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Unspoofable Right

by John Cole|  April 23, 201512:11 pm| 92 Comments

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OBAMA ORDERED THE DRONE STRIKES TO DISTRACT FROM HILLARY NY TIMES PIECE. You heard it hear first.

— John Cole (@Johngcole) April 23, 2015

Wait! Obama rushes to podium and breaks 4 month old terror op… just as media saturating with Clinton scandal news? pic.twitter.com/HHVZWp4NUP

— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) April 23, 2015

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  1. 1.

    Belafon

    April 23, 2015 at 12:17 pm

    He does have a time machine, which, in some pictures, looks an awful lot like an old British police box.

  2. 2.

    Violet

    April 23, 2015 at 12:20 pm

    Matt Drudge must have a constant boner at the thought of the Clintons back in the White House. He’ll be paying people to wear blue dresses and talk up Bill.

  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    April 23, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    The media will _never_ be “saturated” with Clinton “scandal” “news”. It’s like peak wingnut; peak media Clinton obsessiveness is a lie.

  4. 4.

    JPL

    April 23, 2015 at 12:22 pm

    John, you win!

  5. 5.

    Violet

    April 23, 2015 at 12:23 pm

    You heard it hear first.

    My favorite part is the “hear.”

  6. 6.

    JPL

    April 23, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    Tomorrow’s hit piece will be that the foundation took money from someone connected to Halliburton who through a subsidiary dealt with Iran.

  7. 7.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 12:25 pm

    Billary must be desperate, they pushed their only known child out to the front:

    Chelsea Clinton defended her family’s charity today against allegations that foreign governments received favors in return for donations — saying that despite all the questions, the Clinton Foundation does “important” work and is “among the most transparent” of foundations.

    I wonder where her email server is.

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    April 23, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    It must bug Drudge that you scooped his “scoop.” Heh.

  9. 9.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    April 23, 2015 at 12:27 pm

    Howzabout a drone strike on Drudge’s server farm?

    Drudge probably needs to go see a doctor about his boner that won’t go away. He made his bones on Clinton, Part I, The Trashing. Part II will have a much bigger budget, and he’s the go-to guy to produce the effort. He’ll be a rich(er) man by the end of this race no matter who wins it.

  10. 10.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    “Between 2009 and 2012, the Clinton Foundation raised more than $500 million dollars according to its IRS filings. 15% of that, or $75 million, was spent on charitable activities. More than $25 million was spent on travel expenses. Nearly $110 million went toward employee salaries and benefits. $290 million – nearly 60% of all money raised — was classified as “other expenses.””

    Nothing to see here, move along.

  11. 11.

    divF

    April 23, 2015 at 12:33 pm

    @srv: Link ?

  12. 12.

    Xboxershorts

    April 23, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    @srv:

    I wonder where her email server is.

    You sound concerened

  13. 13.

    liberal

    April 23, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    The unspoofable thing is Burnsie repeatedly stating that TPP needs 2/3 of the Senate to pass, when in fact that’s not true.

  14. 14.

    Cervantes

    April 23, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    @srv:

    You do know who compiled those numbers, don’t you?

    I suggest you look for corroboration before relying on them.

  15. 15.

    Mike E

    April 23, 2015 at 12:39 pm

    @Violet: hear here!

  16. 16.

    askew

    April 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    @srv:

    Link? And how do those amounts compare to other charities?

    The CF is re-filing with IRS for 2010-2012 due to errors found by Reuters and doing a complete audit. Perhaps those numbers will change as well.

    New poll from Quinnipac shows Hillary’s dishonest and untrustworthy number is up to 54% but she still leads entire GOP field which just shows what a joke they are.

    On a positive note, O’Malley is up to 3% in that national poll. A 300% increase. LOL. Oh, well. I’ve always liked cheering for the underdog.

  17. 17.

    Xboxershorts

    April 23, 2015 at 12:43 pm

    @Cervantes:

    You do know who compiled those numbers, don’t you?

    I suggest you look for corroboration before relying on them.

