Washington Post Gags On Hillary's Dirty Money

With another eruption of Clinton dirty money scandals even the Washington Post is beginning to take notice, even if the LA Times seems immune to interpreting what its reporters uncover.

To the LA Times, it was just a case of marginalized people getting involved in the US political process. The Washington Post sees the obvious, dirty money.

DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went." Others who say they never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to give because they are not legal residents of the United States. This is the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City's Chinese community. Out of 150 donors examined, one-third "could not be found using property, telephone or business records," the Times reported. "Most have not registered to vote, according to public records."

This appears to be another instance in which a Clinton campaign's zeal for campaign cash overwhelms its judgment. After the fundraising scandals of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, the dangers of vacuuming cash from a politically inexperienced immigrant community should have been obvious. But Ms. Clinton's money machine seized on a new source of cash in Chinatown and environs. As the Times reported, a single Chinatown fundraiser in April brought in $380,000. By contrast, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry raised $24,000 from Chinatown in the course of his entire campaign.

Are we to believe that poor Chinese immigrants are 15 times more enamoured with Hillary than they were with Kerry?

And the Post swats aside the typical Democrat defense that it's racist to consider Asian money suspect.

Of course, the reason that the Clintons do stuff like this is because they got away with much worse when Slick Willie was in office, when they raised money from the Chinese military.

And precisely because it has never had to suffer any consequences, the Clinton machine brazenly let it be known that it has no real intention of changing its ways. According to the New York Times, "No one has been disciplined as a result of the flawed donations, the officials said, and vetting procedures have not been altered."