PBS Newshour anchor Judy Woodruff is another liberal so-called “journalist” who donated to the Clinton slush fund.
Liberal PBS Newshour Anchor Judy Woodruff Also Donated to Clinton
Judy Woodruff claims the only reason why she gave money to the Clintons because she wanted to donate to help the Haiti earthquake victims, because she claims she was told that the quickest way to get a contribution to the Haiti earthquake victims was to donate to the Clinton Foundation Slush Fund.
What about FEMA, the Red Cross, or The Salvation Army? You really think the Clintons are better at disaster relief than FIMA or the Red Cross? BULLSHIT, you lying dumbass!
PBS’ Judy Woodruff has now lost all credibility, not only because of her donation to the Clintons, but for the stupid lie she came up with to explain the Clinton donation.
No wonder why the liberal hacks at PBS refused to cover the huge story of very large Clinton donations by untrustworthy ABC hack George Stephanopoulos, who donated at least $75,000 to the Clinton slush fund, and also attacked anyone who questioned the Clintons on ABC air.
We should look into how much these so-called “journalists” have been paid under the table by the Clintons for their support and defense.
PBS Newshour anchor Judy Woodruff is pushing back against criticism from within the state broadcaster.
Last Wednesday, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler published a post critical of Woodruff’s decision to donate to the Clinton Foundation for a Haitian relief program, linking that $250 donation to the $75,000 given by ABC “news man” George Stephanopoulos:
It is always a bad idea for a journalist to give money to a political campaign or anything even remotely connected to the activities of a politician or party, or an organization that they might cover. You just shouldn’t do it. It may be well-intended, but you damage your credibility and that of your news organization with the public. It is bad if you just gave $50 one time. But it is really, really, inexplicably bad if you gave $75,000 over a couple of years to the Clinton Foundation and your name is George Stephanopoulos and you are the chief anchor for ABC News and a former top aide in the Bill Clinton White House and you hadn’t ever disclosed these contributions publicly.
But it wasn’t just the donation that Getler took issue with; it was the lack of coverage given by PBS’s Newshour to the entire Clinton Foundation scandal:
It is also not a great idea, in my opinion, for a major TV news program, such as the PBS NewsHour, not to cover in its nightly broadcast what was, for everyone else, a pretty big news story about the news media. And the NewsHour has not provided any on-the-air coverage of the story swirling around Stephanopoulos since it was revealed last Thursday, May 14, in reports that first surfaced in the Washington Free Beacon, Politico and then The Wall Street Journal.
Getler noted that after The WSJ outed Woodruff as a donor, she took to the airwaves to let people know about her funding, however small, of the Clinton Foundation. Getler noted Woodruff’s 45-year journalistic career, but still said the donation raised questions as to why Newshour was not covering the Clinton Foundation scandal:
Was the Woodruff link the reason the NewsHour chose not to cover a story that has generated lots of continuing coverage in The Washington Post, New York Times and many other outlets? It doesn’t look good from where I sit. The program did post an Associated Press story on its web site last Friday but, aside from the Woodruff statement, it has broadcast nothing about the broader story to its viewers. And the AP story did not mention Woodruff.
The reason given by Newshour producer Sara Just was that there simply was no room for the story given other competing interests. As for Woodruff, she responded to Getler’s post by saying she only wanted to help:
I’m a longtime admirer of your work, as a journalist and as ombudsman, but what you wrote was unfair. To lump what I did in 2010 under the simple heading of “Clinton” ignores the facts and the context. I gave $250 two days after the Haiti earthquake struck in 2010, to an emergency relief fund, and in response to one of the first appeals to cross my desk when we were witnessing wall-to-wall scenes of death and devastation. I am a journalist, but I also am a citizen who supports non-partisan, charitable causes when I feel so moved.
I will not be put in a position of defending the Clinton Foundation. But in early January 2010, less than one year into President Obama’s first term, while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, the tragedy hit and we were told by relief experts that the quickest way to get a contribution to the victims, was through the William J. Clinton Foundation. It had a longstanding involvement in Haiti before the quake. To repeat, my gift was made out to the Haiti Relief Fund, not the general Clinton Foundation.
Getler is now on a two-week vacation and will not respond until his return.
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