Posted on 03/10/2006 7:12:20 AM PST by Mike Bates
Watching Senator Hillary Clinton play to the media, in the controversy over an Arab company managing U.S. ports, provided another important lesson in how our reporters operate by a double standard. After a Senate hearing on the matter, during a "press availability," reporters were desperate to get Mrs. Clinton's views on the matter, as if she had any credentials in the area. She spouted forth like an expert, as if she has been on guard against foreign domination and had an established reputation as the high protector of U.S. sovereignty. It was a good performance, like so many she turned in during her husband's years as president, but it lacked substance.
Why don't any reporters ask her to explain her husband's efforts to have the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), a subsidiary of the People's Liberation Army of Communist China, operate the port at Long Beach, California? Shortly before his administration went to bat for COSCO, the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign received several million dollars from Chinese and other Asian sources, clearly a violation of campaign laws. But all that happened was that they had to give some of the money back. Attorney General Janet Reno refused to appoint an Independent Counsel to investigate that, and numerous other crooked fundraising schemes, such as Al Gore's appearance at what CNN called the "infamous Hsi Lai Temple luncheon."
Our media don't want to raise those issues, probably regarding them as "ancient history," but there's a more recent matter that should command their attention. There have been new developments in the Hillary-for-Senate campaign finance scandal.
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