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Buzz Cut:
• Another day of damaging disclosures for Hillary
• Press boycotted Bush 41 canned campaign events
• Jeb hits Dubya on spending
• Heed the bugler’s call
• Shizzle but not sheezy? That’s ridic
ANOTHER DAY OF DAMAGING DISCLOSURES FOR HILLARY
If the first rule of scandal management is to completely purge the damaging information and cauterize the wound, Hillary Clinton is failing badly. We learned today that Clinton’s family foundation hid $26 million in foreign and corporate contributions as “revenue” on the grounds that the presumptive Democratic nominee or her husband or daughter gave speeches in exchange for the gifts. The donors include a Chinese energy consortium, a Nigerian newspaper and Citibank. And later today we will get the first wave of her emails from a secret server.
[The NYT has posted online the first tranche of emails it obtained from those surrendered by Clinton.]
“This is coming from individual who when she worked in State Department didn’t obey the law to begin with, which said she should have had an official email on an official government server. So she’s already broken the law once, so now we’re to trust her that the ones she turned over are all of emails? I personally won’t be satisfied till we look at the server.” –
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on “America’s Newsroom”
Power Play: Fins to the left? – Hillary Clinton briefly succumbed to press pressure to break her silence after a month of refusing questions. Will reporters get into a feeding frenzy know that they know she’ll flinch? National Journal’s Emily Schultheis and WashEx’s Sarah Westwood give Chris Stirewalt their take. WATCH HERE.
Press boycotted Bush 41 staged campaign events – There was a time when political reporters ransomed their coverage of a presidential campaign in protest of a candidate’s reliance on staged events. The Hoover Institution’s Bill Whalen reminds us of the 1992 race when the press became so fed up with then-President George H.W. Bush’s canned campaign they refused to cover the staged events. The fight got so bad that Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater was moved to say to the press corps: “I’m sick of all you lazy bastards.”
[Clinton is in New Hampshire today for more canned events.]
#mediabuzz – Chris Stirewalt, Mara Liasson and Susan Ferrechio look at how the press is (and isn’t) trying to bust the Clinton bunker and Kirsten Powers talks about her new book “The Silencing.” Watch “#mediabuzz” Sunday at 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET.
No danger of that for Sheriff Joe… – “Because even among some of we Democrats, we’re sophisticated jerks lots of times.” –
Vice President Joe Biden quoted by The Huffington Post about what he said was the snobbish nature among Democrats toward middle class Americans.
Scots, wha hae – Jim Webb is in South Carolina to participate in a parade and deliver a speech at the Greenville Scottish Games.
