Newsweek, the magazine that sold for $1 in 2010 (not for a single issue — for the entire company), has really managed to put the weak back into the news. Sure, it’s an opinion piece, but just take a look at the headline that accompanies Nina Burleigh’s piece: “Hillary Clinton Email Furor Reveals Hypocrisy on the Right.”
Not even Clinton herself has described her email scandal as a “furor,” remember? It was just an example of poor judgment for the sake of convenience. It was also just a routine security review.
Of course, the FBI cleared up that the agency doesn’t do “security reviews” — it investigates criminal activity. It also found criminal activity, but decided that no reasonable person would try to prosecute based on the evidence, even as more evidence keeps pouring in via Judicial Watch, WikiLeaks, and the FBI.
There's a long list of elected and appointed Republicans who have done exactly the same thing as Clinton—and worse https://t.co/ommRaDGbvs
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) August 29, 2016
So, about that long list. “Saint Colin” Powell is on there, alongside the story that he recommended to Clinton at a dinner party that she use a private email account. Neither he nor Condoleezza Rice recalls that conversation, though, and no one’s stepped up to confirm it.
The rest of the long list includes private email users Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Bobby Jindal, Scott Walker, and Martin O’Malley, and Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney get shout-outs for deleting emails. But which one, exactly, did exactly the same thing as Clinton, only worse?
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/770382257408372741
@Newsweek And who EXCLUSIVELY used a non government email address for ALL government work. Obvious FOIA dodge.
— LeoOD3 (@LeoOD3) August 29, 2016
Done, see below. @SethAMandel @Newsweek
Every single Republican who set up a homebrew closet server:
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10.— Violated Norm (@BillySullivan7) August 29, 2016
Hid official records on a private server? Then deleted thousands?Which one?@Newsweek https://t.co/jwbykYmyKq
— S D Winkler (@sdwinkler) August 29, 2016
So, maybe these Republicans didn’t do “exactly” the same thing as Clinton, but you get the point. Each one did essentially the same thing.
Same? None. Not one
— Redacted (@RB4444) August 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/Skinny_Steve_A1/status/770382983308177408
Wrong. Hey journalists, they are called facts. Get on it. Powell never had his own server.
— Colorado RedTraci (@goptraci) August 29, 2016
Hillary "I set up server for convenience" How convenient would it have been for her to use the server already set up?
— Colorado RedTraci (@goptraci) August 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/MoonbatCatnip/status/770382878018502656
You are grasping at straws. You make yourself look pathetic.
— Karen (@km2141961) August 29, 2016
Wow. That was pathetic.
— Deebs (@DeebsFLA) August 29, 2016
Name the top 3 who set up a private, unsecured server to use exclusively for all State communications.
— Sleve McDichael (@SeahawkBurrrton) August 29, 2016
Wow. Reads just like a DNC press release and I have heard HRC apologists make more credible claims. Why bother writing it?
— Gary Frank (@swizze_gfrank) August 29, 2016
https://twitter.com/NortonLoverPNW/status/770405710161022976
Somebody paid a dollar for this?
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