THIS IS GOOD! footage of Hillary Clinton as Walmart board member.

[MauriceLawrence96]

This news story is from 2008, but just as relevant now.

Includes delicious footage that you probably have not seen of Hillary Clinton being a loyal board-member of Walmart.

Spread it!

[Gregorian]

1. She was just climbing the ladder.

Good find. It needs airing.

[JimDandy]

58. Wow...this shows she has been doing that accent change schtick

for decades!

Definately let this air for that phoniness alone.

[kath]

72. Hey, ALL people who have spent the first 27 years of their life in Illinois, Mass., CT, and DC

end up with a totally changed accent after living in the south for a while, don'cha know?


She's such a phony.

[GeoWilliam750]

77. Whilst I am no fan of Hillary for a large number of reasons

I think that this is really not much of an issue - deliberate or not.

Accents commonly shift depending on where you live, and with whom you are speaking. Having lived in a wide range of places over my life, my accent has been all over the place, and depends on whether I am in NY, Boston, the Midwest, the South, London, Europe, Singapore, or wherever. My accent migrates - usually it is completely unconscious.

Beyond that, it is often simply good manners to make other people feel comfortable. It is not lying or deception; it is getting one's message across in a way the listener has the best chance of understanding and accepting it, and it is usually easier to do when the listener does not regard the message as coming from "them".

[Jarqui]

2. Nice find

[Armymedic88]

3. If at anytime someone says they are "proud" of Walmart....

They aren't Democrats in my opinion!!! No wonder she supports free trade!! Smh

[Ferd Berfel]

12. ...and they sure as HELL are not Progressives!

[Armymedic88]

15. Hell no their not!!!

I have shared this video to the AFL-CIO just to remind them who they have endorsed!!

[Ferd Berfel]

21. Well the boys in the front office will not be swayed- it's an elitist power thing.

But the the ran-and-file might be.

in any case - thanks for posting!

[merrily]

101. +1

[cali]

4. She is appalling. This is so damning.

[Le Taz Hot]

6. The link won't copy.

Could you include the link in your post for those of us who are sometimes computer challenged? I want to put this up on FB.

[Go Vols]

8. https://youtu.be/yuZhwV24PmM

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Thank you!

[Nanjeanne]

7. Hope it gets some play along with this picture of Hillary/Goldman Sachs

Of Hillary celebrating Goldman Sachs’ taxpayer-subsidized headquarters at its groundbreaking.

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[Gregorian]

14. She tried to talk it away last night.

But we keep digging it back up.

I get uncomfortable making predictions, but at the moment I believe Bernie's numbers are going to soar, with respect to Hillary's.

Phew. I had to type this twice. I guess you deleted the one above. I'm following your post around.

[kath]

19. Why is their headquarters taxpayer-subsidized? What the holy fuck???

[arcane1]

40. Well, it's NOT because politicians give them favors in exchange for donations and speaking fees.

No way indeed!!

[kath]

50. Of course not!!

[Nanjeanne]

55. A tax-free bond program provided below-market financing to build Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s HQ

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-01-11/goldman-s-tax-free-building-loan-makes-liberty-bonds-renewal-a-tough-sell

Also:

Of the 2.4 billion dollars used to build the tower, 1.65 billion come from tax-exempt Liberty Bonds; the city and state made such a significant investment in hopes that Goldman Sachs will attract other major firms to Downtown.

http://www.emporis.com/buildings/207631/goldman-sachs-headquarters-new-york-city-ny-usa

We subsidize profitable business like crazy but we can't afford to pay a living wage or provide health CARE for citizens. Small businesses aren't able to get the kinds of subsidies that these large companies get. It's insane.

[kath]

56. Gawd, that sucks. ENOUGH of all the corporate welfare bullshit!

[Enthusiast]

67. At least it isn't going to real people in need.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

93. They have to get their $5 billion in fines they just paid to the Feds.

What. You didn't think we would keep that money did you?

[Enthusiast]

96. This country is an embarrassment for the blatant corruption.

[sarge43]

30. That should captioned with her "I'm not establishment" whine du jour. n/t

[lob1]

63. Hey, finally proof that Hillary is great at throwing dirt.

[silenttigersong]

97. Lol

Funniest ,post I have read recently

[TIME TO PANIC]

9. I consider the Waltons domestic terrorist.

[closeupready]

10. K&R

[Go Vols]

13. Anti Union shit

will never get my vote.

[Ferd Berfel]

16. She changes opinions more than I change socks

Oh, I'm sorry, she 'evolves' a lot.

[cali]

17. Hillary does not deserve union support. She is a corporatist.

[jillan]

42. Agreed!

[Live and Learn]

18. How can anyone defend her? nt

[cali]

24. The defenses are pathetic.

[SammyWinstonJack]

82. I honestly don't understand how any one can.

[cali]

20. Oh Hillary you hopeless phony. Shilling for Wal-Mart and touting how much

you care for kids while Wal-Mart was using little girls in Bangladesh to make their crap.


