I’ll bet the weekend internet poster at The New York Times is laughing pretty hard right now. He or she managed to stack a story about the Clintons’ enormous post-presidential wealth ($109 million) on top of one where Hillary is looking to create a cabinet post for poverty.

Although a poverty secretary is somewhat ludicrous - isn’t that the job of, say, the secretary of health and human affairs or the secretary of labor? - it certainly looks good as a selling point for Clinton’s campaign. Too bad it has to be overshadowed (literally) by the Clintons’ embarrassingly positive account balance.

Perhaps the Times thought it would be funny to juxtapose the two stories, but I think they’re funny enough by themselves. Here’s a screenshot of the web page, in case you missed it - because of the low quality of the image, you have to click on it to see the details.

I did a little half-time-style circling in the Paint file. So sue me.

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