{"id":182556,"date":"2015-08-12T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T00:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/12\/props-to-bernie\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T00:23:00","slug":"props-to-bernie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/08\/12\/props-to-bernie\/","title":{"rendered":"Props to Bernie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <i>Face the Nation<\/i>, Bernie Sanders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/msnbc\/sanders-some-criticism-hillary-clinton-motivated-sexism\">said that much of the criticism of Hillary Clinton is motivated by sexism<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday that some of the criticism directed at his Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton is motivated by sexism.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI can\u2019t think of many personalities who have been attacked for more reasons than Hillary Clinton,\u201d Sanders told John Dickerson on \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAnd by the way, let me be frank \u2013 and I\u2019m running against her \u2013 some of it is sexist. I don\u2019t know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is,\u201d Sanders added. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sanders remarks came in response to a question about whether Clinton\u2019s use of a private server while secretary of state has hurt her trustworthiness in the eyes of some Americans. Sanders refused to comment on the scandal or Clinton\u2019s honesty, and went on to emphasize that his concerns with her as the Democratic nominee are about her policies, not personality.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s actually pretty classy, particularly in the context of the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Face the Nation, Bernie Sanders said that much of the criticism of Hillary Clinton is motivated by sexism: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday that some of the criticism directed at his Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton is motivated by sexism.\u201cI can\u2019t think of many personalities who have been attacked for more reasons &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}