If fascism ever does come to America, the media will be goose-stepping right in line

Rss@dailykos.com (laurence Lewis) · Sunday, August 28, 2016, 4:44 pm

As usual, rather than report and analyze dispassionately and responsibly, the media are collectively freaking out over revelations that the Clinton Foundation actually raised lots of money from lots of people. That some of those people also met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state is supposed to signify something horrible, nefarious, devious, and no good. And never mind that only a small fraction of the people who donated to the Clinton Foundation later met with Secretary of State Clinton, and never mind that those who did were exactly the type of people who normally meet with secretaries of state.

Whatever Hillary Clinton does is automatically cast as a conspiracy, even if those so casting can't manage to explain what exactly she conspired to do. There are calls to shut the Clinton Foundation down—never mind the tens of millions of people who have benefited from its efforts, and never mind that many people whose lives the foundation is saving inevitably will be lost. We are told that this is about optics. By the people whose jaundiced view of the Clintons perpetually prevents them from even seeing the Clintons. A charity that is lauded by objective monitors must be sacrificed to the bile of those who simply hate the Clintons for being Clintons.

Aside from the politics, which the Clintons themselves long have become accustomed to having to stomach, this is utterly depraved. And it reveals the Clinton critics once again as incapable of empathy or understanding, not only for the Clintons themselves, but for anyone who benefits from their good works. American schoolchildren. Those suffering from HIV/AIDS. The Clinton critics just can't comprehend that some people do good deeds just for the sake of doing good deeds, and that the lives of the people who benefit from those good deeds might actually be more important than petty political hatreds. This latest effort of the Clinton Conspiracy Complex is without question the most cruel and cynical yet.

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