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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 07:08 PM Oct 2016

New Email Dump Reveals That Hillary Clinton Is Honest and Boring

KEVIN DRUMOCT. 8, 2016 1:40 AM

I interrupt today's news about Donald Trump being a vulgar pig to bring you even bigger news: Hillary Clinton is doomed. "GAME OVER?" asks the shocked headline at Twitchy. "Did the WikiLeaks alleged hack of John Podesta’s emails just cost Hillary Clinton the election?"

Yawn. More email stuff. And this time it's not even Clinton's email. It's email from John Podesta, Hillary's campaign chairman and longtime Clinton/Obama major domo. Actually, wait: it's not email from John Podesta. It's from Tony Carrk, but got hacked from Podesta's account because Carrk sent it to a bunch of Clinton campaign folks. Here's what it says:

Attached are the flags from HRC’s paid speeches we have from HWA. I put some highlights below. There is a lot of policy positions that we should give an extra scrub with Policy.

An "extra scrub with Policy"? WTF does that mean? I guess it doesn't matter. The important thing is that apparently this poor Carrk fellow was tasked with reading through all of Hillary Clinton's paid speeches to see if she had said anything that might be embarrassing if it got out. Carrk found about a dozen things, and attached headlines representing the worst possible spin he could think of. Here's a typical entry:

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http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/10/new-email-dump-reveals-hillary-clinton-honest-and-boring
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New Email Dump Reveals That Hillary Clinton Is Honest and Boring (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
... and more left on some issues than she was during the primaries !! uponit7771 Oct 2016 #1
I'm sure there's something in there somewhere. Gotta keep looking. I know that Benghazi smoking gun politicaljunkie41910 Oct 2016 #2
Yup. Agschmid Oct 2016 #3
The numbers are similar to previous releases Cresent City Kid Oct 2016 #5

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
2. I'm sure there's something in there somewhere. Gotta keep looking. I know that Benghazi smoking gun
Sun Oct 9, 2016, 07:27 PM
Oct 2016

is in there somewhere.

Thanks for doing us the favor of reading through the boring emails and sparing us the drudgery of doing so.

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