Latest MSM article about Huma Abedin and Hillary Clinton tells lots about Huma's baggage

Huma Abedin is getting more and more  ink devoted to her by the MSM   ---  BUT ---  That’s NOT what Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Campaign wants

“Vanity Fair” Magazine gives “HUMA” the mainstage treatment   ---  AND  ---   “Media Matters,”  a key part of Team Clinton, does a very fast pushback

Breitbart News says   ---   William D. Cohan and “Vanity Fair” Magazine bring out FACTS about Huma Abedin's radical Islamist connection for the first time in a Mainstream Media article   ---  AND  ---  The Clintons and "Media Matters" had to react because these FACTS had previously been reported-on only in the conservative-leaning media 

According to William D. Cohan writing in Vanity Fair   ---    “….  [A]s anyone who follows politics knows, [Huma Abedin is, as Politico once described her, Hillary Clinton’s ‘shadow’].  She began working for Hillary in 1996, when she was a 19-year-old intern fresh from George Washington University assigned to the First Lady’s office. Abedin had wanted to be a journalist like her hero Christiane Amanpour and was hoping to work in the White House press office. ‘Take a chance,’ her mother told her. ‘Don’t fall in love with Plan A.” Huma took the advice. “Sixteen years later, I wouldn’t change a thing,” she told a dinner audience in 2012, at a Fortune conference. “And I got to meet Christiane Amanpour.’…    Over the years Huma has served in several positions, with increasingly important-sounding titles. She has been Hillary’s ‘body woman,’ her traveling chief of staff, a senior adviser, and a deputy chief of staff when Hillary was secretary of state. Now, based in Brooklyn, she is the vice-chair of Hillary’s 2016 presidential campaign. But whatever the title, the job she performs for Hillary has always been essentially the same: confessor, confidante, and constant companion. It’s safe to say that over the years Abedin and Hillary have spent more time together than either has with her husband….  A former adviser to Bill Clinton describes her as ‘a mini Hillary.’  Wherever Hillary goes, Abedin goes. In November 2008, when Hillary flew to Chicago to meet with President-Elect Barack Obama to discuss becoming secretary of state, she took Huma along. During Hillary’s grueling, nearly 11-hour congressional testimony in October about Benghazi, Abedin was there. She has been referred to as a ‘second daughter’ to the Clintons. Others have described Hillary and Huma as like sisters….” (See “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem“   by William D. Cohan,  1/31/16, Vanity Fair/ News  [http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser]).

That is only the beginning of a very long and penetrating article about Huma Abedin: who she is; where she came from; who she’s married to; and what she seems to mean to Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign. 

TEAM CLINTON’S BIG PUSH   ----   AGAINST  THE “VF” ARTICLE ABOUT “HUMA”

Perhaps as big a story as the underlying Vanity Fair article about Ms. Abedin was the catlike reaction by the Clinton team, almost as if they were waiting for it (which they probably were, since VF had asked the Clinton Campaign to make Huma Abedin "available" for comment).

According to a piece that appeared earlier today on the Breitbart News blog,  “….  The left-wing attack machine [Media Matters]   wasted no time in posting an article with false information and smears in order to protect the Clinton campaign [from the Vanity Fair article]….   Hillary Clinton has stated publicly that she helped ‘start and support’ Media Matters, and that organization has consistently come to [Hillary’s] aid with a consistent campaign of misinformation, half-truths and smears of her critics that can then get repeated by [others in] the mainstream media….   The Vanity Fair article must have sent shockwaves through the Clinton camp. It’s rare to read mainstream press criticism of Huma Abedin….   Instead, [Abedin always gets good press and the] mainstream adoration for Huma by the media is often … over the top....”  (See “The Truth about Huma Abedin that Media Matters Doesn’t Want America to See”   by  Lee Stranihan, 1/18/16, Breitbart News [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/18/the-truth-about-huma-abedin-that-media-matters-doesnt-want-america-to-see/]). 

HERE’S SOME OF WHAT GOT “MEDIA MATTERS” AND THE REST OF THE CLINTON TEAM SO MAD

According to Lee Stranihan and Breitbart News ---  “To his credit, Cohan’s Vanity Fair piece on the secretive Abedin confirms a number of facts that have been reported by conservative media for a couple of years but have been twisted and convoluted by the mainstream media….   For example, the Vanity Fair article flatly lays out the information that Huma Abedin was an assistant editor at a publication called the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs from 1996 until 2008….  ‘It turns out the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs is an Abedin family business. Huma was an assistant editor there between 1996 and 2008. Her brother, Hassan, 45, is a book-review editor at the Journal and was a fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, where Nasseef is chairman of the board of trustees. Huma’s sister, Heba, 26, is an assistant editor at the Journal…’ [from the VF article by William D. Cohan]....”

HERE’S WHAT BREITBART & COMPANY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT AND WHAT MEDIA MATTERS IS TRYING TO DO

“….  Not one statement [above] is actually controversial because they can all be confirmed by simple research that refers to primary sources. In other words, you don’t need to reference conservative media in any way to determine the truth about the Abedin family and their connections to Abdullah Omar Nasseef….  As the masthead of this 1996 issue of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs shows, Huma Abedin was an assistant editor at Journal. Down the masthead you can see the name of Abdullah Omar Nasseef….  Because of the smear tactics used by Media Matters and repeated by the mainstream media, this point cannot be stressed enough: this is a primary source showing Abedin was an Assistant Editor of the Journal. It’s not a right-wing theory, a conservative fever dream, Islamaphobia nonsense or anti-Muslim fear-mongering. It’s a fact, a cold hard fact shown on the Journal’s masthead at the site where the Journal itself publishes….  Because it’s such it’s an easily verified fact, it should not be a significant breakthrough that the mainstream publication Vanity Fair published the truth about Huma Abedin’s clear and indisputable connection to the Journal and Naseef….”    And this:   “…. Because [this information about Huma Abedin is such] an easily verified fact, it should not be a significant breakthrough that the mainstream publication Vanity Fair published the truth about Huma Abedin’s clear and indisputable connection to the Journal and Naseef….  [However, that Cohan and Vanity Fair brought the facts about Abedin to light for the first time in a mainstream media article] is a breakthrough; [and that is] precisely why Media Matters for America immediately went to work trying to obscure the facts, telling its readers— which include many journalists— that claiming Huma Abedin has connections to alleged terror funders is a ‘spider-web of guilt by association.’…”

READ BOTH THE VANITY FAIR AND BREITBART ARTICLES CITED ABOVE ---  AND ---  THEN MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND AS TO WHETHER HUMA IS “A SECRET WEAPON” OR A “BIG PROBLEM” FOR HILLARY AND HER CAMPAIGN TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES