Hsu Fetish

As with the rest of the pack of 'tard hyenas clogging up what passes for respectable political discussion, most of Malkin's bluster goes right by me. I suppose it's hard not to notice when a minority pokes at fellow minorities, but obviously it's all of a piece, that of poking at "liberal" orthodoxies, "political correctness" in particular. Ho hum. It's like finding out there's still a niche demographic of people out there listening to Mambo #5 and practicing the Macarena. Whatever floats their leaky boat, I guess.

What interests me more is what sort of follow-up is being done to confirm or refute Malkin's allegations of "straw donors".

One Asian donor admitted to the Los Angeles Times "to lacking the legal-resident status required for giving campaign money." Another, Hsiao Wen Yang, told the New York Post she was reimbursed for her $1,000 donation - setting off clear alarm bells over yet another possible straw donor scheme on the heels of Norman Hsu-gate.

Does anyone really want another raft of "Chinese bagman Johnny Huang" stories coming down the pike? They are tiresome precisely because of their distracting angle on race, though it is certainly noteworthy if any candidate is getting contributions laundered through illegal immigrants.

But again, we need to address the root cause here. Whatever the ethnicity and/or legal status of a straw donor, it is yet another indication of the system failing utterly. Rather than wasting time on the lame snarkasm from a predictable blowhard, we're better off simply paying attention to the story, which is as old as the notion of organized political machinery. This "don't ask, don't tell" system of encouraging laundered donations through phantom entities and shady ward-heelers, possibly originating in profits from organized crime, gambling, human trafficking, etc., is unacceptable.

On the one hand, this is simply how the machinery of politics seems to grind along, particularly in ethnic enclaves, but on the other hand, maybe it's time to look for other ways besides suspicious-looking "bundling" strategies.