Goldman Sachs is evil. Hillary Clinton is corrupt. Goldman Sachs paid her to do their bidding. Quid pro quo plain and simple. A nice little narrative that fits so nicely to a certain world view… But is it true?
Check this out.
It was there the whole time but nobody ever even took the time to go look for it. As they say facts are stubborn things. Anyway here’s the link and it’s a doozy— follow this link and you will find a list of names of all the people Goldman Sachs will buy and pay for in just this year alone—
http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/talks-at-gs/index.html?session=all
I’ll give you a moment to check out the horror and then you can come back.
Are you back? Can you believe what you just saw? Are you shuddering?
I mean who knew that John Lewis, Deepak Chopra, Tom Brokaw, Cornell Brooks, Muhammad Yunnis, Yao Ming etc. etc. etc. were all bought and paid for shills?
As a point of disclosure I used to work for a large company and these types of series are common. There main function as far as I can tell was to make us employees feel important. We heard many world views and admittedly learned a lot. The experience made me just ever so slightly not want to leave and go work for a competitor. There was a whole branch of the company that was responsible for these types of events that was separate from the business side. They did things like arrange holiday parties, outings and yes speakers to talk to us. One time Smashmouth performed at our yearly holiday party. I can only wonder the what quid pro quo arrangements were and I bet even a sorry rock band as them made lots of money for the privilege. Maybe even as much as Hillary.
My guess is anybody who worked for a large company can share similar stories. As an aside did you know that you can get the Eagles, Elton John even Beyonce to play your birthday party? It’ll cost you but if you are in demand people will pay. It’s how things are.
So in summation Hillary Clinton, Carlyn Stern and Ava Duvernay all go the opportunity to speak in front of an influential audience and got paid for it. Judge it however you want but judge it within context is all I ask.
Thanks for listening!