Could there possibly be a bigger "move along, nothing to see here" moment on the giant scandal of Hillary Clinton's email than a Politico article headlined
"The 12 Hillary Clinton emails you must read" in which all 12 are along these lines?
Colin Powell Jokes About Richard Holbrooke
After Clinton tripped and fractured her elbow in June 2009, one of her predecessors at the State Department sent her an email wishing her well. “Hillary, Is it true that Holbrooke tripped you?” Colin Powell wrote to Clinton, referring to Richard Holbrooke who at the time was serving as President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “Just kidding. Get better fast, we need you running around.”
And:
Who Would Criticize Gen. James Jones?
The New York Times’ Mark Landler published an article in May 2009, only a few months into Clinton’s tenure at the State Department, referring to tension between President Obama’s National Security Adviser, retired Gen. James Jones, and the secretary of state. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines wrote an email to Cheryl Mills, which was forwarded to Clinton, saying that no one in the secretary’s circle could have possibly been Landler’s source. “Someone in her circle is someone like you, or a Jake, or me. And none of us would ever say anything like that,” Reines wrote. “Mark conceded that point and let me know he will be changing the sourcing…It’s a small consolation, but I think a very important one.”
They picked through 3,000 pages of email and this is the kind of bombshell stuff they came up with. Also: emails about scheduling and about how to get the fax machine to work. In short, using email like people use email.
Every time a few percent of people in a poll cite this story as diminishing their confidence in Hillary Clinton, the media makes a giant deal of it. But how has it affected public confidence in the media to have weeks of screaming headlines followed revelations about ... Colin Powell joking that Richard Holbrooke tripped Hillary Clinton.