Clinton Says She’ll Release Speech Transcripts When Everyone Else Does

[Unknown Beatle]

If it applies to everybody, she'll look into it further. In other words, no.

Feel The Bern!

[mak3cats]

1. One of my favorite phrases from "Pride and Prejudice"...

I am all astonishment!!

[kstewart33]

2. If she releases the transcripts, why shouldn't all other candidates?

Or is this another case where one rule applies to Clinton, but everyone else gets a pass?

[complain jane]

3. +1

[jwirr]

5. Has Bernie given a speech to the banksters?

[Duckhunter935]

6. she said EVERYBODY

Who has EVER given a paid speech. Does this count dead people

[Unknown Beatle]

7. Bernie has nothing to hide, and if asked,

he'd be happy to release his transcripts, but since he never gave speeches to big banks and wall st. firms, he has nothing to release.

On the other hand, Hillary has given many highly paid speeches to big banks and wall st firms, but she's not going to release them? Why? The answer is because the public will not like what she had to say to them and it would probably doom her campaign, a la Romney's 47% speech.

If she's really a progressive, as she claims to be, why is she trying to hide her transcript? Why not be more transparent?

What's she trying to hide?

[passiveporcupine]

24. Oh, give her a break

she is probably hurting herself more by not releasing them. My imagination of what she said in those speeches is probably far more condemning than what she actually said.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

8. Someone will have to go first

Why not Clinton? Or is this a case of "leading from the rear"? Isn't this a non-issue, like Obama's birth certificate? The story wasn't the certificate itself, it was his refusal (reluctance?) to release it. The longer she holds back, the bigger an issue it is. Unless she said, "Get me in office and I'll get you everything you want," anything she said would be subject to interpretation, and eventually the issue would die away, except in the minds of a few "birther" types.

She knows the chances of all of the GOP candidates releasing all their speeches is practically zero, so she's safe.

[kstewart33]

15. No candidate in their right mind would 'go first.'

Not even Sanders.

[Omaha Steve]

11. Sanders contributed his speaking fees to charity

Maybe we should be asking her to giver hers to charity too???

Thanks to DUer thesquanderer: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511165262

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/bernie-sanders-comes-clean/?_r=0

By FRANCIS X. CLINES MAY 26, 2015 10:51 AM

Voters should be grateful for the government transparency laws that required Senator Bernie Sanders, a rival to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, to reveal how much he made last year in speaking engagement fees. The total is $1,867.42 for three appearances, a grand sum that is chump change in presidential politicking but enough for the senator to respectably donate the money to charity.

Mr. Sanders, the Senate’s Vermont independent and self-described Democratic socialist, is a far better speaker than those numbers indicate, as his weekly talk radio conversation, “Brunch With Bernie,” has shown. He has delighted leftist political junkies for the past decade with his iconoclastic broadsides. But the senator doesn’t milk his signature New England contrariness for money, not yet anyway.

Loyalists in his fledgling campaign, of course, could not be happier for the contrast with Mrs. Clinton afforded by the disclosure. She has netted more than $11 million for 51 speeches in a recent 15-month stretch, being paid as much as $315,000 per address, with some of it going to charity, according to The Hill. Top dollar for Senator Sanders was a not so hefty $850 paid for a combative exchange with Republican sympathizers on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” the HBO show where the comedian regularly invites politicians to march to a different drummer. (“As a 73-year-old socialist Jew from Vermont, he’s everything everyone is not,” Mr. Maher happily explained on the air. “We love Bernie.”)

So far, the senator may stand out most in the race for not having a super PAC to join rivals in circumventing campaign limits on small-size donations and currying favor with rich patrons. “I do not have millionaire or billionaire friends,” Mr. Sanders declared at the outset, sounding aloof as Thoreau at the money trough. In making a virtue of his campaign hunt for small donations the senator implicitly invites further comparison with Mrs. Clinton. She is reported gearing up to personally court donors for her own super PAC, aiming to garner the 7-figure donations that Senator Sanders can only renounce.

[frylock]

17. She literally means EVERYBODY.

Not just other candidates, but if she has to release her transcripts, then anyone who has ever made a speech anywhere should also be required to release their transcripts. That's the logic we're dealing with here, and it's coming straight from the top.

[virtualobserver]

26. nobody else is giving private speeches for millions of dollars

[Lazy Daisy]

4. Ann Romney is that you?

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Are you ready for Hillary?

Well, don't hold your fucking breath...

[YOHABLO]

10. Sanders is not demanding a release of the transcripts .. but Matt Taiibbi is on it!

Current Rolling Stone article features some of the speeches content due to those present. Of course Sanders is playing nice guy, but really, she is skirting around the issue. We all know even without reading the transcripts what the tone of the speeches were, ''Us" against ''Them" or ''The Banks" against the ''99%" of us. She's a turn coat, and it's going to harm her campaign miserably.

