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The $55,000 Anecdote

These speeches, I bet, are largely just a string of anecdotes by Clinton.

Figure around fifteen minutes at the beginning for greetings, jokes, thank yous. That leaves forty-five minutes worth of speech. Which (if my math is correct, which it never is) means Hillary Clinton told four to five anecdotes at roughly $55,000 apiece.

Margaret Soltan, February 6, 2016 10:32AM
Posted in: democracy

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13 Responses to “The $55,000 Anecdote”

  1. Clarissa Says:

    Yes, how dare she. Good girls provide their labor for free. What is she, some sort of a man to want to make money?

  2. dmf Says:

    sure seems like fair market value…

  3. dmf Says:

    http://www.thestreet.com/story/11289766/1/wall-street-fixer-goes-to-washington.html

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Clarissa: I don’t see this as a feminist issue. She made far more than almost any man who gives speeches. I see this in political/moral terms, as do many people, which is why this issue is not going away.

  5. Alan Allport Says:

    What we need is fully publicly funded election campaigns. Until we have them, I don’t really see much point in pearl-clutching about specific acts of fundraising. Everyone knows the current rules of the game and everyone has to play by them.

  6. Bernard Carroll Says:

    Alan, that’s the amorality and Sanders didn’t go that route.

  7. Alan Allport Says:

    Yet.

  8. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Alan: No pearls here. Not everyone plays by the rules of the game – as Bernard Carroll point out, not only does Sanders not play by them, but he’s not doing at all badly not playing by them. Some forms of fundraising are liabilities, and playing the game is exactly what Hillary tells us she’s not doing.

  9. Alan Allport Says:

    It is easy enough to be virtuous/when nothing tempts you to stray. I’ll wait to be impressed after he goes up against some serious Republican Superpac money.

  10. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Well, he can probably score some similar points against the Republicans as they go the Superpac route.

  11. dmf Says:

    AA isn’t Hillary claiming that this was before she was running?

  12. Bill R Says:

    From Catch-22. Yossarian is advising scam operator Milo to bribe the government.

    “How will I know who to bribe”, asks Milo.

    “Oh don’t worry about that, just make the bribe big enough and they’ll find you. Just do everything right out in the open. Don’t act guilty or ashamed.”

    Clinton speechifying is a variant on this. They hang out a sign “Influence for Sale” rather than “Bribes Available”. But they’ve got the essential idea. Make the bribe big enough and do it right out in the open, where everybody can see.

  13. theprofessor Says:

    Hmm…as I recall, it was the godlet Obama himself who blew public financing of elections to smithereens. Not that I mind.

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