    It’ll be more enjoyable watching the string of retractions and corrections that the most infromed will continue to ignore and cling to the refuted accusations like dingleberries

  18. 18.

    Belafon

    April 23, 2015 at 12:48 pm

    On a lighter note, one of my parent’s conservative friends finally realized that Paul Ryan is trying to cut Social Security and Medicare.

  19. 19.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 12:49 pm

    @Cervantes:

    I suggest you look for corroboration before relying on them.

    Surely you can find some numbers from the Most Transparent Foundation Ever(TM) to dispute them.

    @askew: Here

    The CF is re-filing with IRS for 2010-2012 due to errors found by Reuters and doing a complete audit.

    You are killing me here. Really? Who’s going to take the fall for that? Are they going to dig up Vince and blame him?

  20. 20.

    Barbara O'Brien

    April 23, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    Folks, Doug Hughes, the gyrocopter-flying mailman, is still under house arrest and has started a legal defense fund through GoFundMe. It’s off to a slow start, so please help. http://www.gofundme.com/sn8gc2s

  21. 21.

    Mike E

    April 23, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    CSI:srv

  22. 22.

    Cervantes

    April 23, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    @srv:

    Surely you can find some numbers from the Most Transparent Foundation Ever(TM) to dispute them.

    Of course, I can.

    The question is whether you can be bothered to.

  23. 23.

    Benw

    April 23, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Life, liberty, and unspoofable. Those are my rights, it says so in the Constitution!

  24. 24.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 23, 2015 at 12:55 pm

    Remember when you believed in peak wingnut, John?

    And oh, Matt Drudge, you and your gay fedora.

  25. 25.

    NotMax

    April 23, 2015 at 12:55 pm

    Oh gawd, it’s gonna be a Slick Hilly post every day from now on, isn’t it.

  26. 26.

    catclub

    April 23, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    Pierce has a good take on this. Nothing new to readers of this blog, but he writes it all in one post.

    http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a34563/hillary-rodham-clinton-meets-the-clinton-rules/

  27. 27.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    @NotMax:
    Along with, as the last post reminded me, brand new commenters coming out of nowhere to tell us how seriously these allegations should be taken, even if they’re not true. Amazing how that happens every time there’s some new scandal.

  28. 28.

    Belafon

    April 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm

    I find this quote from Cardinal Richelieu to be quite appropriate for this discussion: “If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”

  29. 29.

    Mike E

    April 23, 2015 at 1:01 pm

    It was 16 years ago tonight that this happened in a baseball game.

  30. 30.

    Belafon

    April 23, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    @catclub: That’s good, and I like his statement that if you blow enough smoke (out of your ass I would add) you can claim there’s a climate of fire.

  31. 31.

    Frankensteinbeck

    April 23, 2015 at 1:06 pm

    @catclub:
    ‘If you blow enough smoke, you can pretend there’s a fire.’ My god, I have seen that technique used so much in the last six years. It works. Liberals fall for it, too, big time. Throw out a long series of scary sounding lies, and debunking them doesn’t do a damn bit of good. There’s a Narrative. Somehow, all these lies prove each other. ‘Obama caves’, anyone?

  32. 32.

    Bill Arnold

    April 23, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    @catclub:
    That C.P. Pierce piece is a keeper, thanks.

  33. 33.

    Paul in KY

    April 23, 2015 at 1:10 pm

    @Belafon: Halleluiah, praise Jeebus!

  34. 34.

    raven

    April 23, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    @Mike E: I was at Wrigley for this:

    CHICAGO (AP) — For the New York Mets, it was a grand slam of an
    inning.

    First, Cliff Floyd homered with the bases loaded. Then, Carlos
    Beltran did the same. After David Wright added a two-run shot, New
    York had 11 runs — the most in a single inning in club history.

    “It was just amazing to keep going like that. You never think
    you’re going to score 11 runs in one inning,” Floyd said Sunday
    night after Mets’ sixth-inning outburst sent them to a 13-7 victory
    over the Chicago Cubs.

