2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ten Reasons Why Hillary lost - And they are probably not what you thought [View all]Bill USA
(6,436 posts)lending credibility to the primary GOP Big Lie: that Hillary was the anti-Christ and lied about classified information in her emails.
When Comey was questioned by the Congressional Committee M$M dutifully played the question from Trey Gowdy, was there any emails with classified information in them? To which Comey of course, replied: yes, there were emails with classified information.
BUT, nowhere on M$M was the questions Rep. Matt Cartwright asked re the lack of Classified Headers on the emails to be seen. Comey had to admit that none of the emails had classified headers on them. Then Cartwright asked would it not be a reasonable inference for Sec. Clinton to make that there was no classified information in any email that did not have Classified Heaader on it. Comey said that would have been a reasonable inference for Sec Clinton to make..
These questions and Comey's answer confirmed that Clinton did not lie when she said she didn't send or receive anything marked classified. But I'll bet only about 2% of the population knows about Comey's answers to these two questions.
Also not reported by M$M is the fact that NONE of the emails purported to contain classified information were initiated by Clinton. Every one was sent to or forwarded to Sec Clinton. But M$M did not report that.
M$M played a very important role in helping 'sell' the GOP Big Lie that Clinton was a liar and not trustworthy.