Hillary's Team Piles On The New York Times For Its Mistaken Email Story

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

Hillary Clinton's campaign team and her allies came out swinging Friday against the New York Times as the newspaper backed off its report that the U.S. Justice Department had been asked to open a criminal probe into her private email account.

DOJ said Friday that it did receive a referral regarding the potential compromise of classified information in connection with that email account, but the request was not for a criminal probe.

Nick Merrill, a Clinton campaign spokesman, said the Times story was "false" and accused the newspaper of relying on "partisan" sources for its information:

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Howard Dean ✔
@GovHowardDean

The New York Times truly has become an embarrassment to American Journalism. Second anti HRC story in three months THEY GOT WRONG!

1:53 PM - 24 Jul 2015
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hillary-team-nyt-email-responds

[Popcorn 51]

1. Good. eom

[MADem]

2. Ahh...but will we see backtracking elsewhere? Inquiring minds want to know!

I'm not holding my breath, though....

[Hekate]

4. No backtracking in the hallowed halls of...

...DU, I'm pretty damn sure.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

14. Backtracking?

Hell, I've seen DOUBLING DOWN on threads about the correction twice already today.

[Bill USA]

3. the NYT is putting extra effort into their grovelling before the fascists of the GOP: TP-GOP

[Hekate]

5. "Mistaken" my rosy Irish ass. It was a twisted lie from a paper that has lost all credibility

[riversedge]

6. But the RW will believe..

[Kingofalldems]

7. Get 'em Hillary!

[Adrahil]

8. Apparently, this is an example of the "fawning media coverage" Hillary gets. nt

[riversedge]

9. How can @Politico keep talking about the "prospect of criminal probe" when DOJ said there was NO CR

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How can @Politico keep talking about the "prospect of criminal probe" when DOJ said there was NO CRIMINAL REFERRAL



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[BooScout]

30. The same way Faux New can.....

They don't care what the truth is as long as they can report the lies and smear Hillary.

I hope the NY Times is proud of itself, the assholes.

[Sunlei]

10. Can Mrs. Clinton find out who sent the press release of lies and made the DOJ request?, please.

Let the public know where that New York Times fake story came from and who made the DOJ 'request'.

[misterhighwasted]

18. Be certain that Team Hillary is digging into the source of this BS.

This is the typical RW Rovian game they have dealt with before. Problem is, Sec Clinton is connected to far more inside the workings of this sort of smear than she was before. As Sec of State she has friends in high places also, and the circle that makes up the inner workings of politics isn't that big.
Team Hillary is comprised of a group of the best attorneys & media sleuths in the Nation, for just this kind of RW predictable B.S.

Team Hillary comes quite prepared for the long haul of this campaign.

Someone is going to tell.

[Sunlei]

19. not suprised, root of todays 'attack' is to cowardly to even show themself. NYT another tabloid rag.

they should be ashamed to even charge 99 cents to view their online piece of crap fake stories

[misterhighwasted]

21. Yes. 99 cents is a lot to ask for a Lie.

It's sickening to think of what more they have in store for any Dem candidate before Nov 2016 finally arrives.
UGH!

[Sunlei]

23. That's what I told them when I canceled my New York Times Sunday delivery service.

online was always free for delivery customers.

Every month New York Times sends a snail mail asking to resub.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. According to some folks here it was Bernie.

[Sunlei]

29. LOL, no, Senator Sanders is to nice and honest a person to 'attack' anyone 'brebart style' scam.

Same goes for Mrs. Clinton.

[OKNancy]

11. another politico story has an update that reads:

UPDATE (3:36 p.m.): Jennifer Werner, a Democratic spokesperson for the Select Committee on Benghazi, told the On Media blog that the State Inspector General "did not ask for any kind of investigation, criminal or otherwise." Werner said the referral "went from the Intelligence Community IG to the FBI."

For that reason, Werner said the Times was wrong to report that two inspectors general had asked the Justice Department to open an investigation.

Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy did not respond to a request for comment.

http://www.politico.com//blogs/media/2015/07/in-clinton-email-inquiry-a-changing-story-211211.html

[ismnotwasm]

12. Good.

K&R

[Starry Messenger]

13. I haven't read anything from there since David Brooks' horrible whitesplaining thing

to Ta-Nehisi Coates. Shameful what they run to get clicks.

[lewebley3]

15. Another phony story; The Ny times is a rag!

[misterhighwasted]

16. Go Team Hillary. Call out the Lies they tell, loud & public & reveal the true purpose of the rag mag

[Kingofalldems]

17. Kicked, recced and tweeted.

[misterhighwasted]

20. K & R & Thanks for this post DonViejo

This is just a sample of what's to come, but I trust that Team Hillary has prepared themselves for anything the RW has in their playbook.
This is no more than a power game to the hellish RW, working to dismantle our American governing system.

[SunSeeker]

22. K & R

[LuvLoogie]

24. Look for NYC to throw

some low tier editor under the bus.

[tazkcmo]

26. They have to.

Lucky anyone ever saw the correction. Few ever do. I hate the NYT. While I have my policy differences with Sec. Clinton, their "correction" would not have been needed if basic journalism had been employed instead of their usual HRC slander. As always, repulsive.

[ericson00]

27. good, this one,

whitewater, file"gate," travel office, Perot-myth (which they just peddled again yesterday), the media and the NYT ought to be ashamed of themselves.

However, the Clintons do really need to patch things up with the media.

[lolly]

28. How, exactly, does one "patch things up" with people determined to destroy you by any means?

Kowtowing to them isn't going to get her any better treatment.

Clintons (and apparently Obama) have finally learned to treat most "news" sources with suspicion. Good for them.

[ericson00]

32. I agree 100% that the media needs to be reined in

and the fairness doctrine needs to be reinstituted already. But its gonna be hard to do that. I think Hillary needs to make an address about the media's treatment of them over the years and call out the lies they've peddled over 23 years. That I think would force the media to try to make nice. She also needs a War Room website like Obama had in 2008. Obama fought back and didn't ignore what was out there, tho I do think reporters were nicer to him than Bill and Hillary. Luckily, I think MSNBC and Washington Post, both who have recently debunked the Perot-lie, the longest lasting one against them and one meant to delegitimize them, can help lead the charge. Hillary could also enlist Obama to help out too, especially given how she's standing by him, which given his middling, but not bad approvals, is a gamble.

[Sunlei]

31. patch thing up with the media? NYT is supposed to print stories about FACTS, instead *someone*

someone, unnamed gave the newspaper, New York Times lies, that they printed as facts.