The Clinton Foundation Witch Hunt-HRC Room

[hrmjustin]

HILLARY CLINTON ROOM

Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Foundation Supporter?

ERIC BOEHLERT

Suddenly under scrutiny for her $250 donation to the Clinton Haiti Relief Fund in 2010, Judy Woodruff, the co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, issued a statement late last week defending her modest giving. "I made the gift in response to an urgent joint appeal from former President Clinton and then-President George W. Bush for aid to the victims of the Haiti earthquake," Woodruff explained in an email to the Wall Street Journal. "Seeing the massive loss of human life and the terrible conditions for survivors, I wanted to make a contribution and saw this as a way to do that."

So it's come to this: A member of the media forced to defend her decision to give $250 to a bipartisan earthquake relief fund five years ago, to help an impoverished island nation.

Woodruff faced questions, of course, because amidst the current frenzied atmosphere, anything connected with the Clinton Foundation has officially been deemed tainted by the Beltway press. The media have teamed up with the GOP to cast every possible aspersion on the $2 billion global charity that helps people with AIDS/HIV around the world get cheaper, better medicine, battles economic inequality, childhood obesity, climate change, and fights for health and wellness. (No, the Clinton Foundation doesn't spend 85 percent of its budget on "overhead." Good grief.)

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/18/the-clinton-foundation-witch-hunt/203685

[OKNancy]

1. reading down...

Speaking of Bush, if you want to find out all of the donors, and countries, that have given generously to the George W. Bush Foundation in an effort to possibly influence the famous political family (including likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush), you're basically out of luck. That's because nonprofits like the George W. Bush Foundation are not obligated to reveal all their fundraising sources. But the Clinton Foundation has been revealing its donors since 2008, when Hillary Clinton was nominated to become secretary of state.

[hrmjustin]

3. But that doesn't count because it is the Clintons.

Special rules are in place to take them down and some here are happy to cheer this on.

Very frustrating.

[AuntPatsy]

2. Good article..

[hrmjustin]

5. Media Matters is an island of sanity in a sea of garbage.

[leftofcool]

4. Guilty as charged! I give $200.00 every year to the CGI

We also give $100.00 per year to our favorite AIDS charity and another $100.00 to a local orphanage. That doesn't count the various other projects we support. I suppose reporters will have to start disclosing the Girl Scout Cookies they purchase and each and every time they stop at some kid's lemonade stand and pop a quarter in the cup. Since when did "giving" become a crime?

[hrmjustin]

6. How do you live with yourself!

You are a gem!

[leftofcool]

8. I am no gem, that is for sure!

And I am certainly no Christian but I do believe in giving back when you have been blessed or at least giving to the best of one's abilities. When we give to the local orphanage, it doesn't matter whether my money goes to pay salaries or for diapers for the babies. My job is to give, theirs is to spend it in what ever way they deem appropriate at the time. Same way with the Clinton Foundation.

[hrmjustin]

10. You are a gem to me.

[leftofcool]

12. And you are a sweetheart to this old lady!

[hrmjustin]

14. .

[workinclasszero]

7. Shoot I sent Hillary ten bucks

I suppose this means the teahaddists will be dragging my name through the mud!

FU republicans, I welcome your hate!

[leftofcool]

9. I welcome their hate too as well as hate from the extreme for supporting Hillary.

[hrmjustin]

11. Repent! The end is near.

[leftofcool]

13. LMAO!

[hrmjustin]

15. I love the subheadline in this article.

Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Foundation Supporter?