See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
The panic on the faces of Clinton Foundation defenders grew more palpable on Wednesday night as the questions surrounding donors having meetings with Hillary Clinton’s State Department remained a part of the news cycle, so it was up to liberal journalists like Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews to defend and deflect these concerns as merely “political” ploys by Republicans.
They also bemoaned the idea that the Clinton Foundation is a pay for play operation but instead a completely legal system of “pay to play with to have access with people socially as well as politically” between the Clintons and family friends who would otherwise have their attention whether or not they’ve donated to the foundation.