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Email Scandal Reveals the Hypocrisy of the Democratic Party
Townhall.com ^ | July 26, 2016 | Rachel Marsden

Posted on 07/26/2016 10:50:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

The self-styled "party of unity" has been exposed as a collection of manipulative dividers. The facade that Democrats present to American voters is crumbling.

WikiLeaks has released more than 19,000 internal emails from Democratic National Committee officials, claiming that the massive leak is merely Part 1 of a "Hillary Leaks" series. The emails reveal DNC favoritism toward Hillary Clinton, who'll be officially nominated for the White House this week, at the expense of her vanquished Democratic rival, Bernie Sanders. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down Monday just as the party's national convention was getting underway.

How did the documents get out? The FBI will no doubt launch a thorough investigation free of any political bias, just as it did when it cleared Clinton of wrongdoing after finding 110 email chains containing classified material on her vulnerable private server.

Sifting through the DNC emails, it becomes clear why the party is freaking out. The documents don't undermine democracy itself, as Sanders' supporters are claiming. Rather, they undermine the illusion of democracy that the Democratic Party is selling to the American public and to the rest of the world.

At the party level, the emails provide a glimpse behind the curtain of an organization that purports to stand for hope, love, unity, democracy and progressiveness, revealing instead an elaborate effort to create division and to protect the establishment status quo.

There's also damage at the international level. When internal documents reveal attempts by Democratic Party brass to undermine one of the candidates in what is supposed to be a fair and democratic process, it demolishes the moral authority that American leaders have to criticize other countries for being "undemocratic."

If Clinton is elected president, will she lecture other nations about the importance of a free and independent press? That would seem wildly hypocritical in light of some of the revelations from the DNC leak.

After Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the MSNBC political talk show "Morning Joe," called for Wasserman Schultz to resign because of her perceived mishandling of the Democratic primaries and the DNC's favorable treatment of Clinton, Wasserman Schultz wrote an email to Chuck Todd, political director of NBC News, with the subject line, "Chuck, this must stop."

DNC communications director Luis Miranda, expressing his displeasure with "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough in a note to DNC press secretary Mark Paustenbach, wrote: "(Expletive) Joe claiming the system is rigged, party against (Sanders), we need to complain to their producer."

How could Clinton possibly preach to other nations about the importance of transparent and democratic elections after her party's national committee derided her Democratic opponent?

In one email, Wasserman Schultz, whom Clinton has adopted as an "honorary chair" of her campaign, responded dismissively to an email quoting Sanders' desire to stay "in this race to California." Wrote Wasserman Schultz: "Spoken like someone who has never been a member of the Democratic Party and has no understanding of what we do."

The leak also revealed that Paustenbach had sent an email to fellow DNC communications staffer Miranda about potentially trying to derail the Sanders campaign: "Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess."

Sanders and his supporters naively assumed that their candidate would receive fair treatment from those responsible for overseeing the process. Most Americans would assume this to be true for any candidate, regardless of party affiliation.

And how could Clinton ever accuse Republican rival Donald Trump of bigotry after DNC officials were caught discussing the use of religion as a wedge issue?

"Does [Sanders] believe in a God," Brad Marshall, the DNC's chief financial officer, wrote in an email to a colleague. "He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist."

The biggest victims in this scandal are the idealistic Americans who supported Sanders and thought that the system would be fair to their candidate. They were betrayed across the board. Sanders has now fallen into line behind Clinton -- he spoke in support of her Monday night at the convention. It was the equivalent of Che Guevara showing up in a business suit and starting a new job at Goldman Sachs.

Sanders supporters had sought an anti-establishment revolution. The DNC leak shows that they're right about the system being rigged, right down to the level of their own party. There's only one candidate left for them now -- and it clearly isn't Hillary Clinton.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016dncconvention; demonratparty; dnc; dncleaks; emailscandal

1 posted on 07/26/2016 10:50:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Release of a few (and just a few) Acme plutonium grade emails about an hour before H?’s acceptance speech would dress the stage for great political theater.


2 posted on 07/26/2016 10:54:06 AM PDT by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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To: gasport

preferably something that would cause Sanders delegates to riot


3 posted on 07/26/2016 10:56:10 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("... and if a million more agree, there ain't no Great Society")
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To: thoughtomator

and perhaps result in someone having a coughing fit.


4 posted on 07/26/2016 10:57:45 AM PDT by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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To: gasport

An hour? That’s way too much time.

Give ‘em 15 minutes AT MOST, just so the media heads freak out with no time to spin.


5 posted on 07/26/2016 11:02:02 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: gasport

Man, it would be just perfect if she has a coughing fit during her speech.


6 posted on 07/26/2016 11:04:26 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("... and if a million more agree, there ain't no Great Society")
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To: Shadow44

The sense of total panic needs a bit of time to build.


7 posted on 07/26/2016 11:04:54 AM PDT by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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To: Shadow44

I’m thinking the other way around. 3-4 hours beforehand would give time for panic to set in as the new dump circulates on social media and pro-Sanders sites. Only 15 minutes they could brush it off as if they hadn’t heard yet.


8 posted on 07/26/2016 11:05:37 AM PDT by thoughtomator ("... and if a million more agree, there ain't no Great Society")
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To: Kaslin

Notice emphasis on word LEAKED not hacked
Just posted:
Julian Assange: “Any DNC Staffer Could Have Been The Leaker” — Like the one killed last we… http://ift.tt/2acLlvp


9 posted on 07/26/2016 11:11:41 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump card is exposing the Fifth Column in the USA)
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To: gasport
Release of a few (and just a few) Acme plutonium grade emails about an hour before H?’s acceptance speech would dress the stage for great political theater.

At this point they don't even have to be real emails. Both Hillary and the DNC have lost public trust on email. They will not be able to quickly say the emails are bogus and be believed. They also won't be able to quickly defend themselves because even they may not know if the emails are fake and if more emails may follow to show the first response was a lie.

On the other hand, the Clinton thing to do would be to have someone "not traceable to Hillary" start releasing fake emails. Build up public doubt about the authenticity of any leaked/hacked email since there are likely to be more real ones coming.
10 posted on 07/26/2016 11:52:23 AM PDT by LostPassword
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To: Kaslin

Forget the donkey, it should be a hippo. spelt with a “Y”.


11 posted on 07/26/2016 11:57:28 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Kaslin

The same Democrats who insist that the Russians hacked the DNC server are the same Democrats who insist there was no way the Russians could have hacked Hillary’s private email server. They want us to believe the Russians are interested in the DNC’s campaign secrets, but not our national security secrets.


12 posted on 07/26/2016 12:02:17 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

The Russians already have our national security secrets—as do the Chinese and probably a bunch of high net worth individuals around the world.

In the current age the only secrets are those of the elites kept from the masses.


13 posted on 07/26/2016 12:57:02 PM PDT by cgbg (Warning: This post has not been fact-checked by the Democratic National Committee.)
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To: Kaslin

Democrats = Protect the establishment status quo

MSM working over time 24/7


14 posted on 07/26/2016 1:04:36 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

Hahaha they refer to their constituents as their “peeps”!


15 posted on 07/26/2016 1:26:56 PM PDT by uncitizen (Americanism NOT Globalism! - Trump)
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