Letters We Wish We'd Written -- Clinton Media Noise

From today's once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle:

The June 3 front-page article “Results and repercussions,” about the Clinton Foundation, demonstrated the best of international philanthropy, which can’t happen without the double-edged sword of massive funding. The Internal Revenue Code strictly limits a private, tax-exempt foundation’s activities, and there are no indications that any of those provisions have been violated. 

It is unfortunate that the Clinton Foundation has come under a cloud, even though it has helped many individuals and countries in dire need. I hope it will continue its important work despite becoming a lightning rod for those wanting to attack Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president. I also hope the public will be savvy enough to recognize the good and dismiss the noise.

Nancy Ortmeyer Kuhn, Bethesda

While the Bezos Bugle's gaggle of cub reporters Beltway conventional wisdom purveyors continues to harp on "appearances" in all things Clinton (see, for instance, the hair ball Dana Milbank coughed up in the same edition), the only "appearance" that's becoming clear is that the corporate media is intent on stirring up as much faux scandal as it can to paint Clinton with the Reince "Prepuce" Priebus brush of "inauthentic" and "untrustworthy."  After all, they're partners with the right-wing hatchet man who wrote the error-filled book "Clinton Cash" (and if you lay down with dogs ...).  In the meantime, the philanthropic work of the Clinton Foundation is likely to suffer from this Republican and media politicization of "appearances." 

 

That none of this -- or the e-mails, or Benghazi!!! -- has anything to do with an election based on  debating policies that will improve the lives of low- and middle-income Americans means nothing to the jaded, insular media.  They have axes to grind, scores to settle, and product to sell.  So this will be with us for the entire campaign in one form or another (remember the Cokie Roberts rule: "It's out there" so it must continue to be "reported").

No wonder she avoids these stinkwads like the plague.

BONUS:  Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog has a piece on how other precincts of the "liberal media" are busy constructing other false Clinton narratives.