Conservative website Newsmax has pledged a very large donation to the Clinton Foundation

[TheNutcracker]

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/newsmax-pledged-1-million-clinton-foundation_858504.html

Conservative website Newsmax has pledged a very large donation to the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a new report in the Wall Street Journal states.

"Newsmax, a conservative news organization, last year pledged $1 million to the Clinton Foundation over a five-year period, according to a spokesman for Chris Ruddy, the organization’s CEO. Mr. Ruddy has been friends with the Clintons since 2007," reports the Journal.

"Through a spokesman, he said the donation wasn't tantamount to an endorsement of Mrs. Clinton’s potential campaign, though he thinks she would 'make a great presidential candidate.'"
Ruddy himself has even written a blog post for the Clinton Foundation website. The topic? "Public-Private Partnerships Advance Health Care in Mozambique."

"Christopher Ruddy is a noted journalist and entrepreneur. He currently serves as CEO and President of Newsmax Media, one of the nation's leading online news media companies. In 1998, Chris founded Newsmax Media, a multimedia publishing company that publishes online and offline content in the fields of news, politics, health and finance. Newsmax.com is consistently ranked as one of the country's most trafficked news websites," reads his bio on the foundation's website.

Daniel Halper is author of Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine.
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Please, follow the money.....

[leftofcool]

1. And?

The Clinton Foundation does exceptional work. If it was my foundation, I would take money from anyone to help others.

[Fumesucker]

2. Newsmax...

Oh.. Wait...

[el_bryanto]

3. That requires a level of disconnect so deep I'm not sure there is a way to measure it

Newsmax the website, like all tea-partiers, hates the Clintons.

That said I just looked at the website and it seems more nuanced than I would have expected. Apparently Clinton has the potential to be a Liberal Reagan who will usher in a liberal revolution of the type that Reagan did. That said there are also articles accusing Hillary Clinton of being responsibility for ISIS, and others attacking her for giving well paid speeches.

Bryant

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Maybe they want to reduce the incidence of full blown AIDS...

Maybe they want to reduce the incidence of full blown AIDS and ensure some kid in Africa has access to clean drinking water. I hope everybody is so inclined.

[el_bryanto]

6. He also said that she would be a great candidate. nt

[Renew Deal]

8. It might be like th DU admins running Discussionist

This guy found a nitch with Newsmax. Money is money and it doesn't matter where it comes from. But that's a guess. I think this is not going to go over well on the Newsmax side of things. He's basically taking RW money and giving it to a Clinton charity.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. It would be fair for everybody that posts criticism of the CGI ...

It would be fair for everybody that posts criticism of the CGI to post their charitable contributions. But how do you post nothing?

[Buzz Clik]

7. It's parallel to Johnny Carson being pleased that Jimmy Carter was elected President:

"This is going to be a fun presidency." He was talking about Jimmy's very colorful family and Carter's advisors.

Newsmax wants Clinton as the Dem nominee because they won't have to do any work to dig up shit for the smear campaign because of a) plenty of shit from previous campaigns; and b) the Democrats will do a lot of the legwork for them, and we've already started it here.

If the OP is trying to insinuate that Newsmax really loves Clinton's politics, think again. Keep in mind that the wingnuts think Boehner, McConnell, and Lindsay Graham are actually liberals.

(As the "I hate Hillary" campaign ramps up here at DU, I am slowly switching over from opposing her to supporting her.)

[SidDithers]

9. The Weekly Standard...

Better believe it!

Sid

[BlueCaliDem]

10. And the attack on SoS Hillary Clinton continues...

Do you actually believe that $1 million dollars in politics over a period of FIVE YEARS is something to write about?? Yet NewMax, having already admitted to being a RW propaganda outlet, is reporting this far and wide - even finding its way to Democratic blogs such as DU.

Wary Liberals should ask WHY. My answer: the enemy knows what makes you tick, and they intend to take you down.

These RW-marketing-geniuses know their target audience. They know nothing pisses Liberals off more than money in politics. So why expose and propagandize this donation by a RW website to SoS Clinton? That's right. Political gain.

People, this is nothing more than a "friendly" hit-piece to play into Liberals' number one bogeyman in politics: money-in-politics. They hope to weaken SoS Clinton who, even their polling shows, is stronger than any of their candidates for 2016. Think this is far-fetched? Don't forget that Nader's campaign in 2000 and 2004 was funded, with "small" donations, by Bush's buddies and Republican-friendly corporate workers.

Everyone with more than half a working political brain understands that huge sums of money are necessary in order to win elections in the United States. Wealthy RWers are, usually, as secretive as the KGB. So you need to ask, why are they propagandizing this donation?

Be prepared to see much more of these pieces to be reported and widely spread by the M$M - and some outraged Liberals - leading up to the 2016 presidential elections if they succeed in dividing Democrats. Don't be played.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Wow! The Clinton's are certainly fundraising magic...

Former President and former SoS who could be the next President... 40% of their donations are from foreign sources, like Kuwait.

Power and money...

I'm not about to join the anti-Hillary ranks, but it kinda makes you wonder at times:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-raised-nearly-2-billion-for-foundation-since-2001/2015/02/18/b8425d88-a7cd-11e4-a7c2-03d37af98440_story.html

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The data shows that some major donors represent international interests that have faced scrutiny from the U.S. government.

All three Clintons, for instance, have attended meetings and private events with Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel magnate who has faced formal complaints in the United States for unfair trade practices. Spokesmen for the Clintons and Pinchuk waved away any suggestion of a conflict between the donor’s regulatory concerns and the charitable contributions to the foundation.

“No assistance with any business issues has now or ever been sought from the Clinton Foundation or its principals,” said Thomas Weihe, a spokesman for the Kiev-based Pinchuk Foundation.

He said Pinchuk supported the Clinton effort because of the foundation’s record and the “unique capacity of its principals to promote the modernization of Ukraine.”