Playing into the right’s trap: The media is all too quick to go chasing phony Clinton scandals

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by Gary Legum at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/24/playing-into-the-rights-trap-the-media-is-all-too-quick-to-go-chasing-phony-clinton-scandals/

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But by treating this newest release as a major event instead of an ongoing series of drips from an old and rusty faucet, reporters from across the political spectrum can pretend, once again, that they have uncovered some “new” and troubling story implicating Clinton and her family’s foundation in some shady activity or other. The whole process will repeat itself in another couple of weeks when Judicial Watch, which has been chasing the Clintons since the 1990s, will release another batch of emails we can all scour in hopes of finding something untoward.

When it does, it will unleash another round of reporters complaining about Clinton refusing to hold press conferences where they can ask her 75 different ways about the emails and she can find 75 different ways of dodging the question. It will unleash another round of hand-wringing from pundits and politicians about why the Clintons should shut down the foundation, like, yesterday, with no explanation about why some of the work the organization has done in fighting, among other things, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, could or should suffer because a conservative legal organization founded by this guy uses regular email releases to keep a story showing no wrongdoing in the headlines.

As always with the Clintons, their enemies are once again engaging in overreach. And the press, including the august New York Times, is once again following those enemies down a rabbit hole where there is always a new revelation just around the corner that will finally allow someone to hold the couple accountable for something. And all the time spent chasing the shiny object of a smoking gun of an email obscures some of the genuinely substantive questions government watchdogs have raised about the intermingling of the Clinton Foundation’s business with Hillary Clinton’s governmental work and how the Clintons will need to disentangle themselves from such conflicts in the future.

And with these stories definitely outliving this presidential campaign, we can look forward to repeats of this story every few weeks for another four to eight years. Hooray.


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[uponit7771]

1. Yeap, group think like Iraq and then they have a vested interest in proving themselves right...

... vs a proving interest in journalism.

The M$M is openly admitting now they're holding HRC to a different standard and then calling it something else other than overt sexism.