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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of Fox News’ most influential commentators are misconstruing recent remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, falsely claiming that the Biden administration is preparing for “war” against the Republican Party as Fox&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-laying-groundwork-next-insurrection-or-worse-telling-its-viewers-biden-waging-war" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">continues to push</a>&nbsp;the fallacy that conservatives are being persecuted.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News has relentlessly attacked Harris since she joined President Joe Biden’s ticket in 2020. In addition to a constant stream of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newt-gingrich/newt-gingrich-attacks-kamala-harris-she-doesnt-know-anything-she-doesnt-know-how" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">racist</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse-watters-calls-vice-president-kamala-harris-total-diva-who-comes-meghan-markle" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sexist</a>&nbsp;remarks, the network has waged a war of manufactured outrage against Harris, either by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/charles-payne/kamala-harris-laughed-meme-fox-disingenuously-suggested-she-was-laughing-gas-price" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claiming</a>&nbsp;she was laughing at gas prices — when in reality she was just laughing at a meme — or by inexplicably&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/how-fox-news-lying-about-vp-kamala-harris-visit-poland" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">blaming</a>&nbsp;the vice president for Russia’s violent escalations against Ukraine.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the September 11 edition of NBC’s<b>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meet the Press</span></b>, host Chuck Todd&nbsp;<a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/09/11/full_replay_vp_kamala_harris_rare_extended_interview_with_meet_the_press.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">asked</a>&nbsp;Harris, “We are now as a nation battling a threat from within. Is the threat equal or greater than what we faced after 9/11?” Harris replied that she had taken an oath to “defend and uphold our constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic” and that “we don’t compare the two in the oath, but we know they both can exist.” Harris also noted that she wished that domestic threats were not filtered through “some partisan lens,” but notably did not say domestic threats were more dangerous than the threat of terrorism during and after 9/11.[dan ball Hoe?]</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Similarly, during an appearance on CNN’s&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">State of the Union</span>&nbsp;on September 11, Clinton&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3993736" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reflected</a>&nbsp;on “how important it is to try to deal with extremism of any kind, especially when it uses violence to try to achieve political and ideological goals.” (The network’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannitys-hillary-clinton-obsession-numbers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">obsession</a>&nbsp;with Clinton is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/murdoch-outlets-use-new-filing-flat-out-lie-about-clinton-campaign-and-durham" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">well</a>-<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/fox-news-promotes-bombshell-book-founder-anti-hillary-clinton-group-cunt-and-writer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">documented</a>.)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It didn’t take long for Fox News to latch on to the narrative that Harris, Clinton, and the Democratic Party writ-large had issued a “declaration of war” against MAGA Republicans.</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">During his prime-time show on&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Fox, Jesse Watters falsely claimed that the “Biden White House used this day to politicize the worst terrorist attack in American history and declare war on you.”&nbsp;</span></strong>He then baselessly characterized Harris’ vow to “defend against all enemies foreign and domestic” as a “declaration of war,” saying, “Make no mistake, the Democratic Party, the media, and obviously the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;FBI have designated the Republican Party as a terrorist group.”</span>&nbsp;[Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesse Watters Primetime</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3993709" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/12/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tulsi Gabbard claimed that the Biden administration and the Democratic Party are “pushing our country to the brink of civil war.”</strong>&nbsp;Gabbard also claimed that Harris and others were “demonizing, targeting our fellow Americans as worse than Al-Qaeda terrorists” as a ploy to “hold on to their power</span>.” [Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jesse Watters Primetime</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3993711" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/12/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox host Tucker Carlson claimed that Harris’&nbsp;comments about defending the constitution against domestic enemies amounted to a declaration of war against “you and anyone else in the way of the Biden administration.”</strong>&nbsp;Carlson also referred to the January 6 insurrection as an “election injustice protest” and called Todd a “freaking lunatic” for suggesting the United States has a “threat within.” [Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-says-there-are-reasons-doubt-2020-vote-total-and-joe-biden-will-send" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/12/22</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">On&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</span>, former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed that Clinton had compared Republicans to terrorists during her appearance on CNN’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">State of the Union</em>.</strong>&nbsp;“Drawing a comparison between American citizens and the heinous monsters who committed one of the most evil acts in our country's history. That is despicable,” McEnany</span>&nbsp;said.&nbsp;[Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3993713" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/12/22</a>]</font></li></ul></div></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref 1</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannitys-hillary-clinton-obsession-numbers">https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/sean-hannitys-hillary-clinton-obsession-numbers</a></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx gfx vid</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sean Hannity’s Hillary Clinton obsession, by the numbers</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During Trump’s presidency, Hannity has mentioned his 2016 opponent on 86% of his episodes</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED<b>&nbsp;09/10/19&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Fox News host Sean Hannity called his show “the stop-Hillary express” during the 2016 presidential campaign because of its relentless focus on defeating Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. But more than two years after President Donald Trump took office, that train is still running.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Hannity mentioned Clinton on 505 of the 587 episodes of his Fox show that he hosted between Trump’s inauguration and the end of August 2019 -- 86% of the total --</b>&nbsp;according to a Media Matters review.&nbsp;<b>On 31 additional broadcasts, Hannity did not mention Clinton, but one of his guests did.</b>&nbsp;Altogether, that means that the former secretary of state was mentioned on 91% of the episodes Hannity hosted during that period, a total of 536 editions of the program.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Fox host’s Clinton fixation is largely a reflection of his show’s focus on the dizzying conspiracy theory he constructed to defend Trump from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.&nbsp;</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Hannity places Clinton at the center of several key strands of that web.</b>&nbsp;In his telling, 1) federal investigators should have been charging Clinton for crimes related to her email server rather than looking into Trump’s associates; 2) some of the attorneys involved in the probe had conflicts of interest because they supported her election; and 3) the investigators ignored the “real” collusion with Russia that she supposedly engaged in through the Uranium One pseudo-scandal and via an anti-Trump dossier that became part of the investigation.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As one might expect given Clinton's recession from the political stage, Hannity’s references to the former candidate decreased in each of the first four months of Trump’s administration. In 2017, he mentioned her in 88% of episodes he hosted in January after Trump’s inauguration, 76% in February, 70% in March, and a mere 39% in April, the lowest total over the course of the study.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May 2017, however, the figure jumped to 79%, reflecting the host’s response to a spate of damaging stories about Trump and Russia and Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel. Hannity’s mentions haven't dropped below 60% in any month since October that year.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hillary Clinton mentions on Hannity's Fox News show</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity also takes every opportunity to lash out at Clinton whenever she speaks publicly. In October 2017, for example, in addition to airing several segments about Clinton’s links to either the dossier or Uranium One, Hannity also criticized Clinton’s comments responding to the Las Vegas mass shooting, her denunciation of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, and her support for NFL players who knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Fox host’s Clinton obsession generates some truly gob-smacking statistics, including:</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity mentioned Clinton on every episode he hosted in nine separate months: June 2017, March 2018, May 2018, June 2018, August 2018, November 2018, December 2018, May 2019, and June 2019.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clinton was mentioned (by Hannity or a guest) on every episode he hosted in 11 separate months -- all the months above plus February 2017 and March 2019.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity referenced Clinton on 60 consecutive episodes that he hosted between April 8, 2019, and July 12, 2019 -- the longest streak we observed. During the same stretch, he mentioned Vice President Mike Pence in two episodes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hannity mentioned Clinton on every single show he hosted from April 16, 2018, through June 28, 2018 -- a total of 47 consecutive episodes. He then went on vacation, with his show anchored by guest hosts other than a July 4 pretaped special on Trump's accomplishments in which Hannity did not mention Clinton. When he came back from the holiday, Hannity mentioned Clinton in the next 12 episodes.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The longest consecutive streak in which Hannity did not mention Clinton on shows he hosted was five -- from April 26, 2017, through May 2, 2017. His most recent consecutive nights during the study without mentioning her were February 21 and 22 of this year.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Hannity takes a night off, the “stop-Hillary express” rolls on, as the show typically features the same guests and themes, including the Clinton-focused anti-Mueller conspiracy theory. His guest hosts mentioned Clinton in 63% of their episodes, and she was mentioned in 85% of the episodes they hosted during the period of the study.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Methodology</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters reviewed transcripts via the Nexis database of every episode of Fox News’ Hannity between January 20, 2017, and August 31, 2019, and coded for whether Hillary Clinton was mentioned, whether Sean Hannity or a guest host moderated the program, and whether Hannity mentioned Clinton. Media Matters reviewed the iQ media video database in cases where Nexis transcripts were unavailable.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref 2 2015</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/fox-news-promotes-bombshell-book-founder-anti-hillary-clinton-group-cunt-and-writer">https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/fox-news-promotes-bombshell-book-founder-anti-hillary-clinton-group-cunt-and-writer</a></font></font></font></p><div class="editorial-fullsummary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 212, 221); padding: 1.5rem 0px;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-content-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News is promoting<b>&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;">The Clintons' War On Women</span>&nbsp;</b>as a&nbsp;“bombshell” despite the authors' history of dirty tricks and misogyny. Roger Stone is “America's most notorious political hatchet man” who formed an anti-Hillary Clinton group called “C.U.N.T.”&nbsp;Co-author&nbsp;Robert Morrow has wished death on Hillary Clinton and been visited by the Secret Service, posted bizarre sexual writings about the Clinton family, and called Chelsea Clinton a “slut” who might “have sex one day” with Bill Clinton.</font></p></div></div><div class="editorial-fullarticle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 2.25rem;"><div class="field field--name-field-stories-content field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Stone And Robert Morrow Wrote&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Clintons' War On Women</em></font></strong></font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone And Morrow Are Authors Of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Clintons' War On Women</em>, A Book&nbsp;“Designed To Smear The Clintons.”&nbsp;</strong>Roger Stone and Robert Morrow are the authors of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Clintons' War On Women</em>, which was released by Skyhorse Publishing on October 13. Veteran&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Jones</em>&nbsp;journalist David Corn noted that promotional material shows the book goes&nbsp;“real&nbsp;dirty” and is “apparently designed to smear the Clintons -- by depicting Bill as a serial rapist, Hillary as an enabler, and both members of the power couple as a diabolical duo bent on destroying anyone who stands in their way.” [SkyhorsePublishing.com, accessed&nbsp;<a href="http://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/book/?GCOI=60239109951690&" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Jones</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/09/roger-stone-book-trump-bill-clinton-hillary-rapist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/18/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Roger Stone Is A Notorious Republican Dirty Trickster Who Has Smeared The Clintons For Years.</strong>&nbsp;Numerous media outlets have referred to Stone as a “dirty trickster.”&nbsp;He has a long history of smearing Hillary Clinton, including forming the anti-Clinton group “C.U.N.T.” (“Citizens United Not Timid”), because he couldn't find the right words for “B.I.T.C.H.” Stone previously worked as a top political aide to Donald Trump's presidential campaign before exiting in August. Stone says he and Trump are “on cordial terms. We talk ... Trump has been my friend for 35 years. He's still my friend.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/06/05/did-fox-news-just-hire-this-misogynistic-profes/199618" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">6/5/14</a>; Talking Points Memo,&nbsp;<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/roger-stone-donald-trump-tpm-interview?utm_content=buffere7f9d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/2/15</a>]&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Robert Morrow Is An “Alternative Historian</span>” Who Has Posted Bizarre Sexual Writings About The Clintons And Wished Death On Hillary.&nbsp;</strong>Morrow has an extreme history against the Clintons. He has wished death on Hillary Clinton and been visited by the Secret Service; posted bizarre sexual writings about the Clinton family; called Chelsea Clinton a “slut” and imagined how she would “have sex one day” with Bill Clinton; and claimed the Bush and Clinton families were involved in murders.<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;The Tampa Bay Times</em>&nbsp;wrote that Morrow “pretty much devotes his life to hating the Clintons and spreading wild, unsubstantiated allegations about them.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC reporter Alex Seitz-Wald wrote that Morrow is “well-known to reporters who have covered the Clintons, thanks to his tendency to flood their inboxes with incredible and incredulous fables of the couple's alleged criminal exploits,” while The Daily Beast's Andrew Kirell wrote that “Many political journalists can attest to having received a blaring email from the right-wing author claiming the Clintons forced Chelsea to undergo plastic surgery” to cover up that she's purportedly not Bill Clinton's real daughter. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tampa Bay Times</em>,<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;</strong><a href="http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/29/Worldandnation/Some_people_just_love.shtml" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/29/08</a>; MSNBC.com,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/latest-anti-clinton-book-promises-be-most-fantastic-yet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>; The Daily Beast,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/13/inside-the-slimy-world-of-chelsea-clinton-conspiracy-theories.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>] &nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Trump Promoted Stone And Morrow's Book On Twitter.</strong>&nbsp;Trump wrote in an October 14 tweet that linked to the book's Amazon.com page: “The latest book on Hillary--Wow, a really tough one! http://www.amazon.com/dp/151070678X&nbsp; @RogerJStoneJr.” [Twitter.com,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/654309447381188608" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/14/15</a>]&nbsp;</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News On&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Clintons' War On Women</em>: “Bombshell,” “Needs To Be Read”</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity Endorses Stone And Morrow's Book: “This I Think Needs To Be Read By Anybody That Thinks Hillary Is A Champion Of Women's Rights.”&nbsp;</strong>During an October 13 interview on his Fox News program, Hannity said the “explosive new book completely destroys” the narrative that the Clintons are champions of women's rights. Hannity concluded&nbsp;that the book “needs to be read by anybody that thinks Hillary is a champion of women's rights.” [Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/10/14/42535/fnc-hannity-20151013-stone" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>] &nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity: “It's Really Worth Reading.”</strong>&nbsp;Hannity hosted Stone for a later panel discussion about the Democratic presidential debate and introduced his book by stating: “I tell you, it's really worth reading. A lot of interesting information.” [Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/10/14/42538/fnc-hannity-20151014-stone" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/14/15</a>]&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hannity Also Hosted Stone On His Radio Show</strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">.&nbsp;</strong>[<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Sean Hannity Show,&nbsp;</em><a href="http://www.hannity.com/onair/the-sean-hannity-show-55176/details-from-the-clintons-war-on-14030680" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends</em></strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;Promoted The Book As A “Bombshell.”</strong>&nbsp;During&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends&nbsp;Sunday</em>, co-host Anna Kooiman promoted “the allegations” from Stone's “bombshell” book that Clinton has “a dark and violent past.” [Fox News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends&nbsp;Sunday</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/10/04/42364/fnc-ffsun-20151004-clintonbook" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/4/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends&nbsp;</i>Hosted Stone To Push The Allegation That Bill Clinton&nbsp;</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sexually Assaulted “Hundreds Of Women ... And Hillary Runs The Cover-Up.”&nbsp;</b>From the October 16 edition of&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fox & Friends:&nbsp;</i></font></font></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">STEVE DOOCY (HOST)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">: A brand-new book taking aim&nbsp;at Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy&nbsp;targeting her war on women&nbsp;campaign, even highlighting how&nbsp;she and her husband, Bill&nbsp;Clinton, systematically abused&nbsp;women during their time in the White House. Joining us right now the author of&nbsp;</span><i style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The&nbsp;Clintons' War on Women</i><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">, Roger Stone. Roger, good morning to you.</span></font></font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>ROGER STONE:</b>&nbsp;Steve, great to be with you.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DOOCY: What do we find out about the&nbsp;Clintons in your book?&nbsp;</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STONE: Hypocrisy.&nbsp;“H” stands for both hypocrisy&nbsp;and Hillary.&nbsp;She says she's an advocate for&nbsp;women and that's true, as long&nbsp;as you're not one of those women&nbsp;unlucky enough to have been&nbsp;sexually assaulted by her&nbsp;husband.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's very much like the Bill&nbsp;Cosby story.&nbsp;If it's sort of one or two women, you might&nbsp;say “well, it's some woman&nbsp;looking for a payday or the&nbsp;limelight.” But this is systematic.&nbsp;There are literally hundreds of&nbsp;women who have been sexually&nbsp;assaulted by Bill Clinton and&nbsp;Hillary runs the cover-up.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DOOCY: What do you mean she runs the&nbsp;cover-up?&nbsp;</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">STONE: Well, she hires Jack&nbsp;Palladino.&nbsp;She hires Anthony Pellicano. She hires Ivan Duda, private detectives and then&nbsp;they take on the mission of&nbsp;silencing these women, lest they&nbsp;get in the way of the Clintons'&nbsp;rise to power.&nbsp;[Fox News,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;">Fox & Friends,&nbsp;</i><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2015/10/16/fox-still-promoting-founder-of-anti-clinton-hat/206207" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-bottom: 0px;">10/16/15</a>]</font></p></div></blockquote></div><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Stone's Latest Book Continues His History Of Dirty Tricks</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Is A “Dirty Trickster” And “America's Most Notorious Political Hatchet Man.”</strong>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Miami Herald</em>&nbsp;wrote that “Stone has become America's most notorious political hatchet man.” Numerous outlets have referred to Stone as a “dirty trickster,” including&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The</em>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Weekly Standard</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Yorker</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tampa Bay Times</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</em>, CNN, and&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</em>. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Miami Herald</em>,<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article2766816.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/14/14</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Weekly Standard</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">1/28/08</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Yorker</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">6/2/08</a>; TampaBay.com,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/trump-ally-roger-stone-publishing-books-attacking-hillary-clinton-and-jeb/2245763" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/16/15</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/movies/24client.html?r=0" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/22/10</a>; CNN,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0805/29/ltm.02.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">5/29/08</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/06/16/the-rise-and-gall-of-roger-stone/d8ce308b-7055-4666-860e-378833f46e17/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">6/16/86</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone's Website Features Quotes Calling Him A “Master Of Right-Wing Political Hit Jobs,” “The High Priest Of Political Hijinks,” And “Master Of The Black Arts Of Electioneering.”&nbsp;</strong>The quotes featured on Stone's website come from, respectively,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico</em>,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Weekly Standard</em>, and Scotsman.com.&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico</em>&nbsp;notes that Stone “publicly embraces his image as a dirty trickster.” [StoneZone.com, accessed&nbsp;<a href="http://stonezone.com/about.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/15</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Politico</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/donald-trumps-debate-dirty-trickster-121098" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">8/6/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Became “The Youngest Watergate Dirty Trickster.”&nbsp;</strong>A 1985&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Republic</em>&nbsp;profile of Stone reported:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He says he became a Republican at age 12, after a neighbor in Norwalk, Conn., gave him a copy of Barry Goldwater“s ”Conscience of a Conservative." Stone was devastated by Goldwater's defeat, but remained fully devoted to the party, rising through the ranks of youth groups like Teenage Republicans, College Republicans, Young Republicans, and the Young Americans for Freedom. As a 19-year-old student at George Washington University, Stone was the youngest Watergate dirty trickster. On orders from Creep boss Bart Porter, Stone hired Michael McMinoway -- known as “Sedan Chair II” -- to infiltrate the McGovern campaign and report back. Using the pseudonym “Jason Rainier,” Stone made contributions to the New Hampshire McCloskey campaign in the name of supposed left-wing groups like Young Socialist Alliance. He then sent the receipts along with an anonymous letter to The Manchester Union-Leader. He also recommended that Creep hire a fellow student named Theodore Brill, who was subsequently paid $130 a week to spy on “radical groups.” Stone says the ideas for this “kid stuff” -- none of which was actually illegal at the time -- emanated from Charles Colson, and that if he had refused to do it, Creep would have fired him and gotten someone else. [NYTimes.com,&nbsp;<a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/a-political-operatives-career-the-stone-zone/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">8/22/07</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Was Heavily Fined&nbsp;For Ethical Violation.</strong>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The New York Times</em>&nbsp;reported in 2000 that Trump and his associates, including Stone, “have agreed to pay $250,000 in fines and to issue a public apology because they failed to disclose to the state lobbying commission that he had secretly financed newspaper advertisements opposing casino gambling in the Catskills.” Stone reportedly paid $100,000. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">New York Times</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/nyregion/trump-and-others-accept-fines-for-ads-in-opposition-to-casinos.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/6/00</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">“A Stone-Led Squad Of Pro-Bush Protestors Stormed The Miami-Dade County Election Board, Stopping The” Florida Recount.&nbsp;</strong>Benjy&nbsp;Sarlin wrote in The Daily Beast:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The capstone of Stone's career, at least in terms of results, was the “Brooks Brothers riot” of the 2000 election recount. This was when a Stone-led squad of pro-Bush protestors stormed the Miami-Dade County election board, stopping the recount and advancing then-Governor George W. Bush one step closer to the White House. Though he is quick to rebut GOP operatives who seek to minimize his role in the recount, Stone lately has been having second thoughts about what happened in Florida. [Daily Beast,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2008/11/20/a-gop-dirty-trickster-has-second-thoughts.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">11/20/08</a>] &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Established Anti-Hillary Clinton Group Called “C.U.N.T.”&nbsp;</strong>In 2008, Stone established the anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group Citizens United Not Timid. The group -- now defunct -- emphasized the acronym by bolding the first letter in each word. The group claimed to “educate the American public about what Hillary Clinton really is.” Stone said also he spent “hours trying to come up with words for B.I.T.C.H. and just couldn't do it.”&nbsp;[<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2008/02/20/days-after-today-apology-for-fonda-comment-msnb/142621" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">2/20/08</a>;&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Weekly Standard</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">1/28/08</a>] &nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Founded “C.U.N.T.” Because That's The Description He Heard Of Clinton From Males In Bars.</strong>&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Weekly Standard</em>&nbsp;wrote of Stone's group in 2008:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even among fellow mercenaries, good help can be hard to find. A few nights prior, Stone had been interviewing a sinister Italian gentleman for the front man gig. It was a two-question interview. Stone kicked things off with, “Let me ask you, Angelo: I say 'Hillary Clinton.' Tell me the first word that comes to your mind, even if it's risqué.” "[Special flower]," Angelo immediately replied. To which Stone followed with, “Would you be willing to tell other people you think that?” Angelo assented: “Abso-f'in'-lutely.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the interview concluded, Angelo excused himself to the restroom, at which time one of Stone's friends asked, “Do you know who that is?” “No,” Stone said, “Who is he? Nice guy.” His friend explained, “He's one of the soldiers of the Lucchese family, has a record as long as your arm. I don't think he's the guy you want.” Advantage: Noodles.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stone says Angelo's is a sentiment you regularly hear, particularly from males, if you casually focus-group Hillary Clinton in bars--where this and “all good ideas” are hatched. The operation's genesis occurred when Stone was standing around with friends at a bar, Clinton appeared on television, and someone said “What a [special flower].” Everyone immediately concurred. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;">Weekly Standard</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/617oiaek.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-bottom: 0px;">1/28/08</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Referenced “C.U.N.T.” Group In 2015.</strong>&nbsp;[Facebook,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/R.Stone.Zone/photos/a.145409832281070.32433.131310460357674/512947432193973/?type=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">8/16/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Lobs Misogynistic Insults At Women On Twitter.&nbsp;</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Sun-Sentinel</em>&nbsp;wrote of Stone:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stone on Twitter called [political opponent Judy] Stern's daughter a “self-important, nasty c--,'' Tweeted ”DIE B-TCH!'' to former New York Times editor Jill Abramson, whom he called a “snot-nosed, arrogant, biased liberal -- and all around b-tch'' on Twitter for not reviewing his JFK book, and in another publicly viewable Tweet called actress Sofia Vergara a ”self-centered b-tch.'' [<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;">The Sun-Sentinel</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2014-08-16/news/fl-roger-stone-sheriff-israel-20140809_1_roger-stone-sheriff-scott-israel-unqualified-punk/2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-bottom: 0px;">8/16/14</a>]</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone: “Hillary Is A Pathological Liar And A Cold Bitch.”</strong>&nbsp;[Twitter.com,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/rogerjstonejr/status/584899364725907456" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">4/5/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone: "</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/ChelseaClinton" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">@ChelseaClinton</strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">&nbsp;Is A Total Bitch ? Now There's A Surprise."</strong>&nbsp;[Twitter.com,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/601214188711731200" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">5/20/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone: “SHAME ! Bill And Hillary Clinton Pimp Their 'Daughter' Out To Media To Defend Their Rampant Corruption.”</strong>&nbsp;[Twitter.com,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/592007819982811137" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">4/25/15</a>]</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Morrow Wishes Death On Hillary Clinton, Posted Bizarre Sexual Writings About Clintons</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow Hopes For Hillary Clinton's Death.</strong>&nbsp;Morrow has written that “The Taliban was created to deal with people like Hillary Clinton”; wondered if “all your sexual fantasies about Hillary Clinton involve 'snuff films?' Probably not good for most of you to answer that question”; and said “I hope Bill Clinton talks Hillary into running in 2016 ... and she loses and or both of them die from medical complications of the campaign trail begging folks to vote for Hillary. That would be nice.” Morrow told a Florida newspaper in 2008 that the Secret Service visited him about his Clinton writings but nothing came of it. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#death" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow Has Posted Bizarre Sexual Writings About Hillary Clinton</strong>. Morrow has posted bizarre sexual writings about Hillary Clinton,&nbsp;including referencing&nbsp;“my Hillary Clinton blow up doll,” “Clinton's vaginal odor,” when “maggots started coming out of her pussy,” and a “Hillary Clinton Excessive Masturbation Fantasy support group.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#bizarre" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow On Chelsea Clinton: “Slut,” Incest, A Dog.&nbsp;</strong>Morrow relayed that someone told him “Chelsea was the slut” in college. Morrow has also compared her to a dog and wondered whether&nbsp;she&nbsp;would “have sex one day” with Bill Clinton. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#chelsea" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow Approached Chelsea Clinton And&nbsp;Asked&nbsp;Her: “Has Your Mother Ever Told You That You're The Daughter Of&nbsp;Webb Hubbell&nbsp;And Not Bill Clinton?”</strong>&nbsp;[Facebook.com,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/899072623473784?pnref=story" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/9/15</a>]&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow Has Posted&nbsp;Outlandish Conspiracies&nbsp;About A Variety Of Topics</strong>. Morrow has claimed George H. W. Bush “murdered JFK” and “is a homosexual pedophile”; wrote President “Obama smoked crack with and had a blowjob” with his “gay lover”; and claimed “Jeb Bush murdered Barry Seal. He was a 1980's CIA drug smuggler.” [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#bizarre" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow Posted Slurs In Online Rants</strong>. Morrow has written against “pro-faggot JUDICIAL ACTIVISM” and used the slur “nigger”&nbsp;when&nbsp;complaining about political correctness. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2015/09/03/anti-clinton-author-robert-morrow-posted-bizarr/205294#facebook" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow On&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>'&nbsp;Piece About Him: “Everything I Talk About Is True.”&nbsp;</strong>Morrow posted a link to a&nbsp;September 3&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>&nbsp;post about him and wrote, “The greatest tweets and Facebook posts of Robert Morrow. Please share and comment!” When someone asked him for a response to&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>' criticism, Morrow wrote: “My response? Everything I talk about is true.” [Facebook,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Robert.Morrow.888/posts/883649081682805" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Morrow To&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>&nbsp;President: “Go Fuck Yourself” For Covering For&nbsp;“Angry Bull Dyke Handler Hillary.”&nbsp;</strong>After&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Media Matters</em>&nbsp;president Bradley Beychok criticized him on Twitter, Morrow responded: “go fuck yourself. You cover for a serial rapist and his angry bull dyke handler Hillary.” [Twitter.com,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/RobMorroLiberty/status/644917149144735745" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/18/15</a>]&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stone Defends Morrow: “Morrow Is An Extraordinary Researcher.”</strong>&nbsp;Stone has defended his co-author when asked about his background. MSNBC's Alex Seitz-Wald reported:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stone said he met Morrow while promoting his first book, which alleges that former President Lyndon Johnson killed former President John F. Kennedy. “Morrow is an extraordinary researcher,” Stone said.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stone added, “He's absolutely an eccentric character, to say the least, but when you double-check his research, it checks out.” [MSNBC.com,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/latest-anti-clinton-book-promises-be-most-fantastic-yet" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">9/3/15</a>]</font></p></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="outline: none;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB861917340688900500">https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB861917340688900500</a></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Ginni clinton jihad:&nbsp; proto-Benghazi</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Edward Felsenthal and David Rogers Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">April 25, 1997&nbsp;</font></b></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WASHINGTON -- Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, had to force herself to be pleasant when she met Hillary Clinton for the first time four years ago.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mrs. Clinton had been an outspoken supporter of Anita Hill, the woman who had famously accused Mr. Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 confirmation hearings. Ms. Thomas couldn't get the association out of her mind.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"For me, it was, 'Wow, now I have to, in my role, be respectful and cordial and courteous,' " Ms. Thomas recalls thinking as she moved through a receiving line toward the new first lady. Although the brief encounter was awkward for her, Ms. Thomas says she was proud of how she handled it. She gave Mrs. Clinton some verses from the Bible, along with a warning about how tough this city can be.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today Ms. Thomas feels a kinship with Mrs. Clinton. Like the first lady, she is best known as the spouse of a prominent man. But also like Mrs. Clinton, she has become a controversial political player and has been the subject of vigorous public criticism for her partisan activities.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although she takes pains to carve out her own identity, Ms. Thomas, 40 years old, is inevitably linked with her husband in much of what she does. "A lot of people treat her a certain way ... because of who she is married to," says radio-host&nbsp;<b>Armstrong Williams, a former close aide and a friend to Justice Thomas.</b></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Awkward Predicament</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Thomas says there are challenges that come with "being a Supreme Court spouse, as opposed to just a lawyer working in Washington." Her dual role highlights an increasingly common political phenomenon: Now that many political partners are professionals themselves, they face an awkward predicament. Many find they have to struggle to avoid being used as political tools or being perceived as benefiting from their spouse's position.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-image="background-image" initial="initial" background-position="background-position" background-size="background-size" background-repeat="background-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b>Barbara Olson,&nbsp;</b>an aide to the Senate leadership who has worked in congressional investigations of the Clinton administration, has been a target of Democratic sniping that she is a proxy for her husband,&nbsp;<b>Theodore Olson, a prominent lawyer who has represented one of the president's accusers in the Whitewater affair.</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Republicans in the last Congress delighted in cutting money for a small anticrime program that paid consulting fees to Sylvia Panetta, wife of then-White House Chief-of-Staff Leon Panetta. That put Mr. Panetta in the uncomfortable position of having to fight to get the money back.</span></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ms. Thomas had already made a name for herself as an activist in conservative circles before Republicans took over Congress in 1994. But her influence grew after that election when her boss, Rep. Dick Armey of Texas, became House majority leader.</font></b></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ms. Thomas operates much as an eager young administrative officer back at the base camp for the Republican infantry. She works behind the scenes, serving as part strategist and part cheerleader for the leadership's effort to<b>&nbsp;beef-up the GOP's ability to investigate and oversee the White House and executive agencies</b></span><b>.[benghazi much later?]&nbsp;</b></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Partisan Battles</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is a role that takes her from dry, detailed General Accounting Office reports to the&nbsp;<b>higher-profile and more partisan-edged investigations of administration scandals.</b>&nbsp;She has assisted with the investigations of White House ethics,&nbsp;<b>Whitewater, the firing of the White House travel staff,</b>&nbsp;and the late Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's financial dealings. When Republicans approved an expanded budget for House committee investigations last month, the move partly reflected Ms. Thomas's influence.</font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She has figured in several high-profile fights involving the House Appropriations Committee. Over the objections of some Republicans on the committee,&nbsp;<b>she pressed hard for deep cuts in funding to Legal Services Corp., a provider of legal aid to the poor that she viewed as using federal money to advance liberal causes.</b></font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And in a stormy panel meeting in<b>&nbsp;1995, she stood watch on behalf of Mr. Armey as Republicans reluctantly lined up behind a leadership attempt to bar funding for nonprofit organizations that engage in advocacy, in many cases for poor constituencies.</b>&nbsp;The measure ultimately failed because of opposition in the Senate.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During this Congress, Ms. Thomas has stepped back, as the leadership has relaxed its efforts to control committee chairmen. But she is still a force behind continuing investigations, and&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">before last year's election she helped gather information on White House scandals for Republicans to use on the campaign trail. (That project was abandoned after word of its existence leaked, prompting concern that it would make Republicans look like scandalmongers.)</span></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A memo this past January titled "Foreign Money Contributions Scandal" illustrates Ms. Thomas's style. Throwing as wide a net as possible, she addressed it to Republican staff on 19 committees, including the sensitive Intelligence panel. In it, she cited statutes or regulations that might have been violated by overseas contributions to Democrats. She urged staff directors to be "watchful" for administration efforts to dismiss problems as just "campaign finance." Ms. Thomas wrote, "what we don't know is how much was for sale in the Clinton presidency."</font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though Ms. Thomas is good-humored and engaging, her writing sometimes gets her into trouble.<b>&nbsp;Much of her job is simply informational: She helps produce a biweekly "Oversight Bulletin" publicizing current investigations. But when she pens strategy, she betrays a partisan edge that makes experienced staff directors blanch.</b></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A case in point is an April 1996 memo she wrote fo<b>r Republican congressmen Bob Walker and Jim Nussle&nbsp;</b>and sent to House committees, asking for "examples of dishonesty or ethical lapses in the Clinton administration" and "anecdotes that amplify these areas." The memo requested that all such materials be sent to her as quickly as possible and reminded committee chairs that "you are a tremendous resource for this project."</font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic Backlash</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Democrats quickly turned Ms. Thomas's memo on the Republicans, claiming it proved that the investigations were partisan. During one hearing, Democrats blew up the memo and posted it on an easel to suggest that the proceeding was part of a GOP plot to denigrate the administration</b>.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Even some Republican staff members complained that it went too far. "It didn't dawn on her that in Congress, things aren't supposed to&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">appear&nbsp;</span>politically driven,"&nbsp;</b>even if they are, says a senior GOP aide who has worked with her.</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In May, two weeks after the memo was distributed, Democratic Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia spotted Ms. Thomas in the audience at a hearing on the White House travel-office firings. In a rare public attack on a congressional staffer, he demanded to know why "Mrs. Clarence Thomas in that bright blue dress" was present. "I really smell a political witch hunt," he said.