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Old 11-04-2016, 01:25 PM   #1864
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield View Post
It's not the emails. Even the FBI admits that. It's what the emails disclose about the Foundation.

It's always been about the Foundation. The emails are just the shoehorn into the bigger investigation. Come on... you knew that.
The Foundation is such a nothingburger of a scandal. It has been looked at exhaustively, and no one has ever been able to find a situation where someone who "bought influence" through the Foundation -- which is to say, donated money that was mostly used to pay for AIDS treatment in the Third World -- got a quo for their quid. Many people have tried to write those stories, and they have found nothing. But because they don't want to admit that they wasted their time, or say nothing, and because the Clintons are the Clintons, the stories always end with the notion that there was the potential for the appearance of impropriety. No one ever writes the story that says, you know, for a long time the media has been looking at this smoke and saying, it could be a fire, but really there's no fire.

And, BTW, none of the coverage ever points out that the Foundation raised a ton of money and did good work with it. Most people don't know that.

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ETA: And fuck Vox. That site has 0.0000000 credibility. It's like a high brow Huffington Post, or a left wing Townhall.
Not sure why you say this. Everything I've ever read on Vox has been solid, if sometimes earnest and dull. I don't really read Huffington Post, or Townhall, so not really sure I get your comparison.
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