2016 Postmortem
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Donna Brazile is totally not sorry for leaking CNN debate questions to Hillary Clinton
By Callum Borchers November 7
Donna Brazile is not apologizing for leaking CNN debate questions and topics to the Hillary Clinton campaign during the Democratic primary. Her only regret, it seems, is that she got caught.
My conscience as an activist, a strategist is very clear, the interim chair of the Democratic National Committee said Monday during a satellite radio interview with liberal activist and SiriusXM host Joe Madison. She added that if I had to do it all over again, I would know a hell of a lot more about cybersecurity.
In other words, Brazile would have made sure that her improper disclosures which prompted CNN to drop her as an analyst would not show up in hacked emails published by WikiLeaks. The lesson, apparently, is to pick up the phone or perhaps meet John Podesta in a dark alleyway.
Madison hardly objected. In fact, he said CNN should have expected this kind of thing.
The one thing folk need to understand at CNN, MSNBC and all of this: When you hire folk who are, as you say, the, you know their responsibility is to their candidate and their party, Madison said, they're going to do whatever they can to win. That's just that's the nature of the beast.....
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/donna-brazile-is-totally-not-sorry-for-leaking-cnn-debate-questions-to-hillary-clinton/
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)I did like her too. Cheating is just wrong
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)back to his master's circle.
Once again, only the Democrat is excoriated and of course it is easier since she is both female and black.
think
(11,641 posts)WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)think
(11,641 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)Trump right now.
think
(11,641 posts)by this cheating will be a topic for many years.
And so it should be.
JI7
(89,279 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)utmost concern to me now. Who cares about president Trump and what he is going to do.
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LonePirate
(13,431 posts)I think the entire reaction to this - especially from Democrats and progressives - betrays all common sense just so people can be outraged over nothing.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)And unfortunately Donna will be the one holding the bag on this. It's highly unlikely that she will have any roll going forward with the DNC and I doubt that any network will bring her back on after the Wikileaks mess.
think
(11,641 posts)By HADAS GOLD 10/12/16 06:18 PM EDT Updated 10/12/16 06:20 PM EDT
~Snip~
Here's what the record shows: On March 12, Brazile, then vice chair of the DNC and a CNN and ABC contributor, allegedly wrote an email with the subject line "From time to time I get the questions in advance." It continues:
Here's one that worries me about HRC.
DEATH PENALTY
19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free. Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the U.S. Thats 11% of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed. Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?
Jennifer Palmieri, director of communications for the Clinton campaign, wrote back within three hours, seemingly not as worried:
Hi. Yes, it is one she gets asked about. Not everyone likes her answer but can share it.
She then instructs a copied employee to share the campaign's standard answer to the question to Brazile...
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/roland-martin-cnn-email-donna-brazile-wikileaks-229673
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)But it's a matter of integrity, IMO. Donna Brazile knew that she shouldn't be forwarding the questions to Hillary in advance. If she simply couldn't resist doing that, then she should have told CNN what she did, and then resigned from the CNN gig.
No idea what her role will be with the DNC moving forward, but I'm guessing that she won't be getting in political commentator jobs anytime soon.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)It motivates both the left and right against them.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)That it wasn't really needed but the optics now are terrible.
It's sad to because I really respectd Donna. She was my first follow on Twitter.