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"Dr. Song's comment was inappropriate and insensitive," Bernie Sanders tweeted. | Getty Sanders: 'No room' for language about 'corporate Democratic whores'

Bernie Sanders on Thursday repudiated the remarks of a surrogate who used the phrase "corporate Democratic whores" on Wednesday night during the Vermont senator's rally in Washington Square Park, after Hillary Clinton's campaign demanded an disavowal from the candidate.

Speaking to a crowd estimated around 27,000 people, health care activist and physician Paul Song ripped into those who, like Clinton, insist on a more incremental approach to reforming the health-care system.

"Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us," Song said, according to reports.

Earlier Thursday morning, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri called upon Sanders to "disavow" the language, which Song had already done himself.

Very distressing language to say the least. @BernieSanders should disavow. https://t.co/xSNZyHwlAS — Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) April 14, 2016





"Dr. Song's comment was inappropriate and insensitive. There's no room for language like that in our political discourse," Sanders tweeted later Thursday morning.

"I am very sorry for using the term 'whore' to refer to some in congress who are beholden to corporations and not us. It was insensitive," Song tweeted Wednesday night.