2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"McCabegate" Is the Latest "Scandal" That Will "Totally Destroy Hillary Clinton"
In early 2015, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe recruited Dr. Jill McCabe to run for a state Senate seat.
Various organizations under McAuliffe's control donated lots of money to her campaign.
She lost.
Several months later, McCabe's husband was promoted to deputy director of the FBI. Because of that promotion, he "helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clintons email use." This was presumably in addition to the hundreds of other things that a deputy director has oversight responsibility for.
There's literally nothing here. Not "nothing substantial." Not "nothing that other politicians don't do." Literally nothing. There's not a single bit of this that's illegal, unethical, or even the tiniest bit wrong. It's totally above board and perfectly kosher. And even if there were anything wrong, McAuliffe would have needed a time machine to know it.
Honest to God, I'm so tired of this stuff I could scream. I've been joking about it lately by appending gate to every dumb little nonscandal that's tossed in Hillary's direction, and I guess I'll keep doing that. But our illustrious press corps needs to pull its collective head out of its ass. If you've got real evidence of Hillary being engaged in something fishy, go to town. I won't complain. But if all you've got is a thrice-removed, physics-challenged gewgaw that proves nothing except that you know how to play Six Degrees of Hillary Clinton, then give it a rest. It just makes you look like those monomaniacs with thousands of clippings glued to their wall and spider webs of string tying them all together.
Just stop it.
Here's how it works:
Make a list of the entire chain of command that had some oversight over the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's email server. That's going to be at least half a dozen people.
Make a list of all their close family and friends. Now you're up to a hundred people.
Look for a connection between any of those people and the Clintons. Since FBI headquarters is located in Washington, DC, and the Clintons famously have thousands and thousands of friends, you will find a connection. I guarantee it.
Write a story about it.
See how easy this is? But please don't try it at home. This is a game for trained professionals only.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/10/mccabegate-latest-scandal-will-totally-destroy-hillary-clinton
MADem
(135,425 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)but I think "normal" people don't care about them. There wasn't even a serious national security problem.
MADem
(135,425 posts)apcalc
(4,465 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)On the Right and the Left.
apcalc
(4,465 posts)Honestly, I doubt any Trumpster really pays attention.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It has been reported by CNN and The Hill.
Jim__
(14,083 posts)If she were really crooked, there would be plenty of legitimate scandals to publicize.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Anyone I know who supports or votes for this pig substantially lowers themselves in my esteem.
That includes the "people's choice" apologists - the "Good German" argument repeated.
Hearing Trump mouth these lies in public points out just how dangerous this sociopathic sub-human would be in any office, including dogcatcher.
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)from the right is akin to killing an Al-Queda *2.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)they always do
it never works
underpants
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