Howard Dean: Hillary Email Scandal Manufactured by GOP and ‘Bored’ Press

[Cali_Democrat]

He's absolutely right.

It's a shame to see Bernie supporters trying to pick up and run with a 'scandal' manufactured by the GOP and the corporate media.

From MTP:

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Howard Dean went to bat for Hillary Clinton on Meet the Press today, praising her handling of her email scandal and dismissing it as a pure invention.

Questions have continued to swirl about classified emails on Clinton’s private server and whether she lied about possessing classified emails, but Dean told Chuck Todd that Clinton’s answers have been “steady” and not evolving.

He said, “This is, in fact, manufactured partly by a press that’s bored and partly by the Republicans.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/howard-dean-hillary-email-scandal-manufactured-by-gop-and-bored-press/

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Any port in a storm. n/t

[tularetom]

2. Um, it ain't just "Bernie supporters" anymore

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12812607

Whatever it is, its been made a lot worse by the paranoia and evasiveness she has displayed since it came up.

[delrem]

31. They're all about *blaming* someone else.

Like Bernie, or "Bernie supporters", for the legs that Clinton scandals grow.
As if "Bernie supporters" had control of the MSM.
Or were even heard from on the MSM.

Jeez - talk about out of touch.

And wow, do the Clintons ever produce scandals.

There's so much that we can't even discuss on DU about the Clintons, it's so fucking low.

[StoneCarver]

35. I agree!

Even if it is manufactured a reporter asked Hillary if "she wiped the server before giving it to the FBI". Her response sent chills down my spine. "What do you mean? With a cloth?" (and then a fake laugh) WTF? Who answers like that? Bernie would never answer like that. It reminded me of "it depends on the definition of the word 'is' is".
Stonecarver

[seabeyond]

39. even if it is manufactured, so what? really? chills down your spine cause she was snarky to fox news

[seabeyond]

38. omg... you bring up a media bullshit headline as an attack on clinton just as media did. what a

fuckin hoot.

watch the video.

omalley was shoving the bullshit attack clinton on email to the side.

at least go beyond a fuckin head line. look at what omalley really said, and better, watch the video to see what he was REALLY saying.

[McCamy Taylor]

56. Right. Wing. Conspiracy. I don't call it paranoia. I call it common sense.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. And the IGs of a few alphabet soups

And DOJ.

I guess this talking point will continue until morale improves

[zappaman]

19. And bloggers like yourself.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I got the power to sink a campaign? COOL

did not know I could be both that powerful and insignificant at the same time.



things one learns about oneself on the internets that one did not know about oneself. Honest, you give me both too much credit and very little credit at the same time.

[rock]

4. I feel this pretty well characterizes the majority of Bernie supporters

As most of their criticisms of Hillary are Republican re-treads (mostly disproven or trivial ones at that).

[Vattel]

27. Retreads, yes, like her vote for the Iraq War, her pushing for

higher force levels in Afghanistan, her support for the war in Libya, her silence on torture, her lobbying for get-tough-on-crime policies that led to mass incarceration of AAs, her support for bankruptcy reform, her pre-evolution opposition to marriage equality, her lies about sniper fire, her vote for the Patriot Act, . . .

[jeepers]

5. Gotta be the dumbest move ever made by the FBI

Imagine the FBI pressing an investigation of their future boss based on a GOP and press backed phony scandal.


You would think that any career minded investigator would think twice and be sure of their facts before accusing and investigating a politico of such high standing.

[leftofcool]

8. Actually, the FBI is investigating the process of classification, not Hillary

But, you are correct, it has still been brought on by a phony scandal

[leftofcool]

6. Hillary is the Democratic front runner and she will win the nomination.

Since she is in that position, manufactured scandals by the GOP will continue and DUers will continue to fall for it.

[lewebley3]

15. I am concerned that the DU has become a board to bash Hillary

[Keep-Left]

16. Im worried also

[Thinkingabout]

7. Howard Dean can see past the crap. When the best the anti Hillary people is the email story

is "something" to talk about, while they are talking about this then issues we are facing and a plan to handle them. It allows those without a plan from getting a plan together and release it to the public.

[sufrommich]

9. Good for Dean for refusing to play the

"I'm concerned" game.

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. What I don't understand is...

How the press manufactures an FBI investigation.

Can you explain that to me? Isn't the FBI under the jurisdiction of the DOJ which is an Executive Branch agency headed by the Attorney General of the United States?

