A Low Bar

Have you heard?  (I'm being facetious.)

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton "intentionally" used a private email account.  What exactly was her "intent" in using -- OMG! -- private email?

Personally, I don't care, and no one really knows, but conservatives are thoroughly convinced that, despite zero evidence, her motivations are untrustworthy, devious, crooked, criminal and even unpatriotic.  That's the right wing's favorite old story line about the Clintons, and they've gotten a lot of mileage from it.  They take something small and insignificant, and whip it up into an overblown, paranoid frenzy -- a scandal!  An email scandal!!  Email-ghazi!!!

Total waste-of-time bullshit, but it plays in Peoria.

It's a low, low bar for "scandal" these days.







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In related news, Rep. Trey Gowdy is Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and the Select Committee on Benghazi.  As such, he functions as the GOP's Grand Inquisitor and he has demanded that Hillary Clinton turn over her private email server and "appear at least twice" before his kangaroo committee.  Why?  Because that's just the FUD*-mongering way they roll.

"We have no evidence of crime or guilt, but can you prove you're innocent?"

It's like drowning someone to prove she's not a witch.



[*FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt]