What are you even talking about? How did Sanders visiting the Vatican make the Pope less regressive? You're talking utter nonsense.

This is where I’m at too! I like Sanders ideals, I really do, and I so badly want to see an unabashed progressive in the white house... but I have reservations about this one. I’m starting to not like him on a personal level, or at least, I’m starting to not like some of the things his campaign says and does. And I…

I think he’d have been better served by campaigning in New York, but that doesn’t mean a presidential candidate visiting the Vatican to make a speech about the central theme of his campaign isn't newsworthy.

I’m not attempting to slander the man. I think it’s weird that gawker hasn’t covered it aside from one piece where they were like ‘yep the pope did invite him!’ even though that’s not even true. And I don’t think that jetting off to visit the pope is a smart way to spend the last weekend before the New York primary.…

This is all true but I think the more important message is WTF WHY CAN'T SORORITIES HAVE ALCOHOL

Probably not what you want to hear, but... a person’s friends are a pretty good indicator of who they are. If you don’t like his friends, you probably will not be compatible with him in the long run. And how long have you been together? Is this the first birthday that you’re dating? Have you been together long enough…

I volunteered for bernie at his first rally in seattle, have phone banked and canvassed for him. That doesn’t mean I’m okay with the bs that’s spewed about Clinton or the double standard in reporting on them here at gawker, and yeah as far as I’m concerned fuck the pope. He’s still the head of a regressive…

Also seems that they can’t name any other progressive, or even democratic, woman in politics. Elizabeth Warren is the go to “I’m not sexist, my best friend is a woman” of politics.

They don’t all use campaign funds to the tune of 300k to do so half way around the world right before a primary, and they don’t all misrepresent a quick handshake as a meaningful meeting. Oh, and they don’t all have a base that insists their candidate DOESN’T do this kind of thing.

He voted again st DOMA because he felt it should be up to the states. He was only for civil unions until coming out in support of marriage in 2009. He had little to say on the matter when vermont was fighting for marriage. The other things in Burlington are good, but, what did he do in the ensuing years? He was for…

And it isn't true that Clinton oscillates between opposing points of view - if she had been against gay marriage, then for it, then against it again maybe you'd have a point but that's not the case.

Sanders has not been 'right' on equality for decades and if you think he has you need to do some research.

I already knew that, and I don't think it changes even a little bit how much of a pander this was.

The leader of one of the largest religions in the world did NOT want to meet with him. A group within the Vatican invited him to speak. Nothing about this was ever a planned meeting between Sanders and the Pope at the Pope's request.

Maybe not the media, but Gawker sure is. Every single solitary thing that Hillary Clinton does gets an article, but they ignore both the Vatican visit and the Coachella thing? Not even to highlight them in a positive way? Gawker's been posting about Coachella, Sanders introduced Killer Mike at Coachella, there's…

Bernie and Hillary both “evolved” at roughly the same rate on marriage. As for other social issues, Bernie has never spoken much on anything other than income inequality. And when he has, like the crime bill, he went ahead and voted for it anyway.... he is not nearly as ideologically pure and consistent as people make…

I also like this because it belies the “I’m not sexist because I don’t like Clinton! I’d vote for Warren in a heartbeat!” thing. Warren was also seen as unlikable while actually running for office.

We don’t. It isn’t going to happen. We’re not going to get an article about how weird it is for a candidate to leave the country right before a primary he really needs to win in order to visit the head of an institution as regressive as the Catholic Church. We’re certainly not going to get one about how his campaign…

Dude's apology amounted to 'sorry not sorry whores.' Other dude's statement was not an apology and treated the whole thing as though it's solely inappropriate word choice and not sexist at it's core. There's a lot more to say about it, especially in context of other missteps by the Sanders campaign using language…

Nope, the comments section and the blog itself are two separate things. Jez has a lot more pro Hillary commenters but the coverage itself isn't particularly in her favor or Sanders for that matter. Much less so than gawker for sure.