I didn't know doesn't cut it. This shit was widely reported as Ross points out

[m-lekktor]

22. KnR.nt

[cali]

25. Kick for Hillary fans.

[Live and Learn]

26. Needs to be spread far and wide. nt

[Herman4747]

27. Devastating, Utterly Devastating.

Still, she will continue to be defended by those who exclaim, "It's no big deal that she was a Goldwater Girl!"
While others legitimately wonder if she's still a Goldwater Girl.

[Cassiopeia]

61. I'm sure Goldwater is considered too liberal

by Hillary and her surrogates.

[Herman4747]

28. She was also a STOCKHOLDER too.

Wasn't like she was just in the company to try to change the company.

[Eric J in MN]

29. If they found video of her saying something controversial it would be more impressive journalism. NT

NT

[Live and Learn]

31. If she would have taken a stand for the unions instead of remaining silent, it might have

helped. But in reality, no progressive or liberal would EVER serve on their board or buy their stock!!!

There are no valid excuses for it.

[MuseRider]

32. I will add a kick.

I know people support their candidates for a variety of reasons but when there is actual proof of something as egregious as this I do not understand them just blowing it off. It would certainly make me think at least and acknowledge that there is a problem

I have always wondered why getting to the top of things was so important to some people that they would sacrifice their moral values. Those kinds of people do not belong in office.

[Maedhros]

76. The mindset is that if they acknowledge the bad acts of their candidate,

then the opposition will use their acknowledgement to attack their candidate.

We saw this behavior a lot with Obama's prosecution of the drone wars - double-tapping a signature strike on a wedding full of women and children was defended by staunch Democrats as regrettable, but necessary. I believe this is because they felt a deep need to defend Obama from right-wing criticism, so they defended him from all criticism.

I think a similar dynamic is in play for Hillary.

[MisterP]

105. "it's her turn!"

[bigwillq]

33. K and R (nt)

[SoLeftIAmRight]

34. Calling all Hillary supporters ...

is this who you really think is going to make the change?

[oasis]

74. Hillary Rodham Clinton is not Amy Goodman. Deal with it. nt

[Roy Ellefson]

80. huh?

huh?

[AzDar]

35. Jesus.

[bigwillq]

36. Kick (nt)

[MissDeeds]

37. Wow, that's damning

K&R

[reformist2]

38. From Goldwater Girl, to WalMart Woman... now to GoldmanSachs Granny??

[CharlotteVale]

53. LOL.

[SammyWinstonJack]

85. Ahaha....

[zentrum]

39. Some journalist

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….should follow up on this history and track her votes while on the board. Did she vote for or against a raised wage? What did she ever say or vote for in relation to unionization?

Should speak to individuals who lost their downtown, their mom and pop stores, their local manufacturing.

Should talk about the number of towns and cities that have fought to keep WalMart from coming in.

Should talk about how WalMart will not give benefits, how their workers had (pre-ACA) no healthcare, and how they are not earning a living wage. Did she talk about health care while on that board?

Should talk about the workers in China and elsewhere and how much they earn that makes WalMart so cheap. And why the the average American needs prices to be this cheap—how it's an endless cycle of having struggling families here be part of what is oppressing workers elsewhere.

We need that piece of investigation, all drawn together in one place, now more than ever.

[closeupready]

47. Aren't they required under federal law to keep minutes of Board meetings?

I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know, but I seem to recall that this is so, and if so, then simply go back to those minutes, and see who said what, who proposed things, who objected, etc.

[zentrum]

66. Yeah—I think that's so.

This really could work as an investigative journalism piece.

It's also the kind of thing the New Yorker or Vanity Fair does. Doesn't have to be just a progressive political publication.

[dreamnightwind]

75. Great idea, please suggest to Lee Fang at the intercept.

[zentrum]

78. Okay. I try for that.

There are other investigative stories to do too. Beginning with those speeches to Wall Street.

How often did high up Goldman Sachs folks meet with her subsequently?

What's paid to other speech-givers? Is this standard?

What is their roster of other speech-givers? Have they ever invited anyone from another perspective altogether?

It's so clearly how it's done—how influence is bought.

[dreamnightwind]

84. I like how you think

I wonder if there is a crowd-sourced investigative reporting infrastructure anywhere. If not, there should be.

[zentrum]

88. Wow, great idea.

I have no idea how to track this down. I hear an app coming…..a political app for ordinary citizens.

[dreamnightwind]

91. Maybe here...

http://www.bernie2016events.org/teams/slack

This is a group of app developers that write apps to help Sanders win the election. It came out of the Bernie Redditt group.

The idea might be an idea of larger scope than electing Bernie, so I don't know if that is the right place to try. It is, however, a place where people would like the idea and would have the chops to write it.

Another possibility woud be to contact Darcy Burner. She is an excellent leftist activist who either does or used to write for Fire Dog Lake (I lost track of them, I think they changed their name to something else), ran for elected office herself, and she personally developed the app Buycott to assist consumers while shopping to avoid buying products made by people we don't believe in (such as Kochs).

I don't know if you really plan to run with this or not, just throwing it out there since you have some good ideas of investigative journalism tasks. Crowd-sourced investigations are not necessarily the way to do it, just one idea. Lee Fang at the Intercept is a great investigative journalist who is actively tracking Clinton campaign shenanigans.

