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Jnew28

(931 posts)
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 12:59 AM Aug 2016

Clinton Foundation: Time for Truth About Its Work!

Please read and share: http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/08/clinton-foundation-truth-time.html

"This story just became even more vital in the light of the now debunked AP Story, which was nothing but misleading innuendo designed as clickbait. The AP Journalist who wrote it should be disbarred (why is that not “a thing” as Journalism is meant to be a profession) for making gullible people swallow even more claptrap. Now the good news about all the nonsense written about the Clinton foundation is that now people can get better acquainted with what this charity actually does. Like so many things Stupidparty, trying to shut it down, simply means people will die—as Stupidparty is deadly.

But now it is time to get the actual facts about the Clinton Foundation. It is extremely odd that no one discusses what the fund actually does – that is how sick the American political process has become, that is how much of a stranglehold pseudo right wing journalism has on the very fabric of America’s political aptitude."

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Yallow

(1,926 posts)
1. When Will Sliming Hillary Stop? It Is Sickening
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 02:28 AM
Aug 2016

Not one word about the Koch Brothers 900 million spent BUYING INFLUENCE.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Kick real hard, Joe. This attention on the Foundation is GOOD
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 06:45 AM
Aug 2016

for it and bad for your agenda. Shoulda stayed satisfied with the coating of mud you threw that kept people from knowing what was behind it.

Btw, as it happens, we'd never given to the Clinton Foundation, so we just set up a small recurring donation. Too small to miss each month but adding up to "every bit counts" over time.

Charity's big here in the South, and I realized that I needed to be able to tell people sure we donate to the Foundation. Just like people do to the Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, etc.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. I turned Joe on this morning to see if he'd been forced
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:41 AM
Aug 2016

to retrench to more respectable ground by the positive-coverage blowback from the AP lies, and no. They're still pushing full-on need to close down the Foundation, or dismantle and disperse until all good so unacceptably associated with the Clintons is gone.

Mika is full of head-shaking sorrow at the Clintons' intractable corruption.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. :) Romantic, but I suspect weak character from the beginning,
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 12:09 PM
Aug 2016

falling to the emotional comfort of being a full-fledged member of the group, and of course fame and fortune. After all, she was busily pushing or ignoring right-wing lies on Joe back in 2007-2008.

Wonder, though, if it was some inner awareness of hypocrisy that caused her to stop all her prissy fussing over coarse language and not sitting up straight, or whatever. Way back I smiled and mostly shrugged when I thought it might indicate unbending moral standards as well.

I'll admit they do make a cute couple... In the commercials when their mouths are shut.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. How sweet. Perky, poisonous Kellyanne Conway
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 01:34 PM
Aug 2016

would fit right in. I don't think there's anyone I know of on the far right that isn't scary predatory and appallingly extreme that she hasn't been involved with. Even her husband used to be associated with Judicial Watch.

UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
3. Why hasn't any major newspaper written a complete report
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 06:37 AM
Aug 2016

examining exactly what the Clinton Foundation does?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
6. Well, most ascribe to the Clinton Rules for coverage,
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 07:18 AM
Aug 2016

as described in Jonathan Allen's great article,

"Confessions of a Clinton reporter: The media's 5 unspoken rules for covering Hillary."

1) Everything, no matter how ludicrous-sounding, is worthy of a full investigation by federal agencies, Congress, the "vast right-wing conspiracy," and mainstream media outlets.

2) Every allegation, no matter how ludicrous, is believable until it can be proven completely and utterly false. And even then, it keeps a life of its own in the conservative media world.

3) The media assumes that Clinton is acting in bad faith until there's hard evidence otherwise.

4) Everything is newsworthy because the Clintons are the equivalent of America's royal family.

5) Everything she does is fake and calculated for maximum political benefit.

http://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules


The works of an admirable charitable works foundation don't exactly lend themselves to that.

Besides that, though, how do you assess the efficacy of programs that have no immediate payoff? It'd be relatively easy to report the over 1 M trees planted in reforestation of Malawi.

But how about programs like the Too Small to Fail initiative growing out of studies showing the amazing benefits of talking, singing, reading to babies and small children, and the very unfortunate effects from lack? Training parents now so their children will do well in life and pass it on to their own children. Noble goal. Will it take?

Btw, the Clinton Foundation is not overly helpful. Since it's almost entirely an on-the-ground operation, hiring staff and sending them out to work on Foundation projects, I looked for the number of employees and couldn't find it. The CF's definitely a good-jobs creator. One extremely hostile article full of lies claimed they had 2000 employees, and that's the best I found in a quick search.


UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
4. Someone should mention to the Clintons that the
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 06:43 AM
Aug 2016

Clinton Foundation should do more to help the poor and middle class in the United States.

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
9. I've moved my Clinton needle to ... " good people doing good things and making mistakes on the way"
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 11:43 AM
Aug 2016

... area of the Clinton perspective.

The media right now is doing a good job and letting people know the Clinton foundation is taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor in big ways.

She was a great SD pick seeing what the foundation has accomplished

This reminds me of the Jeramiah Right issue during 2008, seems like overall the media over reaction did Obama more good in the long run.

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