Did Debbie Wasserman Schultz Send Any Problematic Emails?

[JimGinPA]

No? I didn't think so. This is just one more example of a media-driven manufactured controversy to create another false equivalence to try and keep this "horse race" close.

[Exilednight]

1. Leaders need to be held accountable. The fact that she didn't

Do anything about it is problematic to say the least.

[Igel]

13. If she knew about it.

Otherwise, every president can be impeached by the end of his first week in office.

A number of things have happened under Obama that (R) loved to say he was responsible for. But if he didn't know, he's right to blame those below him. (Unless something gave his underlings reason to think that they had approval. That fight gets messy.)

Saying a leader is responsible for what goes on in his/her administration is okay--it means whether known at the time or found out about later, the leader has to correct it. But making the leader accountable for everything bad done by anybody working for him is just plain lunatic. We don't hold ourselves and our own to that standard, and justify it by saying it's appropriate; we can't then turn around and hold others and theirs to a much higher standard, and then say that's appropriate.

[apcalc]

2. There is definitely that element to it.

I am really bothered that the jerk Putin may have succeeded in stirring things up.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. The buck stops somewhere.

Usually at the very top.

She failed to do her job.

[rateyes]

4. Yes.

"He is not going to be president." For one. There are others.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. do you know the date she sent this email? was it after the point at which everyone who could do math

knew he had lost?

[JimGinPA]

8. Context matters

[rateyes]

12. I went to the wikileaks site and did the search.

There were several such emails long before Hillary was presumptive nominee.

[Duckhunter935]

5. At least one

That was quoted on the news stating Bernie was not going to be President during the primary when she was to be neutral. But she was in charge when those despicable emails were sent about his religion.

[jmg257]

6. There were the ones referring to Weaver (Sander's campaign mnger) in derogatory manners. nt

[4139]

9. Did wikileaks release any of her emails? I tried looking but...

I don't know here DNC email?
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=Schultz&spam=1&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult

[ksoze]

10. Depends on your definition of "problematic"

But the documents also offered an unusual and evocative glimpse at the simmering feuds, attempts at ingratiation and clashes of ego that are regular occurrences between media organizations and Democratic power brokers, an elbows-out reality of Washington life that is usually hidden from public view.

Emails show that Ms. Wasserman Schultz stewed for weeks over what she perceived as unfair coverage by MSNBC, arranging meetings with executives there to improve relations and privately lamenting her lack of on-air appearances on the network.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/media-democratic-national-committee-emails.html

[merrily]

11. The issue is whether she was biased, not whether she sent an email reflecting bias.

And, as others have pointed out, the buck for all the emails stopped with her.

She's resigned and Donna Brazile has apologized to Sanders. Even the religious bigot apologized, albeit only on Facebook. Why must we pretend they did those things, knowing they'd done nothing wrong?

[gratuitous]

14. She sent me an e-mail with the subject line, "This is funny"

And I didn't think that video of the kitty playing piano was funny at all. So, you know . . .