WaPo -- yes there's a vast right-wing conspiracy, but it's Hillary's fault

[ucrdem]

Hillary Clinton was right about the vast right-wing conspiracy. Here’s why it exists.
By Karen Tumulty September 2


Clinton arrives at the courthouse in January 1996.


{snip}

Whitewater had been an issue in the 1992 presidential campaign. More recently, questions had arisen whether the land deal and the Clintons might be linked to the collapse of a savings and loan.

Stephanopoulos and David Gergen, another senior adviser, were internal rivals at the time, who agreed on almost nothing. But both argued for full disclosure of the records. After a few days of rough coverage, they confidently predicted, the story would go away as the press corps discovered there was nothing sinister to the land deal and turned its attention elsewhere.

The president would not budge — and both of them knew why. “Hillary Clinton is a woman of many strengths and virtues, but like all of us, she also has some blind spots,” Gergen said in a recent interview. “She does not see the world in the same way that others do, when it comes to transparency and accountability.”

{snip}

The fallout from that decision to stonewall would be enormous. Pressure built for the appointment of a prosecutor, first Robert B. Fiske Jr., and then Kenneth W. Starr, who had been solicitor general under former president George Bush.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-was-right-about-the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-heres-why-it-exists/2016/09/02/4a5e0fba-6879-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a6449a6_story.html?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na
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Wow.

[Hekate]

1. Suuuure. The Ken Starr kangaroo court metaphorically raped her, but she asked for it.

She didn't know her place -- she definitely asked for it.

[ucrdem]

2. That's it in a nutshell.

Pretty twisted.

[synergie]

3. It's truly amazing just how much is her fault, isn't it? Why, as first lady, it seems that

she was responsible for pretty much everything, her votes as Senator had more power than anyone else, it's her own fault that all these angry men feel the need to keep lying about her and attacking her, and the angry women who have felt the need to follow suit are clearly doing so because she's asking for it.

<sigh>

[ucrdem]

4. If only she'd listened to David Gergen, she could be on her way to the WH right now.

Oh wait . . .

[underpants]

5. They hit the nail on the head with this

They came up with a byzantine theory of how it all worked: Unverified stories would originate at right-wing organizations, find their way onto the Internet, be picked up by conservative publications or London tabloids, make their way back into the U.S. media, then trigger congressional inquiries — at which point, they would become legitimate fodder for mainstream news organizations.

[NBachers]

6. Madame President Hillary Clinton

*vote*

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. I like to equate all this chatter to - "Along came a spider"

From Media Matters -

The Problem With The Politico Report On The Clinton Foundation

....snip.....

Even though the article doesn’t show any legal wrongdoing, it still suggests that the behavior in question is sketchy -- which is the hallmark of what Vox’s former chief political correspondent Jonathan Allen called “the Clinton rules” in 2015.

These “rules” have permeated media coverage of the Clintons during Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. According to Allen, many in media inherently “assume [Hillary Clinton] is acting in bad faith” and that “when the Clintons aren't forthcoming — and sometimes, even when they are — they're covering something up.”

Media Matters has so much on their BLOG today - this is just one article...of importance..

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/01/problem-politico-report-clinton-foundation/212819

[Cosmocat]

8. That makes sense

Cause if they had released all this information, republicans would have just let it go.

Yeah, thats what would have happened.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. She was asking for it.

Teasing those lustful Republicans with a provocative story, but cruelly never letting them reach climax!

[Mass]

10. Yesterday, Politico reported that he was using funds that were at his disposal to fund part of the

Clinton Foundation, and, even though he was using the money for its intended use, the media spent their day implying something was wrong.

Go figure.

[bluestateguy]

11. Bernard Nussbaum warned the Clintons not to agree to a independent counsel

that it would go on and on and on and on, for his entire presidency.