Posted on 02/09/2014 3:58:31 PM PST by kristinn
High in the polls with a dream candidate’s resume, Hillary Clinton's advantages in the 2016 presidential race are the stuff of near-constant media chatter these days.
Except for one topic: Univision.
The Spanish-language network, which broadcasts from Doral, has remarkably close ties with Clinton — from the way the media giant covers immigration to the financial backing of its top leader to a new initiative between the network and the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.Barely a peep from the press, though.
Last week, at an East Harlem event featuring Clinton, Univision touted a multi-year partnership with a foundation-led learning initiative for children five and younger. The success of the ‘Pequeños y Valiosos” (or “Young and Valuable”) partnership will take time to measure.
But it began paying immediate dividends for Clinton.
Clinton’s face is featured in five of seven slides on the Univision website promoting the partnership with the foundation’s “Too Small to Fail” initiative. Taking no press questions at the event, Clinton was featured in the type of feel-good classroom setting that politicians on the campaign trail crave.
“The reality is this is less about promoting education than it is political pay to play by the Democrats and Univision,” RNC spokesman Sean Spicer said in an email.
“It’s shameful for Univision to promote Hillary’s record on education when it includes supporting candidates who gut charter schools and slash scholarships for low-income students in struggling schools,” Spicer noted earlier in his statement.
So far the RNC isn’t taking on Univision the way it pressured CNN and NBC last year to scrap plans for a Clinton documentary, which Republicans said amounted to election-year infomercials. In that case, the RNC threatened to boycott the networks from hosting a 2016 GOP White House candidate debate.
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Thanks kristinn.
Tell me again what’s on her resume?
The fact is that these characters are for sale, and its the other side that’s willing to pay.
Crudely put I admit, but that’s the truth.
To counter this the only immediate option is to have our side make them a better offer.
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Well, if memory serves me right. There may have been a time when Hillary was on the board of directors at Walmart and there were recycling dumpsters placed in the parking lots for customers to use. It didn’t last long. The dumpster queen is trying to recycle a Clinton now.
However,there was a time when Arkansas State Troopers were profiling Hispanics on the Clinton watch. And the mini-riot of Cuban refugees at Camp Chaffee preceded the Clinton exit from the governorship for a few years. Two Clintons left and three Clintons returned—aka Hillary Rodman.
Thanks Civ
interesting info: from http://crayfisher.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/univision-fast-and-furious-special-report-live-blogopen-thread/
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Check this out. Univision’s Chairman’s wife appointed to UN on September 20. Her husband wrote a NYT editorial supporting the POS’s Israel position a month ago.
Are we getting punked again?
The White House announced Wednesday it has nominated Cheryl Saban, the wife of Univision chairman Haim Saban, to be a representative of the United States to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Her husband founded Saban Entertainment—the production studio behind “Power Rangers”—in the 1980s. Haim Saban is a major Democratic donor, personally giving more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and committees in the 2012 election cycle. He has donated at least $333,333 to the Obama-affiliated Super PAC Priorities USA, which is best known for an ad suggesting Republican nominee Mitt Romney was responsible for a woman’s death, as well as $325,520 to Majority PAC, a Super PAC touted by Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.)….
Cheryl Saban’s nomination comes less than a month after her husband penned a New York Times op-ed defending President Obama’s Israel record.
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Operation Fast and Furious
1. Fast and Furious Guns Used in Infamous Massacre
Mexican military reports show that at least three guns from Fast and Furious were used in the Salvarcar massacre in 2010. A total of 16 people died in that incident, most of them teens. They were gunned down by the Juarez cartel, which mistook the group for rival Sinaloa cartel members. According to one document, the weapons entered Mexico illegally through a border point near Columbus, New Mexico.
2. 57 Previously Unidentified Weapons Surface
Univision cross-referenced the serial numbers off guns used in Fast and Furious against guns seized in Mexico. Nearly 100 of those weapons were used in crimes, and 57 of them were not mentioned in an investigation carried out by the U.S. Congress.
3. Mexico Knew About Fast and Furious
Andrew Selee, vice president for programs at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. says the Mexican government was aware of the gun-walking, in spite of releasing a statement saying they were not. William Newell, the special agent in charge of ATF’s Phoenix field division and one of the supervisors of Fast and Furious, told Univision, via his attorney, that the Procuraduria General De La Republica (PGR) in Mexico was certainly aware of the operation.
4. U.S. Gun-Trafficking Operations Extended to Other Countries
Fast and Furious was not the only ATF operation of its kind that went awry. In Operation Castaway, Hugh Crumpler, a former ATF informant, told Univision News the ATF deliberately allowed guns to pass into Honduras, Puerto Rico and Colombia. Several of those weapons have already been found at crime scenes and in the hands of local cartels. In an email message, the ATF claims that they “found out about the weapons when they had already been shipped.”
5. U.S. Agents Were Attacked with U.S. Weapons
Victor Avila and Jaime Zapata, two U.S. Federal Agents assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, were in the process of transporting surveillance equipment when their vehicle was surrounded by cartel members and shot more than 90 times. Zapata died and Avila was seriously wounded.
Prior to traveling into the region, Avila reached out to a supervisor expressing concerns over security that were backed by a U.S. State Department document which forbade U.S. Embassy employees from traveling in that area. The reason: It was heavily controlled by the Zetas cartel. According to an exclusive interview with Avila, the supervisor did not share his concerns. Three of the guns used in this shootout were also from a gun-walking operation, but not Fast and Furious.
Families for both agents say they still do not understand why the agents were asked to transport equipment through this region, or why the men who trafficked these weapons were not arrested months earlier.
Blood.
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