{"id":214268,"date":"2016-08-23T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/08\/23\/the_rich_can_buy_access_to_hillary_through_the_clinton_foundation_but_where_s_this_great_charitable_organization_helping_the_victims_of_the_louisia_\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T20:55:38","slug":"the_rich_can_buy_access_to_hillary_through_the_clinton_foundation_but_where_s_this_great_charitable_organization_helping_the_victims_of_the_louisia_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/08\/23\/the_rich_can_buy_access_to_hillary_through_the_clinton_foundation_but_where_s_this_great_charitable_organization_helping_the_victims_of_the_louisia_\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rich Can Buy Access to Hillary Through the Clinton Foundation, But Where\u2019s This Great Charitable Organization Helping the Victims of the Louisia…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH:  Okay, I\u2019m gonna ask a question again.  I asked a question yesterday, needs to be asked a lot.  As we keep hearing even today, the Clinton Family Foundation, what a great body of work they do there.  There\u2019s nothing to see there. There\u2019s nothing to see, all this interaction between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department, that\u2019s just a bunch of people requesting access.  I mean, that\u2019s not any big deal.  What\u2019s the big deal wanting access?  That\u2019s not favors.<\/p>\nI mean, the Drive-Bys are filled with that theme today.  “No, no, no, nobody sought favors.  They just wanted access.”  Access is the favor!  For crying out loud, what\u2019s so hard about this?  <\/line>Access, when you are an entity, a country, an individual, a member of Evil Corp, whoever you are, and Hillary Clinton\u2019s the secretary of state, and you want to reach her, and you know if you call the secretary of state, that line, you call the Department of State, they\u2019re not gonna put you through.<\/line>\n

So what do you do?  You call the Clinton Crime Family Foundation and then Cheryl Mills gets hold of Huma Abedin Weiner and Huma Abedin Weiner then tells Hillary, “Hey, such-and-such wants to talk to you.” They say, “Yeah, yeah, that happened, but that\u2019s just access.”  Access is the favor!  And to think that no favors have been done or promised is absurd, but the Drive-Bys are trying to say it\u2019s just access, no big deal. It\u2019s the way of the world, they\u2019re saying, and it may well be, folks.  I think it is. <\/p>\n

I think this is a perfect illustration of what being a member of the establishment gets you.  This kind of access, this kind of favorable treatment, this kind of acceptance in the upper levels of power. <\/p>\n

Greetings.  Great to have you.  El Rushbo here behind the Golden EIB Microphone.  The telephone number, 800-282-2882.  The email address — again, it\u2019s a new one — it is ElRushbo@eibnet.us<\/a>.  Ah, hang on a minute here, folks, my microphone boom is the latest piece of equipment here on blitz.  One second.  There we go.  I got it. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the question.  If they do such good work over there at the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, why is the Clinton Foundation not offering any help, any aid, any money, any food, any cell phones to the devastated, dare I say white population, in Louisiana? <\/p>\n

Yeah, Obama\u2019s got it covered today after 10 or 11 rounds of golf.  Obama\u2019s going down there today — or is it Thursday that he\u2019s going? (interruption) Supposed to be in there today.  Okay, within the hour.  I should have suspected he would arrive during this program.  Of course that\u2019s what they would do.  Seriously.  So Obama\u2019s got that covered?  I mean, the Clinton Crime Family Foundation was all over Haiti. <\/p>\n

Maybe they can\u2019t make any money in Louisiana.  That\u2019s what the Clinton Crime Family Foundation\u2019s really all about is securing donations, not making payouts.  Anybody figure this out yet?  You look at the payouts of the Clinton Crime Family Foundation, it\u2019s not much.  The Clinton Crime Family Foundation is a way to support all of the members of the Clinton crime family, and to have them travel around in the lap of luxury. <\/p>\n

But, I mean, we\u2019re hearing about what great charitable work is done there. We\u2019re hearing about how compassionate the Clinton Foundation is, and yet here\u2019s Louisiana with record flooding<\/a>.  You know, we know some people who have incurred some great damage down there.  The fish god.  We have a friend, Kathy and Steve Abernathy, used to be at Brennan\u2019s in New Orleans, and Steve\u2019s the fish god.  I call him the fish god.  He raised tilapia. I went down and I visited the fish farm. I\u2019d never been to a fish farm before. So I went down there, I landed New Orleans, had to drive all the way across Lake Pontchartrain to get to the fish farm.<\/p>\n

