The “mainstream” media doesn’t know what a real scandal is.
There’s a walking scandal leading the Democratic field for
president, and the media has only pretended to hold her to
account.
The Justice Department stumbled and bumbled and acted at times
in classless ways in its treatment of several federal prosecutors
and explanations thereof. A few, at least, of the replaced U.S.
Attorneys have good reason to be furious. But in terms of the
public weal, that’s not a scandal, it’s an embarrassment.
The bloodlust of the media on this subject is remarkable in
comparison with the mere intermittent, surface-level interest it
showed in pursuing ethical scrapes of Hillary Clinton during the
eight years she spent as First Lady. So, just for fun, here’s a
quick recap of the real, honest-to-goodness scandals in Madame
Hillary’s past that makes her one of the most obviously corrupt
candidates ever to be a frontrunner for the presidency.
Cattle Futures. Hillary made a $100,000
windfall on a $1,000 investment in risky cattle futures, in trades
that appear to have been backdated for just that purpose.
Whitewater. If Whitewater wasn’t a scandal, why
did so many people go to jail for it? The fact remains that a host
of senior citizens lost their retirement nest eggs, and taxpayers
were put on the hook for a bank failure while the Clintons skated
without apparent financial loss.
Castle Grande. That real estate scam was a
subset of Whitewater. Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker was convicted
because of it. Taxpayers were put on the hook for about $4 million.
When Hillary’s buddy Webb Hubbell was indicted for his role in it,
Hillary was mentioned (albeit not by name) as Hubbell’s “billing
partner.” Details are hard to remember. So were the billing records
themselves, which “disappeared” for a couple of years in the
private quarters of Hillary’s White House.
Travel Office Firings. Independent Counsel
Robert Ray concluded that Hillary was deeply involved in this
skanky deal and that her testimony about her involvement was
“factually false.”
Filegate. Okay, Hillary was cleared in this
one, but her White House was still guilty of extreme cavalierness
(is that a word?) in its assignment of political hack Craig
Livingstone to a position where he could peruse and perhaps abuse
the FBI files of 900 political appointees of former President
George H.W. Bush.
Pardongate. Outgoing President Clinton gave
pardons to people who gave beaucoup bucks to Hillary’s Senate
campaign and to Hillary’s Rodham brothers, Tony and Hugh.
Indonesian Fundraising Scandal. John Huang was
convicted of campaign finance violations. He testified that he met
numerous times with both Clintons in the White House, and Secret
Service logs show that he visited the White House 78 times in 15
months.
And all of that is just the start. Add in all the demonstrable
lies the lady has told over the years, the campaign aides convicted
of wrongdoing, and other imbroglios too numerous to detail here,
and we’re looking at a walking, talking queen of mendacity and
scandal.
Oh…and has been noted plenty of times now, but never
forcefully enough on the major networks, Hillary seemed hip-deep in
her pal Hubbell’s unprecedented dismissals of all 93 U.S. Attorneys
all at once, without even having replacements at the ready.
Now that was a scandal that actually put the public
interest seriously at risk. But the media treated it as mere
politics as usual. Funny, isn’t it, that when the Bush
administration carries out nothing worse than politics as
usual with regard to U.S. Attorneys, ham-handed though it was, the
front pages are full of the “scandal” for weeks?
Enough is too much.
Somehow, someway, conservatives ought to fight back — before
these non-scandals are replaced in the White House with a corrupt
and ruthless Hillary Clinton with revenge on her mind.
