Controversial new Sanders advisor's "apology": i am not my tweets from 2009.

[highplainsdem]

This is the sexist pig who was tweeting then that Michelle Obama is ugly.

He's now trying to weasel out of being blamed for that by saying he isn't the person he was then.

But he's a senior advisor in a campaign that is trying its best to highlight every damn thing they disagree with that Joe Biden said as long as 50 years ago.

This is the newly-hired weasel's "apology"...to which Sanders' serial-liar press secretary, she of the frequent "I misspoke" apologies, replied with a string of hearts:

Link to tweet

i am not my tweets from 2009.

still, words have power to heal & to harm and i acknowledge and apologize for when my words harm.

i've spent years speaking life and love into my community but i was wrong and i have to be accountable.

please take a minute to read my statement:



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESng404WAAAJC01?format=jpg&name=medium

Note that he's portraying himself as a victim of socialization: "I grew up socialized by false standards of beauty and success."


I have news for him.

Most of America had NO TROUBLE AT ALL seeing just how beautiful Michelle Obama was, and is.

2009 wasn't all that long ago.

And his self-serving apology is inadequate.

Despite the silly string of hearts posted by Briahna Joy Gray in response:

Link to tweet

[Cha]

1. Beyond Stupid and Wrong.. like a Brainwashed Right Winger.

Too late BGJ-stein voter

[NurseJackie]

2. Hey Phillip... FUCK YOU very much.

Jerk. 🖕🐷🐽🐖

[msongs]

3. oh look yet another poor persecuted victim. sad nt

[DURHAM D]

4. Did I miss it???

Where did he say? -

"Therefore I must resign because Bernie doesn't want a stupid sexist pig anywhere near his campaign."





Guess he is good to go.

[George II]

5. He an obnoxious tweet about Obama as late as 2017. It's gone now. I guess he's learning from Sirota?

But there's this "indictment":

Link to tweet

[Cha]

9. he hired obnoxious tweeters to advise him... Why?!

[NYMinute]

6. Knowing how popular Michelle Obama is (even more than her husband),

why oh why would anyone hire him to peddle any campaign??

[tirebiter]

7. Due to Corona, now's not exactly the best time for handshakes

I'll give a nod of approval. Best to reward good behavior. I reckon the first year is going to take forfuckingever. We gotta keep the family functional.

[empedocles]

8. BS and his top hires, are not totally unlike trump hiring practices

Questionable people, suspect backgrounds, or unusually aggressive . . .

[Tarheel_Dem]

10. I wonder who really wrote that apology? Funny he didn't do it until after he was hired by the BS...

campaign. Someone figured out that this could possibly do further damage in the AA community, and forced this dude (or somebody) to write up a fake apology. "A work in progress" indeed.

[betsuni]

11. Nope. When a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat, the rabbit's already in there.

Twenty-three years old isn't a boy.