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.
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February 6th, 2016 at 11:33AM
Yes, how dare she. Good girls provide their labor for free. What is she, some sort of a man to want to make money?
February 6th, 2016 at 11:38AM
sure seems like fair market value…
February 6th, 2016 at 11:45AM
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11289766/1/wall-street-fixer-goes-to-washington.html
February 6th, 2016 at 1:16PM
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.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:04PM
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.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:23PM
Alan, that’s the amorality and Sanders didn’t go that route.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:55PM
Yet.
February 6th, 2016 at 2:56PM
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.
February 6th, 2016 at 3:12PM
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.
February 6th, 2016 at 3:54PM
Well, he can probably score some similar points against the Republicans as they go the Superpac route.
February 6th, 2016 at 4:51PM
AA isn’t Hillary claiming that this was before she was running?
February 7th, 2016 at 2:46PM
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.
February 8th, 2016 at 10:16AM
Hmm…as I recall, it was the godlet Obama himself who blew public financing of elections to smithereens. Not that I mind.