As politico.com quoted Springer as saying: “When I first started watching the Republican debates, I said that, you know, if they’re going to do my show, they should start paying me.”
Springer, who in the late 1970s was a Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, added: “You know, it’s one thing to have a television show like that, but that’s not how you run a country. And it’s disgraceful.”
As one wag put it: “When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.”
Springer said Bernie Sanders would lose a general election, but “there is absolutely no way that Donald Trump becomes president of the United States.”
Thoughts from the Twitterati:
.@jerryspringer on 2016 race: You can’t run a country like you run a television show https://t.co/ONUGx79G7p pic.twitter.com/2GUizG5Une
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 15, 2016
Last night was the best Jerry Springer Show I’ve ever seen, and I didn’t even get to host. #GOPDebate
— Jerry Springer (@jerryspringer) March 4, 2016
Jerry Springer believes Republicans should pay him after copying his show #GOP ? https://t.co/SE6gr3zgBT pic.twitter.com/jcCTcJaToi
— UPROXX (@UPROXX) March 16, 2016
HEY, REPUBLICANS!
The debates have fallen below JERRY SPRINGER’S lofty standards for discourse#MicDropAPoliticianhttps://t.co/s7uzCqnEPZ
— Weasel Go Bragh (@Dreamweasel) March 16, 2016
The election is about to turn into a giant Jerry Springer episode, w/different camps throwing chairs at each other. https://t.co/ae39LKzZMo
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) March 14, 2016
Historian @ProfDBrinkley on @CNNReliable called Trump “fascism mixed with Jerry Springer and Morton Downey Jr.”
— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) March 13, 2016
“Even Jerry Springer thinks it’s gone too far, and when Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.”
— mrdantefontana (@mrdantefontana) March 7, 2016