2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBREAKING: Hillary Strategist Currently Providing PR For Wall Street Banks
On the call, Benenson accused Sanders of going negative, asserting the U.S. senator from Vermont had decided to do something that he had said so proudly he would never do. What the Clinton campaign did not say when announcing the call is that Benensons firm not only consults for Clinton it also lists as clients the kind of Wall Street banks that Sanders ad assails, as the Intercepts Lee Fang pointed out.
According to its website, the Benenson Strategy Group lists Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase among its clients. In a 2012 press release, Benenson listed JPMorgan Chase whose executives are collectively among Clintons top 2016 donors as an example of how the firm has guided many Fortune 500 companies and leading advocacy groups through critical strategic and communication challenges. The section of Benensons website listing the banks as clients says the firm is focused on delivering strategies corporations need to stay ahead of the curve. Other clients listed include McDonald's, Pfizer and Walmart the last of which once had Hillary Clinton on its board of directors when she was first lady of Arkansas.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-strategist-attacks-bernie-sanders-anti-wall-street-ad-while-his
CorporatistNation
(2,546 posts)Rachel might want to mention such a thing if she was a real journalist...
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Not allowed if you want the big check.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)Though.
"Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" as I recall.
questionseverything
(9,657 posts)n/t
Uncle Joe
(58,402 posts)Thanks for the thread, Halliburton.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)JRLeft
(7,010 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Sorry, I just had to get Gomer Pyle into the conversation.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)uponit7771
(90,356 posts)... Person associated with a bank near him !?!?!?!
This is the hypocrisy that turns into noise to ignore that's thrown in people's faces daily from Sanders camp; "...Sanders is beyond that.."
That's not what his past record shows... He can't throw a stone when it comes to bad associations
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I'd like to see those records
uponit7771
(90,356 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I thought so. Because if you were not a low information voter, you would have those links in your bookmarks.
uponit7771
(90,356 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)That's a strawman. It's a fictitious claim.
uponit7771
(90,356 posts)... to her associations is gob smacking
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)Is this moron unable to see the irony of his own hit job on Bernie? Doing a negative publication about Bernie doing negative campaigning. "He's saying bad things about us but we, of course, would never say anything bad about him." And, of course, you just did, you fool.
Green Forest
(232 posts)Joe Biden gets it. He's on our side.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Does this idiot think that people won't connect the dots?
Of course when one is in the big money/big power/Wall Stree BUBBLE...he probably thinks no one will notice this crap.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)have a multitude of clients. They keep their separate accounts separate, as they are required to do.
Hillary is no more responsible for the other clients who hire this consultant than she is for the other people who hire lawyers for legal work.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)millions of dollars for "speaking fees". Democrats should all be against the corruption of Big Money in our government. But not the HRC campaign. They can't get enough of the Big Money. And HRC supporters pretend they don't understand quid pro quo.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)Benenson offers his services to clients just as lawyers do. Hillary is no more responsible for his other clients than she would be if she hired a law firm for legal work.
JonLeibowitz
(6,282 posts)pnwmom
(108,990 posts)People here are just casting aspersions because they can, with no evidence except their own suspicious natures.
silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]While the "worthy opposition" has been attacking regularly - with surrogates, distortions, and outright lies, yet.
Bernie has never run a negative campaign in terms of personal attacks and is not now. To say that means he can't criticize policy positions and draw contrasts between himself and his opponents is just stupid.
[font color="purple"]Go, Bernie!
Feelin' The Bern!
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)silverweb
(16,402 posts)[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]That's a question that has been thoroughly answered already by very qualified others.
Glad you like the wave!
Chakab
(1,727 posts)surrounded by Wall Street shills and is overly sympathetic to corporate America?
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Owns a Lobbying firm that lobby for Bank of America, weapons manufacturers and Saudi Arabia.
yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)my my my....
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)He's very possibly the best political pollster in the country.
emulatorloo
(44,171 posts)Lots of knees jerking tonight. Hope you don't get crucified.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)partisan robot.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Doesn't look like a boogie man to me but he gasp is a businessman.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Obama's attacks on Clinton's character in 2008.
So his pearl-clutching is kind of funny.
John Poet
(2,510 posts)is the Wall Street bank strategy!!!!
LOL outstanding revelation, really. Too funny.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)"I know you give me loads of money, but I am going to crack down on you so you can't give me so much money." What's wrong with that? Sounds perfectly plausible to me.