Hillary is "so sick" of Bernie's allegation of her taking fossil fuel money, even though she HAS taken $4.5M

Submitted by geebeebee on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 7:53pm

Link: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaign-updates/hillary-clintons-connecti...

You may have seen the Hillary meltdown-lie about her fossil fuel donations on RantingRooster's essay.

Well, as usual, when Hillary says Bernie is lying, she's lying.

All told, Hillary has received about $4.5 MILLION from fossil-fuel related industries, employees, and lobbyists:

First there are the direct contributions from people working for fossil fuel companies to Hillary Clinton’s campaign committee. According to the most recent filings, the committee has received $309,107 (as of 3/21/16; source: Center for Responsive Politics) from such donors

Next are the fossil fuel lobbyists, many of whom have also bundled contributions. These donations also flow to Hillary Clinton’s campaign committee. Greenpeace has tracked $1,259,280 in bundled and direct donations from lobbyists currently registered as lobbying for the fossil fuel industry. This number excludes donations from lobbyists who are employed directly by a fossil fuel companies, as those donations would have been included in the previous number.

Last are contributions from fossil fuel interests to Super PACs supporting Hillary Clinton. Greenpeace has found $3,250,000 in donations from large donors connected to the fossil fuel industry to Priorities Action USA, a Super PAC supporting Secretary Clinton’s campaign.

So, we have the leading Democratic candidate who calls the truth "lies", when she isn't calling the truth "attacks".

Hillary Clinton is a god-awful, embarrassing, terrible candidate. Please do what you can to push Bernie to the nomination, so we don't have to deal with this loser for the election, OK?

Thanks, all.

VOTE BERNIE SANDERS.

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Submitted by Lenzabi on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 7:59pm

She has a issue of

She has a issue of "projecting" where she projects her own negative traits onto opposing people she is against.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:53pm

She learned it from her friends in the GOP.... n/t

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Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:29am

She learned it from the master...

In this little 60 Minute segment they gave the world a twosome although Slick Willie is the one doing most of the talking. SW lied and basically called Flowers a prostitute and Hills just sat there acting sincere and supporting. She's been lying to us since the early 90s. Why has everyone not caught on????

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Submitted by wrbpmaui on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:03pm

AKA Turdblossom

N/t.

Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:38am

The way of the Narcissist

and the psychopath, although I prefer sociopath for Hillary. Bill, not so sure he isn't psychopath, but I am exaggerating I suppose.

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Submitted by rmwarnick on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:10pm

Bernie does not take crap from anybody

Sanders Camp Says Clinton Owes Him An Apology For 'Lying' Accusation

“I think she probably owes the senator an apology for that because the senator is not lying about her record," Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said on MSNBC. "He’s talking about her record. He’s talking about her practices. She obviously doesn’t like it, but that doesn’t make it lying because you don’t like it.”

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Submitted by movie buff on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:03pm

Unlike most things that are bought and paid for

if voters make the mistake of picking Hillary Clinton, they won't be able to take her back for a refund.

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Submitted by 2andfro on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:22pm

Poor poor Hillary (figuratively, of course, because

Two Clintons. 41 years. $3 billion: Inside the Clinton Donor Network: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/).

P.S. We'll be housing a Sanders campaign staffer through our primary on May 17. One small contribution to the effort.

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Submitted by geebeebee on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:27pm

Very nice!

Glad to hear that!

Submitted by dervish on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:17pm

Hey G!

Glad to see you here, I've missed your diaries.

Here's something I stole from the GOS:

[video:https://youtu.be/XSRUmRYrRLY]

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Submitted by geebeebee on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:18pm

Thanks much!

Awesome video! Glad to see you here, too!

Submitted by Oldest Son Of A... on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:25pm

I think...

They call it "Transference."

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Submitted by WheninRome on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:20am

Actually I think they call it

Actually I think they call it projection.

Transference is the situation when people form a bond with a therapist and have feelings that are outside the professional relationship.

