Hardball 5/25

I watched Hardball last night in order to see my UAW president sell out our membership by endorsing clinton. Up until last night I hadn't watched it since the Obama/McCain race. Anyway I watched with interest when the issue of clinton's emails came up in relation to States IG report saying her server was not approved and her emails weren't handled properly. No new news there except someone official said it. But what was intriquing to me was the lengths tweety will go to cover clinton. Keep in mind, he and the rest of the MSM having been toting clinton as tough, most experience, only one ready to be president, well, you get the picture. This is the exchange between tweety and Josh Gerstein of Politico. There is no transcript up yet so i have to sacrifice myself for the cause by listening to this crap again. This won't be 100% accurate.

Tweety: let's go to Josh, Josh, what's the gravity of this report?
Josh: it's not a crippling blow but it does undermine her key talking points that this was permitted under State Dept. policy. She said she was allowed to use an outside email account and the report says you were not allowed to use an outside email account.
Tweety: when she went into state in 2009 was she told by someone of authority that she couldn't use a private email
account?
Josh: I don't see any evidence of this in this report, however it was a rule that was on the books. There was some incidences where state department officials raised concerns about this setup....
Tweety: (cuts in) To her. To her. Here's what bugs me about this whole thing. No one has come up to me and said that Ms Clinton was told, admonished if you will, by someone of authority that you must use the inside email of the State Dept. and if that was never done how can this be a serious infraction if nobody told her not to do it?
Josh: well the question is should she have been familiar with the State Dept policies, the government policies, and frankly...
Tweety: (cuts in) 4 years! She was there 4 years and nobody told her she was in violation..

So clinton was flotus for 8 years, a senator, and tweety's saying nobody told poor hillary that you shouldn't use an outside email server to conduct OFFICIAL STATE DEPT business on! Truly, if clinton is that stupid/naive that she needs to be told this then she in no way can be allowed to be president.
No, Chris, she did this because, and I believe her on this, it was more convenient for her. You see, in her mind she is above protocol. She also did it because she didn't want whatever she was doing to be archived. The arrogance of this person is unbelievable. What would she compromise as president for her "convenience"?
So here's my questions Chris and the ones you should be asking if you were actually a journalist.
Was any of our people or allies compromised by her emails? By this I mean, for lack of a better term, spies? Was anyone killed for her convenience? How much did her private email server cost the US taxpayers? How much has this investigation cost the US taxpayers? And a real tough one. We know her server was hacked. I wonder how much the "fix" is going to cost if classified information was compromised.
Bernie or Bust...

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Raggedy Ann's picture

is the server, not whether private email is acceptable, which it shouldn't be either for work related stuff. I work for a university. I must use a university email account to conduct university business, just as the students must use their U email account in communications with us. I have private email for my personal business. If I have to operate this way at a state university in the worst-in-everything state, how is she above what the US government allows?

They treat us like dumbasses, so they must be called out for their tireless deflections on everything hrc. We actually know right from wrong.

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

Phoebe Loosinhouse's picture

credibility and reputations on the altar of protecting HRC and securing her nomination is unreal.
Tweety had an open conflict of interest when his wife was running for office and backed by Hillary supporters. Tweety, Jonathan Capeheart, Kos, Rachel Maddow and a host of others will never regain their previous level of respect, low as it may have been to start off with.

I did see previous Hillary pretzel contortionist Andrea Mitchell attempt to reclaim some of her self-respect on Morning Joe this Morning by not catapulting the party spin. Claire MacAskill on the other hand continue to go over the Clinton Lemming cliff.

The email timeline by Paul Thompson is devastating. I really think all the "nothingburger" commentary can be refuted by simply posting that link and saying read this and then tell me if you don't think Hillary Clinton valued her own comfort, convenience and privacy over National Security.

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" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "

Is the biggest disappoint and the one that hurts the most. She is wicked smart and usually very reasonable. Tweety has always been a political animal and right smack dab in the hole DLC crowd.

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Democrats, we tried to warn you. How is that guilt and shame working out?

that so much of the Clinton Foundation was entwined in the business of the State Department that this "business" had to be wiped off the server when Clinton left State. Just using the SoS email for private stuff never made any sense to me (and I'm not the most knowledgeable about computerese) except for a back up excuse to clean Clinton Foundation stuff off the record.

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be concerned about stuff like this: just protecting his monopoly media and employers political "investments".

http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-email-terrorism-sloppy-communica...

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Maybe before you barrel into your full throated defense of the indefensible maybe you should be required to disclose that Clinto folks funded the losing congressional bid for your wife. Like your friend Clinton you can't take the money but pretend it does not influence you.

Chris Mathews = Bought and paid for by the Oligarchs

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