Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumWatch CNN Reporter Feed Bernie Sanders Attack Lines Against Hillary
http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-cnn-reporter-feed-bernie-sanders-attack-lines-against-hillary/by Tommy Christopher
One of the standout moments at Thursday nights Democratic presidential debate was when independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was unable to name a single decision that Hillary Clinton has made that was influenced by campaign contributions. The exchange cut against the Sanders campaigns central argument against Hillary, that she cant be trusted to take on corporate interests because she takes large campaign contributions.
In a most unusual move, right after Thursday nights debate, CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny literally fed Bernie Sanders an attack line to use against Hillary in case the subject ever comes up again:
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msongs
(67,455 posts)conspiracy
anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)I honestly think that the entire reason Sanders has succeeded to the extent he has is because of unwarranted media coverage. Those sound bites of his play well in a quick tv cut.
IamMab
(1,359 posts)His campaign won't get away with whining about another debate again, and Clinton won't have to placate him after winning NY on Tuesday. So maybe he can add it to the stump speech (I doubt it, that would require him learning something new) or use it in a mailer somehow.
The 19th can't get here fast enough.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)From Mr. Wendel's link - Hillary puts it to rest:
CLINTON: When I got to the Senate in 2001, one of the first big votes there was on a version of the bankruptcy bill and I was deluged by womens groups and childrens advocates groups to do everything I could to make sure that child support and womens precarious financial situation in case of divorce or not being able to get the kind of funding they needed from a partner or a spouse in bankruptcy would not be endangered. And it was. The current that bill was making it a very low priority. So I did go to work on behalf of all these womens groups and childrens groups because they needed a champion. And I got that bill changed. And in return, it had nothing to do with any money whatsoever and I resent deeply any effort by the Sanders campaign to so imply. It had to do with trying to get a deal
STEPHANOPOULOS: But thats not what
CLINTON: that would protect women. But now let me finish, George, because this has been bandied about and I just want to set the record straight. And so then three years later, part of the part of what Senator Senator Warren said, you played. You didnt play the whole thing, because weve been allies. I faced a tough decision and I stood up for women and children. I went to the Senate floor, said that was exactly what I was doing. Then the bill did not pass. It never became law. And then when the next bill came up, 2005, womens issues were taken care of because I had made that a point back in 2001. And so then I was against that bill. I didnt get a chance to actually vote against it because Bill was in the hospital having a heart procedure. But I put a statement out. I was against it. So Im happy to set this record straight. And I really want to, once again, call out the Sanders campaign, which claims they like to run a positive campaign. But they have been quite artful in raising questions and trying to cast doubts about my record.
And I really am not going to sit and take it anymore
STEPHANOPOULOS: But Senator
CLINTON: I have a public record. I have never, ever been influenced in a view or a vote by anyone who has given me any kind of money. So Im just going to keep setting the record straight.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Sanders panders to low information voters who don't have enough attention span to listen to reason and would rather live in their non sequitur ideological bubble.
MattP
(3,304 posts)He's from the fox like main stream reporting that in many ways is worse