</font></span></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ms. Thomas didn't endure the attack silently. Later that day, she confronted Mr. Moran on a House elevator and showed him a copy of a book, "Everything Men Know About Women," in which all the pages are blank. "This book is about you</span>," she said.<b>&nbsp;Justice Thomas later left his wife a voice-mail message in which he teasingly sang verses of the song, "Devil With a Blue Dress On."</b></font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spousal Conflict?</font></p><p times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background="background" rgb="rgb" padding="padding" px="px" border="border" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" line-height="line-height" overflow-wrap="overflow-wrap" break-word="break-word" style="margin: 0px 0px 17px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, who also questioned Ms. Thomas's role at the travel-office hearing, believes it is a conflict of interest for her to be involved in disputes between Congress and the White House that the Supreme Court might be called on to settle.&nbsp;</span>"We may have a problem here where the marital relationship confuses the constitutional intent" of the separation of powers, Mr. Kanjorski says. Ms. Thomas laughs when told of Mr. Kanjorski's statement, but declines to comment....[much more]</font></p></div><div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-us-policy-honduras-set-stage-mass-migration-today">https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-us-policy-honduras-set-stage-mass-migration-today</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">energy $, 50K bernie</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/meet-the-climate-activist-who-made-hillary-clinton-mad/">http://grist.org/climate-energy/meet-the-climate-activist-who-made-hillary-clinton-mad/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8/15</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/glenn-greenwald-hillary-clinton-has-embraced-some-most-brutal-dictators-world</font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tough and detailed plan ~ isis daish</font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ktm:</font></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapter 10</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Romney-ization of Hillary Clinton</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p. 203</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HC met alinsky in college</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">UNLV scandal 225K$ fee but went to fdn; contract specified hummus for "rock star[M&M practical]</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">clintons very MC when elected, and in 2000 1.8m$ assets but legal debt &nbsp;$10m 209</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">out of law school ngo; married 1975 in living room</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>2015 GPS www video</b> HC foreign $ narrated " by Eliz warren [not ref to HC?]</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HC wanted wall st reform like derivatives 216</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapter 11</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">E-mails: The Times Strikes Again</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p. 219</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">jeb published email but 1/10th he owned the server. 236</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NYT story on email left out that prev Sos used private email 224</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014 record law took effect 18 mos after HC left</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">scott walker cty exec office used secret email? chris christie</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapter 12</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Haters and the Enablers</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p. 238</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">gender</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bill o had body language expert declare her 'evil" 239</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Andrea Dowd 3/4 cols negative</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chapter 13</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Coming Battle</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">p. 250</span></font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservative media figures are attacking Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plan to revitalize coal communities by deceptively claiming Obama administration environmental policies that Clinton supports are responsible for "destroying" and "crippling" coal country in the first place. But these media figures are downplaying -- or outright ignoring -- more significant factors that have led to the coal industry's decades of decline, such as competition from natural gas and renewables, depletion of easily recoverable coal reserves, and advances in mining technology.</font></span></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/17/pro-koch-cbs-analyst-received-15-million-from-t/206918"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/11/17/pro-koch-cbs-analyst-received-15-million-from-t/206918</font></a></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>MSNBC&nbsp;<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ex-benghazi-investigator-sues-trey-gowdy-discrimination-and-defamation" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">reported</a>&nbsp;that former House Benghazi Select Committee investigator Brad Podliska, is suing the committee for defamation after allegedly facing retaliation for claiming the committee was "hyper-focus[ed]" on Hillary Clinton.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Podliska was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/politics/former-benghazi-investigator-says-he-was-fired-unlawfully.html?r=0" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">fired</a>&nbsp;in late June after working for almost ten months as an investigator for the committee partly for, according to Select Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), mishandling classified information. On October 11, during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on&nbsp;<i>State of the Union</i>, Podliska&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">called</a>&nbsp;the committee's investigation "partisan" and claimed the focus shifted almost exclusively to Clinton after it was reported that she utilized a&nbsp;<b>private email server&nbsp;</b>while serving as Secretary of State.</font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gowdy and the committee denied the allegations, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/us/politics/former-benghazi-investigator-says-he-was-fired-unlawfully.html?r=0" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a>&nbsp;Podliska was "terminated for cause." A committee spokesperson issued a statement accusing Podliska of his own bias in his work, claiming he participated in an effort to direct committee resources to create a "'hit piece' on members of the Obama Administration, including Secretary Clinton." The statement&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a>&nbsp;the committee would not be "blackmailed into a monetary settlement for a false allegation." Gowdy also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/10/politics/benghazi-committee-investigation-political-hillary-clinton-brad-podliska-lawsuit/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">issued</a>&nbsp;his own statement, claiming he never spoke directly with Podliska and was confident no one on the committee instructed him to focus on Clinton. This occurred just weeks after House<b>Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)&nbsp;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2015/09/29/after-republican-lawmaker-boasts-that-benghazi/205867" style="outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">bragged</a>&nbsp;to Fox's Sean Hannity that Clinton's "numbers are dropping" because of the Select Committee's work.</b></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Benghazi Select Committee is&nbsp;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/07/now-that-everyones-calling-for-the-end-of-the-b/206025" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">largely a creation</a>&nbsp;of Fox News and other members conservative media, who endlessly called for Congress to investigate Clinton over the Benghazi attacks.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;After McCarthy acknowledged the partisan nature of the committee, Fox News hosts Bret Baier and Bill O'Reilly and Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume&nbsp;</span><a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/10/16/fox-news-finally-concedes-benghazi-committee-is/206217" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conceded</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;that the purpose of the investigation was political.</span></font></p><p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MSNBC reported that Podliska is not seeking monetary compensation from the defamation suit, but rather for Gowdy to release a statement admitting his allegation Podliska mishandled classified information was false. He is also asking for an injunction to prevent Gowdy from repeating the claim:</font></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/hillary-clinton-arctic-drilling-not-worth-risk">http://www.alternet.org/environment/hillary-clinton-arctic-drilling-not-worth-risk</a></font></b></p><p><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;4/15 ecowatch</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When she spoke to at the League of Conservation Voters’ (LCV) annual dinner in December,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/02/3598104/hillary-clinton-fracking-keystone/" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">much of the media coverage</a><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">again centered on her failure to say anything about the Keystone XL pipeline. The</span><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><em style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Post</em><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-noncommittal-stance-on-environment-creates-political-dilemma/2014/12/01/609d95a0-796c-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html" target="blank" style="line-height: 25.2px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ran a piece</a><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;saying “Her refusal to take a stand on Keystone has disappointed some of the loudest—and richest—environmental activists who view the project as a test of a candidate’s environmental bona fides.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But what about everything else? Taking a look at the full range of Hillary’s positions on the environmental issues and comparing them with the positions and votes of the Republican field, it’s clear that a climate voter—and the planet—can’t afford the luxury of claiming they’re all the same. Virtually every entrant into the GOP field is a&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/?s=climate+deniers" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">climate denier</a>&nbsp;to a great or lesser degree.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The science of&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/fracking-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">climate change</a>&nbsp;is unforgiving no matter what the deniers may say,” said Hillary at the LCV dinner. “Sea levels are raising, ice caps are melting, storms, droughts and wildfires are wreaking havoc, 13&nbsp;of the top 14 warmest years in recorded history have happened since 2000, and this past summer scientists found levels of carbon diode in our atmosphere not seen in hundreds of thousands of years.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s not a statement you’re likely to hear from any of the GOP candidates. Take only the two announced candidates as examples.&nbsp;Cruz is a full-throated supporter of unlimited, unregulated fossil fuel exploration and extraction or, as he put it “remove the barriers to every form of energy.” He has said there is no global warming and trotted out the debunked theory that there was “global cooling” in the ’70s. “The problem with climate change is there’s never been a day in the history of the world in which the climate is not changing,”&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/03/23/climate-denier-ted-cruz-run-for-president/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">he said</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/07/tom-steyer-climate-denier-hot-seat/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">Rand Paul has said</a>that the science behind climate change is “not conclusive” and that anyone who ties extreme weather events to climate change is an “ignoramus.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Speaking at the LCV dinner, Hillary praised the group’s advocacy for the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act, adding, “Years later, you pushed for and rallied behind President Obama’s use of the Clean Air Act to set the first-ever federal limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants which are driving the most dangerous effects of climate change. The unprecedented action President Obama has taken must be protected at all costs.”</span>...</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><div class="top-tools"><div class="left"><div class="story_tools_print"><div class="right"><div class="talk_box"><div class="clear-divider"><div class="the_body body_news-politics clearfix" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Press reports indicate that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-seen-launching-presidential-bid-in-april-1425254392">announce her run</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[3]</span></u>&nbsp;for president next month, setting off a 20-month election cycle.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her first steps are to set up a campaign in the historic early primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire. Perhaps with an eye toward her third-place finish in 2008, Clinton's operation is moving swiftly to secure a political team in Iowa to create a base of operations to stave off any challengers.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Along those lines, the Washington Post published a&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/hillary-clintons-iowa-horse-whisperer-jerry-crawford-aims-for-caucus-kentucky-derby/2015/03/02/9c93b638-be23-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html">long profile</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[4]</span>&nbsp;</u>of Jerry Crawford, a long-time Iowa political hand who is serving as an adviser to Ready For Hillary, the super PAC supporting the former first lady's run for the White House. The profile focuses largely on personal details about Crawford, such as his love of the Kentucky Derby, but affirms that as a former Midwestern co-chair of Clinton's 2008 campaign, he's ready to take her all the way this time.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What the piece doesn't go into is that between Clinton's 2008 race and her likely entry into the presidential race again this year, Crawford has been busy serving a corporate clientele and even assisting Iowa Republicans—which should raise eyebrows for those worried Team Hillary is too tied to corporate America instead of Main Street.</font></p><p><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monsanto's Man In Iowa</font></strong></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before joining Clinton's campaign in 2008, Crawford served in a variety of high-profile political roles. In addition to a variety of local positions, he served as the Iowa chair for the presidential campaigns of Mike Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry—each one the more conservative candidates in their Democratic presidential primaries.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So it was a natural fit for Crawford to sign up for the Hillary campaign. But after Clinton's 2008 loss, Crawford&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.crawfordlawfirm.com/attorneys/view.cfm?id=20">spent his days</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[5]</span></u>&nbsp;at Crawford Muaro, his law and lobbying firm. While there,&nbsp;<u><a href="http://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=Matt&Service=Lobby">he represented</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[6]</span></u>&nbsp;a variety of corporate clients, including Kraft and Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris USA). He also&nbsp;<u><a href="http://iowaindependent.com/42153/northey-slammed-as-lapdog-of-egg-industry">served as a lawyer</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[7]</span></u>&nbsp;for Jack DeCoster, a factory farm tycoon who infamously supplied eggs that led to a salmonella outbreak. His most prominent client, however, was Monsanto.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monsanto, the agricultural and biotechnology corporation founded in Missouri, is&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.alternet.org/take-action/5-most-horrifying-things-about-monsanto-why-you-should-join-global-movement-and-protest">known worldwide</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[8]</span></u>&nbsp;for its abuses against the environment and practices designed to crush farm competition. Iowa is a farming state, with agriculture&nbsp;<a href="http://www.iowaeconomicdevelopment.com/WhyIowa/WhyIowaEconomy">making up</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[9]</span>&nbsp;a large share&nbsp;of its total economy.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 2010 Agriculture Secretary election was particularly important for Monsanto; as one Iowa blogger&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.bleedingheartland.com/diary/4337/hired-gun-for-big-ag-endorses-francis-thickes-opponent">noted</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[10]</span></u>, it holds “patents on most of the corn and soybeans grown in Iowa.” The company was also the subject of an&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsanto-focus-of-antitrust-investigation/">antitrust investigation</a><span class="print-footnote">[11]</span></u>.&nbsp;The Democratic nominee for the spot, Francis Thicke, was a&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2010/12624-democrat-monsanto-lobbyist-supports-gop-candidate">critic of Monsanto</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[12]</span></u>&nbsp;and a backer of antitrust actions against the big agricultural companies. Thus it wasn't long before Monsanto took aim at Thicke, allying itself to the Republican nominee and incumbent, Bill Northey.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Crawford, working for Monsanto at the time, endorsed Northey,&nbsp;<u><a href="http://okhenderson.com/2010/11/01/last-minute-smack-downs-in-northeythicke-race/">he touted</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[13]</span></u>&nbsp;his backing as evidence of “strong bipartisan support,” calling him a “veteran Democratic political insider.”&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Francis Thicke picked up&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.bleedingheartland.com/diary/4337/hired-gun-for-big-ag-endorses-francis-thickes-opponent">strong endorsements</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[10]</span></u>&nbsp;from progressives in the farm movement, such as food writer Michael Pollen, environmentalist Bill McKibben and former Texas Ag Commissioner and progressive writer Jim Hightower, he was defeated in his race against Northey,&nbsp;<u><a href="http://grist.org/article/food-2010-11-03-bill-northey-defeats-francis-thicke/">getting</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[14]</span></u>&nbsp;just 37 percent of the vote to his 63 percent. Monsanto ended up being Northey's&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=6667233&default=candidate">eighth-largest</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[15]</span></u>&nbsp;direct contributor. His top supporter, the Iowa Farm Bureau,&nbsp;is&nbsp;<u><a href="http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/FarmBureauLR.pdf">allied</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[16]</span></u>&nbsp;to Monsanto.</font></p><p><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clinton and Biotechnology</font></strong></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Jerry Crawford was a co-chair of Clinton's 2008 campaign and is one of the organizers of Ready For Hillary, this does not necessarily mean Clinton shares his views on Big Agriculture. It is telling, however, that someone who worked as a hired gun for Monsanto to defeat a progressive Democrat is so enthusiastic about a potential Clinton presidency.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And it is worth noting that since leaving the State Department, Clinton has been an advocate of genetically modified crops and biotechnology like the techniques Monsanto has pioneered. In a&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/23590">paid speech</a>&nbsp;<span class="print-footnote">[17]</span></u>&nbsp;at the 2014 Biotechnology Industry Organization, where she was introduced by former Clinton fundraiser and current Virginia Democratic governor Terry McAullife, Clinton offered support for the industry.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I stand in favor of using seeds and products that have a proven track record....And to continue to try to make the case for those who are skeptical that they may not know what they're eating already. The question of genetically modified food or hybrids has gone on for many many years. And there is again a big gap between what the facts are and what perceptions are,” she said to applause. She went on to defend drought-resistant genetically modified technology Monsanto has developed.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are legitimate debates to be had about Big Agriculture and the benefits of the genetically modified crops that Monsanto specializes in. But it's difficult to have fair and honest debates in a climate where candidates are directly courting the corporations that benefit. Jerry Crawford is a symptom of a bigger problem—the inability of our presidential candidates to build a political operation without incorporating powerful corporate interests from the very outset.&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch Clinton's full talk below:</font></p></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/10/hillary-clinton-fracking_n_5796786.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/10/hillary-clinton-fracking_n_5796786.html</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">story</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>originally appeared on<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Jones</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and is reproduced here as part of the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://climatedesk.org/" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate Desk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>collaboration.</font></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ONE ICY MORNING</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>in February 2012, Hillary Clinton's plane touched down in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, which was just digging out from a fierce blizzard. Wrapped in a thick coat, the secretary of state descended the stairs to the snow-covered tarmac, where she and her aides piled into a motorcade bound for the presidential palace. That afternoon, they huddled with Bulgarian leaders, including Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, discussing everything from Syria's bloody civil war to their joint search for loose nukes. But the focus of the talks was fracking. The previous year, Bulgaria had signed a five-year, $68 million deal, granting US oil giant Chevron millions of acres in shale gas concessions. Bulgarians were outraged. Shortly before Clinton arrived, tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets carrying<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/17/bulgaria-chevron-fracking_n_1210299.html" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">placards</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>that read "Stop fracking with our water" and "Chevron go home." Bulgaria's parliament responded by voting overwhelmingly for a fracking moratorium.