To be honest, I don't know what to believe when I read conservative think tanks say all this bad stuff. I remember reading books like "The Manchurian President" and others that are pretty prevalent in the conservative side and I don't know what to believe or whether they are facts. Are liberals just blind to this "rampant corruption" or is this all bullshit? Enlighten me.
All you need to know if you want to know whether this is bullshit is to read the list. Hillary Clinton, for example, makes the list because of her Benghazi involvement and a supposed $70k that State spent on TV ads. We should all pray for the day when wasting $70k makes you one of the most corrupt individuals in government. This list is a joke. Don't let these hacks fool you. Also, if you Google these guys, you'll see that the only major paper who covered their list is the Washington Times. Shows you how seriously real news outfits take them (if you're not familiar, WT is the Fox News of the print world). Edit: And John Edwards makes the list. Wtf?!?! He's not even in Washington politics anymore. Bullshit, you ask? Yes, bullshit.
As soon as I saw Susan Rice on the list I knew it would be bullshit.
That's what I was inclined to think. However, many people will use this to back up their arguments. How can you refute Steven Chu and the whole fallout with the energy company? Or Eric Holder and fast and furious and the whole thing with Obama. Even though I'd like to think they warp stuff, how am I to know? I'm sure a conservative counterpart would hail this list to support their argument. In other words, what do you do to refute this shit. I just don't want to automatically dismiss something solely because it uses words like "czar" or extrapolates a bit.
Bad governance and corruption are not the same thing. Do I think Holder is a Neo-Fascist? Yes. Do I think Fast and Furious represents corruption? No. Corruption is taking money for service. One could accuse Chu of corruption, therefore, but it is unclear whether politics lead to the loan. Ask yourself if JW was screaming about corruption after TARP, or during the Iraq War when Halliburton got as many plus contracts as they could write up. Here is their list from 2008. Some of those names look familiar? Wait, no George Bush? No Ben Bernanke? I can't find the lists from earlier, but I would bet the farm that Cheney didn't make the cut. This list is as much concerned with corruption as the Tea Party is with deficits. Red herrings are the name of the game for this sick beast.
Great comparison.This list is as much concerned with corruption as the Tea Party is with deficits.
Hmm, this list seems fairly targeted at those on the left. I wonder what Judicial Watch is. From their "about me": Politics are fairly disgusting and there are a lot of corrupt officials but this list is so blatantly one-sided it is embarrassing. The stuff against Warren is especially light as far as corruption goes.Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law