MSNBC Thrashes Hillary Clinton: ‘It Feels Like She’s Lying Straight Out’

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MSNBC Thrashes Hillary Clinton: ‘It Feels Like She’s Lying Straight Out’
May 27, 2016

MSNBC hosts and analysts severely and unanimously criticized Hillary Clinton on Thursday after the Obama-appointed inspector general of the State Department that she once led published a damning report contradicting her repeated claims that she was allowed to conduct official correspondence on a private email server.

The rebuke is remarkable because with a few exceptions MSNBC has treated Clinton favorably in the 2016 primaries.

“I really don’t want to be the one delivering this, but I’ve got to tell you, this is really hard to believe. It feels like she’s lying straight out,” host Mika Brzezinski said in a discussion on “Morning Joe.”

[/b]“It doesn’t hold up. There are so many inconsistencies, including their response yesterday,” journalist Andrea Mitchell said in the same discussion, adding: “We now see new emails, never turned over, never before revealed, that the IG found. What’s that all about? And one of them has her writing to [her aide] Huma Abedin that she’ll go with … another private device after spamming and things were not being received. … She said we want to make sure that the personal is not accessible.”

“There are so many flaws in their argument,” Mitchell continued. “I don’t see how this is anything but devastating given the fact that they have been making a completely different argument now for more than a year.”

“Because of this breach, ... I don’t think she could get confirmed, for instance, to be attorney general,” commentator Chuck Todd said.

Todd even attributed motive to Clinton’s behavior, traditionally a no-no in the corporate media: “The most logical explanation is that she wanted to make it harder for the press and Congress to see her correspondence. So they made the FOIA requests more difficult by doing what? Making sure it wasn’t on a government server, putting it on a private server.”

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/morning_joes_mika_brzezinksi_it_feels_like_hillary_20160527

[Jack Bone]

1. she is...but they're still going to call her the nominee @ close of

polls in NJ on the 7th.

That too, will be a lie!


#BOYCOTTMSNBC

[msongs]

2. morning joe, chuck todd - if anti bernie they are evil, if lashing HRC they are god's word nt

[mikehiggins]

5. no, no, not "god's word", just mercenary hypocritical hacks. eom

[raging moderate]

4. Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell attacking Hillary makes me like her more.

I wonder whether Hillary is in fact showing signs of slipping out of those "golden handcuffs" about which the right-wing billionaires are said to have boasted. Have they possibly sent their harpy minions to frighten her back into the submission they feel they have bought?

[oldandhappy]

6. clinton is their darling. MSNBC ratings have depended on clinton for weeks and weeks.

[eomer]

7. U funny corporate pundits!

U shocked! Shocked that she lie!

[pdsimdars]

8. SOME of the hosts spoke out. . . . I went and looked and Rachel didn't even mention it that I could

see. Man, is she ever gone. Joe and Mika are doing the best job. . . the world is upside down.

[oberliner]

9. Mika has been pumping up Bernie and dissing Hillary for months now

So that one is not surprising at all.

[Babel_17]

10. "The most logical explanation is that she wanted to make it harder ..."

Yeah, we're at the stage where one of the most prominent commentators feels the obligation to connect the dots and state the obvious.

This is now the new given, the new "it is known" when the talking heads speak among themselves. Surrogates are still free to spin of course. Innocent till proven guilty is a fair standard, though it's not how electing a President works.