What the media doesn't know about the Clinton Foundation could sink the Titanic

[mfcorey1]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/22/1562841/-What-the-media-doesn-t-know-about-the-Clinton-Foundation-could-sink-the-Titanic#read-more

Sometimes it’s just plain embarrassing, sorry, I mean stupefying how much the media doesn’t know about what they’re talking about. I mean, they’re supposed to know. They’re supposed to have a clue, but there times when they really really don’t. One of those times was just the other day as CNN’s Dana Bash attempted to grill Clinton Foundation spokesman campaign manager Robby Mook on the announcement that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency that the Foundation will reject all foreign donations and also that Bill Clinton will not make any foreign speeches during her administration. Her initial question betrays just how much she doesn’t know.

Bash: If it’s not OK for the Foundation to accept foreign donations while she is President, why was it OK while she was Secretary of State?
First of all, Hillary Clinton was not a participant in the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State. In fact she had no role in the Foundation at all until 2013, after she left the State Department and she then left it in 2015 before she announced her run for the presidency. While she was secretary the Foundation made an agreement with the government to not accept any foreign government donations from any countries that hadn’t previously given.

Should Senator Clinton be confirmed as Secretary of State, the Foundation incorporates CGI as a separate entity from the Foundation. President Clinton will continue in his role as principal host and be identified as CGrs Founding Chairman, but he will not serve as an officer or director of the newly established entity or otherwise serve as a fiduciary on behalf of it. President Clinton personally will not solicit funds. President Clinton will continue to send invitation letters to potential attendees and guests CGI. He will no longer send sponsorship letters (which seek contributions to C(1). Apart from attendance fees CGI wiII not accept contributions from foreign governments. CGl also will suspend plans for CGI­ International events outside the United States during any service by Senator Clinton at the State Dept.
So in fact, it wasn’t OK then and it’s not OK now.

[Sienna86]

1. I formerly taught an Ethics course

One example I used: If you are providing names of healthcare professionals as referrals to a prospective patient, and you accept a paid-for lunch from one of those you refer. Does that influence your decision to provide their name as a referral? Subconsciously? Does it give the appearance of impropriety?

[Gman]

3. Except for the alternate reality that is the RW media

No one has claimed there is real impropriety that I know of. They have brought up the appearance of impropriety. However I find it highly irritating that in 8 years of Bush, and 15 years , for the most part of, of GOP control of congress, it's the hated Clintons that attract attention over the appearance of impropriety. A couple of friends brought it up to me and I scoffed loudly.