Did you miss Clintonian-level language parsing? You didn’t? Sorry to hear that, because it’s back.

How does one reconcile this

U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Saturday she did not send or receive classified information on a private email account while she was secretary of state.

“I did not send nor receive anything that was classified at the time,” Clinton told reporters at a campaign event.

…with this?

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent at least four messages from her personal email server while she was US secretary of state that contained information derived from classified material, according to a US government inspector general.

The four emails “were classified when they were sent and are classified now,” Andrea Williams, a spokesperson for I Charles McCullough, inspector general of the intelligence community, tells Byron Tau of the Wall Street Journal.

Let me put it a different way: how does one reconcile it in a fashion that doesn’t sound stupid to anybody who isn’t a rabid Democratic partisan? – Because while parsing something this fine might work at a Georgetown cocktail party, it ain’t gonna play in Peoria.  And the Clinton campaign is rather desperately going to need to come up with an answer that plays in Peoria.

4 thoughts on “Did you miss Clintonian-level language parsing? You didn’t? Sorry to hear that, because it’s back.”

  1. She already shrugged off a dead ambassador and three others on her watch as Secretary of State with “what does it matter?” so it seems like this should be easy be comparison. I mean, this is only theoretically disastrous, right?

  2. fake a stroke, Hillary. live to play with the grandkid. your heart, such as it is, is not in this. it is not better to burn out. just fade away. please. for your sake as well as our own. i don’t want to hate on you for the next year and a half, but if you leave me no choice than i and millions of others will do just that.

      1. contempt is a little too nuanced for the low-info voters. we need to hate until someone steps up and makes her a laughingstock. i want her to have a DeNiro-as-Capone moment on live tv during a debate.

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