MURDOCH'S CONSCIENCE MONEY. Okay, Bill, you got in Chris Wallace's stuff good and proper. (Wallace has been on my radar since he ran one of the most dishonest pieces of reportage I've ever seen over on ABC when he assaulted the Supplementary Security Income program based on fake data and spurious -- remember Crazy Checks? -- anecdotes. Of course, when Clinton signed the Welfare Reform and Re-Elect My Ass Act of 1996, SSI took a pretty big whack anyway, so there's karma all over the place here.) I wish you'd known that the phrase is "make your bones," and not "move your bones," but that was a "forget it, he's rolling" moment anyway. Here's what you can do now. You can call a public press conference today and announce (loudly) that you're sending back every nickel donated to your Clinton Global Initiative by Rupert Murdoch. It's what we used to call in the old Church "conscience money." The biggest crook in the parish always bought the most elaborate decoration for the church. If we still sold indulgences, Murdoch would've tacked them onto the Wingo games. Murdoch's a blight, and I say this as a former employee. Why not take some money from Richard Mellon Scaife and the Bradley Foundation while you're at it. There are plenty of honest billionaires around, and I'm sure that Richard Branson would be happy to make up the difference. Do this, Bill, and try to get Hillary to stop hanging around the Aussie tits 'n bum merchant as well. They hate you. They are always going to hate you. Don't take their conscience money.
--Charles P. Pierce
