Matt Taibi : HRC Ad Against Trump Makes Dems Look Sleazy

[amborin]

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/26/hillary-clintons-new-anti-trump-ad-misses-mark

believably, it makes the Democrats look sleazy and disingenuous in comparison.

The ad begins with a picture of a grinning Trump and the words, "In 2006, Donald Trump was hoping for a real estate crash."

It proceeds to a series of grim scenes from the financial crisis. Against a Roger and Me-esque montage of blighted neighborhoods, it reads off stats: "9 million Americans lost their jobs. 5 million people lost their homes."

Then it returns to a grinning Trump, and another line:

"And the man who could be our next president…

was rooting for it to happen."

Then we hear Trump talking about how a bursting of the real-estate bubble would be an opportunity for rich folks like himself.

"I sort of hope that happens, because then people like me would go in and buy," Trump says, in an interview from 2006. "If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know, you could make a lot of money."

Cut to: "If Donald wins, you lose."

This ad is disingenuous in a dozen different ways. For one thing, the destruction that the Clinton campaign describes was not caused by people swooping in after the bubble burst, buying at the bottom of the market.

It was caused by the existence of a speculative bubble in the first place. And that bubble was inflated not by Donald Trump, but by the people who have at least in part bankrolled Hillary Clinton's career: namely, Wall Street banks.

In the mid-2000s, a speculative mania swallowed up the real-estate markets largely because Wall Street discovered a new (and often criminally fraudulent) way to peddle mortgage securities.

[riversedge]

1. The ads main point was that Donald was hoping for the crash-it would be good for business.

[CorkySt.Clair]

14. Which is 100 percent true.

MT has a sad because Bernie lost.

[TheSarcastinator]

2. she can't even be honest when she is attacking a worthy target

She's so crooked she has to screw on her pantsuit every morning. Pathetic.

[pinebox]

18. BOOM!

[840high]

32. ...!100++++

[CrowCityDem]

3. What BS. Trump does terrible, awful, horrible things, but pointing them out is 'sleazy'. Ugh.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. I thought it was a good, effective ad.

The point of it was not about what caused the crash but the fact that Trump would welcome one because he could make money from it - pointing out that Trump is an asshole who doesn't care about what happens to people as long as he can profit.

[BernieforPres2016]

17. "an asshole who doesn't care about what happens to people as long as he can profit"

Does that not also describe Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton if you change the "he" to "she"?

[840high]

33. Yes it does.

[SFnomad]

5. Hardly unexpected ... a BS cheerleader being an apologist for tRump n/t

[TheSarcastinator]

9. yeah, you sure know Matt Taibbi!

Once again, Hillarians demonstrate their astute understanding of politics. You can't lose!!!

[SFnomad]

10. I was talking about the OP itself ... but nice try n/t

[Demsrule86]

35. Hillary hater writes screeds against her all the time and has for years...yawn.

"...And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325#ixzz49smN7t00
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[Bluenorthwest]

23. Fully expected:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=222029&sub=trans

[hellofromreddit]

6. "Never wrestle with a pig."

Clinton would do much better to stay a few miles above his level.

[onehandle]

7. Defending Trump at DU?

Of course.

[CorkySt.Clair]

15. We have many here who will vote for him.

I don't mean stay home, I mean literally vote for him. Posters who have been around here for a decade or more will cast their ballots for an orange bigot out of spite.

[frylock]

26. Mmmm-hmmmmm

[George II]

8. So now we have people on DU decrying a DEMOCRATIC ad against the republican nominee?

What has DEMOCRATIC Underground become?

[Demsrule86]

36. The GE can't be called soon enough for me

I can hardly wait until...not more Faux, Breitbart and Trump supporters.

[stevenleser]

11. It's not OK to call him out for rooting for a Real Estate crash when he did just that?

Is Taibbi chasing the dragon again?

Under what twisted rules is this not completely in bounds?

[reddread]

13. attacking words instead of deeds

how substantive and leaderly.

[One of the 99]

12. Matt Taibbi calling something sleazy is highly ironic. nt

[corkhead]

21. in what way? I am curious

[frylock]

27. ??

[FSogol]

16. Unrec. Trump support doesn't belong on DU.

[pinebox]

19. lol You are getting good at this aren't you?

[CorkySt.Clair]

22. You should wander over to the ask the admins section sometime

It's rather illuminating about DU's short term future.

[Peacetrain]

20. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

it surely does not belong here..

[corkhead]

24. who are you saying is the Trump supporter? Taibi or the writer of the OP?

[EndElectoral]

25. Got to run smarter ads than this.

[merrily]

28. President Bill Clinton lobbied hard for and signed the bill that

left crap mortgage derivatives unregulated, namely the Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000. That bill led to the crash in 2008 in several nations and to unknown numbers of foreclosures in the US.

Soon, someone will come along and note that Bernie voted for this bill, so let me beat them to it. Bernie voted for this bill ONLY because, in desperation to get it passed, someone wrapped it in with a bill that prevented a Republican shut down of the government, something that was then unthinkable.

[bvar22]

29. Trump says out loud what many Democrats said and did in private.

Most of The RICH (Democrats and Republicans) took advantage of the situation (Buy Low.Sell High)....but what caused it?

Answer:
1) A "Housing Bubble" combined with lax banking & Lending regulation (Thanks, Bill), possibly manipulated for the reason stated above.

2) Bailing Out Wall Street instead of Main Street


[font size=3]Paulson with Co-Conspirators

Now THIS is Bi-Partisanship!!![/font]

[Doctor_J]

30. I like the ad

Trump was rooting for the collapse. He's a skeezy carnival barker who cares nothing for working people, and especially for honest people. This should be a highlight of the ge campaign.

[thesquanderer]

31. Good question, what's worse, the people who caused the crash or those who took advantage of it. (nt)

[0rganism]

34. probably a lot of common names in those two groups n/t

[Laughing Mirror]

37. Her videos work against her, not for her

Every one of them I've looked at that attacks Trump is actually an advertisement for him, delivering the opposite message of what's intended. The people putting these things together don't even seem to realize it. Every time I see one of these it's like one more nail in her coffin.