Hillary Clinton Accused of Using “Static Noise Machine” at Colorado Fundraiser

Guess @HillaryClinton campaign dsn’t want reporters to hear fundraiser speech. Turned on a static noise machine pointed at us when she spoke

— Stan Bush (@StanBushTV) April 8, 2016

Typical Clinton shadiness. Gawker is reporting the following:

Last week, a local Denver journalist named Stan Bush reported that Hillary Clinton’s campaign appeared to be using a hidden static noise machine to prevent reporters and other passerby from hearing the candidate’s stump speech at an outdoor fundraiser held at the private residence of Colorado’s governor, John Hickenlooper. The general allegation hung in odd kind of limbo, however, since Bush managed to record the machine’s (inherently indiscriminate) sound but was unable to photograph the actual device, while Clinton’s press shop ignored reporters’ attempts to confirm the machine’s existence. Meanwhile, the underlying question went unanswered: Why was Clinton using a static noise machine in the first place?

Following our write-up, a Clinton donor who attended this specific fundraiser told Gawker that he personally witnessed the the static noise machine being operated: “I can confirm without any doubt that there was a white noise machine set up on the perimeter to prevent the public and reporters from hearing what Hillary Clinton said.” He did not know, however, what in Clinton’s speech, as he remembers it, would have inspired such a precautionary measure. (The same donor, who provided a copy of an invitation to the fundraiser bearing his name, asked not to be identified because of his involvement in local Democratic politics.) 

The machine, the donor said, consisted of what appeared to be three separate speakers hooked up to a small controller. “They were big stereo speakers, like the kind people had in their houses in the Seventies,” he said. “They were connected to a box about the size of a toaster, with the three speakers placed around the perimeter of the yard. They were in the bushes—literally in the hedges.” 

“I saw it as more of a climate of control—of being fearful that something might slip out,” the donor told Gawker.

So how does this differ from Sanders? Here’s how, from the Huffington Post:

Though the Sanders campaign has also held fundraisers at private residences, all of them have been open to some press coverage, Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs told The Huffington Post. “There have been three fundraisers in Los Angeles at private homes,” Briggs said in an email. “Two were covered by The Hollywood Reporter and local press. One was covered by a pool reporter, John Wagner of The Washington Post. In that instance, as other pooled events, we distributed the unedited report to our entire press list.”

Here’s what the sound machine looked like courtesy of Denver reporter, Stan Bush. Mind you, this was outside the home of Colorado governor, John Hickenlooper. 

Clarify – we’re across street of private @HillaryClinton fundraiser. “Static noise” turnd on aftr band/before speech pic.twitter.com/4up0EMEwTD — Stan Bush (@StanBushTV) April 8, 2016

I’d say this image perfectly sums up Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and what she really thinks of the unwashed masses.

For more on banker puppet, neocon warmonger, Hillary Clinton, see:

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Don’t forget the New York debate tonight.

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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