Have a good one.

[TBF]

73. Yes they are. nt

[JDPriestly]

51. Yes. It is called the race to the bottom.

[zentrum]

69. And the oligarchs

….are the time keepers.

[lastone]

41. Nice find Maurice

Thank you for posting!

[Herman4747]

44. Yes, I agree - very nice find, especially for one so new to DU. n/t

[George II]

43. What was the date of that "good footage"?

[Goblinmonger]

52. What year is the cutoff for this being important?

In what year is she claiming she wasn't a progressive? Or what this working for change from the inside?

[Attorney in Texas]

45. I wish every union member in Nevada could see this!

[Chicago1980]

46. So what...

Even Thom Hartman thinks this is a non-story.

[oasis]

48. As a Walmart board member, Hill didn't start a revolt

against the company. Damning indictment.

[JDPriestly]

49. K&R.

[Armstead]

54. I LOVE that southern accent y'all

[JimDandy]

60. Didn't read the whole thread before posting the same observation above.

That accent is pretty glaring. She's an accent chameleon-tries to blend in everywhere.

[eridani]

99. Not seeing that as an issue. Quite a few people instinctively imitate the accents--

--they hear around them I grew up in Illinois, went to school near Chicago and my family noticed that I didn't sound "downstate" after I'd been there for a semester. Picked up some Bostonian while living there and am now back to West Coast generic announcer-speak.

[dinkytron]

57. Could you friggin imagine if Bernie ever went negative and ran w/ this footage. Shudder.

[WillyT]

59. K & R !!!

[Uncle Joe]

62. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, MauriceLawrence.

[wolfie001]

64. Wakmart: worst company in America!!!

Go Bernie!!!!

[olddots]

65. but. but. but

[turbinetree]

70. And those classic words from ..................... John Case.........................

"Labor Unions are nothing but blood sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people that work for a living"

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/walmart-walton-heirs-net-worth-cities


http://billmoyers.com/2014/05/11/how-the-wal-mart-heirs-got-their-wealth/


http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-12-13/labor-disputes-the-walmart-way

Touche--------------------------- lets hear it for Bernie


I guess this Tate fellow didn't even think at all of what the current Walmart patrons are-----------------------blood sucking parasites and putting corpoarte



Honk--------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[Scalded Nun]

71. I'll bet the R's are more upset than anyone about this.

They were going to pull it out of their bag during the general.

[noamnety]

79. It's pathetic that this is being used against her.

There is nothing wrong with her working to increase Walmart profits for the better part of a decade because ... Paul Ryan.

Or something.

She is progressive, but pragmatic and if you weren't all about unicorns you would see it's inevitable that the Walmart family will keep getting richer at the expense of their workers. No amount of idealism will change that. It was therefore practical for her to help it along.

Did I mention Paul Ryan?

[grntuscarora]

81. Holy crap.

How is she ever going to spin this?

[Progressive dog]

83. Brian Ross has jumped to conclusions before

"In October 2001, Ross twice linked Iraq to the anthrax attacks in the United States. These reports, based on anonymous "high level" sources, were denied by the administration.[12] In November 2001, Ross updated the story, acknowledging that original reports of bentonite in the anthrax samples were incorrect."[1

The quote is from wikipedia. This link is from Salon http://www.salon.com/2007/04/09/abc_anthrax/

[Bonobo]

86. Responding so I can view later. nt

[Bonobo]

94. Really? THAT is the Progressive candidate? Oh my fucking god...

I can't believe anyone would call her a Progressive if they were honest -or Progressive.

[zentrum]

87. This is really an amazing video.

Six years is a long time to feed at this trough. Wow.

Bernie Sander should see this. I know it's dated but it shows how she'll take any position that serves her.

[bkkyosemite]

89. Can somebody get this video and pic digging for GS to Bernie?

I really feel this stuff right now (because of her debate comments) really needs to get to Bernie and go viral. She gets upset but it's either because of something that she said or a video or a picture that proves what she is saying is UNTRUE.....

[thesquanderer]

90. "She no longer agrees with its principles and values, and now believes walmart workers...

...should be able to unionize."

Yet another issue she has "evolved" on.

[bkkyosemite]

95. The pic with the shovel is still relevant.

[nc4bo]

100. Unionize while collecting food stamps.

Then there's the Fight for $12 per hour instead of $15.

[azmom]

92. Kick

[silenttigersong]

98. I am more concerned @

MIC,insider knowledge>stocks Clinton's obsession with a nostalgic Clinton economy-unnecessary war.Whatever, President signs the Tpp _why I think the Wall street cats love Hillary.

[EdwardBernays]

102. Damn

Pretty heartless.

[colsohlibgal]

103. Boycotted Walmart Years Ago

I just refuse to shop there. Greedy owners so annoy me. They could pay their workers a living wage with very good benefits and still be filthy rich, just not as much filthy rich.....like the owners of Costco.

Just more evidence of her DLC heritage.

[jalan48]

104. Ugh!

[Javaman]

106. R & K. nt