Posted on 10/14/2016 11:56:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Even the Wall Street Journal is now fed up with the biased media coverage of the 2016 Presidential election as revealed by a scathing article written by Kimberly Strassel, a member of their editorial board. As Strassel points out, it's almost impossible to turn on the TV without hearing about Trump's "lewd" comments while coverage of Hillary "uniformly ignores the flurry of bombshells" inherent in the various WikiLeaks, FOIA releases and FBI interviews.
If average voters turned on the TV for five minutes this week, chances are they know that Donald Trump made lewd remarks a decade ago and now stands accused of groping women.
But even if average voters had the TV on 24/7, they still probably haven’t heard the news about Hillary Clinton: That the nation now has proof of pretty much everything she has been accused of. It comes from hacked emails dumped by WikiLeaks, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, and accounts from FBI insiders. The media has almost uniformly ignored the flurry of bombshells, preferring to devote its front pages to the Trump story. So let’s review what amounts to a devastating case against a Clinton presidency.
Of course, the list of Hillary scandals is becoming way to long to remember though one of the biggest has been her establishment of the now infamous private email server and the subsequent intentional destruction of federal records despite the existence of a Congressional subpoena.
Start with a June 2015 email to Clinton staffers from Erika Rottenberg, the former general counsel of LinkedIn. Ms. Rottenberg wrote that none of the attorneys in her circle of friends “can understand how it was viewed as ok/secure/appropriate to use a private server for secure documents AND why further Hillary took it upon herself to review them and delete documents.” She added: “It smacks of acting above the law and it smacks of the type of thing I’ve either gotten discovery sanctions for, fired people for, etc.”
A few months later, in a September 2015 email, a Clinton confidante fretted that Mrs. Clinton was too bullheaded to acknowledge she’d done wrong. “Everyone wants her to apologize,” wrote Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress. “And she should. Apologies are like her Achilles’ heel.”
Clinton staffers debated how to evade a congressional subpoena of Mrs. Clinton’s emails—three weeks before a technician deleted them. The campaign later employed a focus group to see if it could fool Americans into thinking the email scandal was part of the Benghazi investigation (they are separate) and lay it all off as a Republican plot.
Meanwhile, as Fox News reported yesterday, according to an anonymous source within the FBI the "vast majority" of the people that worked on Hillary's case thought she should be prosecuted adding that "it was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked."
The source, who spoke to FoxNews.com on the condition of anonymity, said FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic July 5 announcement that he would not recommend to the Attorney General’s office that the former secretary of state be charged left members of the investigative team dismayed and disgusted. More than 100 FBI agents and analysts worked around the clock with six attorneys from the DOJ’s National Security Division, Counter Espionage Section, to investigate the case.
“No trial level attorney agreed, no agent working the case agreed, with the decision not to prosecute -- it was a top-down decision,” said the source, whose identity and role in the case has been verified by FoxNews.com.
A high-ranking FBI official told Fox News that while it might not have been a unanimous decision, “It was unanimous that we all wanted her [Clinton’s] security clearance yanked.”
“It is safe to say the vast majority felt she should be prosecuted,” the senior FBI official told Fox News. “We were floored while listening to the FBI briefing because Comey laid it all out, and then said ‘but we are doing nothing,’ which made no sense to us.”
Moreover, the Wall Street Journal points out that the Obama administration was seemingly "working as an extension of the Clinton campaign" with both the State Department and DOJ providing frequent updates to Hillary staffers about a confidential criminal investigation into her misconduct.
The Obama administration—the federal government, supported by tax dollars—was working as an extension of the Clinton campaign. The State Department coordinated with her staff in responding to the email scandal, and the Justice Department kept her team informed about developments in the court case.
Worse, Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, as documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show, took special care of donors to the Clinton Foundation. In a series of 2010 emails, a senior aide to Mrs. Clinton asked a foundation official to let her know which groups offering assistance with the Haitian earthquake relief were “FOB” (Friends of Bill) or “WJC VIPs” (William Jefferson Clinton VIPs). Those who made the cut appear to have been teed up for contracts. Those who weren’t? Routed to a standard government website.
The leaks show that the foundation was indeed the nexus of influence and money. The head of the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Ira Magaziner, suggested in a 2011 email that Bill Clinton call Sheikh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia to thank him for offering the use of a plane. In response, a top Clinton Foundation official wrote: “Unless Sheikh Mo has sent us a $6 million check, this sounds crazy to do.”
