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Was Hsu The Puppeteer, Or Was He The Puppet?: Hsu's Donations Seem To Track With Major Democratic Donor *And Former Cabinet Official*Suggesting that he was merely the bagman for a seriously connected Democratic operative giving him orders. ![]() It's possible, I suppose, that Hsu was just defrauding people out of money in order to give it to Democratic politicians. The prosecutor said this case was about "self-promotion and greed," but it's hard to see the greed angle in so generously giving illegal money to others, especially Hillary! and her favorite Special Friends. Once again Flip scoops the MSM and finds that Hsu actually might not have been "coercing" victims to help him give his stolen money away to Democrats, but perhaps was himself a pawn of a major Democratic fundraiser and former member of Bill Clinton's cabinet. I strongly suggest reading the whole thing, but I'll tease a bit here because I know reading makes your heads hurt: Two points are crucial here. Wow. So, Mr. Prosecutor: Is this really about "self-promotion and greed" or is it about a major Democratic booster/former cabinet official using a slick hustler as a conduit for millions of dollars in illegal donations from his circle of incredibly wealthy friends? Seriously, read it. Spectacular. This isn't just a blogger jagging off with "Internet detective work," this is stuff the prosecutors and media ought to have already discovered but apparently seem disinclined to pursue. Questions For the Media and Prosecutor: 1) What kind of thief/hustler gives away so much of the money he's risked incarceration for? What is his motive for doing that? For "self-promotion"? Wouldn't it make more sense for him to "self-promote" by investing in Hollywood projects and "self-promote" among nubile young actresses? Why "self-promote" among the dreary past-middle-aged pot-belied gray-cheeked Democratic operative set? 2) Greed? How can greed be a motive for giving away so much "defrauded" money? 3) The media, and prosecution teams, are generally loathe to content themselves with the Lone Rogue Operative theory of a crime, especially when the crimes committed largely benefit others and not the Lone Rogue Operative himself. In the Plame case, in Abu Ghraib, the media, in particular, was furiously skeptical that Lone Rogue Operatives had simply acted with apparent criminal purpose for the apparent benefit of higher-ranking political or military figures. They still don't buy the Lone Rogue Operative theory in either case. And yet the media and the prosecutor seem almost eager to dismiss this current case as one of those Lone Rogue Operative cases here, as quickly as humanly possible. Why? Why the sudden onset of credulity that a criminal acts so selflessly to advance the interests of others, without their knowledge or at least connivance? Why has the Lone Rogue Operative theory become so tantalizingly plausible? 4) Why is it that Hsu's preferred candidates track so closely with Fred Hoechner's? Especially given that Hoechner was donating big to Democrats long before Hsu was? Was Hsu simply impressed by the slate of political actors that Fred Hoechner had been donating to? If so, why? Is Norman Hsu desperate to see HillaryCare universal health coverage? Or did he have... more tangible, more mercenary reasons for pushing Hoechner's field of candidates? And finally: 5) Why is everyone so eager to wrap this case up nice and tidy and pinned on a Lone Rogue Operative/Patsy without asking all those "tough questions" the media claims it's uniquely qualified to ask? Bonus: JackStraw sends this documentary of Hillary!'s shady fundraiser with the Shady Lone Rouge Operative Peter Paul (see a pattern) with the slugline "bombshell." | Recent Comments
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