{"id":5191,"date":"2016-09-15T16:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2016-09-15T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T21:21:38","slug":"clinton-foundation-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/15\/clinton-foundation-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Foundation, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sumner on <i><b>The Daily Kos <\/b><\/i>is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/9\/12\/1568851\/-The-Associated-Press-is-still-engaged-in-fundamental-dishonesty-concerning-the-Clinton-Foundation?detail=email&amp;link_id=5&amp;can_id=f6dab5ff4be39161a92c27bc6d33521a&amp;source=email-the-trump-foundation-is-a-real-scandal-and-it-should-be-a-campaign-ending-scandal&amp;email_referrer=the-trump-foundation-is-a-real-scandal-and-it-should-be-a-campaign-ending-scandal___105598&amp;email_subject=the-associated-press-is-still-engaged-in-fundamental-dishonesty-concerning-the-clinton-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2016\/9\/12\/1568851\/-The-Associated-Press-is-still-engaged-in-fundamental-dishonesty-concerning-the-Clinton-Foundation?detail%3Demail%26link_id%3D5%26can_id%3Df6dab5ff4be39161a92c27bc6d33521a%26source%3Demail-the-trump-foundation-is-a-real-scandal-and-it-should-be-a-campaign-ending-scandal%26email_referrer%3Dthe-trump-foundation-is-a-real-scandal-and-it-should-be-a-campaign-ending-scandal___105598%26email_subject%3Dthe-associated-press-is-still-engaged-in-fundamental-dishonesty-concerning-the-clinton-foundation&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1474060449896000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFGER6JYED226b0X9t9OXT1f_RiTg\">really angry <\/a>at the <em><strong>Associated Press<\/strong><\/em> regarding the <i><b>Clinton Foundation <\/b><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/25\/clinton-foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\">scandal<\/a> &#8230; or, in his eyes, the <i>faux-scandal<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth is that the Associated Press examined the data and found, quite simply, that donors to the Clinton Foundation made up a very small percentage of visitors to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s office as secretary of state. Though they worked for an extended period to obtain\u00a0records, dug through disorganized information to create searchable data, and spent days picking through the resulting information, in the end they\u00a0found \u2026\u00a0nothing. They found no preferential treatment. No unethical contact. Not a hint of services rendered. Nothing. There was no story there.<\/p>\n<p>It had to be frustrating, especially for\u00a0Braun and Sullivan, who had been at the center of the endless-attention-generating email server story.\u00a0So the Associated Press decided that \u201cno story,\u201d was not the story they would tell.<\/p>\n<p>They chose to\u00a0eliminate\u00a0more than 1,700 meetings from the data, and to pretend that a tiny group of 85 meetings held with contributors to the Clinton Foundation constituted some sort of \u201cmajority\u201d of \u201cdiscretionary\u201d meetings, even if that took treating as discretionary meetings with people who had met with previous secretary of states, people who were involved in projects funded by the State Department, and people heading up groups directly working to provide aid to refugees. In no universe were these meetings \u201cdiscretionary\u201d except that generated for the purpose of making a story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lovely rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sumner on The Daily Kos is really angry at the Associated Press regarding the Clinton Foundation scandal &#8230; or, in his eyes, the faux-scandal: The truth is that the Associated Press examined the data and found, quite simply, that donors to the Clinton Foundation made up a very small \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/15\/clinton-foundation-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}