The Clintons' Chop Suey Connection

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
The American Spectator

WASHINGTON -- I hope you followed the news with the utmost care last week. A stupendous story peeked into the media, grew to adulthood in no time, and vanished.

The news story began with the Wall Street Journal's report that a major donor to the Clinton presidential campaign, Hong Kong-born Norman Hsu, appeared to have "bundled" vast amounts of money into donations to Democrats. Particularly blessed was the Clinton presidential campaign. One of Mr. Hsu's donors was the Paw family, the modest Chinese-American family of a California mail carrier whose annual salary is $45,000, but whose family has donated $244,000 to the Democrats since 2004 -- $55,000 of which went to the Clinton campaign. So prominent has Mr. Hsu been among Clinton donors that he has been anointed a "Hillraiser," a donor who has pledge at least $100,000 for the Clinton cause. The Journal reports that Democratic sources claim his donations to the Clintons amount to "well over $1 million."

The story gets better. Mr. Hsu's sudden notoriety alerted officials in California that he is a convicted felon who has been on the lam since 1992. That news broke late in the week when Mr. Hsu turned himself in and posted $2 million for bail. Then over the weekend the story died. Then this week Mr. Hsu failed to show up for his bail hearing.

It's interesting that the Clintons Chinese donors always end up disappearing...