WikiLeaks drop of the day: Politico reporter ran story by Hillary's campaign chair before publishing

We don't call it the Worst Web Site In The World for nothing, folks. There are two ways you can read this. Neither one is good for The Worst Web Site In The World and its White House reporter, Glenn Thrush. The worse of the two is that Politico is shamelessly writing campaign propaganda for Hillary, and that they're running copy by the campaign just like a marketing writer would run copy by a client. Because Hillary is the boss. The less damning but still completely awful explanation is the one that Thrush gave - that he ran the passage in question past John Podesta so as to confirm its accuracy, but not to give him an editorial veto over how the story was written. That one might sound a little more understandable, but if you've ever worked as a reporter, you know it's totally unacceptable to do it.