Stephanopoulos' $75,000 Gift To Clintons Underlines
Media Corruption
An Editorial from Investor’s Business Daily
Journalism: In another sign the left's grip on the news is bigger than
anyone knew, ABC News' George Stephanopoulos hid a $75,000 gift to the Clinton
Foundation even as he reported news about corruption allegations.
While skeptically interrogating
author Peter Schweizer about "Clinton Cash," his book exposing the
Clinton Foundation last April 26, the anchor for ABC News conveniently left out
the highly relevant fact that he himself had donated $75,000 to the Clinton
Foundation.
Listeners had no clue about just who
was doing the news. Instead of an impartial newsman with a mission to lay out
all the facts and let the audience decide, this was a political operative doing
the bidding for the very foundation under the spotlight.
Naturally, he pooh-poohed
Schweizer's allegations the foundation was an influence-purchasing machine more
than a charity, telling the author he had no proof.
It appeared that he hadn't read the
book, as Schweizer addressed how investigations of such white collar crimes are
done in law enforcement circles through patterns of activity, which was the
approach he took for his book. In reality, he was talking to a spin doctor up
to his eyeballs in involvement with the other side.
After he was caught, Stephanopoulos
first protested that it was for all the good works the foundation was doing on
deforestation and other stuff. But that fell flat, because Schweizer had
already reported that only 9% of the foundation's funds went to charity, far
less than comparable organizations.
After that, he protested that the
information was public anyway, as his donations could be looked up by anyone
interested in reading the fine print of tax filings. And with the heat on, he
then recused himself from any involvement in the upcoming Republican debates.
All of this serves to illustrate the
research that Schweizer did, pointing out that the organization was a
pay-to-play instrument for buying influence, as well as a nontransparent
organization — so much so that charity watchdogs didn't even want to get
involved with ranking the Clinton Foundation because of its secretive
structure.
The takeaway here is that, in
addition to being a vehicle for foreign governments to buy influence, it
appears that the Clinton Foundation also is a vehicle for journalists to
purchase influence or perhaps even access at the highest levels of government.
Small wonder the public holds the
mainstream media is such low regard. Sure, the media's bias is ideological, but
it may go deeper than that, to a relationship of political puppet-string
pullers and their pawns doing others' bidding while pretending to be actual
newsmen.
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Poster’s comments:
1)
How many of the media
will soon be saying “would you like fries with that order?”
2)
What is reported appears
to be old fashioned propaganda to this poster.
3)
The ideas of “conflicts
of interest”, integrity, and morale conduct are not too hard to understand.
4)
Some may “cry their way
to the bank” as they “go away”. Rest assured, they will go away.
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