Posted on 04/16/2016 6:24:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell challenged Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Bobby Mook ahead of Thursday's Democratic debate to defend the Democratic candidate's presence on a Verizon picket line. How can she have the audacity to stand with the striking employees, Mitchell asked, if she has accepted over $225,000 from the company?
Clinton Campaign Manager Pressed On Clinton's Paid Speech Hypocrisy
"Time and again in her career, Hillary Clinton has stood with people against powerful interests," Mook insisted.
The MSNBC anchor gave Mook a second chance to explain Clinton's hypocrisy. He again deferred a straight answer, this time changing the subject to Bernie Sanders' Senate campaign that was funded by the NRA.
Mitchell tried a third time, only to get a recycled answer.
Bernie Sanders' presence with the picketers, meanwhile, has not been questioned. Even before the strikers started striking, the Vermont senator was defending their cause, arguing how Verizon has mistreated its employees.
At Thursday's debate, Sanders and the CNN moderators pressed Clinton to release the transcripts of her Wall Street speeches. She said she would do so once all the other candidates release theirs, making voters wonder, what is she hiding? Her corporate interest ties have already hurt her image with liberal voters.
It's no wonder Sanders is described as a "man of the people," while Clinton's favorability ratings keep dropping.
That's funny, right there.
You said it.
umm, because she’s a liar. On another subject, Mitchell looks like a corpse even with makeup.
Mitchell is 69, same age as Trump and Bill Clinton.
All three turn 70 this year, Trump is two months.
Because she is as duplicitous as Trump
That is, if "corporate America" wants to sell -- actually, make that give -- the shovel to those who would turn around and seek to undermine it, why should those of Clinton's ilk decline it? I don't see where Clinton, et al. are pretending to be something that they are not.
Those who pay protection money are more morally culpable, it seems to me, than those who demand it.
hillary is the popular breeze of any moment ,,,, just depends on where she is at the moment .
-- Mark Twain (paraphrased)
Why are they striking? Aren’t Verizon employees well paid? Everybody is expendable - they should be grateful to even have jobs in obamatollah’s world...
...just depends on where she is at the moment...
The GOPe will also say, promise, or do anything to get elected as happened in 2012 and 2014. And the voting public finally realized it this election cycle.
You make a great point. Perhaps if these corporations including banks used the money they hand to pols for employee wages and benefits instead, the employees wouldn't be protesting.
I was talking to my BIL about Hillary, and complaining she wasn’t an honest politician—she didn’t stay bought. He said I was using the wrong model: She sells influence on a subscription basis; you have to keep up with your ongoing payments to have access.
Need you even ask?
Hillary bends over and opens the MONEY CHUTE
Hillary bends over and opens the VOTE CHUTE
HAHAHAHAHAHAH hahahahahahahah
Is it the slave or the master that takes the money?
What an apt way to describe it--thanks!
Easy. She believes Verizon should give everybody $225,000.00.
Politicians aren’t bought; they’re rented....
I’m reminded of a line from a movie, something about politicians who won’t stay bought.
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