Report: John Boehner Is the Guy Who's Kept the Hillary Email Scandal Alive (HILLARY GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

....Gowdy never really wanted to get distracted with politically motivated attacks on Hillary Clinton. But John Boehner did, and he figured Gowdy was the best man for the job.

I'm not quite sure what this says about Gowdy, but it's certainly clear that Boehner thought that manipulating the media into nonstop reporting on Hillary's email server was a great idea. He also figured the media would take the bait. And they did.

So Gowdy gets, oh, let's say a C+. He tried to do the right thing, but caved in pretty quickly. Boehner gets a D. He was all about taking down Hillary Clinton from the get-go. The media gets an F. Boehner at least has the excuse of being a senior Republican leader, and attacking Democrats comes with the territory. But the media is not supposed to be so gullible that they believe everything Republicans say about Democratic leaders. In the case of Hillary Clinton, though, that rule seems to have been suspended. Again.

http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/10/report-john-boehner-guy-whos-kept-hillary-email-scandal-alive via Mother Jones

[riversedge]

1. Boehner should be front page on nytimes

The bold para was #25 buried in the nytimes piece. The nyt should have made it a headline on the front page as he IS 3rd in line for the presidency. This is hitting the bottom of ethical behavior.

....A friend of mine has tried to persuade me that Gowdy is probably playing things straight. I've argued that I don't believe it. He's a true believer, and he cares a lot more about taking down Democrats than he does about Benghazi itself, which he probably knows perfectly well has already been investigated to death. So which of us is right? This tidbit sheds a bit of light on things:

[Gowdy] said that at one point this spring he told John A. Boehner, the House speaker, that he feared the task of investigating the email issue would distract from his committee’s work....[and] pressed Mr. Boehner to have another House committee examine the matter of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, but that Mr. Boehner had rejected the request.

....Senior Republican officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were discussing confidential conversations, said that Mr. Boehner had long been suspicious of the administration’s handling of the attacks and that Mrs. Clinton’s emails gave him a way to keep the issue alive and to cause political problems for her campaign. But he thought that the task was too delicate to entrust to others and that it should remain with Mr. Gowdy, the former prosecutor.

If this is true, my friend is halfway right: Gowdy never really wanted to get distracted with politically motivated attacks on Hillary Clinton. But John Boehner did, and he figured Gowdy was the best man for the job.................

[riversedge]

5. Brian Fallon....

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NYT: "Senior Republican officials ... said that [for] Mr. Boehner... Clinton’s emails gave him a way... to cause political problems for her"
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[Iliyah]

2. Good luck with that . . .

[Gothmog]

3. Boehner's and Howdy Gowdy's lies are now exposed

[yallerdawg]

4. Trappings of a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

Straight out of Republican think tanks to highest levels of Republican leadership through Congressional committees straight out to Republican Fourth and Fifth Estate meme machines right into the corporate M$M and complicit news sources looking for ways to generate advertising dollars and ratings.

The media understands its ever-increasing significant role in creating the public perception of the candidates. Hillary is more than familiar with this, specifically "the pass" the media took in the 2008 primary. Almost all the controversial material pertaining to Obama came out after the primary, and a lot came out after the general election.

[Dramato]

6. Agree with the F for the media

They should know better.