Whoopi Goldberg Spars With Bernie Sanders: 'Why Are You Still in the Race?'

[Galraedia]

It wasn’t easy getting Bernie Sanders to appear on The View on Wednesday morning. Technical difficulties with his live feed from Burlington, Vermont caused the show to cut him off and then try again later. By the end of the interview, he may have wished he had bailed altogether.

Once they got him back online, the hosts spent the first segment asking the senator how he would handle the coronavirus pandemic if he were president. At one point, Sunny Hostin wondered aloud if he was “using” the crisis to push his Medicare for All plan.

But things got even spicier during the second segment when Whoopi Goldberg, who has been a fairly clear Joe Biden supporter from the beginning of the 2020 primary, asked Sanders to explain why he hasn’t dropped out yet.

“I have to ask you this question now because I have been watching to see what you were going to do, and I'm told that you intend to stay in this race for president because you believe there is a path to victory,” Goldberg said. “I want to know what that path is because this feels a little bit like it did when you didn't come out when Hillary Clinton was clearly the person folks were going for.”

As he started to protest, she asked, “Can you explain why you’re still in the race and what this path is that you see?”

“That's not quite accurate,” Sanders replied. “I worked as hard as I could for Hillary Clinton.”

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Does anyone remember Bernie working as hard as he could for Hillary Clinton? His whole campaign was and still is about himself. I also like how in the interview when he was asked why he under performed and why his voters didn't show up he insinuated that it was because several of his opponents dropped out.

[Cha]

1. Thank you, Whoopi!

[Walleye]

2. I remember the sour expression on his face at the convention

When Hillary introduced him. I can’t stand a sore loser.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I believe he did work as hard as he could to work for Hillary...

It's just that he couldn't work very hard.

[The Magistrate]

4. 'Bernie' Flat Lies About Supporting Mrs. Clinton, Ma'am

He did not do what he had to do to be an effective campaigner for her in 2016. He needed to apologize. He needed to say he was wrong, that there was no basis whatever for the smears of 'rigged election' and 'corruption' his campaign leveled against Mrs. Clinton. He need to tell his supporters unequivocally to stand down at the convention, and to ask the credentials of those delegates of his who disrupted be revoked, and the disruptors be expelled. He needed, when he made campaign speeches, to speak only of Mrs. Clinton, and what a fine President she would be, rather than simply trim his stump speech with a few compliments, and proceed to boasting aout his 'success' in the primaries and how he was the future of the Party.

'Bernie' of course could not do any of this. He still lives in the 'chicks make coffee and worship radical warriors' mindset he acquired as a young college Marxist. The very idea of 'Bernie' apologizing to a woman, of taking a backseat to a woman, acknowledging a woman beat him fair and square....


"Your attitude is noticed! Oh, yes, it is noticed!"





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[rockfordfile]

5. I think she sort of over-stepped. Should be more respectful of the Senator

I agree that Sen.Sanders should be thinking about closure.

[The Magistrate]

7. Why Would You Think Such a Thing, Sir?

Respect is earned. It is not accorded to position or any other damned thing. Sanders has by his behavior forfeited any claim to respect above that accorded any mope on a street-corner with a bottle of Thunderbird tilted to his lips.



The fact is Sanders campaigns not to gain the Democratic Party's nomination for President, but to weaken if not wreck the 'Democratic Establishment'. For 'Bernie', ousting Trump and ending the Republican majority in the Senate is barely an afterthought to this long-standing purpose. Once Sanders' supporters face this fact squarely, they may be able to decide honestly what their best course in this election is: voting against 'Bernie' in any future primary, and for Mr. Biden and Democrats all down the ticket to the lowest office on the ballot come November. He ought to be called on it every time he shoes his face and wags that finger.





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[drray23]

9. excuse me ?

You think journalists (or show hosts in this case) should defer to politicians ? We have seen another politician who believes that, Donald Trump.
As far as I am concerned, I want politicians to be held accountable and asked hard questions. They work for us citizens and are not to be put up on a pedestal.

[NurseJackie]

16. LOL ... Absurd.

[Cha]

19. No.. Sanders should be "more respectful" and

answer the question.

[NurseJackie]

8. He deflected and changed the subject when asked a direct question.

Whoopi made him nervous. Whoopi Goldberg made Bernie flop. I think that Putin would be even more confrontational... I wonder how Bernie would handle him.

[comradebillyboy]

10. I don't think Sanders can deal with strong women very well.

He became quite flustered and angry. Not a good look at all.

[The Magistrate]

11. That Is Certainly True, Sir

Radicals of his sort back in the day viewed 'women's lib' as a distraction from the struggle. except insofar as it 'liberated' women to engage more freely in sexual activities with men.

Sanders' 'Vermont Freeman' columns from the early seventies are a window into the roots of his mind. While the 'rape fantasy' effusion is the most notorious, my favorite is his line that 'the revolution' occurs whenever a teenage girls defies her mother to have sexual intercourse with her boyfriend. And of course, that 'bitchy' schoolteachers do serious harm to young boys, and that sexual frustration causes women to suffer breast cancer. He was an awful deep thinker, was 'Bernie' as he came into his thirties....





"From Bernie’s perspective, dropping out of a race once you have no chance of winning is peculiar behavior that can only be explained by the work of a hidden hand. For most politicians, though, it is actually standard operating procedure. Only Sanders seems to think the normal thing to do once voters have made clear they don’t want to nominate you is to continue campaigning anyway."





"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

[nolawarlock]

12. Here's the YouTube link!

Whoopi is so no-bs and I love her for it.

[George II]

13. I love the way she reacted seconds after 3:00, "alright, you're assessing". That was funny.

[nolawarlock]

14. Whoopi is everything.

Watching her go at Jeaninne Pirro was great.

[George II]

15. I didn't see that, what day did she do that? (if today, I didn't watch the whole show)

[nolawarlock]

17. I think it was today. n/t

[Gothmog]

18. This was a great interview

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