When you point out to the Hillary haters that in fact this email thing is a nothingburger, they sometimes retort How can you say that? The FBI is investigating it, the FBI
Of course, this underscores how much the media has lied about Hillary, Remember, lies are just saying things that are false but also saying things without context, or lies of omission.
In my last post I pointed out that MSNBC has been no less guilty of indiscriminate Hillary bashing than the rest of the Beltway media.
Lawrence O'Donnell has been more blatant though Chris Matthews for instance does it more implicitly by pumping up the tired Biden story.
Here he piously demands to know if Hillary Cares about the FOIA at all?! Clearly suggests she doesn't.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/30/lawrence_odonnell_on_clinton_emails_if_you_care_at_all_about_the_freedom_of_information_act.html
"Again, where is the context? Where have all these FOIA requests come from anyway? I wonder how many know the answer to that, Turns out these FOIA requests are all being made by Right wing legal groups-Judicial Watch and Citizen's United."
"U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a pair of orders Friday afternoon rejecting the Justice Department's motion to stay the cases brought by conservative groups Citizens United and Judicial Watch until a decision is reached on a broader motion seeking to coordinate more than 30 pending lawsuits involving emails on private accounts maintained by Clinton and her close aides."
"In the Citizens United case, the group was scheduled to get by Monday all correspondence between Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin and the Clinton Foundation, the lobbying firm Teneo and various related individuals. Sullivan said there was no reason to lift that deadline agreed to in May."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/09/judge-denies-stays-in-2-clinton-related-email-cases-213570#ixzz3lXucHiAw
So the reason the FBI is looking at this is that this is par for the course in FOIA requests. It's typical for the different agencies to get involved and for there to be turf wars.
But O'Donnell and others never give us this context. And anyone can make a FOIA request so the mere existence of this requests proves nothing.
But pointing this out would mean the Beltway media taking some of the pressure of their foot on her neck, so that they aren't going to do.
P.S. I just saw the Melissa-Perry Harris show today and found it rather shocking. She basically doesn't think Hillary being elected matters for women because: Hillary is white and 'privileged' as everyone who runs for President isn't in some way privileged-even President Obama was in some ways 'privileged' -his education, his connections, etc.
Of course, this underscores how much the media has lied about Hillary, Remember, lies are just saying things that are false but also saying things without context, or lies of omission.
In my last post I pointed out that MSNBC has been no less guilty of indiscriminate Hillary bashing than the rest of the Beltway media.
Lawrence O'Donnell has been more blatant though Chris Matthews for instance does it more implicitly by pumping up the tired Biden story.
Here he piously demands to know if Hillary Cares about the FOIA at all?! Clearly suggests she doesn't.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/30/lawrence_odonnell_on_clinton_emails_if_you_care_at_all_about_the_freedom_of_information_act.html
"Again, where is the context? Where have all these FOIA requests come from anyway? I wonder how many know the answer to that, Turns out these FOIA requests are all being made by Right wing legal groups-Judicial Watch and Citizen's United."
"U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a pair of orders Friday afternoon rejecting the Justice Department's motion to stay the cases brought by conservative groups Citizens United and Judicial Watch until a decision is reached on a broader motion seeking to coordinate more than 30 pending lawsuits involving emails on private accounts maintained by Clinton and her close aides."
"In the Citizens United case, the group was scheduled to get by Monday all correspondence between Clinton aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin and the Clinton Foundation, the lobbying firm Teneo and various related individuals. Sullivan said there was no reason to lift that deadline agreed to in May."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/09/judge-denies-stays-in-2-clinton-related-email-cases-213570#ixzz3lXucHiAw
So the reason the FBI is looking at this is that this is par for the course in FOIA requests. It's typical for the different agencies to get involved and for there to be turf wars.
But O'Donnell and others never give us this context. And anyone can make a FOIA request so the mere existence of this requests proves nothing.
But pointing this out would mean the Beltway media taking some of the pressure of their foot on her neck, so that they aren't going to do.
P.S. I just saw the Melissa-Perry Harris show today and found it rather shocking. She basically doesn't think Hillary being elected matters for women because: Hillary is white and 'privileged' as everyone who runs for President isn't in some way privileged-even President Obama was in some ways 'privileged' -his education, his connections, etc.
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