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In reply to the discussion: Please rec if you want the DNC to comply with their own impartiality rule. [View all]Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)The iPhone came out 2007 and Dean was running RNC in 2009? Emails were still what you got on and sent from your computer, not your phone. But if you can send from your phone, your tablet, your watch even, and if everyone has such devices, then there this DNC had a lot more emails to contend with than prior DNC's. So I'm going to say that both of them would find it harder to run that tight ship now, and are being a bit harsh on this DNC, given (1) how messaging is taken for granted and has changed and gotten so huge it's hard to monitor everything, and (2) given that the internet has created an atmosphere where people tend to say what they think and push the "send" button a lot faster. Back just seven years ago, there was a bit more editing and thought before pushing that send button.
And there is always that problem with what the person "thinks" they're saying and what they're saying. I've heard a lot of conversations where the people *THINK* they're being fair and impartial, yet if they run it by someone from the other side, they'll hear that they're being bias. If we were all told that there rules were to be impartial, and yet here we are talking politics--talking about what issues our candidates might run into in the South or from people of color...would we *sound* impartial? Especially to those fearing bias against that candidate?
Sometimes it is bias. And sometimes, it's hard for the person saying it to tell the difference. And sometimes, it's hard for the person hearing it to tell the difference. Remember when that black woman was accused of being anti-white? Turned out she'd was telling a story of what she'd "THOUGHT" about helping a white couple who'd been bigoted towards blacks...but she did help them. Yet when that story came out--just that part of the story where she said what her first thought was...everyone rushed to fire her. Obama apologized! And that did exactly what the GOP wanted--it make it look like white people were being persecuted, not blacks.
But it wasn't the whole story. So, is that quote from one email the whole story? What was in reply to? What were the other e-mails? I don't think any democrat should be rushing to judgement here about anyone or anything.