(video) BRIAN ROSS: "Senator Clinton would not even say if she recalled meeting Peter Paul"

(video) BRIAN ROSS: "Senator Clinton would not even say if she recalled meeting Peter Paul"

In 2001, Brian Ross did a 20/20 show about the Hollywood Gala Salute to President Willam Jefferson Clinton. Unfortunately, he only did part of the story.

Mark Halperin, in charge of the political unit at ABC News, was only several talk shows last year hyping his new book, THE WAY TO WIN: Taking the White House in 2008

Finally, Halperin admitted what we have known for many years --- the MSM is biased toward the libs and Dems. ADMITTING BIAS

Here an enlightening memo from Halperin to his ABC colleagues:
Halperin Memo Dated Friday October 8, 2004
It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave.
I do not want to set off (sp?) and endless colloquy that none of us have time for today - nor do I want to stifle one. Please respond if you feel you can advance the discussion.
The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman on the web both make the same point today: the current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done.
Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.
We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn’t mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides “equally” accountable when the facts don’t warrant that.
I’m sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage. This is all part of their efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions.
It’s up to Kerry to defend himself, of course. But as one of the few news organizations with the skill and strength to help voters evaluate what the candidates are saying to serve the public interest. Now is the time for all of us to step up and do that right.
--- end of memo ---

After hearing Halperin on the talk shows claim he was going to try to do better, I made several calls and sent emails to challenge him.

----- Original Message -----
From: Halperin, Mark
To: Doug *****
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:41 AM
Subject: RE: campaign finance fraud

My apologies. Your messages to my DC voicemail were not received until this weekend, because I don't check it that often from New York. And i saw no first email. This is a long undercovered story generally. I'm getting my unit and the investigative unit on it, and will be in touch. Thanks very much.

From: Doug ***** [mailto:**********************]
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 3:46 AM
To: Halperin, Mark
Subject: campaign finance fraud

Mark:
Four calls not returned and here is the second email. If you were serious with Michael Medved about unbiased news, this deserves to be reported before the election. We both know you would report this if it involved a Republican.

A few days ago, a letter was delivered to Hillary's senate office on behalf of Peter Paul. We have the delivery on video. The letter demanded $1,060,000 be returned to him as an illegal campaign contribution. That is not newsworthy? Were you just kidding Medved when you made your claims?

----- Original Message -----
From: Halperin, Mark
To: Doug *****
Cc: Davis, Teddy
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: campaign finance fraud

From: Doug ***** [mailto:************************]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:31 PM
To: Halperin, Mark
Subject: Re: campaign finance fraud

Thanks, Mark. Is there a better contact number for you? We will share extensive documents and home video with you. Comments from "Spider Man" Stan Lee should be interesting. He told me he was shocked when I informed him that he was listed in January as a 225K donor in the fourth amended FEC report. Now that he has been informed, he has the responsibility to correct the record.

This case is headed for court and will proceed once the Appellate Court decides whether to bring back Hillary as a defendant. People gave different accounts under oath during the David Rosen criminal trial. Someone committed perjury. That is going to be exposed.

AND FINALLY, ANOTHER FRIENDLY REMINDER WITH A TIMELINE AND EXTENSIVE LINKS TO MAKE HIS JOB EASIER. I also called and sent info to Brian Ross and his producer Anna Schecter.

----- Original Message -----
From: Halperin, Mark
To: DOUGLAS *****
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:08 AM
Subject: RE: the Clinton story you promised to do

From: DOUGLAS ***** [mailto:****************] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:08 AM
To: Halperin, Mark
Subject: the Clinton story you promised to do

Hi, Mark,
We spoke last year about the Hillary Clinton campaign finance fraud that continues to this day ---- 4 false FEC reports, $721K not declared, an FEC fine, and a failure to ever name the real donor.

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I guess it seems obvious that all Halperin wanted to do on talk radio was sell his book and pretend he had contrition. Things have not changed. The reporting is still biased, and he simply has no interest in doing reporting that can damage Hillary.

Peter Paul spent well over $1.6 million on Hillary's 2000 senate campaign because of Bill Clinton's promise to come aboard Stan Lee Media as a rainmaker for one year. It was the largest contribution from an individual in history. The Clintons repaid him by destroying his company.

Amazingly, in her declaration of 4-7-06, Hillary acts as if she barely knew Peter Paul and claimed she couldn't remember anything they might have said. Besides her comments at Spago about not using email because it could become evidence, Paul has video of her going on and on about how Stan Lee was a genius for hiring Paul. She is really excited about Paul's idea of a cartoon character of Al Gore, and she wants to talk to Tony Coehlo and Terry McAuliffe about it. Sure, Hillary, you were really jazzed but you can't remember anything. Her failure to remember is simply a lie. Peter's home videos and other testimony will expose her lies in court in Paul v Clinton. Los Angeles Superior Court will be a fun place to be later this year. I'll be reporting from the scene.

