Clinton Cash’ doc set to stir up controversy as it debuts at Cannes

[cali]

It's a right wing hit job. That doesn't mean it won't be effective. This is why I think Clinton supporters are wrong to believe she's been inoculated from scandal.

A massive police force will be guarding the Cannes Film Festival this year. But the only scuffle on the horizon may come in response to the right-wing producers of a devastating new documentary about Bill and Hillary Clinton’s alleged influence peddling and favor-trading. That film, “Clinton Cash,” screens here May 16 and opens in the U.S. on July 24 — just before the Democratic National Convention.

The allegations are as brazen as they are controversial: What other film at Cannes would come up with a plot that involves Russian President Vladimir Putin wrangling a deal with the alleged help of both Clintons, a Canadian billionaire, Kazakhstan mining officials and the Russian atomic energy agency — all of which resulted in Putin gaining control of 20 percent of all the uranium in the U.S.?

As a film, it powerfully connects the dots — whether you believe them or not — in a narrative that lacks the wonkiness of the book, which bore a full title of “The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich.”

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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-cash-doc-set-stir-controversy-it-debuts-cannes

[Actor]

1. Gee, I wonder how much promotion this pile of propagandist garbage will get here.

[cali]

2. I would hope not. But discussing it is not promoting it.

[CorkySt.Clair]

3. This place will look radically different by the time the film is released

But you're right, Berners would gleefully promote any RW meme. Sort of like the OP is doing through the back door.

[cali]

4. Jaysus. Stow your lame paranoia. I was not promoting this.

[Actor]

5. I have some pro Clinton stuff to say, even though I am a Bernie supporter, but I dont dare

say it on this message board.

[CorkySt.Clair]

6. That's probably for the best.

[hedda_foil]

7. The problem is that the vast majority of the claims in the book this film is based on are vetted

The book raised quite a stir last year and the vetting included investigations into the claims by the NYT and WaPost. That's from the article above and a Politico story about the book,t. I don't think we can get away with dismissing it as just one more fabrication by the VRWC.. That's how it will be responded to by the Clintons, their surrogates, and most of the strongly pro Clinton voters. But it's the weakly pro Clinton, independents and Never Trumpers who may take it seriously enough to vote for Trumpolini or stay home.

FWIW, if Clinton runs in the general I'll vote for her.