    It was one of those hot summer nights at Wrigley Field where the
    wind is blowing out and the ball is flying over the wall.

    But it was NOT a night game!

  35. 35.

    boatboy_srq

    April 23, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: Koch dollars at work.

  36. 36.

    Cacti

    April 23, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    OT but happy news…

    The rats appear to be abandoning the sinking ship of the SS Joe Arpaio:

    The contempt of court hearing for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues Wednesday after two major developments during opening testimony Tuesday.

    Tom Liddy, one of Arpaio’s attorneys, abruptly quit, citing a conflict of interest and saying he was “filing an application to withdraw from the case.”

    Sgt. Brett Palmer testified Arpaio’s immigration tactics were driven by public relations and media attention, and never complied with court orders to stop Arpaio’s highly publicized immigration roundups.

    Another of the sheriff’s top brass, retired Executive Chief Brian Sands, testified he made several suggestions as to how the sheriff’s office should comply with the court orders, all of which he said the sheriff ignored.

    Link

  37. 37.

    Aleta

    April 23, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    I thought you were joking until I read below the photo. Disappointing. My mood had slightly lifted today above a rising panic … but naivete never wins any more.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    April 23, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck

    Almost makes one pine for the days when one ass (or paid shill, or both) would show up here multiple times per day crowing about the ultra-super-triple-secret data he/she had proving in absolute and irrefutable certainty that Romney would sweep the nation and we would be reduced to quivering blobs of liberal gelatin the day after the election, so neener neener neener.

    Good times.

  39. 39.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 1:14 pm

    @Cervantes: I provided a link, you provided nothing. So brave.

    Here’s another link for you:
    https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/annual-financial-reports

    Knock yourself out – it’s right there, pick any one. Grants of $6M and “Other Expenses” of $33M in 2013.

    Show us the money.

    But we both know you won’t.

  40. 40.

    scav

    April 23, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    srv-ice, it’s what his masters expect and are delivered.

  41. 41.

    dmsilev

    April 23, 2015 at 1:15 pm

    @NotMax: UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH! VICTORY!

    Ah, memories.

  42. 42.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 23, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    @Belafon: Console yourself with the thought that he’ll vote R anyways.

  43. 43.

    askew

    April 23, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    So now David Sirota has a piece up on Clinton Foundation, State Dept and Cisco. I hope this isn’t true because it damns the Obama administration as well as the Clintons and I’ve been proud of the fact that he has run such a clean administration.

    http://www.ibtimes.com/hillary-clinton-cisco-china-company-funded-foundation-was-lauded-clinton-despite-role-1884160

    The San Jose, California, company endured a high-profile Senate hearing about its Chinese operations in 2008 and reaffirmed its “continued commitment to China.” But the issue wouldn’t die. A group of investors stormed the company’s annual meeting in November 2009, pressing a shareholder resolution that would force the company to prevent the Chinese government from using Cisco technology to engage in what critics said was widespread human-rights abuse.

    That’s when then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tossed the company a lifeline. Weeks after Cisco executives opposed the initiative and it was then voted down by shareholders, Cisco was honored as a finalist for the State Department’s award for “outstanding corporate citizenship, innovation and democratic principles.” The next year, the company won the award. While the honors were for the company’s work in the Middle East, they gave Cisco a well-timed opportunity to change the subject and present itself as a champion of human rights.

    What Clinton did not say at the State Department award ceremonies was that Cisco had been pumping money into her family’s foundation. Though the foundation will not release an exact timeline of the contributions, records reviewed by International Business Times show that Cisco had by December 2008 donated from $500,000 to $1 million to the foundation. The company had hired lobbying firms run by former Clinton aides. After the money flowed into the foundation, Clinton’s State Department not only lauded Cisco’s human rights record, it also delivered millions of dollars worth of new government contracts to the company.

  44. 44.

    fuckwit

    April 23, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    @JPL: Oooh, that’s beautiful. Yeah, I’m remembering something about some guy… named Cheney I think? I don’t rememebr much. The memory hole is strong. Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia. Something about a war, started by some guy, I think he was in some high office, while he was the former CEO of a defense contractor, and still had much of his fortune in their stock… I dunno… maybe the media remembers, they’re supposed to be our watchdogs aren’t they?

  45. 45.

    askew

    April 23, 2015 at 1:22 pm

    @srv:

    Are the Clinton Foundation’s % of money for charity out of the ordinary for charities? The numbers themselves don’t mean anything until you put them into context. I don’t like the Clintons but this attack seems pretty silly at this point.

  46. 46.

    Aleta

    April 23, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    An indiegogo fundraising link for Feidin Santana, who filmed video of Walter Scott being shot and then ignored by police as he died.

    Administered by a law firm; doesn’t say how it will be distributed.

  47. 47.

    NotMax

    April 23, 2015 at 1:24 pm

    @fuckwit

    Presume you saw that someone (Kristol?) recently floated the thought (using the term in its loosest possible sense) that Cheney had the best chance for 2016 if only he would enter the race.

    Not easy to laugh and puke simultaneously.

  48. 48.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 1:25 pm

    @scav: You Obots will thanks us when Hillary has to withdraw. At leaset some of us have some self-respect.

  49. 49.

    fuckwit

    April 23, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    @NotMax: Oh! That’s the guy, yeah. I also remember something about a secret closed-door meeting with his oil industry exec buddies determining energy policy for the USA. Nothing scandalous about that. Drudge didn’t make a headline out of it so it was obviously nothing.

  50. 50.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    @askew: IDK, you should look that up. But I guess it’s OK if she just does what others do. Quarter of a billion in “other expenses” what do you want, you some kind of transparency nazi?

  51. 51.

    Mike E

    April 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    @raven: Heh, the wind is always blowing outa that park! Here’s another wacky game which I listened to on my transistor radio, and during the era when all games were daytime since Wrigley Field was years away from installing lights.

  52. 52.

    NotMax

    April 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    @fuckwit

    Secret? (You know about it, and BTW we’re gonna be asking how you came by that info.)

    And the doors were closed because there were a lot of flies that day.

    Yeah, that’s the ticket.

    /Jon Lovitz

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    April 23, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    @srv:
    Sounds awful. She should quit now and endorse Scott Walker-Rand Paul and an all-Koch cabinet. The nation needs this now, more than ever.

  54. 54.

    Cervantes

    April 23, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    @srv:

    I provided a link, you provided nothing.

    No, actually, you did not provide a link — hence my suggestion that you re-think your assertion.

    So brave.

    I could not be less interested in your hormonal output.

  55. 55.

    scav

    April 23, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    @srv: Obot, really? You really can’t be bothered to distinguish among the actual people commenting here but rather see them as an indistinguishable mass of “others” whose every action and intent you understand fully and immediately. Yes dear. srv-ile I’m thinking is a slightly better take as more multi-purpose, sir-vile.

    OT and I’m coping with my “real” research with some evidence of the natural audience for a lot of the smoke-blowing. Some charmer has a family tree where the father’s death date is before each and every one of his two marriages worth of children. Some quivers are filled in mysterious ways.

  56. 56.

    Zandar

    April 23, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Can we just all assume that everyone who gave money to the Clinton Foundation was expecting favors from the State Department?

    Would streamline the delivery of daily Hillary hate.

  57. 57.

    Paul in KY

    April 23, 2015 at 1:49 pm

    @Zandar: You know, they could have been expecting favors from Bill or Chelsea. Don’t leave them out of the scandalpalooza!

  58. 58.

    Belafon

    April 23, 2015 at 1:51 pm

    @askew: I seem to remember that Cisco had been selling routers to the Chinese for years before 2008. I was at Nortel, which occasionally saw Cisco as a rival.

  59. 59.