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clinton urged Bulgarian officials to give fracking another chance. According to Borissov, she<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2012/02/183342.htm" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">agreed</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>to help fly in the "best specialists on these new technologies to present the benefits to the Bulgarian people." But resistance only grew. The following month in neighboring Romania, thousands of people gathered to protest another Chevron fracking project, and Romania's parliament began weighing its own shale gas moratorium. Again Clinton intervened, dispatching her special envoy for energy in Eurasia, Richard Morningstar, to push back against the fracking bans. The State Depart­ment's lobbying effort culminated in late May 2012, when Morningstar held a series of meetings on fracking with top Bulgarian and Romanian officials. He also touted the technology in an interview on Bulgarian national radio, saying it could lead to a fivefold drop in the price of natural gas. A few weeks later, Romania's parliament voted down its proposed fracking ban and Bulgaria's eased its moratorium.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; direction: ltr; line-height: 21px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The episode sheds light on a crucial but little-known dimension of Clinton's diplomatic legacy. Under her leadership, the State Department worked closely with energy companies to spread fracking around the globe—part of a broader push to fight climate change, boost global energy supply, and undercut the power of adversaries such as Russia that use their energy resources as a cudgel. But environmental groups fear that exporting fracking, which has been linked to<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/10/radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">drinking-water contamination</a>and<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/03/does-fracking-cause-earthquakes-wastewater-dewatering" target="hplink" sl-processed="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">earthquakes</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>at home, could wreak havoc in countries with scant environmental regulation. And according to interviews, diplomatic cables, and other documents obtained by<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Jones</em>, American officials—some with deep ties to industry—also helped US firms clinch potentially lucrative shale concessions overseas, raising troubling questions about whose interests the program actually serves.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;9/14</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/05/hillary-clinton-climate-deniers-renewable-energy"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://ecowatch.com/2014/09/05/hillary-clinton-climate-deniers-renewable-energy</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">As she continues to play a game of “will-she/won’t she” regarding a potential 2016 presidential run, Hillary Clinton called out&nbsp;</span><a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; line-height: 25.2px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">climate change</a><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">&nbsp;deniers while delivering a keynote address at the</span><a href="http://www.cleanenergysummit.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; line-height: 25.2px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">National Clean Energy Summit</a><span style="line-height: 25.2px;">&nbsp;in Las Vegas this week.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She also spoke of the need for America to become the “clean energy superpower of the 21st century,” talking about the benefits of&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">clean energy</a>&nbsp;in creating jobs, competing globally, and reducing greenhouse emissions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Clinton began her remarks at the National Clean Energy Summit by laying out the problems climate change is already causing today, including extreme weather and droughts,” reported<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-calls-out-climate-deniers" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">MSNBC</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clinton said, “[These are] the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges we face. The data is unforgiving no matter what the deniers try to assert. Sea levels are rising. Ice caps are melting. Storms, droughts, and wildfires are wreaking havoc.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She especially touted the economic impact of clean energy development, saying, “Aside from the deniers and the special interests and all the other folks who want to pretend we don’t have a crisis is the fact that we are leaving money and jobs behind. For those on the other side, they have to answer to the reality they are denying peoples’ jobs and middle class incomes and upward mobility by their refusal to look to the future.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">She praised the work already being done in states like Nevada where Tesla has&nbsp;<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/09/04/tesla-gigafactory-reno/15095411/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;">announced</a>&nbsp;this week&nbsp;it will build a solar- and wind-powered battery factory near Reno, and Iowa, which has been a leader in clean energy, especially wind power. (Naturally, political tea-leaf readers saw her mention of Iowa as a sign that she’s running, since Iowa hosts the first primary of the campaign season.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Most news reports pointed out that she&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/21/30-groups-hillary-keystone-xl/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">failed to mention</a>&nbsp;the controversial&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/keystone-xl-pipeline-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Keystone XL</a>pipeline. And&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">clean energy</a>&nbsp;advocates will most likely not be happy that she also promoted the benefits of&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/news/energy-news/fracking-2/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">fracking</a>, while cautioning about the need for “smart regulations” to protect the health and safety of communities.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/13/hillary-clinton-climate-change-hard-choices/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hillary Clinton Discusses Her Climate Change Wake-Up Call in ‘Hard Choices’</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/21/30-groups-hillary-keystone-xl/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">30 Environmental Groups Urge Hillary Clinton to Take a Stand Against Keystone XL</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 25.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/10/08/hillary-clinton-no-fracking-yes-renewables/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s linear 0s; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">New Yorkers Tell Hillary Clinton: No to Fracking, Yes to Renewables</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/hillary-clinton-discusses-her-climate-change-wake-call-hard-choices"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.alternet.org/environment/hillary-clinton-discusses-her-climate-change-wake-call-hard-choices</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/16/president-clinton-refutes-ny-times-errors-in-fo/195451"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/16/president-clinton-refutes-ny-times-errors-in-fo/195451</font></a></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ms. Jacobson is a longtime Democratic Party fundraiser. In addition to helping found Third Way, she also serves as Senior Advisor to Senator&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Evan_Bayh" title="Evan Bayh" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Evan Bayh</a><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, National Finance Chair for the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_Leadership_Council" title="Democratic Leadership Council" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic Leadership Council</a><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and Founder and Executive Director of&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Next_Generation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Next Generation (page does not exist)" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Next Generation</a><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, a&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">political action committee</a><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;devoted to supporting moderate, centrist Senate candidates. Ms. Jacobson was an early supporter of&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bill Clinton</a><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">’s 1992 Presidential campaign, and was Finance Director of the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Democratic_National_Committee" title="Democratic National Committee" style="line-height: 19.5px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Democratic National Committee</a><span style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;when he assumed office in 1993. Ms. Jacobson received her B.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University and a Masters in Public Relations from American University.&nbsp;</span><b style="line-height: 19.5px;"><font color="#ff0000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">She is married to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Penn" title="Mark Penn" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mark Penn</a>, the worldwide CEO of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Burson-Marsteller" title="Burson-Marsteller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Burson-Marsteller</a>, who served as pollster and strategic advisor to President Clinton and Senator&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton" title="Hillary Rodham Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a>.</font></b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mojo sleeping w/ enemy</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><div id="node-body-top" class="clear-block" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Clinton campaign keeps insisting that Hillary Clinton is the victim of a sleazy Obama campaign--though it engages in nasty tactics to denigrate Barack Obama. The Clintonites, it now seems, will even make common cause with the rightwing Hilary-haters to do so.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Marc Ambinder&nbsp;<a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/obama_and_the_jews.php" target="new">reports</a>, the Clinton campaign has distributed an&nbsp;<i>American Spectator</i>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12937" target="new">article</a>&nbsp;that claims that retired General Merrill McPeak, an Obama foreign policy adviser, is an anti-Semite and a drunk. An anti-Semite? Supposedly because he has noted that the Israel lobby in America influences Mideast policy and because he advocates Israel withdrawing to its pre-1967 borders. Of course, that definition of anti-Semitism is absurd. But for the Clinton campaign to turn to the&nbsp;<i>American Spectator</i>, a rightwing publication that led the Clinton witch-hunts of the 1990s (and which published stories by David Brock and others regarding Bill Clinton's personal life), shows a certain desperation--or a damn-history opportunism. The article argues that Obama is bad for the Jews. The Clintonites are disseminating it. That would be ugly enough. The source renders the episode damn ugly.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, Clinton herself cozied up to the Richard Mellon Scaife--the man who funded the "vast rightwing conspiracy" (which included the&nbsp;<i>American Spectator</i>) that tried to destroy the Clintons in the 1990s--in order to take a swipe at Obama. On Tuesday, Clinton met with editors and reporters of the archly conservative&nbsp;<i>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</i>, which Scaife owns. At that session, she&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_558930.html" target="new">did what she could</a>&nbsp;to keep the Jeremiah Wright controversy alive by saying, "He would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend." In&nbsp;<a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDA2YTFkMmUxNjliNDIzODU1MWQxZmY1MjdiMDE0OGM=" target="new">attendance was Scaife</a>. ("Hell has officially frozen over," rightwing journalist Byron York commented.) So has Clinton no shame? No pride? Or merely a sharp sense of political calculation? Did she ponder the irony of using Scaife's platform (in the key state of Pennsylvania) to discredit a fellow Democrat?</font></p></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hunting Hillary Clinton</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arthur Finkelstein, long-time GOP political consultant, to lead campaign</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">to defeat Hillary re-election and derail her presidential hopes</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Bill Berkowitz</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.dissidentvoice.org</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">February 17, 2005</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Stop Her Now,” is the name of the new Web site soon to be launched by&nbsp;<b>Arthur Finkelstein,</b>&nbsp;the chief political guru of New York Governor George Pataki, and one of the country's most successful yet least known political consultants/spin doctors. The “Her” at StopHerNow.com is New York Senator Hillary Clinton. According to the New York Post, Finkelstein, the longtime master of the political attack ad, hopes the site will raise as much as $10 million from Hillary-haters across the nation and provide a gathering point for conservative activists working to defeat her in next year's Senatorial election. Hillary's defeat would likely derail any presidential aspirations she might have.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New York Post's Fredric Dicker has called Finkelstein “a secretive and sometimes controversial national GOP consultant who played a key role in Pataki's defeat of Gov. Mario Cuomo in 1994.” The Associated Press’ political writer Marc Humbert characterized Finkelstein as being “media-shy.” Nearly ten years ago, CNN's Jonathan Karl wrote of Finkelstein: “He is the stuff of Hollywood: A man who can topple even the most powerful foes, yet so secretive that few have ever seen him.” Former New York Senator Alphonse D'Amato maintained that Finkelstein “is probably one of the brightest, cutting-edge political scientists I've ever met.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hating Hillary: A Cottage Industry</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The end of Bill Clinton's presidency coincided with the birth of the political career of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Once she decided to run for the Senate seat from New York, Hillary-bashing replaced Bill-bashing as the right's most popular and financially rewarding activity.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the fall of 2000, when<b>&nbsp;Morton Blackwell</b>&nbsp;established a group called the Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton, he sent an e-mail that read in part: “As you know, the establishment media have protected Bill and Hillary Clinton from the worst of their crimes, corruption and cover-ups.” To underscore his sense of urgency, Blackwell, who in 1979 founded The Leadership Institute, recruited such high-powered right wing luminaries as Edwin Meese III, Ronald Reagan's Attorney General during the Iran/Contra scandal, Lynn Nofsinger, longtime Republican Party activist, Oklahoma Republican Congressman Ernest Istook and Alan Keyes, the recently failed Senatorial candidate from Illinois.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blackwell wasn't the only one tilling the anti-Hillary fields. Early in 2000, The Washington, DC-based National Conservative Campaign Fund issued a Special Report entitled “Campaign Strategy to Stop Hillary Clinton,” which aimed to drive up her negatives, establish a "Defeat Hillary Clinton" Web site, and run a protracted anti-Hillary media campaign. NCCF currently bills itself as “an independent political action committee,” with<b>&nbsp;Thomas L. Phillips as Chairman, and D. Jeffrey Hollingsworth, Executive Director. The group's Advisory Board contains a number of veteran right wing activists including Gary Aldrich, L. Brent Bozell III, Floyd Brown, Angela “Bay” Buchanan, Ann Coulter, George Gilder, C. Boyden Gray, Donald P. Hodel, Terrence P. Jeffrey, G. Gordon Liddy, Ralph Reed, Jr., Alfred S. Regnery, William Bradford Reynolds, John K. Singlaub, and Armstrong Williams.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former New York Congressman Gerald Solomon, on behalf of The&nbsp;<b>American Conservative Union'</b>s “The Hillary Rodham Clinton Voter Alert Campaign,” sent out a 92-page paperback book entitled Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know. The American Conservative Union, founded in 1964 and headed by David Keene, claims to be “the nations’ oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization.” According to its Web site, the ACU's purpose is to effectively communicate and advance the goals and principles of conservatism... capitalism, belief in the doctrine of original intent of the framers of the Constitution, confidence in traditional moral values, and commitment to a strong national defense."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early April 2000, the Washington, DC-based right wing think tank, the&nbsp;<b>American Enterprise Institute,</b>&nbsp;got in on the action by hosting a conference called “The Legacy and Future of Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Co-sponsored by David Horowitz's Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture, the event, wrote journalist David Corn, “tilted toward the Hillary-sucks side.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And,&nbsp;<b>Christopher Ruddy,</b>&nbsp;the reporter largely responsible for keeping the “Vincent Foster was murdered” story alive in the right-wing media, pitched subscriptions to his new publication by offering two premiums -- a special report Hillary Clinton: The Story the Media Won't Tell and an audio-tape set Bill and Hillary's Secrets Revealed.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All those efforts may have raised millions of dollars for the organizations involved, but they fell short of their goal as Hillary handily defeated Congressman Rick Lazio to win the Senate seat.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Turning to the Internet</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That was then and this is now. The fact that George W. Bush is starting his second term and Republicans are in control of the government doesn't lessen the likelihood of another major league hardball campaign against Hillary Clinton. But if the mountains of mud that were flung so enthusiastically in 2000 didn't stick, why do GOP partisans think it will be different this time around?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hillary bashers are counting on a political trifecta consisting of the Internet, lessons learned from the Swift Boat Veterans attack against John Kerry, and the genius of Arthur Finkelstein.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The decision to turn to the Internet is a de facto acknowledgment that the so-called ‘tough New York press corps’ failed to do its job during Clinton's campaign five years ago, when a whole host of questions about the former first lady's involvement in a number of controversies during the 1990s went unexplored,” NewsMax.com, a right wing online news magazine, reported in early February.&nbsp;<b>NewsMax</b>&nbsp;hinted that the campaign against Hillary would do well to learn from the smear campaign against Senator John Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which at first was ignored by the mainstream press and succeeded in getting their message out by first using the Internet and talk radio.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finkelstein's Web site launch comes on the heels of his having been fired by the state's Republican Party "in the wake of Republican setbacks in New York in the November elections," AP reported. Pataki, thinking about a possible run for president in 2008, “has said he will personally continue to use” Finkelstein, “but [he] will seek other political advice, too.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who is Arthur Finkelstein? Will his “Stop Her Now” campaign be more successful than the Stop Hillary efforts of 2000?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finkelstein has had a long and colorful political career that has seen him work with some of the most reactionary politicians both at home and abroad. He runs Arthur J. Finkelstein & Associates, and during his thirty-year career he has worked for President Reagan and President Nixon. In addition to spearheading the then-little-known Pataki's 1994 victory over Mario Cuomo, he was also a top adviser to Alfonse D'Amato and Jesse Helms during their Senate careers. But he hasn't always led his clients to victory -- in 1996 he was a major, if well-hidden, consultant to Senator Bob Dole's losing presidential campaign.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, Finkelstein was also an early director of Terry Dolan's groundbreaking political operation, the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finkelstein is an international player as well. According to AP's Humbert, “Finkelstein has been increasingly active is Israeli politics. He helped Benjamin Netanyahu during his 1996 campaign for prime minister and he is an adviser to the current Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And, you can add one more element to Finkelstein's reality; he is gay, yet he's worked for a gaggle of gay-bashing Republican Senators including Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.), Jesse Helms (R-N.C), Don Nickles (R-Okla.) and Sen. (Bob) Smith (R-New Hampshire), all of whom voted against legislation banning discrimination against gays while Finkelstein was working for them.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finkelstein is also Jewish, but that didn't stop him from using anti-Semitism during a 1978 South Carolina congressional race between Republican Carroll Campbell and Democrat Max Heller. A 1996 report published by the National Jewish Democratic Council summarized the story:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“According to press accounts, Campbell commissioned a poll, conducted by the notorious GOP pollster Arthur Finkelstein, in which voters were asked their views of Campbell, who was described as ‘a native South Carolinian,’ and Heller, who was described as ‘a Jewish immigrant.’ The Campbell-Finkelstein poll also asked voters whether they approved or disapproved of U.S. aid to Israel, hardly a significant issue in the campaign except that it injected Heller's religion into the race and implied that, as a Jew, he would favor Israel over the U.S. Then just five days before the election, an independent candidate attacked Heller because Heller did not ‘believe in Jesus Christ.’ Heller lost by less than 6,000 votes. Years after the election it was revealed that there had been contact between the independent candidate and the Campbell campaign, leading some observers to believe that the independent candidate had entered the race at the behest of the Campbell campaign.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His non-political clients have included Time Magazine, Scott Paper, McDonalds, Quaker Oats and the Trump Organization. This past summer, Finkelstein was hired by opponents of the new stadium on the West Side of Manhattan being proposed for the New York Jets football team to prepare anti-stadium advertisements. Finkelstein & Associates recently entered into a joint venture with Kidron Strategies to provide consulting services in Israel specifically focusing on the corporate and consumer markets.