George Stephanopoulos
Some days, I really weep for our nation when thinking about the role of the press in our politics. Make that most days during a presidential election. One of the many press scandals du jour is that George Stephanopoulos did not disclose donations to the Clinton Foundation in 2013 and 2014, thereby failing in his sacred role as an objective journalist who became a prominent television personality based on his time as a senior staffer in the Clinton White House. I know we're all shocked to think that Stephanopoulos might support the mostly non-political goals of the non-profit foundation of the former president responsible for his career.
But wait, there's more. Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer is taking the opportunity to be outraged.
"Really quite stunned by this,” Schweizer wrote in an email to Bloomberg Politics on Thursday. It's “a massive breach of ethical standards. He fairly noted my four months working as a speech writer for George W. Bush. But he didn't disclose this?”
Sure, Stephanopoulos should have disclosed, but let's not pretend the Stephanopoulos-Clinton connections are a huge secret that no one knows. Maybe we can focus on the
seven or eight factual corrections that needed to be made to
Clinton Cash? Or better yet, ignore the book and its author altogether?