    VOR

    April 23, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    @askew: Sigh.Where to start?
    First, $500k-$1M by December 2008. Who was president in December 2008?
    Second, there probably are a TON of lobbying firms with former Clinton WH aides in Washington. Probably hard to avoid hiring a firm w/o former Clinton administration aides.
    Third, Cisco is the largest networking company in the world. Of course they are doing large business with the US Federal government. Of course they will have new contracts for millions of dollars during the Obama administration.
    Fourth, Cisco is undoubtedly leveraging their lobbyists to pressure the US government to pressure the Chinese to buy Cisco products. Got nothing to do with the Clintons.

    Not saying there is nothing to this, but hardly proof of any corruption here.

  60. 60.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 1:53 pm

    @Cervantes:

    No, actually, you did not provide a link

    Maybe you should re-think that..

    @scav:

    Obot, really? You really can’t be bothered to distinguish among the actual people commenting here but rather see them as an indistinguishable mass of “others” whose every action and intent you understand fully and immediately.

    That’s like Inception-Level irony for a PUMA like me.

  61. 61.

    scav

    April 23, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    @srv: Well, so long as you’re amused, which seems to be the whole point of your performance-as-personality.

  62. 62.

    Mike in NC

    April 23, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    O/T: Lazy-ass Senate confirms Lynch as AG.

  63. 63.

    divF

    April 23, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    @srv: Yes, you provided a link – to an unsourced assertion from a Chicago Tribune Op-Ed writer. “If it’s in a newspaper, it has to be true, right?”

    You’ve been around here long enough to know that “link” is shorthand for “factual documentation, accessible on the web”.

    Try again.

    ETA: you did try again, in your link to the Clinton foundation. Will check that out.

    But why didn’t you link to that in the first place ? Sloppy.

  64. 64.

    D58826

    April 23, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    Until today I never realized until devious, dishonest, corrupt and depraved the Clinton’s are. For 8 years everyone under the sun investigated their finances and personal live and the most they could kind was a blue dress and a blow job. Now we have the Clinton foundation in which numerous people are conducting investigations for corruption using the publicly available documents found on the Foundation web site.

    They truly are masters of hiding all of the corruption. To put all of that information in the public record and then still manage to be the most corrupt couple in history it is sheer genius. (yes snark)

  65. 65.

    Belafon

    April 23, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    While we’re grumbling here, even Daily Kos is starting to like what Hillary’s saying: Clinton ‘doubling down on old-school organizing’ in all 50 states:

    What’s being called the “Ramp Up Grassroots Organizing Program” will have paid staffers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories through the end of May. They’ll be working with Clinton supporters to organize local meetings, volunteer trainings and other grassroots events, according to the campaign.

    The comments there are almost all positive.

  66. 66.

    Mike E

    April 23, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    @Mike in NC: Huge. Durham’s own, too. Yet another 1st for this administration.

  67. 67.

    Brachiator

    April 23, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    @Mike in NC:

    O/T: Lazy-ass Senate confirms Lynch as AG.

    Yep. About damn time!

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 23, 2015 at 2:14 pm

    @Mike E:

    all games were daytime since Wrigley Field was years away from installing lights.

    When they finally bowed to the inevitable and installed lights, one of the Chicago papers (don’t remember which one) ran the headline THE DUSK OF A NEW ERA.

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 23, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    @Mike in NC:
    @Brachiator:

    And nobody’s going to be happier about this than Eric Holder!

  70. 70.

    Mike E

    April 23, 2015 at 2:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Did the same paper report about the new roof addition and call it UNDER THE DOME? ;-)

  71. 71.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    @divF: Ah, it’s only truthy if it’s a link to Charlie Pierce. Got it.

    But why didn’t you link to that in the first place ? Sloppy.

    It’s not valued. Clearly, you don’t know how this place works.

    @D58826:

    Until today I never realized until devious, dishonest, corrupt and depraved the Clinton’s are.

    Clearly, you missed all of Balloon-Juice in 2008.

  72. 72.

    ruemara

    April 23, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    @VOR: Naw, there must be. It’s unfortunate that Obama has to be tossed under that bus, but he might support Hillz.

  73. 73.

    Cervantes

    April 23, 2015 at 2:32 pm

    @srv:

    Maybe you should re-think that..

    Right.

