Press reaction to Clinton emails v. press reaction to George W. Bush emails: (HILLARY GROUP)

[DeepModem Mom]

Even for a Republican White House that was badly stumbling through George W. Bush’s sixth year in office, the revelation on April 12, 2007 was shocking. Responding to congressional demands for emails in connection with its investigation into the partisan firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the White House announced that as many as five million emails, covering a two-year span, had been lost.

The emails had been run through private accounts controlled by the Republican National Committee and were only supposed to be used for dealing with non-administration political campaign work to avoid violating ethics laws. Yet congressional investigators already had evidence private emails had been used for government business, including to discuss the firing of one of the U.S. attorneys. The RNC accounts were used by 22 White House staffers, including then-Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who reportedly used his RNC email for 95 percent of his communications....

The White House email story broke on a Wednesday. Yet on that Sunday’s Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and Fox News Sunday, the topic of millions of missing White House emails did not come up. At all. (The story did get covered on ABC’s This Week.)

By comparison, not only did every network Sunday news show this week cover the story about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emails, but they were drowning in commentary. Between Meet the Press, Face The Nation, This Week, and Fox News Sunday, Clinton’s “email” or “emails” were referenced more than 100 times on the programs, according to Nexis transcripts. Talk about saturation coverage.

Indeed, the commentary for the last week truly has been relentless, with the Beltway press barely pausing to catch its breath before unloading yet another round of “analysis,” most of which provides little insight but does allow journalists to vent about the Clintons....

Salon: http://linkis.com/www.salon.com/2015/0/ikzL6

[Gothmog]

1. There is a double standard here

[Iliyah]

2. Accidently went into grandpa's room this morning where

he had Matt L on. Much praise reporting on asshole Trump. Dr. Dean came after and was grilled my Matt L about e-mails. It was sickening. Dr. Dean in around about way called it bulls**t.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. As we said growing up in my native South: "Oh, good Lord." Enough of that. nt

[Control-Z]

4. Even more infuriating to me

is that the Sanders supporters are acting just as viciously, some even worse. They are dragging every right wing anti-Hillary conspiracy and talking point into GD-Primaries.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Good point! nt

[Thinkingabout]

6. It would have been interesting to have read the back room dealings about

Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, bet those was juicy and of course W did not get rid of any one in his administration and Cheney got Scooter Libby to take the fall.