in spot on. Only H. Clinton's speaking fees have been used against her.



div class="excerpt"]4) Wall Street: First things first. No, the majority of the money Clinton has made from speaking fees did not come from Wall Street. In fact, it’s not even close. She has given nearly 100 paid speeches since leaving the State Department, and only eight were to “Wall Street” banks. Nearly all of her speeches were to organizations such as the American Camp Association, Ebay, Cisco, Xerox, the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the United Fresh Produce Association, the International Dairy-Deli-Bake Association, the California Medical Association, A&E Networks, the Massachusetts Conference for Women, the U.S. Green Building Council, the National Association of Realtors, the American Society of Travel Agents, Gap, the National Association of Convenience Stores, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, etc. Hillary got booked fairly often because she is interesting and popular, and because there’s a great deal of status attached to having her speak at an event.

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Am I not supposed to notice that a media frenzy has been aimed at Hillary for accepting speaking fees of $225,000, while Trump has been paid $1.5 million on numerous occasions with hardly a word said about it? Am I supposed to not notice that we are in an election season in which Trump, a proud scam artist whose involvement in “Trump University” alone is being defined by the New York attorney general as “straight-up fraud,” is regularly calling Hillary “Crooked Hillary” and getting away with it?

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At one point he describes the sexism as being a generational issue. But I think we have seen evidence in this cycle that there are plenty of younger as well as middle aged and older people, who are to some extent sexist.

I don't think it's generational at all.