Spanking Asian-American grievance-mongers again
Asian-American grievance-mongers are at it again: Doing everything in their power to stop the MSM from investigating and reporting on shady foreign funny money pouring into Hillary Clinton’s campaign coffers:
Leaders of Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote), a non-partisan non-profit civic engagement organization, once again calls for responsible reporting and portrayal of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) civic participation in the media. APIAVote does not condone any illegal participation in the American political system and those who do should be held accountable. Improper activities warrant attention, though recent media coverage has continuously mischaracterized the involvement of Asian Americans, as an entire community, in the electoral process. Undue scrutiny on a specific ethnic subgroup is considered negligent journalism; APIAVote leadership re-emphasizes the need for unbiased reporting on allegations of political misconduct.
“We are alarmed by the potential negative impact of irresponsible reporting and the harm it may have on legitimate political participation by members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community,” said Lisa Hasagawa, APIAVote Board Member. “It is imperative that the media approach these serious allegations with deliberation, focus and the highest levels of journalistic integrity. As the Asian American and Pacific Islander community embraces their right to participate in the civic process, it is important that the greater balance and responsibility be taken when addressing this important issue.”
I roast these P.C. police in my column today. Should we “profile” suspicious foreign campaign contributors? Hell, yes!
My conclusion:
The Clinton campaign is counting on left-wing editors to capitulate under heat from Asian-American groups who want to deflect attention away from suspicious foreign donations.
“I’m going to keep reaching out to everybody in our country. I want to be a president to everybody,” said a defiant Hillary in defense of her indiscriminate fund-raising. “Asian-Americans in Chinatown and Flushing have the same right to contribute as every other American,” Howard Wolfson, a campaign spokesman, told reporters. “We do not ethnically profile donors.”
“Ethnic profiling” is the rhetorical bugaboo the Clintons hope will stave off more investigations and invocations of Asian-American donor scandals past. Learning well from their far-left minority counterparts, these Asian-American groups have tried to turn the debate away from candidate and donor responsibility to the collective “rights” of the “Asian-American and Pacific Islander community.”
The identity politics tribe can call it “ethnic profiling.” I call it learning from history.
We’ve been here so many times before. With convicted DNC fund-raiser John Huang and Charlie Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak and Maria Hsia. With the Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns who helped engineer a Gore campaign reimbursement scheme and shredded documents related to their temple fund-raiser. With Washington ex-Gov. Gary Locke, who also took money from Chinese temple donors who couldn’t speak English, couldn’t remember when they donated or couldn’t be located.
Democrats apparently believe that only Americans should be saddled by Byzantine campaign-finance regulations while foreign donors get a pass. Asian-American lobbyists apparently believe minority groups should get less scrutiny from the media than everyone else – lest “their right to participate in the civic process” be undermined.
If it’s “ethnic profiling” to be extra-careful of Chinatown donors who can’t speak English, live in dilapidated buildings, have never voted, can’t tell Hillary Clinton from Hunan Chicken or simply can’t be found, then “ethnic profiling” should be the standard procedure of every campaign.
Discrimination isn’t a dirty word when it comes to keeping dirty money out of American politics.
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Boo-freaking-hoo: Media Matters didn’t like my “smellier than stinky tofu” line.
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Why should anybody be shocked that the Manchurian Candidate is taking money from any and every person of Chinese descent?
RACIST!
oh, wait…
Heh.
good column mm. Keep up the pressure for the TRUTH and maybe the rest in your profession of journalism will realize this is what ‘freedom of the press’ is supposed to be about.
Michelle
You are being slimed over at Media Matters about your story you posted.
Does anyone at Hot Air have the video of Al Gore’s lame explanation of his apparent fundraising violations in which he chanted “NO CONTROLLING LEGAL AUTHORITY” like a mantra?
Hey, Comment Guy — it’s only news when Michelle’s NOT being slimed by the MeMaFos.
No body is profiling any one.
The perps did it to themselves by choosing to make questionable donations.
Now a little research beyond the knee jerk stuff picks up little details like a one bedroom apartment in the Chinatown area starts at 1500.00 per month and then goes up from there.
Also the NY legislature just capped the minimum wage for restaurant employees at less than 3 bucks an hour for people who also have tips as an income source (like waiters and busboys).
Testimony during the session on the debate cited average reported NY earnings in this class hit around 13k per year. NYC may be higher , but one can only speculate what multiple that location would demand.
