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Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Foundation Supporter?
ERIC BOEHLERT
Suddenly under scrutiny for her $250 donation to the Clinton Haiti Relief Fund in 2010, Judy Woodruff, the co-anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, issued a statement late last week defending her modest giving. "I made the gift in response to an urgent joint appeal from former President Clinton and then-President George W. Bush for aid to the victims of the Haiti earthquake," Woodruff explained in an email to the Wall Street Journal. "Seeing the massive loss of human life and the terrible conditions for survivors, I wanted to make a contribution and saw this as a way to do that."
So it's come to this: A member of the media forced to defend her decision to give $250 to a bipartisan earthquake relief fund five years ago, to help an impoverished island nation.
Woodruff faced questions, of course, because amidst the current frenzied atmosphere, anything connected with the Clinton Foundation has officially been deemed tainted by the Beltway press. The media have teamed up with the GOP to cast every possible aspersion on the $2 billion global charity that helps people with AIDS/HIV around the world get cheaper, better medicine, battles economic inequality, childhood obesity, climate change, and fights for health and wellness. (No, the Clinton Foundation doesn't spend 85 percent of its budget on "overhead." Good grief.)
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/18/the-clinton-foundation-witch-hunt/203685
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)Speaking of Bush, if you want to find out all of the donors, and countries, that have given generously to the George W. Bush Foundation in an effort to possibly influence the famous political family (including likely presidential candidate Jeb Bush), you're basically out of luck. That's because nonprofits like the George W. Bush Foundation are not obligated to reveal all their fundraising sources. But the Clinton Foundation has been revealing its donors since 2008, when Hillary Clinton was nominated to become secretary of state.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Special rules are in place to take them down and some here are happy to cheer this on.
Very frustrating.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)We also give $100.00 per year to our favorite AIDS charity and another $100.00 to a local orphanage. That doesn't count the various other projects we support. I suppose reporters will have to start disclosing the Girl Scout Cookies they purchase and each and every time they stop at some kid's lemonade stand and pop a quarter in the cup. Since when did "giving" become a crime?
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)You are a gem!
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)And I am certainly no Christian but I do believe in giving back when you have been blessed or at least giving to the best of one's abilities. When we give to the local orphanage, it doesn't matter whether my money goes to pay salaries or for diapers for the babies. My job is to give, theirs is to spend it in what ever way they deem appropriate at the time. Same way with the Clinton Foundation.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I suppose this means the teahaddists will be dragging my name through the mud!
FU republicans, I welcome your hate!
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been, A Foundation Supporter?