Digging for dirt in the Benghazi trash
by digby
So Politico has gone through the latest batch of Clinton emails and they’ve published what they deem to be the 13 “must-read” emails in the bunch. (I believe there are 7,000 of them.)
Here’s one of them which gives the flavor of the type of information they believe the public needs to know:
In a January 2012 email from Anne-Marie Slaughter, the former top aide told Abedin that her son “said S [Secretary Clinton] looks like Lisa Kudrow! High praise indeed… pse pass it on.”
“Truly, Alexander, the younger, watched her walk in to Congress and said: ‘she looks like Lisa Kudrow —you know, on Friends….’,” she added.
Abedin then passed along the message to Clinton, writing, “This is a nice compliment[.] Lisa is an attractive actress!”
Clinton’s response is fully redacted.
Abedin’s response to that email: “[Redacted] certainly thinks you are cameron diaz!! [redacted]
There’s more stuff about her hair and Ben Affleck and Lady Gaga and how she doesn’t know how to make emojis for her Blackberry and properly use the fax machine. You know, all the essential stuff.
People give me grief for saying that the press is interested in the emails because they want to dig around in Clinton’s private life looking for tabloid dirt. I’ve been watching these people for a long time. This is what they do.
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