbert, a caricature of conservative talking heads who nonetheless inflamed prominent conservatives who really should have known better, to say nothing of the rubes at home who didn’t get the joke. But today I am here to inform you that the liberals who love to look down on their self-serious and oblivious counterparts are themselves capable of a galling lack of humor.
Bernie Sanders today walked right out of an on-camera interview over a question about his wife and Arizona’s most vocal racist, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Last night in Arizona, Bernie Sanders held a rally in a Navajo casino. As you might expect from the venue, his speech was heavy on issues that directly affect American Indians. One controversy Sanders briefly touched on was the Washington Redskins, the National Football League team with a slur right there in their name. Perhaps because he was wading into an issue on which he has little experience, Sanders inadvertently made a deeply offensive remark. Via the Washington Post:
Last night’s primaries likely provided great clarity in the presidential races on both sides. On the Republican side, Marco Rubio dropped out after a drubbing in Florida and John Kasich took the mantle as establishment favorite after a relatively easy win in his home state of Ohio. As for the Democrats, Hillary Clinton swept Bernie Sanders in four important states. And then there’s Missouri.
The New York Times has quietly (and extensively) revised a history of Senator Bernie Sanders’ legislative accomplishments, initially published on Monday morning under the glowing headline, “Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years via Legislative Side Door,” which eventually became the far more reserved “Via Legislative Side Doors, Bernie Sanders Won Modest Victories” and, in print, the even more ambivalent “Sanders’s Roster of Modest Wins.”
Asked by a voter on Monday why he is running as a Democrat, the senator from Vermont, who is an independent but has historically caucused with Congressional Democrats, conceded that “in terms of media coverage, you have to run within the Democratic Party.”
In a campaign that is increasingly being defined by the public’s weariness with inequality and aspects of free trade, the labor movement has settled on Hillary Clinton as its presumptive presidential preference. The labor movement is fucking up.
“Luckily, I, Hillary Clinton, share all of your exact same beliefs, and I always have,” says a parody Hillary Clinton, a salient statement that pretty much summarizes why Democratic voters don’t like their own presidential frontrunner.
Memory is a funny thing, and it’s even funnier when you’re in the midst of a bitter fight for the highest political office in the country.
