A Tsunami of Graft: Bill Clinton Heroically Raised Money for the Tsunami Vicitms, By First Securing a $500,000 Payment For his "Charity"

There is a special place in hell for this clan of grifters.

Deborah Sontag reports:

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Petra Nemcova, a Czech model who survived the disaster by clinging to a palm tree, decided to pull out all the stops for the annual fund-raiser of her school-building charity, the Happy Hearts Fund.
She booked Cipriani 42nd Street, which greeted guests with Bellini cocktails on silver trays. She flew in Sheryl Crow with her band and crew for a 20-minute set. She special-ordered heart-shaped floral centerpieces, heart-shaped chocolate parfaits, heart-shaped tiramisù and, because orange is the charity's color, an orange carpet rather than a red one. She imported a Swiss auctioneer and handed out orange rulers to serve as auction paddles, playfully threatening to use hers to spank the highest bidder for an Ibiza vacation.
The gala cost $363,413. But the real splurge? Bill Clinton.
The former president of the United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at the June 2014 event after Ms. Nemcova offered a $500,000 contribution to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The donation, made late last year after the foundation sent the charity an invoice, amounted to almost a quarter of the evening's net proceeds -- enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia.

Happy Hearts' former executive director believes the transaction was a "quid pro quo," which rerouted donations intended for a small charity with the concrete mission of rebuilding schools after natural disasters to a large foundation with a broader agenda and a budget 100 times bigger.
"The Clinton Foundation had rejected the Happy Hearts Fund invitation more than once, until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of an honorarium," said the former executive director, Sue Veres Royal, who held that position at the time of the gala and was dismissed a few weeks later amid conflicts over the gala and other issues.

A longer digest at Business Insider-- which notes it is "extremely rare" for one charity to pay money to another so-called "charity."

It also notes the charity that was supposedly getting the benefit of Clinton's star power raised less money the year he got his "award" than it did the previous year.

Meanwhile, the New York Times' resident Goof Nicholas Kristof claimed that we shouldn't blame the Clintons for the "charity" greed -- we should blame the campaign finance system.

One problem with this absurdity. Okay, two problems. Obviously, this is the go-to spin whenever a Democrat is found to be dirty -- it's the fault of the system, not of the person.

But Jim Geraghty points out a a problem so glaringly obvious you may have missed it -- The Clinton "charity" is not about financing any campaigns, at least not admittedly, and if we ever discover this "charity" is in fact about financing Hillary Clinton's campaign, it will be a serious criminal breach demanding of serious jail time.

This "Charity" is about personal enrichment -- and what the fuck does that have to do with campaign finance?

Posted by: Ace at 03:43 PM

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1 And I sure the blond in the picture with blew him to boot.

Posted by: Paladin at May 29, 2015 03:43 PM (mCOPv)

2 Drops in, looks around, waits for others...

Posted by: kraken at May 29, 2015 03:44 PM (sdxPm)

3 Yeah...I'm a scumbag. But I'm a well paid scumbag...

Posted by: William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd President of the United States at May 29, 2015 03:45 PM (YFFpo)

4 if we ever discover this "charity" is in fact about financing Hillary Clinton's campaign, it will be a serious criminal breach demanding of serious jail time.

For the Clintons? Since when?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 29, 2015 03:45 PM (oVJmc)

5 I would have done it for half that amount.

Posted by: Thor's feather duster at May 29, 2015 03:45 PM (JgC5a)

6 Let he who has suffered the indignity of riding in a Gulfstream III or lower cast the first stone.

#HillaryIsJustLikeYou

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at May 29, 2015 03:45 PM (8ZskC)

7 While I'm waiting for the others to finish with the latest degenerata politician, I'll just indulge in some nostalgia here on this thread about the hetero degenerate. Willie has such a big... heart...a real giver that guy.

Posted by: kraken at May 29, 2015 03:46 PM (sdxPm)

8 We should broker a deal with the Clintons: no jail time and you can retire with your ill gotten gains IF Hillary doesn't run. She can afford to retire now anyway.

Posted by: Tres Gawdy at May 29, 2015 03:46 PM (F1Z8f)

9 But, but TEH KOCK BROTHERSSSS!!!!!!

Posted by: blubberin jubberin' leftie at May 29, 2015 03:46 PM (uctT+)

10 Did I ever tell you about the time Monica tossed my salad?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (ycu3n)

11 There Ain't No Justice.

Posted by: Iblis at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (9221z)

12 The Clintons have been for sale for a long time.

Posted by: Marc Rich at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (0FSuD)

13 This bullshit where some people get the full weight of Justice applied to them, Scooter Libby, Bob McDonnel, et al and some people get to tip toe through the rain drops of there criminality, Sandy Berger, John Corzine, Et al must end.

THE CLINTON CRIME SYNDICATE MUST BE DISMANTLED!!

Fucking use RICO statutes if you have to, you can use RICO statutes for damn near everything.

Posted by: Kreplach at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (kGXRK)

14 Mrs. Clinton, why does the right wing hate machine insist on villifying you and your husbands good works?

Posted by: Real Everyday American at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (YFFpo)

15 Bill Clinton should be in "f*ck you in the Arse" prison.

Posted by: billygoatpuke at May 29, 2015 03:49 PM (l5QMI)

16 Hillbilly trash gonna hillbilly trash.

Posted by: Lauren at May 29, 2015 03:49 PM (+bkaS)

17 Pardons? Hell yeah, $500K from my bank.

Posted by: Rick Hendricks at May 29, 2015 03:49 PM (0FSuD)

18 Clinton needs that money to feed the children that are starving because of YOUR DEODORANT!

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 29, 2015 03:49 PM (oVJmc)

19 10 Did I ever tell you about the time Monica tossed my salad?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (ycu3n)

Miss Lewinsky, in the Oval Office, with the candlestick.

Posted by: kraken at May 29, 2015 03:49 PM (sdxPm)

20 "11 There Ain't No Justice.
"
This Ain't No Disco

Wait, what?

Posted by: Talking Heads at May 29, 2015 03:50 PM (+bkaS)

21 The Happy Harf Foundation?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2015 03:50 PM (zv9Ot)

22 Defrauding Indonesian preschoolers. You couldn't make up something that would reflect more badly on them. Yet most people will still continue to consider her more charitable and compassionate than any conservative, no matter how much they give to charity, because she pays lip service to compassion, and people are unbelievably stupid.

Posted by: LIV positive at May 29, 2015 03:51 PM (F1Z8f)

23 This isn't even some bullshit speech. Bill Clinton had to be PAID to RECEIVE a bullshit award.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 29, 2015 03:52 PM (oVJmc)

24 Hmmmm....

As the Clinton's DO gain material benefit from the foundation....

Bribery and Money Laundering?

Posted by: BB Wolf at May 29, 2015 03:52 PM (qh617)

25 Dare we say structuring?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2015 03:53 PM (zv9Ot)

26 Defrauding Indonesian preschoolers. You couldn't make up something that would reflect more badly on them.

Huh. No wonder Obama hates 'em so much, they dissed his homies.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12 at May 29, 2015 03:53 PM (DT3rQ)

27 A hot model clinging to a palm tree?
I'm sure Bernie Sanders has some thoughts about that.

Posted by: wooga at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (RqOd7)

28 "for the children" , of course.

Posted by: willow at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (nqBYe)

29 Mr. O'Spades

We see that you have referenced our President and CEO in this column.

Since we did not approve of this in advance, we give you the option of donating an amount in excess of $150,000 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation or faced being sued.

Thank you in advance

Posted by: WJC, LLC at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (XlHZs)

30 Mr. O'Spades

We see that you have referenced our President and CEO in this column.

Since we did not approve of this in advance, we give you the option of donating an amount in excess of $150,000 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation or faced being sued.

