Subject: Correcting Maureen's Record: CTR Talking Points
From: Burns Strider <[email-masked]>
To: CTRFriendsFamily <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 15:49:06 -0400
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*Correct The Record*: @CorrectRecord: .@NYTimesDowd goes negative on
Clintons for making speeches to benefit the @ClintonFdn
http://correctrecord.org/attack-maureen-dowd-goes-after-the-clintons-charitable-work/

*Correct The Record:* @CorrectRecord: .@NYTimesDowd continues her pattern
of misleading and smarmy attacks on the Clintons:
http://correctrecord.org/attack-maureen-dowd-goes-after-the-clintons-charitable-work/

*See the online version of our pushback here
<http://correctrecord.org/attack-maureen-dowd-goes-after-the-clintons-charitable-work/>.*

*ATTACK:  MAUREEN DOWD GOES AFTER THE CLINTONS’ CHARITABLE WORK*

In a Sunday New York Times column, Maureen Dowd continues her pattern of
misleading and smarmy attacks on the Clintons, this time attacking Chelsea
and Hillary Clinton’s philanthropic work.

While Dowd has notoriously been attacking the Clintons for decades – in
fact, 72%
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/13/nyts-maureen-dowd-theres-something-unseemly-abo/200086>
of her columns about Hillary Clinton since November 1993 have been negative
– extending these attacks to their daughter for no reason whatsoever is a
low blow, even for the conservative columnist. Dowd goes negative on
Chelsea Clinton for making speeches to benefit the Clinton Foundation and
its philanthropic work, even though it has already been reported
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/us/politics/chelsea-clinton-follows-parents-lead-as-a-paid-speaker.html?ref=us&_r=0>
that the majority of Chelsea’s speeches are unpaid.

So is it the work of the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation that
Dowd opposes, or is this just a cheap partisan shot at the Clintons? Here
are just a few examples of the life-changing programs funded by the Clinton
Foundation:

·       Job One: helps young people find jobs.

·       Too Small To Fail: helps improve the health and well-being of
children ages zero to five.

·       No Ceilings: helps encourage the full participation for women and
girls in the 21st century.

·       Clinton Health Access Initiative: works to expand access to
HIV/AIDS medications throughout the world.

Dowd goes on to criticize Hillary Clinton for making speeches at
universities that raise money benefiting both the university foundations
and the philanthropic work of the Clinton Foundation.  Recent news reports
document that Hillary Clinton’s upcoming speech at the University of Nevada
Las Vegas has already returned additional funds for the university
foundation – selling more than $350,000
<https://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/steve-sebelius/clinton-name-already-drawing-big-bucks-unlv-dinner>
in table sponsorships so far – while powering the good work of the Clinton
Foundation.

The world is a better place because of philanthropic programs like these.
But what about Maureen Dowd? She has a speaker’s bureau to book her paid
speeches. Do her funds go to philanthropic work or in her own pocket?

·       *Maureen Dowd is listed as a paid speaker on the America Program
Bureau website. *The American Program Bureau, a self-described “Global
Speaker, Celebrity [and] Entertainment Agency,” lists Maureen Dowd as a
speaker. A testimonial included in Dowd’s listing states that Dowd’s speech
at Hofstra University “was a very successful event,” and one in which Dowd
“and Bill Kristol were very accommodating and generous with their time.”

·       *Hofstra University noted the lecture was sponsored by the Educate
’08 Event Series. *An April 21, 2008, press release from Hofstra University
noted that Maureen Dowd and Bill Kristol would be speaking at Hofstra
University on April 24, 2008. Hofstra noted the “lecture is sponsored by
The President’s Educate ’08 Event Series.”

·       *Educate ’08 was funded by the Kalikow Center at Hofstra, the John
D. Miller Fund, Hofstra trustee and alumnus David Mack, Newsday, the New
York Observer, and the New York Sun. *According to Hofstra University, the
“presenting sponsors” of Hofstra’s Educate ’08 events included the Peter S.
Kalikow Center at Hofstra, “established in 2006 through a generous
commitment from Hofstra trustee and alumnus Peter S. Kalikow.” Other
sponsors included the John D. Miller Fund, founded by a Hofstra alumnus and
trustee, and Hofstra trustee and alumnus David Mack. Additional sponsors
included Newsday, the New York Observer, and the New York Sun.