One of the consistent plot lines in the media's accepted script regarding the Clintons is that they aren't entitled to, well, anything. A recent liberal media AP report states that:



Clintons ask taxpayers to reimburse Whitewater legal bills
Fri Jul 26,11:20 PM ET

By SHANNON McCAFFREY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Former President Clinton ( news - web sites) and his wife have asked a court to have taxpayers reimburse them for legal costs related to the Whitewater investigation, their lawyer said late Friday.

The Clintons raked in millions of dollars last year after leaving the White House. The former president earned $9.2 million on the lecture circuit, and Hillary Rodham Clinton ( news - web sites) — now New York's junior senator — received an $2.85 million advance on her memoirs.



First of all, that second paragraph has nothing to do with the first. Either they are entitled, by law, to have their legal costs refunded, or not. It isn't means tested. Inclusion of that paragraph was just done to imply that the Clintons are greedy.


Second, the term "raked" is not a neutral verb.

Sent in by reader R.