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edhopper

(33,543 posts) Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:45 PM Aug 2016

So the whole Clinton Foundation "scandal"

seems to be that people don't understand the difference between donations to a well regarded charity, from which the Clinton get no money (and in fact give quite a bit of their own) and contributions to her campaign. And this includes members or the Press.

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So the whole Clinton Foundation "scandal" (Original Post) edhopper Aug 2016 OP

Bill Gates donated to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary met him, yortsed snacilbuper Aug 2016 #1

These so-called members of the press are a disgrace. They are ignorant, mislead and still_one Aug 2016 #2

The entire press is not composed of disgraceful liars. read this: Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2016 #8

I would say a majority are. Appreciate the link, thanks still_one Aug 2016 #13

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They have never taken a dime edhopper Aug 2016 #4

You have zero clue what you are talking about. nt DURHAM D Aug 2016 #5

With an opinion of a totally above-board charity being "shady" I don't think you'll make it here... Jeffersons Ghost Aug 2016 #6

Don't forget the Chinese. DURHAM D Aug 2016 #7

You've got to be kidding. LenaBaby61 Aug 2016 #10

somebody needs to start doing an analysis between this and the swiftboating Gabi Hayes Aug 2016 #9

THIS ^^^^^ LenaBaby61 Aug 2016 #11

it's disgusting that neither gene lyons or joe conason are getting ANY airtime Gabi Hayes Aug 2016 #12

yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)

1. Bill Gates donated to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary met him,

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:49 PM

Aug 2016

I'm sure he doesn't need any favors from her.

still_one

(92,110 posts)

2. These so-called members of the press are a disgrace. They are ignorant, mislead and

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 09:52 PM

Aug 2016

misrepresent intentionally, and in most of their worthless shallow lives will have accomplished very little

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)

8. The entire press is not composed of disgraceful liars. read this:

Reply to still_one (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:08 PM

Aug 2016

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028120584

still_one

(92,110 posts)

13. I would say a majority are. Appreciate the link, thanks

Reply to Jeffersons Ghost (Reply #8)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:36 PM

Aug 2016

Response to edhopper (Original post)

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edhopper

(33,543 posts)

4. They have never taken a dime

Reply to Post removed (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:01 PM

Aug 2016

from the charity. The AP story is full of inuendo and half truths.

The charity has nexer been anything but highly rated and well run.

DURHAM D

(32,607 posts)

5. You have zero clue what you are talking about. nt

Reply to Post removed (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:04 PM

Aug 2016

Jeffersons Ghost

(15,235 posts)

6. With an opinion of a totally above-board charity being "shady" I don't think you'll make it here...

Reply to Post removed (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:05 PM

Aug 2016

Try Free Republic, after you get ignored and attacked at Democratic Underground. I wonder if they still gossip about me in Freeperville. BTW, what do you think of Trump refusing to reveal his tax returns and his connections with the Mafia, in the USA and organized crime in Russia?

DURHAM D

(32,607 posts)

7. Don't forget the Chinese.

Reply to Jeffersons Ghost (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:07 PM

Aug 2016

NEVER forget the Chinese.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)

10. You've got to be kidding.

Reply to Post removed (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:32 PM

Aug 2016

"If a Repub did that, this board, the media, and the whole country would be going ape shit bananas."

You must have forgotten about the Cheney Energy Task force created by Executive Order on January 29, 2001, that was chaired by Vice President Richard Cheney which the so-called "Liberal media" DIDN'T really go that ape shit bananas over, and there was a MEGA TON OF THERE, THERE, making what the Clinton Foundation is allegedly guilty of look like a walk in the park.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

9. somebody needs to start doing an analysis between this and the swiftboating

Reply to edhopper (Original post)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:13 PM

Aug 2016

media role in this becomes more important than starting the swiftboat affair, because they're doing more to INITIATE it than they did in 04. at least then, they had a sugar daddy to seed the media frenzy. the MSM is doing more of a job here similar to the one they did during whitewater, led, at the onset, by Jeff Gerth and the NYT

Fools for Scandal

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/whitewater/lyonsarticle.html

So how did we get here? Well, at the expense of shocking you, dear reader, it all began with the New York Times--specifically with a series of much-praised articles by investigative reporter Jeff Gerth: groundbreaking, exhaustively researched, but not particularly fair or balanced stories that combine a prosecutorial bias and the art of tactical omission to insinuate all manner of sin and skulduggery. Accompanied by a series of indignant editorials, Gerth's work helped create a full-scale media clamor last December for a special prosecutor.

Testimony in recent Senate hearings showed that the Resolution Trust Corporation's Whitewater investigation began in direct response to the Times coverage; the hearings themselves resulted in large part from the Clinton Administration's panicky reaction to reporters' queries about the RTC probe, Gerth's among them. Absent the near-talismanic role of the New York Times in American journalism, the whole complex of allegations and suspicions subsumed under the word "Whitewater" might never have made it to the front page, much less come to dominate the national political dialogue for months at a time.

It is all the more disturbing, then, that most of the insinuations in Gerth's reporting are either highly implausible or demonstrably false.

LenaBaby61

(6,974 posts)

11. THIS ^^^^^

Reply to Gabi Hayes (Reply #9)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:33 PM

Aug 2016

+ 1,000

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

12. it's disgusting that neither gene lyons or joe conason are getting ANY airtime

Reply to LenaBaby61 (Reply #11)

Wed Aug 24, 2016, 10:51 PM

Aug 2016

during this socalled scandal over the emails and the foundation

conason even has a bio out now, I believe, about Hillary

not a word about it

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