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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf it hadn't been the emails, it would have been something else.
Republicans are very good at creating and controlling the propaganda against their opponents.
From experience, we know how they can take the strongest asset of their opponent and turn it into a liability. For example, the "swift-boaters" turned John Kerry from a hero to an anti-American communist sympathizer. Al Gore invented the Internet. He was a "liar". And so forth. They are so much better than Democrats at manipulating the media.
If it hadn't been the emails, it may have been pantsuits or some other innocuous attack. What kind of woman wears pantsuits, anyway??
The bottom line is that the media plays along with their game.
In the grand scheme of things, how important are these "emails"? Are they even in the top 100 of America's problems?
We have lost our ability to put things into perspective, it seems?
imanamerican63
(13,815 posts)I have been thinking about for sometime!
spanone
(135,880 posts)director has never made such a disclosure to Congress so close to a presidential election.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/us/politics/fbi-hillary-clinton-emails.html
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)dalton99
(781 posts)Karl Rove, former political guru for George W. Bush, reportedly suggested during a conference last week that Hillary Clinton suffered a traumatic brain injury recently. Rove quickly denied the charge, and told The Washington Post later in the day that of course she doesnt have brain damage.
During the 2000 presidential contest, when Rove was working for Bush, the campaign featured a widely disseminated rumor that John McCain, tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, had betrayed his country under interrogation and been rendered mentally unfit for office.
When Bush was running against Ann Richards for governor of Texas in 1994, a persistent rumor circulated that Richards was a lesbian, helped in no small part by a push poll asking voters if they would be more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if [they] knew her staff is dominated by lesbians. In fact, a regional Bush campaign chairman was quoted criticizing Richards for appointing avowed homosexual activists to state jobs.
Sometimes Rove doesnt even restrict this tactic to political campaignshe uses it for himself. Josh Green in The Atlantic in 2004: In 1986 [John] Weaver and Rove both worked on Bill Clementss successful campaign for governor, after which Weaver was named executive director of the state Republican Party. Both were emerging as leading consultants, but Weavers star seemed to be rising faster. The details vary slightly according to which insider tells the story, but the main point is always the same: after Weaver went into business for himself and lured away one of Roves top employees, Rove spread a rumor that Weaver had made a pass at a young man at a state Republican function. Weaver wont reply to the smear, but those close to him told me of their outrage at the nearly two-decades-old lie. Weaver was first made unwelcome in some Texas Republican circles, and eventually, following McCains 2000 campaign, he left the Republican Party altogether.
dawg
(10,624 posts)We are damned lucky that they think "emails" are the best weapon they've got.
But if they didn't have that, there would certainly be new "revelations" about Benghazi. Or some new "scandal" about the Clinton foundation. Or some "controversial" vote Hillary cast while she was Senator.
And if our nominee were Senator Sanders, the red baiting would be off the charts. And if it were Governor O'Malley, then he'd be a racist brute who "crushed" the people of Baltimore.
There is always going to be a "scandal" connected to the Democratic candidate for President, and until something major changes, the media is always going to hype it to the max.
Nitram
(22,890 posts)...Clinton and she will win by a landslide.
Stuart G
(38,448 posts)It is some more..emails, vs a man who has been accused by many women of sexual assault .......
I may be wrong, cause I am a man,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but to women out there, which is more important.......
1... more emails.....or 2. ... a man who gropes and touches women without permission and brags about it?..
Please...think about the above sentence......or ask women what they think..ok...