Posted on 02/12/2016 6:38:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
The PBS moderators at Thursday night's Democratic debate failed to ask former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton any questions about the Clinton Foundation, despite news earlier in the day that the State Department had sent it a subpoena for documents about its activities during her tenure in office.
Co-moderator Judy Woodruff happens to be a donor to the Clinton Foundation, and faced criticism from the PBS ombudsman in 2015 for giving to the Clintons.
Woodruff is one of several journalists who has contributed to the Clinton Foundation, which has been criticized as a "slush fund" for the Clintons' own expenses, rather than on direct giving to charitable programs.
PBS has covered the potential conflict of interest for Hillary Clinton, who has been accused of using her position as Secretary of State to direct donations to the foundation. Emails to that effect are suspected of being on her private email server.
The subpoena to the foundation from the State Department inspector general sought "documents about the charity's projects that may have required approval from the federal government during Hillary Clinton's term as secretary of state," according to the Washington Post, which broke the story Thursday.
The subpoena also apparently sought information on Clinton aide Huma Abedin, "who for six months in 2012 was employed simultaneously by the State Department, the foundation, Clinton's personal office, and a private consulting firm with ties to the Clintons."
Neither Woodruff nor co-moderator Gwen Ifill broached the subject. Clinton's rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% , has also declined to criticize her for her emails and potential conflicts of interest.
Voters, however, have noticed. Exit polls from New Hampshire showed that 5% of Democrats saw Clinton as trustworthy, versus 93% for San
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Ifill + Woodruff = DNC, Killary biased hacks
Did anyone ask about the server in her basement and the classified e-mails?
Coulda been a potential kill shot for Burney last night.
But of course he failed to pull the trigger
Judy Woodruff to Clinton: How was your day?
Gwen Ifill to Clinton: What is your favorite candy?
You can imagine what they were thinking. Abject fear in half of them. The others were thinking things like “Opposition to Soviet power is a crime”, “The counterrevolutionaries are coming”, “D**n those Trotskyites! We should have won but for their opposition”, “We need to purge the party of ideological deviationism now!” and “The guerillas are the fish, the people are the sea.”
More Importantly; You and I actually pay for this Government entity, “PBS”, to intervene in a Presidential Debate and softball Democrats!
No surprise that these two leftest loons would only ask “approved” questions.
I only wonder why they didn’t get that Marc Ambinder guy from the Atlantic to inject a, pre-approved, “Muscular” adjective so all of the leftist journalist could get all sweaty.
I’m surprised they didn’t ask Bill Clinton to be the moderator... he’s an objective journalist, right?
Bernie called that off... no questions about the emails...or espionage.
The nice thing is this: if one of our candidates was being investigated by the FBI for treason, espionage and taking bribes I'm sure the press would DROP all questions if Ben Carson said he didn't want to talk about it.
We would be treated the same, right? Hey Chuck Todd, can you weigh in on this one? Chris Matthews?
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