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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Foundation gets 'A' rating for spending 88-89% of funds on charity [View all]NewJeffCT
(56,833 posts)24. Easy target to create doubt
even though it's been well regarded for as long as I can remember. If you get Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, The Washington Times and NY Post and others making implications that it's a political slush fund for foreign leaders and businessmen to bribe the Clintons, it's easy enough for the Dittoheads and Fox News followers to believe it. And, if they start believing it, it slips into real news coverage, even if it is to rebut what's on Fox or on Rush. Then, it just feeds into the "where there is smoke, there is fire" message that Republicans have been crafting on the Clintons for 25 years. ("All those problems, there must be something there or else why keep bringing it up?"
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Clinton Foundation gets 'A' rating for spending 88-89% of funds on charity [View all]
Triana
Jun 2016
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The Clintons have had more lies told about them than any couple in the history of the world.
MohRokTah
Jun 2016
#11
But ... Are they really lies, if one really wants to believe it AND ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#29
remember all the political dramaists who would shake their heads sadly at the mention of the Clinton
MariaThinks
Jun 2016
#12
K&R. Thank you, thank you so much for posting this! This is who the Clintons really are
lunamagica
Jun 2016
#22
They are in line with some of the best charities that keeps overhead very low
Sheepshank
Jun 2016
#28
What help did Peterson provide provide? ... Or, did you just make that up?
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#32
Okay ... I read the page and saw that the Peterson Foundation gave money to CGI-America ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#39
Yes you did ... you made up the lie that the Peterson Foundation help the Clinton Foundation ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#66
reliance on the Post hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacy to better reinforce a deeply treasured bias.
LanternWaste
Jun 2016
#57
I know who Peterson is and what he represents; but, again, how is his contribution ...
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#52
Yes ... It's best to keep that practice in the safety that online line toughness allows.
1StrongBlackMan
Jun 2016
#75
A primary goal of the Peterson Foundation. Not of the Clinton Foundation.
Midnight Writer
Jun 2016
#92
Exactly, I am quiet proud of President Carter and Clinton, they continued to work for
Thinkingabout
Jun 2016
#58
Once again, there is no scandal...but that won't stop the GOP from lying over and over.
Rex
Jun 2016
#38
Having checked on a few charities in the past, 89% is excellent, about as good as it gets
bhikkhu
Jun 2016
#43