Hollywood hypocrisy

THE meteoric rise of the Clintons to the ranks of America’s wealthiest families has presented a challenge to Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions at a critical stage in the battle for the Democratic nomination.

The Clintons left the White House burdened by debt but have earned $109m (£55m) in the past eight years, putting them among the 14,500 richest families in the country and presenting a stark contrast to the impoverished families championed by her campaign.

Nearly half their income came from speeches given by Bill Clinton, often to companies that are big donors to his wife, raising ethical questions about the influence they were buying.

I remember an episode of the television series Designing Women in which one of the characters condemned Ronald Reagan for accepting a large fee for giving a speech in Japan. She was especially outraged by the fact that he and Nancy kept the money.

Designing Women was created, and many of the episodes were written by, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason who along with her husband Harry Thomason were and are hardcore left-liberals and close friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

If Ms. Bloodworth-Thomason was incandescent with rage at Ronald Reagan (who was in true retirement with failing health and had no family member currently serving or running for public office) for taking a reported seven figure fee for ten days of speeches and other events in Japan then she must be burning with the heat of a supernova over Bill Clinton raking in tens of millions while his wife is a sitting Senator and presidential candidate.

I anxiously await the press release in which the Thomasons denounce the naked greed and appearance (at the very least) of impropriety of taking so much money for doing so little in return from foreign governments and both foreign and domestic business interests who have, and will continue to have, business before the very government which his wife seeks to preside.

I'm waiting. . .


Still waiting. . .

[Crickets]