    Do you have any idea what you’ve shown to be true? (It has nothing to do with the Clintons.)

  74. 74.

    askew

    April 23, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    @Belafon:

    The article mentions that and talks about how Cisco was in hot water with Congress, shareholders and public opinion due to their dealings in China and that Clinton giving them a State Dept recognition for outstanding corporate citizenship, blah, blah that was a PR saving move. That’s the concern. Not when they started selling the routers. So, I am not sure how that was a pushback on the article.

    The question is should Cisco have even been given the award considering the controversy surrounding their work in China and did Clinton give them award to help them get a PR win and then Cisco thanked Hillary by donating millions to CF.

  75. 75.

    askew

    April 23, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    @Belafon:

    Hillary has been getting glowing coverage at DK since kos declared that she’d be the nominee months ago. She is getting daily puff pieces on the front page. And Algere and the other strikers who left DK are back.

  76. 76.

    srv

    April 23, 2015 at 2:45 pm

    @Cervantes: What I have always known to be true here – that it doesn’t really matter how much evidence is shown to you, so it’s pointless to provide it. You proved it again today. You will do anything to evade defending your position until you go ad hominem.

    Good luck with that for the next 18 months. You might as well lock your doors now, because reality is going to chew you up and spit you out if you run into any real people.

  77. 77.

    Randy Khan

    April 23, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    @srv:

    Knock yourself out – it’s right there, pick any one. Grants of $6M and “Other Expenses” of $33M in 2013.

    I spent six long years as treasurer of a non-profit (not on this scale, but I can read an annual report and a 990). Because of that experience, I can say that you’re reading the reports wrong. First, and most important, “grants” is not a compilation of everything a charity does to fulfill its charitable purpose – for most charities, the majority of their work falls into the “other expenses” category. (Imagine a not-for-profit hospital, or a women’s shelter, neither of which is likely to give out much, if anything, in grants.) You have to dig deeper into the 990 to find that information.

    For 2013, the 990 for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation reports around $8.8 million in outgoing grants (line 13, if you care). Part IX of the 990, which is the detail you can use to figure out how much effort an organization spends on its goals, reports the same amount in grants (lines 1 and 5) and, more important, reports program service expenses of $68.3 million, admin expenses of a bit less than $8.4 million and fundraising expenses of just over $8 million, which puts the total of admin and fundraising at a bit less than 20%. This is a pretty good number.

    You seem to have gotten your numbers from the front page of the 990 for the Clinton Health Access Initiative (and, by the way, for 2012, not 2013 – the 2013 numbers are the far right column, not the first column). In 2013, the health initiative had $10.9 million in grants, program service expenses (including the grants) of $99.1 million, admin expenses of $6.4 million and fundraising expenses of less than $1 million, which puts the total of admin and fundraising under 5%, which is extraordinarily good. (My non-profit, which was very efficient, couldn’t have dreamed of devoting that much of its total spending to program services. We were thrilled to be under 10% in admin and fundraising costs.)

  78. 78.

    bemused

    April 23, 2015 at 3:14 pm

    @Belafon:

    If you are still around, how did someone convince them? I need ammo.

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    drkrick

    April 23, 2015 at 3:22 pm

    This was my favorite Phillies game at Wrigley from the radio era: 4/17/76. The Cubs were ahead 12-1 at the end of three (Steve Carlton didn’t finish the second), Schmidt hits 4 homers, and the Phillies won 18-16 in ten. I insisted on keeping the work radio turned to the game even though it was “over” early. In the 10th, Richie Ashburn commented that the only thing that hadn’t happened in the game was a balk. The Cubs’ Randy Schultz delivered one on the next pitch. Quite an afternoon.

  80. 80.

    JustRuss

    April 23, 2015 at 3:23 pm

    After a quick stop at Digby’s place, I’ve come up with a new theory: Clinton’s playing 11-dimensional chess. (Wonder where she learned that?)

    Hear me out:
    First off, this is possibly the worst covered-up scandal in history. The Clinton Foundation made no secret of its foreign donors to anyone except the IRS. Smooth move, Einsteins. Why, it’s almost like they wanted to get caught.

