CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: “It appears Dow is paying Teneo for connections with Clinton.”
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October 27, 2016
DOUBLE DOWN ON FAILURE: Hillary Clinton Hints at a Health Care Takeover to Keep Obamacare Alive.
SOCIAL JUSTICE MEDIA: Twitter to Cut 9% of Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows.
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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: What we’re not talking about in this election: Government Corruption, ObamaCare’s Implosion, The Ballooning National Debt. And that’s because, as Jim Treacher notes, “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.”
DEM POLLSTER: Clinton ‘May Be Immune To Pay To Play’
Democratic pollster and former Bill Clinton adviser Stanley Greenberg thinks Hillary Clinton may be immune to pay-to-play charges, according to a February 2016 email he sent to Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.
“She seems indifferent to the systemic corruption that makes it impossible for government to act for the middle class or address big problems, like climate or health care,” Greenberg said. “She may be immune to pay to play, but the system isn’t. She’s got to distinguish between self and country — and needs to.”
Clinton is not “indifferent” to systemic corruption. It’s the swamp she’s happy to swim in and it’s made her quite rich.
WELL, SEE THE CHRIS MATTHEWS/YAMICHE ALCINDOR ITEM BELOW: Triggered: Journalist Snowflakes Scared Trump Supporters Are ‘Turning on the Media.’ “Triggered journalists from across the nation are bemoaning the treatment members of the press are receiving at Trump campaign rallies from the Trump supporters the media routinely misrepresents as ignorant racists, fascist Nazis, or disenchanted working whites. With increasing regularity, these journalist snowflakes are ‘reporting’ their victimization at the hands Trump supporters who chant mean things like, ‘CNN sucks’ and call them names like ‘presstitutes.'”
Yeah, they’re the only ones who are supposed to be able to name-call without consequence.
NO. WAY. Clinton Foundation’s Fundraisers Pressed Donors to Steer Business to Former President.
Two chief fundraisers for the Clinton Foundation pressed corporate donors to steer business opportunities to former President Bill Clinton as well, according to a hacked memo published Wednesday by WikiLeaks.
The November 2011 memo from Douglas Band, at the time a top aide to Mr. Clinton, outlines extensive fundraising efforts that Mr. Band and a partner deployed on behalf of the Clinton Foundation and how that work sometimes translated into large speaking fees and other paid work for Mr. Clinton.
The memo, part of a cache of emails stolen from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, resurfaces an issue that she has had a hard time shaking: questions over the relationship between the Clintons’ charity work and their personal business.
The Clintons don’t produce any desirable consumer products, or perform any traditionally useful services like accounting or dry cleaning. They have built no factories, dug no mines, nor worked any farms. They hold no patents and have developed no real estate. They are not medical doctors of rare skill. They haven’t starred in any hit movies or sung any popular songs. They have (allegedly) written and sold some books, but not the kind of bestsellers that get turned into TV shows and make real money.
And yet they have grown rich “beyond the dreams of avarice” since Bill left office nearly 16 years ago, and even richer since Hillary entered international politics just eight years ago.
How?
By peddling influence — an activity which generates great wealth only in a corrupt and overly bureaucratic society.
That’s the swamp that needs to be drained, and it runs much deeper and wider than most anyone realizes.
BURIED LEDE: CHRIS MATTHEWS DOES JOURNALISM. Matthews Confronts NYT Reporter On Bias: Know Any Pro-Life Reporters? (Video):
“And really this is something I think that is kind of an effective argument,” NYT reporter Yamiche Alcindor told Matthews, referring to GOP nominee Donald Trump’s argument the “elite media” is biased against him and is helping rig the election. “Because people really do feel when they go and get the news that they are really getting it from these people who have some sort of plan to rig this election, or rig the economy, or don’t want to cover the real issues.”
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Matthews interrupted: “Do you know anybody Yamiche at The New York Times who is pro-life?”
“That’s not a question I’m going to answer,” she laughed. “I have no idea.”
“Do you know anybody?” Matthews pressed. “Just, you don’t have to name names. Do you know anybody at the Times who is pro-life?”
“I have not asked my coworkers that question, I should say,” Alcindor replied.
“Oh that’s cute,” Matthews said.
Indeed it is. Shades of the deer in the headlights responses from Lesley Stahl, Andrea Mitchell and ABC Nightline host Dan Harris when asked in various television interviews if any conservatives work on the air at their respective networks.
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And if you read the comments to this post, you’ll see praise from people like Mitch Berg, James Lileks, and Kathy Kinsley.
BUT DEATH PANELS ARE A MYTH: Terminally ill mom denied treatment coverage — but gets suicide drug approved.
SHE STANDS WHEREVER SHE THINKS SHE HAS TO STAND TO GET ELECTED: Where does Clinton stand on trade? Campaign manager didn’t know.
Back in the early days of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, shortly before her official announcement video (and a couple months before her second official campaign kickoff), her campaign manager wondered where his candidate stood on trade.
In an email illegally obtained and released by Wikileaks, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook was asked if the former secretary of state would be willing to sign onto a letter in support of trade. The letter was presented to Mook by White House aide David Simas, who presented the letter as a bipartisan effort among Republicans and Democrats.
