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.
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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