Former President Bill Clinton is pushing back against the attacks on the Clinton Foundation's fundraising, pointing to the side of the story the media is less interested in telling:
what the foundation does, including:
... good works like the "Wings to Fly" program that has helped 10,000 poor kids in Kenya attend high school.
The program has been a whopping success, with 94 percent of the kids graduating and 98 percent of them going on to college. [...]
While in Tanzania, he and 20 of the foundation's big donors also visited the Anchor Farm Project which is expected to produce huge yields of maize and soy and to help locals learn new agricultural techniques. They connected with a group called "Solar Sisters" that empowers women by selling environmentally friendly products such as solar lights and cook stoves.
They are headed Monday to Liberia — where they helped the government combat HIV/AIDS and coordinated delivery of medical equipment and supplies during the Ebola epidemic — to see several survivors.
Instead, the media has been fixating on the story being spread by Republican operative Peter Schweizer in his book
Clinton Cash, a story centered on speculation that donations to the Clinton Foundation and speaking fees for Bill Clinton were used to influence Hillary Clinton in her time heading the State Department. While the Clinton Foundation has made a few mistakes in its reporting of contributions from foreign governments, Bill Clinton points out that:
"The guy that filled out the forms made an error," he said. "Now that is a bigger problem, according to the press, than the other people running for president willing to take dark money, secret money, secret from beginning to end."
Like Jeb Bush, who's delaying his official entry into the presidential race so he can keep coordinating with his super PAC and is even talking about
outsourcing traditional campaign functions to the super PAC. Bush's family has also
trailed the Clintons on disclosing donors to the foundations of its two former presidents—David Corn points out that the foundation supporting George H.W. Bush's library did not disclose donors while his son was president, and neither that nor George W. Bush's equivalent foundation is disclosing donors while Jeb is running for president.
But for some mysterious reason, the media seems more interested in talking about Peter Schweizer's weak allegations than about the holes in those allegations, or Bush family fundraising practices, or any of the stuff the Clinton Foundation is doing with the money it takes in.