Scar is showing his GOP stripes. What lies will HE try to peddle next?
God, I hate agreeing with JS. But I really do wish instead of pushing back all of the time the HRC campaign would just say something like “While we disagree with all of the findings of the IG, we do agree that it was foolish and shortsighted to use a private email server. I wish I hadn’t done that.”
WHY DON’T THEY DO THAT AND PUT THIS TO BED? It is fairly clear that no criminal proceedings will result, just issue a full mea culpa and move on.
Earth to Joe:
Trump is not gonna stop being who he is and doing what he does and people don’t sit him down. He is 100% Alpha male.
“Do you think now it’s time…that you stop playing this like you’re in a wrestling match in like a ditch on the side of one of your golf courses?” he said.
In his spare time Scarborough toils away at a new start-up venture, wherein naturalists train wild bears to forgo shitting in the woods.“I don’t understand why you put out a statement like that,” Scarborough began. “Stop digging! Stop digging. I screwed up. I’m terribly sorry. I hope the American people will forgive me and I hope they will let us move onto the issues that matter. Stop lying. Stop digging.”
What’s in the server Joe?
I was just asking the same thing…why can’t she put this thing to bed…but I meant Vince Foster.
It’s not going to bed, no matter what she says or does. She’s Hillary. That’s the rule on this planet and everybody seems to understand it. Meanwhile, we don’t give a hoot what’s in any other emails from anybody or to anybody. It’s just her.
Does that put it to bed?
At a Wednesday campaign event in California, Republican Donald Trump said the report was “not good” for Clinton and wise-cracked about “Crazy Bernie” Sanders, saying, “He’s a crazy man, but that’s OK, we like crazy people.”
Bernie?
by the way: batten down the hatches if either of them were Brooklyn Dodgers fans…
Well Joe, most normal-ish, nontechnical people would be very hard pressed to explain the difference between a private email account and a private email server. I’m not saying she’s not savvy enough to understand it, but it strikes me as more of a handler’s attempt to have more control of the flow of information, while giving her the “same thing” Powell and Rice used. I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess HRC isn’t IT trained.
And as I recall, the Secretary was flatly denied permission to use a blackberry-like device like what POTUS has. Why it was fine for the Gander, but not the Goose, I don’t know (technically speaking).
“Do you think now it’s time…that you stop playing this like you’re in a wrestling match in like a ditch on the side of one of your golf courses?” he said.
The last time that Trump was involved in a wrestling match, Vince McMahon got his head shaved…
“How much longer is this going to go on before somebody over there gets serious about the fact that this man is running for President of the United States and not the next CEO of WWE?”
Strangely enough, Trump was the storyline WWE CEO when he ‘bought’ RAW, but at last check WWE is a privately owned company.
As for, someone should ask Joe about that Haley Barbour segment. Seeing how Trump is suddenly a '90’s fan.
Anyone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe she already said something akin to this months ago. She said she could have done better. Am I remembering this right?
The OIG report wasn’t actually about the email server. It was about following the record-retention policy.
You are correct. She did say this. Additionally, the OIG report isn’t actually about the email server, it’s about record retention of any emails.
But she has basically done that. When I read the NYT, what I see between the lines of this report is an OIG trying very hard to establish credibility within the agency. It’s hard to imagine that he really thought the arrangement was threatening, since he waited for years after Clinton left to do anything, and then only after the issue had become public for other reasons. I deal with federal bureaucracies a lot and these kinds of things are often explained more by dysfunctional organizational dynamics and turf battles than anything else. DOS systems have been repeatedly hacked since the end of the Bush administration. The private Clinton server has never been hacked. Governmental procurement of IT generally is simply a disaster and most employees grit their teeth in order to get through the day and adapt with all sorts of workarounds. OIG will not fix that. I am not sure what would.
And Joe DEAD INTERN Scarborough"s opinion will matter in the general election almost as much as a mosquito farting during Hurricane Katrina.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again - everyone just READ THE ACTUAL OIG REPORT. All of the news outlets seem to highlight Clinton but the OIG report is for the entire State Department and whether or not they followed the RECORD-RETENTION POLICY that governs emails - regardless of the server or email account.
I’m sorry for getting shouty but the OIG is not always impartial nor do they always know what they are talking about…that being said, this report is pretty much standard but seems more “damaging” because of the FBI investigation into the server issue. The OIG latched on to what they could - the record-retention policy - to capitalize on the outrage of everything else related to emails. The bottom line, however, is this is pretty standard and all it said was there is a systemic issue going back YEARS of not following the record-retention policy for emails. (which, if you actually read the policy, it’s absolutely archaic.)
ETA: There is some private email stuff in the report but it mirrors what we already know.
"Do you think now it’s time…that you stop playing this like you’re in a wrestling match in like a ditch on the side of one of your golf courses?” he said. “How much longer is this going to go on before somebody over there gets serious about the fact that this man is running for President of the United States and not the next CEO of WWE?”
What Trump understands is that Presidential elections, dating back to JFK even, is more about personalities than policy. Unless you follow and /or work in politics, you probably don’t have a nuanced understanding of free trade, immigration, foreign policy, so Trump’s soundbites sound work great.
“we’re going to win, because I’m a winner” is all most voters want to hear. When doing post debate analysis, it’s the zingers that people remember, not the substantive policy proposals.
Let’s stop pretending that the general public wants substance over style
Rant away Joey…but OF COURSE, don’t ever say ONE FKING WORD about all the other SOS’s that ignored the same damn law. It’s all about HILLARY…that’s why you went after her. NEVER EVER when it’s your party in power…then ignoring the law is a sign of COURAGE. And the media doesn’t CORRECT the impression that she is the only one. Oh HELL no. They continue to foster conflict, shape the narrative and let these lying aholes call everyone ELSE out. Reprehensible reptiles.
Well framed, colourful caricatures in entertaining sentences, both. Applause!
I don’t know, scarborough mumbled something about a dead intern.