Sanders: "I'm not atheist ... it's an outrage"

[rug]

July 24th, 2016
03:37 PM ET

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TAPPER: Senator, what is your personal response, though, to having your faith questioned like that by a fellow Democrat? Well, you are now a Democrat, or you were a Democratic candidate, but by somebody supposedly neutral and theoretically on your team?

SANDERS: Well, first of all, I am not an atheist.

But aside from all of that, I mean, it is an outrage and sad that you would have people in important positions in the DNC trying to undermine my campaign. It goes without saying the function of the DNC is to represent all of the candidates, to be fair and even-minded.

But, again, I - we discussed this many, many months ago on this show. So, what is revealed now is not a shock to me.

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2016/07/24/sanders-im-not-atheist-its-an-outrage/

[whatthehey]

1. With Pete Stark's fate so fresh in memory, which politico would ever say otherwise?

And of course the two phrases in the OP are not at all connected. It would be just as honest to quote him saying " I'm not an atheist...fair and even minded"