Salon: During a CNN interview on Monday,
Hillary Clinton’s Chief Strategist Joel Benenson responded to a
question about whether Clinton would participate in a Democratic debate
in New York — as the Sanders campaign has requested — in such a
condescending way, that he unintentionally managed to break the
internet.
“I
think the real question is what kind of campaign is Senator Sanders
going to run going forward,” opined Benenson. “Senator Sanders doesn’t
get to decide when we debate, particularly when he’s running a very
negative campaign against us. Let’s see if he goes back to the kind of
tone he said he was going to set early on. If he does that, then we’ll
talk about debates.”
Shortly after Benenson’s
patronizing comments, the Twitter hashtag #ToneDownForWhat began to
trend, and the internet fittingly derided the strategist and Clinton,
who just eight years ago said that “you should be willing to debate
anytime, anywhere” while running for president. One can only assume that
Benenson — who has consulted for various Wall Street firms — was alluding
to the Sanders campaign’s criticism of Clinton’s financial ties to Wall
Street and its insistence that she release transcripts from her Goldman
Sachs speeches.
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