Bernie Sanders Encourages the Rudeness of His Supporters

[riversedge]

It was rude and unprofessional of Sanders fan to do this. Not surprised given their behavior on social media sites--it was bound to flow out into public events.


JudyReardon
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Bernie Sanders Encourages the Rudeness of His Supporters

http://www.reardonreports.com/bernie-sanders-encourages-the-rudeness-of-his-supporters/

Judy Reardon

February 6, 2016Democratic Primary
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Last night supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders repeatedly interruputed Sen. Jeanne Shaheen while she was speaking at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s annual McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner. In my more than 30 years of attending Democratic events in New Hampshire, I’ve never witnessed rudeness and disrespect like this.

Jeanne Shaheen was the first woman elected governor of New Hampshire. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire. She is the only woman in United States history to be elected both a governor and a U.S. senator. Much to the dismay of her campaign strategists during her 2014 reelection campaign, Jeanne Shaheen ranks pretty high on all the various scorecards measuring how liberal senators’ voting records are

Why in the world would Bernie Sanders’ supporters treat this woman who made the Democratic Party a winning party in New Hampshire so disrespectfully?

Because she supports Hillary Clinton for president? That’s too simple. I don’t think people are motivated to heckle a sitting U.S. Senator speaking at a Democratic Party event named in her honor simply because she’s supporting a different candidate.

Every four years in New Hampshire we have NHDP events where all the competing candidates for the Democratic nomination and New Hampshire’s current Democratic officeholders speak. I’ve been attending these tpes of gathering since 1987. They can be rowdy. Each candidate’s supporters tries to outdo the other with cheers and applause for their candidate. Grown men and women jump up and down cheering. It’s silly and it’s fun. But never before last night have I witnessed one candidate’s supporters heckle another candidate or that candidate’s backer dring a speech................


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[stonecutter357]

1. K&R!

[6chars]

2. The article then explains how Sanders encourages rudeness

"I’m not saying Bernie Sanders instructs his supporters to interrupt and heckle the speech of a U.S. Senator.

But what Benie Sanders does is constantly tell us is Congress is corrupt and the political system is corrupt, and he calls for a political revolution. His supporters clearly have internalized this message. And if you believe Congress is corrupt and the political system is corrupt and what we need in this country is a political revolution, why would you show any respect to the senior U.S. Senator from New Hampshire? And not only is she in the corrupt Senate, she supports the devil herself, Hillary Clinton!"

[Andy823]

3. Was Sanders there when the did this?

If he was, he should have put a stop to it. This kind of thing will backfire on Sanders. When your supporters are this rude it makes the candidate look bad if they don't do something to control those people. I don't think all of his supporters are this way, but those who are are not helping him at all, and I sometimes wonder why they continue to make him look bad if they really want him to get elected.

[6chars]

4. Doesn't seem like it

The article just says he constantly tell us is Congress is corrupt and the political system is corrupt, and he calls for a political revolution.

That is how the article suggests he has encouraged it.

I am not sure I would call that encouragement. I personally would not take that as encouragement to be rude to Shaheen.

[yallerdawg]

6. Sanders had already spoken.

Senator Shaheen was preceding Hillary's appearance.

She said New Hampshire Democrats are respectful of each other.

[MADem]

14. He was a speaker at the event. nt

[Cha]

12. Yes, BS encourages rudeness by all the misinformation he puts out..

and he never tells them to stop their harassing. Never.

[Stuckinthebush]

24. Spot on!

It's like the Tea Party freaks who have been told time and again that Obama is a liar and criminal. What happens? Well,they feel empowered to scream "You lie!" At him during the State of the Union.

Extremism incites.

[21st Century Poet]

27. Very weak sauce

What those people did to Mrs Shaheen is very rude but to try and blame it on Bernie Sanders is beyond ridiculous. It's like saying that those two Black Lives Matter activists who rudely interrupted Bernie Sanders's rally and took over his microphone are Martin Luther King's fault for making blacks so uppity with his speeches about equality, revolution and self-improvement.

Sorry, but that is some very, very weak sauce.

[pandr32]

28. Agreed!

[FarPoint]

29. The DU Board is infected...

If anyone whisper an occurance against him, your post will be deleted...That is my experience. The Democratic Discussion has been hijacked.

I'm not even able to speak, discuss how a Career, 50 year- politician as an Independent can run as our Democratic Leader after only switching to the Democratic Party 9 months ago? Secondly, how can the Democratic supporters reject Hillary with her solid, loyal life long fight as a Democrat? It goes against my soul I tell ya.