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a rare interview in December 2004, with Boaz Gaon of Maariv, an Israeli daily newspaper, Finkelstein seemed to be suggesting that things may have shifted too far to the right in the U.S.: “The political centre has disappeared, and the Republican Party has become the party of the Christian right more so than in any other period in modern history,” he said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Bush's strategy secures the power of the American Christian right not only for this term,” Finkelstein said. “In fact, it secures its ability to choose the next Republican president.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finkelstein told Maariv that he was troubled by the strategy of dividing the country by “values of religion and culture.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Bush courted the evangelical vote,” he said, “and turned these elections, in fact, into a referendum on the religious and cultural nature of America. This is my problem.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finkelstein's comments reflect his concerns that Governor Pataki would have a hard time getting a GOP presidential nomination given the party's current domination by the Christian right.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">An early February independent poll from the Siena College Research Institute found Hillary Clinton beating either Pataki or former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in a 2006 Senate race. The statewide poll had Clinton leading Pataki, 58 percent to 32 percent, among registered voters and besting Republican Giuliani, 52 percent to 43 percent.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Finkelstein Web site is a clear indication that “Republicans are clearly planning on waging a negative campaign of lies and distortions against Senator Clinton,” said Howard Wolfson, an adviser to the former first lady. “New Yorkers will see through it, and we will be prepared.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill Berkowitz is a longtime observer of the conservative movement. His WorkingForChange.com column Conservative Watch documents the strategies, players, institutions, victories and defeats of the American Right.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Long before she let Benghazi happen, Hillary Clinton was the center of a swirl of inventive rumors about sex, drugs, and murder. For entertainment purposes only, we’ve rounded up some of the greatest (i.e., most scurrilous). We’ll add more as they inevitably bubble up in the run-up to the 2016 race.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BENGHAZI ON THE BRAIN</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Concussiongate</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Then-Secretary of State Clinton faked the flu and a concussion in December 2012 to avoid testifying to Congress about Benghazi.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: 2016 presidential dark horse John Bolton and Fox News contributor Monica Crowley</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#TCLOT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: As if a phony head injury wasn’t bad enough—Hillary faked a blood clot, an even more serious medical condition, to further delay her Benghazi testimony.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Glenn Beck, who added that “if she really had some weird thing in the hospital, then it should prohibit her from ever becoming president.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brained by Bush’s brain</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: The clot was real, and Hillary suffered lingering brain damage that could render her unfit for office.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Fox News analyst Karl Rove, who backtracked the next day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE CLINTON BODY COUNT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fostering doubts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Various theories hold that former Clinton White House chief of staff Vince Foster didn’t commit suicide in Virginia’s Fort Marcy Park. One posits that he was killed because he was having an affair with Hillary Clinton.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Former Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) once shot a watermelon (or a pumpkin—it’s unclear) to prove that Foster was shot by someone else. Accuracy in Media founder Reed Irvine took out an ad in the New York Times to note that the FBI had failed to investigate “semen in Foster’s shorts, blond hair on his T-shirt and trousers and multicolored carpet fibers on all his clothing.” (Bonus: Anne Coulter once joked, “If you attack the Clintons publicly, make sure all your friends know that you are not planning suicide.”)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Brown’s body</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others were killed in a plane crash orchestrated by the Clintons to prevent him from spilling the beans to special investigators about selling seats on trade missions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: The Clinton Body Count, a website linking the first family to more than 90 deaths.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whitewater whitewash</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: After agreeing to cooperate with special investigator Ken Starr, Whitewater partner James McDougal died in prison—allegedly at the hands of Clinton henchmen. “Chalk up another body to Clinton,” as one Rush Limbaugh caller put it. An alternative theory: McDougal faked his death to avoid ratting out his benefactors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: The Clinton Body Count</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kittycide</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Former Clinton aide Kathleen Willey alleged that after her cat went missing, a suspicious-looking jogger told her to watch what she said. Then her new cat turned up dead.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Willey, in the the 2007 pseudo-documentary Hillary: The Movie (which triggered the Citizens United Supreme Court decision).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The condoms must be on the other side of the tree. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE SEX STUFF</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gay until inauguration</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: After majoring in lesbianism at Wellesley, Hillary entered into a sham marriage with Bill Clinton to cover up the truth. At one point, a former classmate moved to Little Rock to continue an affair with Hillary.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Edward Klein, author of The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bisexual after inauguration</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Bill confided that his wife was a bisexual who, as she put it, “had eaten more pussy than he had.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Former Clinton mistress Gennifer Flowers, in a 2013 interview with the Daily Mail</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Webb of lies</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Associate attorney general Webb Hubbell was really Chelsea’s father. (And Vince Foster was possibly killed because he knew.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: This guy on the Internet who keeps emailing me and every other DC journalist.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bermuda shorts</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Forget Webb Hubbell. Chelsea was conceived when Bill forced himself on Hillary during a vacation in Bermuda.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Klein, keeping it classy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Troopergate</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Hillary looked the other way when then-Gov. Bill Clinton used Arkansas state troopers to set up sexual liaisons with dozens—maybe hundreds—of women.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Former right-wing operative-turned-Media Matters honcho David Brock, who later wrote in his book, Blinded by the Right, that “none of the trooper allegations that could be independently checked turned out to be true.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bill’s black love child</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Bill fathered a son after after luring a prostitute into a cocaine-fueled orgy. Hillary dutifully covered it up.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Little Rock businessman Robert McIntosh circulated a flier noting the resemblance between 13-year-old Danny Williams and a young William Jefferson Blythe during the 1992 campaign. A 1999 Drudge Report exclusive featured Williams’ mother’s on-tape confession. “What becomes immediately obvious to the viewer watching the videotaped confession is that this is clearly not gossip, rumor, or anonymous charges being maliciously directed at a politician,” wrote Drudge, before learning three days later that the child was not Clinton’s.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Come all ye faithful</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: As first lady, Hillary decorated the White House Christmas tree with condoms, cock rings, and lords-a-leapin’ with erect penises.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Disgruntled former FBI agent Gary Aldrich, in his 1996 tell-all, Unlimited Access; and Texas activist “Doc Marquis,” who seized on Aldrich’s claims as “proof positive that Hillary Clinton is a power, practicing witch.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sexual pagan</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: No, it’s not the name of my new metal band—it’s Hillary Clinton’s orientation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Southern Evangelical Seminary president Richard Land, who leveled the charge in response to the secretary of state’s advocacy for gay rights in Africa.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE DRUG STUFF</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Powder hungry</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: When Bill was governor, the Clintons covered up a multimillion-dollar cocaine smuggling ring based in Mena, Arkansas.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: The Clinton Chronicles (below), a 1994 pseudo-documentary distributed by the Reverend Jerry Falwell</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boys on the tracks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Seventeen-year-olds Kevin Ives and Don Henry weren’t hit by a train after passing out on an Arkansas railroad track; they were brutally murdered after witnessing a Clinton-assisted drug drop.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Former Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) and The Clinton Chronicles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ASSORTED POWER MADNESS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Four martini punch</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Reporter LJ Davis didn’t, as he claimed, pass out on his floor after drinking one too many martinis—he was assaulted in his Arkansas hotel room in 1994 by Clinton goons and robbed of four “significant” pages from his notebook. His crime: Asking too many questions about Clinton’s work at a Little Rock law firm.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: The Wall Street Journal editorial page, which cited the incident as evidence that Arkansas is a “congenitally violent place,” and Rush Limbaugh, who told his listeners, “journalists and others working on or involved in Whitewatergate have been mysteriously beaten and harassed in Little Rock; some have died.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PC police</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: As first lady, Clinton formed her own clandestine police force. Agents embedded in the FBI, the CIA, and the IRS harassed and eliminated critics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Richard Poe, author of Hillary’s Secret War, and American Evita author Christopher Andersen</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Con air</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Hillary purged the White House Travel Office in order to set up a system of kickbacks for an Arkansas airline helmed by a childhood friend of Bill’s.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Brock and current Virginia congressional candidate Barbara Comstock</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Red, not blue</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: A “meticulously documented” report exposed the Clintons’ links to a Marxist terrorist plot to take over the country, inspired by the Italian communist and grad-student favorite Antonio Gramsci. Exhibit A: Hillary’s failed health care reform plan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: WorldNetDaily columnist Samuel Blumenfeld</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Filegate</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Classified FBI files were requested and misused by first lady Hillary Clinton to target enemies of the administration. White House Office of Personnel Security Craig Livingstone took the fall when Republican investigators caught wind.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who demanded FBI files be swiped for the first lady’s fingerprints.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brazilian whacks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: The Clintons forced former Hillary donor Peter Paul to spend two years in a Brazilian prison—including two months in a cellblock known as the “Corridor of Death”—after he filed a lawsuit against the couple claiming they knew about his illegal campaign finance dealings.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Paul, in the 2007 pseudo-documentary Hillary Uncensored</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Black helicopters</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Team Hillary used helicopters to surveil the Southampton home of 2006 Republican Senate challenger—and current Fox News contributor—K.T. McFarland.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: McFarland, at a campaign event on Long Island</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rush to judgment</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Rush Limbaugh’s 2006 drug bust for painkillers possession was a set-up by the Clinton machine.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Poe again</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dressed to kill in 1993 AP Photo/James Finley</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">THE MUSLIM STUFF</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Muslim Sisterhood</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Clinton and top aide/alleged lover Huma Abedin (wife of ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)) are in cahoots with the ladies’ auxiliary of the Muslim Brotherhood. Which explains why Clinton has been secretly pushing us to spread Sharia law in America.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: “Huma’s mom is best friends with the new so-called first lady of Egypt, who is also a member of the Sisterhood,” explained Rush Limbaugh. “Folks, it’s Peyton place—it’s too much to keep up with.” Rep. Michele Bachmann’s allegations of collaboration between Clinton and the Brotherhood was cited by protesters in the streets of Cairo.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mullah moolah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Clinton’s Islamofascist sympathies were secured with a bribe from Iran.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman, who conscientiously adds, “I cannot prove it at this time.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ban on churches</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Clinton was working with Islamists to shut down Christian houses of worship in the United States before she left office in 2013.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Conservative speaker and self-described “former terrorist” Kamal Saleem</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hillary Clinton with fellow Muslim sympathizer Barack Obama in Cairo, 2009. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JUST PLAIN BIZARRE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cold-blooded</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Like most of the Washington elite, Hillary is in fact a blood-drinking extraterrestrial lizard in disguise.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: “Reptoid hypothesis” creator David Icke</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Everything is Illuminati’ed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Wake up, sheeple. The Clintons belong to an 18th-century secret society that controls global governance and finance.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Lots of crazy people on YouTube</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contra dancing</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: In the 1970s, Hillary worked at a Little Rock law firm that helped funnel weapons to the Contras.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: The late Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Blood money</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: The Clintons consented to the harvesting and selling of HIV- and hepatitis C-positive blood from prison inmates to China in the 1980s.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Klein and WorldNetDaily conspiracy guru Joseph Farah</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Starr crossed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Why did the Clintons enjoy impunity for their myriad crimes? Easy: Ken Starr, the man tasked with investigating them, was a secret Clinton crony.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Poe again</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Get behind me, thetan</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Why did the did the movie version of Primary Colors, in which John Travolta plays a thinly-veiled Bill Clinton, go so easy on the first couple? Maybe because President Clinton pressured the German government to extend religious protections to the Church of Scientology.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: The New York Post reported that Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) demanded an investigation into the matter; Faircloth denied this.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s a tax!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was pushing a secret United Nations takeover of the Internet, to be paid for by a secret tax on American billionaires.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Former Clinton aide Dick Morris</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Goo goo for Gaga: Clinton’s State Department betrayed its true function as an “agent for Lady Gaga” when it helped the “Bad Romance” singer secure a gig at a gay pride event in Italy.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Mission: America founder Linda Harvey</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HERE WE GO AGAIN…</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Face the nation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Clinton got a face-lift after leaving the State Department to “glam up” for 2016.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Fox and Friends’ Steve Doocy, who tweeted afterwards that he was referring only to Clinton’s website.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hey sole sister</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Clinton hired a mentally ill woman to throw a sneaker at her while giving a speech to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries in Las Vegas in April.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Limbaugh and former Republican presidential front runner Herman Cain</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hill’s angels</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Hillary is a tool of the Dark Lord Lucifer sent to oppose Jesus Christ in the Last Days.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Montana Republican congressional candidate Ryan Zinke, who called Clinton the “anti-Christ” at a January campaign event.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It takes a child</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: Chelsea Clinton became pregnant at the behest of her parents, who believe that the former secretary of state will be viewed more favorably if she has grandkids.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormongers: Fox News host Howie Kurtz, the Washington Free Beacon‘s Michael Goldfarb, and the New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vanity press</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumor: The Clintons arranged for Vanity Fair to publish Monica Lewinsky’s recent essay two-and-a-half years before the next presidential election, so it would be forgotten by 2016.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rumormonger: Prolific children’s author Lynne Cheney, who asked Bill O’Reilly, “Would Vanity Fair publish anything about Monica Lewinsky that Hillary Clinton wouldn’t want in Vanity Fair?” (Yes.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To be continued…</font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/sean-hannitys-bizarre-fixation-on-hillary-clinton-exposed-in-new-review-of-his-primetime-show/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/09/sean-hannitys-bizarre-fixation-on-hillary-clinton-exposed-in-new-review-of-his-primetime-show/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sean Hannity’s bizarre fixation on Hillary Clinton exposed in new review of his primetime show</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by Shira Tarlo / Salon September 11, 2019</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It has been nearly three years since President Donald Trump clinched the White House, however Fox News host Sean Hannity has remained fixated on the Democrat nominated in the 2016 elections: Hillary Clinton.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the last presidential election cycle, Hannity labeled his primetime show the “Stop-Hillary Express” because of its sustained focus on defeating the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.&nbsp;</span>In the more than two years since Trump defeated Clinton and seized control of the White House, it appears the one-time conductor has continued taking his viewers for a ride on the anti-Clinton train.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>From Trump’s inauguration in January 2017 through August 2019, Hannity mentioned Clinton in 505 of the 587 episodes of his program — a figure that represents 86 percent of his shows — according to a review conducted by Media Matters for America</b>, a progressive news watchdog.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And if you include mentions from guests, Clinton’s name was dropped in a staggering 91 percent of the episodes Hannity hosted over that time period.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Hannity’s apparent obsession with Clinton is “largely a reflection of his show’s focus on the dizzying conspiracy theory he constructed to defend Trump” from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election</span>,</b>&nbsp;according to Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Gertz further explained: “<b>Hannity places Clinton at the center of several key strands of that web</b>. In his telling, 1) federal investigators should have been charging Clinton for crimes related to her email server rather than looking into Trump’s associates; 2) some of the attorneys involved in the probe had conflicts of interest because they supported her election; and 3) the investigators ignored the ‘<b>real’ collusion with Russia that she supposedly engaged in through the Uranium One pseudoscandal and via an anti-Trump dossier that became part of the investigation.