In my research I am doing on all the donation stuff with the Clinton campaign the data emerging from spreadsheets and cluster analysis is neutral as to any characteristics.
Data is data as simple as that.
I am not looking at names at all, just patterns of donations.
As neutral as you can get.
From what I am seeing there are other potential issues of a similar nature in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
I don’t have local contacts to check it out, so I am limited to working from open source material.
If Media Matters can’t deal with a little “stinky tofu” line, how do they think they can ever beat the terrorists?
“…in other news today, self-hating columnist MM was found today tied and gagged in an alley in Chinatown. In an apparent message from the Mob, Socks the cat was stuffed in her mouth.”
“I didn’t see who did it said MM – the last thing I remember was a horrid cackling noise.”
Democrat voters should be asking themselves why a laundry list of illicit actions continues to pop up in the Clinton organization.
No wonder her negatives are the highest on record.
If she wants to be everybody’s Pres. she’s only succeeding by half, except among criminals where she’s wildly successful.
Who says they want to?
Maybe you should have said “smellier than balut“?
yes…but mine has to come out of my own pockets.
This all reminded me of the Clinton crime syndicate’s television commercial that was a take-off on the last episode of the Sopranos (with Hillary taking the part of Tony and Bill taking the part of Carmella). Maybe Hillary is more like a mob boss than she would care to admit. Seeing her turn down money (cattle futures, campaign contributions, whatever) would be more shocking than seeing Tony question one of his capos when being handed a thick envelope of cash.
Why can’t I get Rosie’s “Ching Chong” rant out of my head? Perhaps it was a secret code to these mysterious donors? In any case, Hillary needs to atone for her frequent racist remarks and “blackface”, so this is her opportunity. Surprise, surprise!
Stop ethnic profiling. Just put their pictures up and say, “these are the people that made questionable or illegal contributions” and let the rest of the us determine what they are.
No profiling there.
#12
That’s just funny.
All these “poor” people having all this extra money to donate to the Clinton fund, yet don’t have health insurance, does smell like “stinky tofu”. I’m nowhere near being poor, and even if I loved (cough, cough) the Clintons, I certainly don’t have $1K to give to them.
Hey Michelle, What’s the Taiwanese-American community think of Killery’s pandering to China? (I know the answer as my wife is from Taiwan, and legally became an American. She’s not happy as she’s trying to have a free Taiwan). I’d love to see a reporter ask her about that aspect.
Yes!!!!! Boo-freaken-hoo!!!!!!!
Thanks Buck I
I love it. Direct and to the point!
Aren’t Asian Americans who didn’t contribute to Hillary yet show up as having done so victims (somehow)? How dare APIAsomethingorother stop the media from reporting on the victimization of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, Straight, Lesbian, Gat, Bisexual, Transgendered, Curious, Questioning, Transgendered the other way, and Confused (AAPISLGBTCQTC)!
silly……..
Hey Palani,
I think it goes Ching Chong Ka-Ching!
Ching Chong Ka-Ching!
Could fit nicely into a jingle.
Hey Palani,
I think it goes Ching Chong Ka-Ching!
Ching Chong Ka-Ching!
Could fit nicely into a jingle.
Sounded so nice I entered it twice
#12, You might have a nice little joke there, but I wouldn’t put it passed Killery and here team. MM better watch out that she doesn’t catch Arkancide or that she doesn’t committ Hsuicide. Things like that happen. Just look at Mena Ark.
Exactly John. Ft. Marcy crossed my mind. I fully expect Socks to be found someday, OD’d on catnip, with his pawprint on a suicide note. Maybe not, but hey…
They’ll blame Sock’s death on Barney. Every thing is Bush’s fault so Barney was not trained right due to Bush’s failure to train a dog. Killery will get the sympathy vote to boot.
Good and more to the point, Burner. That deserves a double entry.
I would like to know where APIAVote gets their funding. If it’s funded by leftist money, of course they will make a stink to allow more cash flow to liberal candidates.
“Count every
dollarvote! Everydollarvote counts!”I, for one, don’t see what the problem is with toddlers donating two grand to Hillary. For Hillary, it’s always been about the children. Just because the youngest Hillary donors can’t talk or vote and are walking around with two grand in their diapers doesn’t mean it’s dirty money. Well, depending on how long it’s been there, of course.