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Las Vegas Review-Journal


Democrats are up in arms that congressional Republicans want the FBI to open a perjury investigation regarding comments Hillary Clinton made to Congress involving her email habits. No one could deny that politics are involved. But all that would be irrelevant if Mrs. Clinton would simply stop lying.

But she won’t — or can’t. And now her husband is running around repeating her lies. At least he’s found something he’s good at.

Bill Clinton’s feelings are hurt because FBI Director James Comey didn’t completely whitewash his wife’s prevarications. When Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., asked Mr. Comey in July if Mrs. Clinton was telling the truth when she said there was nothing marked classified on her emails either sent or received, the FBI chief said her comments were “not true.” Mr. Comey also disputed Mrs. Clinton’s assertions that she didn’t email any classified material, that she used only one personal server, that she returned all work-related emails to the State Department, and that her lawyers reviewed the content of every one of her emails.

Mr. Comey also testified that, while it was tough to determine the truthfulness of her claim that neither she nor anyone else deleted emails from her personal account, there was “no doubt” work-related emails were missing.


During an Asian American Journalists Association meeting in Las Vegas last week, Mr. Clinton called Mr. Comey’s testimony “the biggest load of bull I’ve ever heard.” He went on to make excuses for his wife’s behavior, trotting out the “everybody did it” defense while insisting that no classified material was involved and implying that the FBI director had recanted the comments he made during the congressional hearing.

All this was too much for The Washington Post’s Fact Checker feature, which characterized Mr. Clinton’s comments as “pathetic” and “misleading” and accused him and other Democrats of cherry-picking the FBI director’s statements in their rush to defend Hillary. The column awarded Mr. Clinton three Pinocchios, which is described as “into the realm of mostly false.”

Clearly, Hillary learned at the knee of the master. Or was it the other way around?
http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-trail-lies
 
god help us if these 2 master prevaricators wind up with the power of the WH.
Spin for breakfast followed by dissembling for lunch, and outright falsehoods for dinner served with lie sauce
 
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Now, as the Iranians said before they released our hostages, let’s talk about money....

Money is the root of all evil,” goes the saying, and the saying is wrong. It’s wrong as a quote, and it’s wrong as an idea. The expression comes from the New Testament, Timothy 6:10. There are almost as many versions of this line as there are versions of the Bible.

Another reason I bring it up is that I think Hillary Clinton’s corruption is a good illustration of how we have corrupted our understanding of corruption itself.
Corruption is a deeply misunderstood word. Today we associate it almost exclusively with graft, bribe-taking, and other forms of essentially financial malfeasance.
Graft is certainly a form of corruption, but not all forms of corruption can be described as graft. In fact, most of the corruptions in life don’t involve money at all.
My Dad always used to say that the most corrupting thing in everyday life was friendship, not money. What he meant by that is that we do things for friends we would (almost) never do for strangers offering cash.

The coverage of the Clinton Foundation is a textbook example of how our pinched and narrow conception of corruption distorts our understanding of politics.
Those few mainstream reporters interested in the story at all think the hook is the “pay for play” angle. A whole generation of reporters have misconstrued the phrase “follow the money” to mean “it’s all about the money.”
But if you go back and actually look at Watergate, the reason why “Deepthroat” said “follow the money” (a phrase invented by William Goldman for the movie All the Presidents Men, by the way; there’s no evidence Deepthroat actually said it) was that the money trail would lead to the actual corruption.
The money itself had little to do with the real crimes. The real crime revolved around Nixon’s desire to stay in power, not to get rich.
And Mark Felt, the real Deepthroat, wasn’t motivated by any lofty principle or even by a desire for profit, he was a petty man who felt passed over when he wasn’t named as J. Edgar Hoover’s replacement. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday

Bill and Chelsea Clinton will stop raising money for their foundation if Hillary is elected president.
They will also stop convening the Clinton Global Initiative, which was a brilliant scam for Bill to schmooze and logroll with billionaires, corporations, NGO heads, “thinkfluencers,” and the heads of countless foreign governments.

The story doesn’t make reference to it, but this is all in response to leaked e-mails showing that some Nigerian billionaire took time off from sending me e-mails asking for my bank routing number to buy access to the State Department.
This “pay for play” angle is simply a manifestation of the bastardization of “follow the money.”

The money isn’t the primary issue with the Clintons and it never was. Sure, sure, they like being rich. They like flying around in private planes.
They like having lots of houses.
But the Clinton Foundation was never about getting rich, it was about keeping the Imperial Court in Exile well-tended to for their return to power. Huma’s amazingly corrupt moonlighting wasn’t about money grubbing per se, it was about keeping Hillary’s Richelieu on the payroll.
The Clintons are a tribe, a House like House Lanister or House Harkonen.
They trade power, fame, influence and, sure, on occasion, money to advance the interests of their House.

Hillary Clinton recognized that her ambitions could only be realized by hitching herself to her sociopath husband. No doubt that decision had its downsides, but look where she is now.
Let’s not pretend she didn’t make peace with her husband’s ways a long, long time ago. She was happy to make $100,000 on cattle futures, after all.
When the Clintons left office they created a “foundation” whose chief purpose was to give form and function to House Clinton, a modern day version of a medieval aristocracy.
The House of Medici did many good things. They fed the poor. They built cathedrals. But their good works were the price of power, not the purpose of the power. The Clinton Foundation does some good things, I’m sure. But the charitable work should be seen for what it is: the cost of business. Mob bosses buy ice cream cones for poor kids.

When Marlo Stanfield becomes the big man in The Wire, he’s quick to have his goons hand out money to the school kids for new clothes. No doubt the Clinton Foundation is full of well-intentioned people who are committed to making the world a better place. But the idea that the core mission of the Clinton Foundation is to do good works is absurd. The core mission of the Clinton Foundation is to expand the empire of House Clinton (and improve the lifestyle of the Lords of the Keep). This is obvious not only from their own accounting, but from everything we know about how Bill and Hillary Clinton have conducted themselves.

Hillary Clinton is corrupt in countless ways, but her desire for personal profit is among the least of her transgressions. She didn’t stay in her thoroughly corrupted marriage for money, she didn’t set up her server for money, she didn’t fire the White House travel office for money, she committed these sins — and myriad others — in order to seek the power and status that she covets and feels she is due.

 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439184/
 
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