Something I never understood about the e-mail hack.

[LAS14]

So you hear a lot about "thousands of e-mails" leaked by Wiki-leaks from the Clinton campaign. And you hear about "dirt on Hillary." What I never did hear was any dirt and any content of those "devestating" e-mails except Panetta's recipe for gnocchi and something Debby Wasserman Schultz was thinking about but never did.

Did anyone else ever hear anything? Did any of those e-mails actually hurt Hillary?

[dlk]

1. Not at All-It Was Conviction by Innuendo

When have actual facts ever stopped Republican machinations?

[TheRealNorth]

2. I honestly think Trump and the Republicans muddied the waters

So that people not closely paying attention were not sure if they were talking about the Hillary e-mails or the e-mails hacked from the DNC server.

All in order to keep the e-mails front and center in the news cycle in September and October 2016. Because the best defense for them was a good offense.

[rufus dog]

5. It only worked because the press allowed it to go on

How long did they report on the ‘scandal?’ It should have been laughed off as they hacked and found some recipes. And why aren’t we seeing anything from the Repub hack? If I was to assign blame then the press gets 80 to 90 percent. And Andrea Mitchel gets a huge direct blame.

[mercuryblues]

6. That was exactly the goal

They conflated 3 e-mail stories into one. trumpers believe Clinton's private server was hacked and classified info was stolen. When it was the DNC server & State department servers that were hacked. If that distinction was not enough you would occasionally see stories about the State Department emails being hacked and emails from there that were released.

The only server that was not hacked was Clinton's private server.

[northoftheborder]

3. That was a question I have always had....

WHAT "dirt" did they supposedly get??? Must have been nothing or it would have been put out there. Just the repeat over and over and over the word "dirt". Which is the word the media has always used also. Not even "negative information", or such. Just "dirt" used incessantly which implies a lot, and which evidently worked the way it was supposed to.

[catrose]

4. SNL said the deleted emails were all Bed Bath & Beyond coupons

more believable than what the Rs were peddling

[Igel]

7. Slightly.

I think there was some evidence in the DNC email haul that the DNC was favoring HRC and not helping Sanders as much as Sanders' supporters would have liked. This kind of partiality create bitterness and a sense of grievance that's hard to overcome. (Note, also, that there were rumors that the email dump wasn't entirely unaltered.) I don't even know how extensive the partiality went.

Trump suggested that perhaps the Russians could find HRC's "30,000" missing emails, for which the media would reward Russia.

Rumor is (I haven't seen anybody with direct knowledge confirm this) that there was a hacking attempt that day against the HRC servers.

However, the DNC hacking attempts both preceded and followed the Trump speech; there was more than one attempt. Just as the successful DNC hack was one of thousands attempted at about the same time, making the laser-like focus on the DNC a byproduct of information omission, so the DNC hack was distinct from what Trump referred to in his speech and the HRC email server mess. I've heard reporter-commentators play that particular quote and then spin the "HRC emails" as the "DNC emails" without missing a beat.

[LAS14]

8. One of the Newshour talking heads confirmed this about 10 minutes ago.

"Trump suggested that perhaps the Russians could find HRC's "30,000" missing emails, for which the media would reward Russia.

Rumor is (I haven't seen anybody with direct knowledge confirm this) that there was a hacking attempt that day against the HRC servers. "

[VarryOn]

9. Having no life and consumed with the 2016 election...

I spent probably 1-2 hours reading these emails every time there was a release. I was afraid of a “bombshell.” There never was one.

[LAS14]

10. I see from the responses that I didn't miss anything, so every...

... MSM reporter and commentator who talked about the "leak of dirt on Hillary" needs to lose their license to speak in public!!!!! THERE WAS NO DIRT!!!!!! (yes, yelling!)