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Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 09:10 AM Aug 2016

Mika (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.

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Mika (from "Morning Joe") brutally and concisely missing the point. (Original Post) Tom Rinaldo Aug 2016 OP
I was laughing at Mika's weak attemp to be a journalist this morning. HipChick Aug 2016 #1
pure snark on her face. THIS is a journalist? CTyankee Aug 2016 #3
MEka was foaming at the mouth while One of the 99 Aug 2016 #2
We should have known something was going to break ... eppur_se_muova Aug 2016 #4

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)
4. We should have known something was going to break ...
Thu Aug 25, 2016, 11:04 AM
Aug 2016

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.

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