[restorefreedom]

32. so bernie calling out the system as corrupt

is encouraging his supporters to be rude? and when he is not even present?

that is incredible power, he has....

[6chars]

34. well maybe he shouldn't call out the system as corrupt then.

[restorefreedom]

36. maybe the system shouldn't be corrupt.

problem solved.

[6chars]

37. either way

[riversedge]

38. Especially when Bernie is part of the 'system' that he decries constantly

[Thinkingabout]

5. It is all about disruption, if they can't beat them then disrupt.

They can't influence others with his agenda so prevent those interested in other candidates is to disrupt. Really classy.

[okasha]

7. I gather that Sanders

has sent out a couple of "Now, now, boys" emails and has even apologized to Hillary. That's nice, bur he needs to come down hard on his fratrat contingent if he really wants to stop their behavior.

[Treant]

10. 652,000 people

I was also born in an extended city area that has more than that (about 850,000). I never realized VT was that tiny!

Or, Vermont's Senators each serve a number of people far smaller than my House Representative does!

[MADem]

13. VT population is about the size of the city of Boston.

Boston's a small city, too.

Can't BELIEVE that comment got hidden--I guess no one is allowed to make any critique of "anointed ones" here on DU. That was just a lousy hide.

[BlueCaliDem]

17. WTH?? Why was Walk's post hidden??

I guess they want us to know that even in the Hillary Clinton Group there is no safe haven.

[still_one]

23. It should NOT have been hidden. Ironically, OPs calling Hillary most every name in the

book have no problem being allowed. When OPs go on ad-nasium telling Hillary supporters to "go F* themselves", in the words of Susan Sarandon paraphrases, there is nothing wrong with that. "it is only free speech"

Same as when some of these same folks rushed to the defense of those that used the "c" word when describing Hillary, or calling President Obama a "POS, FU, etc".

It is actions like this that are more damaging to Bernie than anything else, and will contribute a large part to his defeat

[Iliyah]

26. Because they can't handle the truth.

[MADem]

15. San Antonio TX has twice as many citizens as the STATE of VT.

It's very rural. Even the "cities" are more like small towns in most places.

[George II]

19. When Hillary Clinton was elected Senator for New York, she got more votes......

........in New York City than people there are in Vermont.

As the song goes......"If I can make it there, I can make it anywhere" - so he booked to Vermont.

[George II]

18. Sanders never got more than 210,000 votes in any election. They tout his experience as mayor....

....of Burlington, Vermont. But that was a burg of less than 35,000 people when he was mayor.

I'm nobody, but I live in a town of a little more than 20,000 people, and I'm on a first name basis with five of the last six mayors (one republican) in our town. It's no big deal.

[NYC Liberal]

30. What a shitty hide.

[Loki]

9. I'm beginning to think that these so called Democratic/Socialists/Progressives might

find a more comfortable home over at FR. I'm sick of their bullying behavior, rudeness and ugly behavior. I keep thinking back to Nader and what happened in the 2000 election. We got 8 years of a disaster called Bush. I once thought Bernie was a good man, now I'm not so sure. Wreck it at any cost, mostly egotism, and then sit back and watch the disaster unfold if a Republican should take the White House. With the Senate, House and Presidency, we won't survive and I'm thinking they don't give a fuck.

[Jamaal510]

35. +1

[OilemFirchen]

11. Call it a sixth sense...

but I'm beginning to detect a trend.

[Hekate]

16. I know this is a dangerous question, but why are members of this Group...

....being alerted on and hidden, as happened in this thread?

JURY: This question relates to the TOS of what is supposed to be a protected Group. A great deal more goes on in another candidate-specific Group, and is neither alerted on nor hidden.

[Cha]

20. Because only the majority can speak their mind about HIllary. The rest of us have to stfu about BS.

[Hekate]

21. Mmmmm

[Cha]

22. Mmmmm

[Cha]

25. KICK

[George II]

31. They are predominantly a pack of political neophytes that know nothing about decorum, respect....

....or the way to conduct a campaign. All they do is insult, badger, and interrupt.

Some of the things I've seen in the last few weeks have been worse than right wing dirty tricks.

This is not the way American candidates run their campaigns.

[betsuni]

33. A video was just posted on GDP and I couldn't get past the first minute.

Smells right-wing to me. "This video compilation of HRC made my jaw drop." Another "Hillary is worse than G.W. Bush" thing today.