The war on conservative women continues. Media Matters has jumped out in front of the book and is providing talking points for the Hillary supporters.
Media should be cautious with Republican activist and strategist Peter Schweizer’s new book Clinton Cash. Schweizer has a disreputable history of reporting marked by errors and retractions, with numerous reporters excoriating him for facts that “do not check out,” sources that “do not exist,” and a basic failure to practice “Journalism 101.”
Establishment media are intensely interested in Peter Schweizer’s brief stint as an advisor to Sarah Palin after an advance tease from his forthcoming book suggested a fresh scandal in the long career of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
But they are showing a nearly total disinterest in an even more prominent newsmaker’s connection to Clinton herself. After Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs executive currently serving a two-year prison sentence for insider trading, lost his appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, the press didn’t find it worth mentioning that the convicted felon is a longtime Clinton associate and donor.
Schweizer advised former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in 2011. He piqued the interest of some of the biggest media groups in the country this week, including the Washington Post, the New York Times and Fox News, by alleging that he has uncovered several questionable foreign donations made out to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary state.[…]
Following news that Fox, the Post and the Times each have reached exclusive agreements with Schweizer to pursue his book’s findings, a few media figures and news organizations were quick to point out his connection to Palin, a colorful and outspoken former politician whose penchant for making unguarded comments has turned her into a favorite Republican foil for the left.[…]
On CNN, anchorwoman Carol Costello took time to note Tuesday that Schweizer’s book “was written by a conservative scholar and former adviser to Sarah Palin,” asking later whether his Clinton research “will have legs.”