50 Headlines That Reveal Wash. Post Reporter Chris Cillizza's Obsession With The Clinton Email Story

[leftofcool]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/09/25/50-headlines-that-reveal-wash-post-reporter-chr/205765



And yet, people keep falling for the sleeze

[upaloopa]

1. People like Cillizza are trying to make a name for themselves. Ann Colter was a nobody until she

became a talking head bashing Bill Clinton during the Monica thing. The Clintons are some people's ticket to stardom.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Get Clinton, Get Cash. So it has been for long time. And this time there is a LOT of cash!

[Human101948]

2. Gee,you might come to the conclusion that he has an agenda!

That collection of headlines makes Chris look a little biased.

[Fred Sanders]

3. Many incompetent hacks in the mass media understand they need to Get Clinton to Get Cash.

[Hortensis]

12. Cillizza and the MSM. This bias has probably earned career points.

[NCTraveler]

6. Keep falling for it or willfully disseminating it?

Enormous difference in the two.

[99Forever]

7. And?

Out to prove that this will haunt Hillary for the rest of her public life?

Well, no shit.

Personally, I want a President without an entire train of boxcars full of baggage sucking up of their time and energy. More than two decades of trying to defend Clintons as they make one unforced error after another is quite enough, thank you very much.

[leveymg]

8. The OP reminds me of the letters to the editor at the WaPo during Watergate. The GOP letterwriters

similarly denied all along that Nixon had done anything wrong or illegal, and argued vociferously that the scandal was just a partisan Democratic conspiracy theory. They pointed to continued coverage of Watergate as proof of "liberal media bias."

Yes, some people keep falling for the sleeze.

[One of the 99]

10. Except that Watergate started with an actual crime.

The break-in at DNC headquarters. So far no one has been accused of committing a crime regarding Clinton's emails.

And Chris Cillizza's web series, Mouthpiece Theatre, was yanked in 2009 for a sexist attack on Clinton. So he seems to have some issues with her.

[leveymg]

11. So did this one: felony violation of 18 USC Sec. 793 (e) and (f) and EO 13526

The crime was committed the moment that HRC, herself, posted presumed classified information (see, EO 13526 the presumption that mishandling of foreign government-sourced information is harmful to the national security) onto an unsecured private server without authorization. It was also a felony under the Espionage Act, 18 USC Sec. 793, for her to facilitate others in the use of her private system to exchange classified information.

It's all laid out here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251552653, "Hillary Clinton's Felony. The federal laws violated by the private server"

[dsc]

13. written by Bush's AG

what a wonderful source. Was Goebells to busy being dead?

[leveymg]

14. The Bush Admin should have been frogmarched down Penn Ave.

But that doesn't excuse HRC.

[dsc]

15. my point is you are relying on his reading of the law

and he is a liar, so therefore his reading of the law is suspect.

[leveymg]

17. I haven't even read Mukasey's take on this. His brief may have some similarities with

mine, but that is merely coincidental. What I have posted is entirely my own analysis, and I am not RW. Not at all.

[riversedge]

18. But you are doing the RW's work for them.

[leveymg]

19. No. I'm letting my friends here know what legal consequences I believe she's facing.

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Believe me, the RW doesn't need me for legal strategy. In fact, it isn't up to the GOP. It's in the hands of the Attorney General.

[One of the 99]

21. Yet no one has been charged with a crime as yet.

Even the prosecutor in the General Petraeus case has said no crime was committed here.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/08/30/clinton-controversy-no-comparison-petraeus-column/71421242/

[leveymg]

23. Of course not. That will ultimately be the decision of the AG.

Most likely, it will work out as it did for CIA Director Deutch when he brought home classified materials on his laptop and hooked it onto the web to watch adult videos. He resigned, and was referred to the AG who sat on it for the rest of Clinton's term. He was pardoned by Bill on the last day.

As for the USA for North Carolina who prosecuted Petraeus. There was a plea agreement, and he was convicted of a lesser charge. The former USA left office and went into private practice. She's now part of HRC's campaign. In her op-ed, she never addressed the key issue of presumed classified information which didn't come up in the Petraeus case. Sprinkle that one with partisan salt.

[One of the 99]

24. You're not in a position to say what's most likely.

Especially since Clinton herself is not being investigated.

[leveymg]

25. The AG will determine when HRC is being investigated. That's just evident from the circumstances.

Highest political profile case. The FBI is under the AG. Nobody at the Bureau is going to make that call because once they do all hell is going to break loose, regardless of what the decision is. If the Deutch case is any guide, the AG will likely decide not to decide, publicly.

[One of the 99]

28. Not when, if.

And that still remains to be seen.

[leveymg]

29. It's self-evident she broke the law. The question is,

does this Administration have the will to charge her, and will they go for the max or settle for a political solution?

[One of the 99]

30. No it is not

That is your opinion.

[leveymg]

32. She loaded classified information onto a nonsecure, private server - she broke the law. Prima facie

violation of 18 USC 793 (e) and/or (f), as classified under Executive Order 13526. If you have real interest in this subject, read the post that explains exactly what that means -- http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251552653 -- and then come back and argue specifics. If you don't, then just keep coming back to argue.

[One of the 99]

33. Again that is your opinion.

There is no proof that "she loaded classified information into a private server" as you put it. And neither the Justice Department or the FBI has accused her of breaking any law. As I state above, even the prosecutor in the General Petraeus case has said no crime has been committed here.

[ibegurpard]

9. And yet somehow

Hillary's going to be able to put this all to rest once she's won the nomination...which she hasn't been able to do so far. Bernie ' s a Socialist but so is Hillary ( as is Obama and every other Democrat) AND we get treated to a non-stop barrage of her "scandals" and she generates no excitement to counterract that. Great strategy for picking a nominee guys!

[randome]

16. I didn't realize how many of these recent DU memes came from a single source.

Love or hate Clinton, it should be embarrassing to anyone to be carrying Cillizza's water. 'Sleazy Cillizza' has a good ring to it.
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[Motown_Johnny]

20. If her campaign can't deal with Cillizza and this email crap

how are they going to deal with Rove and the Koch Brother's slime machine?

This stuff is still softball compared to what the RW will do to her. We all know they have been planning on running against her for years.
What they will do to her will make Swift Boating look like a ticker tape parade.



Please keep in mind, this is a news story. Just think about what attack ads will be made from it.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. If she can't deal with Cillizza and the email story she should not be our nominee.

[upaloopa]

27. We talk a lot about blaiming the victim on this

board and usually we find the behavior less than honorable but then it's Hillary so anything goes right?

[m-lekktor]

22. Media Matters =David Brock=Clinton Campaign.

Hardly an unbiased source.

[elleng]

26. cilizza's a nothing, so I've never paid attention to him.

and remember, writers don't compose headlines.

[Fumesucker]

31. "writers don't compose headlines"

Exactly...

I would have no idea anyone named Godzilla Cillizza even existed were it not for DUers complaining about them.