2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumMika (from "Morning Joe") brutally and concisely missing the point.
While hammering a Democratic Congressman, who supports Hillary, on the show this morning over the potential that foreign Clinton Foundation donors were trying to buy favorable policies from the State Department - she kept repeating the phrase "doing business with them" to describe the relationship of the Clinton Foundation to those donors.
No, actually Mika, it is Trump enterprises that does business with foreign interests, and then covers up all records of those ties, and their implications, by refusing to release any tax returns. The Clinton Foundation is a charity with a mission to help suffering people around the world. It's a fine distinction, I know, but the ability to make it is why it is supposedly worth it for MSNBC to pay you millions.
Words matter. Make your allegations about influence peddling as you see fit, but the Clinton Foundation is not a business - it is a Non Profit Charity. Any punditry that can't even find time to make that aspect of "the story" clear represents "influence peddling" of an entirely different sort and needs to be exposed as such.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)she was pathetic..
CTyankee
(63,889 posts)Andrea mitchell is another snark.
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)claiming that she wasn't.
eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)When R's started attacking Hillary over foreign investors and foreign influence, we should have known: R's are guilty of this and it's about to blow up big. They needed to inoculate themselves by calling the kettle black, so then they can shrug it off with a casual "both sides do it" defense.
This is what they've always done, and DU has often called them out on it. We missed one.