Bernie Sanders likes to express appreciation for his grass-roots supporters, but he is not standing by the so-called Bernie Bros .
Jake Tapper asked Sen. Sanders (I-Vt.) about the phenomenon of his backers saying sexist things to supporters of Hillary Clinton, his rival for the Democratic nomination, on CNN s State of the Union on Sunday.
Sanders renounced them unequivocally.
I have heard about it. It's disgusting, Sanders said. Look, we don't want that crap. ... We will do everything we can and I think we have tried. Look, anybody who is supporting me that is doing the sexist things is -- we don't want them. I don't want them. That is not what this campaign is about.
Other observers, like The Intercepts Glenn Greenwald , have argued that the Clinton campaign and its surrogates exaggerate the number of actual Bernie Bros in an attempt to smear Sanders -- and the media often takes them at their word.
Also on HuffPost:
\"What I said is that corporate media talks about all kinds of issues except the most important issues. OK? And time after time I'm being asked to criticize Hillary Clinton. That's the sport that you guys like. The reason this campaign is doing well? Because we're talking about the issues that impact the American people. I've known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I like her. I respect her. I disagree with her on a number of issues. No great secret,\" Sanders told reporters at a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa.
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\"But what your job is, what the media's job is, is to say, look, these are the major issues facing the country. We're a democracy. People have different points of view. Let's argue it.\"
","source":"","title":"He Thinks The Media's Priorities Are Pretty Much All Wrong","type":"video","summary":"","badge":"","cta":[],"meta":null,"credit":"","creditUrl":"","authorship":{"author":{"id":"000000000000000000000000","bio":{},"urls":{},"urlName":{"text":"","transliterated":""}}},"social":{},"orientation":"horizontal","thumbnail":{"url":{"url":"http://img.youtube.com/vi/kIzStSnn4Oc/1.jpg","type":"externalUrl"},"credit":"","ops":""},"imagePositionInUnit":null,"imagePositionInSubUnit":null,"authors":[],"isLiveblogSlide":false},"provider":null},{"embedData":"","type":"embed","common":{"id":"55e48c29e4b0aec9f353fd6c","caption":"\"But this campaign I am running -- let me reiterate -- is not against Hillary Clinton or anybody else. It is for an American people who are sick and tired of seeing the middle class disappear and huge numbers of people living in poverty. And as a candidate, what I am going to do, Andrea, is focus on the real issues facing the American people: why we are the only major country on earth not providing family and medical leave, the only major country not guaranteeing health care to all people, the need to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next several years.\"
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","source":"","title":"So They Should Stop Trying To Instigate Attacks","type":"video","summary":"","badge":"","cta":[],"meta":null,"credit":"","creditUrl":"","authorship":{"author":{"id":"000000000000000000000000","bio":{},"urls":{},"urlName":{"text":"","transliterated":""}}},"social":{},"orientation":"horizontal","thumbnail":{"url":{"url":"http://img.youtube.com/vi/Vj0VtL8bMDc/1.jpg","type":"externalUrl"},"credit":"","ops":""},"imagePositionInUnit":null,"imagePositionInSubUnit":null,"authors":[],"isLiveblogSlide":false},"provider":null},{"embedData":{"type":"hector","url":"https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/55de0b5c1d00002f00145f52.jpeg","queryParams":{},"width":3000,"height":2053,"credit":"Win McNamee via Getty Images"},"type":"image","common":{"id":"55de0b5fe4b0a40aa3ad33de","caption":"\"One thing that has disturbed me is how the media treats campaigns,\" Sanders told a crowd in Salem, New Hampshire, recalling how Sen. Marco Rubio accidentally hit a child in the face with a football and \"that will get more coverage than Marco Rubio's position on Social Security.\"
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\"Wolf, you're going to have to ask Hillary,\" Sanders told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. \"I don't work for her, I don't know.\"
","source":"","title":"He's Really NOT Going To Talk About Clinton, So Stop Asking","type":"video","summary":"","badge":"","cta":[],"meta":null,"credit":"","creditUrl":"","authorship":{"author":{"id":"000000000000000000000000","bio":{},"urls":{},"urlName":{"text":"","transliterated":""}}},"social":{},"orientation":"horizontal","thumbnail":{"url":{"url":"http://img.youtube.com/vi/3IxEl8L__OA/1.jpg","type":"externalUrl"},"credit":"","ops":""},"imagePositionInUnit":null,"imagePositionInSubUnit":null,"authors":[],"isLiveblogSlide":false},"provider":null},{"embedData":{"type":"hector","url":"https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/55de09df1d00006e00145f4e.jpeg","queryParams":{},"width":3000,"height":2000,"credit":"Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images","ops":"crop_NaN_NaN_NaN_NaN"},"type":"image","common":{"id":"55de09dfe4b0a40aa3ad3235","caption":"\"Politics is not a soap opera. We should not be going around making terrible attacks on each other. Let's debate the issues. If Joe [Biden] comes in, that's what I will do,\" Sanders told reporters outside a campaign stop at a school in Conway, New Hampshire. \"What impact it will have on the race I honestly don't know. I mean, I wish I could tell you, but I don't. Will it help or hurt me? Will it help or hurt Hillary Clinton? I just don't know.\"
","source":"","title":"And He's Not Going To Attack Biden, Either","type":"image","summary":"","badge":"","cta":[],"meta":null,"credit":"Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images","creditUrl":"","authorship":{"author":{"id":"000000000000000000000000","bio":{},"urls":{},"urlName":{"text":"","transliterated":""}}},"social":{},"orientation":"horizontal","thumbnail":{"url":{"fileName":"55de09df1d00006e00145f4e.jpeg","type":"hectorUrl"},"caption":"WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 03: U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (L) participates in a reenacted swearing-in with his wife Jane OMeara Sanders and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in the Old Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol January 3, 2013 in Washington, DC. Biden swore in the newly-elected and re-elected senators earlier in the day on the floor of the current Senate chamber. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)","credit":"Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images","height":2000,"width":3000,"ops":"crop_NaN_NaN_NaN_NaN"},"textWrap":"noWrap","imagePositionInUnit":null,"imagePositionInSubUnit":null,"authors":[],"isLiveblogSlide":false},"provider":null},{"embedData":"","type":"tweet","common":{"id":"55de0d79e4b04ae497057e1e","caption":"","source":"The corporate media spends enormous time and energy diverting our attention away from the most important issues facing us.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 23, 2015
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