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Howard Dean: Hillary's email scandal is a big nothingburger created by the media


By Robert Laurie ——--September 10, 2015

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This week, Hillary Clinton finally stopped stonewalling and issued an apology. More accurately, she issued what passes for an apology in Clinton-land. Really it was just a jumble of half-truths and carefully parsed words designed to make "saying nothing" sound like "saying everything."
Still, it was the surest sign yet that her campaign is aware of the damage being done by the ongoing email scandal. To minimize that damage, her allies, sycophants, and hangers-on have been making the press rounds. It looks like they've gotten their marching orders, and the Democrat's standard Hillary Clinton plan-of-action will be applied. Step 1: "When Hillary's at the center of a scandal, pretend it doesn't exist." Howard Dean appeared on MSNBC, where he did what he could to mitigate the Dems' disaster. Via Real Clear Politics:
"This is a kabuki [theater]," Dean said on MSNBC. "I had to go through it. When the media wants to humble you, they do. And she was humbled and she did the right thing. But this is not about the e-mail server. There's no there there. This is about whether Hillary Clinton is going to show herself to the public as someone who's willing to be humble in front of them, and that was the whole gig and the media of course would like to put themselves in the kingmaker position, which they have done." "I think there's nothing to this," Dean said about the Clinton private server. "I never have thought that."

We've seen this maneuver a thousand times before. It's standard Clinton stuff. But let's run with it. If Dean is right, why does he think Mrs. Clinton is apologizing? If she's done nothing wrong, what's with the mea culpa? Well, according to the former DNC chair, it's because the mean, nasty, media have decided to "gang up" on poor, defenseless, Hillary. In other words, we've arrived at... Step 2: "Blame the scandal on a nebulous and unprovable conspiracy."
"This is the kind of thing you have to go through in politics," he said. "I had to go through it. Sometimes you may think that you're in the right. If the media gangs up on you and decides you're not, sometimes you have to do things you might rather not do. But you have to. It's all part of the game. It's part of the presidential race and been part of the presidential race since we've had television." "I think she is trustworthy, I think she's tough as nails," Dean said. "I think people want a tough person that can handle the job. There's only one person that fits this description on either side of the aisle in this race."
So there you have it. Hillary's done nothing wrong and she's completely trustworthy. Unfortunately, she has terrible luck because she keeps turning up at the center of these wide ranging vendettas! It used to be the "vast right-wing conspiracy," but apparently the media is now involved too. According to the Hillary faithful, Mrs. Clinton is once again being victimized by the cruel, mean-spirited, forces which seek to destroy her. Anyone buying that?

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