Apple meet orange. (via MaddowBlog)
For 18 months, Republican strategists, political pundits, reporters and Americans who follow them have been pursuing Hillary Clinton’s personal email habits, and no evidence of a crime has been found. But now they at least have the skills and interest to focus on a much larger and deeper email conspiracy, one involving war, lies, a private server run by the Republican Party and contempt of Congress citations — all of it still unsolved and unpunished.
This was, to be sure, a legitimate controversy. It didn’t generate a lot of media coverage — by 2008, much of the political world was focused on the presidential primaries and tired of Bush scandals — thoughBut the point now is not that Bush was plagued by serious controversies. Rather, the point is why Trump referred his followers to a six-year-old Newsweek article for no obvious reason.