low points of email coverage: NYTclaiming Clinton target of criminal inves, WP claiming 147 agents

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low points of email coverage: NYT claiming Clinton target of criminal investigation, WP claiming 147 FBI agents





Months Of Media Speculation About Clinton Criminality All For Naught

Like Benghazi, Email "Scandal" Winds Down
Blog ››› 4 hours 8 min ago ››› ERIC BOEHLERT

First Benghazi, and now Hillary Clinton’s emails.

If critics hoped so-called Clinton scandals were going to derail the Democrat’s White House campaign, they’re going to have to devise a new strategy as the long-running controversies continue to be deflated via official inquiries.

Confirming what many intelligence and legal experts had long suggested to be the case, FBI Director James Comey said the FBI is not recommending criminal charges over Clinton’s use of private email as secretary of state, saying that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” The announcement comes in the wake of the eighth and likely final government investigation into the Benghazi terror attacks, which failed to uncover Clinton wrongdoing.

Both cases were obsessively hyped by the conservative media (Clinton would soon be fitted for an orange prison jumpsuit!) and often irresponsibly echoed by the mainstream media. Beltway journalists seemed overly anxious to suggest criminality on the part of Clinton, and focused on the looming political downfall supposedly stemming from her emails.

Remember the media’s complete freakout when the email story first broke last year? Based on the waves of hysteria among journalists at the outset, you would’ve thought Democratic burglars had just been caught breaking into the Republican National Committee’s headquarters.

The “scandal” prompted The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd to liken the Clintons to the Iranian regime, while a Times illustration depicted Clinton as being crushed to death by a smartphone, like the Wicked Witch of the East........................................

[Her Sister]

1. Bush White House announced that as many as 5 million emails, covering a 2year span, had been lost"

And yes, in 2007, when Democrats in Congress demanded White House emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the Bush White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost. The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used the RNC account for “about 95 percent” of his communications.

The media’s response to that email story? Meh. Ponder that non-reaction in the wake of the media’s 16-month parade of Clinton email coverage

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/05/months-media-speculation-about-clinton-criminality-all-naught/211342?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-All+%28Media+Matters+for+America%29

[Her Sister]

2. Media wanted this to be a "game changer"

The problem was that the specifics of the email saga never actually suggested any of that. Instead, we witnessed a wide lens example of the press projecting its misgiving and disdain for a candidate onto an unfolding news story and then treating it as something it clearly was not: a game changer.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/07/05/months-media-speculation-about-clinton-criminality-all-naught/211342?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MediaMattersForAmerica-All+%28Media+Matters+for+America%29

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3. Maureen Dowd has always had an irrational hatred

of Hillary Clinton. I never could figure it out. Except, she loves her snark. She's attacked Hillary's hair, dress, looks, femininity...everything but policy, fitness for office, and intelligence.

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4. Jealousy?

I'm sure there are many women who resent that Hillary's the first female candidate and likely the first woman president. Sometimes women can be their own worst enemies.