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It took only 18 minutes of missing tape to impeach and remove President Nixon from office.
Compare these 18 minutes of missing audio tapes to Hillary Clinton’s 30,000+ missing emails, thousands of controversial leaked campaign emails, a litany of rape accusations aimed at Bill Clinton, numerous recently released Project Veritas videos that seem to prove that Democrats have incited violence at Trump rallies and committed voter fraud across the country and the reported scandals supposedly riddled throughout the Clinton Foundation.
Clinton makes Nixon seem like a saint.
One would think that a renowned politician like Clinton would face severe scrutiny by the media and political pundits — politicians as infamous as Clinton rarely escape controversies of this magnitude unscathed, let alone unnoticed, by the mainstream media.
However, during this election cycle, mass media appears reluctant to pursue any story that might be detrimental to the Clinton campaign. The most impending controversy that the media has widely ignored is Wikileaks’ massive release of Clinton campaign emails. The emails, which were obtained from Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, reveal several shocking revelations about Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
For example, from the leaked e-mails we learn that Clinton staffers actively worked with the DNC to deny Senator Bernie Sanders the Democratic nomination. A staffer, Mark Siegel, wrote to his colleagues: “I’ve lived through many national conventions and have found that it’s critical that all delegates, especially those representing losing candidates, emerge from the convention feeling that they have won something, achieved something tangible. I think this is terribly important especially with people like Bernie’s sometimes self-righteous ideologues.” Siegel went on to write “his people will think they’ve ‘won’ something from the Party Establishment. And it functionally doesn’t make any difference anyway. They win. We don’t lose. Everyone is happy.”
Despite this clear act of conspiracy to prevent Sanders from obtaining the nomination, this email exchange between staffers, Podesta and Siegel went vastly unreported by most mainstream media outlets.
At some point, we, the American people, have to ask ourselves: why is the media so willing to assist Clinton and her staff in deceiving voters? Again, Wikileaks provides a possible answer: it appears that several major media figures have had private email conversations with Clinton staffers, and these media figures have allowed the campaign to proof and alter journalistic pieces concerning Clinton and her exploits. In one instance, Politico White House political correspondent Glenn Thrush emailed John Podesta, writing: “because I have become a hack I will send [you] the whole section [of a news story] that pertains to [you]. Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this.”
While some may write this off as simple fact checking (an important facet of journalism), the fact that he pleads with Podesta not to “share or tell anyone” is indicative of wrongdoing.
This isn’t the only act of media collusion observable within the emails. According to the leaks, Clinton’s staff hosted a private cocktail party with 38 different influential media figures from 16 different media sources including CNN, NBC, CBS and the New York Times. According to a memo attached to the emails, the ultimate goals of this meeting were to “(1) Give reporters their first thoughts from team HRC in advance of the announcement, (2) Setting expectations for the announcement and launch period and (3) Framing the HRC message and framing the race.”
It is apparent that Clinton manipulates the media and utilizes news mediums to ventriloquize her agendas. Without the mainstream media working directly with her campaign, it is unlikely that Clinton would be in her current position as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
