Rachel Maddow Explains What Hillary Clinton's Official Email Policy Should Have Been

When people ponder Hillary Clinton's very tedious email "scandal" (and isn't the very word tedious, when attached to Clintons particularly?), if they're not being knee-jerk defensive, or knee-jerk offensive, they might ponder "why?" Why would the official way be undesirable (assuming there wasn't anything particularly nefarious intended, which I realize, many people would never, ever assume)? For the first time that I'm aware of, we have an explanation, courtesy of Rachel Maddow.

And don't get all, "well of course Rachel's shilling for Hillary," since she's just as likely to get criticized for being on Bernie's side, or even for allowing a Trump speech during her show, and just listen.

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Clinton e-mail report illustrates antiquated IT system

Rachel Maddow looks at how a new inspector general's report on Hillary Clinton's violation of State Department e-mail rules describes the archaic archiving system Clinton was supposed to have followed.



Kinda nuts, right? But apparently, the rest of the MSNBC crew doesn't watch Rachel's show, because the Morning Joe crew seemed absolutely baffled at why Clinton wouldn't done this "for convenience." Maybe for the same reason her predecessors did? Nah, had to be nefarious, right?

In Case You Missed It: Joe Scarborough on Guns

Joe Scarborough was a US Congressman for four terms before he was a cable news personality. He was one of the NRA's favorite members of Congress at the time. He's changed his mind. Check it out.

Michigan Gov. Snyder: "Right to Work" Law is Not Anti Union

Image from source, Mediaite

By now, we're so used to politicians lying to us, we barely notice anymore. We can watch while Newt Gingrich flips from skewering Mitt Romney in the primary, to being one of his biggest (no pun intended) supporters just weeks later. And in many of those instances, he was flipping to an opposite position. Somewhere he was lying. We'll shrug our shoulders while President Obama "evolves" on gay marriage, knowing all along that he was most likely for it all along, but being politically careful with his answers. Still a lie. This is one area where we can probably safely say, everybody does it in politics, and quibble about who does it worse.

But when it gets ridiculous is when they lie brazenly, obviously, stupidly. How Michigan's Gov. Snyder could pretend that the "Right to Work" law he signed--after it being rammed through the legislature--is pro-union, pro-worker? It's just insulting.

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Morning Joe Panel Stunned As Gov. Rick Snyder Asserts ‘Right To Work’ Is Not ‘Anti-Union’

Gov. Rick Snyder stopped by Morning Joe on Wednesday following Michigan’s passage of controversial “right to work” legislation and defended the state’s move. It’s not anti-union, he said; it’s “pro-worker.” Not everyone on the panel was convinced, pressing Snyder on his assertion. . .

Read more at: Mediaite

In Case You Missed It: David Frum on Fleeced and Exploited Conservatives

David Frum was a speechwriter for George W. Bush. As such, he is regarded as a douche by a whole lot of liberals. He kinda is, in some ways, but he's also one of the only (sometimes) sensible conservatives in the talking head universe. Watch this video, and see what I mean. Frum understands what happened to conservatives in this years election. But do they?

Ann Coulter Calls John McCain a "Douchebag" on MSNBC

A) Why was Ann Coulter on MSNBC, isn't she a FOX "News" contributor? B) Why does even FOX give this long-in-tooth, skeletal she-beast a platform? C) When somebody does give this androgynous ectomorph a platform, why are they surprised when she is a bitch?

Morning Joe on Sharron Angle: This Race is Over

One last video (at least for now), this one from Morning Joe. Though the show is on MSNBC--often derided as the flip side of FOX "News"--it is helmed by conservative former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough.  And somehow Joe missed that Nevada's Sharron Angle (Harry Reid's Opponent) had suggested "Second Amendment" solutions to things voters don't like in Washington.  And he makes no excuses for her. Good for you, Joe.

Rudy Giuliani Still Talking About 9/11

Presidential also-ran Rudy Giuliani has been described by Joe Biden thusly: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence -- a noun, a verb, and 9/11. There's nothing else! "

As my grandmother used to say, "he ain't just a whoofin'!" Check out this recent appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

The Young Turks, Penn Gillette and Hillary Clinton

I'm really glad that The Young Turks is making its broadcasts available on YouTube, because host Cenk Uygur has a real talent for expressing some of the things I feel in easily understandable ways. One of those things is "faux outrage" by media personalities.

This case has to do with the hosts of Morning Joe on MSNBC, but the masters of "faux outrage" are undoubtedly on FOX "News." If there were a country called Faux Outrage, Sean Hannity would be running against Bill O'Reilly for president of it, OK? OK. In both their cases, whatever topic of the day has them red-faced and finger-pointy, you know they're not really outraged. . .they're delighted. It gives them drippy bloody red meat to throw to their audience.

But I digress. Check out Cenk's reaction to Morning Joe's hosts' reaction to Penn Gillette's reaction to his audience's reaction to a Hillary Clinton joke. Um, it's better than it sounds.