Bernie hired a ‘Milkshake Duck.’ So what?
Matt Orfalea’s time on Bernie Sanders’ staff was short. In less than 24 hours after the YouTuber announced he was joining the campaign’s communications team as a videographer he was fired. Someone turned up some problematic videos of his as well as instances where he had used the word “retarded.”
He got “Milkshake Ducked,” which is Twitter slang for when a viral phenomenon is undone almost immediately by the revelation of something unsavory about their character or past.
Putting aside the questions of whether Orfalea’s behavior was wrong or if the Sanders campaign showed bad judgment in hiring him, the incident was wielded against the Vermont Senator in a display of appalling bad faith.
Orfalea’s videos were first brought to light by Twitter user M. Mendoza Ferrer, a Kamala Harris supporter who has been aggressively trolling the Sanders campaign for more than a year now (mostly by pointing out how consistent his principles have been for his entire career.)
Evidently Ferrer ran out of old clips of Sanders saying that war and inequality…
