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Posted: 2019-02-20T04:09:44Z | Updated: 2019-02-20T16:44:42Z Stephen Colbert Trolls 'Old White Guy' Bernie Sanders Over Tone-Deaf Diversity Comments | HuffPost
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Stephen Colbert Trolls 'Old White Guy' Bernie Sanders Over Tone-Deaf Diversity Comments

The "Late Show" host hits the newly minted 2020 presidential candidate's weakest spot.
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Stephen Colbert updated a famous quote from Martin Luther King Jr . in the wake of comments made by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday. 

Sanders, who announced that he is running for president , was asked by Vermont Public Radio where he stands in what is shaping up to be the most diverse candidate field yet.

He said: 

“We have got to look at candidates not by the color of their skin, not by their sexual orientation or gender and not by their age . I think we have got to try to move us toward a nondiscriminatory society that looks at people based on their abilities, based on what they stand for.”

That led to Colbert giving one of King’s most famous lines a makeover... for an “old white guy.” 

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