Hillary Kept Hsu At Arms Length, Says the MSM.

The Anchoress isn’t surprised that ABC news would write a whole article on the Hsu and his problems and not once mention Hillary Clinton:

It’s one of those mysteries I never tire of pondering – this ABC News story doesn’t mention Hsu’s connections to Presidential Candidate Sen. Clinton at all. I imagine it would be just so, were Hsu connected to say, Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney, yes? Of course.

Think about that for a moment.  If this scandal had been tied to any of the candidates she mentioned the MSM would be in a uproar.  Front page articles would feature the story daily for weeks on end, conspiracy theories would run rampant.  The Republican candidate would be vilified.

But with Clinton we get a few articles about how bad Hsu was, and that no one could see it coming, he hid it so well.  You see the hypocrisy?

The NYT’s today:

Norman Hsu was desperate for invitations to glitzy Democratic Party galas in California and private political dinners in New York. But once he got in, Mr. Hsu, a 56-year-old apparel executive, seemed awkward and out of place, almost astonished to be posing for pictures with former President Bill Clinton, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name Democrats.

He gave generously, showering money on a wide array of national, state and local politicians. But he stood out in the symbiotic world of campaign finance because he appeared to want nothing in return other than a few powerful friends, according to Democratic fund-raisers in New York and California who knew him.

What those friends did not know, however, was that Mr. Hsu was running from a 15-year-old arrest warrant for a fraud conviction and a hidden past of bankruptcy. And his political donations helped to bolster his image as a man to do business with.

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Like the deep-pocketed gamblers who are the targets of Las Vegas casinos, Mr. Hsu was quickly recognized by dozens of Democratic campaigns as a soft-touch cash machine, and they tapped into his largesse without investigating the source of his wealth. Mr. Hsu was so eager to please that he was racing to become the first person to raise $1 million in contributions for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to three Clinton supporters who said they were told by Mr. Hsu of his goal. He nearly accomplished it, raising an astonishing $850,000 from 260 people in just six months.

“There came a point in the campaign when he could walk on water,” said John A. Catsimatidis, a New York businessman and top Clinton fund-raiser. “He spent money, he never said no. Very young fund-raising staffers would say, ‘Norman, we need $50,000,’ and he’d say, ‘I’ll do it.’ ”

Interviews last week with more than three dozen fund-raisers, donors, strategists and businesspeople who know Mr. Hsu sketch a portrait of a man who was simultaneously sought after and held at arm’s length, someone whose aggressive generosity was rivaled only by the opacity of his motivations. Campaigns and charities were only too willing to take his money, while at the same time harboring doubts about his background and behavior.

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Although Mr. Hsu has given to numerous Democrats, none benefited more than Mrs. Clinton, and no candidate has more aggressively severed ties with Mr. Hsu. Last week, the Clinton campaign announced it would return the $850,000 raised by Mr. Hsu, the largest sum to be returned by a presidential campaign. The Clinton campaign says it will now examine the background of its big fund-raisers more closely.

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His devotion to Mrs. Clinton was sometimes eye-popping. He threw a dinner party in Mrs. Clinton’s honor this year at the Modern restaurant in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, for about 100 people, costing him roughly $200 a head, according to three people who attended. It was not a fund-raiser; there was no special purpose, except to celebrate Mrs. Clinton, who did not attend.

Yet some Clinton donors say they were sometimes uncomfortable with Mr. Hsu and wish that, in hindsight, they had regarded this ambivalence as a red flag.

You see what’s happening here?  Ready made excuses from all corners and the MSM eats it up.  If a Republican had been in this situation there would be articles and editorials from coast to coast mad as hell that they couldn’t see who this man really was, it was all greed they would say.

No so with the MSM on Clinton. 

Instead they write about how hard she is working to aggressively sever ties with the man.  They write about staffers, more staffers and even more staffers.  All in an attempt to minimize the role Hillary played in this guys story. 

Does anyone really believe that Hsu was kept at arms length and was just a ATM machine?

When Bill Clinton received an award at a gala dinner honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy last year, the former president expressed his thanks before an audience that included a Nobel Prize winner and a glittering array of show business celebrities and Wall Street titans. Yet the second sentence of his remarks expressed special gratitude to a man almost no one there had heard of: “our friend Norman Hsu.”

With the Clinton’s history of scandalous fundraising behavior you would think our MSM would come to the grips with the fact that maybe, just maybe, the Clintons are nothing but second rate thugs.  Arm-twisting, power-hungry thugs.

But would should we expect, this same crowd reveres a murderer named Che.

Curt

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