MSNBC's Morning Joe Edits Out David Ignatius' Debunking Of Clinton Email "Scandal"

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Blatant dishonesty.



http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/04/msnbcs-morning-joe-edits-out-david-ignatius-deb/205376

MSNBC's Morning Joe Edits Out David Ignatius' Debunking Of Clinton Email "Scandal"
Ignatius: "I Couldn't Find A Case Where This Kind Of Activity Had Been Prosecuted... Legally There Is No Difference Between [Clinton] Using Her Private Server And If She'd Used State.gov"



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During an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius thoroughly debunked arguments that Hillary Clinton should be charged with a crime as a result of her use of a private email system while serving as secretary of state. When MSNBC re-aired the first hour of its program later in the morning, the bulk of Ignatius' debunking had been edited out.

On the September 4 edition of Morning Joe, co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski continued their efforts to stoke controversy around Hillary Clinton's email practices while serving as secretary of state. Both Scarborough and Brzezinski suggested that guest David Ignatius was simply "getting tired" of the wall-to-wall media coverage directed at Clinton after the columnist authored an August 28 op-ed in The Washington Post arguing that "this 'scandal' is overstated." Ignatius responded by explaining that experts he spoke with dismissed as far-fetched claims Clinton committed a criminal offense.

But during the rebroadcast of the segment, Morning Joe cut away from Ignatius' explanation mid-sentence. During the initial broadcast, Ignatius said (emphasis added), "As I talked to a half dozen of lawyers who do nothing but this kind of work, they said they couldn't remember a case like this, where people informally and inadvertently draw classified information into their phone conversations or their unclassified server conversations, where there had been a prosecution."

When the segment re-aired, Ignatius is heard saying, "As I talked to a half dozen of lawyers who do nothing but this kind of work, they said they couldn't remember a case like this," before the show skipped forward to a remark by co-host Mika Brzezinski about Clinton aide Cheryl Mills.

Significantly, the rebroadcast failed to include the conclusion of Ignatius' thought, which is that Clinton's email practices do not amount to a prosecutable offense, according to several expert attorneys he talked to. Here are Ignatius' unedited remarks (emphasis added): ...........transcript.....

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1. Of course they did.

It is morning scumbag after all.

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2. Ignatius interviewed Jeffrey Smith, and wrote an article quoting him extensively

to help exonerate Clinton (a poorly written/contradictory article by the way)--but Ignatius didn't disclose that Jeffrey Smith was a longtime advisor and consultant for the Clintons. He says in the article he talked to a bunch of lawyers, but only quotes a Clinton crony. You have to reveal ties like that for good journalism. Thus Ignatius shot his own credibility. Not that he had much anyway, he's been predicting Bashir Assad's fall every few weeks for the past four years, but still...

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6. +10

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3. His comparison was NOT accurate. She did not set up a SECURE system.

It's not like she just inadvertently or informally sent out classified information on an unsecured system. She never sat up a secured system and it's not like it happened a couple of times. And the extent will NEVER be known unless her deleted files are ever recovered or provided by hackers. If someone with a security clearance had acted with such a disregard for classified information protocol they would have been fired and brought up on charges. Minor security spillage is one thing. This is quite another.

I noticed that they cut it off and I wondered for what purpose. I know Joe isn't her biggest fan but the afternoon crew is rah rah Hillary and Morning Joe has plenty of Hillary cheerleaders. Maybe it was cut off so that Camp Hillary could later use it to accuse the media of being unfair to her (which is a joke unless it is Fox). But even Fox is holding back until the general election.

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5. Thank you +1

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4. I stopped watching this show a while back

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7. Dead Intern Joe is tied for last place with headline news.

He gets to stay on because he a beltway propagandist.

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8. Damn dirty dogs.

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9. Morning Joe is a swine.

I think I'm using accurate and politically correct language here.
Stating a truth.

I don't get the whole Joe and Mika thing. For that matter, I don't really get the messages from any of the performers at MSNBC. They all lost me quite some time ago.