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Liberal Journo Who Is #ReadyForHillary Calls Out the “Creepy Vibe” ...

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“And there is a real creepy vibe, to me, personally, at the Clinton Global Initiative.
“It seems, to me, that it is all about buying access. It is incredibly expensive just to go to the thing … and there are sort-of these explicit ways in which you get access. You pay more money to get more access to political leaders and to really rich people and to big corporate leaders.
“There’s this kinda creepy theatre that happens where you have the CEO of Coca-Cola or IBM or whatever or GE up there with President Clinton and they’re just bathing each other in love over how generous and wonderful they are and how much they care about the world and all these earnest people applauding and thrilled.”
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Even their charitable work is mediocre, comments Davidson. “If you talk to development professionals,” he said, “it is not in the top tier:”

“I have seen their work in Haiti up close in person. There are some very good people who work there, but they are — Haiti is one of their singular focuses. It is a very small country. They have not had a major impact on Haiti.
“It’s more the performance of very public charity, not the actual intervention in deep and meaningful ways.”
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Later, Davidson distinguishes between the Clinton Foundation — which aims to connect donors and advise them on how to best spend their resources — and the Clinton Global Initiative, an arm of the foundation that is an annual conference of world leaders and influencers.
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But the Clinton Foundation is, by contrast:

“Just a bunch of people congratulating each other on how awesome they are.
“And here’s a head of state of a foreign government who needs to be on that panel even though they literally have nothing to say but we promised him a slot.
“Yes! It’s disgusting.”
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Liberal Journo Who Is #ReadyForHillary Calls Out the “Creepy Vibe” at Clinton Foundation Events

Imagine if the guy WASN'T a Hillary supporter?
 
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