Oh, Well That Makes it Perfectly OK

Try for a moment to imagine the following mild, non-judgmental lede buried somewhere deep and obscure in the bowels of a thumbnail story in New York Times:

Republican presidential candidate [whomever] will give to charity the $23,000 in donations he has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.

Now try to stop laughing.

In case you hadn't figured it out already, that's not the real story. The real story is about Hillary Clinton and thus is in fact mild, non-judgmental and in the process of being buried by the MSM.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.

There's a reason this is coming out in the deadest possible week of the annual news cycle well before the first primary: Hillary wanted it that way and she had the chits to call in to ensure that it did. Were the subject a Republican, it would have broken three weeks before the general election and stayed on the front page for days.