Thank you in advance

Posted by: WJC, LLC at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (XlHZs)

31 So what exactly does a half a million donation to this scam charity get you besides this redneck pervert showing up to give a bullshit speech?

Posted by: tu3031 at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (YFFpo)

32 It's amazing she's still running.
The media treat it like its an episode of All My Children.
How much can Erica/Hillary! get away with?

Posted by: Iblis at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (9221z)

33 Posted by: LIV positive at May 29, 2015 03:51 PM (F1Z8f)

That's OK.... Indonesians are Moslem, and we don't want you Westerners messing with their schools anyway....

Posted by: Procal Harum at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (qh617)

34 It sounds like Miss Nemcova might have been under the impression that the prestige a former POTUS would bring to the event would be a boon to her own charity. That's a tough lesson to learn.
I've seen her interviewed since before the tsunami and she's too gracious to call them the twats they are.

Even Jimmy Carter wouldn't pull that BS.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 03:54 PM (Lknv7)

35 Of course the charity is just a means of funneling money to her campaign. I'm sure every single employee of it contributes the maximum they can and probably more.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 29, 2015 03:55 PM (0dC3i)

36
So one Clinton scandel a day until NOV2016, that is a crud load of scandels.

17 more monthes! yippie !!!

Posted by: Yo! at May 29, 2015 03:55 PM (q+zA9)

37 >>Defrauding Indonesian preschoolers. You couldn't make up something that would reflect more badly on them.

Because fucking teenagers wasn't enough.

Posted by: Bill Clinton Live from Pedophile Isle at May 29, 2015 03:55 PM (ycu3n)

38 Defrauding Indonesian preschoolers. You couldn't make up something that would reflect more badly on them.

Hillary could have barbecued an Indonesian preschooler and eaten him on her front porch and she wouldn't lose a single supporter.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 29, 2015 03:56 PM (8ZskC)

39 28 "for the children" , of course.

Fo' the chilluns!

Posted by: Hillary "Sho' Nuff" Clinton at May 29, 2015 03:57 PM (RqOd7)

40 I still can not believe that a man that had his dick sucked in the WH and had to pay off a woman for rape is somehow making speeches and getting paid for them.

Does the world have no pride any more. This man is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 29, 2015 03:57 PM (0FSuD)

41 There's no clan of grifters like an Arkansas clan of grifters.

Posted by: Gomez at May 29, 2015 03:57 PM (IPzoI)

42 Because fucking teenagers wasn't enough.
Posted by: Bill Clinton Live from Pedophile Isle at May 29, 2015 03:55 PM (ycu3n)

Punching low-level employees is the face for sex was just a gateway drug for ol' Bill.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 29, 2015 03:57 PM (8ZskC)

43 This "Charity" is about personal enrichment -- and what the fuck does that have to do with campaign finance?

One in the same Ace, one in the same.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 29, 2015 03:57 PM (sWgE+)

44 They are all crooked as snakes. I wonder if scankles has ever bashed in an employee's head with a baseball bat?

If we had an honest DOJ they would be prosecuted on multiple felonies and charged under RICO.

And an honest jury and judge would sentence them to 100 lifetimes in jail and they would rot and die there toothless and forgotten.

Of course we would have to repeal Scottish law first.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 29, 2015 03:57 PM (GpgJl)

45
Hillary could have barbecued an Indonesian preschooler and eaten him on her front porch and she wouldn't lose a single supporter.

Because Bush is worse!

Posted by: Gomez at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (IPzoI)

46 Damn you mother puckers leaving me in The Denny Hastert thong thread.

*channeling Heston*

"Damn you monkeys all to hell, it's PEOPLE!!!!"

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (RJMhd)

47 Petra Nemcova, hmmm?

She raises funds, blood-pressure and pant dimensions, all at the same time!

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (jBuUi)

48 So that explains the spate of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions - Satan is having dug a special room just for the Criminal Clinton Collection Party.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (rLsb7)

49 Ace,

Love your site, but you gotta turn on spell checker for titles of articles.

Posted by: biscuits mahoney at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (/oA4J)

50 I wonder if scankles has ever bashed in an employee's head with a baseball bat?

Nah. She never did that.

Posted by: The Ghost of Vince Foster at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (YFFpo)

51 No wonder she survived by holding on to a palm tree. I'm sure she had had a lot of practice holding on to trees and other pole shaped objects.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at May 29, 2015 03:58 PM (0dC3i)

52 Look, I don't know anything about this tsunami shakedown. All I know about is Whitewater grafting.

Posted by: Slick Willie at May 29, 2015 03:59 PM (Dr58V)

53 Just walk away peon. This does not concern you.

Posted by: Hillary at May 29, 2015 03:59 PM (JOG+K)

54 41 There's no clan of grifters like an Arkansas clan of grifters.

....

I traveled through Arkansas a few years ago and was pleasantly surprised at how beautiful it is. That said, I stopped in Clinton for the sole purpose of taking a symbolic pee.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 03:59 PM (Lknv7)

55 I wonder if scankles has ever bashed in an employee's head with a baseball bat?

Nah. She never did that.

Too messy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 29, 2015 03:59 PM (8ZskC)

56 Otter used this same defense in Animal House if I recall. Of course, in those days it was parody.

Posted by: MTF at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (DkJ4E)

57 Yeah, but he's charming as fuck and she's not, but is somehow historic so shut up.

Posted by: The Media at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (dBAgi)

58 Go away Gomez

Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (IPzoI)

59 36
So one Clinton scandel a day until NOV2016, that is a crud load of scandels.

17 more monthes! yippie !!!
Posted by: Yo! at May 29, 2015 03:55 PM (q+zA9)

That's technically a metric fuck-ton.

Posted by: Iblis at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (9221z)

60 Apparently cardboard level AoSHQ does not get an actual Petra link.

http://tinyurl.com/noyutb8

Posted by: DaveA at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (DL2i+)

61
Not only for their personal enrichment, but these bastards made sure that actual money for disadvantage kids of the tsunami did not benefit. And then turn around and give us a bunch of populist socialist bullshit.

MFers, is right.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (ODxAs)

62 this post needs more pictures of Petra Nemcova

Posted by: brak at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (Tj+s6)

63 Democrats are evil. Their choice of leaders reflect that.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at May 29, 2015 04:00 PM (kdJud)

64 I still can not believe that a man that had his dick sucked in the WH and had to pay off a woman for rape is somehow making speeches and getting paid for them.
----------------------

Heh. Have you forgotten the "Father of the Year" award? http://tinyurl.com/abw675c

I can read the words..., but my brain refuses to make sense of them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:01 PM (F2IAQ)

65 Trips to a magical special place, where young girls are free to be themselves.

Give so that more will live.

Like Bill Clinton, living it up.

Brought to you by

Posted by: The Clinton Fund at May 29, 2015 04:01 PM (RFeQD)

66 Petra's elbows are blocking her elbows.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2015 04:01 PM (zv9Ot)

67 yea really, like you would have to pay me to show up to see this

http://tinyurl.com/prk9eyu

Posted by: wrg500 at May 29, 2015 04:01 PM (sWgE+)

68 BTW some people who know me wonder why I never trace the Arkansas portion of the family tree. I just might fine a tendril of Kudzu linking me to Billy-Jeff is the reason.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:01 PM (rLsb7)

69 40 I still can not believe that a man that had his dick sucked in the WH and had to pay off a woman for rape is somehow making speeches and getting paid for them.

Does the world have no pride any more. This man is an embarrassment.
Posted by: Nip Sip

You and me both.

After he left office, I thought Bill Clinton would slink away back under a rick, and the Dems would pretend he never existed, he was such a repulsive amoral one-man scandal factory.

