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Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has announced she will resign as chair of the Democratic National Committee. The resignation is to become effective after the party's convention. The organisation's e-mail system was hacked; leaked e-mails appear to confirm accusations that Wasserman-Schultz had taken action favouring Hillary Clinton in her contest against Bernie Sanders to become the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. Sanders had previously called for Wasserman-Schultz to resign, a request he reiterated in light of the leak.
Wasserman-Schultz said in a statement:
I know that electing Hillary Clinton as our next president is critical for America's future. I look forward to serving as a surrogate for her campaign in Florida and across the country to ensure her victory.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 25 2016, @09:24PM
You really seized on the first sentence of my post.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday July 25 2016, @10:08PM
Because there was a reason you put it first. Whether you thought of it yourself or just blindly bought into the Narrative that is saturating the media today doesn't matter. The point is the importance, for the Dims, of deflecting sufficient attention from the contents of the emails to the meta conversation about who leaked and why, that the icky details won't sink it for a day or two and by then of course it will be 'old news' and won't be mentioned again on the boob tube.
The end effect is going to be limited to having DWS move from the DNC to HRC's campaign, exactly as was planned from the start in the first place. Bernie will forced to clean up the mess tonight by utterly abasing himself to the Dark Queen and that will be the end of it. A percent or two of his diehards might end up butthurt and sit out the general but they are the sort of youth vote that generally doesn't vote anyway.
Which was why I called ya on parroting the narrative, then went totally offscript to drop a evil thought about why this time the deflection might be used to raise questions even more uncomfortable than the leaks. Revealing the DNC is corrupt is in the end just a dog bites man story. Putin throwing Hillary under the bus actually has the potential to be hyped into a man bites dog story and actually being news.
But Trump would probably have to push it to get past the media shields and he probably isn't going to do that. I'm thinking he has his own numbers that confirm Scott Adams' projection that at this point he just has to act like a plausible President for three months and he automatically wins. That it is a change election so all he need do is pass the plausible candidate threshold, which is a pretty low bar.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 25 2016, @10:30PM
The reason I put it first is because in the series of events, Wikileaks has to get the docs first before they can leak them. The Russians leaking emails to Wikileaks scenario is plausible, not that it detracts from the releases in any way in my view. The Trump coordinating with the Russians narrative is a far bigger stretch that will flop. I'm not parroting any narrative. I've discussed Wikileaks and where they get their docs long before the Dems/DNC ever cared.
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