Perceived corruption seems to echo louder than the real thing (Drezner/WaPo)

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Why Hillary Clinton’s perceived corruption seems to echo louder than Donald Trump’s actual corruption

By Daniel W. Drezner September 6
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to PostEverything.

Over the Labor Day weekend, there was quite the chatter comparing and contrasting the news media coverage of Hillary Clinton’s alleged improprieties involving the Clinton Foundation and Donald Trump’s actual improprieties involving the Trump Foundation, his businesses, and his campaign.

Trump supporters will complain about bias in the previous paragraph, to which I say, hey, go to town. None of the news stories about the Clinton Foundation (as opposed to her handling of emails at the State Department) demonstrate anything truly disturbing. Consider: ...
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Many of these stories make me mildly queasy about Doug Band thinking he could constantly ask Huma Abedin for favors. It’s part of a pattern of stories that make me queasy about Hillary Clinton’s management style. But really, these latest stories about the Clinton Foundation and access are nothingburgers. This has not stopped the press, however, from writing about it and writing that it’s a problem for Clinton and opining that Hillary Clinton should distance herself from the philanthropy.

To be clear, I don’t disagree with much of this coverage. I’m just noting that there’s an awful damn lot of it.
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more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/09/06/why-hillary-clintons-perceived-corruption-seems-to-echo-louder-than-donald-trumps-actual-corruption/?utm_term=.8dfbc8fb6f22




The author has been identified as a conservative, but that hasn't stopped him from leveling criticism at (real or phony) conservative Repugs.

If I were to disagree strongly with any statement in this article, it would be in the very last sentence, where "Americans" actually refers to "the American press".

The headline is the one which appeared in our local paper; I felt it set a more nonpartisan tone, but included the original WaPo headline at the top of the text.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Know one guestions the Bush or

Saint Ronnies Foundations. When you read about the crap that old Neil and Marven were ans are up to. Believe Reagan Foundation was all Corporate Lobbyist money for thanking him with ripping off America.

Conspiracy theories are the flavor of the day.