Leaked transcript from one of Clinton's Goldman Sachs talks

[RoccoR5955]

Last edited Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:24 PM - Edit history (1)

Counterpunch has released a leaked transcript from Clinton's speech to Goldman Sachs on 6/4/2013.

"Some people have said that it was your irresponsible financial engineering, risk-taking, and profit-seeking, that led to the 2008 crash; that you shorted your own toxic mortgages in the most brazen securities fraud in financial history, dynamiting and imploding the global economy; and that the exorbitant bonuses paid from tax payer money, the financial bailouts, the non-prosecutions created moral hazard, rewarded avarice, incompetence, corruption and vice. You and I know it is nothing of the sort. As leaders, innovators, captains of finance, you will always be subject of the jealous resentment, the petty tantrums of the unwashed masses, the insolvent, the irresponsible, the invidious, the losers. They will envy you, your successes, they will despise you, but they secretly want to be like you!"

"Millions of working sad-sack Americans have similar fantasies. They want more money. More pay. Decent wages for hard work. They think it grows on trees. They think that money will grow and nuzzle up to them in their sleep, when they have no money-appeal. They think they can tax Other People’s Money to get what they want. They don’t realize Money has to be jacked up the ass, stuck in the veins with meth, dragged out and pimped to make more! You have figured out how to make your money work, turned it into a profit-generating prostitute! The future expected earnings of a profit-generating prostitute! That you’ve shorted! These people, idiots, all of them, they expect money to come to them! Without Scheming! Without reaming others! By working hard and being good! Like puppies and ponies! Like flowers after a downpour! Like the lilies of the valley! Like utopian visions of a drug-addled socialist!"

"Wages need to be kept down, and people just need to work harder. Damn harder. At least as hard as Bill worked to keep Haiti down."

And to sum it up she said: "Thank you all. Thank you. I just want to leave you with one more thought. I want every banker, financier, trader, hedge fund manager to reach their God-given potential to rule the universe. Please join me in that mission — let’s do it together!"

Is this the person that we want to be president? I, for one do not. Someone who lacks the compassion, who outright lies to her constituents to get their votes, then gives speeches like this for hundreds of thousands of dollars, is not my idea of what an American President should be like.

The entire speech can be found here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/26/hillary-clintons-speech-to-goldman-sachs/


on edit (since so many of you take things so seriously):
Don't think it's real? Then tell Clinton to release her damn transcripts. Not after the RepubliCLOWNs do, but after the other Democratic Party candidates do. (I think that there is only one, and he already released all his transcripts).
This may be satire, but I don't think it's far from the actual truth.

[99th_Monkey]

1. Wait. This is satire, right? nt

[dimple]

5. I think it's satire (n/t)

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. I'm guessing 'counterpunch' is a satire site? nt

[WillyT]

3. That's Satire... Right ???

[retrowire]

4. Is this satire? wheres the proof?

because this...

" As leaders, innovators, captains of finance, you will always be subject of the jealous resentment, the petty tantrums of the unwashed masses, the insolvent, the irresponsible, the invidious, the losers. They will envy you, your successes, they will despise you, but they secretly want to be like you!"

Is not only hard to believe but it would cause a damn riot.

[Armstead]

47. um yes it is

[retrowire]

49. No worries, I figured it out. My skepticism saves the day again! nt

[safeinOhio]

6. Can't be real, that is the worse

1% talk in the world. Made me puke.

[BillyDawg]

7. I really hope you don't believe that

[yourout]

8. As much as I would like it to be true.....my BS meter is going nuts.

[99th_Monkey]

9. "The speech has not been confirmed or authenticated" <- satire disclaimer? nt

[jfern]

11. That's not saying it couldn't be real

[Codeine]

12. Did you read it? It's clearly a joke. nt

[99th_Monkey]

31. It's satire but that's ok by me. Keeps the issue "out there" on people's minds,

as it should be. What the fuck is Hillary hiding? Why not release them?

[Codeine]

10. You're really not that dumb, are you? nt

[PoliticAverse]

13. That is satire, for those with broken detectors. n/t

[Tarc]

14. "(Brushes check suggestively against cheek)", among other gems

Cute, but this isn't real, though I have no doubt that it is going to be facebooked and tweeted about breathlessly over the next few hours as if it was genuine.

[0rganism]

15. that falls somewhere between scathing satire and malicious prank

the longer HRC delays in releasing actual transcripts, the more things like this are going to creep into the zeitgeist. until she puts the real ones up, everyone is free to speculate, right wingers will make their own versions, and it will just be another nasty mess clinging to her heels.

imho, she can't stonewall on this if she wants to win the general.

