Hit Job: A Closer Look at the WSJ’s Clueless Attack on the Clinton Foundation
So many are just too eager to hit on anything Clinton!
Another Hillary Hit Job: A Closer Look at the WSJ’s Clueless Attack on the Clinton Foundation
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Author David Callahan
Last year, I made the (obvious) prediction that scrutiny of the Clinton Foundation would pick up in 2016 as the election approached. Such scrutiny is well deserved. .......................
Yet other allegations about the Clinton Foundation have been almost comically clueless in their failure to understand modern philanthropy or how this unique outfit operates.
A new story published in the Wall Street Journal, by James Grimaldi, falls into the latter category. It alleges that the Clinton Foundation improperly aided a for-profit energy business founded by friends of Bill Clinton. The company, Energy Pioneer Solutions, describes its mission as building a “sustainable energy model that provides streamlined, turn-key solutions for both energy providers and American homeowners alike.” Among its ideas is finding new ways to insulate homes that don’t require big upfront outlays for homeowners. The founders of the company have various ties to Bill Clinton, both political and personal.
As part of the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, a $2 million investment was arranged with Energy Pioneer Solutions by Kim Samuel, a Canadian businessperson and philanthropist. Additionally, Bill Clinton recommended to Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, that the company receive a federal grant from the Energy Department, which it did.
Those are the facts of the case, as breathlessly reported in the Wall Street Journal, complete with a graphic laying out the web of relationships involved.
What’s your reaction to those facts? My own is: Good work, Bill! The former president and Clinton Foundation did a wise thing here—albeit without a keen enough eye toward how a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper might work with this material when Hillary made a White House run.
Finding new ways to finance sustainable energy solutions for homeowners has emerged as one of the most promising frontiers in clean energy in recent years. Most notably, solar panels have spread rapidly across rooftops as private companies have shouldered the cost of installing those panels, at no cost to homeowners. Bill Clinton clearly grasped the potential of this model back in 2010, before many other people did, and also grasped that it was critical to find new ways to finance home insulation and other efficiency steps so that homeowners didn’t have to shell out the money themselves.
While the WSJ’s Grimaldi writes darkly about the Clinton Foundation arranging support for a for-profit business, this is an .............................
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Everything you do and everything you say - no matter what good it does in the world, how harmless and simple it may be, how utterly innocuous any set of three words are in context - everything twisted to fit a sick, rightwing, attack, fictional narrative for three decades!
And 'the left' falls for this crap because of the endless repetition by the M$M ("It must be true or they wouldn't report it!"
and the need for 'the left' to latch on to 'confirming their bias' against this particular candidate - for whatever personal reasons.
Hillary - and Bill - have made lifelong commitment to public service and making our world a better place that should be honored and respected.
Despite the endless sad bullshit aimed at them the entire time.
The link ends with what we should consider a sad note regarding good people in this world. Even if it's your ex-president husband managing the philanthropy!
trying to bring in the facts, as usual! 
It is such an uphill battle - especially when there is a determined Fifth Column on DU that is every bit as determined to smear Hillary constantly and bring the RW slurs to us here. Thanks for your true grit in getting the truth out there! 
Good points--all!
