Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet just hours after launching global-warming push

[insta8er]

EXCLUSIVE: Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet just hours after launching global-warming push – and she's using a FRENCH aircraft that burns 347 gallons of fuel every hour!

Just hours after Hillary Clinton unveiled her presidential campaign's push to solve global warming through an aggressive carbon-cutting plan, she sauntered up the steps of a 19-seat private jet in Des Moines, Iowa.

The aircraft, a Dassault model Falcon 900B, burns 347 gallons of fuel per hour. And like all Dassault business jets, Hillary's ride was made in France.

The Trump-esque transportation costs $5,850 per hour to rent, according to the website of Executive Fliteways, the company that owns it.

And she has used the same plane before, including on at least one trip for speeches that brought her $500,000 in fees.



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3176630/Video-shows-Hillary-Clinton-boarding-private-jet-just-hours-launching-global-warming-push-s-using-FRENCH-aircraft-burns-347-gallons-fuel-hour.html

[riversedge]

1. Sanders flies Private jets and yells about global warming on his stump speeches.

[CalvinballPro]

11. Didn't his financial reports show $1.6 million to one charter plane company? nt

Edit: And that was just one month!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. How do you expect him to travel now that he has Secret Service protection?

I don't think they would allow him to keep flying commercial in coach (or even first class) and I really doubt that they'd want him to hitchhike. Griping about any candidate's travel arrangements is just stupid. If either of them chartered a 747 there would be cause for complaint but not an ordinary business jet.

[nichomachus]

19. But, mom, all the other kids are doing it. nt

[itsrobert]

2. Good find

You broke a major story here bud.

[UMTerp01]

3. Video shows Hillary Clinton picking her nose....

Hillary Clinton caught picking her nose just hours after giving a speech about the dangers of finger to nose contact.

[Snotcicles]

34. Don't quit your day job. nt

[UMTerp01]

39. Look at all the f*cks I give....

ZERO!!!

[Snotcicles]

40. You sure are no comedian. Keep posting looser comments. LOL nt

[UMTerp01]

44. And you learn the difference between lose and loose LOL

Cuz clearly you missed that lesson the rest of us learned in elementary school.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Realistically, that's the only way a candidate can travel for a campaign.

The fuel burn for the aircraft is about average for a jet that size. A hot air balloon or a glider isn't very practical.

[mythology]

5. So has Al Gore

This silly

[DanTex]

6. Today's been a light day for right-wing sources here, thanks for picking up the slack!

[onehandle]

7. I heard that she plans to fly in a full size jetliner when she's president.

The nerve.

[LexVegas]

8. Does Bernie walk to all his campaign stops? Jesus Christ. nt

[bettyellen]

16. he hitchhikes!

[jillan]

9. I can't get upset about this. I'm still reeling over what they did to Al Gore.

Lots of other things she does upsets me but this isn't one of them.

[angstlessk]

10. When was the last time Hillary flew coach on a commercial airplane?

Bernie did till he had secret service protection...and this is snopes!

http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-flies-coach/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Having Secret Service protection makes commercial air travel pretty impractical

and would be extremely inconvenient for the other passengers and the airline; in fact, I don't know if the Secret Service would even allow it. I don't begrudge either candidate for chartering an airplane because as long as we expect candidates to campaign in person there isn't any other way for them to do it.

[NWCorona]

21. This!

I will never begrudge Hillary for her security concerns.

It is what it is

[hrmjustin]

14. .

[bettyellen]

15. Just like Bernie. #itsokaywhenBerniedoesit

Give me a fucking break- next you'll pull out pics of him flying coach eight months ago. Bullshit.

[NWCorona]

23. I agree with you but you gotta admit, those were some good pictures

[WhiteTara]

17. unrec and boo for sh*t stirring

[JoePhilly]

18. Al Gore has a BIG House!!!!

[davidn3600]

30. It's true

If you are someone who wants to preach about the environment and carbon footprints, then you shouldn't be afraid to evaluate your own footprint.

I'm not talking about Gore or Hillary on private jets. I'm talking about their personal life and their personal footprint. Let's forget the private jets and look at their houses.

I had a professor in college that was all big on this environment thing. She was big on global warming and permaculture and all that stuff. I respected her for that and her opinions because she lived by example. She lived "off the grid" so to speak. What I don't respect is Al Gore living in a mansion with a power bill in the several thousands of dollars and then him preaching to me and other poor and middle class folks that we need to "cut back." Fuck that.

