2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCNN Panel Rips Sanders: Not ‘Above the Fray,’ Supporters ‘Traffic in Conspiracy Theories’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-panel-rips-sanders-not-above-the-fray-supporters-traffic-in-conspiracy-theories/CNN panelists piled on Bernie Sanders this afternoon and took on some of the more concerning elements surrounding his campaign.
The discussion focused on what Jake Tapper referred to as an ugly convention in Nevada, where Sanders supporters got angry and violent and threatening. Sanders issued a statement offering a general condemnation of violence, but that is not tamping down the outrage.
New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman called out the narrative that Sanders is above politics and above the fray when he is engaging in character attacks about Clinton in questioning her Wall Street ties.
And on top of that, CNN senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson said that Sanders has taken the low road in some of the accusations hes thrown at Clinton about collusion.
His supporters, she said, sometimes kind of do traffic in conspiracy theories and this idea that somehow the DNC is rigged against them.
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Armstead
(47,803 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)Along with MSNBC, Morgan Freeman, the Obama's, the Democratic Party, African American voters, et cetera ad nauseum.
Armstead
(47,803 posts)Their tendency to parrot the conventional wisdom used to be acknowledged on DU....I guess times change when the candidate is a Clinton. The same pundits are aokay as long as they pump her up
MariaThinks
(2,495 posts)the perpetrators of violence.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)They pushed the underdog meme and the idea that Clinton was in big trouble from this insurgent candidate, so this is quite a big deal for them to turn on him like this.
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)The incident the mainstream of the party and their media counterparts use to discredit the populist upstart candidate.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Not.One.Word.
apnu
(8,756 posts)winter is coming
(11,785 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)oy
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Does she know who Phil Gramm is?
UBS is a Swiss bank that is enjoying better days, thanks to the US taxpayer and a number of key US political leaders.
Hillary Helps a Bankand Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons
The Wall Street Journals eyebrow-raising story of how the presidential candidate and her husband accepted cash from UBS without any regard for the appearance of impropriety that it created.
by CONOR FRIEDERSDORF, The Atlantic, JUL 31, 2015
The Swiss bank UBS is one of the biggest, most powerful financial institutions in the world. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened to help it out with the IRS. And after that, the Swiss bank paid Bill Clinton $1.5 million for speaking gigs. The Wall Street Journal reported all that and more Thursday in an article that highlights huge conflicts of interest that the Clintons have created in the recent past.
The piece begins by detailing how Clinton helped the global bank.
A few weeks after Hillary Clinton was sworn in as secretary of state in early 2009, she was summoned to Geneva by her Swiss counterpart to discuss an urgent matter. The Internal Revenue Service was suing UBS AG to get the identities of Americans with secret accounts, the newspaper reports. If the case proceeded, Switzerlands largest bank would face an impossible choice: Violate Swiss secrecy laws by handing over the names, or refuse and face criminal charges in U.S. federal court. Within months, Mrs. Clinton announced a tentative legal settlementan unusual intervention by the top U.S. diplomat. UBS ultimately turned over information on 4,450 accounts, a fraction of the 52,000 sought by the IRS.
Then reporters James V. Grimaldi and Rebecca Ballhaus lay out how UBS helped the Clintons. Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $600,000 by the end of 2014, according to the foundation and the bank, they report. The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann, making UBS his biggest single corporate source of speech income disclosed since he left the White House.
The article adds that there is no evidence of any link between Mrs. Clintons involvement in the case and the banks donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or its hiring of Mr. Clinton. Maybe its all a mere coincidence, and when UBS agreed to pay Bill Clinton $1.5 million the relevant decision-maker wasnt even aware of the vast sum his wife may have saved the bank or the power that she will potentially wield after the 2016 presidential election.
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As McClatchy noted last month in a more broadly focused article that also mentions UBS, Ten of the worlds biggest financial institutionsincluding UBS, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachshave hired Bill Clinton numerous times since 2004 to speak for fees totaling more than $6.4 million. Hillary Clinton also has accepted speaking fees from at least one bank. And along with an 11th bank, the French giant BNP Paribas, the financial goliaths also donated as much as $24.9 million to the Clinton Foundationthe familys global charity set up to tackle causes from the AIDS epidemic in Africa to climate change.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/hillary-helps-a-bankand-then-it-pays-bill-15-million-in-speaking-fees/400067/
About UBS Wealth Management
It's Buy Partisan
After his exit from the US Senate, Phil Gramm found a job at Swiss bank UBS as vice chairman. He later brought on former President Bill Clinton. What a coincidence, they are the two key figures in repealing Glass-Steagal. Since the New Deal it was the financial regulation that protected the US taxpayer from the Wall Street casino. Oh well, what's a $16 trillion bailout among friends?
It's a Buy-Partisan Who's Who:
President William J. Clinton
President George W. Bush Heh heh heh.
Robert J. McCann
James Carville
John V. Miller
Paula D. Polito
Anthony Roth
Mike Ryan
John Savercool
SOURCE: http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html
One of my attorney chums doesn't like to see his name on any committees, event letterhead or political campaign literature. These folks, it seems to me, are past caring.
Some of why DUers and ALL voters should care about Phil Gramm.
DUers should know what nation's "news media" aren't reporting: the Buy Partisan connections between what's best for the few and what's best for the many.
Moving the Democratic Party to the left. Right.
tex-wyo-dem
(3,190 posts)Biaviians
(167 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)It's about damn time. I guess they finally couldn't ignore this one.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Bad for your blood pressure!!
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)The idea.
Try the FACT..
2cannan
(344 posts)anotherproletariat
(1,446 posts)It's really time, there is no way to say that he is doing more good than bad anymore.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Response to MrWendel (Original post)
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