Has Rupert Murdoch Directed NewsCorp To Hide Hillary’s Campaign Finance Scandal?

THE OLD HILLARY IS BACK

This NY Post story today seems to corroborate what had been commentedÂ upon earlier when Fox News journalist Eric Shawn was taken off of the Paul v Clinton story prior to the Rosen trial in May, 2005. Shawn had done a series of six stories on Paul’s funding of Hillary’s largest fundraising event in Hollywood, and other activities Paul funded for Hillary in 2000 as part of a deal to hire Bill as a post White House rainmaker, when Shawn was suddenly taken off the story and effectively demoted to a talking head unable to choose his own stories or interveiw subjects.

Paul’s story was shuffled over to Sean Hannity who, after one interview with Paul, buried the story.

In Murdoch’s NY Post ’s story yesterday about “the Old Hillary” and her fundraising problems from 2000 coming back to haunt her, not one word was written about the only fund raising scandal in her campaign that caused her finance director to be indcited and tried for election law fraud, and six months later caused the only fine to be levied against her campaign committee when the FEC forced it to admit filing false reports hiding more than $800,000 contributed by Peter Paul.The news media has been unanimous in its silence on these inconvenient truths about Hillary dating from 2000-2006, and the significance of the only fraud and coercion suit against the Clintons that charge a then President and Senate candidate/Senator with conspiring to engage in a multimillion dollar business fraud to finance the Senator’s campaign while destroying a $150 million public company created by Spider Man creator Stan Lee!

But to recall Hillary’s 2000 campaign related finance issues without reference to the biggest camapign finance fraud ever reported by a donor- which was the biggest private concert ever produced in Hollywood that was also the biggest Gala for a US President in Hollywood demonstrates just how committed ALL media is to hiding the truth about Hillary.
February 16, 2007 — Hillary Rodham Clinton just picked up the influential endorsement of South Carolina State Sen. Derrell Jackson, who is also pastor of the state’s largest African-American church.

But, it seems, not exactly on the merits.

The Post’s Maggie Haberman reports that Jackson also runs a political consulting and PR firm, Sunrise Enterprises.

And, wouldn’t you know it, a scant six days before Jackson named Hillary as his choice for 2008, the Clinton campaign signed up Sunrise to a contract through the presidential election that could be worth at least $210,000.

Imagine that.

Both sides insist there’s no connection between the six-figure contract and the endorsement.

Indeed, says Jackson, three other Democratic candidates were negotiating a similar deal - and one even said he’d gladly double Hillary’s offer.

“Quite honestly, I’ve turned down more money from some of the other candidates,” said Jackson.

Give the fellow credit for candor, anyway. (Imagine Albany’s robber barons speaking truth to money like that.)

As for the Clintonites, they say that once Jackson decided to endorse her, “we jumped at the chance to make him part of the team and to cement that team and get him on board” by hiring his firm.

Does any of this sound familiar?

It should.

Bill Clinton (and partner Al Gore) gave America eight full years of fundraising abuses - going far beyond merely turning the White House into a Motel 6 for fat-cat contributors.

And Janet Reno, the most partisan attorney general on record, long refused to name a special prosecutor for most of those abuses. (Indeed, save for the end-of-term presidential pardons scandal, those sins remained well below the public radar.)

Now, it is true that Mrs. Clinton is her own person.

And visiting upon her the sins of the husband wouldn’t be fair - right?

Except that Hill and Bill were tighter up in New Hampshire last weekend than Marge and Homer Simpson - and that act’s not likely to end soon.

With the good, goes the baggage.

So to speak.

Besides, Hillary has had her own fundraising embarrassments. Back in 2000, she was caught using a public White House holiday party list to solicit cash for her Senate campaign - a possibly criminal act.

She later admitted “my error,” calling it an inadvertent “mix-up.”

The Clinton-Jackson deal, by the way, is all perfectly legal.

Odiferous, but legal.

But, just as Bill was never shy about such things, Hill shouldn’t be overly bashful, either.

After all, acquiring “endorsements” from folks like Derrell Jackson can be expensive - and it’s a long way to Election Day 2008.

So maybe the campaign - full in the Clinton tradition - could start selling chits good for overnights in the Lincoln Bedroom.

Or, as a surefire fund-raiser, it could auction coupons good for a presidential pardon - redeemable whenever circumstances warrant.

No doubt, Sen. Jackson would buy a couple.

One can’t be too careful, after all.

Sunday ~ February 02, 2007 by Peter PaulPosted in Hillary Clinton|

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