How does anything the press does affect who and when the FBI opens an investigation? The Attorney General is tasked with deciding who and when investigations happen according to Title XXVIII of the US Code. Did she decide to investigate because someone in the press suggested it?

Help me out here.

[ibegurpard]

12. Can't help you

I don't think anyone's going to be able to explain that one away.

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. It's funny, innit? Especially in light of the fact the FBI only investigates CRIMES...

And not lapses in ethics or judgment.

[Darb]

22. Let me give the two of you a hand, the FBI

is investigating it for the EXACT purpose of finding no wrongdoing, because there isn't any, but the Pubes will scream it to high heaven anyway forever, but sane people will be fine with it. In due course, they will come out and say that it might have been a little unwise to do it but no harm, no foul, Hillary is not a spy.

Vulcan derrrrrr. I cannot wait to see the Teaheads cry, but the Bernie people are loading up on this farce too. You should be advised, this is going away soon enough and those that whined and cried about it are going to look foolish.

A word to the wise is sufficient thereof.

[cherokeeprogressive]

25. Someone accused Hillary Clinton of being a spy?

You type shit like that, and expect me to take your "word to the wise"?

[Darb]

48. That's how you act, like she's a spy, with all your

bullshit about her server. Tell me, what the fuck did she do exactly that you have your panties in such a wad over?

[cherokeeprogressive]

49. Oh no. I don't act like she's a spy. I act like she's not capable of good judgment...

And unable to give straight answers even on a dare.

While we're at it I'll go ahead and say that I think Libya is a failed state and Syria is a quagmire whose leader my government said "must go" way back in 2011 and that The Honorable Secretary of State's hand prints are all over both.

Testy aren't we {shiver}.

[Nitram]

50. "Not capable of good judgement."

The hyperbole is idiotic. Get a grip.

[cherokeeprogressive]

51. Ohhhhkay.

[frylock]

54. It's been proven time and again

[SunSeeker]

30. The FBI does not "only investigate crimes."

You are apparently unaware of the broad range of things DOJ does, many having nothing to do with prosecuting crimes. They are not investigating a crime in this instance. They are resolving an issue between two agencies over classification of emails to be produced in response to FOIA requests.

[SunSeeker]

28. The press is mischaraterizing what the FBI is doing, as are you.

The FBI is not investigating Hillary. They are trying to sort out a disagreement between two government agencies over what should be classified. The disagreement came up because the State Department has to produce Hillary emails in response to FOIA requests. It wants to produce everything that is not marked classified, but apparently DOJ disagrees with some of those determinations that items are not classified.

That is what Howard Dean, and anyone who knows what is actually going on, has been trying to explain. But many Bernie supporters have been more than happy to run with the Fox spin on the story, or the thoroughly debunked NY Times version of the story.

[frylock]

53. Clearly, Obama's DoJ is in the tank for the Republicans

/s

[cherokeeprogressive]

55. Seems to be the only safe assumption LOL n/t

[cali]

11. And largely of Hillary's own making. she knew that

she'd likely be running for president. Not to mention.that she's handling it poorly.

But Howard is an asset to her campaign.

[lewebley3]

14. No the Email story was made up by the GOP and The Newyorktimes;

[short circuit]

21. And yet handled VERY poorly by the Clinton campaign

and her unfavorable are high. Care to explain?

[blm]

26. Unfavorables for ACA, Iran Nuclear deal are very high. Care to explain WHY corpmedia

chooses to run with the sensationalistic false narratives of the GOP machine instead of the simple truths?

[lewebley3]

42. Not poorly handle: The Clinton's are under attack by the GOP: The GOP are running the NewTimes

The Clinton's are the Dem's chance at white house, the GOP have
1 billion to spend attacking Hillary: The GOP can purchase any
story the want to sell, the Koch can buy or any journalists in
America.

The New York times is an example of this: they use their own
reporters to rumors from the GOP: This was the mold they use with
Judy Miller and Dick Cheney to sell the war, he would give
Judy a lie, and then Cheney would site the New York Story he
planted. Even today Miller says she is not responsible for
the lies she printed leading up to the war. She hold her sources
liable.

In the email story, New York times wrongly printed Hillary
was under criminal investigation: they had to back track,
but not before the had done the damage to Hillary on the GOP
behalf.

[short circuit]

43. Yes. Poorly handled.

The FBI is still investigating the issues.