Mook forwarded Simas’ email to other top members of Team Clinton, including Jake Sullivan, Jennifer Palmieri, John Podesta and Kristina Schake. Mook at the time didn’t know where Clinton stood on the issue of trade.
“I can’t recall where we landed exactly on trade,” Mook wrote. “Is she going to say she supports it?”
He followed up by directly addressing the letter: “Regardless of her position, signing a letter feels like poking the bear with labor to me.”
Clinton had voted for multiple trade agreements as a senator, and once called the Trans-Pacific Partnership the “gold standard” in trade agreements
Ultimately, of course, her loyalty is to the crony-corporatist class. But no point making that too obvious over the next couple of weeks.
ET TU, SMOD?! Even the Sweet Meteor O’Death is tangled up in the #PodestaEmails18!
Man, can’t trust anybody in the planetary destruction business these days.
GOOD LORD:
#Arizona Obamacare premiums in 2017: pic.twitter.com/XIp2OdtSSE
— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) October 26, 2016
That means it’s working? Of course! Now Is Time To Be Bold & Expand Obamacare.
The cure for a failed big government program is always a bigger government program.
ONE SUSPECTS THIS STORY IS RUNNING IN THE DAILY BEAST NOW BECAUSE THEY’RE AFRAID SHE’LL TAKE VOTES FROM HILLARY: Jill Stein’s Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another: The holier-than-thou Green Party candidate rails against Big Carbon, big banks, Big Pharma—while she holds substantial investments in them.
One suspects that in part because of this story-killing sentence: “Most of Stein’s investments are in mutual funds or index funds.” But, you know, not a headline-killing sentence. . . .
SALON: Please stop entertaining my kid — I want him to be bored.
Why not just force-feed him a steady diet of Salon? Or Hillary’s operative with a byline, the Politico’s Glenn Thrush. He’s always bored!
(Via Maggie’s Farm.)
AND I’M PRETTY SURE THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES APPROVED, BACK THEN: This is what Democrats actually did in Wisconsin when Scott Walker took office as governor in 2011.
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: U.S. has secretly expanded its global network of drone bases to North Africa.
AND THEY’LL KEEP STALLING UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION: State Dept. months late on explaining Clinton aide’s missing emails.
The State Department is months behind on a request that it explain how a former IT aide’s emails appeared to have disappeared, and Republicans are crying foul.
Documents obtained by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and given to ABC News on Wednesday reportedly show that the State Department has not responded to a July request from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) despite a demand that it do so within 30 days.
The missing emails are from Bryan Pagliano, an IT worker responsible for many aspects of the private email setup Hillary Clinton used during her time as secretary of State.
In May, the State Department said that it did not have Pagliano’s email archive, prompting outrage from the Obama administration’s critics. It’s unclear whether Pagliano deleted his emails or they went missing through some other means.
Despite the missing archive, the department has located some emails that Pagliano sent or received through the email accounts of other government staffers.
The National Archives, which has broad responsibilities for federal record storage, asked the State Department to describe the steps it has taken to recover Pagliano’s emails this summer. So far, officials have not responded.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said the department is “still in the process” of responding to the letter.
“As we have publicly explained months ago, the department has searched for Mr. Pagliano’s email pst file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton’s tenure,” Kirby said in a statement, referring to a file type for storing emails. He noted that department employees’ emails are not always stored automatically, “so the absence of this email file does not necessarily indicate that Mr. Pagliano intentionally deleted his emails.”
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus accused the Obama administration of orchestrating a “cover-up” in order to help Clinton.
That’s a fair accusation.
JEFF GREENFIELD: Can’t Wait For The Election To Be Over? Don’t Kid Yourself. If you think it’s bad now, wait until January. We’ll be standing at the San Andreas fault line of dysfunction. We have the worst political class in American history. Things are unlikely to improve until that changes.
DEMOCRAT ED RENDELL: “I Think There’s A Hidden Donald Trump Vote”
“I think there’s a hidden Donald Trump vote,” Rendell told Philadelphia radio host Rich Zeoli Tuesday. “All this talk about it being over and now the real contest is the Senate is going to persuade a couple of Hillary Clinton voters and Democratic voters to say ‘Well, what do I have to stand on line for an hour [to vote] for?’”
Rendell added that “there a lot of things that are in motion that are favorable to Donald Trump. I wouldn’t say that it’s over then. The odds are that he’s going to lose, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it.”
It’s 2016; anything can happen.
DAN MARKEL UPDATE: Wendi Adelson’s Novel: Art Imitating Life?
The basic premise of Attorney Lily’s life is that she married a professor (Joshua Stone). She says that she married him too quickly, and that at the time she was “absolutely sick and tired of dating” and saw “dating, at its best, as nothing more than a romantic interview. ‘Are you the kind of person who would produce good looking, smart and nice children and never cheat on me and help me clean up the kitchen and love me even when I’m grouchy and not trade me in for a younger model and not join the other team?’”
This is, you may recall, pretty much exactly what Wendi said about Dan in her writing-class podcast — that she married a man she lacked passionate love for because she figured he would be a good father.
Read the whole thing.