These tilapia, these giant, giant circular tanks, and any time you would move, those fish would try to swim away from you.  They could see you, and they were afraid of you.  We weren\u2019t gonna do anything to \u2019em except eat \u2019em later, which I guess they knew. And the fish god went on to tell me about how he genetically modified them and changed the sex so that he would have more female tilapia laying eggs so that there would be more hatched and more fish to sell.  So when I found out he could change the sex of a tilapia, I started calling him the fish god. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, they had some damage. The fish tanks didn\u2019t suffer any, but some of the buildings where their office supplies are housed had like three or four feet of water in them. And there\u2019s all kinds of people that have lost their homes and everything they have is gone. And they\u2019re largely white, and you know that skin color matters in this country, more maybe than it ever has.  And you know how everything has become politicized in this country.  Some people don\u2019t want to acknowledge or admit that.  But it has. <\/p>\n

<\/a>But it\u2019s a late, late arrival for the U.S. government on the scene in Louisiana no matter who goes.  But I do think it\u2019s a relevant question to ask about. How about if Hillary did order her foundation to go do some work in Louisiana?  Imagine the photo-op and the goodwill she could get out of that here in the midst of a presidential campaign, and they\u2019re seeking not to do it.  And not just in Louisiana, but some other places, too.  And I think the reason is because they don\u2019t want to establish the precedent that the purpose of that foundation is to pay out a lot of money. <\/p>\n

How many of you people have actually looked into establishing a foundation.  Anybody can.  Anybody can do it.  And a lot of people who do it do it as a means of making bulk charitable donations for tax deduction purposes, in addition to whatever charitable work they want to do.  But let me just use a round number here, and I\u2019m gonna be fairly close to how this works.  Let\u2019s say you set up a foundation for a hundred thousand dollars, and if that\u2019s what you put into your foundation, you get to deduct a hundred thousand dollars from your taxes that year and whatever your income tax rate is. <\/p>\n

But the kicker is this:  You don\u2019t ever have to put any more money in it, but you can, and you can go out and ask people to donate to it. You can run golf tournaments, anything you want, to have people donate to your foundation.  The kicker — somebody correct me if I\u2019m wrong — you only have to donate 10% a year from it to keep it qualified as a charity. So you can horde all the money.  Now, theoretically you can\u2019t use the money.  Once you\u2019ve put it in there, it\u2019s not yours anymore. <\/p>\n

The only way it can be spent is for travel and expenses of the employees of the foundation, if you want to hire some — he-he-he — which is what the Clintons have done — or donating it.  But you can get a full tax deduction of whatever you fund that foundation that you\u2019ve set up in a year, but you don\u2019t have to give it all away every year to get the deduction.  You only have to give away five or 10%.  It may not even be that much.  And this is why I say the reason I\u2019m guessing that the Clintons have not set this foundation up to be on site at every disaster is that they don\u2019t want to establish the idea that the purpose of their foundation is to deal with charities.  They do it now and then, but that\u2019s not why they\u2019ve set this up. <\/p>\n

Their charitable foundation is a Hoover.  It is sucking things up.  I mean, the crown prince of Bahrain and $32 million.  We mentioned this yesterday.  People say, “What could he possibly expect to get?”  Well, nothing from the foundation.  But if Mrs. Clinton either as secretary of state or becomes president, well, then who knows.  I mean, that\u2019s what it\u2019s for.  So the Drive-Bys running around saying, “There\u2019s nothing to see here.  All they\u2019re doing is providing access.  There aren\u2019t any favors being done.”  The favor is the access. <\/p>\n

Great to have you with us, my friends.  The question again needs to be asked, why is the Clinton Crime Family Foundation not offering help, aid, money, food, cell phones, to the devastated population of Louisiana?  An accompanying story.  “Clinton Rakes In $4 Million While Louisiana Drowns.” <\/a> This is the Daily Caller.  “Hillary Clinton has yet to set a date to visit Louisiana, which was recently devastated by historic flooding, but managed to raise millions in campaign contributions over the weekend.”<\/p>\n

She found time to go on Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s show.  You ought to see the video.  She\u2019s so stiff and unfunny.  Here\u2019s a classic joke that they set up, and she didn\u2019t blow it, but it\u2019s not executed well.  So Kimmel asks her what it\u2019s like to be a grandmother.  “Oh, it\u2019s just wonderful.  I don\u2019t know where I\u2019d be without FaceTime.”  And Kimmel says, “Oh, FaceTime instead of emails?”  The audience busts out laughing. Hillary fakes like she\u2019s laughing, points at Kimmel, “Oh, you\u2019re fun,” as though she\u2019s in on the joke. <\/p>\n