But no -- somehow, incredibly, they pretended that his reputation had been rescued, and ever since he's been trotting around like a respected elder statesman, and not the utterly disgraced pervert and felon he really is.

Really, there are no words left.

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2015 04:02 PM (jBuUi)

70 under a rick = under a rock

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2015 04:02 PM (jBuUi)

71 E-mail problems?

Clandestine private intelligence?

Interested in high risk, high reward investment in dangerous places?

We can manage your money.

Give us a donation, and we'll talk.

Posted by: The Clinton Fund at May 29, 2015 04:02 PM (RFeQD)

72 I may consider taking back my Liberty Medal from ol' Hillz if more stuff like this surfaces.

Posted by: El Gobernador Jeb Bush at May 29, 2015 04:03 PM (8ZskC)

73 Sid Blumenthal's contribution to this charity was what, exactly?

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM (oVJmc)

74 After he left office, I thought Bill Clinton would slink away back under a rick, and the Dems would pretend he never existed, he was such a repulsive amoral one-man scandal factory.

But no -- somehow, incredibly, they pretended that his reputation had been rescued, and ever since he's been trotting around like a respected elder statesman, and not the utterly disgraced pervert and felon he really is.

Really, there are no words left.
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2015 04:02 PM (jBuUi)

You think Billy Jeff is bad, wait til Obama's out, with none of the baggage the Clintons have.

Posted by: Iblis at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM (9221z)

75 61
Not only for their personal enrichment, but these bastards made sure that actual money for disadvantage kids of the tsunami did not benefit. And then turn around and give us a bunch of populist socialist bullshit.

MFers, is right.

....

Those children suffered immeasurably following that tsunami, with their families dead and perverts and slave traders lurking about. These sonsofbitches stole their hope and a chance at a better future.

There are no words...

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM (Lknv7)

76 72

Fuck bush for giving to her in the first place

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM (e/33/)

77
I want to point out that the 10 preschools that were not build should be rephrased as 10 madrassas not built. Which is not nescessarily a bad thing

Posted by: Yo! at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM (q+zA9)

78 So, they shit canned Veres-Royal after she spilled the beans of the Clinton shakedown?

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM (iQIUe)

79 Campaign finance problems for a Democrat Party up and comer?

Get on the right side of Hillary Clinton, soon to be the 45th President of the United States.

Make a sizable donation now.

Brought to you by

Posted by: The Clinton Fund at May 29, 2015 04:05 PM (RFeQD)

80 Can you keep the topics today to scott walker's ultrasound rape fantasy and Haystert hysteria please.

Posted by: california red at May 29, 2015 04:05 PM (UyEG4)

81 The NYT is destroying the Clintons so they can run the guy from Maryland.

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at May 29, 2015 04:05 PM (iQIUe)

82 Nicholas Kristof might know more than we think.

Sort of a Freudian slip.

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 04:06 PM (RJMhd)

83
btw, it is a serious column but no pic of Miss Nemcova is a faux pas.

http://tinyurl.com/odybovm

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2015 04:06 PM (ODxAs)

84 The Maryland Miracle?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 29, 2015 04:06 PM (zv9Ot)

85 James Bond has been fighting the wrong villains. SPECTRE is bush league compared to the Clinton Crime Cabal.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:06 PM (rLsb7)

86 Want to appear to be the idealistic and altruistic Democrat we all pretend to be?

Need money laundered that you ran through you campaign finance fund?

Make a donation, and we can talk.

Brought to you by

Posted by: The Clinton Fund at May 29, 2015 04:07 PM (RFeQD)

87 Petra Nemcova's SI photoshoots convinced me to make multiple donations at the time.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at May 29, 2015 04:07 PM (nFdGS)

88 We make money the old fashioned way.

We steal it.

Brought to you by

Posted by: The Clinton Fund at May 29, 2015 04:07 PM (RFeQD)

89 Bruce - Probably. The only question is, will it be Warren/O'Malley, or O'Malley/Warren.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:08 PM (F2IAQ)

90 Didn't that cocksucker Jeb also have to give a hefty donation to them in order to be given the privilege of presenting that criminal bitch Hillary with his organizations bullshit award?

Posted by: Buzzion at May 29, 2015 04:09 PM (z/Ubi)

91 >>It also notes the charity that was supposedly getting the benefit of Clinton's star power raised less money the year he got his "award" than it did the previous year.

The charity should have told him to pound sand when he asked for money.

Posted by: Lea at May 29, 2015 04:09 PM (lIU4e)

92 So the Maryland Miracle ticket depends upon which one likes being on top.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:09 PM (rLsb7)

93 "There Ain't No Justice. "

Deserve's got nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at May 29, 2015 04:09 PM (LA7Cm)

94 But did the Czech bounce?

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12 at May 29, 2015 04:10 PM (DT3rQ)

95 If I ever receive an award, I'll demand that the organization pay me hefty mullah first in order for me to accept.

WTH? Billy Jeff couldn't just accept being flown in first-class and having expensive meals and an expensive hotel paid for?

These people are the lowest of the lowest lowlives. They make pond scum look attractive and desirable.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 29, 2015 04:10 PM (shFKH)

96
Any rons or 'ettes in Phoenix?

It would be cool to get first habd reports of bikers kickin some fuzzy muzzie a$$ later today

Posted by: Yo! at May 29, 2015 04:10 PM (q+zA9)

97 "and if we ever discover this "charity" is in fact about financing Hillary Clinton's campaign, it will be a serious criminal breach demanding of serious jail time."

We always enjoy your sense of fantasy, Mr. Ace.

Posted by: Obama Department Of Just Us at May 29, 2015 04:10 PM (DLu2s)

98
The charity should have told him to pound sand when he asked for money.

Yeah I'm sure I understand what the point was. Maybe Petra just isn't very bright bless her heart.

Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:10 PM (IPzoI)

99 Chique the Clintons are making MERSA and Ebola look good in comparison.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:11 PM (rLsb7)

100 10 preschools that were not build should be rephrased as 10 madrassas not built. Which is not nescessarily a bad thing

Posted by: Yo! at May 29, 2015 04:04 PM

You would deny the next Choom Boy an education?

Posted by: MrScribbler at May 29, 2015 04:11 PM (P8YHq)

101 But did the Czech bounce?

Every chance I could...

Posted by: Billy Jeff at May 29, 2015 04:11 PM (sWgE+)

102 You wanna know how much a scam that place is?

The hold music is Rick Astley!

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at May 29, 2015 04:11 PM (3ZtZW)

103 It's like a game of hearts: Everyone passes 500k to the left, then to the right, then across, and whoever ends up with the Queen of Spades has to scissor with Hillary.

Posted by: bergerbilder at May 29, 2015 04:11 PM (+jijM)

104
*not* sure I understand.

Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (IPzoI)

105 We have our differences, sure, but Hillary Clinton is as fine a person as you'd ever want to meet.

Posted by: El Gobernador Jeb Bush at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (8ZskC)

106 So the Maryland Miracle ticket depends upon which one likes being on top.
Posted by: Anna
--------------------------

What we need is a wrestling coach.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (F2IAQ)

107 drip, drip, drip, drip, right down in the rain gutter and out to the curb. I will dance in the street the day any of this matters.

Posted by: skip at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (7L9rc)

108 Isn't it interesting how charities can't get donations unless they offer Bellini cocktails, orange carpets and fancy dinners at chic chic locations.

Yet a single individual online helped raise $850,000 for a pizza shop that was threatened with closure and personal harm in three days.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (JaIou)

109 I really doubt the media is going after Hillary. They love all those charity parties with Hollywood in attendance.

The Democrats Re running Hillary there is no sect from that.

You may wonder what is the attraction?

