Monday, August 19, 2013

Latest on the Clinton Foundation

Media Matters Attacks NYT over Clinton Foundation Exposé

"In the wake of last week’s much-discussed New York Times investigative report detailing cronyism and mismanagement inside the Clinton Foundation, former president Bill Clinton issued an open letter in an attempt to stem the public relations backlash. Clinton’s letter challenged a couple of the Times’ assertions that his nonprofit had run deficits."

Maureen Dowd writes the former first couple are needy, think too much of themselves, and imagine they are "entitled to everyone's money.
"Indeed, just one day after Bill Clinton and Media Matters’s retort, liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd followed up the Times’ Clinton Foundation cronyism report with this: “If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons...Clintonworld is a galaxy where personal enrichment and political advancement blend seamlessly, and where a cast of jarringly familiar characters pad their pockets every which way to Sunday.” "

The Dowd column: Money, Money, Money, Money, MONEY!  "Why is it that America’s roil family always seems better in abstract than in concrete? The closer it gets to running the world once more, the more you are reminded of all the things that bugged you the last time around.
"The Clintons’ neediness, their sense of what they are owed in material terms for their public service, their assumption that they’re entitled to everyone’s money.
"Are we about to put the “For Rent” sign back on the Lincoln Bedroom?"


NY Times, Aug 13; Unease at Clinton Foundation Over Finances and Ambitions

No comments: