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When you want to see some actual journalism at the New York Times, expect it on Saturday, when reporters who like investigating are able to slip things past all the big wigs who break out early Friday for liberal martini get togethers
Where Has Hillary Clinton Been? Ask the Ultrarich
At a private fund-raiser Tuesday night at a waterfront Hamptons estate,Hillary Clinton danced alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a singalong finale to “Hey Jude.”
“I stand between you and the apocalypse,” a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to laughs, exhibiting a flash of self-awareness and humor to a crowd that included Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein and for whom the prospect of a Donald J. Trump presidency is dire.
Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s noticeably scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public. But Mrs. Clinton has been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country’s most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her. In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly $50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.
And while Mrs. Clinton has faced criticism for her failure to hold a news conference for months, she has fielded hundreds of questions from the ultrarich in places like the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, Beverly Hills and Silicon Valley.
The writers sort of attempt to rescue her, but, really, this shows a woman who is part of the aristocracy, and stands fore-square against everything the Progressive leaning Democrat base is for. She’s great with the uber-rich, and loves hobnobbing. When it’s the peasants?