I wrote of my disgust with how Andrea Mitchell spent 20 minutes out of a 40 minute interview badgering her on emails the other day.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/after-watching-andrea-mitchell-drill.html
I'm sure her fellow pundits in the Beltway press loved it but it just shows how wide the gulf is between the preoccupations of the BP and the public they are alleged to serve.
As Hillary has rightfully said:
1. Voters don't ask her about emails.
2. Until she was running for President the press didn't either.
But it would be a real problem if she apologized for something she didn't do-and it could even backfire in givng Trent Gowdy-the House GOPer leading the Committee not to Elect Hillary-aka, the Benghazi Committee-and the Beltway hating media more to bang her about the head with.
Might not some voters make the assumption that if she's apologizing she must be guilty? So I am glad to see her not apologize and she shouldn't. While I don't buy all this talk that she has made any great lapse in judgment-either in using private email or how she;s handled it; everyone says she should have handled it better, less 'lawyerly'-but this to me sounds like The Immaculate Handling-they say she should have handled it in this perfect way but never say what that was-apologizing would have been an error.
"Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told the Associated Press in a Monday interview that she won't apologize for using a private email account at the State Department because the agency allowed her to do so."
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/after-watching-andrea-mitchell-drill.html
I'm sure her fellow pundits in the Beltway press loved it but it just shows how wide the gulf is between the preoccupations of the BP and the public they are alleged to serve.
As Hillary has rightfully said:
1. Voters don't ask her about emails.
2. Until she was running for President the press didn't either.
But it would be a real problem if she apologized for something she didn't do-and it could even backfire in givng Trent Gowdy-the House GOPer leading the Committee not to Elect Hillary-aka, the Benghazi Committee-and the Beltway hating media more to bang her about the head with.
Might not some voters make the assumption that if she's apologizing she must be guilty? So I am glad to see her not apologize and she shouldn't. While I don't buy all this talk that she has made any great lapse in judgment-either in using private email or how she;s handled it; everyone says she should have handled it better, less 'lawyerly'-but this to me sounds like The Immaculate Handling-they say she should have handled it in this perfect way but never say what that was-apologizing would have been an error.
"Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton told the Associated Press in a Monday interview that she won't apologize for using a private email account at the State Department because the agency allowed her to do so."
"What I did was allowed," she said when the AP asked why she wouldn't directly apologize for deciding to use private email exclusively during her tenure as a Cabinet official. "It was allowed by the State Department. The State Department has confirmed that."
"I did not send or receive any information marked classified," she added. "I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so."
Asked whether the federal inquiries and news headlines surrounding her use of a private email account have damaged her campaign, Clinton told the AP that while it was certainly a "distraction," "it hasn't in any way affected the plan for our campaign."
Clinton told NBC's Andrea Mitchell last week that she was sorry the issues surrounding her private email account and server had confused people. She added that setting up the private server "wasn't the best choice."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillary-clinton-emails-no-apology
I don't even love her giving away that much.
She hasn't done anything that other government officials at all levels both at the state and federal level haven't done.
There's always an attempt to make what she did different, just like in the 90s there was supposed to be a big difference between Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and the extramarital affairs of all those adulterous Republicans in Congress calling for him to resign.
What Clinton did was in the Oval Office so that's what's different. He was the President. \
Andrea Mitchell tried to argue that what makes Hillary different is that she used her private emails solely. I don't know if even this claim is correct-that no one else has used private emails solely.
But even if it is, so what?
1. What Hillary has pointed out is that it's illegal to reveal classified information whether by private or government email.
So the issue over classified information is not about private vs. public email.
2. As the State Department's archival system is a mess, if she had kept her correspondences in government email, a lot more of them would be lost.
3. The emails we've seen so far make it obvious that there's nothing to see here. In fact Rush Limbaugh is noticing that and wondering if this is a liberal setup-that there's nothing to see here.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/rush-explains-why-emailgate-is-turning.html
P.S. Again, the attempt to show what she did was different is just the usual cherrypicking. Chuck Hagel also used private emails.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Former-Sec-of-Defense-Hagels-Private-Email-Address-Found-on-Email-From-White-House-295813861.html
It's not as if your supposed to send classified emails over your government email account either and we have seen that government websites have been hacked again and again so why there is this obsession over private vs. public is not really clear.
Normally the Republicans think the private sector is better at everything. Evidently the one thing they concede to the government is cybersecurity-despite the well known cases of being hacked.
P.S.S. As I've argued before, in reality she's been too cooperative with Trent Gowdy and friends.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/ok-heres-what-hillary-should-have-said.html
"I did not send or receive any information marked classified," she added. "I take the responsibilities of handling classified materials very seriously and did so."
Asked whether the federal inquiries and news headlines surrounding her use of a private email account have damaged her campaign, Clinton told the AP that while it was certainly a "distraction," "it hasn't in any way affected the plan for our campaign."
Clinton told NBC's Andrea Mitchell last week that she was sorry the issues surrounding her private email account and server had confused people. She added that setting up the private server "wasn't the best choice."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillary-clinton-emails-no-apology
I don't even love her giving away that much.
She hasn't done anything that other government officials at all levels both at the state and federal level haven't done.
There's always an attempt to make what she did different, just like in the 90s there was supposed to be a big difference between Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky and the extramarital affairs of all those adulterous Republicans in Congress calling for him to resign.
What Clinton did was in the Oval Office so that's what's different. He was the President. \
Andrea Mitchell tried to argue that what makes Hillary different is that she used her private emails solely. I don't know if even this claim is correct-that no one else has used private emails solely.
But even if it is, so what?
1. What Hillary has pointed out is that it's illegal to reveal classified information whether by private or government email.
So the issue over classified information is not about private vs. public email.
2. As the State Department's archival system is a mess, if she had kept her correspondences in government email, a lot more of them would be lost.
3. The emails we've seen so far make it obvious that there's nothing to see here. In fact Rush Limbaugh is noticing that and wondering if this is a liberal setup-that there's nothing to see here.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/09/rush-explains-why-emailgate-is-turning.html
P.S. Again, the attempt to show what she did was different is just the usual cherrypicking. Chuck Hagel also used private emails.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Former-Sec-of-Defense-Hagels-Private-Email-Address-Found-on-Email-From-White-House-295813861.html
It's not as if your supposed to send classified emails over your government email account either and we have seen that government websites have been hacked again and again so why there is this obsession over private vs. public is not really clear.
Normally the Republicans think the private sector is better at everything. Evidently the one thing they concede to the government is cybersecurity-despite the well known cases of being hacked.
P.S.S. As I've argued before, in reality she's been too cooperative with Trent Gowdy and friends.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/ok-heres-what-hillary-should-have-said.html
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