One of the problems of living in northern Virginia is that the pollen season includes almost all the months of the year with letters in their names, and all the days ending in "y." So you have to seek out offsetting benefits, like knowing that if you're going to sneeze all year, at least you're not living in Maryland.
And there is always the fact that you can turn your FM dial appropriately and catch Chris Plante on WMAL radio in the later morning. Plante is an outspoken conservative talk-show host; much the same as ex-smokers become the most enthusiastic advocates for kicking tobacco, former liberals who have seen the light become the best advocates for conservatism. As the son of the long-time CBS reporter Bill Plante, Chris was exposed in his youth to excessive doses of the reporting of the left, but eventually his actual reasoning mind took over and he found the right of the Right.
On Thursday morning I was fortunately in my car to hear the opening of his show. I say this as a lead-in because, while I think up 80% of the ideas in this column, if someone hits a point we haven't previously heard, I have enough journalistic integrity (it's not always an oxymoron) to give credit where it is due.
Plante started out with some critique of Hillary Clinton and her script-writers, and who may be coming up with her jokes for her, and all the other things it is so easy to criticize her for before you even get into the flat-out lies and the like. But he then took a turn.
"I've been noodling around some thoughts", Plante said (I'll put all this in quotes but I'm paraphrasing). "We know that the press is simply another arm of the Democrat Party and the left in general. We know that they have a slobbering allegiance to the Clintons and regularly perform acts of Journalistic Gratification upon them.
"We also know that the Clinton Foundation has taken in hundreds of millions from around the world and provided the Clintons with a wonderful life, flying around the world in private jets spewing plenty of carbon into the air." Now, I really paraphrased the last part, but he said something like that.
"So if (A) the press is slavishly obedient to the Clintons, and if (B) the Clinton Foundation has taken in so much from foreign governments, foreign power brokers and domestic political contributors, then shouldn't they have a long list of worthwhile projects and successes to point to? And if they do have a long list of accomplishments, and the press is in their pocket, then why are there no articles anywhere in the enslaved media touting all the wonderful things the Clinton Foundation is doing? Haiti? Have they done anything in Haiti?
"Clearly, the Foundation exists only to give the Clintons a fat income by selling access and power to people who shouldn't have either -- because if it had done anything worth writing about, the press would have plastered it on billboards all over the USA."
As I was driving around listening to that, I was literally pointing at my radio going "Yes, yes, why has no one pointed that out before?", or comparable words.
Do you remember way, way back last September or October -- OK, it was October -- when I wrote a piece about how you could put elements of a story together that didn't quite add up, and realize something was wrong? I know it was about global warming, but it was still true. The liars do not want you to investigate too hard, lest you come up with why the lie is what it is.
The Clintons are worth millions, and the Hillary campaign certainly has enough money to pay actual political consultants to try to get her to do the right thing to get her elected. Granted, they have little to work with there, but they certainly have to be the best that money can buy (winking at the irony). Would not even one of those campaign strategists be offering up the notion that the "good works of the Foundation" could be fed to the lapdog press to be made to associate Hillary with some positive achievement?
The press has not bothered to investigate what the Clinton Foundation has done with all that money it raised by pimping the former president out to speak to foreign sleazeballs. The media haven't done it on their own, because they already know there's no "there" there. The campaign brains in the Hillary campaign haven't used the good works of the Foundation to help boost her hideous unlikeability numbers, because there aren't any they could tout, that would survive even a cursory review by the Sanders or Biden camps, let alone Fox News -- or Chris Plante.
I don't know if Hillary Clinton will be out of jail in time for the 2016 election, but if she is, and if she is the candidate, somebody -- Carly Fiorina would rip this one to shreds -- is going to make capital of this incredible gap in what should be the campaign focus of the Hillary-for-president effort.
She can't have it both ways; there is a Clinton Foundation; they did pay the Clintons millions; it has supported a lavish lifestyle for them -- and apparently it has accomplished nothing worthy of mention by an otherwise lapdog press.
Chris Plante says a lot of things for three hours on the air each day. Some are throwaway lines, but most are really interesting observations on the state of the world.
This time, his "noodling" absolutely nailed a point that had gotten no press at all. If there had been something good the Clinton Foundation had done, the press would have blasted it to the world. Clearly, it has not done squat. Hopefully this piece documents his insight for future reference.
Two and two have now been put together. Thanks, Chris Plante, for the arithmetic lesson.
Copyright 2015 by Robert Sutton
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