Where’s the “No shit, I was there” crowd?

[madamesilverspurs]

Where’s the “No shit, I was there” crowd? Those speeches weren’t delivered to empty rooms. At the very least, given the number of speeches, there were hundreds of listeners, if not thousands. Those numbers include event staff, workers with no vested career interest in the subject matter; they’re always there, unobtrusively keeping glasses and plates filled; they aren’t blind or deaf, just ask Mitt Romney.

So how come no film has emerged, no tape has surfaced, no program has breathlessly aired on Fox exposing the nefarious content of at least one speech, especially in an age when tabloids pay ridiculous sums for such tales? Again, where are all those people, and why aren’t they all over the media?

[liberal N proud]

1. It's all in those emails

The ones that will be released just before Super Tuesday

[NurseJackie]

2. It's a complete mystery. It's almost as if they don't exist!

But surely they do... someone's just waiting for the "right moment".

[Martin Eden]

7. You might be right.

Timing is everything when it comes to something like that.

On the other hand, besides the Romney video, how many other politically damaging videos like that have surfaced of candidates in presidential campaigns? Of all the hundreds or thousands of private speeches to political donors, that's the only one with that kind of impact I know of.

Perhaps such videos are not nearly as ubiquitous as you may think.

Hillary should be proud to release the transcripts of those speeches if they validate her promises to reign in Wall Street abuses. In fact, if videos exist, have none fallen into the hands of Hillary supporters who would like to prove Hillary hasn't been catering to the interests that pay her so much money for her speeches to them?

[MaggieD]

3. That's what I have said - and it's common sense

And that is precisely why no one but Hillary haters gives a shit about transcripts of speeches.

[Punkingal]

14. I give a shit about them and I'm not a Hillary hater.

[Luminous Animal]

4. Well, that's it. They never happened.

[Octafish]

8. Problem solved!

Like welfare and poverty.

[whatchamacallit]

5. Right, "thousands" of low level and unbiased observers lol

Conversely by your logic, why haven't they come forward to tell us how innocuous the speeches were?

[Senator Tankerbell]

6. Here is one article that quotes an attendee

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/clinton-speeches-218969

I think the reason other attendees aren't coming forward is because a lot of them support Hillary so they don't want to hurt her campaign.

[tazkcmo]

9. Why release them now?

Why not save them for the GE after the Democrats snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and nominate Sec Clinton?

[PowerToThePeople]

10. I am sure the closed door banker meetings

were vetted well.

[Bjornsdotter]

11. For me....

...the silence says everything. No attendee has stepped up to say that the speeches were innocuous.

Sometimes silence screams the truth.

[Arazi]

12. Was just going to say that - their silence is very damning

[NV Whino]

13. What if she didn't give speeches at all?

What if there are no transcripts? What if that money just mysteriously appeared in her bank account with a "speech fee" label on it?

[Blue_In_AK]

15. If I were the Republican opposition

and had access to those transcripts or video evidence, I would hold onto it until after the conventions when disclosure would do the most damage in the general election.

[msongs]

16. the all powerful hillary has vanished all traces of memory from those who attended lol nt

[Agschmid]

17. I was there for one her paid speeches. Not to a bank, but we paid 225k all the same.

It was a good speech, nothing really all that exciting to be honest.

She mocked out CEO a bit, said it should really be a woman by now (it still isn't)... But that was really the only big line. She was very motivational for us and I enjoyed it.

We have tape of it, maybe not the whole thing I'm not sure but it's on our internal network... And no I'm not about to post it. I like my job.

[Doctor_J]

18. So you are saying there were no speeches?

So Mrs Clinton is saying she will eventually release transcripts of speeches that never actually happened? I thought conspiracy theories weren't allowed in gdp

[madamesilverspurs]

19. Oh, please.

Never even suggested such a thing. Good lord.