Submitted by FreakFlagFly on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:32pm

Sanders' campaign press release on the issue:

Press Release

Clinton’s Support from Oil and Gas Industry Lobbyists

March 31, 201

NEW YORK – Bernie Sanders’ campaign spokesman Michael Briggs issued the following statement on Thursday after Hillary Clinton said she was “sick of the Sanders’ campaign lying about” contributions she received from the fossil fuel industry:

“The truth is that Secretary Clinton has relied heavily on funds from lobbyists working for the oil, gas and coal industry. According to an analysis by Greenpeace, Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her super PAC have received more than $4.5 million from the fossil fuel industry. In fact, 57 oil, gas and coal industry lobbyists have directly contributed to Clinton’s campaign, with 43 of them contributing the maximum allowed for the primary. Eleven of those 53 lobbyists are working as bundlers and have raised over $1.1 million in bundled contributions between them.

“It’s no wonder that back in December Clinton refused to agree to stop accepting money from the fossil fuel industry when pressed at a town hall, saying, ‘I’m not going to do a litmus test on them.’

“If Secretary Clinton wants to discuss this and other important issues she should stop stalling and agree to a debate in New York before the April 19 primary election.”

Click here to read analyses by both Greenpeace and the Huffington Post on Clinton’s support from the oil, gas and coal industry, as well as details on her lobbyist bundlers.

Bernie 2016 PO Box 905 Burlington, VT 05402
Paid for by Bernie 2016 (not the billionaires)
© Bernie 2016

Submitted by lunachickie on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 9:18pm

The truth is also that

Clinton keeps giving Team Sanders opportunity to present facts. Does she really think people outside of hardcore partisans of hers don't get the part where she's not being "attacked"?

I do so love how they turned it back around to "if you would just debate me in New York...." again, though. She might want to stop doubling-down on temper tantrums and just keep her mouth shut to this end, particularly if she's actually going to chicken out of a debate against Sanders before that state's primary.

Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:43am

As so many others have pointed out

she is still running a campaign from the 90's. She does not seem to realize just how easy it is to debunk her lies anymore. That I find just stunning really - someone who's that good at manipulation for all these years just can't keep up with the fact that it is one hell of a lot harder to manipulate young people who do not just watch the MSM. And her little tirade DID make NBC "news" last night, which I only watch to see what BS "makes" the evening news. It made me almost proud of NBC, almost. But I realize it's just ratings for them.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:34pm

Her lips are moving

we all know the line, and she seems to be bringing it to life.

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Submitted by FreakFlagFly on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:42pm

HA!

(reposting this BRILLIANT comment from Sanders4president)

the_resident_skeptic: She holds a quantum super-position. Schrodinger's Candidate.

MellowArtichoke replies: On any given issue, she holds every position and their opposite simultaneously, until you ask her. Then, her wave function collapses and she takes a definite position. But that position is random and the probabilities can be computed by integrating the square of the magnitude of her wave function over the desired range of positions for which you want to know the probability.

SkepticalCactus: And it changes when we try to observe it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4crlck/hillary_cli...

Submitted by snoopydawg on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 9:04pm

Thanks for the laugh!

Shrodinger's Candidate.
What an excellent comment. I'd like that for a bumper sticker.
Okay, some one who does photoshop make a photo of that.
Boy if that doesn't fit her to a T, I don't know what does.

Submitted by Daenerys on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:07am

How's this?

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Submitted by Bernindownthehouse on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 6:39am

Need a laughing emoticon like Facebook recently added

HAHAHAHAHA

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Submitted by Daenerys on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 3:19am

I just realized

this is probably more what you meant:

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Submitted by wrbpmaui on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:09pm

I know right?

You can't nail jello to a wall.

Submitted by TheJerry on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:45pm

Hillary "Vizzini" Clinton

To quote the immortal Inigo Montoyo

HRC: "I am so sick, I am so sick of the Sanders campaign lying about me. I'm sick of it."

Inigo Montoyo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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Submitted by TheJerry on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 8:48pm

Also...Is it just me?

Or is HRC starting to come a little unglued lately?

It's almost like she's worried about something. Reminds me a lot of 2008 only more so.

Of course then she didn't have an FBI Investigation and indictment staring her in the face.

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Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:50am

No, it's not just you

LOL. She is worried, and she is PISSED. How DARE Sanders usurp her coronation. How DARE he bring up her own corruption. How DARE he stick to real issues. How DARE he motivate younger voters to see through her BS. "How damned DARE he and those damned kids" is what I see out of her right now.