</b></span><b>”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since Clinton largely receded from the national political spotlight in the wake of her defeat, Hannity’s references to the former presidential hopeful decreased in each of the first four months of Trump’s administration, according to Media Matters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2017, Hannity mentioned Clinton in 88 percent of the episodes he hosted in January after Trump’s inauguration, 76 percent in February, 70 percent in March and just 39 percent in April, the lowest total over the course of the study. That figure spiked to 79 percent in May. Since then, Hannity’s mentions haven’t fallen below 60 percent in any month since October of 2017.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gertz noted that the longest consecutive streak in which Hannity mentioned Clinton on the shows he has hosted was 60 — from April 8, 2019 to July 12, 2019. Hannity did not mention Clinton on five shows he hosted between April 26, 2017, through May 2, 2017, the longest consecutive streak in which the Fox News host did not name-drop Clinton.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“When Hannity takes a night off, the ‘stop-Hillary express’ rolls on, as the show typically features the same guests and themes, including the Clinton-focused anti-Mueller conspiracy theory,” Gertz concluded. “His guest hosts mentioned Clinton in 63% of their episodes, and she was mentioned in 85% of the episodes they hosted during the period of the study.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Watch the astonishing supercut of Hannity’s Clinton name-drops here:</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;bktv 9/8/19&nbsp;</font></div><div><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?462768-1/american-carnage"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.c-span.org/video/?462768-1/american-carnage</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span class="time" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; display: block; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><time style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JULY 18, 2019</font></time></span><h1 class="video-page-title" itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Carnage</font></span></h1><div class="initial" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Politico Magazine chief political correspondent Tim Alberta explored divisions in the Republican Party that led to the election of President Trump.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2016 debate&nbsp;<b>newt losing by attacking other cands, so goes after media</b>&nbsp;2 nuke ["no" i don't want to address current scandal?], won NC primary when he was in single dig?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>mcconn dangled scotus seat</b>&nbsp;to hard rw and evang;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">;pence team sure beat until&nbsp;<b>comey re-open hillary emails</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">zombie</font></p><header class="entry-header" style="padding: 0px 0px 25px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; list-style-type: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(85, 85, 85);"><h1 class="entry-title" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; list-style-type: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House hearing to shine spotlight on Clinton Foundation</font></h1><span class="entry-date" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Posted By&nbsp;<cite style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">-<span style="font-style: normal;">NO AUTHOR-</span></cite>&nbsp;On&nbsp;<time style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">11/22/2018 @ 3:45 pm&nbsp;</time><span style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">In APP Frontpage,Politics,U.S. |&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/house-hearing-to-shine-spotlight-on-clinton-foundation/print/#comments_controls" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">No Comments</a></font></span></header><div class="entry-content" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 35px; list-style-type: none; line-height: 23.8px;"><div id="attachment_4685586" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none; width: 610px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.wnd.com/files/2018/07/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-20180713-600-jpg.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;" /></font><p class="wp-caption-text" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.wnd.com/files/2018/07/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-20180713-600-jpg.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hillary Clinton at the American Federation of Teachers Union on July 13, 2018 (Video screenshot)</font></a></p></div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="https://www.wnd.com/files/2018/07/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-20180713-600-jpg.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As they prepare to hand over the leadership of committees to the Democrats, House Republicans will hold a hearing into the Justice Department’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation.</font></a></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font color="#000000"><a href="https://www.wnd.com/files/2018/07/hillary-clinton-teachers-union-20180713-600-jpg.jpg" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., told Hill.TV on Wednesday that U.S. Attorney John Huber, who has been working with the DOJ and the FBI on the the probe, will testify before the House Oversight Committee Dec. 5,&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">the Daily Caller reported</a>.</font></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meadows said Huber was tasked in part with investigating possible “improper activity” by the Clinton Foundation.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The allegations center on “pay for play” donations to the charity while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Critics, including&nbsp;<b>investigative journalist&nbsp;</b>Peter Schweizer, have presented evidence Clintons exchanged political favors for donations and pushed favorable policies to receive donations.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/05/fbi-takes-aim-at-the-clinton-foundation/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">The New York Times reported</a>&nbsp;Trump told his White House counsel earlier this year he wanted the DOJ to prosecute Clinton.</b></font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wnd.com/2018/03/sessions-reveals-prosecutor-probing-fbi-misconduct/" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided a special prosecutor was not needed</a>&nbsp;to investigate Hillary Clinton regarding allegations the sale of Uranium One to a Russian state-owned company while she was secretary of state was related to donations made to the Clinton Foundation.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sessions said Huber also was reviewing the allegations of Republican lawmakers that the FBI used the unsubstantiated anti-Trump dossier to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meadows said in a Twitter message at the time that Sessions’ decision not to appoint a special counsel was “disappointing.”</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“So the Obama DOJ can open a legally questionable investigation into the Trump campaign — allegedly based on a campaign volunteer mouthing off at a London bar — but this DOJ can’t appoint a second special counsel after all the troubling documents we’ve seen? Disappointing,” he wrote.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schweizer, the author of “Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,” was the first to report nine foreign investors in the Uranium One deal gave $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; list-style-type: none;">New York Times confirmed in an April 2015 story</a>&nbsp;Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation. The Times found that the Clintons, however, did not publicly disclose the contributions, despite an agreement Hillary Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors.</font></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; list-style-type: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, Bill Clinton received a $500,000 speaking fee from a Russian bank tied to the Kremlin in 2010, when Hillary Clinton opposed sanctions on Moscow. 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</div><div>Haim and Cheryl Saban</div><div>1. Haim and Cheryl&nbsp;<b>Saban, media</b>&nbsp;executive; women's advocate/author. $2.42 million.</div><div>2.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, public employees union. $1.684 million.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">3. Communications Workers of America</span>, labor union. $1.682 million.</div><div>Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw</div><div>4. Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, film director; actor. $1.5 million.</div><div>Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg</div><div>5. Jeffrey and Marilyn Katzenberg, DreamWorks Animation chief executive; philanthropist. $1.35 million.</div><div>6.&nbsp;<b>National Education Association</b>, teachers' union. $1.31 million.</div><div>George Soros</div><div>7. George Soros, hedge fund executive. $1.26 million.</div><div>Barbara F. Lee</div><div>8. Barbara F. Lee, women's advocate/philanthropist. $1.24 million.</div><div>S. Donald Sussman</div><div>9. S. Donald Sussman,<b>&nbsp;hedge fund executive</b>. $1.18 million.</div><div>10. Plumbers & Pipefitters Union, labor union. $1.16 million.</div><div>Note: Totals do not include donations to the Clinton Foundation.</div><div>
</div><div>=</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/hillary-and-media-dreadful-coverage-2016-had-echoes-past</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">i am</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">not going to review Hillary Clinton’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Happened-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton/dp/1501175564/?tag=saloncom08-20" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">What Happened,</a>” since there are approximately 12,576 reviews out there already, with more to come. But I do want to discuss one issue that came up in the book that has been addressed in a couple of those reviews. That would be the fact that the press regularly and tiresomely slags Clinton for her failures in the 2016 campaign but have still completely failed to acknowledge their own.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There are many aspects of this story that are unique to Clinton. As Politico’s Jonathan Allen,&nbsp;</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNGWxT8-0HC1u149pEXiiocglqyZiQ" href="https://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">then of Vox</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, wrote at the beginning of the campaign, there was an</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>establishment media groupthink about her that was obvious, although the press itself seemed completely oblivious to it.</b>&nbsp;(<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/how_politico_became_a_gop_stooge_republicans_want_to_destroy_hillary_clinton%25E2%2580%2594and_the_media_is_helping_them_out/&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNHJof_9Ag_E1Cmc0bphYbo75FdPuw" href="http://www.salon.com/2015/07/07/how_politico_became_a_gop_stooge_republicans_want_to_destroy_hillary_clinton%E2%80%94and_the_media_is_helping_them_out/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">I wrote about this on Salon in real time as it unfolded</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.salon.com/2016/11/10/how-the-media-made-this-monster-they-normalized-donald-trump-and-demonized-hillary-clinton-and-its-not-over/&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNHpdS43YZ2vPtD4gENh7JaxG2KSVw" href="http://www.salon.com/2016/11/10/how-the-media-made-this-monster-they-normalized-donald-trump-and-demonized-hillary-clinton-and-its-not-over/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">after the race was over.&nbsp;</a>)</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Allen put it bluntly:</font></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Clinton rules are driven by reporters’ and editors’ desire to score the ultimate prize in contemporary journalism: the scoop that brings down Hillary Clinton and her family’s political empire. At least in that way, Republicans and the media have a common interest.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indeed they did. (As it turns out, maybe some members of the Russian government did too.)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;And one aspect of the coverage verged on outright corruption: the “deal” The New York Times and The Washington Post made with a Steve Bannon associate to publish excerpts of a&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.salon.com/2015/04/21/inside_the_rights_new_clinton_cash_obsession_the_sketchy_new_hillary_expose_that_hooked_the_new_york_times/&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNH3Cf9nMkkMIsVGChNuO5scMddIZw" href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/21/inside_the_rights_new_clinton_cash_obsession_the_sketchy_new_hillary_expose_that_hooked_the_new_york_times/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">book of lies called “Clinton Cash</a>”&nbsp;that set the tone for much of the coverage to come.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Atlantic’s James Fallows addressed the press obsession with the Clinton email story in&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/its-worth-reading-hillary-clintons-book/539973/&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNHXv7-h8dPXUraiSub7RkOAZJSRDw" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/its-worth-reading-hillary-clintons-book/539973/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">his review</a>&nbsp;of “What Happened”:</font></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">No sane person can believe that the consequences of last fall’s election — for foreign policy, for race relations, for the environment, for anything else you’d like to name (from either party’s perspective) — should have depended more than about 1 percent on what Hillary Clinton did with her emails. But this objectively second- or third-tier issue came across through even our best news organizations as if it were the main thing worth knowing about one of the candidates.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/15/16306158/hillary-clinton-hall-of-mirrors&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNEbulXf7feERntdrJrQ7Hm4JX-Gsw" href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/15/16306158/hillary-clinton-hall-of-mirrors" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">David Roberts at Vox</a>&nbsp;took on the subject by analyzing in depth the way the media reported one particular incident in the campaign: Hillary Clinton’s alleged “coal gaffe,” which he described as “navigating a hall of mirrors.” Her comment about putting coal miners out of business was poorly phrased, but as it was reported, it was also truncated and taken out of context. The way her response was then distorted by the GOP and the press as an illustration of Clinton’s disqualifying character flaws was the real crime, Roberts writes:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mainstream news outlets should stop treating “how it looks” as though it’s some fact in the universe that they discover. They are the arbiters; they decide how it looks. They build and reinforce narratives. They seek out confirming evidence and ignore disconfirming evidence. They amplify some voices and not others. They direct attention, which is the coin of the realm in modern politics. If they draw attention to a bullshit scandal, they are the ones ensuring that it damages the campaign. If they play along with the ludicrous notion that Clinton loves firing coal miners, they are sanctioning and disseminating misinformation. They are not doing their jobs.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether you are convinced by these arguments or not, it’s tempting to write them off as something that only pertains to Hillary Clinton. There is no doubt that the narratives spun around her in the campaign and for years prior were informed by systemic sexism. The press is no different from the rest of society in being unable to grapple with that reality. But in fact, this wasn’t the only time this happened.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign, and to a lesser extent the 2004 campaign as well, had similar characteristics</b>. In the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore, the media mercilessly abused the latter with a series of shallow character attacks that were both unfair and untruthful. Roberts’ analysis of Clinton and the “coal gaffe” is exactly the same sort of prejudicial coverage the media gave Gore for his&nbsp;“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNFBTazOeR1GhkgxZUy_bK_fRnFMaA" href="http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">I invented the internet</a>”&nbsp;and&nbsp;“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2008/05/28/wash-post-ignored-own-role-in-creating-false-lo/143585&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNGCe7_fiSq-R6PQ_J9wlyMIhrxkaA" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2008/05/28/wash-post-ignored-own-role-in-creating-false-lo/143585" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Love Canal</a>”&nbsp;gaffes, among a dozen others.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One vivid illustration of journalists’ collective disdain for Gore was reported in Time’s&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3D03ct9daFycUC%26pg%3DPA160%26dq%3DThe%2B300%2Bmedia%2Btypes%2Bwatching%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bpress%2Broom%2Bat%2BDartmouth%2Bwere,%2Bto%2Buse%2Bthe%2Bappropriate%2Btechnical%2Bterm,%2Btotally%2Bgrossed%2Bout.%2BWhenever%2BGore%2Bcame%2Bon%2Btoo%2Bstrong%2Bthe%2Broom%2Berupted%2Bin%2Ba%2Bcollective%2Bjeer,%2Blike%2Ba%2Bgang%2Bof%2Bfifteen-year-old%2Bheathers%2Bcutting%2Bdown%2Bsome%2Bhapless%2Bnerd.%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D0ahUKEwiix8nioa7WAhWiilQKHc38BlkQ6AEIKDAA%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DThe%2520300%2520media%2520types%2520watching%2520in%2520the%2520press%2520room%2520at%2520Dartmouth%2520were%252C%2520to%2520use%2520the%2520appropriate%2520technical%2520term%252C%2520totally%2520grossed%2520out.%2520Whenever%2520Gore%2520came%2520on%2520too%2520strong%2520the%2520room%2520erupted%2520in%2520a%2520collective%2520jeer%252C%2520like%2520a%2520gang%2520of%2520fifteen-year-old%2520heathers%2520cutting%2520down%2520some%2520hapless%2520nerd.%26f%3Dfalse&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNFWdbUl6zIhf7tbnzCX7O5U6z0ERA" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=03ct9daFycUC&pg=PA160&dq=The+300+media+types+watching+in+the+press+room+at+Dartmouth+were,+to+use+the+appropriate+technical+term,+totally+grossed+out.+Whenever+Gore+came+on+too+strong+the+room+erupted+in+a+collective+jeer,+like+a+gang+of+fifteen-year-old+heathers+cutting+down+some+hapless+nerd.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiix8nioa7WAhWiilQKHc38BlkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=The%20300%20media%20types%20watching%20in%20the%20press%20room%20at%20Dartmouth%20were%2C%20to%20use%20the%20appropriate%20technical%20term%2C%20totally%20grossed%20out.%20Whenever%20Gore%20came%20on%20too%20strong%20the%20room%20erupted%20in%20a%20collective%20jeer%2C%20like%20a%20gang%20of%20fifteen-year-old%20heathers%20cutting%20down%20some%20hapless%20nerd.&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">article</a>&nbsp;about an early New Hampshire debate between Gore and his Democratic primary rival, Sen. Bill Bradley:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The 300 media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, to use the appropriate technical term, totally grossed out. Whenever Gore came on too strong the room erupted in a collective jeer, like a gang of fifteen-year-old heathers cutting down some hapless nerd.</font></p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.thenation.com/article/al-gore-democrat/&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNGbqSyvHlJ6y2SQzLDh-UHRPaEgbQ" href="https://www.thenation.com/article/al-gore-democrat/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">explained</a>&nbsp;why the press corps was so hostile:</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gore is sanctimonious, and that’s sort of the worst thing you can be in the eyes of the press. And he has been disliked all along, and it was because he gives a sense that he’s better than us — he’s better than everybody, for that matter, but the sense that he’s better than us as reporters. Whereas President Bush probably is sure that he’s better than us — he’s probably right, but he does not convey that sense. He does not seem to be dripping with contempt when he looks at us, and I think that has something to do with the coverage.</font></p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reporter Margaret Carlson&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DcB4DSC3xpzAC%26pg%3DPA106%26lpg%3DPA106%26dq%3DMargaret%2Bcarlson%2Bdove%2Bbars%26source%3Dbl%26ots%3DXW0aEtVYvL%26sig%3DMqYSrVhnaWcIyyn0UGEvYcIiSPQ%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26ved%3D0ahUKEwj6styfp67WAhXijFQKHSV6ATIQ6AEITTAK%23v%3Donepage%26q%3DMargaret%2520carlson%2520dove%2520bars%26f%3Dfalse&source=gmail&ust=1505820723495000&usg=AFQjCNG8-Uw6Rf2zBRAMJbvk7kYsWBBHCQ" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cB4DSC3xpzAC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&dq=Margaret+carlson+dove+bars&source=bl&ots=XW0aEtVYvL&sig=MqYSrVhnaWcIyyn0UGEvYcIiSPQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6styfp67WAhXijFQKHSV6ATIQ6AEITTAK#v=onepage&q=Margaret%20carlson%20dove%20bars&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">explained</a>&nbsp;in her book that one of the reasons the media gave Bush such good coverage was that he served Dove bars and designer water on the press plane, while Gore only offered granola bars and sandwiches.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As far as I know, the media have still never given their coverage of that campaign a second thought.&nbsp;Four years later,&nbsp;John Kerry was mocked for&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.philly.com/philly/food/restaurants/Photo_oop_Kerry_eats_a_cheesesteak_hoagiewith_Swiss.html&source=gmail&ust=1505820723496000&usg=AFQjCNHuloHdUrX4AeVmtGcP8CM_fVUXDQ" href="http://www.philly.com/philly/food/restaurants/Photo_oop_Kerry_eats_a_cheesesteak_hoagiewith_Swiss.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">ordering the wrong cheese</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2004/11/16/cnns-crowley-suggested-kerrys-choice-of-green-t/132300&source=gmail&ust=1505820723496000&usg=AFQjCNEGNckHDo_3pVYj-YI-0EDH73txkA" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2004/11/16/cnns-crowley-suggested-kerrys-choice-of-green-t/132300" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">drinking green tea</a>&nbsp;and otherwise being a snobby New Englander without the common touch of George W. Bush, originally of Kennebunkport, Maine. And then there was 2016 and “her emails.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">None of this is to say that these candidates weren’t flawed or bear no responsibility for the outcome of those races. The point is that the press corps made a collective decision that they didn’t “like” these people and obsessively covered them in a trivial manner, as if they had been running for homecoming queen instead of president of the United States. With fake news and social media and foreign propaganda distorting our democracy, it’s past time for the press to stop behaving like the mean girls of D.C. High.</font></p><div wibbitz="embed-main-player" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bio-new body_news-politics" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both;"><div class="author-bio"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Heather Digby Parton</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hard to tell is this swill matters, but shows a vast reservoir of lies built up from pjt ark days:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></font></font></div><div>Before interviewing Mike Pence and Kellyanne Conway on Monday night, the Fox News personality had an ‘EXCLUSIVE’ interview with Jeff Rovin, a man with a shocking ‘secret.’</div><div>
