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Goodheart

(5,264 posts)
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 01:27 AM Apr 2018

Did I miss something? What was so damaging to Hillary in those Wikileaks-hacked emails?

What exactly did they prove about the Clinton Foundation, for example?

Or did Julian Assange b.s. their contents when he shopped them to Stone, Trump Jr, et al?

Were they really worth going to prison over?

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Did I miss something? What was so damaging to Hillary in those Wikileaks-hacked emails? (Original Post) Goodheart Apr 2018 OP
There was nothing in the emails marylandblue Apr 2018 #1
amazing how many fucking idiots fell for it Skittles Apr 2018 #3
Yeah, FuxNews does a lot of pearl-clutching and gasping Rorey Apr 2018 #7
NBC pushed the email story nightly for months. NCTraveler Apr 2018 #13
They did Rorey Apr 2018 #18
Diversionary tactic. Cracklin Charlie Apr 2018 #2
Much was with how the emails were portrayed by the RNC, and in our media, and others. kentuck Apr 2018 #4
It was an excuse to refresh the great fogbank of steam. JHB Apr 2018 #5
HRC ran for President. HRC did nothing wrong after all the investigations. democratisphere Apr 2018 #6
Didn't you hear? Adrahil Apr 2018 #8
Something about Chelseas wedding cake I think lol Takket Apr 2018 #9
Nothing maxrandb Apr 2018 #10
She inhaled oxygen and then exhaled oxygen, to many that is a jail-able offense uponit7771 Apr 2018 #11
While in possession of a uterus? Orsino Apr 2018 #19
Deception and propaganda. NCTraveler Apr 2018 #12
This was one of the areas where our messaging skills were shown to suck. There Squinch Apr 2018 #14
As other posters here have said... Goodheart Apr 2018 #15
Well.... the risotto recipe wasn't very good. So there was that... Squinch Apr 2018 #20
Lets not forget that our own progressive media was often "All Trump All the Time" - dont know how Kashkakat v.2.0 Apr 2018 #16
The right wing created a brand call "Hillary's e-mails" and sold it. Stinky The Clown Apr 2018 #17

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
1. There was nothing in the emails
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 01:43 AM
Apr 2018

At worst, they showed that DNC staff preferred Hillary over Bernie, not surprising considering she was a fixture in the Democratic Party for decades and he wasn't even a Democrat until primary season. The whole idea was to make it SEEM like something terrible was going on.

Rorey

(8,445 posts)
7. Yeah, FuxNews does a lot of pearl-clutching and gasping
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 07:05 AM
Apr 2018

It doesn't matter what they say as much as how they say it. FuxNews makes "nothing" sound like "something" to their idiot cult followers.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
2. Diversionary tactic.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 02:05 AM
Apr 2018

So no one was matching them while they stole the election.

The incriminating emails never really existed.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
4. Much was with how the emails were portrayed by the RNC, and in our media, and others.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 05:43 AM
Apr 2018

It was almost like a conspiracy.

............... .................

JHB

(37,128 posts)
5. It was an excuse to refresh the great fogbank of steam.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 05:56 AM
Apr 2018

The Republicans’ favorite tactic against Bill and Hillary Clinton, oh, since about 1991, has been to throw turdball after turdball at them so that some flecks might stick to them and they can rail at the filth.

Failing to do so, the turdballs slough off and pile up at their feet, giving off a great fogbank of steam.

Republicans the point with alarm at the rising clouds and invoke “Y’know what they say: where there’s smoke...”.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
6. HRC ran for President. HRC did nothing wrong after all the investigations.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 06:12 AM
Apr 2018

HRC won the popular vote by almost 4 million votes. drumpf the psychopath pathological liar was elected president. Go figure.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
8. Didn't you hear?
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 07:44 AM
Apr 2018

The DNC stuffed the ballot for Hillary, cheating Bernie of the nomination.

Oh wait, that's what the JPR idiots claimed.

Nothing. There was nothing in there. There was a good risotto recipe in there, though.

maxrandb

(15,188 posts)
10. Nothing
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 07:55 AM
Apr 2018

It allowed them to blur the lines between "email server" and "email hack".

It didn't fucking matter to the fucking deplorables. All they cared about was keeping the words "Hillary" and "Email" in the news.

Hell, they could have been cooking recipes...oh wait...some of them were.

UNFORTUNATELY, THERE WERE A BUNCH OF DUers, BERNIE-BROS AND RUSSIAN BOTS WHO HELPED THE DEPLORABLES DO THEIR FUCKING HATCHET JOB

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
12. Deception and propaganda.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 07:58 AM
Apr 2018

It worked well. Andrea Mitchell and many other were all about “but her emails” with no journalistic follow up. Today we are now praising a number of the same “journalists” as they work to bring us back into their profit fold. It’s disgusting.

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
14. This was one of the areas where our messaging skills were shown to suck. There
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 08:33 AM
Apr 2018

was absolutely nothing in the hacked emails. There is never anything in the "scandals" that have been manufactured over Hillary. But the republican and Russian messaging was blanketing, shrill and relentless. We had nothing to match it to set the record straight.

A good PR firm, plus talking points for every Democrat speaking in any forum, would have gone a long way to prevent those lies from spreading.

Goodheart

(5,264 posts)
15. As other posters here have said...
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 08:43 AM
Apr 2018

the most "scandalous" bit I got from them was that the DNC preferred Hillary over Bernie. And why wouldn't they?

Anyway, yesterday I was watching a tape of Roger Stone on Infowars, declaring on the day after he dined with Julian Assange that devastating information about the Clinton Foundation was about to be revealed. So it seems to me that either Assange lied about the contents of the emails when he pitched them to Stone, or that neither had actually reviewed any of them.

And now Stone is in danger of going to prison. Serves him right.

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
20. Well.... the risotto recipe wasn't very good. So there was that...
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 09:17 AM
Apr 2018

But yes, I will have a moment of glee when Stone gets sentenced.

Kashkakat v.2.0

(1,752 posts)
16. Lets not forget that our own progressive media was often "All Trump All the Time" - dont know how
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 08:50 AM
Apr 2018

many times I had to turn off Thom H, Steph Miller and Alan Colmes (RIP) because of the nonstop blathering Trump clips they were playing. And by quoting/ reacting against/criticizing what the propagandists say, arent we basically doing their work for them, helping spread their message?

I dont know the answer, how do we turn that around, squelch the propaganda, and re-frame the debate? I just hope someone smarter than me is working on it in time for next election. Where is Don Draper when you need him - "If you dont like what they're saying about you, change the conversation."

Stinky The Clown

(67,669 posts)
17. The right wing created a brand call "Hillary's e-mails" and sold it.
Thu Apr 5, 2018, 08:56 AM
Apr 2018

The details don't matter. It was just THE EMAILS!1!1!!

It goes back to Benghazi. It revved up again with the emails "found" Weiner's laptop (sorry if that caused an inappropriate image flash).

But but but . . . . . her EMAILS!

See how that works?

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