Former NAACP Head: Clinton's SNL Dig At Sanders 'Petty'

[Purveyor]

(CNN)Ben Jealous, the former head of the NAACP and one of Bernie Sanders' highest-profile African-American supporters, said on Monday he was unimpressed by Hillary Clinton's swipe at the Vermont senator's turn on "Saturday Night Live," while she took a trip to Flint, Michigan.

Clinton had said: "I know Sen. Sanders went to New York to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' and I'm going to Flint to see if we can help with the kids."

"That type of stuff just always strikes me as petty," Jealous told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead." "I'm fairly certain that if she had been asked to go on Saturday Night Live, she would have gone to Flint on a different day."

Jealous pointed out that at other times during the campaign, Clinton had spent time with celebrities such as Kim Kardashian rather than attending big union gatherings.

Sanders, meanwhile, told Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on "State of the Union" that the city's ongoing water crisis "a national priority."

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/politics/ben-jealous-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/

[Art_from_Ark]

1. Sanders established an office in Flint a few days before Hillary's visit

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.

[CorporatistNation]

15. Hillary Has A Snide Remark At Every Turn... IF She Is Not Telling a FIB... She's Being Sarcastic

or WORSE! WE do not need an American jackass as President!

[californiabernin]

3. When she spews that kind of shit it really turns me off...and right when I was thinking she's maybe

not as bad as I thought? Maybe I'm being unfair? But then she does it again.

Typical political, manipulative, I'll use whoever it takes and do whatever it takes to win attitude and the people are so stupid they won't see right thru it (right). Wow, do I hope she does not represent the Democratic Party this time around.

[John Poet]

8. Hillary...

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[TheBlackAdder]

4. The person who promoted worldwide fracking, with cosy inbred corporate oil relationships, said what?

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Check out the link...



Hillary Clinton rakes in money from fossil fuel interests

Here’s just a partial list of the fossil fuel–friendly bundlers who raised money for Clinton from April through June:

http://grist.org/climate-energy/hillary-clinton-rakes-in-money-from-fossil-fuel-interests/

Heather Podesta and Tony Podesta have raised $31,150 and $74,575, respectively. The power ex-couple are big-shot Democratic lobbyists. Tony’s brother John is Clinton’s campaign chair and former White House chief of staff to Bill Clinton. Even though John Podesta is considered a climate hawk, Tony and his ex-wife Heather represent fossil fuel companies. Heather’s recent past clients include Marathon Oil and Bill Koch’s Oxbow Carbon, a coal giant, and from 2004 to 2006 she lobbied for Koch Industries. Tony lobbied for BP in the wake of its disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, and through last year he represented Golden Pass, a company co-owned by ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum that wants to export liquefied natural gas. To be fair, they also work on behalf of renewable fuel companies — Tony represents SolarReserve, a solar power company, and Heather lobbies for the ethanol industry. You might call the Podestas the very embodiment of the Obama/Clinton “all of the above” energy policy.

But the contrast between her and her opponents is clear, and it’s indicative of real policy differences. O’Malley has laid out a set of strong, detailed proposals to combat climate change. These include not just measures Obama has begun taking, like regulating carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, but ones he hasn’t, like adopting zero-tolerance regulation for methane leaks from oil and gas wells and denying new offshore oil leasing permits. Clinton has not endorsed any stances beyond Obama’s except for charging more for coal leases.

“Hillary Clinton’s position is stuck in the past,” says Jamie Henn, a spokesperson for 350 Action. “We have the tools to transition away from fossil fuels. What about all the jobs lost because of climate impacts? We need a president who is willing to make tough decisions about how to transition our economy in the face of climate risk.”

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[840high]

11. Thank you.

[AgingAmerican]

5. She lacks self awareness

Her timing makes it look like a stunt, which is exactly what it was.

She really lacks self awareness. It's like she throws turds at the wall instead of pushing her policy positions. That's what drove people away from her back in 08.

[2pooped2pop]

6. When are the Michigan primaries? So we will know when Clinton stops worrying about Flint.

And those children? Seriously though has flint been given disaster status or are they waiting until the rich people get brown poisoned water.(and expected to pay for it no less)

[bravenak]

7. Oh please! Lmbao!

Look at Ben.

[cali]

9. Well, that's a big ol' nothing burger from you.

Do tell us, since you are just so superior to Mr. Jealous, what about his comment was so funny. Why oh please? Ooh, I know, he was supposed to endorse hilly dear. How dare he not line up behind the great warrior for racial justice, who threatened only to talk to whites about institutional racism?

[bravenak]

12. He's a surrogate.

Maybe he wants to kick it with Sanders?
I do not care who he endorses. Won't see me harassing his facebook like a classless buffoon.
Who votes based on Ben Jealous' endorsement? Idk. We'll see how SC goes for our great hope, shall we?

[tecelote]

13. What did she do in Flint?

Did she demand justice and hold people to account?

So many children's lives changed forever.

Who's going to jail?

[LittleGirl]

14. You know, a real politician

would have known about the Flint crisis months ago (as MSNBC has been covering) and SHE WAS ON SNL a few months ago. Whatever Hillary.

[frylock]

16. Classic Clinton. This is the kind of crap her base sucks down like Coca-Cola..

while everyone else just looks on in bewilderment.