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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Tue Mar 3, 2015, 06:22 AM Mar 2015

'Let me check my Gmail'

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'Let me check my Gmail' (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Mar 2015 OP

The outrage lasted a few hours, then collapsed --- if one actually reads OKNancy Mar 2015 #1

Of course there is the relaunch on the morning news... HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #3

LOL mmonk Mar 2015 #2

BWAH! bigwillq Mar 2015 #4

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)

1. The outrage lasted a few hours, then collapsed --- if one actually reads

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Tue Mar 3, 2015, 06:44 AM

Mar 2015

http://thedailybanter.com/2015/03/story-hillary-clintons-private-email-account-isnt-awful-seems/

It’s the internet and it’s social media, so facts and reality are irrelevant in the face of mob justice. Along those lines, it’s circulating all around Twitter that Clinton used Gmail. Wrong. Not in the article, just Twitter snark morphing into Twitter fact. Still, I’m constantly amazed at the quaint and uncritical acceptance of every news article as 100 percent accurate, even in the age of clickbait and even among readers who don’t actually read what they’re outraged about.

The fact that there was no law against this makes the NYTimes story ridiculous. The Republicans love it of course.

But this will be another tempest in a teapot.