Try harder: Hillary campaign's press secretary announces that 'Clinton received spam'

Brett T. | 1:50 AM on October 01, 2015

With news breaking that Russian-linked hackers made at least five attempts to deliver malware to Hillary Clinton’s private and unsecured email server via a malicious attachment disguised as a traffic citation, it turns out that a Daily Beast editor has been doing a better job spinning away the news than Hillary for America’s Brian Fallon, who is paid to do that sort of thing.

Breaking news: Clinton received spam.

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) October 1, 2015

MSNBC’s reporter in charge of covering the GOP race just so happened to apply the same spin.

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/649368391132712960

The fictional “just spam” scenario is catching on with Clinton fans. Who hasn’t received a ton of spam emails? — not including, of course, government and military personnel who communicate through secure servers.

@justkarl @MarlowNYC I have received zero, none, zilch on my dot mil address in 3 years. But yeah.

— dubs (@mrbigdubya) September 30, 2015

@brianefallon Can we get the stats on how many times the government servers tries to get hacked. Probably happening right now LOL

— Nasty Woman Kiki (@Kiki1788) October 1, 2015

Probably. And the hackers hardly ever get through, except for the ones who stole 5.6 million fingerprint files, or the ones who managed to get a hold of the personnel files and security clearance forms of around 20 million federal staffers, or the ones who broke into the Pentagon’s unclassified email system. LOL.

.@brianefallon Deserves a Congressional Committee to investigate the type of spam, where it came from & if it was about yoga or gefilte fish

— A Merry Alex Barbieri ☃️? (@abarbieri3) October 1, 2015