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PBS’ Donor-Moderator Fails to Ask Hillary About Clinton Foundation
Breitbart ^ | February 11,2016 | by JOEL B. POLLAK

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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1 posted on 02/12/2016 6:38:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Ifill + Woodruff = DNC, Killary biased hacks


2 posted on 02/12/2016 6:54:22 AM PST by matginzac
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To: Hojczyk

Did anyone ask about the server in her basement and the classified e-mails?


3 posted on 02/12/2016 7:05:38 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt
I watched Washington Week in Review in the aftermath of the 1994 Bi-Elections, a massacre of the Clintonistas. The moderators sat in stunned disbelief, there was about a 10 second pause, they were looking to the left and right, they seemed to be imagining the Conservatives ready to bust in the the doors and start beating the feke out of them.
4 posted on 02/12/2016 7:12:38 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Hojczyk

Coulda been a potential kill shot for Burney last night.
But of course he failed to pull the trigger


5 posted on 02/12/2016 7:14:22 AM PST by nascarnation (Hillary: the Democrat version of Jeb Bush)
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To: Hojczyk

Judy Woodruff to Clinton: How was your day?
Gwen Ifill to Clinton: What is your favorite candy?


6 posted on 02/12/2016 7:21:40 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: CharlesOConnell

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.”


7 posted on 02/12/2016 7:22:06 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Hojczyk

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.


8 posted on 02/12/2016 8:08:59 AM PST by Gunner TLW
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9 posted on 02/12/2016 8:19:30 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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10 posted on 02/12/2016 8:40:20 AM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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11 posted on 02/12/2016 9:44:22 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Hojczyk

I’m surprised they didn’t ask Bill Clinton to be the moderator... he’s an objective journalist, right?


12 posted on 02/12/2016 11:02:58 AM PST by GOPJ (Allowing illegals to stay is like paying ransom to terrorists - incentivized insanity.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
Did anyone ask about the server in her basement and the classified e-mails?

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?

13 posted on 02/12/2016 11:08:17 AM PST by GOPJ (Allowing illegals to stay is like paying ransom to terrorists - incentivized insanity.)
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