@lizzyh7

The Atlantic article, "Nor a Lender Be: Hillary Clinton, liberal virtue, and the cult of the microloan," says it was published in Feb 2016, but it feels like I heard him somewhere before then relate this story (maybe in a radio interview or some such appearance).

As he was painting this picture, which to me was a full color description of everything I deeply loathe about the faux, jaunty, bs kleptocracy meritocracy of neoliberalism and its attendant phony pandering language masking the ugly cronyism and pillaging, it made me so filled with disgust and an existential despair about an HRC presidency. Bernie's announcement was a very great relief. I knew I had to volunteer for his campaign.

The day after International Women’s Day in March 2015, I attended a Clinton Foundation production put on by its No Ceilings initiative at the Best Buy Theater in New York City. It wasn’t a campaign event—the 2016 race had not really started at that point—nor was it a panel discussion, as there were no disagreements among the participants or questions from the audience. Instead, it was a choreographed presentation of various findings having to do with women’s standing in the world. But if you paid attention, the event provided a way to understand Hillary Clinton’s real views on the great social question before the nation—the problem of income inequality.

Onto the stage before us came former secretary of state Clinton, the Democratic Party’s heir apparent; Melinda Gates, the wife of the richest man in the world (the event was produced with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); various NGO executives; a Hollywood celebrity; a Silicon Valley CEO; a best-selling author; an expert in women’s issues from Georgetown University; a Nobel Prize winner; and a large supporting cast of women from the Third World. Everyone strode with polished informality about the stage, reading their lines from an invisible tele­prompter. And back and forth, the presenters called out to one another in tones of supportiveness and sweet flattery.

In her introduction to the event, for example, the TV star America Ferrera, who has appeared at many Clinton events both philanthropic and political, gave a shout-out to the “incredible women who have brought us all here today” and the “amazing girls” whose conversation she had been permitted to join. Then Chelsea Clinton, who announced herself “completely awed” by the “incredible swell of people and partners” who had participated in some event the previous day, invited us to hearken to the “inspiring voices of leaders, of communities, of companies, of countries.”

Those were just the first few minutes. It kept on like that for hours.

This is just the first three paragraphs. You have to read the whole thing.

#2 and I may have forwarded that one on too. He's so right and I can only imagine what you've had to see at one of their smug parties.

I haven't watched any of those shows in years, just cannot stand the preening and really they are pretty boring to me.