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HARTMANN TODAY CHASTISED THE SANDERS CAMPAIGN FOR NOT BEING PREPARED FOR HILLARY'S WEASELING AND NOT HAVING ANSWERS. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE: (I don't know how to link the actual ad which is in the NY Times story)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-ad-derides-companies-moving-overseas.html?ref=politics&_r=0
The Ad Campaign
By NICK CORASANITI MARCH 8, 2016
The Ad Campaign: Bam | Hillary Clinton Video by Hillary Clinton
Appealing to voters in Michigan, Hillary Clinton released Bam, an ad attacking American companies that move their headquarters to foreign countries to reap enormous tax savings.
On Screen
Drivers-eye footage shows abandoned warehouses as a guitar provides a bluesy backdrop for a gritty-voiced male narrator. O.K., you know the deal, he says. Factory turns out the lights, ships the jobs overseas.
Betcha didnt know these companies, though, he continues, as clips show buildings with the logos of Tyco, Weatherford International, Medtronic, McDermott International and C&J Energy Services, which variously changed their addresses to Ireland, Panama or Bermuda in maneuvers known as corporate inversions.
Nice, the narrator adds sneeringly. Then Bam! big tax breaks. C.E.O. gets a bonus; workers and Uncle Sam get squat. A cartoon shows an executive flipping through a stack of cash and stuffing it into a bag, workers walk out of a factory and Uncle Sam points his finger at the camera.
Mrs. Clinton is then shown shaking hands in a produce warehouse, speaking in front of a tractor and high-fiving on the rope line. Hillary says, you walk out on America, you pay an exit tax, the narrator says. And if you got tax dollars or a tax deal, youve got to give the money back. At that, our cartoon executive sees a giant vacuum suck his cash right up out of the bag.
The Message
As the ad says, Shes with us.
Fact Check
McDermott International completed one of the first corporate inversions, in 1982. Though the ad mentions Tycos 1997 inversion, it does not mention Tycos more recent union with Johnson Controls, which is benefiting from Tycos Irish address. As Mrs. Clintons critics have noted, the Tyco-Johnson Controls deal was negotiated in part by the firm of one of her campaigns financial bundlers, and Johnson Controls has donated heavily to the Clinton Global Initiative.
On broadcast and cable stations in Michigan.
Takeaway
None of the companies mentioned was based in Michigan, but the state has been hammered by job losses, and the commercial puts Mrs. Clinton squarely on the side of workers against greedy bosses right where her Democratic rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, has long positioned himself.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Sanders is just yelling about it.
snowy owl
(2,145 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)snowy owl
(2,145 posts)None of the companies mentioned was based in Michigan... lie by omission and misleading.
The Tyco-Johnson Controls deal was negotiated in part by the firm of one of her campaigns financial bundlers, and Johnson Controls has donated heavily to the Clinton Global Initiative. (She criticizes Tyco for moving to Ireland while Tyco is tied to her contributors) This must be one of those times Hillary shamed the company but took their money anyway. Disingenuous?
So, the state has been hammered by job losses, and the commercial puts Mrs. Clinton squarely on the side of workers against greedy bosses right where her Democratic rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, has long positioned himself. This means she is deceitful and presenting herself to be something she's not.
But Hillary voters will condone anything I guess. I'll be glad to interpret other posts for you if you have a hard time understanding them.