Clinton on Fracking, or, Another Reason to Avoid Wikileaks Indexing
The quote in the tweet is false.
Politico supplies the correct quotation in its post:
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“Bernie Sanders is getting lots of support from the most radical environmentalists because he’s out there every day bashing the Keystone pipeline. And, you know, I’m not into it for that,” Clinton told the unions, according to the transcript. “My view is, I want to defend natural gas. … I want to defend fracking under the right circumstances.”
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I’m guessing that “…under the right circumstances.” must have pushed Wikileaks too close to the 140 character barrier.
Ditto for the Wikileaks mis-quote of: “Get a life.”
Which reported as in the tweet, appears to refer to unbridled fracking.
Not so in the Politico post:
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“I’m already at odds with the most organized and wildest” of the environmental movement, Clinton told building trades unions in September 2015, according to a transcript of the remarks apparently circulated by her aides. “They come to my rallies and they yell at me and, you know, all the rest of it. They say, ‘Will you promise never to take any fossil fuels out of the earth ever again?’ No. I won’t promise that. Get a life, you know.”
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Doesn’t read quite the same way does it?
I supposed once you start lying it’s really hard to stop. Clinton is a good example of that and Wikileaks should not follow her example.
It’s hard to spot these lies because Wikileaks isn’t indexing the attachments.
You can search all day for “defend fracking,” “get a life” (by Clinton) and you will come up empty (at least as of today).
So that you don’t have to search for: 20150909 Transcript | Building Trades Union (Keystone XL) at Wikileaks – Podesta Emails, I have produced a PDF version of that attachment, Building-Trades-Union-Clinton-Sept-09-2015.pdf (my naming), for your viewing pleasure.