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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Compare the Headlines (Mark Steyn)

This is a keeper. And in case the NR link ever fails, I'll reprint it in full.

A woman's right to Hsu's [Mark Steyn]


I know what Mark Hemingway means when he praises the MSM coverage of the Hsu/Clinton scandal, but honestly, the difference between Democrat and Republican scandal fever is very telling. I loved the New York Times headline:

Clinton Sees Fear Realized in Trouble With Donor

Of all the possible vulnerabilities facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has long believed that the one of the biggest was money, friends and advisers say...

So the story is not the scandal but Hillary's "fear" that she might be "vulnerable" to such a scandal. How come Republic Senators can't get that kind of sympathetic treatment?

Craig Sees Fear Realized in Trouble With Adjoining Stall

Insofar as I understand the Times spin, it's that Mrs Clinton's brilliant political antennae had cannily anticipated that she might be vulnerable to charges of taking illegal campaign contributions from shifty foreign bagmen. Which is easy to believe, given that she had, after all, taken them.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Norman Hsu got on a chartered jet with his passport. Typed a suicide letter and sent it to numerous charities and acquaintances, then boarded a train in order to have some much needed privacy for hsuicide.

Pretty much a textbook suicide case so far...

Just a few points about the missing 40 million...

1. Hsu told Source Financial the money was to manufacture clothes for Gucci & Prada in China. Neither company manufactures any items in China, ever.

2. Source Financial never noticed that Hsu's businesses didn't exist before loaning him money. They also failed to check his background, or look for a factory in China connected to Hsu.

3. Source Financial was accepting checks post dated by 135 days as payment on their huge loans to Hsu.

4. Source Financial employees are also big Hillary donors.

5. Hillary set aside 1 million dollars of taxpayer money for a "Woodstock" museum. The head of Source Financial was a major Woodstock promoter and also a long time Clinton friend.

6. It took 2 weeks for the head of Source Financial to realize there might be some kind of connection between his company, Clinton, and Hsu.

7. One of the recipients of Hsu's suicide note googled the term "Hsu Suicide" BEFORE anyone knew where he was or what he was doing - according to Michelle Malkin.

These are just a few of the latest strange facts in this case