Left-wing celebrity Susan Sarandon on Tuesday blasted Hillary Clinton as just a “rich” person who got where she is because of her husband. Appearing on The View, the actress also condemned the “shaming” for women who don’t support Mrs. Clinton. She mocked, “Don't get me wrong. The idea of a woman president, I know will happen and I hope some day it can be the daughter of someone who's not rich, who's not married to someone who was a president. That can happen in this country.”
The movie star insisted there is a secret support network for Sanders, saying that some females just won’t come out of the closet: “If you're a woman, everybody dumps on you like ‘How can you be a feminist?’ So you don't want to have that conversation.”
Sarandon touted Sanders’s left-wing credibility, hailing the socialist as someone “who hasn't taken money from Wall Street, from super PACs, from Monsanto, from fracking, and I want someone with that moral commitment to people.”
During her last appearance on The View in January, Sarandon lectured “xenophobic” Americans on the Syrian refugee crisis.
A partial transcript is below:
The View
4/19/16
11:48RAVEN-SYMONE: I want to have a conversation about politics. Everybody knows at the table. I'm not all the way in there, but I like that you support Bernie.
SARANDON: Thank you.
RAVEN-SYMONE: I think that's very interesting. You not feeling pressure to support Hillary, I feel like some women might feel pressure.
SARANDON: There certainly was pressure.
RAVEN-SYMONE: There was?
SARANDON: Oh, yeah. There's been so many statements and so much shaming. Don't get me wrong. The idea of a woman president, I know will happen and I hope some day it can be the daughter of someone who's not rich, who's not married to someone who was a president. That that can happen in this country. It's not going to happen as long as we have Citizens United. The only person that's not connected to the machine and that's why I'm so excited because there's never been a candidate, nor will there ever be a candidate in my lifetime who hasn't taken money from Wall Street, from super PACs, from Monsanto, from fracking, and I want someone with that moral commitment to people.
11:50
RAVEN-SYMONE: Are there people who love Bernie, but won’t say anything?
SARANDON: Absolutely. No, because if you're a woman, everybody dumps on you like “how can you be a feminist?” So you don't want to have that conversation. I know some of the super delegates said to him, “We just had no idea.” The fact of the matter is that he's favored in the polls to beat Trump, and so when people say, “You know, I don't know if he can do it,” it's because they're getting their news from other places. The millennials were online really early so they're all down.
