Here’s a tale of two scandals. Guess which one will get more play?

[Native]

This piece contrasts the NY Times recent hatchet job on Hillary and the lack of investigation into and follow-up reporting on Trump's illegal payoff to Florida's Attorney General. A perfect summary of everything that is terribly wrong with the media today.

Whenever some new piece of information emerges about Hillary Clinton or people close to her, we’re told that it “raises questions” of some kind, which means it’s being shoehorned into a larger narrative that says something fundamental about her: That she’s tainted by scandal, or corrupt, or just sinister in ways people can never quite put their finger on.

Yet somehow, stories about Donald Trump that don’t have to do with the latest appalling thing that came out of his mouth don’t “raise questions” in the same way. They’re here and then they’re gone, obliterated by his own behavior without going deep into question-raising territory.

To see what I mean, let’s look at a couple of stories that have come out in the last 24 hours. We’ll start with the one about Clinton. You may have heard recently about Judicial Watch, which is an organization established in the 1990s to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton, a mission it continues to this day. Through lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests, they try to obtain information that can be used against the Clintons, and they’re going to be a vital player in Washington politics should Hillary become president. The group’s latest “revelation” can be found in email exchanges between Doug Band, an executive at the Clinton Foundation, and Hillary Clinton’s aide Huma Abedin, when Clinton was secretary of state.

Here’s how the New York Times reported this story, under the headline “Emails Raise New Questions About Clinton Foundation Ties to State Department“:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/09/02/heres-a-tale-of-two-scandals-guess-which-one-will-get-more-play/?utm_term=.45574bc68cb2

[oasis]

1. Hill's people should the Bondi story alive and bring it up at the debate.

[Native]

3. The Debates! Talk about a whole nuther can of worms.

Anything she accuses him of, regardless of whether it has been verified and vetted by all the powers that be, will simply be thrown back in her face. He'll do exactly what he did during the primary debates - he'll call her a liar and say she's full of shit and everyone knows it...lyin' Ted all over again, but he'll tone it down so it won't look like he's going after "the little woman."

[Wounded Bear]

2. Trump has been a buyer of influence...

now he wants to be a seller.