And I'm sure that FBI thing is weighing on her, even if she is assured she'll never actually be indicted. She also HAS to know that Repugnants will pound all over that as soon as she is inaugurated. How DARE anyone mess up her and Bill's Legacy? How DARE they after she stuck around with that adulterous dog who humiliated her in public, worked so hard for the Foundation and her grandchild's legacy, waited all those years to gain power in her own name?

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Submitted by wrbpmaui on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:23pm

Just like her reaction

To that protester when confronted with something Shillary had done in the past. Called her " dear " as she was dismissing her question and security was throwing the protester out. What a piece of work.

Submitted by rwiley81925 on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 9:09pm

She's trying...

...really she is.

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Submitted by TheOtherMaven on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 8:25am

Very, very trying!

Bernie or Bust!

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Submitted by OLinda on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 9:10pm

Thank you, geebeebee! nt

Submitted by Lookout on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 9:42pm

the foundation

The arms sales and Clinton foundation interplay is really horrid. She attacks Bernie about gun control and here she was world arms dealer and chief ...while profiteering for their foundation. What can I say....

arms sales.jpg

And some of those speeches were to the Keystone XL pipeline company!

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Submitted by ppnortney on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:26pm

I can't see

how this isn't going to come back and bite her in the ass.

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Submitted by wrbpmaui on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:19pm

Oh

It's attached like a lamprey.

Submitted by wrbpmaui on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:26pm

(No subject)

Submitted by dervish on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:52pm

The pay-to-play schemes at the Foundation

are despicable. The usual game is someone donates to the Foundation, then gets a favor from Sec. Clinton.

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Submitted by ArizonaProgressive on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 9:47pm

Hillary may be sick

of being called out for taking fossil fuel money, but she sure as hell isn't too sick to keep taking it. How shameless do you have to be to talk about the issue of climate change on television, when that very day you took a check from someone who is directly responsible for the problem.

Submitted by lizzyh7 on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 11:55am

Well now, that is just what she HAS to do

not what she really WANTS to do, but she just HAS to because reality, pragmatism, blah, blah, blah. And really now, I am just sure, sure, sure she will really work on climate change, she just has to use their money to get INTO power you know. Now go on little peon, just get over yourself and let the adult in the room take care of that now.....
/s

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Submitted by ArizonaProgressive on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:30pm

I read your last line:

Now go on little peon, just get over yourself and let the adult in the room take care of that now

in Hillarys voice. Pretty funny.

Submitted by 2andfro on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:26pm

This is how Sanders himself, and his quick-response team,

catch dirt balls from the Clinton machine and send them back as fast balls over her home plate. He has a warm heart and generous spirit, but he's a scrappy street fighter. You can take the boy out Brooklyn (and into Vermont)....

My husband bought some pay-as-you-go phones and airtime for the Sanders office that just opened on our street, and there they are, those devoted campaign staffers, after 8 pm PDT, calling away.

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Submitted by RantingRooster on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:32pm

Thanks man!

(hands the person a beer (or non-alcoholic drink))

Just got back.

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Submitted by Shahryar on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:34pm

articles about Hillary are like dKos articles about Repubs

I think I might back out of these Hill-bashing diaries, even though I agree. Perhaps a few good pro-Bernie diaries would be useful. Well....a few more, that is, because we do have some.

Or maybe some pro-Jill Stein diaries. Or diaries about the Liverpool musicians of the early 1960s. Or some pro-Eugene Debs articles....thanks JayRaye, for your great series.

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:18pm

Most welcome Shahryar. Great speach by John O'Neill of the WFM

coming up in tomorrow's Hellraisers.

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Submitted by spinozasghost on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:35pm

Thank you

Thank you for writing the diaries/stories over at TOP. Those diaries gave me hope when many other voices were (disingenuously) attacking the facts that you provided. Your diaries/stories have helped me to be less cynical about the possibility of true left change in the populous, even if that means looking outside of the Dem party.

Submitted by geebeebee on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:19pm

Thanks for the kind words.

I'm glad you found your way over here! See you around!