[cantbeserious]

16. HRC - Owned Lock, Stock And Barrel By The - Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks - The 99% Be Damned

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[retrowire]

18. This is satire. :/ nt

[cantbeserious]

20. No - This Citizen - Is Quite Serious

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[retrowire]

36. I know the transcripts are serious but this isnt real. be careful nt

[cantbeserious]

37. Real Or Not

List - Publicly Disclosed - HRC Speeches And Fees - $ 21,667,000 - A True One Percenter

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-27/snowden-sums-presidential-campaign-just-one-tweet

[retrowire]

41. Now THAT is worth an OP. Thanks for this. nt

[cantbeserious]

43. Always Welcome

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[Agschmid]

27. Satire...

[Raine1967]

17. What a load of horsecrap that is worthy of Brietbart.

I am seriously still undecided as to who I will vote for next Tuesday. Seeing this crap from counter punch really makes me sick.


Way to do the GOP's work.

[retrowire]

42. It is not a rightwing talking point to point out her connections with wall st.

Why is this even a thing? lol

[Raine1967]

45. The RW are supposed to be the ones that put out false memes.

That this was put out as a truth and that some are willing to believe it as so is reprehensible.

Do you think this is true?

[retrowire]

46. This OP's satire? no it's satire.

The concern over transcripts that Hillary just laughs off whenever asked about them? That's a real concern.

[Raine1967]

51. The point is that the OP's link is not true.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1356724

It is simply false. It isn't funny at all.

it's what the RW does

[retrowire]

52. ahh i agree that it is misleading. nt

[NanceGreggs]

19. Nice try.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-goldman-sachs/

"Dissident Voice (where the purported transcript of Clinton's speech first appeared) did file the story as piece of fiction:

This article was posted on Wednesday, February 24th, 2016, at 7:13 p.m. and is filed under Satire."

I cannot imagine how naive you would have to be to think this was an actual transcript. But then, in the past week, several people fell for a similar "leaked transcript" of a GS speech that allegedly took place on October 23, 2015 - a day when Hillary was at a rally in Virginia all afternoon, and guested on the Rachel Maddow show that same evening.

[MaggieD]

22. Hard to believe a jury let this post stand

DU, how low can you go? SMH.

[NanceGreggs]

25. How low can DU go?

I don't know - but it's starting to look like a bottomless pit.

[Codeine]

40. Why hard to believe?

[MaggieD]

44. I stand corrected -- should have said pathetic instead

[Lizzie Poppet]

50. Why? It could hardly BE more obviously satire.

[SidDithers]

21. "The speech has not been confirmed or authenticated."...

but we're going to print it anyway, 'cause that's the kind of journalism we do here at counterpunch.

Sid

[Nonhlanhla]

23. Obvious satire. nt.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

24. Satire

Original: http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/02/hillary-clintons-speech-to-goldman-sachs-june-4-2013/

[Autumn]

26. Damn I have missed satire here on DU

[riversedge]

28. This OP has been posted several times. When will you learn what is satire??

[seaotter]

33. When will you learn that is the point.

Hillary, release the transcripts .

[livetohike]

29. LOL. Especially the "unwashed masses". Thanks

for the laugh 😊.

[2pooped2pop]

30. Probably not that far from what was actually said

Or they would have been released.

[seaotter]

32. Even I could not imagine they would be any where near this bad.

Might as well release them.

[Buns_of_Fire]

34. Oh, bull. My contact SWEARS to me that she entered dancing Gangnam Style,

told a few Bob Hope jokes, and did some magic tricks (the sawing of a peon in half went horribly wrong, which is why nothing about it has been released), and left the stage on a golden throne carried by the lower-ranking members of her campaign staff.

My contact is also prone to having acid flashbacks, so some of that should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

[GoneFishin]

35. Not a damning as I expected the transcripts to be, but still pretty bad. I just cannot vote for her.

[Codeine]

38. Nice try on the edit.

I contend that you fully bought it.

Is this the person that we want to be president? I, for one do not. Someone who lacks the compassion, who outright lies to her constituents to get their votes, then gives speeches like this for hundreds of thousands of dollars, is not my idea of what an American President should be like.

That quite clearly indicates that you believed you were posting something factual.

[RoccoR5955]

39. No.

It indicates that I have heard her give speeches saying one thing, and then doing the opposite.
She was my Senator and I follow this stuff closely. Yes she has done some things for the 99%, but there are things that she should have done done for us, that she did to her corporate masters.

[Armstead]

48. That's NOT Real!.......It's TOO TAME to be real.

The REAL transcript is much shorter. "Let them eat cake."

[Hoyt]

53. If she said anything close to that it would have been leaked long ago like Romney's

47% eech. Clinton's speech3s were before much bigger groups. There were Democrats at those speeches, political opponents,, folks with phones and cameras, etc.