{"id":130217,"date":"2014-07-15T01:36:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T01:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=130217"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:34:05","slug":"hillary-clintons-corporatist-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/hillary-clintons-corporatist-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton\u2019s Corporatist Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><em>Jeff Cohen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">In 1992, a 44-year-old attorney made the following remarkable assertion: \u201cFor goodness\u2019 sake, you can\u2019t be a lawyer if you don\u2019t represent banks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">The attorney was Hillary Clinton. She\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0089c4;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/03\/17\/us\/the-1992-campaign-hillary-clinton-defends-her-conduct-in-law-firm.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1992\/03\/17\/us\/the-1992-campaign-hillary-clinton-defends-her-conduct-in-law-firm.html\">made the statement<\/a>\u00a0to journalists during her husband\u2019s first campaign for president. Her legal representation of a shady savings and loan bank while working at a top corporate law firm in Arkansas (and her firm\u2019s relations with then-Gov. Bill Clinton) had\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0089c4;\" title=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/extra-online-articles\/whitewater-under-the-bridge\/\" href=\"http:\/\/fair.org\/extra-online-articles\/whitewater-under-the-bridge\/\">erupted briefly<\/a>\u00a0into a campaign controversy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130218 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hillaryclinton-mike.jpg\" alt=\"hillaryclinton-mike\" width=\"432\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hillaryclinton-mike.jpg 432w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hillaryclinton-mike-75x42.jpg 75w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hillaryclinton-mike-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/hillaryclinton-mike-383x215.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mainstream pundits rarely mentioned Hillary Clinton\u2019s extraordinary statement about lawyers and banks. Instead, they obsessed over and immortalized a remark she made minutes later \u2014 her feminist appeal: \u201cI suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was pursue my profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of elite media didn\u2019t make an issue of Clinton\u2019s bank comment probably because it set off no alarm bells. It sounded right to them, non-controversial, almost a truism.<\/p>\n<p>Having been an attorney briefly myself, my reaction upon hearing her comment was: \u201cI know nearly a hundred lawyers, but not one represents a bank.\u201d My lawyer friends worked for unions, tenants, immigrants, indigent criminal defendants, civil liberties, civil rights, battered women, prisoners on death row, etc. (Which explains why I\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0089c4;\" title=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/archive\/component\/k2\/item\/67698:jeff-cohen--inside-tv-news-we-were-silenced-by-the-drums-of-war#14051084973531&amp;action=collapse_widget&amp;id=2514649\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/archive\/component\/k2\/item\/67698:jeff-cohen--inside-tv-news-we-were-silenced-by-the-drums-of-war#14051084973531&amp;action=collapse_widget&amp;id=2514649\">wasn\u2019t a great fit<\/a>\u00a0in corporate media.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2014\/07\/14\/hillary-clintons-corporatist-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Cohen In 1992, a 44-year-old attorney made the following remarkable assertion: \u201cFor goodness\u2019 sake, you can\u2019t be a lawyer if you don\u2019t represent banks.\u201d The attorney was Hillary Clinton. She\u00a0made the statement\u00a0to journalists during her husband\u2019s first campaign for president. Her legal representation of a shady savings and loan bank while working at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}