Well dirty little secret Liberals hate you, and they want to shiv you with Hillary because --you hate her.

That's where her "power " has always been.

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (RJMhd)

110 *opens concession stand selling 55 gallon drums of brain bleach*

Price? $20,000/barrel.

Thanks Bergerbilder for the business opportunity.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:13 PM (rLsb7)

111 There is a special place in hell for this clan of grifters.

It's called Washington, D.C.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 29, 2015 04:13 PM (W5DcG)

112 Oh if somebody could hack those accounts and clean them out.
But, of course, that would be.....terrible! Let me stress that...

Posted by: tu3031 at May 29, 2015 04:13 PM (YFFpo)

113 Yeah I'm sure I understand what the point was. Maybe Petra just isn't very bright bless her heart.

.....

Can you imagine how she must have felt when she received that invoice?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:13 PM (Lknv7)

114 Knowing Clinton he probably asked her up to his hotel room too.

Posted by: Ken at May 29, 2015 04:13 PM (LXJ1e)

115 Edit: the democrats are running Hillary there is no escape from that.

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 04:14 PM (RJMhd)

116 70 under a rick = under a rock
Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2015 04:02 PM (jBuUi)

That sounds like the title of a bad Walking Dead porn parody.

Posted by: wooga at May 29, 2015 04:14 PM (RqOd7)

117 And on the left, there will be precious few voices calling out the Clintons on this. Any depraved action is acceptable so long as the Herd of Independent Minds agenda is advanced.

We'll toss our cretins out of office and even into jail but the left? They put them on a pedastal.

Posted by: Sasquatch at May 29, 2015 04:14 PM (Orv1g)

118 The Obama wing of the party is play death by 1000 cuts. When the Clintons decide to start fighting back, go long on popcorn futures.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 29, 2015 04:14 PM (sWgE+)

119
THE CLINTON CRIME SYNDICATE MUST BE DISMANTLED!!

Fucking use RICO statutes if you have to, you can use RICO statutes for damn near everything.

Posted by: Kreplach at May 29, 2015 03:48 PM (kGXRK)

That would be nice, but I bet the Clintons have greased a *lot* of wheels over the course of their careers. They, and the rest of the rich Left, have it all in their pocket. So I would not look for them to be prosecuted for anything, they own far too many people.

How different is this from, say, Brazil's two-tiered society? Or Mexico? Or any number of other nations with actual literal social classes? What are we willing to do to not go any further down that road?

Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:14 PM (uDCdI)

120 But what about Dennis Hastert's gaaaaaafes...?

Posted by: The MSM at May 29, 2015 04:15 PM (I8YZX)

121 Clinton 2016 slogan:

"Vote For The Bad Girl"

Posted by: chemjeff at May 29, 2015 04:15 PM (2XMpf)

122 *ponders new bumper sticker*

Graft Hillary 2016

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:15 PM (rLsb7)

123 David Burge had it perfect:

Ford Foundation: gives away Henry Ford's money.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: gives away Bill Gate's money.

The Clinton Foundation: give the Clintons money.

Posted by: chiefjaybob at May 29, 2015 04:16 PM (4CBaM)

124 I don't understand rich people charity. I guess for them its all about being seen giving to some cause rather than actually supporting the cause.

Personally if I support some cause they are getting a check but I prefer to lurk on the ONT or read a book than spend my time as well and not know how much of my dough is being taken off the top to pay for the *fundraiser* and I don't like buying junk products either.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2015 04:16 PM (dkExz)

125 "Hillary! Because, Never Indicted!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:16 PM (F2IAQ)

126 We have our differences, sure, but Hillary Clinton is as fine a person as you'd ever want to meet.
Posted by: El Gobernador Jeb Bush at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (8ZskC)

Jeb should not get anywhere near the nominaton, if only for this reason.

Although I suspect it's not going to be him, anyway.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 29, 2015 04:16 PM (shFKH)

127 95 These people are the lowest of the lowest lowlives. They make pond scum look attractive and desirable.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 29, 2015 04:10 PM (shFKH)

Ah chique you must use my slogan. They are worse than the stuff I have to wipe off the bottom of my shoes after walking through a pig farm.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at May 29, 2015 04:17 PM (GpgJl)

128
if only the model was ten years younger she could have got bill to speak for 250,000

Posted by: flawless male logic at May 29, 2015 04:17 PM (lKyWE)

129 >>>After he left office, I thought Bill Clinton would slink away back under a rick,

Posted by: zombie at May 29, 2015 04:02 PM (jBuUi)
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No wonder my seat feels so warm! Now Bill, go on, get out from there! You slink off now.

Posted by: Rick Santorum at May 29, 2015 04:18 PM (F1Z8f)

130 How about a mud wrestling match, but mix in some Portland cement in the with mud.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:18 PM (rLsb7)

131 124 I don't understand rich people charity. I guess for them its all about being seen giving to some cause rather than actually supporting the cause.
Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2015 04:16 PM (dkExz)

You got it.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 29, 2015 04:18 PM (shFKH)

132 "Hillary! Because, Never Indicted!"

or: "Hillary: No Convictions."

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 29, 2015 04:19 PM (I8YZX)

133 PaleRider, Christ had something to say a few times about those who make a show of giving charity

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:19 PM (rLsb7)

134 Jen the original

EXACTLY!!!!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 29, 2015 04:19 PM (6IW2/)

135 108 Isn't it interesting how charities can't get donations unless they offer Bellini cocktails, orange carpets and fancy dinners at chic chic locations.

Yet a single individual online helped raise $850,000 for a pizza shop that was threatened with closure and personal harm in three days

....

Jen, you're just so darn cute. That's the conservative version of being part of something trendy. Once the cool wears off, the adrenaline dies down, then nothing.

I'm happy for the owners of the pizza shop, but they were the hot item at the moment. At the very same time, others were trying to raise money for the elderly florist who actually fought in court, and lost, yet *the moment* had passed and folks, including me, resorted to what amounted to begging to get her to just $80k.

Don't think for a second that we on the right don't subscribe to some of the same bullshit behavior as on the left.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:20 PM (Lknv7)

136 So... the question remains: we are hearing about all this stuff... why?

And why now?

My guess all along has been this is the Obama people, cutting off the Clintons before the election season heats up, but who knows. In a convoluted way, it could be the Clintons themselves, trying to prematurely erupt their scandals before the primaries actually start, so as to reduce their impact, and take the ammo away from their enemies.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 29, 2015 04:20 PM (TOk1P)

137 To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Petra Nemcova, a Czech model who survived the disaster by clinging to a palm tree

See this? This is why the upgrade to full platinum level AoS membership privileges is worthwhile. Pics, plus her first sex tape.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at May 29, 2015 04:20 PM (xQX/f)

138 I really really hate these people.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (2Ojst)

139 Nothing will happen because..... Democrat...

Posted by: donna at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (Bn6aD)

140 Honestly, we're pleased as punch that nobody is asking why we were able to actually afford, well, you know......all the fancy-shmancy shit besides Wild Bill, and how that was supposed to help the 2004 Tsunami victims or get school buildings built.

Posted by: Happy Hearts Fund at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (sCHw2)

141
I guess for them its all about being seen giving to some cause rather than actually supporting the cause.

of course it is you don't think they actually want to rub elbows with the unwashed wretches? that would actually be charity

Posted by: flawless male logic at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (lKyWE)

142 if only the model was ten years younger she could have got bill to speak for 250,000

Posted by: flawless male logic at May 29, 2015 04:17 PM (lKyWE)

If she were twenty years younger and 60 pounds heavier she would have gotten a cigar out of the deal.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (nFdGS)

143 "Hillary! Because, Never Indicted!"
Posted by: OregonMuse at May 29, 2015 04:19 PM (I8YZX)

As Jonah Goldberg wrote on NRO today, this is basically what the Clinton defenders are saying when they claim there's no "smoking gun."

