Posted on 04/11/2005 9:37:47 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
This week's media attack on Tom DeLay has a top Washington lobbyist telling Newsweek magazine that the Republican House leader "knew everything" about allegedly shady fundraising on DeLay's behalf.
But if the claims of former fundraisers are the standard by which political trouble is measured, Sen. Hillary Clinton's problems are much bigger than DeLay's.
For years Jack Abramoff, who is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for DeLay's political causes and hired DeLay's aides, reports Newsweek. For his part, DeLay and his aides say he knew nothing about the suspicious fundraising.
That doesn't sound nearly as bad as the allegations facing Clinton, whose former finance chairman David Rosen has already been indicted for trying to hide cash from the Federal Election Commission in connection with an Aug. 2000 Hollywood concert fundraiser.
Like Abramoff, who says he's not angry at DeLay, Rosen isn't ready to implicate the former first lady in any crimes - at least not yet.
But unlike the top Republican, the case against Clinton includes not one but two witnesses who say she "knew everything" about what Rosen was doing.
"Hillary Clinton personally called the producer of the concert part of this event," claims Peter Paul, the Hollywood mogul who bankrolled the Aug. 2000 event.
"She asked him to lower the fee that he was charging of $850,000 at my request," he added, in an interview last year with the Fox News Channel. "So I don't understand how she could possibly say that she didn't know."
Lest anyone doubt Mr. Paul's word, there's Aaron Tonken, whose specialty was rounding up stars for charity events in Tinseltown - and who distributed most of the cash Peter Paul used to pay for the Hillary bash.
In his recent book "King of Cons," Tonken describes his sit-down with the former first lady in the backseat of a limo, where he gave her a chapter and verse update on the money her top aide was hiding from the feds.
"I told her about virtually every penny I'd spent on her behalf," Tonken recalled. "I told her about the money and what a pleasure it was to spend it on her candidacy."
Both Tonken and Paul kept meticulous records on the gala Hillary fundraiser - records prosecutors used to indict Mr. Rosen.
Of course, the press has virtually ignored the claims of the two Clinton accusers, while reporting every tidbit of dirt anyone cares to share about DeLay.
Predictably, a handful of elected Republicans have already begun handwringing in public over DeLay's so-called ethical problems - despite the media's egregious double standard that lets Hillary off the hook.
Perhaps they'd do better to call on Democrats to clean up their own glass house and do something about the corruption currently swirling around their likely 2008 presidential nominee.
HELLO
Don't ya know that were aren't suppose to question the Dems?
Two birds with one stone. That's our old friend from Oyster Bay, all right. =]
Indeed. The liberal news media's Get Tom Delay campaign stands in stark contrast to their Hands Off Hillary campaign.
Ain't it the truth.......cowards!
Just like the old days with Washington Weekly, only better. =]
God bless Carl Limbaucher, Chris Ruddy, Newsmax, and the bright newbie, David Limbaugh. FReegards....
Is all this kinda like being.....
partially pregnant?
To be fair and balanced, shouldn't the dems spend a lot of time and effort investigating this, like the repubs did with Hillary?
Hillary's troubles may be worse than Delay's but you'll never hear them. THe MSM will suppress anything that's negative about ole Hill.
The whole thing has nothing to do with truth, facts, integrity and certainly NOT good journalism.
The MSM should have to file campaign finance reports because they wilfully serve as a propaganda machine for the Democratic National Committee.
The Liberals are really, really after Tom Delay. They are now selling a "DeLay Suicide T-Shirt", and every effort is being made by Liberals to put DeLay down.
i like it.
but only freepers and associates will know about it.
meanwhile, folks who watch oprah, read newspapers, etc., will NOT know about it.
Delay is a key conservative player and what is even yet worse to the liberals and old media pundits, he is a Christian. Similarly, Frist is also in the crosshairs for the same reasons.
I see you're getting a lot of 'wont matter' responses. Thank God you've ignored them all these years and kept plugging away. The New Media 'won't matter', they've been saying since its beginning.
The Old Media might be more massive in brute-force communication. But we can outmanuever them, given enough time to duck the initial blast.
FReegards....
Wouldn't it tick the left off if they failed? So close, and yet so far....
Shhhhhh!!!! We don't want to help them too much... LOL.
And bring this story out again around this time next year. It's working for the libs against Delay.
'But unlike the top Republican, the case against Clinton includes not one but two witnesses who say she "knew everything" about what Rosen was doing.'
They don't want to hear it? Too bad. Let's swiftboat Hellery Rob'm Rodham.
It's called 'raising the stakes'. I'm sure DeLay understands the concept. It might be ugly and tense, but after all, we are dealing with vipers. FReegards....
bump
But pointing out democrat underhandedness simply elevates them within their party.
Anyway, I hope it works.
Delay must stay and I hope RINO's like Chris Shays keep their traps shut.
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