Tommy Chong under the Bernie Bus

[itsrobert]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/tommy-chong-bernie-sanders-rally-los-angeles/index.html

"Unfortunately after months of support and endorsement videos, I have to report that @BernieSanders pulled away his invite to me."

[tazkcmo]

1. This is so yesterday.

And still as silly.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. It's really gnawing at you -

this whole primary thing - isn't it?

Save some of your energy for the GE

[Chasstev365]

3. Tommy Chong? REALLY?

There's an important political figure!

[Raster]

4. When it comes to manufactured outrage...

...leave no stoner unturned.

[merrily]

5. Changing rally speakers = throwing someone under a bus? Really?

And are we ever going to stop using that played out cliche?

[Buzz cook]

6. Throwing under the bus is an effective rhetorical tool

It accurately describes what happens when someone doesn't toe the Sanders party line or has the temerity to support Clinton over Sanders.

And it has the added benefit of upsetting Sanders supporters.

[w4rma]

7. Throwing under the bus is what happens to people on Clinton's hit list.

As one of the last orders of business for a losing campaign, they recorded in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet the names and deeds of members of Congress. They carefully noted who had endorsed Hillary, who had backed Obama, and who had stayed on the sidelines—standard operating procedure for any high-end political organization. But the data went into much more nuanced detail. “We wanted to have a record of who endorsed us and who didn’t,” a member of Hillary’s campaign team said, “and of those who endorsed us, who went the extra mile and who was just kind of there. And of those who didn’t endorse us, those who understandably didn’t endorse us because they are [Congressional Black Caucus] members or Illinois members. And then, of course, those who endorsed him but really should have been with her … that burned her.”

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/hillary-clinton-hit-list-102067

[Buzz cook]

9. Yes there's a Clinton murder list too.

Did you read the article you linked to?

The only reprisal, if one could call it that, was not attending a fund raiser for McCaskill after she did a poor taste pedophilia joke.

The story continues with McCaskill apologizing and being forgiven.

For a "hit list" there sure ain't a lot of hitting. But the rhetorical flavor of the article sure wants you to feel that there is, without offering proof.

The article just doesn't deliver what you and it claim it does.

[melman]

8. You forgot the follow-up tweets

Hey just heard that there was a scheduling conflict with the @BernieSanders rally!

https://twitter.com/tommychong/status/734832079158972417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Hope to continue my support, reschedule, and continue activism, political change and promoting peace anywhere possible.
https://twitter.com/tommychong/status/734832472668569600