good Joe Conason opinion piece (HRC GROUP POST)

[OKNancy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/joe-conason-revving-old-anti-hillary-attack-machine-article-1.2182251



Revving up the old, sad anti-Hillary Clinton attack machine: A preview of what right-wingers might throw at her this time around

For Republicans, the strong likelihood that their presidential nominee will face a Democrat named Clinton is not a happy prospect — especially when that particular nominee could make history as America’s first female President. Which must be why they have been at work for many months already seeking every possible means to denigrate and demean Hillary Rodham Clinton.

When journalists warn that she is “polarizing,” a favorite cliché, what they mean is that we can expect a steady, increasingly vituperative barrage of insults, gossip and sensational headlines, with or without substance. What the Republican opposition research specialists haven’t determined yet is which topics resonate most powerfully against Clinton, one of the most durably popular political figures in the country.

But while voters will inevitably find themselves bombarded with negative memes about Clinton, they ought to pay close attention to what her adversaries aren’t saying as well.

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Coming attractions from the opposition research studios seem certain to feature the Clinton Foundation, which has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to pursue health, environmental, educational and civil society projects around the world. A significant portion of that money was raised abroad, from governments and individuals that support the foundation’s work — for very good reason.

Supported by that funding, for instance, the foundation’s assault on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in poor countries have improved and even saved millions of lives. Yes, a Saudi billionaire donated millions to provide anti-retroviral drugs to AIDS-afflicted Ethiopians, yet it seems morally dubious to argue that Bill Clinton ought to have refused his money and simply let those women and children die.
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More at the link.

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Of course the hit machine is not entirely a Republican project.

[leftofcool]

1. Watch the same old tired crap flung right here in DU.

[William769]

2. Where do you think they get their material?