2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Explains DNC Data Breach and Hillary Says "We Should Just Move on..." [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)This is not their first rodeo.
I don't think anyone forced Sanders to apologize or made it part of any deal. I think Sanders apologized because he's a decent guy and that's not the way he does business.
His staff got out there spinning, and they said a lot of ugly things. It then turns out that the guy who was spinning the MOST improbable story got found out as a result of the audit--and as a result of that audit, he was fired...and two of his subordinates were tossed over the side a few days later.
I don't think the DNC is biased, and I think, were the shoe on the other foot, the Bernie supporters would be calling for Clinton's HEAD. They wouldn't be satisfied with an apology or two, and the shitcanning of one national director and two subordinates. They'd want the campaign shut down, they'd want everything examined, they'd want frog marching, they'd want the candidate to resign. They wouldn't accept the apology and say "It wasn't HER fault, it was the fault of cheating staffers."
And you know this.
So yeah, there is a little inequality of treatment, there.