A reader remarks on the reported quote of Hillary Clinton regarding Bernie Sanders in an upcoming documentary of her:
HRC’s comments are being taken well out of context, and misquoted. It’s all bread and circuses, but media is getting more clicks and eyeballs by hyping this “controversy”.
If it hasn’t been released, I’m not sure how to evaluate whether or not it’s in context. The conservative – I don’t know how conservative, since I generally don’t see or read him – pundit Charles Lane commented in the weekly WaPo evaluation of the Democratic candidates:
It’s probably too early for Democrats to worry that their own intraparty squabbles could cost them the crucial 2020 presidential election. Nevertheless, if the eventual nominee does go down trying to defeat a very beatable President Trump in November, some may point to this week as the moment Democrats’ cross-cutting arguments over identity and ideology started to turn counterproductive.
They have certainly turned vicious. There’s no other word for 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton’s attack on the surging Sen. Bernie Sanders as a mere “career politician” whom “nobody likes” — except possibly for the aggressively male “online Bernie Bros” he has “permitted.” Her comments, which in part appear in an upcoming documentary about her, represent the open declaration of something many, many Democrats say privately, but they were impolitic, so she walked them back, partially, by saying she would “do whatever I can to support our nominee.”
Along with another squabble, Lane chose to subtitle this instance of their weekly evaluation, “We’ll look back on this as the moment the [Democratic] implosion began.” Without better context, I remain convinced HRC has committed a serious blunder – especially since Sanders supporters aren’t going to particularly care whether the context is right or not.
