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Showing Original Post only (View all)Clinton supporters online spreading images of Bernie Sanders head photoshopped on Virgin Mary [View all]
Hillary Clinton supporters on the internet are spreading images of religious iconography where Bernie Sanders head is cut and pasted onto an image of the Virgin Mary.
I'm not clear what the point of it is supposed to be but it's bound to be offensive to a large group of people. Really boorish behavior if you ask me. This is what it looks like:
Clintonites have started repeating these images in their avatars and signature lines on some internet web forums and discussion boards.
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Clinton supporters online spreading images of Bernie Sanders head photoshopped on Virgin Mary [View all]
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2016
OP
their attacks always just end with him looking better anyways: they go for quantity over quality
MisterP
Apr 2016
#2
Reminds me of white supremacists who draw offensive cartoons because "free speech"
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2016
#23
You're making the same argument they use. You have free speech to post offensive images.
Cheese Sandwich
Apr 2016
#30
That's fair. It's symbolic of the way he behaves and speaks volumes about Bernie
BreakfastClub
Apr 2016
#7
I was raised Catholic and I don't get it either. It just looks sexist to me -
CharlotteVale
Apr 2016
#9
Meh. We know that they are people with no moral compass (they condoned the IWR vote, after all)
Maedhros
Apr 2016
#16
One of our own quite verbal DUer's for Hillary shows that all the time in his/her sig line
bkkyosemite
Apr 2016
#18
I was a little shocked to only see one hit for, "saint Obama" on DU in my Google search
Capt. Obvious
Apr 2016
#22
I've seen that. More childish behavior. It doesn't even make sense. Mary was a woman.
jillan
Apr 2016
#29
Amazing how Ole Hill's poll numbers keep going down, while Bernie's go up, and up and up.
ThePhilosopher04
Apr 2016
#33
As a Bernie supporter... I say thanks clintonites.. super large catholic communities in the
berniepdx420
Apr 2016
#52
That is one of the images nadinbrzezinski discussed in her recent, 'dog whistle'
MerryBlooms
Apr 2016
#53
The more the Clintons and their apologists talk, the higher Hillary's negatives go
BernieforPres2016
Apr 2016
#54
It's not a very good photoshop. The face doesn't fit within the veil very well.
Peace Patriot
Apr 2016
#86