[Hekate]

12. That's perfectly reasonable. As always, why a special set of rules for Hillary?

RULES FOR HILLARY:

Don't raise your voice to shout like Bernie, don't laugh out loud, don't be cool and cerebral, be warm and approachable, don't reference your motherhood or grandmotherhood, don't defend yourself against lies, be vigorous in your own defense.

Use government servers only (even thought the government keeps getting hacked), don't use a server that is much more secure.

Release your transcripts -- nobody else is being asked to do this.

Bernie was at a whole bunch of high-rolling fundraisers at Martha's Vineyard over the years, I hear tell -- I sure would like to know exactly what he said to those rich folks.

[kenfrequed]

21. Do you honestly imagine...

Do you imagine that Bernie Sanders is going to give any speeches at the Vineyard that are anything other than being absolute progressive? I know the Hillary supporters here like to imagine or invent some kind of nefariousness to the Sanders campaign, but I think we all know that he probably gave them at least some version of his stump speech.

Hell, he probably even went after the wealthy bastards a bit. I mean he was completely honest when he walked into the lions den at Liberty University showing crazy chutzpah. He didn't flinch nor did he try to soft peddle his differences from the conservatives there. He told them where they were different without any shame or prevaricating and then told them exactly why they should support him anyways.

But I imagine you have already made up your mind.

[Hekate]

23. "like to imagine something nefarious" Here's the Truth: Nobody, and I mean nobody...

...would give a flying fig about Bernie being at Martha's Vineyard if his supporters hadn't made such an almighty and incessant stink about Hillary's speaking fees and transcripts.

That hypocrisy just reeks.

[kenfrequed]

30. Tell the DCCC to release them.

I don't care. I would LOVE to have every single one of his speeches repeated onot the media. Please make it happen. I will sign your damned petition. Do it!

Free media coverage where Bernie's speeches about helping get the working class get repeated a lot? Please make it happen.

[progree]

13. She wasn't being sarcastic, I don't think

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I notice the top of the YouTube video says, "Clinton Sarcastically Says She'll Release Speech Transcripts When Everyone Else Does"

I didn't get the sarcasm part, I think she was totally serious.

In other words, no.

You are right about that.

[Blue State Bandit]

14. IF... Bernie got paid for a speech, It would have been for an organization HE finds kindred.

Not one that he believes is acting in a manner antithetical to his own beliefs. Those he would do for free, and ABSOLUTELY not for $¾ mill.

This is how you speak to an organization that you have disagreement with.

That's how you Bern the Podium.

[zentrum]

16. Is Everybody Else

….applying for the Presidency?

What a phony slither this is.

[humbled_opinion]

18. So in other words ...

those speeches are pretty damning for my campaign and will show me yucking it up with the fat cat bankers.

[Press Virginia]

29. 47% moments, no doubt

Let's see if she was as tough with her don...I mean the bankers, in semi private, as she has claimed.

I want to see where she tells them to "knock it off"

[youceyec]

19. This cycle has made me realize,

how completely sexist many many of you so called progressives are. Some of you folks have sexism so deeplyingrained you don't even know how bad you have it.

not even going to get into the Clinton double standard which I think has more to do with irrational fear of a strong woman than anything else.

Oh wait, I guess that ones sexist too!

[Unknown Beatle]

22. I disagree with her so I must be a misogynist?

Yeah right!

[passiveporcupine]

25. NO mention of sex in the OP. Not one word.

I seriously think some of you have sex on the brain. No, not that kind. I mean any time anyone challenges your "female' candidate, there has to be something sexist about it...because she is a woman??? WTF???

Good grief. Get a handle on it. It's embarrassing.

[kenfrequed]

31. I don't like banks

And I don't like candidates indebted to Wallstreet so I am sexist?

[Cheese Sandwich]

20. Holy crap. She admits she has the transcripts. Probably some scandalous shit in there.

[NowSam]

27. I'll look into it

But I don't it matters anyway. What difference does it make? It isn't what she said in the speeches. The transaction and obscene amounts speak volumes is how I perceive it. What is implied, in my opinion, is that she is one of them and they all will look out for eachother in the 1% but not for the rest of the people.

[nilram]

28. Sure, I'll release transcripts of all my speeches.

Both of them. Really boring, and full of 'umms' and 'ahhhhs'. They were both on company time, so I got paid about, oh, $45. Tops.

BUT I'M NOT RUNNING FOR FREAKING PRESIDENT, GETTING PAID $675,000, GIVING SPEECHES IN FRONT OF AUDIENCES WITH VESTED INTERESTS IN PUBLIC POLICY.