Posted on 09/11/2007 6:47:24 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Her first position: “I’m not giving any back.”
Her second position: “I will give back $23,000.”
Her third position: “I will give back $850,000.”
MSM’s consistent position: “Nothing to see here.”
I read this elsewhere. Sounds like Hillary’s campaign knew months ago that Hsu was contaminated. It does seem like it has taken a long time for MSM to report on the story.
“The Los Angeles Times reports — before the announcement by the campaign to dump all of the Hsu-related money (some $850K) — that “new evidence surfaced that the Clinton camp had dismissed allegations about Hsu made by a Southern California businessman. In an e-mail obtained by The Times, a Clinton campaign staffer told a California Democratic Party official in June that the businessman’s concerns were unwarranted. “‘I can tell you with 100 certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in a ponzi scheme,’ wrote Samantha Wolf, who was a campaign finance director for the Western states.” He is COMPLETELY legit.””
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/09/11/354871.aspx
Obviously the Sen Craig story was much more important!
Enough of the sarcasm... It is obvious the media have an agenda. They are getting to be such a joke.
At least their honest about it, now.....................
Cynical theory 1: They are not backing Hillary. So they can afford to run this.
Cynical theory 2: They will back whichever Dem gets the nomination, and they don’t think it will be Hillary, so they can afford to run this.
Cynical theory 3: They are pretending to be objective, so they have to run at least a token story that they can point to to bolster that claim.
I’m going with 3 for now.
Here is another Hillary scandal the MSM has been quiet about. I like the line——”The Clintons aren’t bothered by red flags. They collect them.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/viewstory.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200709/COM20070911c.html
“According to The Washington Post: “Sant S. Chatwal, an Indian American businessman has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaigns, even as he battled governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy and millions of dollars in tax liens.”
Here is Chatwal’s corruption resume: The IRS pursued him for approximately $4 million in unpaid business taxes; New York State is seeking more than $5 million in taxes; federal regulators sued him to recoup millions in loans from a failed bank where Chatwal served as a director; he lost one New York City building due to unpaid business taxes; and, oh yes, he was also charged with bank fraud in India.
The Post notes with a measure of incredulity, “Yet none of the legal and financial woes...raised red flags inside Hillary Clinton’s fundraising operation.” In fact, in a rare moment of honesty when asked if Chatwal’s background gave cause for concern, Hillary’s campaign spokesman Phil Singer said, flatly, “No.”
Why would the Clintons be concerned about Chatwal? In an earlier column I articulated the long list of fundraising schemes concocted by the Clintons. This week I’ll remind you of just one of them, the Chinagate scandal, where the Clintons and Al Gore collected Chinese communist-connected funds in exchange for special access to the Clinton White House and policy favors.
The Clintons aren’t bothered by red flags. They collect them.”
OUTSTANDING FReeper comments BUMP!
Return the money? Why if this were a Republican there would be immediately calls for their resignation.
Thanks for the links. BTTT!
Resignation and jailing.
BTTT!
One problem with this is that it’s “just money.” How many people, besides CPAs, get excited about accounting
Now if he’d been tapping his foot.......
It's all three... Obama would be just fine with them as long as Hil/Bill would still retain their influence.
Here is what the Austin Un American Uber Liberal Statesman had on the Hsu / hillary situation on A-2. Two &*^%^&* sentences. Every Abramhoff article about fundraising was on page A-1, above the fold.
Nation Digest
Clinton giving back donations; Craig seeks to reverse guilty plea
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
2008 ELECTION
Clinton to return donations
WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said it will return $850,000 in donations raised by Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation after being accused of violating election laws. Clinton, D-N.Y., previously had planned to give to charity $23,000 donated by Hsu for her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee; other Democrats also are divesting contributions from Hsu.
The Clintons attract crooks like manure attracts flies...
And the guy from Pakistan. She is just the UN of illegal campaign contributions.
Every money person she deals with is tainted. Also, did you see the article about her returning $850,000 and is going to go through all of her campaign donors.
Give me a break. She is trying to convince the judges that she is doing the right thing so she won’t have to testify. What a complete sham.
Cynical theory 4: They have now run a mildly critical story, so they can claim that any other media questioning is piling on about “old news”. And that it’s time to “move on”.
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