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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 12:41 PM Apr 2016

Wild story from Clinton fundraiser last night (4-7-2016)

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Last night Hillary Clinton hosted an outdoor fundraiser in Colorado (a state that already caucused) where "Event Chairs" could bundle $27,000 and "Champions" contributed $2,700.

But a crazy thing happened when she got ready to speak. Her campaign actually "turned on a static noise machine" pointed at the press so they couldn’t hear what she was saying to the financial elite in attendance.

Look, this campaign is funded by emails like this one. So this is technically a Bernie Sanders fundraiser. No noise machine here – we’ll say it directly to you and any members of the press who are on this email list: If Bernie Sanders is elected, he is going to take on a rigged economy held in place by a corrupt campaign finance system. He’s going to fight for universal health care, keep fossil fuels in the ground, ensure no bank is too big to fail and no banker too powerful to jail.

But this is the most important three weeks of the campaign – there are a lot of big primaries right around the corner. And Bernie will only get that chance if we all stand together.
You made a contribution earlier in the campaign – if you match that donation today, we will have the resources we need to win this primary. It’s asking a lot, but those are the stakes.
What we are proving on this campaign is that you can get elected without hustling millionaires and billionaires for money. This campaign is funded by individual contributions coming in response to emails like this one. There are no oligarchs waiting in the wings. As you go, we go.

That’s why your contribution is so important.

In solidarity,
Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016


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Wild story from Clinton fundraiser last night (4-7-2016) (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2016 OP
This did not help battle her 'untrustworthy' label, did it? yourpaljoey Apr 2016 #1
the press not hearing her speech is more important Baobab Apr 2016 #2
Agreed yourpaljoey Apr 2016 #3
This is true but they are better prepared to Phlem Apr 2016 #4
Using a White noise machine to drown out the truth felix_numinous Apr 2016 #5
Has It Been Reported In The Press That The Press Was Shut Out By A "White Noise" Machine?... global1 Apr 2016 #6

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
2. the press not hearing her speech is more important
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 12:57 PM
Apr 2016

It should be noted that economic effects of oligarchy hurt the wealthy too

Phlem

(6,323 posts)
4. This is true but they are better prepared to
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:04 PM
Apr 2016

weather a financial storm than 95% of the population.

global1

(25,253 posts)
6. Has It Been Reported In The Press That The Press Was Shut Out By A "White Noise" Machine?...
Mon Apr 11, 2016, 01:38 PM
Apr 2016

one would think the Press would be pissed to not have the opportunity to be able to report on a Hillary speech. One would think that this would be a big story in the MSM - that Hillary is shutting out the Press.

So far the only place that I heard or hear about Hillary's use of a 'White Noise" machine is here on DU. Why isn't this bigger news?

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