Posted on 03/18/2015 3:11:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
On March 10, eight days after The New York Times began the scandal over her private email server, Hillary Clinton assembled the press at the United Nations in New York to offer a typically legalistic and crabby press conference lasting only 21 minutes. The first-blush reaction from the pundits? That wasn't good enough. She can't expect the story to go away just from that mess.
But within 48 hours, that's exactly what began to happen, with the networks suddenly finding other shiny news objects to explore. So here's the question that needs to be asked: With the networks dumping investigators Lisa Myers, Michael Isikoff and Sharyl Attkisson, is there anyone on broadcast television interested in an investigation of Hillary's decidedly opaque email practices?
In her press conference, Clinton made her usual categorical declarations like: "I fully complied by every rule that I was governed by." Will this be tested, or will Hillary's emails become like the digital equivalent of Bill Clinton's female accusers, buried and forgotten?
Let's recall what then-Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote about John Edwards after the entire fatherhood fiasco in 2008, and the entire national media elite tried not to confirm a National Enquirer story they didn't like about a viable Democratic candidate.
Rutten wrote there were two kinds of confirmation. One occurs when an editor mutters, "Find somebody and have them make a few calls." Or "there's the sort that comes when that editor summons an investigative reporter with a heart like ice and a mind like Torquemada's and says, 'Follow this wherever it goes and peel this guy like an onion.'"
This ice-veined Torquemada approach was applied to every 2012 Republican presidential contender. It's already on display in this cycle against GOP front-runners Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. Is Hillary Clinton's status as the one and only Democratic hope in the field going to cause the liberal media to fold and avoid damaging the Democrats?
ABC reported on March 17 that the email problems are damaging for Hillary. "A new poll finds her favorability rating has dropped to 53 percent. More than half the people surveyed said it is a 'serious problem.' Most agreed she has not explained herself enough."
CBS and NBC: How is that not news to you?
The tendency of the liberal news media to lose interest in the Obama scandals, as well as the Clinton scandals, breeds pessimism, and deserves public contempt. On Friday, March 13, President Obama traveled to the V.A. hospital in Phoenix, the source of the original scandal on the waitlist fiasco. Only CBS noticed, with a tough "Evening News" report from Wyatt Andrews on how veterans are still being delayed in their health care. ABC and NBC -- with the top two most popular network evening shows -- couldn't be bothered with covering the president. ABC instead highlighted Obama's jokes from his appearance on their show "Jimmy Kimmel Live" the night before.
Meanwhile, the IRS scandal keeps bubbling along. House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz has issued more subpoenas for documents and the IRS watchdog charged with investigating Lois Lerner's missing emails said he's now looking into "potential criminal activity." But the networks have routinely ignored every new development for months now, so they ignored these as well.
This scandal pattern is as obnoxious as it is predictable. A liberal newspaper breaks a serious news story about a liberal, everyone might take it seriously for a week or 10 days, but then it dies without resolution. Once the scandal is buried, nobody really wants to dig it up again.
It looks like the Clintons are playing the game, just as they did in the 1990s.
not a smidgeon of scandal there, nope...
OH LOOK A SQUIRREL!!
No, the Obama machine wants to destroy the Clintons and have someone they pick to run.
Is he serious? It’s the only thing they’re doing now - frenzied efforts to deep six anything about it
Followed by lectures about how “everyone does it, no big deal, move on, move on...”
Only if they can by using every resource and dirty trick they can muster.
What is most disturbing to me regarding the Clinton garbage about ‘printing and giving to the State Department all 30,000 EMails’ is the way that completely disguises (most likely) a great deal of very important forensic information contained in EMail headers and other MIME information that is generally hidden, but yet is saved in any real EMail backup scheme.
CBS did do a story on Hillary that was very blunt and damaging, perhaps Bozell wrote this column before it aired (about three days ago). I was surprised, but they did it — gave it almost five minutes of air time on the evening news.
Exactly
In the past, news reporting businesses would sometimes lose their buildings from fire when they wouldn’t report the news honestly or when they fabricated a story to influence public opinion. What can be done today to get their attention?
Indeed. Just having the messageid would tell you how many emails were missing from gaps in the sequence numbers.
If someone doesn’t find an ugly, harmful e-mail soon, then this will lose traction fast. I almost believe they leaked it early to get it out of the way.
Unless someone can come up with actual e-mails, then it’s just a “mis-use of computer” at work problem. Even if it did break some policy or even law, it’s the sort of rule lots of people break.
How many people are going to follow this story on a work computer that they are not supposed to be surfing on?
I am hoping for the persons who hacked into the Clinton server to start leaking information. Not that I have any proof. But it would undercut the whole “no big deal” justification and destroy ol’ Hil’s chances.
No doubt if some foreign entity knew about the private server, they'd try to break into it.
Maybe the reason why they haven't is because they are friendly to the Clintons.
BREAD..Circuses..and a Giant Chrome Egg!
In short....yes, they will provide cover..and nothing will be done.
Perfect!
I’m wondering if it even matters what networks do or don’t do.
The last time I tuned into network anything was for a tornado alert last spring.
Well Trey Gowdy is predicting he will put her in prison so that should be interesting.
It’s not the media’s job to root out the corruption of the Executive Branch, that is the Legislative job by method of oversight/impeachment and conviction (Not just the President) . By the looks of things the Democrats have free rein because Repubs think this is all one big stupid game of political poker instead of laws.
Old news. Move along. Nothing to see here.
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