The Republican Lie That “They Didn’t Go After Clinton”

I do not understand why the media falls for it, every time. Shirley Sherrod. Fast and Furious. Benghazi. The Server. Tonight I saw an incredibly frustrating comment. By a respected reporter, Carol Leonig of the Post. They ran the clip of that poor dumb Republican congressman saying "well, yeah, but the papers at Mar-a-Lago might not be all that classified. Sure they're marked special access, but we don't know they're really all that classified."

And Leonig, who should know better, comes on with the "both sides do it" claim that she talked to Hillary Clinton's lawyers, who kept excusing Hillary "by claiming the documents weren't marked classified," so they both make excuses.

NO THEY DON'T, YOU IDIOT!!!!! I swear, this need to find moral equivalence between a trimming dissembling politician and the most corrupt man in the world is going to drive me nuts.

The first rule of classification is that it is what it’s marked. There’s no such thing as “sort of classified.” If it says “special access,” that’s what it is. If it’s not marked, that’s what it is. Classification can change, but if the document you had in a desk drawer is suddenly deemed classified, that’s not a good day for anyone but you didn’t mishandle classified. It’s that simple. The Hillary Clinton server “scandal?” Made up. Fiction. And eternal shame on Morning Joe and all those MSM reporters who obsessed about it for a year. And all you Bernie Sanders supporters who pretended it was your concern about security? Yeah, shame on you.

There were NO (none, zero) actual classified documents on Hillary's server. The whole story, which consumed the national media for six months and essentially destroyed Clinton's campaign, was that one agency security guy with a point he wouldn’t drop (who despised Clinton, by the way) claimed some of the documents should have been marked classified. And tied the government in knots for a year. And the weak-kneed media fell for it, just like they always do. In the end, nothing was found and the owners of the information (State) still assert there was no classified.

There's no comparison between the Trump information, which is a dead serious security concern, maybe the most serious security breach we've ever faced, and the Fox News-House GOP-manufactured nothing known as the "Clinton server." When the Republican talkers start raising this, the media should just say "oh shut up, for once." Or channel Joseph Welch, the lawyer who brought down Joseph McCarthy, "Sir, at long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

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