Submitted by ZimInSeattle on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 10:48pm

I was about to post this over at that corporate blog

but I saved myself to post here: To Hillary and all her supporters, Please dial 1-800-WAAHHAHHHHHH! Project much? Hillary, I have a bargain for you. You quit telling lies about Bernie, and we’ll quit telling the truth about you, to paraphrase Harry Truman. I’m so f*cking sick of this shit from the lyingest of lying liars I want to puke. #Bernie2016 Because fuck this shit!

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Submitted by Lenzabi on Thu, 03/31/2016 - 11:44pm

Quick!

Since Hillary is obviously suffering from Butthurt, call her a Waahhhmbulance STAT!

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Submitted by KnotIookin on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 12:04am

Oohhhhh NOW I understand the trending hashtag #ImSoSick

Some very funny tweets
Some very biting
All very true!

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Submitted by Daenerys on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 1:55am

She's starting to sound more and more

like crazy Amy from Amy's Baking Company. (If you're unfamiliar with the episode of Kitchen Nightmares I'm referring to, look it up on YouTube; I promise you will not be disappointed!)

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Submitted by dervish on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:24am

LOL!

That's perfect! Yes, entitled, selfish, nasty and batshit crazy.

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Submitted by dervish on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 2:33am

Here's the relevant video from that episode

Start at about 4:50 or so if you want to skip the preliminaries.

[video:https://youtu.be/Wap4gVDvjLo]

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Submitted by ozarkwoman on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:01am

I figured out GOS but am

I figured out GOS but am stumped by TOP...can someone please help? Thank you in advance.

Submitted by Carrion on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 10:53am

TOP - The Other Place

TOP - The Other Place or .. WTF is going on place i suppose

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Submitted by Alison Wunderland on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:12am

The Other Place, ozarkwoman

It gets a lot of play because most of the members are outcast.

We'll settle down once the shock and separation anxiety wears off.

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Submitted by Carrion on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 10:57am

oops :)

Didn't see your TOP post

and on that note.. Rosario Dawson is breaking them hahah

It is very hard on the fee fee's if you are in the clutches of the one...

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 5:57am

"...an interesting day to say the least."

I’m the Greenpeace activist who asked Hillary Clinton to pledge to reject fossil fuel contributions at the Purchase NY campaign rally
by Eva Resnick-Day
March 31, 2016

(snip - bolding mine)

When we launched the campaign, Sanders signed the pledge immediately. Hillary’s campaign responded, but did not sign. Unsurprisingly, the Republican presidential candidates who won’t even admit that climate change is real, while real communities on the frontlines are already impacted, did not respond to our request.

While Greenpeace appreciated Hillary’s response, the first step a candidate can take to stop fossil fuels is to stop taking fossil fuel money. That money matters when we hear great things about climate in Clinton’s speeches, but want to be sure she’ll truly listen to the people when she is in office. For instance, she supports a Department of Justice investigation of ExxonMobil and yet she takes money from an Exxon lobbyist. That level of coziness makes voters like me who prioritize climate change uncomfortable.

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Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 6:25am

Anyway, regarding Clinton and

Anyway, regarding Clinton and the oil & gas industry: https://t.co/tM7KxI7ca7 https://t.co/EO7WLAIUrU

— Sebastian Jones (@sebastianojones) March 31, 2016

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Submitted by Carrion on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 10:52am

breaking bad

Hillary's corrupt and divisive ways ... All brought on by herself.. There is a enemy behind her every shoulder.. the mob is always just behind .. oh she wishes it was over , but its not... the longer it goes on, the more is exposed. The more vicious she will become, as to 2008. She will crack, and has. But whats with her young women hate??? why does she beat on them like that?? There is something not right.

Thank you GBB!

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Submitted by Bernindownthehouse on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 6:32am

"But whats with her young women hate??"

Clinton and her surrogates. There has to be a special place in hell for someone who would say that the deaths of 500,000 children due to malnutrition and lack of medicine brought on by sanctions against Iraq were "worth it."

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Submitted by mjsmeme on Fri, 04/01/2016 - 4:57pm

Its affluenza!

Submitted by Bernindownthehouse on Sat, 04/02/2016 - 6:29am

Busted!

Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

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