Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

[DanTex]

62. It's crazy that you are trying to make excuses for a Bernie surrogate calling Hillary a whore.

At an event in front of thousands of fans screaming their approval. That's not a faked quote, there's video of it. To his credit, Bernie immediately repudiated that sexist language, but evidently some of his disgruntled fans still think that kind of thing is OK. That was an ugly moment in the campaign.

I have no idea what being me being straight, white and male (Bernie's core demographic) has to do with it. That offensive email was about religion, about bringing up Bernie's supposed atheism as a weakness in Bible Belt states. I happen to be an atheist (Bernie is not, apparently), so this email was an attack on people like me. I don't like the oversized role that religious plays in politics one bit. Of course I think using atheism against someone is wrong, and the guy who wrote the email has apologized.

But we're talking about private communications, not something said publicly at a campaign event in front of cheering fans. They never actually did attack Bernie for his supposed atheism, it was just one statement out of 20,000 leaked emails that barely amounts to anything. And as much as I don't like the idea of atheists like myself having our atheism used against us, I am also aware that if you leak 20,000 emails from anyone, you're going to find something objectionable.

If this guy had gone in front of a huge crowd and attacked Bernie for not believing in god, that would be a whole different story. And Jeff Weaver admitted this on MSNBC, he said that if you leaked all of his internal emails from the campaign you'd find some nasty stuff in there too. Of course. Because people are human.