[Bluenorthwest]

36. So does Susan Sarandon and DU had big threads about it today, they were Al Gore's House threads.

That sort of crap engenders this sort of crap. Which is what I said in those threads.

[MineralMan]

20. Presidential candidates fly, but not on a schedule

that matches commercial flights. They all use private jets when necessary. Once they have Secret Service protection, there really is no choice.

Your criticism is a criticism of what is standard for presidential candidates during primary and general election campaign season.

I can see that you're concerned, but now that you have the correct information, I hope that satisfies your concerns. Truly.

[Tarc]

22. Wow, so now Camp Sanders is echoing global-warming denialists?

This is like when Hannity and the other talking heads make fun of the global warming conferences that happen to coincide with a blizzard, or Al Gore driving to one in an SUV.

Point. Missed.

[matt819]

24. Give it a rest

Sure, it's fun to see Bernie flying coach. But the reality is that these candidates - all of them - have to get from point a to point b pretty quickly. Sometimes that involves private aircraft.

Airplane travel is a reality. It sucks, but when business or personal needs demand, you gotta take a plane. Even candidates. So let's skip the sanctimony, on all sides. Well, except for Trump, of course, who looks like he is going to make this the first presidential campaign in American history to show a profit, thanks to his accountants.

[Buns_of_Fire]

25. I can't generate a lot of outrage over this one.

Should she start travelling in a gold-plated 747 with "HERE'S HILLARY!" on the sides, well...

[Jackie Wilson Said]

26. GOP alive and well here at DU I see.

[insta8er]

31. Jackie, tin foil much?

[Jackie Wilson Said]

32. I can see right through some.

[arcane1]

27. That's nothing. This fraud is still promoting COAL AND METHANE.

Her "climate plan" is just another focus-group-tested slogan, signifying nothing.

[NanceGreggs]

28. I LOVE the ...

... EXCLUSIVE: Video shows Hillary Clinton boarding private jet ..."

I guess this EXCLUSIVE story is big news to the eleven people who don't know that Hillary always uses a private jet in her travels.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. The fact of the matter is, unless one rides a bike everywhere and has no electricity, we are all

Complicit.

Yowling "hypocrisy' is a diversionary tactic, straight from the fossil fuel industry.

[Tanuki]

33. The source of this video is the right wing pac America Rising. It says so right in your link

..."a videographer working with the conservative America Rising PAC spotted her at the private air terminal in Des Moines.

FIfteen seconds of video shot just after 12:00 noon, local time, shows Clinton walking up the plane's stairs while an aide hodls a giant black umbrella over her head to sheld her from falling rain.

'Despite her campaign’s best efforts to rebrand her as a down-to-earth fighter for "everyday Americans," Hillary Clinton’s jet-setting ways are just further confirmation that she’s out of touch with the American people,' the group's communications driector Jeff Bechdel told DailyMail.com.".......

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America Rising? Why in the name of God are you on Democratic Underground, using material from a right-wing political action committee that was founded by Matt Rhoades, (Mitt Romney's campaign manager), to smear a Democratic presidential candidate?

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/01/america_rising_the_republican_pac_that_s_filming_every_vulnerable_democratic.html

[beam me up scottie]

35. This is a non-issue, they did the same thing to Al Gore trying to carbon shame him.

The source is a right wing rag, there are plenty of valid reasons to criticize Hillary, this isn't one of them.

[Bluenorthwest]

37. It's Al Gore's House day on DU, first Susan Sarandon gets it now Hilllary.

It's a stinking trope in all cases.

[beam me up scottie]

38. We should try to call out right wing attacks on both candidates.

It's hurting the left not helping our guy.

[bigtree]

41. Sanders spent $1.65ml on private jet travel in February

https://morningconsult.com/2016/03/takeaways-latest-fec-filings/

[SheenaR]

42. Non issue

Would have been funnier if you indicated she boarded to escape sniper fire. Then you would have had something.

Candidates have to get from place to place. Necessary evil. She's not using a hot air balloon to go from state to state and neither is Bernie

[hatrack]

43. She's not my first choice, but this is bullshit . . .

Substitute "Al Gore" for "Hillary Clinton", change the dateline, and this post would be right at home at Breitbart.com.

Come to think of it, I'd be willing to bet that James Hansen and Kevin Trenberth and Michael Mann and Jason Box have traveled by plane, perhaps more than once. Some have even traveled by helicopter - even MORE wasteful!

Guess that's enough to discredit them and their efforts too, right?