I don't believe in corporal punishment but then I read Tom Watson's Bernie armband tweet…
— haunted dog (@zandywithaz) April 14, 2016
It’s getting rough out there in liberal-land. As we reported earlier, Hillary Clinton fans were up in arms over a surrogate for Bernie Sanders kinda, sorta referring to Hillary as a “Democratic whore.”
That’s pretty bad, but not Hitler bad.
Which brings us to Tom Watson, a Hillary Clinton supporting journalist, Columbia lecturer and president of the non-profit consulting firm CauseWired who did go there last night:
Here's a deleted tweet from @tomwatson comparing people at the Bernie rally to Nazis. pic.twitter.com/lQ4uLHU0zH
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 14, 2016
A campaign first!
i think tonight was the first time a Democratic surrogate called their candidate's opponent a Nazi — and the honor goes to @tomwatson
— The Dying Pundit (@deep_beige) April 14, 2016
The Daily Beast’s Gideon Resnick was not amused:
What a fucking moron
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 14, 2016
Nazi references are so lazy too. Compare supporters to lizard people or infectious amoeba, you uncreative fucks
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 14, 2016
And it’s not just lazy, it’s disgusting considering Sanders’ family had people killed by the Nazis:
https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/720432951234859008
Nothing in American politics is anywhere close to Nazis, especially not the guy who had family members die in the Holocaust
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 14, 2016
At the very least, this animosity should make the next debate interesting to watch as these two claw each other’s eyes out:
A debate at the Brooklyn navy yard can only properly end with the candidates chasing after each other on forklifts with bulk boxes of sugar
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) April 14, 2016
Watson did apologize for the now deleted tweet, saying he was “unintentionally” “historically insensitive”
Mea culpa: reference earlier tonight to style of Sanders rally was historically insensitive – unintentionally, but deserves an apology.
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) April 14, 2016
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