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</div><div>On Monday night, unpaid Donald Trump adviser and current Fox News host Sean Hannity broadcasted his “EXCLUSIVE” interview with Jeff Rovin, novelist and self-identified “fixer” for Hillary and Bill Clinton. Rovin first told his story to supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer last week, opening up about his alleged past as a Clinton ally who would help the powerful couple manipulate the press and (also!) set up secret, extramarital sexual liaisons.</div><div>Hannity emphasized that Fox News could not “independently verify” Rovin’s story. He also noted that the Clinton presidential campaign—“shockingly”—did not respond to his team’s multiple requests seeking comment.</div><div>
</div><div>“I was fixing [for the Clintons], I really don’t like that term, but there it is,” Rovin told Hannity. “I was fixing something for an actor who was in their inner circle.”</div><div>
</div><div>Hannity proceeded to gently and credulously ask Rovin about his explosive claims about working to kill negative Clinton stories in the press, and about the Clintons’ “open marriage” and how he’d “help them hide their scandals.”</div><div>
</div><div>Rovin, who said he wanted to appear on Hannity’s program to offer a “less hyperbolic” version of the Enquirer cover story, was awfully cagey for someone who was outing himself as a notorious Clinton “fixer.” He did assert that it was an “open secret” among his fellow Clintonite cohorts that Hillary Clinton had a romantic relationship with&nbsp;<b>Vince Foster,&nbsp;</b>the former White House aide who committed suicide and has since become a fascination of Clinton conspiracy theorists. Rovin said he’d been at the Clinton White House “twice.” He discussed how “the world is upside down [and] we have to set it right, again.”</div><div>
</div><div>He apparently identifies as a libertarian, who is ABSOLUTELY NOT doing this to help the Trump campaign. When pressed by Hannity on who he’d be voting for in November, Rovin demurred but conceded, “I like Trump, sure.”</div><div>…OK, there’s a lot to unpack here.</div><div>
</div><div>First, the Enquirer “bombshell,” of which Rovin was the star subject, is a “WORLD EXCLUSIVE 9-PAGE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION.” The story breathlessly details how the former secretary of State and first lady is a sex-crazed, “evil,” “polyamorous,” bisexual (or at least bi-curious), and “ruthless power-hungry” supervillain, one prolific in the dark arts of criminal conspiracy and character assassination aimed at Bill’s “bimbos.”</div><div>
</div><div>The Enquirer article is jam-packed with clandestine sex romps, mysterious death, prostitutes, “LIES AND SPIES,” and a woman (now the Democratic presidential nominee!) hell-bent on manipulating her sex-crazed self all the way to becoming leader of the free world.</div><div>
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</b></div><div><b>Rovin—who was interviewed anonymously by the Enquirer and labeled Hillary’s “BAGMAN”—spilled his guts to the tabloid about the Clintons’ alleged sex-hypocrisy, detailing an “endless string of sexual stories arising from what effectively was the Clintons’ open, polyamorous marriage.</b>”</div><div>
</div><div>“[Her fixer] arranged a lesbian romp for bisexual Hillary with a prominent Hollywood identity!” the Enquirer reported. “[He] squealed about a lusty rendezvous he arranged for Hillary that FINALLY proves the lesbian rumors that have dogged her for decades!”</div><div>“I arranged a meeting for Hillary and a woman in an exclusive Beverly Hills hotel,” he told the publication. “From the moment the Clintons found their feet in Los Angeles and began to meet the stars, they became addicted to power… It’s ironic their own scandalous truths are worthy of a movie script!”</div><div>Compelling stuff.</div><div>
</div><div>Rumors that Hillary is a lesbian murderer—or that Bill is a cocaine-addled deviant—have proliferated in fringe corners of the internet and right-wing circles for ages. Authors Robert Morrow, Edward Klein, and Trump’s longtime adviser and political ally Roger Stone have written books making outlandish claims about supposed Clinton drug habits, sexual preferences, and bloody, bloody history. (Trump himself suggested this month that Hillary was screwing around on former president Bill.)</div><div><b>Rovin has had a decently impressive career as a fiction writer. He has co-authored sci-fi novels with William Shatner and X-Files star Gillian Anderson. He took over Tom Clancy’s Op-Center novel series after the author died in 2013.&nbsp;</b>And his Penguin Random House author page notes he is “a student of the martial arts”—much like Hannity himself.</div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...</font></div><div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Rovin also edited the&nbsp;</b><i><b>Weekly World News</b>&nbsp;</i>tabloid for a time. As&nbsp;<i>The Atlantic</i>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/the-ingenious-sensationalism-of-the-weekly-world-new/381525/" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">has noted</a>, the publication “highlighted tabloid journalism’s thin line between fiction and nonfiction,” until its print edition folded in 2007.&nbsp;</span>The tabloid pushed self-consciously outlandish stories, like the classic “BAT CHILD ESCAPES!” It also had its fair share of Hillary Clinton-related tall tales.</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“BILL CATCHES HILLARY WITH SPACE ALIEN!” blared one headline.</b></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“HILLARY ADOPTS ALIEN BABY,” read a 1993 cover.</b></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Rovin started editing the publication, he stressed the importance of its coverage of space aliens.</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“National, international, and even interplanetary events are being suppressed,” he wrote in an editor’s note on May 2, 2005. “Newspapers, television, and the internet are feeding us what dolphins call ‘meep… meepahh… marp’—Literally, lies as deep as the ocean.”</b></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“When the government tries to cover up visits from space aliens and time travelers, we’ll be there,” Rovin continued.&nbsp;</b>“(<i>Weekly World News</i>&nbsp;will even tell you what investments, if any, people from the future are making in the stock market. You won’t find that in&nbsp;<i>Forbes</i>!)”</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Trump campaign did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment on whether Republican nominee sees any merit in this&nbsp;<i>Enquirer</i>story on his Democratic rival<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. However,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/03/31/national-enquirer-caught-trump-his-mistress.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">the&nbsp;<i>Enquirer</i></a>&nbsp;(a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/03/08/national-enquirer-endorses-trump-calls-rubio-nerdy.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Trump-endorsing</a>tabloid long famous for printing unsubstantiated gossip and stories about space aliens and the Illuminati) and Hannity have become two of Trump’s most reliable allies in the media during this election—and sometimes in concert.</span></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Hannity, for his part, has gone full-on conspiracy theorist during this presidential election,</b>&nbsp;during which he has been doing everything in his power—including&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/cheats/2016/09/20/sean-hannity-in-trouble-at-fox-after-participating-in-trump-ad.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">starring in an</a>&nbsp;official Trump campaign ad—to get Trump elected president.</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this year, when the&nbsp;<i>Enquirer</i>&nbsp;ran a baseless story suggesting that Ted Cruz’s dad, Rafael, was in New Orleans passing out pro-Castro pamphlets with Lee Harvey Oswald,<b>&nbsp;President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, Trump widely promoted the “news,” and got his allies in the mainstream media,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/09/29/who-does-sean-hannity-even-work-for-now-fox-news-or-donald-trump.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">including Hannity</a>, to help him in the effort.</b></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Trump went on Hannity’s radio show in May, the host allowed Trump to give more oxygen to the&nbsp;<i>Enquirer</i>’s supposed JFK-Cruz scoop.</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the time, when asked by The Daily Beast if Hannity would comment further—and if he felt not pushing back bolstered criticism that he is too deferential to the GOP nominee—the host emailed back: “<b>I was saying that photo was not verified.”</b></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Asked if he believed the&nbsp;<i>Enquirer</i>&nbsp;is a reliable source, Hannity said, “If [you] want to interview me, contact Fox PR.” Hannity later emailed The Daily Beast, “<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/cheats/2016/05/03/hannity-encourages-trump-s-jfk-cruz-theory.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">So is the picture authentic or not? You don’t have a clue either. Lol</a>.”</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(Well, we do have a clue:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/05/03/trump-cruz-s-father-helped-jfk-assassin.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Rafael Cruz did not play a role in JFK’s death</a>, but Hannity and the&nbsp;<i>Enquirer&nbsp;</i>did their thing, regardless.)</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And now Hannity is back at it again, elevating&nbsp;<i>National Enquirer&nbsp;</i>content, all in the service of targeting the Clintons and talking up Trump on national TV.</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Hannity would not comment on the record for this story. Fox News public relations did not respond to emails seeking comment. The Clinton campaign similarly did not respond to The Daily Beast’s requests for comment, so&nbsp;<i>WHAT ARE THEY HIDING???</i></b></font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following the Rovin interview on Monday’s episode of&nbsp;<i>Hannity</i>, the Fox News personality interviewed Trump running mate&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/10/10/mike-pence-s-fellow-parishioners-are-furious-at-donald-trump.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Mike Pence</a>&nbsp;and Team Trump campaign manager&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2016/10/23/donald-trump-campaign-manager-kellyanne-conway-s-super-sad-sunday.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Kellyanne Conway</a>, two highly respected figures within the Republican Party who spent their Monday-night airtime talking about how great Trump is. Neither uttered one word about Rovin, the&nbsp;<i>Enquirer</i>’s story, or Hillary Clinton’s alleged past as a villainous sex freak.</font></p></div><div class="Text" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" serif="serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="line-height: 29.5px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why would they, when they have a supermarket tabloid and Fox News to do their work for them?</font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">digby</font></div><div><blockquote data-lang="en" style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This election is about voters choosing the least worst candidate. That's where we are in our politics.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Chris Cillizza (@TheFix)<a href="https://twitter.com/TheFix/status/772460105774292992" style="text-decoration-line: none;">September 4, 2016</a></font></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That tweet from Chris Cilizza of The Washington Post’s The Fix blog is cleverly framed to be about the voters’ view of this campaign. Both candidates do have high unfavorable ratings among the public (as does the Congress and pretty much every other institution, including the press.) That jaded comment by a member of the media, however, illustrates something important. Some members of the press are not just commenting on a reality; they are&nbsp;pushing<i>&nbsp;</i>the theme of two equally unpalatable candidates and it just isn’t true.</font></p><p id="yui_3_18_1_10_1473195341282_53" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The main problem for Clinton is that people think she is a congenital liar. When asked what it is she lied about, most people can’t point to anything specific; they just know she’s dishonest and corrupt. The fact that she’s been dogged by political enemies and investigated by special prosecutors, the media and Congress with unlimited budgets and every possible means of getting to the truth and has been exonerated doesn’t seem to register.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Indeed,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/hillary-clinton-one-americas-most-honest-politicians&source=gmail&ust=1473246903454000&usg=AFQjCNEdhgNr9xSnpwcmPTFLyhrPZPyoxA" href="http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/hillary-clinton-one-americas-most-honest-politicians" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the fact-checkers all find her to be more honest</a>&nbsp;than&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html&source=gmail&ust=1473246903454000&usg=AFQjCNGdeNPihRbnG8SXLzU-7CX958xFXg" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/opinion/campaign-stops/all-politicians-lie-some-lie-more-than-others.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">virtually anyone in politics</a>&nbsp;while Donald Trump, by contrast,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.salon.com/2016/05/15/donald_trump_is_a_serial_liar_more_upsetting_is_that_no_one_seems_to_care_partner/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903454000&usg=AFQjCNFyd4mTVgRhEuhdfVQGhcI5weanwQ" href="http://www.salon.com/2016/05/15/donald_trump_is_a_serial_liar_more_upsetting_is_that_no_one_seems_to_care_partner/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">lies more than he tells the truth.</a></span></font></p><p id="yui_3_18_1_10_1473195341282_53" style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">To understand how this came to be, go back to a column from 1996 in&nbsp;The New York Times by&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.salon.com/2004/11/22/safire_7/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903454000&usg=AFQjCNHefVLzQKFCfJ-PEeKeh5kgvsR-Jg" href="http://www.salon.com/2004/11/22/safire_7/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">vicious right-wing columnist William Safire</a>&nbsp;who&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html&source=gmail&ust=1473246903454000&usg=AFQjCNFaP4LA8DXJae56aB5_YbwLBruE8Q" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/08/opinion/essay-blizzard-of-lies.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">first dubbed her a “congenital liar.</a>”&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All the crimes that he accused her of committing and lies he insisted that she had told later proved&nbsp;him&nbsp;to be the liar (or badly misinformed), but it didn’t matter. For many reasons, not the least of which was simple sexism, it was set in stone that this feminist, lawyer first lady was devious, calculating and power mad — Madame Defarge and Evita rolled into one. The political press has filtered its&nbsp;coverage of her through that lens ever since.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Amanda Marcotte&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.salon.com/2016/08/29/the-clinton-bs-files-lock-her-up-isnt-really-about-emails-the-rights-been-accusing-the-clintons-of-murder-for-decades/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNHLp4KUYcn7OteEY2Gjyk3YaIWCRw" href="http://www.salon.com/2016/08/29/the-clinton-bs-files-lock-her-up-isnt-really-about-emails-the-rights-been-accusing-the-clintons-of-murder-for-decades/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">has documented</a>,&nbsp;the current “lock her up!” fever, that burning desire to see her her humiliated and imprisoned (or in some cases&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/al-baldasaro-clinton-should-be-executed-not-assassinated&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNGdR3bgV7ZByDv6dC9zWlHdeQkvNQ" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/al-baldasaro-clinton-should-be-executed-not-assassinated" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">executed for treason</a>) goes back to the 1990s as well. And it’s no less disturbing now than it was then.<b>&nbsp;It’s fed by the press’ insatiable appetite for juicy tidbits doled out piece by piece by right-wing operatives, each story building on itself to create a narrative of crisis and criminality despite there being no evidence of it being true.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The assumption behind&nbsp;the “Clinton Foundation scandal” is that the mere possibility of “impropriety” is a form of corruption despite there being absolutely no proof that any favoritism or transaction actually took place. (The fact that all&nbsp;politicians in Washington from President Barack Obama to lowly congresspeople have contacts every day with people&nbsp;who give them money for their campaigns directly&nbsp;doesn’t put any of that in perspective for some reason.) She alone is being held liable for the big money problem that infects our system from top to bottom.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Recently, there has been some pushback coming from several journalistic quarters, which is new. The erroneous AP report that Clinton had pretty much given exclusive access to Clinton Foundation donors was ably dispatched&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12618446/ap-clinton-foundation-meeting&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNHW_4HkO9NYyu7XTOiJi9oUKRfMaw" href="http://www.vox.com/2016/8/24/12618446/ap-clinton-foundation-meeting" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">by Matthew Yglesias of&nbsp;Vox</a>.&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/about-as-clear-cut-as-they-get&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNF4BFRptG_4EHnYiDqkq8nqmVMpyQ" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/about-as-clear-cut-as-they-get" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Josh Marshall of&nbsp;Talking Points Memo has challenged</a>&nbsp;several stories, including&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-failed-chumps&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNFC0onXpGGnJniNJtpUlpMYbz3A2w" href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-failed-chumps" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the breathless “exposé”</a>&nbsp;about a Clinton associate asking for diplomatic passports&nbsp;to rescue two journalists in North Korea.&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/09/trump-time-capsule-92-how-the-media-undermine-american-democracy/498461/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNGTn4aYLQnb2I3iYEJIOxANjJeRhQ" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/09/trump-time-capsule-92-how-the-media-undermine-american-democracy/498461/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">James Fallows in The Atlantic</a>&nbsp;revisited his book from 20 years ago called “Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy” and lamented how current coverage shows little improvement since then</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/?utm_term%3D.54e7b65f5aaf&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNGaoxIAL9ONBHbbNGJP_sc0MRTFNg" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/05/trumps-history-of-corruption-is-mind-boggling-so-why-is-clinton-supposedly-the-corrupt-one/?utm_term=.54e7b65f5aaf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Waldman in The Washington Post took on</a>&nbsp;the two competing “foundation” scandals, Trump’s being an actual case of flat-out bribery and Clinton’s being nothing. And The New York Times’&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/opinion/hillary-clinton-gets-gored.html&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNFmpms5eXxWcHp0n118Lc9nlIWAbg" href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/opinion/hillary-clinton-gets-gored.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Krugman devoted a&nbsp;column</a>&nbsp;to a scathing critique of the press,&nbsp;<b>comparing its coverage to the treatment of Al Gore in 2000, when a fake “liar” meme circulated, propagated by&nbsp;right-wing opposition organizations&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/06/playing-dirty/302960/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNHolwbHaCqYTIRUo7xRaREmyXXlwg" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/06/playing-dirty/302960/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">to tar him as dishonest and mentally unstable</a>.&nbsp;</b>We all know how well that turned out.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I had to laugh at&nbsp;Sunday’s&nbsp;silly&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fundraising.html&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNFu8LlV-QaIOnI4qMbiZGJGpSh6KQ" href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/us/politics/hillary-clinton-fundraising.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times story about Hillary Clinton hobnobbing with wealthy donors</a>&nbsp;as if that were a shocking display of arrogant elitism. Compare and contrast that with&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/obama-is-spending-an-unprecedented-amount-of-time-fundraising-scandal/258526/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNG4bFu5f82Ml3sS3Qexex8sJPCVjQ" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/obama-is-spending-an-unprecedented-amount-of-time-fundraising-scandal/258526/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">this story from 2012 about President Obama hobnobbing with wealthy donors</a>&nbsp;portrayed as an unpleasant but necessary duty in a time of big money dominance. One cannot escape the fact that Clinton is being held to a different standard.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Much of the criticism in general is focused on&nbsp;<b>The New York Times which seems to have a strange institutional vendetta against both Clintons.&nbsp;</b>It’s hard to understand why this would be true over so many years but perhaps&nbsp;Jonathan Allen explained it best in this brutally honest piece&nbsp;called&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNGhz4AuPf2SD1esLEQzfe4cvuFQ_w" href="http://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“Confessions of a Clinton reporter: The media’s 5 unspoken rules for covering Hillary.”</a>&nbsp;This, I think, can fairly be said to apply across the board not just to the Times:</font></p><blockquote style="line-height: 25px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Clinton rules are driven by reporters’ and editors’ desire to score the ultimate prize in contemporary journalism: the scoop that brings down Hillary Clinton and her family’s political empire. At least in that way, Republicans and the media have a common interest.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This problem has deep roots in our political culture and it’s potentially creating a serious crisis in 2016. If Donald Trump were to pull out a win, the ramifications would be extreme. And he could. Nate Silver and the 538 gang of statisticians don’t give him good odds but&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-its-too-soon-for-clinton-to-run-out-the-clock/&source=gmail&ust=1473246903455000&usg=AFQjCNE1S-BjJoir--USgiDzQvERpKfTFw" href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-its-too-soon-for-clinton-to-run-out-the-clock/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">they do not believe it’s impossible:</a></font></p><blockquote style="line-height: 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Our model] shows Trump as having gained about 2 points over two weeks. If Trump keeps gaining 1 percentage point a week, he’ll beat Clinton by a couple of percentage points on&nbsp;Nov. 8. Hence, Clinton should probably not be picking out the White House drapes just yet....