But the corpses are littered all over, and suspiciously, the Clintons are the only people who were near every one of the victims at the moment they died. But no worries, no smoking gun has been found.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (shFKH)

144
I bet a guy like Mel Gibson's given a lot to charity and no-one even knows.

Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (IPzoI)

145 PaleRider, Christ had something to say a few times about those who make a show of giving charity
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:19 PM (rLsb7)

Truth. Meanwhile other people just go to Africa or Honduras or wherever and get things done.

Posted by: Lea at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (lIU4e)

146 They are worse than the stuff I have to wipe off the bottom of my shoes after walking through a pig farm.
Posted by: Vic
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Yeah..., pretty bad. Still, I've had to hike through a soggy sheep meadow filled with sheep shit. I threw away the boots. Ovine, or porcine, take your pick.

I only relate this this because it is one of the few chances I've had to legitimately make use of alliteration.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:22 PM (F2IAQ)

147 *cackles drily with glee* This is great name-recognition stuff that will only get people to vote for me!! And, NO, I don't mean Shrillary.

Posted by: Shrillary's Vagina at May 29, 2015 04:22 PM (sCHw2)

148 et *the moment* had passed and folks, including me, resorted to what amounted to begging to get her to just $80k.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:20 PM (Lknv7)

I thought GoFundMe shut down those collections?

Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (uDCdI)

149
I remember back when a lot of celebs were getting trashed for their unreasonable and expensive demands from charities. I guess it's okay now....

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (iQIUe)

150 I know this is OT/ but WTF is wrong with Rand Paul? Isn't He supposed to go after the Dems not the Reps?

Posted by: donna at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (Bn6aD)

151 LIB can't happen soon enough for me. Couldn't be more fed up with this horsesh!t.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (nqiq9)

152 I thought GoFundMe shut down those collections?
Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (uDCdI)

Yes, they did.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (2Ojst)

153 "130 How about a mud wrestling match, but mix in some Portland cement in the with mud."

Only if the mud wrestling match involves Hillary and Bill as contestants.

Petra? Having wrestled in high school, I would volunteer to show her the moves that Hastert may have used. ("This, Petra, is the reverse double grapevine...");

Posted by: Sasquatch at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (Orv1g)

154 >>>> "Hillary! Because, Never Indicted!"

Less interesting than a Ham Sammich to a DA

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at May 29, 2015 04:24 PM (3ZtZW)

155 But the corpses are littered all over, and suspiciously, the Clintons are the only people who were near every one of the victims at the moment they died. But no worries, no smoking gun has been found.
Posted by: chique
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No controlling legal authority!

Posted by: Al Gore at May 29, 2015 04:24 PM (F2IAQ)

156 Speaking of Tsunami's I have to take a leak. Where can I send it to be sure the EPA can control it properly.

Posted by: flounder at May 29, 2015 04:24 PM (ecDRv)

157 144
I bet a guy like Mel Gibson's given a lot to charity and no-one even knows.
Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:21 PM (IPzoI)

He paid for that Mermaid girl's surgery among other things. I don't think he was happy the word got out.

Posted by: Iblis at May 29, 2015 04:24 PM (9221z)

158 I thought GoFundMe shut down those collections?
Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (uDCdI)

Yes, they did.
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Because 'liberal'.

Posted by: Al Gore at May 29, 2015 04:25 PM (F2IAQ)

159 these grifters are going to spoil the whole non profit scam

Posted by: X at May 29, 2015 04:25 PM (xGNLA)

160 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:20 PM (Lknv7)

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Complete bull. You're equating the fact that charitable people, including conservatives only have finite resources and must practice charitable "triage", with the fact that these fraudsters used a charity as a front for bribery. That's despicable bullshit.

Posted by: Rick Santorum at May 29, 2015 04:25 PM (F1Z8f)

161
Yes, they did.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (2Ojst)

That's what I thought, because I do remember that the florist's fund was being pushed on here too.

Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:25 PM (uDCdI)

162 I thought the florist lady got over 100K and raised her goal before gofarkme dropped her and had already dropped the bakery gal that also got some spillover attention. I don't think either of them got mentioned on a TV show and that is why they didn't get the huge cash the pizza place did.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 29, 2015 04:26 PM (dkExz)

163 For a brain cleanser and some hope that there are still decent people who have been leaders in our government, please read the following link in regards to the actual work being accomplished by Laura Bush by her Women's Initiative foundation.

http://www.bushcenter.org/people/laura-bush

Posted by: Jen the original at May 29, 2015 04:28 PM (JaIou)

164 >>> these grifters are going to spoil the whole non profit scam

Dunno bout that. Maybe it'll all become like a reverse Patronage deal where the non-profits adopt politicians to front for them time to time in exchange for the graft cover.

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at May 29, 2015 04:28 PM (3ZtZW)

165 I thought GoFundMe shut down those collections?
Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:23 PM (uDCdI)

Yes, the GoFundMe site administrators invented a new rule on the spur of the moment and used it ex post facto to shut down the Arlene's Flowers legal defense project.

Posted by: OregonMuse at May 29, 2015 04:28 PM (I8YZX)

166 Hillary! Because They Hate Her!

Posted by: Bumper sticker at May 29, 2015 04:28 PM (RJMhd)

167 The first word of the post says it all.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 29, 2015 04:28 PM (nqiq9)

168 A ?

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (3ZtZW)

169 GoFundM(yLiberalCaus)e

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (shFKH)

170 What up, Mr. Ace? Your greefta ex-preziden steal from our earthquake funds and we do not see zee dime!

Posted by: Haitians Eating Dirt Cookies at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (zdw2Z)

171 Leave the Clintons alone. They are a legitimate 503-C1 organization!

Posted by: Media Matters, a 503-C1 organization at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (F2IAQ)

172 Sometimes building a mountain of charity starts with digging a $500,000 hole.

Posted by: Dang at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (XWo4d)

173 quid pro quo

Come on. Why so cynical? We at the foundation prefer to think of it as an attention getter.

Posted by: Charming Billy at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (IN7k+)

174 Clinton doesn't have an altruistic bone in his body, but he is perfectly willing to stick his bone in someone's body altruisticly.

Posted by: no good deed at May 29, 2015 04:31 PM (GgxVX)

175 170 What up, Mr. Ace? Your greefta ex-preziden steal from our earthquake funds and we do not see zee dime!
Posted by: Haitians Eating Dirt Cookies at May 29, 2015 04:29 PM (zdw2Z)

Jar-Jar? I thought we killed you with fire.

Posted by: The world at May 29, 2015 04:31 PM (vgIRn)

176 I ain't no ways tarred of griftin' me some graft.

Posted by: Hillary at May 29, 2015 04:31 PM (ecDRv)

177 I have never given $ to be part of a trend... I've given it because I felt the cause was good and I wanted too.

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 29, 2015 04:31 PM (e/33/)

178 Well he does do his business at BofA..
So I guess BofA is not worth a look at also..

Posted by: Dream Weaver Worm this!! at May 29, 2015 04:32 PM (/WmRg)

179
Carlos Slim is worth $77 BILLION dollars. Suck on that, morons.

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at May 29, 2015 04:33 PM (iQIUe)

180 Srsly tho after reading about a lot of charities, who wants to give them anything at all?

I just throw old clothes at Goodwill and call it good, mostly.

