How is “businesses don’t create jobs” shorthand for “businesses create jobs”? We hate to say it, but it’s probably time to re-familiarize ourselves with “Clinton-speak” — for example, what the meaning of “is” is.
As Twitchy reported, Hillary Clinton told an audience in Massachusetts last week, “Don’t let anybody tell you that, you know, it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.” Today, though, Clinton admitted she had “short handed” the point and asked for an opportunity to make her point “absolutely clear.”
Hillary mops it up: "I short handed this point the other day so let me absolutely clear about what I've been saying for a couple of decades"
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/TPCarney/status/526766407670046721
According to BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer, this is what Clinton said today at a campaign event for New York Rep. Sean Maloney: “Our economy grows when businesses and entrepreneurs create good-paying jobs here in America and workers and families are empowered to build from the bottom up and the middle out — not when we hand out tax breaks for corporations that outsource jobs or stash their profits overseas.”
Yeah, that’s pretty much the same thing.
Sounds like someone gave ol' Hil the business…. @CuffyMeh @Mediaite
— GadsdenJazz (@GadsdenJazz) October 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/JammieWF/status/526831952431960065
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/526830860222627841
@jtLOL @maggiepolitico Its called "Libspeak" & its supported by the MSM!
— 2BarkingWesties (@2BarkingWesties) October 27, 2014
https://twitter.com/worthyjoe/status/526835657520738304
@jtLOL @maggiepolitico First it was business cooling, then it was business warming, now it's just business change.
— Hugh Munn-Bean (@TedInATL) October 27, 2014
@jtLOL @maggiepolitico When Obama does it, we say he "went off teleprompter". What's it called when Hillary does it?
— Open Up America ???? (@fiscalconserve) October 27, 2014
@jtLOL @maggiepolitico Dog whistles, dog whistles everywhere. Although this is the opposite.
— That Dubious Cat™, Social Distancing Champion (@ThatDubiousCat) October 27, 2014
@jtLOL @maggiepolitico She meant to say that at a pitch only Liberals can hear.
— That Dubious Cat™, Social Distancing Champion (@ThatDubiousCat) October 27, 2014
@CuffyMeh @Mediaite her speechwriters reminded her that those businesses that pay $300K for a speech create THEIR jobs
— kbdabear (@kbdabear) October 27, 2014
Hillary now says she didn't mean to say corporations and businesses don't create jobs. What, did Goldman Sachs call and ask for a refund?
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) October 27, 2014
@CuffyMeh @Mediaite Corporations & businesses don't create jobs – political connections create jobs. #ReadyForHillary
— Jason (@jasonhsv) October 27, 2014
#Hillary "clarifies jobs comments." Clarifies? More like changes the subject. http://t.co/Hs2jPK0iOB
— Gordon Deal (@GordonDeal) October 27, 2014
The biggest difference between Hillary's jobs gaffe and Romney's 47% gaffe is how the media treats them.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) October 27, 2014
Yep.
https://twitter.com/JeffreyPMeyer/status/526408764308848641
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