That partially an effect of everything else going wrong in his campaign. When a candidate is in such a bad, down cycle, the public and the media become increasingly skeptical of everything the candidate says. That’s why falling into a deep hole is a very, very bad thing for a campaign…because its incredibly hard to rebuild the credibility with the public that is necessary to even start climbing out.
Of course, in this case…these ARE pretty pitiful attacks. Its just name calling, without nearly nothing behind them.
And let me just respond to one other thing that is bothering me concerning this WaPo “four pinocchios” thing.
“As we have seen repeatedly in Clinton’s explanations of the email controversy, she relies on excessively technical and legalistic answers to explain her actions. While Comey did say there was no evidence she lied to the FBI, that is not the same as saying she told the truth to the American public — which was the point of Wallace’s question. Comey has repeatedly not taken a stand on her public statements.”
Read that carefully. It essentially says she told the truth, but we at WaPo don’t like hearing technical legalistic answers…even though the question is very much a legalistic and technical question.
They admit that Comey said she did not lie to the FBI, but again, WaPo doesn’t like that because of above and it doesn’t jive with the meme they are trying to create.
“And although Comey did say many emails were retroactively classified, he also said that there were some emails that were already classified that should not have been sent on an unclassified, private server.”
Again…Comey said that the emails were retroactively classified, and she shouldn’t have been using a private server. Which is precisely what Hillary has said numerous times in public, and has offered up numerous apologies for doing.
In other words…WaPo gave her 4 pinocchios because they didn’t like her response…not because it was untruthful. And they didn’t like it because it wasn’t in nice easy to parse and digest format. Its like asking me which curved line is covering more of a graph and I use calculus to give you the answer…but you failed calculus so you don’t like that answer…even though its the correct answer.