Once upon a time in America, there were people known as investigative journalists.  These people had a most difficult job – keeping politicians honest.  As I noted here last week, politicians are the trickiest, slickest and crookedest among us, therefore this proved to be a daunting task. When these champions of the public interest set out to investigate a suspected miscreant, they left no stone unturned to ferret out the truth, because the voters have a right to know all about our political leaders, don’t they?  Well, yes and no.  First of all, there are fewer journalists to go around than there used to be.  Back in the Stone Age, when most people could read the English language, and they actually read newspapers, there were many journalists.  Columnists like Jack Anderson constantly were digging for political dirt.  Of course, nobody reads newspapers anymore, so the ranks of available muckrakers have been thinned.  Also, because there are so many potential political miscreants to keep an eye on, the remaining journalists can’t get around to investigating all of them.  They have to be selective.  As 99.44% of all journalists are liberals, it is not surprising that they manage their workload by investigating only Republicans.  This is neither a false or reckless statement nor so sinister as it sounds.  When you consider the world in which journalists exist, it makes perfect sense.  They live in a microcosm of America, inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway.  Within their comfortable cocoon, the journalists are confident that they, and only they, understand what is important, what is right and wrong, and what the public (a entity they have never met and have no desire to meet) wants and thinks.  As subscribers to the James Carville school of liberalism (“We’re right and they’re wrong”), the journalists are in basic agreement that all Republicans are corrupt and deserve scrutiny.  Moreover, if the Republican is conservative, or claims to be so, then there must be something wrong with him anyway.  Hence, a first term Senator running for President, such as Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz, must be thoroughly investigated.  How big was that boat Rubio bought?  How dare Cruz borrow his own money from Goldman Sachs?  These are important questions.  Other questions, such as, just who the Hell is Barrack Obama, who was raised by a Communist mother and a radical Communist father, was indoctrinated by Communist Frank Marshall Davis, and introduced into politics by urban terrorist Bill Ayres? – not so much.  If Donald Trump had spent years of his life living in Indonesia using the surname Soetero, you think the media might look into that?  For Donald Soetero sure, for Barry Soetero (a/k/a Obama), not a chance.  When they do take a peek, the journalists (think Woodward and Bernstein) know how to follow the money.  They are obsessed with Republican money, which is evil if there is either too much of it or not enough.  Think about it.  In 2012, they were after Romney’s tax returns to prove he had too much money and should not be President.  This year, Trump boasts he has lots of money, so they are after his tax returns to prove he is not as rich as he claims, and therefore should not be President.  Any port in a storm, I guess.  Money is evil because Il Duce Obama says so.  He has declared that “there’s too much money in politics.”  Having raised and spent over $1.1 billion on his last election, he should know.  Just this week, Michele Obama said the same thing about too much money in politics.  And she must know too, because she said it at $10,000 a plate fundraiser. (You can’t make this shit up).  Which brings us to the Clintons, a political couple which has had something to hide for 25 years.  Put aside Bill’s sexual scandals.  Forget the Travel Office scandal,  and the Whitewater scandal, and the billing records scandal, that’s water under the bridge.  Let’s even give Hillary the benefit of the doubt on Benghazi, her handling of Libya, and her little email server flap.  No need to dwell on crimes.  What about the Clinton money trail?  Hillary said, “when we left the White House in 2001, we were flat broke.”  This must be true, because, as you may recall, when they left they stole the furniture.  Within 11 years of 2001, the Clintons made $136.5 million.  Bill himself is worth $55 million.  Investigative journalists once were suspicious of the rapid accumulation of wealth by public officials.  But not the Clintons.  And then there’s there’s the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which has raised some $250 million.  Much of that money came from foreign sources at the very time when Hillary was Secretary of State.  Many of these sources are unidentified.  Some of those that are identified are, shall we say – shady.  Well, maybe I just have a suspicious nature.  They won’t follow that money.  But wait, over $33 million came from a Canadian businessman on behalf of a Russian company that needed Secretary Clinton to sign off on a deal that gave Russia control of 20% of the uranium reserves in Wyoming, Texas and Utah.  They won’t follow that money.  And it’s not just foreign money.  Coca Cola gave $10 million to the Foundation and got the State Department to lift sanctions in Burma.  TD Bank, which coincidentally was the largest shareholder in the Keystone XL Pipeline project, paid Bill $1.8 million to make speeches at the time Secretary Hillary was in a position to exert influence on the deal.  They won’t follow that money.  In this election, we have one candidate, Trump, whose life is an open book.  Trump has conducted his affairs (the good, the bad and the ugly) in plain sight.  Trump is suspect, and the media will follow his money to the ends of the Earth.  The other candidate, Hillary, has conducted every aspect of her life in complete darkness.  Anyone, including a special prosecutor, who has dared even to ask an impertinent question has been denounced as part of the Right Wing Conspiracy.  Hillary has hidden and destroyed evidence of her actions as a public official, while at the same time amassing great wealth from dubious sources.  She gets a pass.  If you’re thinking that the media is just as corrupt as the politicians, you’re right.