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at May 29, 2015 04:33 PM (3ZtZW)

181 So btw NDH, nice of you to get that dig in on us. Real nice.

Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 04:33 PM (uDCdI)

182 I have never given $ to be part of a trend... I've given it because I felt the cause was good and I wanted too.
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Hmm. The basis of most of my dates as a younger man. But I digress....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:33 PM (F2IAQ)

183 repose from the Clinton crap. KITTY PIC!!!

http://tinyurl.com/pvwuvpz

Posted by: wrg500 at May 29, 2015 04:34 PM (sWgE+)

184 Clinton? Clinton who? Look over there ..... Hastert!!!

Posted by: donna at May 29, 2015 04:34 PM (Bn6aD)

185 I am assuming the media will be right on this. Right after they get t done asking every democratic office holder if they agree with Bernie Sanders belief that women have fantasies about being ganged raped.

What....oh, yes....I did start drinking at 10:00 a.m......why do you ask?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at May 29, 2015 04:34 PM (/HC6x)

186 I am assuming the media will be right on this. Right after they get t done asking every democratic office holder if they agree with Bernie Sanders belief that women have fantasies about being ganged raped.

What....oh, yes....I did start drinking at 10:00 a.m......why do you ask?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at May 29, 2015 04:34 PM (/HC6x)

187 Srsly tho after reading about a lot of charities, who wants to give them anything at all?
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Me. But they are largely local, and I monitor their actions and accounting like a hawk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (F2IAQ)

188 Mike Hammer... lol

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (6IW2/)

189 There is no one out there who can do anything about the Clintons and their corruption.

Deal with it.

They are untouchable.

Posted by: eman at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (HS97c)

190 189 There is no one out there who can do anything about the Clintons and their corruption.

Deal with it.

They are untouchable.

Sadly I have to agree...

Posted by: donna at May 29, 2015 04:36 PM (Bn6aD)

191 I have never given $ to be part of a trend... I've given it because I felt the cause was good and I wanted too.
Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 29, 2015 04:31 PM (e/33/)

Same here. I send my finite resources to where I think it will do the most good and to organizations who reflect my own values in their mission statement.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 29, 2015 04:36 PM (JaIou)

192 "Pardon me?"

"Sure I can, but it'll cost you..."

Posted by: Keith Arnold at May 29, 2015 04:36 PM (iIzG7)

193 A special place in hell? Does this mean Ace has converted from atheism?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (RXf63)

194 They are untouchable.

Posted by: eman at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (HS97c)

By human hands. But that girl karma she's a real bitch I hear.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (sWgE+)

195 Posted by: eman at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (HS97c)

So it would seem.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (nqiq9)

196 Carlos Slim is worth $77 BILLION dollars. Suck on that, morons.
Posted by: Bruce with a Wang!

So basically, he can fund New York Times propaganda virtually.....forever.

The NY Times is bullet proof.

Posted by: Bossy Conservative....lost in America at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (RFeQD)

197 There are plenty of charities with integrity, but do your homework.

Posted by: Feh at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (S+RBU)

198 189
There is no one out there who can do anything about the Clintons and their corruption.

Deal with it.

They are untouchable.

Posted by: eman at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (HS97c)

Soon!

Posted by: Grim Reaper at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (ecDRv)

199 Jen... Me too

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 29, 2015 04:37 PM (6IW2/)

200 Complete bull. You're equating the fact that charitable people, including conservatives only have finite resources and must practice charitable "triage", with the fact that these fraudsters used a charity as a front for bribery. That's despicable bullshit.

....

Try again. The comment to which I was responding was about how people need something special, like a Belini, to give to charity. For some, it's the thrill of being 'in' on something.

It was not about drawing parallels to the Clintons' behavior and the fact that you went there just shows that you're happy to be pissed off and lashing out, regardless of whether you're correct or not, and without regard for whom your anger is targeted.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:38 PM (Lknv7)

201 By human hands. But that girl karma she's a real bitch I hear.
Posted by: wrg500
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heh.

Posted by: Hairy Reed's Rubber Band at May 29, 2015 04:38 PM (F2IAQ)

202 "and what does that have to do with campaign finance?"

Well, you'd have to ask Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, John Kasich, and Mike Huckabee (to list just the Republicans).

People run for President to rake in money and get free travel, food, and "interns". Only a few, and none of the above, are actually running for President in the hopes of actually becoming President.

Posted by: OCBill at May 29, 2015 04:38 PM (cPg42)

203 Nobody is untouchable. The Clintons will have their ride, and it will come to an end.

Posted by: Feh at May 29, 2015 04:38 PM (S+RBU)

204 Their finances are complicated, and you have no proof. So there!

Posted by: Matt Bai at May 29, 2015 04:38 PM (1li1B)

205 "the New York Times' resident Goof Nicholas Kristof claimed that we
shouldn't blame the Clintons for the "charity" greed -- we should blame
the campaign finance system."

That lying son of a bitch Johnson.

Posted by: Sturt at May 29, 2015 04:39 PM (my2h4)

206 I looked up charities to see where money was best donated..... Salvation army, St. Judes Childrens Hospital are two of the best... The worst.... red Cross and Goodwill....

Posted by: donna at May 29, 2015 04:39 PM (Bn6aD)

207
177 I have never given $ to be part of a trend... I've given it because I felt the cause was good and I wanted too.

....

Good people don't.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:39 PM (Lknv7)

208 A longer digest at Business Insider-- which notes it is "extremely rare" for one charity to pay money to another so-called "charity."

I don't know ace. from what I've seen, a large part of many charity's charitable giving is to other charitys. those 6 figure paychecks aren't going to write themselves.

Posted by: X at May 29, 2015 04:39 PM (xGNLA)

209 People run for President to rake in money and get free travel, food, and "interns".

I will concur with that.

Posted by: Da Reverend Al Sharpton at May 29, 2015 04:39 PM (YFFpo)

210 without regard for whom your anger is targeted.
Posted by: Niedermeyer
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Dammit. There goes my excuse for free-range ranting.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:39 PM (F2IAQ)

211 This "Charity" is about personal enrichment -- and what the fuck does that have to do with campaign finance?

It's my campaign for the American people!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 29, 2015 04:40 PM (W5DcG)

212 I have never given money for a trend. Now by court order....well....that is a different story.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at May 29, 2015 04:40 PM (/HC6x)

213
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Me. But they are largely local, and I monitor their actions and accounting like a hawk.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:35 PM (F2IAQ)

Ahh Studebaker Hawk

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at May 29, 2015 04:40 PM (RXf63)

214 Fly in Sheryl Crow for twenty minutes?

That should be your first tip-off.

I might've paid for twenty minutes with Sheryl Crow back in the day.

Posted by: Feh at May 29, 2015 04:41 PM (S+RBU)

215 Hillary sold her office---Mark Levin.

These grifters are protected by other professional politicians. Until they are run out on a rail tared and feathered they will continue. Politicians are more greedy than smart so the lesson may require reapplication from time to time.

Posted by: just saying at May 29, 2015 04:42 PM (wkuqO)

216 203 Nobody is untouchable. The Clintons will have their ride, and it will come to an end.
Posted by: Feh at May 29, 2015 04:38

My aren't we optimistic

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at May 29, 2015 04:42 PM (RXf63)

217 I might've paid for twenty minutes with Sheryl Crow back in the day.

Posted by: Feh at May 29, 2015 04:41 PM (S+RBU)

Yeah. Before the 1 square of toilet paper revelation.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 29, 2015 04:42 PM (nqiq9)

218 I do not know which personal fiefdom to give to.
Technocratic imbeciles, or hillbillies with manufactured title?

Seems like a Euro Theatre. There is never a Pendragon around when you need one.

Posted by: first and last at May 29, 2015 04:43 PM (o/3Hk)

219 183 repose from the Clinton crap. KITTY PIC!!!

http://tinyurl.com/pvwuvpz

Posted by: wrg500 at May 29, 2015 04:34 PM (sWgE+)

Get. Help.