    Clinton has made campaign cash and Citizen’s United an issue in her campaign. Up til now, CU has been like the weather: Everyone talks about it, but no one actually does anything. Let’s assume Hillary really wants to kill CU.

    Taking gobs of cash has been OKIYAR for like ever. We’ve been assured by our betters that it has no impact on how our politicians behave. But now that it’s Clinton, of course that cash is a bribe for services to be rendered. Cognitive dissonance runs strong in our media and Republicans, but maybe enough people will figure out that if it’s not OK to bribe Hillary then it shouldn’t be OK to bribe Republican candidates. Or possibly, the desire to screw HRC out of her illicit funds overcomes deference to our corporate overlords. I’m OK either way.

    An unlikely coalition of Democrats and TeaParty Republicans push through serious campaign finance reform, and everyone but the Koch Brothers lived happily ever after. Well, a boy can dream.

  81. 81.

    drkrick

    April 23, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    On what planet does a State Department “citizenship” award serve to get anybody out of any kind of hot water? If they paid a million for that, it was poor value for money

  82. 82.

    Randy P

    April 23, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    @srv: Sheeple. You forgot to say “wake up, sheeple!”

  83. 83.

    Brachiator

    April 23, 2015 at 4:15 pm

    @Randy Khan: Thanks very much for your very clear explanation of the Clinton Foundation’s 990. Really helps put some things into perspective.

  84. 84.

    Cervantes

    April 23, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    @srv:

    What I have always known to be true here – that it doesn’t really matter how much evidence is shown to you, so it’s pointless to provide it. You proved it again today. You will do anything to evade defending your position until you go ad hominem.

    Right.

    Look at those annual reports you finally found. Here’s the one for 2008. Look at page 46. Tell me what you understand from it. And here’s the report for 2013-14. Look at the pie chart on the bottom of page 92. Tell me what you understand from it.

    If your response is coherent, we can go from there; otherwise carry on as you were.

  85. 85.

    Bobby Thomson

    April 23, 2015 at 4:45 pm

    @srv: 15%? Is Mark Penn still running things? Christ, that’s political malpractice.

  86. 86.

    Bobby Thomson

    April 23, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    @Randy Khan: thank you. That makes a lot more sense than the 15% number.

  87. 87.

    fuckwit

    April 23, 2015 at 5:51 pm

    @NotMax: Heh, it’s been a long while and the memory hole eated this, but I seem to recall that the “secret” was unearthed by some enterprising troublemaker with a FOIA request.

    As for flies in that meeting, I’m sure there were, because flies hover around shit in large numbers.

  88. 88.

    Cervantes

    April 23, 2015 at 5:58 pm

    @fuckwit:

    I also remember something about a secret closed-door meeting with his oil industry exec buddies determining energy policy for the USA.

    The fact of those meetings was not a secret. There were protests through the summer of 2001 whenever the EPA held public-comment sessions. Of course, the EPA itself was not the problem.

  89. 89.

    askew

    April 23, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    @JustRuss:

    Hillary has never proven herself to be that smart or to have the political instincts to play 11-dimensional chess. For as much crap as Obama supporters get about that theory, at least it is based on the fact Obama has outsmarted and outgamed some of the top political minds around. Hillary showed herself to not have that ability in 2008.

  90. 90.

    WDS

    April 23, 2015 at 6:53 pm

    Probably the same place GW’s 22 million missing emails are … you know those pesky RNC servers ….

  91. 91.

    David Koch

    April 23, 2015 at 7:09 pm

    DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZEEEEESSSS

  92. 92.

    David Koch

    April 23, 2015 at 10:03 pm

    @askew: you do realize Kos is on the Clinton payroll (not kidding). It’s his outlet. When he tells his employed writers them to post positive and supportive pieces on the Blue-Dog/DLC/Conservadem/Goldman-Sachs/AIPAC stooge they look at their paychecks and 401Ks and say, “yes, sir”.

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