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MADem

(135,425 posts) Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:51 PM Mar 2015

The George W. Bush email scandal the media has conveniently forgotten

Back in 2007, the White House "lost" more than five million private emails. The story was barely covered

...As for The New York Times, here’s the entirety of the newspaper’s commentary on the Bush White House email story in the week following the revelation, according to Nexis:

Last week, the Republican National Committee threw up another roadblock, claiming it had lost four years’ worth of e-mail messages by Karl Rove that were sent on a Republican Party account. Those messages, officials admitted, could include some about the United States attorneys. It is virtually impossible to erase e-mail messages fully, and the claims that they are gone are not credible.

Three sentences from a single, unsigned editorial. That’s it. No Times columnists addressed the topic. By comparison, in the week since the Clinton story broke, the Times has published one editorial dedicated solely to the subject, and no less than five opinion columns addressing the controversy.

Just to repeat: In 2007, the story was about millions of missing White House emails that were sought in connection to a Congressional investigation. Yet somehow the archiving of Clinton’s emails today requires exponentially more coverage, and exceedingly more critical coverage.

Of course, back in 2007 Fox News seemed utterly uninterested in the Bush email story days after the news broke. A search of Fox archives locates only one panel discussion about the story and it featured two guests accusing Democrats of engineering a “fishing expedition.”

From then-Fox co-host, Fred Barnes: “I mean, deleted e-mails, who cares?”

More than FIVE MILLION emails, material needed for a congressional investigation, and it was barely noted in the media...and people are trying to suggest there's nothing "partisan" about these latest attacks on the former SECSTATE?

Please.

http://www.salon.com/2015/03/12/the_george_w_bush_email_scandal_the_media_has_conveniently_forgotten_partner/

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The George W. Bush email scandal the media has conveniently forgotten (Original Post) MADem Mar 2015 OP

And THAT is how the corporate media works. blm Mar 2015 #1

The NYT used to be "trusted" because they (after WAPO) published the Watergate Story, and they MADem Mar 2015 #4

The 90s changed everything - NYT became Neocon Central…. blm Mar 2015 #6

It's hard to let go of old paradigms, but I think it's past time we stopped trusting those bums. MADem Mar 2015 #7

This should be recced a thousand times. Can anyone say "criminal"? Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #2

I sure can!!! Criminal!!! Criminal!!! Down-right, stinking CRIMINAL!! MADem Mar 2015 #3

You are right!! In the patriot act;Bush Slip a no look at his email cause lewebley3 Mar 2015 #5

Gods, yes. Hekate Mar 2015 #8

They serve as useful tools when they do that kind of thing. MADem Mar 2015 #9

EXACTLY!!! You all know me as one of HRC's toughest critics, historically, blm Mar 2015 #10

blm

(113,065 posts)

1. And THAT is how the corporate media works.

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:18 PM

Mar 2015

ALL of them. Limited hangout. All around.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. The NYT used to be "trusted" because they (after WAPO) published the Watergate Story, and they

Reply to blm (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:36 PM

Mar 2015

and they and WAPO also published the Pentagon Papers. Silly us, of a certain age, that made us stupidly think they were on the side of the "good guys" and that they had integrity and honor and decency and they could be counted on to do the right thing. Between Judy Miller and Jayson Blair and this stupid horse shit, now we know what they're made of--they're self-serving asswipes who lick the boots of their masters. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Hell, the damn National Enquirer has more integrity--they pay for their stories at times, but they make their sources sign contracts that are pecuniarily punitive in the extreme if they're caught lying or falsifying information, and that tends to keep their sources honest.

blm

(113,065 posts)

6. The 90s changed everything - NYT became Neocon Central….

Reply to MADem (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:43 PM

Mar 2015

…a close friend to WaPo operating as Spook Central, the PR arm of the CIA.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

7. It's hard to let go of old paradigms, but I think it's past time we stopped trusting those bums.

Reply to blm (Reply #6)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:45 PM

Mar 2015

Everybody's got to serve somebody, but all those fuckers do is serve themselves.

Dont call me Shirley

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2. This should be recced a thousand times. Can anyone say "criminal"?

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:20 PM

Mar 2015

MADem

(135,425 posts)

3. I sure can!!! Criminal!!! Criminal!!! Down-right, stinking CRIMINAL!!

Reply to Dont call me Shirley (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:28 PM

Mar 2015

lewebley3

(3,412 posts)

5. You are right!! In the patriot act;Bush Slip a no look at his email cause

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:39 PM

Mar 2015

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Bush sealed away his email and records, however he
wasn't very bright so I don't think there is must written there:
its Cheney's and company, that plotted the war, and
outed a CI agent.

Hekate

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8. Gods, yes.

Reply to MADem (Original post)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:48 PM

Mar 2015

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What I find really disturbing around here is how many have suspended their skepticism of the MSM and GOP and have eagerly snatched at the bait of "Hillary's hiding something from us."

MADem

(135,425 posts)

9. They serve as useful tools when they do that kind of thing.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:51 PM

Mar 2015

Some unwittingly, others, not so much.

I think it's a rather soul-crushing experience, to be used--or to allow oneself to be used--in such a fashion. It's a disrespectful and disrespecting experience.

blm

(113,065 posts)

10. EXACTLY!!! You all know me as one of HRC's toughest critics, historically,

Reply to Hekate (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 13, 2015, 02:53 PM

Mar 2015

and because of that I know the difference between honest critiques and complete GOP talking point BULLSH!T.

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