No 'Artful Smear.' Clintons Paid $153 Million in Speaking Fees, Analysis Shows (Lauren McCauley

[bobthedrummer]

2-6-16 Common Dreams)

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/06/no-artful-smear-clintons-paid-153-million-speaking-fees-analysis-shows

[orpupilofnature57]

1. To use the term is in itself an " Artful Smear " Slick Hilly .

[6chars]

2. interesting observation

[bobthedrummer]

6. Yep. Pure Perception Management/Psychological Operations style and tone-isn't it? n/t

[orpupilofnature57]

9. Nice wordsmithing and Spot On!!!!

[Thinkingabout]

3. Oh really, what is illegal here, nothing. It is not any more illegal

Than Bernie's fund raising with Goldman Sachs. When is he going to talk about his fund raising?

Yes Hillary has been compensated for her speeches, why all the jealously? Just because others responds to by voting the way of the lobbyists does not mean everyone else does.

BTW, was she a member of Congress at the time of the speeches?

[orpupilofnature57]

10. Trust ?

[bobthedrummer]

4. That's over $210K per "speech" from 2001-start of HRC Presidential campaign last year.

Let's all "look into" the TRUTH a bit more.

"Goldman Sachs, founded in 1869, promotes itself as a 'leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide.'"

Goldman Sachs Index (The Center for Media and Democracy/Source Watch)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Goldman_Sachs

Bernie wasn't smearing anything on HRC, she is really full of it.

[DanTex]

5. The artful smear is to imply that this means she's corrupt or "owned by Wall Street".

By the way, banks accounted for about 5% of those fees, by why let facts interrupt a perfectly good narrative...

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Naw. They're investing in her with (perish the thought) no expectation of a return.

[bobthedrummer]

8. Bill Clinton: "Hillary didn't study lists of my contributors." June 2015 CNN interview.

Bill Clinton brushes aside foundation criticism (Dan Merica CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/politics/bill-clinton-foundation-hillary-2016

I voted for him twice. Forgive me. I've moved on.

[nolabels]

13. Wouldn't it be strange to vote for somebody who really might stand for something ?

And really, what was our choices back then?

[bobthedrummer]

11. Kick for further discussion, n/t

[bobthedrummer]

12. On a related note JP Morgan was a TARP recipient-there is always the question of TRUST and ETHICS to

be resolved when the promise of transparency isn't available-especially from Wall Street intimates.

Geithner Gets JP Morgan Credit Line to Invest With Warburg Pincus (Bloomberg via Veooz.com)
https://www.veooz.com/news/vKN_phZ.html

[uponit7771]

14. They got paid 150 million in speaking fees but someone how 600k from the banking sector is supposed

... to sway them?

ok... it wasn't an artful smear ... just a half truth telling one?

tia

[Fumesucker]

15. I call on Bernie Sanders to release the transcripts for all his paid speeches

We need to see whose pocket Sanders lies.

[uponit7771]

16. I don't believe these speeches sways her or him, republicans maybe but not these two

[Fumesucker]

17. No, no, we must see his speeches or "Bernie" will forever be suspect

We cannot be too careful in vetting such a shady character.

[bobthedrummer]

18. Wall Street Shuffle 10cc (1974) enjoy the tune while adding to this thread DUers

[bobthedrummer]

19. There IS a difference between FREE SPEECH and speaking for hundreds of thousands of $ before crooks

[bobthedrummer]

20. The Milwaukee debate is going to be PRICELESS! kick.

[bobthedrummer]

21. ^

[bobthedrummer]

22. ^