NPR and CBS do their best to cover for Clinton on fossil fuel money.

[Karmadillo]

The article below covers NPR. Last night, I watched CBS superimpose the Center for Responsive Politics figures for Clinton ($307,561) over a Sanders interview--ignoring the money given by fossil fuel figures to her $uper PAC and the Clinton$' foundation. Imagine how irritated the media tools of the oligarchy are at having to obfuscate on behalf of Clinton so late in a campaign that was intended to be a coronation.

http://fair.org/home/did-sanders-lie-about-clintons-oil-money-npr-factchecker-cant-be-bothered-to-check/

Did Sanders Lie About Clinton’s Oil Money? NPR Factchecker Can’t Be Bothered to Check
By Jim Naureckas

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But what about “lobbyists working for the oil, gas and coal industry”—isn’t that what Sanders is supposed to be lying about, to the point of making Hillary Clinton sick? To give him credit, Overby is good enough to tell us what he isn’t telling us:

The industry total here doesn’t include lobbyists with fossil-fuel clients, and it doesn’t do what the Republican opposition research group America Rising did: include corporate money to the Clinton Foundation. The presidential campaign cannot raise corporate money.

Well—why not include lobbyists with fossil-fuel clients, since that is what the Sanders campaign, like other critics, was explicitly talking about? According to Greenpeace, Clinton has gotten “$1,465,610 in bundled and direct donations from lobbyists currently registered as lobbying for the fossil fuel industry.” That’s quite a bit more string.

And corporations can’t give directly to campaigns, but they can give to Super PACs that support campaigns. Greenpeace cites “$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.”

That works out to $5 million altogether. It’s hard to say what the going rate for buying a presidential candidate is, but unlike Overby, I wouldn’t refer to Clinton’s fossil-fuel-industry contributions as “paltry.”

And even though Overby warns you away from looking at the Clinton Foundation—because it’s the sort of thing a “Republican opposition research group” would do—you don’t need to go to a middleman; the Clinton Foundation lists its donors on its website. There you can learn that the Foundation has received at least $10 million from Saudi Arabia; at least $5 million from Kuwait, as well as from oil-refining billionaire Mohammed H. Al-Amoudi; at least $1 million from ExxonMobil, natural gas-producer Cheniere Energy, Qatar, Oman, United Arab Emirates, the Dubai Foundation, “Friends of Saudi Arabia,” etc.

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[DanTex]

1. There's nothing to cover for. Bernie lied. And he's getting some deserved criticism for it.

[Karmadillo]

2. The FAIR article suggests otherwise. Where does it go wrong?

[DanTex]

3. The question is, what does it get right? Nothing. There are no corporate donations,

these are all donations from individuals. Calling it "industry money" in order to create the appearance of corruption is flatly dishonest.

[Karmadillo]

4. Hillary (2008 version) has denounced your specious reasoning. She was outraged by $200,000

from executives and employees of oil companies taken by President Obama. She pointed out how this kind of money influenced the decisions politicians make. Imagine how outraged Hillary (2008 version) would be at the $5,000,000 Hillary (2016 version) has taken from executives and employees of the fossil fuel industry. If $200,000 got Obama to vote for the Bush-Cheney energy bill, what will Hillary (2016 version) do to repay the fossil fuel industry for its $5,000,000?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/01/politics/hillary-clinton-oil-gas-donations-obama/

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n response to the confrontation, Nick Merrill, Clinton's spokesman, said the candidate "has not taken a dollar from oil and gas industry PACs or corporations." Clinton's campaign, in fact, has not received any money directly from oil and gas companies, as that would violate election law.

But during her 2008 presidential campaign against Obama, Clinton ran a 30-second ad hitting the then senator for the same thing.

"You've seen the ad," says a narrator before cutting to a separate ad of Obama saying, "I don't take one from oil companies."

"No candidate does. It has been against the law for 100 years," says the narrator. "But Barack Obama accepted $200,000 from executives and employees of oil companies. Every gallon of gas takes over three bucks from your pocket. But Obama voted for the Bush-Cheney energy bill that puts $6 billion in the pocket of big oil."

The narrator adds, "Hillary voted against it. She will make oil companies pay to crate the new jobs in clean energy America needs."

Clinton concludes the ad by saying, "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approve this message."

[Karmadillo]

5. Maybe Hillary (2008 version) will demand Hillary (2016 version) apologize to Sanders. She must be

outraged at how Hillary (2016 version) has allowed herself to be bought by the fossil fuel industry.