Strassel also takes direct aim at the press and admits that the "leaks also show that the press is in Mrs. Clinton’s pocket." While the WikiLeaks emails reveal substantial coordination between Clinton and the press perhaps none are more disturbing than when Donna Brazile, now DNC chair, sent the exact wording of a CNN town hall question to Hillary ahead of a scheduled debate.
The leaks also show that the press is in Mrs. Clinton’s pocket. Donna Brazile, a former Clinton staffer and a TV pundit, sent the exact wording of a coming CNN town hall question to the campaign in advance of the event. Other media allowed the Clinton camp to veto which quotes they used from interviews, worked to maximize her press events and offered campaign advice.
Mrs. Clinton has been exposed to have no core, to be someone who constantly changes her position to maximize political gain. Leaked speeches prove that she has two positions (public and private) on banks; two positions on the wealthy; two positions on borders; two positions on energy. Her team had endless discussions about what positions she should adopt to appease “the Red Army”—i.e. “the base of the Democratic Party.”
Finally, Strassle concludes by saying that "Voters might not know any of this, because while both presidential candidates have plenty to answer for, the press has focused solely on taking out Mr. Trump. And the press is doing a diligent job of it."
Makes you wonder if the wall is starting to crack a bit.
I’m sure these journalists are receiving a lot of threats to make HRC look good and Trump bad. On the other hand, if they come out on the wrong side of the election they look amazingly stupid. Maybe some of them think Trump is going to pull through.
Kimberly is from my local area. She and family come back to Oregon several times a year to connect with her family here. They run a small business in a very small town. Local paper had a picture of her (hair wet, no makeup) wading around in a local river.
She used to appear more frequently on FOX. But, not near as often in the last year. I’m very proud of her.
Thank God you can’t find them, or you’d be part of the problem of why they come and stay :)
Thanks for sharing.
Bookmark
The corruption is like an octopus, its tentacles are everywhere.
go down to the parking lot of your local home depot they will be hanging around waiting to work
be sure and ask if they are legal
....soon, rats will be doing backflips with full twist off the barge.....
I feel groped and violated from all this corrupt media bias.
you know what I realized the other day ... if you have a certain version of windows or use an ipad the news feed is auto streamed onto your homepage/desktop - msn or wapo stuff.
All Trump crap, every single story - no wikilinks or Hillary news at all.
Really disgusting. Let’s face it, the die hard liberals aren’t going to care or have any suspicions about this but hopefully fence leaners will start to wonder .. if your conservative you aren’t a LIV and we already knew that the ‘news’ has been what the liberals want to feed the masses.
No equipment found to facilitate thought. Just a shovel. Perhaps a bush in order to hide. WSJ has certainly attempted to piled it on.
You would think there is still some sane people in the media and thankfully this person gets it.
I mean, you can’t even turn on your local news without getting such a leftist biased version of this election. It’s really disgusting and I turn the channel every time they try to push the Trump locker room narrative and barely a mention on all the corruption that is slowly coming out about Clinton.
Let’s hope the powers that be in the media can no longer keep the Clinton corruption dam from bursting. It starts with sane reporters like this one and bursting from within.
CGato
"My hero is George Sore-ass (Soros)
Also, there has to be reporters and journalists out there that know the powers that be in the media are pushing lies to the American people.
I appeal to them to defy their bosses and report the truth or they are not really reporters or journalists but mere pawns and propagandists.
Help us to prevent the Globalist, establishment coup of our government so that you will have true freedom of the press, not this propagandist garbage you do now or the loss of other freedoms they will ultimately push on America.
Don’t be a willing participant in this corrupt coup that will put you in line to be an enemy of freedom and our Constitution. Please understand the wrong they are doing to this country and defy them like many other Americans have done with supporting Donald Trump.
Sincerely,
CGato
Pot calls the kettle black.
Attempting to maintain a shred more credibility than the rest of the media.
It is one of those cases where they think they’ll win with the public if they are just a little LESS biased than the others.
WSJ - FRIDAY DUMP. ‘We reported it. You weren’t listening!”, WSJ
Is anyone demanding that Comey release his IRS income tax forms? Follow the money. He certainly is getting millions in payoffs from the Clintons.
Dead editor walking.
WSJ is good on many things, but is absolutist on “free” trade, weak on cheap labor, and generally anti-Trump.
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