Republicans made a big deal out of George
Stephanopoulos’s donations to the Clinton Foundation, but an examination
of the list of donors reveals that wingnuts have donated millions
of dollars to the charitable organization.
An examination of the Clinton Foundation’s donations from media companies by Politico revealed that wingnut media donated millions to the charity.
Newsmax Media was listed as a donor in the
1,000,000-$5,000,000 range. News Corporation Foundation, the arm of Fox
News’s former parent company, has donated $500,000-$1,000,000.
Conservative billionaire and Clinton political enemy, Richard
Mellon-Scaife has donated $250,000-$500,000.
George Stephanopoulos should have disclosed his
donations to the Clinton Foundation on the air, but if Republicans are
hoping to parlay the ABC anchor’s mistake into a revival of a scandal
involving the Foundation, they are going to be sorely disappointed.
The Republican attempt to turn the Clinton
Foundation into some shady pay to play scandal was undercut by the fact
that conservative media also donated to the organization. In fact, The
Washington Post investigated the claims in Clinton Cash even though they
also have given to the Foundation.
The idea that the Clinton Foundation can be turned
into a major partisan scandal has been dealt a death blow. Fox News
continues to try to build something out of nothing even though their
former parent company has made large donations, and their owner’s
liberal son (James Murdoch) has also donated millions of dollars.
There
is no smoke, no fire, and no scandal. The Clinton Foundation is a
non-partisan NGO, not a political organization. The Republican attempts
to bring down a global charity for partisan political gain have been
undone by their own wingnuts.
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