Posted by: rickl at May 29, 2015 04:43 PM (zoehZ)

220 181 So btw NDH, nice of you to get that dig in on us. Real nice.

....

Oh how I despise the victim card.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:43 PM (Lknv7)

221 Get. Help.

Posted by: rickl at May 29, 2015 04:43 PM (zoehZ)

You ACTUALLY clicked on that?

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 29, 2015 04:44 PM (nqiq9)

222 Ahh Studebaker Hawk
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Golden Hawk, if you please....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:44 PM (F2IAQ)

223 109 I really doubt the media is going after Hillary. They love all those charity parties with Hollywood in attendance.

But Hollywood will flock to any Dem that wins the nomination. You could run Biden or a box of Kleenex or Biden's box of Kleenex (used) on the D ticket and Hollywood would still go the the charity parties in Hollywood because GOP = evil.

It's entirely tribal identification at this point. Well, I suppose unless Hill went temporarily insane and said she was pro-life and against amnesty or something like that - something which would never happen.

Posted by: Donna &&&&&& V. (brandishing ampersands) at May 29, 2015 04:44 PM (+XMAD)

224 One square... I thought that was Jennifer Anniston's squatting name?

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 04:45 PM (RJMhd)

225 I thought that these two were Back Woods Arkansas litte-time grifters. I was wrong. This is world class.

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 29, 2015 04:46 PM (XMX7O)

226 Donna absolutely correct.

It's part of their identity at this point.

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 04:47 PM (RJMhd)

227 We know Democrats will vote for a ham sandwich.

We know a grand jury will indict one.

Let's just pray they're one and the same lunch.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor at May 29, 2015 04:47 PM (o+SC1)

228 220 181 So btw NDH, nice of you to get that dig in on us. Real nice.

....

Oh how I despise the victim card.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29

A weak Hector impersonation not worth it NDH

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at May 29, 2015 04:47 PM (RXf63)

229 What about all the money Bush scammed while leaving office? You people make me sick for blaming everything on Presdent Cliton and Presdent Oblama. Get a life losers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 29, 2015 04:49 PM (lNSdJ)

230 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Golden Hawk, if you please....
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:44 PM (F2IAQ)

Me. G. Hawk it is then

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at May 29, 2015 04:49 PM (RXf63)

231 The Clinton Foundations, the gift that keeps taking.
Can't wait until Bibi decides to release all those emails in drip fashion as a giant F U to the Democrats.
What a joke..

Posted by: standfast24 at May 29, 2015 04:50 PM (wx/BY)

232 Mary Gloggenstein sounds pretty hot.

Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:50 PM (IPzoI)

233 Didn't the MOFO Bill just say, "he had to pay the bills?"

Posted by: Seems Legit at May 29, 2015 04:50 PM (A98Xu)

234 216 203 Nobody is untouchable. The Clintons will have their ride, and it will come to an end.
Posted by: Feh at May 29, 2015 04:38

My aren't we optimistic
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, at May 29, 2015 04:42 PM (RXf63)

Like um totally!

Posted by: Caroline Kennedy US ambassador to Japan at May 29, 2015 04:51 PM (z/Ubi)

235 Moral and political corruption are resume enhancers for Democrats.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 29, 2015 04:51 PM (F2IAQ)

236 Hillary has become an archetype for them it's about the best that I can describe it and they want to jam her in as President come hell or high water because of what she represents.

Joan of Arc against the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, it is something like that.

Posted by: River Guide at May 29, 2015 04:52 PM (RJMhd)

237
Moral and political corruption are resume enhancers for Democrats.

Mobsters are heroes to them.

Posted by: eleven at May 29, 2015 04:52 PM (IPzoI)

238
"Moral and political corruption are resume enhancers for Democrats."
Lets the other ones know they are serious players.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 29, 2015 04:52 PM (m3iiU)

239 With all that ill-gotten money, one would think Hillary coulld afford a better grade of body and putty repair guy

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 29, 2015 04:53 PM (rLsb7)

240 Why haven't you called me, Mary?

Posted by: Bernie "X" at May 29, 2015 04:54 PM (YFFpo)

241 Lotta passive aggression and bitchiness on this thread...

Posted by: Insomniac at May 29, 2015 04:54 PM (2Ojst)

242 Like um totally!
Posted by: Caroline Kennedy US ambassador to Japan
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Well..., no, I don't speak Spanish. No, I've never been there, but, so what?

Posted by: Noah Bryson Mamet, Obama Bundler, Ambassador to Argentina at May 29, 2015 04:54 PM (F2IAQ)

243 Nobody is untouchable. The Clintons will have their ride, and it will come to an end.
Posted by: Feh

My aren't we optimistic
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

JFK, Bobby, and John John thought they were.

Posted by: rickb223 Straight, Conservative Clinger at May 29, 2015 04:55 PM (nkjQe)

244 I bet a guy like Mel Gibson's given a lot to charity and no-one even knows.

Mr. Gibson is an esteemed member of our Platinum Circle of Contributors.

Posted by: The National Sugartits Research Foundation at May 29, 2015 04:55 PM (8ZskC)

245 This "Charity" is about personal enrichment -- and what the fuck does that have to do with campaign finance?

Or charity? That's the infuriating thing; this is so blatant and obvious. It's a slush fund for Clinton & friends. First class travel, 5 star hotels, etc. Throw a few $ at Haiti and it's all good.

As noted by chique d'afrique in 143, point all this out and the best they can come up with is "no smoking gun." Right. But plenty of other evidence without a smoking gun which proves these people are corrupt to the core.

Posted by: duke at May 29, 2015 04:55 PM (ChY2Q)

246 Why haven't you called me, Mary?
Posted by: Bernie "X*****Why would she call you Mary?

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at May 29, 2015 04:55 PM (m3iiU)

247 I once killed a man in the Bronx with my bare hands.

Posted by: Nicholas Kristof at May 29, 2015 04:56 PM (oFCZn)

248 Personal enrichment -- and what the fuck does that have to do with campaign finance?

No, I DO have a legitimate chance to be elected.
No ulterior motives here.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at May 29, 2015 04:56 PM (jfUIE)

249 nood pod people

Posted by: The National Sugartits Research Foundation at May 29, 2015 04:56 PM (8ZskC)

250
A weak Hector impersonation not worth it NDH

....

True. Dangit.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 04:56 PM (Lknv7)

251 As noted by chique d'afrique in 143, point all this out and the best they can come up with is "no smoking gun."

Could we rephrase that please?

Posted by: The Ghost of Vince Foster at May 29, 2015 04:57 PM (YFFpo)

252 The tree of liberty would drown in the blood of the number of tyrants around the West....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at May 29, 2015 04:58 PM (AC0lD)

253 notes it is "extremely rare" for one charity to pay money to another so-called "charity."

First thing that came to mind when reading the NYT piece. Wonder how often this has happened with other "charities" gifting money to the Clintons, and for what? The only legitimate thing I can think of is garnering more attention by having a living US President at the event. But then again that's assuming that "charities" are actually charities instead of slush funds for politically-connected millionaires the world over. So many ways the globalist elite can fuck everyone over; "charitable giving" is just another.

I remember the university I attended in Canada chose the Salvation Army over the Red Cross for donations to some natural disaster (forget which it was) even though some loud minority of students/faculty bitched about giving donations to a Christian charity. (because "bigots" or something obviously). The reason for choosing the Salvation Army was supposedly the Salvation Army distributes money to actual victims and the needy while a greater percentage of donations to the Red Cross end up going to fund its bureaucracy, six-figure salaried employees and I'm sure some swank real estate for corporate meetings and vacations.