She should have addressed it before the campaign, and she didn't. As a result, it'll be an albatross. It's going to get worse as a result, because people who hears 'classified' and 'email' will think Clinton can't be trusted to be the President of the United States, and is actually trying to buy her election.

[lewebley3]

46. No the FBI is not investigating the issues: there are no issues: Just a GOP attack

[short circuit]

47. Says otherwise.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2015-08-24/mukasey-fbi-investigation-about-clinton-not-her-e-mails

[apnu]

17. While the good Doctor is right, HRC's actions with this are what's doing the damage.

its not the email server that's killing her. Her campaign's horrible, secretive, out-of-touch, aloof response that's making HRC look like hell over it.

Its the old political trick: give the other guy all the rope and room to hang themselves. HRC's hanging herself on it right now.

Its a damn shame. She should be smarter than that.

[McCamy Taylor]

57. Excuse me. You just said "Hillary's skirt is too short" only in different words.

In what way will Hillary being "smarter" keep the press and the GOP from manufacturing stories about her? In no way.

It's pretty sad when even DU starts to blame the victim.

[apnu]

59. Nope

I'm referring to her secrecy on the issue and her awkward responses. If she was decisive out of the gate on it, this would be yet another non-issue.

It really is a non-issue. Even the Justice Department says she didn't do anything wrong while she was SoS.

Hillary is very smart, her long political career, even before Bill Clinton shows that. But how she's handled this is wrong footed. That's why she should be "smarter". She's got the experience and wisdom, especially after the endless "scandals" manufactured in the 1990s, to know how to deal with such things. She has to know they will never stop making stuff up about her, hell they do it to Obama daily. Its what the GOP's done since Poppy lost the White House.

We know the GOP will make stuff up, they will test her, every day, we all know that. I'm talking about how she handles her responses. The GOP is so bad at this they telegraph their attacks like the amateurs they are. By now she should know how to deal with this stuff. Especially after the endless Benghazi crap they make up. But as it is, with this issue, she's fumbling and its impacting her numbers.

You should know more about what a person is talking about before accusing them of being sexist.

[TrollBuster9090]

18. I'd like to remind both Hilary AND Bernie supporters that...

Howard Dean would make a DAMNED GOOD VP CANDIDATE!

Or a DAMNED GOOD CHIEF OF STAFF!

Just sayin'

And, although they come from different parts of the political spectrum, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, and Bill Richardson are three Democratic Party assets that have been shamelessly WASTED by the Democratic Party establishment.

[Romulox]

23. Howard, you are giving Hillary really bad advice. nt

[Cha]

24. K&R mahalo Cali

[SunSeeker]

29. K & R

[oasis]

32. And the truth shall set ye free.

[Motown_Johnny]

33. Then why did she have the server wiped?

No, I don't mean with a cloth.

It could have been unplugged and stored. That didn't happen. There was a deliberate attempt to destroy information on it.

Then she fought turning it over for ~5 months.

Even if there really is nothing there there, she is acting guilty. When you are running for President and a clear majority of Americans think you are not trustworthy, that is a problem.

[RiverLover]

36. Bingo!

Why go to such extremes if there is nothing to hide?

[eridani]

34. It is an utterly bullshit diversion from important issues n/t

[SidDithers]

37. The right hates Hillary. The fringe left hates Hillary...

and their reporting of "scandals" have much in common.

Sid

[JoePhilly]

40. + 1

[noiretextatique]

41. Yawn...I support Sanders, and I agree this is bs

Why can't you folks just support Clinton?

[yardwork]

44. I wish Dean was still head of the DNC. We need him.

[Dont call me Shirley]

45. Just like the Clinton Presidency years all over again. Ken Starr and his scandal after scandal. Yawn

Don't blame Bernie. It's the main stream billionaire owned media and their minions the GOP.

[libodem]

52. I support Bernie

And it is clearly trumped up horsepucky.

[McCamy Taylor]

58. Someone tell me. Does this make Howard Dean a member of the "Axis of Evil"?

Since he is standing behind Clinton in this matter, I am guessing that the character assassination of a man who did NOT vote for the war in Iraq is only moments away. Popcorn waiting.

[bobGandolf]

60. THANK GOD!

I can not only Howard Dean has said this!

[Botany]

61. HRC's "email problem" is a big fat nothing that is being pushed as being something.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251540630