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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 10:05 AM Sep 2016

Hillary’s Billing Records: The Facts Omitted From Your Morning Infotainment -- Joe Conason

During my contentious appearance on Morning Joe today, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski both evoked the ancient tale of Hillary Clinton’s “missing billing records” from her days working at the Rose Law Firm, the documents that were supposed to prove that she had done something wrong in the matter known as “Whitewater.”

If that paragraph reads like gibberish, you may be too young (or perhaps too old) to recall the details of “Whitewater,” often known as “the Whitewater scandal” — a small-time Arkansas land deal that lost more than $45,000 for the Clintons, but nevertheless became an overwhelming obsession of the Republican propaganda apparatus and its enablers in the media for several feverish years. The central character in this drama was the Clintons’ partner, a colorful old friend named James McDougal who also operated a small thrift institution called Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan – and who turned out to be a swindler suffering from severe mental illness.

For the full story, still important because dim memories of Whitewater continue to inform (and mostly misinform) media attitudes toward Bill and Hillary Clinton, I would recommend downloading Eastern Harbor Media’s free e-book, The Hunting of Hillary — abridged by Gene Lyons and me from our 2000 St. Martins Press bestseller, The Hunting of the President.

The e-book could be especially instructive to Joe and Mika, who talked about the billing records in hysterical tones but seem to know almost nothing about that vexed subject. To make this educational exercise as simple as possible for them and all the fans of Morning Joe, I’ve posted the book’s most relevant section below. (I’m only trying to improve the quality of our infotainment.)

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http://www.nationalmemo.com/hillarys-billing-records-facts-omitted-morning-infotainment/

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Hillary’s Billing Records: The Facts Omitted From Your Morning Infotainment -- Joe Conason (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
Wow, the missing billing records. Jim__ Sep 2016 #1
Lol. No. Just old manufactured dirt getting Hortensis Sep 2016 #2
The legacy of Morning Jerk ... GeorgeGist Sep 2016 #3

Jim__

(14,045 posts)
1. Wow, the missing billing records.
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 11:47 AM
Sep 2016

I suppose they'll be House committee hearings on these now - they did come up on TV show, so there must be something new there.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Lol. No. Just old manufactured dirt getting
Wed Sep 14, 2016, 11:59 AM
Sep 2016

wetted for use. That free e-book is very readable and interesting, btw.

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