Posted by: Jordan at May 29, 2015 04:58 PM (jsYc/)

254 Lots of charities like to try to put on the big show, if you've got the right schmoozers at the top you can get all or most of the pretty shiny stuff donated and you get some folks with deep pockets to show up and you pour a little bit of high-end whiskey in them and...whee, that thing I just bought in the auction's for $25K is gonna look great on the wall, ain't it hon?

Return on investment.

Hell, my daughter's public school's last fundraiser - they served pizza, and no alcohol - shook an astronomical sum out of parents' pockets, a few shots of Scotch and it'd have hit six figures.

This woman made a bad investment in Bill, that's all.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor at May 29, 2015 04:58 PM (o+SC1)

255 The National Sugartits Research Foundation

Now that's funny right there. LOL

Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at May 29, 2015 04:59 PM (XMX7O)

256 This is now Willow Country.

Posted by: The Devoceleraptor at May 29, 2015 04:59 PM (o+SC1)

257 252
The tree of liberty would drown in the blood of the number of tyrants around the West....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at May 29, 2015 04:58 PM (AC0lD)

But I'm so malnourished. (scratchy/thirsty tree voice).

Posted by: Tree of Liberty at May 29, 2015 05:00 PM (jsYc/)

258 Fuck him
Fuck her
Fuck all of them
Fuck especially that one!

Posted by: The Fuck That Cat at May 29, 2015 05:02 PM (JOG+K)

259 Friendly reminder:

The old Tree of Liberty schtick got banhammered a while back.

Posted by: Moderate Salami at May 29, 2015 05:07 PM (/Ho8c)

260
Hate to break it to you - a vast majorityof charities are scams. Many use the majorityof the money they raise...to raise money. Others waste 60 to 80% on overhead and travel.

Lots of environmental charities are scams, basically collecting money to pay themselves to do studies. Ever notice that United Way hires an enormous number of ex-football players? Also that their "charity" is to collect your money, then dole it out to the charities of their choice? taking a hefty cut of the money in the process? Think about it.This is just a retirement program for ex-football players. Has been for years.

This could stop, if the charities were required by law to limit overhead and fundraising expenses to say...30%

Posted by: PT Barnum at May 29, 2015 05:09 PM (/EkKm)

261 Dang, late to the party.

But why not repeat it:

Bill Clinton took money from poor children in need of a school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 29, 2015 05:10 PM (q6kiT)

262 Nobody is untouchable. The Clintons will have their ride, and it will come to an end.

35 years from now, Chelsea's clump of cells is going to be shaking folks down for influence. Party like it's 1993.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at May 29, 2015 05:17 PM (ZKzrr)

263 Well, at least he didn't rape her.

That we know about.

Posted by: PJ at May 29, 2015 05:18 PM (cHuNI)

264 259 Friendly reminder:

The old Tree of Liberty schtick got banhammered a while back.
....

Yes. Yes, it did.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29, 2015 05:19 PM (PMlgt)

265

When I think of Bill Clinton, I recall that George Washington was a president, too.

Posted by: mrp at May 29, 2015 05:27 PM (JBggj)

266 Oh how I despise the victim card.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 29

Say what? That was not being a victim, it was calling you out on your bullshit.

And thanks, MH for calling me a troll. Wtf.

Posted by: East Bay KG at May 29, 2015 05:30 PM (uDCdI)

267 The Tree Of Liberty was bulldozed to make room for a new Immigrant Center

Posted by: Mr Wizard at May 29, 2015 05:30 PM (eOpVe)

268 Ace the Clintons spend relatively little on themselves
They have real estate that they paid a total of 5 million for 10 years ago.
The money from the foundation doesn't go to them. Anytime EITHER wanted or needed money for themselves all they would have to do to get a fraction of a million is to do a one day speech and greet. They don't becaiuse neither really needs money to spend on themselves

Posted by: righter at May 29, 2015 05:31 PM (r6HrP)

269 >>>
229
What about all the money Bush scammed while leaving office? You people
make me sick for blaming everything on Presdent Cliton and Presdent
Oblama. Get a life losers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at May 29, 2015 04:49 PM (lNSdJ)<<<

You know, Mary dear, you and I ought's to meet; what do you say? We could do girly-girl things like talk hair, put lip-gloss on each other, what your fave electrical appliances are.......

Posted by: Shrillary's Vagina at May 29, 2015 05:33 PM (sCHw2)

270 It's funny/depressing how trapped even most of the "conservative" commentariat is in the idiot marinade (the incredibly clueless, alien, smug, pro-authoritarian, anti-American, historically/economically illiterate, morally inverted, often bigoted menagerie of "news" people and the "marinade" they produce and in which most Americans soak).

Kristoff has long penned jaw-droppingly stupid stuff that only "educated", insular, smug, NYC/Beltway elite types could possibly think. In this episode he reaches new highs/lows. Yet you can hear him deferentially interviewed by the likes of Hewitt, between friendly chats with Beltway lightweight partisan cretins from the WaPo or Politico.

Just an aside. But the idiot marinade has ruined the country, as far as governance and citizenship go.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 29, 2015 05:33 PM (QDnY+)

271 Yep, he's just putting out whatever I told him to say about how those gazillionaire Clintons are #JustLikeYou , when they really ain't!

A+ for righter and a Well-Done!

Posted by: Righter's Prof at May 29, 2015 05:36 PM (sCHw2)

272 >>>270
It's funny/depressing how trapped even most of the "conservative"
commentariat is in the idiot marinade (the incredibly clueless, alien,
smug, pro-authoritarian, anti-American, historically/economically
illiterate, morally inverted, often bigoted menagerie of "news" people
and the "marinade" they produce and in which most Americans soak).<<<

But enough about Ed Morrissey, Hot Air and the National Review......

Posted by: Truth at May 29, 2015 05:38 PM (sCHw2)

273 Being a Democrat-liberal means never having to say you're sorry. You can be the biggest pig, and you can get away with it. Why? Oh, because the Republicans don't follow Alinsky's rule of making people live up to their own moral code. They don't call out the Clintons or any Dems for their hypocrisy and lies. Nope, they let them get away with it every single time.

And for the low information voter? Well, all they hear is that Hilary cares about women's issues. They don't hear any of the lies, scandals, or the disgusting hypocrisy that seems to be so characteristic of the Clintons. They are really low class people. Period. And, they may very well be right back in the White House again.

Ugh

Posted by: Mistress Overdone at May 29, 2015 05:38 PM (2/oBD)

274 Hillary's big accomplishment as Secretary of State was making big bucks for the Family.

Posted by: demoncrat at May 29, 2015 05:58 PM (RF++Q)

275 Defrauding Indonesian preschoolers. You couldn't make up something that would reflect more badly on them.

Huh. No wonder Obama hates 'em so much, they dissed his homies.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12 at May 29, 2015 03:53 PM (DT3rQ)

Indonesian preschoolers? You mean like Barack Obama, once?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2015 06:22 PM (mwzXN)

276 We have our differences, sure, but Hillary Clinton is as fine a person as you'd ever want to meet.

Posted by: El Gobernador Jeb Bush at May 29, 2015 04:12 PM (8ZskC)

She's so fine, she could ooze through an 80-mesh sieve.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 29, 2015 06:29 PM (mwzXN)

277 Ace the Clintons spend relatively little on themselves

The family has lots of buffers.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 29, 2015 06:35 PM (rwI+c)

278 The Genco Olive Oil Company d/b/a the Clinton Foundation.

Posted by: cactusjack at May 29, 2015 06:36 PM (1P44c)

279 I do think at a certain point you've shaken down enough money.

Posted by: venus velvet at May 29, 2015 07:10 PM (g94P/)

280 She should've changed her name to Kaitlyn to be more consistent with the rest of the family. She hotter than Kim now.

Posted by: Kanye West-Jenner at June 02, 2015 05:49 PM (F1Z8f)

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