If you’re Bill Clinton you get your $175,000 speaker’s fee anyway

There is no doubt that former U.S. president Bill Clinton would garner more attention at the late Ted Kennedy’s funeral tomorrow than he will by making a speech to empty seats at the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE). Clinton still collects his normal fee of $175,000--even though the CNE can’t make his tickets sell. Only about 7,000 of the available 25,000 tickets have been sold and Ex officials are hoping for a last-minute rush on Saturday afternoon. The situation is a public embarrassment. But not much embarrasses Hillary’s husband, who will be heading out for Toronto right after genuflecting at Kennedy’s funeral mass in Boston.