2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNew 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 Podestas 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 HRCs 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
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)is in there somewhere.
Thanks for doing us the favor of reading through the boring emails and sparing us the drudgery of doing so.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Cresent City Kid
(1,621 posts)10,000 emails lead to 20 news outlets quoting 2 sentences.