{"id":147812,"date":"2015-05-02T01:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=147812"},"modified":"2015-05-02T01:35:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T01:35:24","slug":"how-the-establishment-is-trying-to-deep-six-sanderss-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-the-establishment-is-trying-to-deep-six-sanderss-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Establishment Is Trying to Deep-Six Sanders’s Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

(RINF<\/a>) – The Hillary Clinton campaign is now focusing its public pitch at liberal fools to get them to ignore her record and believe her words. Here are examples:<\/span><\/p>\n

The NBC \u2018News\u2019 political analyst (and perhaps a future President Clinton\u2019s Press Secretary) Chuck Todd posted, on May 1st, the\u00a0following<\/span><\/a>\u00a0item, under the heading \u201cWhy Bernie Sanders Likely Helps Hillary Clinton\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c*** Why Bernie Sanders likely helps Hillary:\u00a0Bernie Sanders\u2019\u00a0official entrance into the 2016 presidential race is\u00a0most likely a\u00a0good outcome for Hillary Clinton. Why? He will elevate\u00a0many of\u00a0the issues that Clinton and the entire Democratic Party want to\u00a0discuss during the primary season (income inequality, curtailing\u00a0the\u00a0role of big money in presidential politics, climate change).\u00a0And he\u2019ll\u00a0do so as someone who isn\u2019t interested in scoring\u00a0political points \u2014\u00a0especially in the form of negative attacks \u2014\u00a0against Hillary. Hillary\u2019s\u00a0Harlem (err Brooklyn) Globetrotters\u00a0now has its Washington (err Vermont)\u00a0Generals. The question\u00a0we have is whether it\u2019s enough competition to up\u00a0Hillary\u2019s\u00a0game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The major \u2018news\u2019 media are pressing hard this line, that Hillary needs only to speak her mind truthfully, and Democratic voters will then know that she supports their interests and not the interests of the billionaires who are pouring enormous cash into her campaign coffers,\u00a0such as:<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Robert L. Borosage (who is paid by the \u2018Institute for America\u2019s Future,\u2019 and by the ‘Campaign for America\u2019s Future,\u2019 and by \u2018Progressive Majority,\u2019 and by The Nation<\/i>, and by other aristocratic liberal front organizations) headlined at (one such front) Huffington Post, similarly on April 30th,\u00a0“Hillary: Time to Step Up on\u00a0the Trade Deal,\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and he opened:<\/span><\/p>\n

“It’s time for Hillary Clinton to take a position on the Trans-Pacific\u00a0Partnership (TPP) agreement and the fast track\u00a0authority designed to\u00a0ramrod it through the Congress. Hillary\u00a0has been non-committal to date,\u00a0with many assuming she will\u00a0eventually support the president whom she\u00a0served as\u00a0Secretary of State. But now the pressure to take a stand is growing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Borosage then said that Hillary is needed by the Party now in order to help defeat what he calls (this time with real, not fake, honesty) \u201cThe President\u2019s Corporate Offensive.\u201d In other words, he\u2019s actually saying: the pro-Wall-Street \u2018Democrat\u2019 Hillary is needed in order to help defeat<\/i> the pro-Wall-Street \u2018Democratic\u2019 President\u2019s trade deals.<\/span><\/p>\n

How stupid and faithful (to Hillary) do these people think Democratic voters are?<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these liberal aristocratic hacks are publicly urging Clinton to say things that her entire prior history proves that she doesn\u2019t really believe.\u00a0They are urging her to lie (which, of course, she will do anyway, as soon as the time is \u2018appropriate\u2019).<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 26th, I headlined\u00a0\u201cWhat\u2019s Obama Up to, with His TPP & TTIP?\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and I presented both Obama\u2019s and Hillary\u2019s actual records on both NAFTA and the now-proposed TPP & TTIP, and what I documented there is that both of these politicians talked a storm against those deals while they were running for the Democratic nomination but then turned around 180 degrees and pushed the deal through once they gained the power they had purchased with that campaign cash. In other words: both Obama and Hillary have proven track-records on this, and both are proven liars in exactly the same way: they sucker the liberal masses while seeking their Party\u2019s nomination, but then serve their own financial backers\u2019 interests once in power and thus they return the favor to their financial backers that those backers had purchased while the \u2018liberal\u2019 poliitician was campaigning to win those liberal votes by lying to those liberal voters.<\/span><\/p>\n

How much more will liberals put up with these lies from these double-crossing liars who are actually nothing more than agents for the aristocracy? For the evidence that it\u2019s that crass, just click on that last link above. It\u2019s raw \u2013 exactly what the Republican \u2018Justices\u2019 on the U.S. Supreme Court wanted when they ruled that political campaign contributions are First-Amendment-protected \u2018free speech,\u2019 especially for corporations and (the largely defunct) labor unions (the latter so as for those conservative \u2018Justices\u2019 to \u2018prove\u2019 that they\u2019re \u2018non-partisan\u2019). It\u2019s simply one con on top of another, ad-nauseum.<\/span><\/p>\n

It might even have gotten now to the \u201cquid pro quo\u201d level of outright bribes that those \u2018Justices\u2019 themselves have said exceed the bounds of \u2018protected free speech.\u2019 See this<\/span><\/a> for the evidence on that. But who cares? Do those Republican \u2018Justices,\u2019 even? Aristocrats traditionally prefer to engage in the other kinds of corruption, anyway. If what Bill and Hillary Clinton are doing is extending down to that \u2018lower class\u2019 corruption, who cares, at this stage, about those \u2018finer\u2019 points, of such judge-made laws?<\/span><\/p>\n

So: turn the TV off, and end your newspaper and magazine subscriptions, or else continue to pay the aristocrats who receive that money to deceive you with it. That\u2019s how rotten things have now become. As a news-consumer, one must either go on strike, or get struck. That\u2019s what the public\u2019s \u2018choice\u2019 remains, in this judge-made \u2018democracy.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0of\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse (RINF) – The Hillary Clinton campaign is now focusing its public pitch at liberal fools to get them to ignore her record and believe her words. Here are examples: The NBC \u2018News\u2019 political analyst (and perhaps a future President Clinton\u2019s Press Secretary) Chuck Todd posted, on May 1st, the\u00a0following\u00a0item, under the heading \u201cWhy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":147813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[937,115,30,32,951,96,29,954,526,949,49,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-147812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-937","10":"tag-barack-obama","11":"tag-big-brother","12":"tag-cia","13":"tag-clinton","14":"tag-cover-up","15":"tag-democrats","16":"tag-hillary","17":"tag-propaganda","18":"tag-sanders","19":"tag-usa-news","20":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}