Wednesday, April 22, 2015

New Media Victory: MSM Seriously Investigating ‘Clinton Cash’ Allegations



New Media Victory: MSM Seriously Investigating ‘Clinton Cash’ Allegations
by Warner Todd Huston 21 Apr 2015
As the allegations from Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster new book Clinton Cash spread through the media, Clinton flacks are spinning the charges as “old news” — but many in the media aren’t playing along with the official line.

Clinton operatives are trying to tear down the book before its release. Top Clinton operative John Podesta came out of the gate early to denounce the book with a Monday interview on The Charlie Rose Show.

But not everyone is toeing the Clinton line. In its first article introducing readers to the soon-to-be-released Clinton Cash, The New York Times took a serious tone on the allegations contained in the book. As former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs pointed out, while the paper of record wasn’t glowing about Schweizer, “it certainly wasn’t disparaging of the author,” Gibbs said.

The Huffington Post also hastened to point out that Schweizer’s book isn’t a work to be easily dismissed. They found the author’s history to be notable and not one of a simple right-wing partisan: “Schweizer’s material has been solid enough to earn him partnerships with mainstream news outlets.”

Long-time journalist Carl Bernstein also disparaged the Clinton camp for its base assumptions about the public. Clinton and her team, Bernstein said, “don’t trust the ability of readers, viewers, voters to process the best obtainable version of the truth.”

The left-wing website Think Progress is also not laughing book away.

Like many on the left, Think Progress feels that some of the charges that the Clintons have taken donations from some pretty bad actors is not something to so easily dismiss.

Think Progress particularly lighted on Schweizer’s revelations about Clinton’s largess from “shady donors” like the Lundin Group, “a mining, oil and gas company that was investigated for war crimes in Sudan and has reportedly reaped massive profits in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.”

Lundin committed $100 million to the Clinton Foundation shortly after Hillary announced her presidential candidacy in 2007. Schweizer points to a 2006 law co-sponsored by Clinton and Obama, which gave the secretary of state powers to hold destabilizing forces in the DRC accountable, and notes that Clinton declined to employ those powers after Lundin’s donation.

“Another murky practice discussed in the book was the State Department’s use of the special government employee (SGE) rule,” Think Progress wrote, “which allowed some staffers to simultaneously work for the State Department and non-government organizations, including the Clinton Foundation.”

It’s looking like if Team Clinton thinks that the media will simply dismiss Peter Schweizer’s Clinton Cash as instructed, they might be disappointed.

Charlie Rose Show
Charlie Rose Show is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.

Note: Carnegie Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Center for American Progress Action Fund is an affiliated advocacy group for the Center for American Progress.
Think Progress is a Center for American Progress Action Fund project.
John D. Podesta was the chairman for the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a temporary CEO for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a counselor for the Barack Obama administration, is the campaign manager for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, and the founder for the Center for American Progress.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the Human Rights Watch, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), was a supporter for the Center for American Progress, a benefactor for the the Human Rights Watch, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Human Rights Watch, the Sundance Institute, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Patricia E. Mitchell was a director at the Human Rights Watch, the president & CEO for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute.
Carnegie Corporation of New York funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Andrew Carnegie was the founder of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
David A. Hamburg is the president emeritus for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and an adviser for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the United States in war)
Carnegie Corporation of New York a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and funded study that led to creation of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton N. Minow is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, an honorary trustee at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and was the chairman for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Charlie Rose Show is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013       
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.                    
Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP, the candidate for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, and is the president of the Barack Obama administration.
Priorities USA Action was a super PAC supporting the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, and is supporting the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.
John D. Podesta is the campaign manager for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign, the founder for the Center for American Progress, was a temporary CEO for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a counselor for the Barack Obama administration, and the chairman for the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Think Progress is a Center for American Progress Action Fund project.











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