How the GOP lies about Hillary Clinton to drive down her poll numbers
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How The Right-Wing Echo Chamber Spins Bullsh*t Into Fact
Shelley Powers noticed that a story circulating in the right-wing echo chamber suggests that Hillary Clinton's email cache included one from April 1, 2002 which was declassified on April 1, 2012 and published to the State Department's FOIA website in 2014.
The right-wing echo chamber pounced on it.
I noticed a story claiming to be about a "smoking gun" proving that Hilary Clinton knew she had top secret information on her server. They got the information from a Daily Mail story. The story has since been picked up by Newsmax, the Telegraph, the BBC, and many other publications too numerous to list.
There's only one problem, and it starts over at the Daily Mail. In their article, they write:
The documents, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, are part of a batch of secret emails held on the private server of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S. courts have forced her to reveal.
Oooh, how investigative of them. Shelley further pointed out that the email they refer to could be discovered easily enough with a simple search at the Department of State FOIA reading room site.
It's easy. Really. I just duplicated Shelley's result when I took the case number from the document published at the Daily Mail, and searched it. Anyone can do it. This is the result:
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So. Here is the formula.
1. Take one line from an unrelated story from the Daily Mail claiming said "classified" email was really from the Hillary collection at the U.S. Department of State.
2. Let a few hack bloggers and lazy reporters pick up on the phrase "Hillary Clinton emails"
3. Do absolutely no critical thinking or fact-checking
4. Publish it and echo it throughout the lying right-wing chamber until mainstream media outlets pick it up.
The article on the ironically-titled American Thinker blog makes this claim:
This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as my friend Mike Nadler says, “she lied in her numerous statements that there were no classified documents on her server, even with her later qualification that none were marked classified at the time."
No, actually what it proves is that there is no speck of bullshit too small for a winger to scoop it up into a little pile and then throw at the Internet to see where it splats.
If you want to make some noise, I suggest you tweet the Daily Mail and demand that they immediately correct their article to remove all references to Hillary Clinton's email server.
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