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Rigged Debates: Wikileaks Emails Confirm Media in Clinton’s Pocket
The Observer ^ | Oct. 14, 2016 | Michael Sainato

Posted on 10/16/2016 8:36:29 PM PDT by Innovative

On October 12, WikiLeaks released part four and five of Clinton campaign Chair John Podesta’s emails, with part six to be released on October 13, and part seven to follow on October 14.

“As soon as the nomination is wrapped up, I will be your biggest surrogate,” current Interim Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Donna Brazile, wrote to Podesta in a January 2016 email. As a Vice Chair of the DNC, Brazile was bound to neutrality per the charter, but as shown in several emails released so far, that was not the case.

“I pushed back hard on this, and Axe. So weird to attack the kids the night before the first primary,” Brazile wrote in an email she forwarded to Podesta about what CNN was doing while she served as a CNN contributor.

On October 10, an email was released that showed Brazile tipping off the Clinton campaign to an outreach campaign being conducted by the Sanders campaign. Brazile defended herself on Twitter claiming she also sent the Sanders campaign “advice,” but did not release or cite any examples.

On October 11, The Young Turks’ Jordan Chariton first reported another email that showed Brazile tipping off the Clinton campaign to a question on the death penalty that would be asked at a CNN Town Hall the next day. Brazile was a CNN contributor at the time, and that wasn’t her only helpful tip. “For the debate team,” she wrote in a March email about the Voting Rights Act, forwarded to Podesta.

(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; hillary; media; mediabias; msm; wikileaks

1 posted on 10/16/2016 8:36:29 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Gee wikilweaks reveals the media is in Clinton’s pocket. Wow, who knew?


2 posted on 10/16/2016 8:40:28 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: HerrBlucher
Half of America still thinks the media has a conservative bias, because, corporations. I doubt a significant fraction of them will be moved by wikileaks, unless a real bombshell comes out. Which hasn't yet, as far as they are concerned.
3 posted on 10/16/2016 8:55:02 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: HerrBlucher

Wikileaks has done a lot of good reporting.

Having hard evidence is important.


4 posted on 10/16/2016 9:12:43 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: coloradan

According to the liberals on a musician forum I visit, Wikileaks is all doctored emails gotten by Russian hackers. All of it already thoroughly debunked and useless, we’re the ones drinking the kool aid.

Here’s a direct quote from a post today:

Who cares about email released by WikiLeaks? Are they real? Have they been altered? Are the Russians involved? And the emails themselves offer no revelations. Assange is a criminal and a rapist, most Americans don’t like that kind of behavior. Yawn.<><>

And when I posted yesterday an observation that we had seen no terrorist attacks the past week or two:

No terror attacks, hmmm? Maybe because the Feds prevented one in Kansas by the while militia group “The Crusaders”? Of course white/Christian terrorism doesn’t bother you, it’s only when brown-skinned people do it, right?<><>

Same guy...and these are some of his more intelligent ones...

But I was right, no terrorist attacks...the Feds prevented one, so no terrorist attacks. I didn’t bother to point out that I don’t care if he’s a purple skinned 6 legged creature from a distant galaxy, it’s still a terrorist attack if it fits certain criteria...he’d just come up with more drivel...


5 posted on 10/16/2016 9:13:01 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (Proud to be a redneck deplorable)
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To: Paleo Pete

Liberals are terrible people. It’s all about protecting their ideology, nothing else matters.

I used to debate them more but they’ve already lost the debate when it comes to their failed ideology and I’m not afraid to tell them so. The trillions in debt, the corruption, the massive over-bloated government, mostly lies in their laps of the 50-100 years of the progressive experiment and it has failed all Americans.

As conservatives who respect our Constitution, we need to exclude these people from the arena of ideas because their ideas have already failed us. I don’t mind explaining that to them as well and let them sulk in their failures.

CGato


6 posted on 10/16/2016 9:28:33 PM PDT by Conservative Gato
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To: Innovative

bookmark


7 posted on 10/16/2016 9:53:02 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: Innovative

Most with eyes to see knew this right from the get-go, but it’s nice to have confirmation.


8 posted on 10/16/2016 11:39:15 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Innovative

Donna Brazile is a nasty piece of work just like ALL Democrats.


9 posted on 10/17/2016 1:18:28 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.S...... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: coloradan

“Half of America still thinks the media has a conservative bias,”

Probably about right but what percentage could give a meaningful definition of what the word “conservative” means to them? I have had conversations with people who, long before Obamacare, started off by saying something like, “I am one the MOST conservative people you will ever meet (usually a tipoff that they are anything but) followed by, but I think the federal government should guarantee everybody free health care.” Conservative seems to be a word without definition in this time and place.


10 posted on 10/17/2016 4:45:58 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: Paleo Pete

Most musicians are like that... The band I’m in is pretty representative of the whole (I’ve seen plenty of it). Most are liberal, some are non-committal or prefer to not discuss politics, even a smaller amount tend to be the ones who ask people not to discuss it, then there are those of us who can’t speak our minds or we wouldn’t have many (or any) musician friends to jam with.


11 posted on 10/17/2016 5:18:34 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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