</font></p></blockquote></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/us/politics/hillary-clinton-transition-team.html?r=0</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="204" data-total-count="204" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced on Tuesday that<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/ken_salazar/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Ken Salazar." class="meta-per">Ken Salazar</a>, the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/us/politics/ken-salazar-joyful-run-interior-secretary.html">former interior secretary</a>&nbsp;and Colorado senator, would become chairman of Mrs. Clinton’s transition planning team.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="267" data-total-count="471" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The effort, which will be based out of Washington, is aimed at preparing Mrs. Clinton and her team to enter the White House after the November election if she wins — an operation intended to be largely separated from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign apparatus in Brooklyn.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="358" data-total-count="829" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The campaign said Mr. Salazar would lead four team members:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Tom Donilon, who served as national security adviser under President Obama; Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan; Neera Tanden, the president of the Center for American Progress; and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and a longtime Clinton confidante.</span></font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="266" data-total-count="1095" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two top campaign policy advisers for the Democratic nominee, Ed Meier and Ann O’Leary, will also shift full-time to the transition efforts. Heather Boushey, the executive director of the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, will be the team’s chief economist.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="526" data-total-count="1621" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While our campaign remains focused on the task at hand of winning in November,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/hillary-clinton-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Hillary Clinton." class="meta-per">Hillary Clinton</a>&nbsp;wants to be able to get to work right away as president-elect on building an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top,” John D. Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman and the transition team president, said in a statement. “These individuals, who bring a deep level of experience in the work of presidential transitions, will help us build a team that is ready to govern after the general election.”</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="258" data-total-count="1879" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The White House has been preparing for months to help oversee a transfer of power in January. Representatives of both the Clinton and Trump campaigns have been invited to begin attending transition-planning meetings and to arrange for intelligence briefings.</font></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="95" data-total-count="1974" id="story-continues-1" data-node-uid="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 75px; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none; width: 570px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donald J. Trump has put Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/05/09/donald-trump-picks-chris-christie-to-head-possible-transition-team/?r=0">in charge of his transition planning</a>.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aei hillary hit 8/16</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/a-constitutional-amendment-overturning-citizens-united-really-how/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.aei.org/publication/a-constitutional-amendment-overturning-citizens-united-really-how/</font></a></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One jarring note in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.aei.org/tag/hillary-clinton" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; cursor: pointer; background: transparent;">Hillary Clinton</a>’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was her statement that she would press for a constitutional amendment to overturn<em>&nbsp;Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission</em>. This 2009 Supreme Court case held that corporations had the same rights as individuals to make statements for or against the election of a candidate for public office. Particularly difficult to understand was her linking Citizens United to the fact that our economy is not functioning well for many Americans.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/267083-tom-delay-feds-ready-to-indict-clinton</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/05/05/fox-s-kilmeade-i-let-myself-down-not-following-when-trump-brought-jfk-conspiracy-fox-friends/210256</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lakof direct causation problem again?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chris Christie’s Debunked Clinton Claim About Boko Haram Comes Straight From Right-Wing Media</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Research</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">&nbsp;July 20, 2016 1:05 PM EDT ››› CYDNEY HARGIS</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">During his speech at the Republican National Convention, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie echoed the right-wing media myth that as secretary of state, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton personally “fought” to keep Nigerian group Boko Haram off the terror watch list, which resulted in the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls -- a claim media fact-checkers debunked. &nbsp; &nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christie Claimed Clinton “Fought” To Keep Boko Haram Off Terrorism Watch List In Convention Speech</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christie: Because Clinton “Fought For Two Years To Keep An Al Qaeda Affiliate Off The Terrorist Watch List, ... These Terrorists Abducted Hundreds Of Innocent Young Girls.” During his speech at the July 19 Republican National Convention, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie claimed that “In Nigeria, [presumptive Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list,” referring to the extremist group Boko Haram. Christie argued that “because of this reckless action … terrorists abducted hundreds of innocent young girls.” From the July 19 speech:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, let's present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Clinton. She was America's chief diplomat. Look around at the violence and danger in our world today every region of the world has been infected with her flawed judgment.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What happened because of this reckless action by the candidate who is the self proclaimed champion of women around the world? These terrorists abducted hundreds of innocent young girls two years ago.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">These schoolgirls are still missing today.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What was the solution from the Obama/Clinton team? A hashtag campaign! Hillary Clinton, as an apologist for an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria resulting in the capture of innocent young women guilty or not guilty? She fights for the wrong people. [NJ.com, 7/19/16]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Right-Wing Media Previously Hyped This False Claim</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fox & Friends: Clinton “Made Sure” Boko Haram Was “Not Placed On The Terror List,” Which “Perhaps Could Have Saved These Girls Earlier." Fox hosts Steve Doocy and Elisabeth Hasselbeck blamed Clinton for refusing to designate Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), claiming that if she had done so, it "could have saved these girls earlier." From the May 8, 2014, edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): This is really something. We've with been telling you over the last couple of days about this terrorist group called Boko Haram out in Africa, how they've killed an entire village. They have since, in the last couple of weeks, they have kidnapped 300 young girls. They're going to sell them into slavery.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): And prior to that, boys.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">DOOCY: They burned a bunch of boys. They burned down a village. It's all bad. And now, word is, because we did not place them on the terror list, of officially known terrorist groups, it's going to be harder to go after them. And who exactly made sure that they were not placed on the terror list? Hillary Clinton.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ELISABETH HASSELBECK (CO-HOST): And the rights of women and young girls, those were pillars of what she wanted to accomplish in her time at the State Department. But right here, what she didn't actually tweet, and perhaps because it was over 140 characters, was the fact that her own State Department, as Steve just mentioned, did not place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations, which would have forbidden any sort of authority to increase securities to them, increase assistance to Nigerian security forces in that area, and perhaps could have saved these girls earlier. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 5/8/14]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">National Review: "The Excuses Now Being Offered In Explanation Of Clinton's Dereliction Are Specious." National Review's Andrew McCarthy claimed that Clinton “protected” Boko Haram as secretary of state and that “the excuses now being offered in explanation of Clinton’s dereliction are specious" and "ridiculous." McCarthy wrote that Clinton was "appeasing Islamists." From the May 8, 2014, article:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The excuses now being offered in explanation of Clinton’s dereliction are specious. As Rogin explains, Clinton’s State Department claimed that Boko Haram was merely a local group with parochial grievances that was not a threat to the United States. Have a look, though, at the State Department’s list, here. Several of the listed groups are waging local terrorist campaigns that do not threaten our country—the Basque ETA, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Real Irish Republican Army, etc. A significant reason for having the list is to promote international cooperation against terrorism and discourage its use against anyone anywhere. The fact that a terrorist organization may have only local grievances and may not directly imperil the U.S. has never been thought a reason to exclude it from the list.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fox News has further reported another rationale of Clinton apologists: Hillary did not want to raise Boko Haram’s profile and assist its recruiting which, they reason, would be the effect of designation by the Great Satan. That is ridiculous. The main point of having the list, and the sanctions that accompany a terrorist designation, is to weaken the organization by depriving it of assets and material support. The logic of what Clinton supporters are claiming is that U.S. counterterrorism law — much of which was put in place by the administration of President Bill Clinton — does more harm than good. Does anyone think they really believe that?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">What happened here is obvious, although the commentariat is loath to connect the dots. Boko Haram is an Islamic-supremacist organization. Mrs. Clinton, like the Obama administration more broadly, believes that appeasing Islamists--avoiding actions that might give them offense, slamming Americans who provoke them--promotes peace and stability. [National Review, 5/8/14]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hot Air: "The Responsibility For This Failure Rests Directly With Hillary Clinton." The conservative blog Hot Air wrote that “the responsibility for this failure” to designate Boko Haram a terrorist organization was Clinton’s and that the decision enabled the group to commit acts of terrorism, including the mass kidnappings. Hot Air also brushed aside Clinton's support of U.S. intervention in the Nigerian kidnappings, writing, "Now Hillary wants to fight Boko Haram with hashtags. Too bad she didn't fight them with real resources when she had the chance." From the May 8, 2014, post:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Boko Haram has wreaked havoc in Nigeria and portions of surrounding nations since 2009, when the Nigerian government tried to crack down on their arms-gathering operations. The group of Islamist terrorists had been known for much of that time to have ties to al-Qaeda, both ideological and tactical. Hundreds, perhaps thousands died in terrorist attacks from 2009 to 2013, many of them targeted for their Christianity. And yet, not until November 2013 did the US finally list Boko Haram as a terrorist group.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Why? We should ask Hillary Clinton</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It’s true that not every local grievance requires a State Department designation, but Boko Haram allied itself with al-Qaeda and provided it tactical support, at least. That should have prompted State to act, especially with the consensus within the national-security communities demanding it — repeatedly. Instead, Hillary Clinton refused to act in order to keep up a pretense that “al-Qaeda was on the run.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now Hillary wants to fight Boko Haram with hashtags. Too bad she didn’t fight them with real resources when she had the chance. [Hot Air, 5/8/14]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Newt Gingrich: State Department Under Clinton “Wouldn’t Even List [Boko Haram] As A Terrorist Group.” Former Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich blamed Clinton for not listing Boko Haram a terrorist organization in 2015 speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit, even though. “last year Boko Haram killed more people than Ebola.” From CSPAN’s broadcast of the Iowa Freedom Summit: &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">NEWT GINGRICH: You see people all around the planet, this is a global war, and yet they insist on talking about it by geography. So, we’re going to really focus on Northern Syria. Well, there are thousands of jihadists who have come to Northern Syria from all around the world, over a thousands from France alone. Over 600 from Great Britain. over 100 from the United States. This is a global war. In Nigeria, Boko Haram has 10,000 fighters, and last year Boko Haram killed more people than Ebola. But the State Department, for years under Secretary Clinton, wouldn’t even list them as a terrorist group, even though their initial base camp was called Afghanistan, in honor of the Taliban. Now, you would think somewhere in here, people would get a hint. [CSPAN, Iowa Freedom Summit, 1/24/15] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fact-Checkers Point Out Christie’s Claim Has Long Been Debunked</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Politico: Clinton “Was Heeding The Advice Of Numerous Regional Experts” And There Is Doubt About “Whether The Designation Could Have Prevented” The Abduction Of School Girls. Politico fact-checked Christie’s claims about Clinton’s foreign policy record as secretary of state, noting that Clinton “was heeding the advice of numerous regional experts who argued in an open letter that” designating Boko Haram a terrorist group “could elevate the group's prestige” and that “It is not clear that the group ever pledged formal allegiance to al Qaeda, and the two groups were sometimes described as rivals.” Politico also explained that Boko Haram was designated a terrorist group a year before the Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted, “raising the question of whether the designation could have prevented their abduction.” From the July 20 Politico report:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christie said that Clinton "fought" to keep the radical Islamist group Boko Haram off an official State Department terrorism watch list before she left government in 2012. In 2014, the group abducted hundreds of young women and girls who are still missing. Clinton, Christie concluded in perhaps his most explosive allegation, was "an apologist for an al Qaeda affiliate in Nigeria resulting in the capture of hundreds of young women."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It's true that Clinton opposed designating Boko Haram a Foreign Terrorist Organization, an act that imposes financial sanctions and other legal penalties on named groups and their supporters. While that may be hard to understand—the group already had a clear record of violence and radicalism — she was heeding the advice of numerous regional experts who argued in an open letter that doing so could elevate the group's prestige. The Nigerian government also opposed the designation.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">John Kerry did name Boko Haram a terrorist organization after succeeding Clinton in 2013. But the girls were kidnapped the following year, raising the question of whether the designation could have prevented their abduction.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Finally, Christie described Boko Haram as "al Qaeda affiliate." It is not clear that the group ever pledged formal allegiance to al Qaeda, and the two groups were sometimes described as rivals. (Boko Haram publicly pledged allegiance to ISIS last year.) [Politico, 7/20/16]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">CNN: “No Evidence” Clinton Personally “‘Fought’” To Keep Boko Haram Off Terror List. CNN’s Reality Check Team gave Christie’s claim a “false” rating, noting the lack of evidence that Clinton “was personally responsible for the delay in the designation.” CNN also pointed out the “delay” did not result in the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls, which occurred after Clinton left the State Department. From the July 20 fact-check (emphasis original): &nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Boko Haram, an affiliate of al Qaeda, was never designated a foreign terrorist organization during Clinton's leadership of the State Department. The department eventually labeled the group a terrorist organization while under Kerry in December 2013.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The kidnapping of the 200 Nigerian school girls occurred in April 2014.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">While Clinton was head of the State Department at the time, Christie says she "fought" to keep them off the list and there is no evidence that she herself was personally responsible for the delay in the designation. Our verdict: false. [CNN.com, 7/20/16]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wash. Post: “No Evidence That Clinton Played A Role Or ‘Fought’ To Keep Boko Haram Off The List” Or “That A Terrorist Designation Any Sooner Would Have Prevented” The Mass Kidnappings. Washington Post fact-checkers Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee wrote that “Christie grossly simplifie[d] a complex debate at the State Department -- which actually did not involve Clinton personally.” The Fact Checker blog noted that State Department officials conceded they could have moved faster with Boko Haram’s designation, but that “there is no evidence that Clinton played a role” and that there is also “no evidence” that the terrorist designation “any sooner would have prevented the kidnapping of the girls.” The fact check also pointed out that the hashtag campaign “came after Clinton had left the State Department.” From the July 19 article: &nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Christie grossly simplifies a complex debate at the State Department — which actually did not involve Clinton personally.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2014, the Fact Checker closely examined this issue, concluding that claims that Clinton was responsible for the decision betrays a misunderstanding of how the State Department works. Yes, Clinton was secretary of state in 2012. Designations of foreign terrorist groups are ultimately issued by the secretary of state. But the decision on how to handle the group was resolved before it ever reached her level, according to officials familiar with the deliberations.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">State Department officials in 2012 vigorously debated how to treat Boko Haram, with the Bureau of Counterterrorism, headed then by Assistant Secretary Daniel Benjamin, leaning toward designation, and the Africa bureau, headed then by Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, urging caution. One big issue was that Nigeria was a government close to the United States — and Nigeria was adamantly opposed to the designation, arguing it risked entrenching Boko Haram. Nigerian officials also argued that a terrorist designation — which halts any flow of funds to the entity or people associated with it — would make it difficult for humanitarian aid to continue in the region where Boko Haram operated.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There was another, complicating issue: U.S. officials thought the Nigerian army had engaged in brutal human rights abuses in its efforts to fight Boko Haram. So a compromise was reached internally: The administration would name three leaders of Boko Haram as specially designated global terrorists while holding out the possibly of a broader designation of the entire group as a means of improving the behavior of Nigerian forces battling Boko Haram.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In any case, in 2013, the State Department formally designated Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization. Officials later conceded that, in retrospect, they could have moved a bit faster, but there is no evidence that Clinton played a role or “fought” to keep Boko Haram off the list. The internal debate did not rise to her level; it was handled by the deputy secretary of state.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">There is no evidence that a terrorist designation any sooner would have prevented the kidnapping of the girls. As for the hashtag campaign, that came after Clinton had left the State Department. [The Washington Post, 7/19/16]</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ABC: Clinton “Publicly … Denounced [Boko Haram].” An ABC News fact check rebutted Christie’s claim that Clinton personally “fought” to keep Boko Haram off the terrorist organization list and “responded to its mass kidnapping with a ‘hashtag strategy,’” noting that she publicly denounced the group and that “she was not Secretary of State when the kidnapping happened.” From the July 19 fact check (emphasis original): &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Claim: Hillary Clinton is an “apologist” for Boko Haram. She and Obama responded to its mass kidnapping with a “hashtag campaign.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rating: False. It is based on a true fact, that Clinton’s State Department declined to list Boko Haram as a terrorist group out of concern that doing so would raise the group’s profile. But publicly Clinton has denounced the group, and she was not Secretary of State when the kidnapping happened.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Background: In 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. declined to list Boko Haram, the terrorist group that would abduct more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in 2014, as a foreign terrorist organization, against the recommendations of DOJ, FBI, CIA, and lawmakers, Josh Rogin reported for The Daily Beast in 2014.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That move, however, appears to have been based on a disagreement over whether listing Boko Haram would elevate its status. A State Department official said as much to Rogin in the same story. The assertion that she is an “apologist” appears to be a rhetorical exaggeration criticizing that decision. But publicly, Clinton has denounced Boko Haram. [ABC News, 7/20/16]&nbsp;</font></font></font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></div></div></div></div>