The non-stop, 24/7 media drumbeat about the phony email “scandal” has finally prompted some soul-searching by thoughtful media members who are denouncing the ridiculous excesses of the coverage.
The Washington Post today has ripped the media narrative in as forceful a manner as anyone.
JUDGING BY the amount of time NBC’s Matt Lauer spent pressing Hillary Clinton on her emails during Wednesday’s national security presidential forum, one would think that her homebrew server was one of the most important issues facing the country this election. It is not. There are a thousand other substantive issues — from China’s aggressive moves in the South China Sea to National Security Agency intelligence-gathering to military spending — that would have revealed more about what the candidates know and how they would govern. Instead, these did not even get mentioned in the first of 5½ precious prime-time hours the two candidates will share before Election Day, while emails took up a third of Ms. Clinton’s time.
The editorial points out how recent disclosures — a memo from FBI Director James Comey about how there was nothing remotely indictable, the Colin Powell emails and those supposed 30 newly discovered deleted emails about Benghazi that turned out to be NOTHING — should have buried this media shitstorm.
Then it notes:
The story has vastly exceeded the boundaries of the facts.
As the saying goes — No shit, Sherlock.
UPDATE: Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was just on MSNBC and was asked about this Washington Post editorial. He said that there is still plenty to investigate because “we don’t have all the facts yet.”
If you needed another reason to work overtime so we can take back the House, there it is right there.