Unlike you Pete, I don't allow my political beliefs to dicate reality... I back up the things I say and will demonstrate that for you now.
Here is a list of the false and misleading statements made by your hero and likely employer, David Brock, during that segment on Morning Joe:
1:15 -
"The story is wrong... It's based on a false premise"
FALSE - First, the story didn't say Clinton "broke federal law", it said that Clinton may have "possibly" broken the rules, and according to the 2009 regulation from the national archives on records keeping, that speculation is well founded. Second, the premise of the story is the fact she used her personal email account to conduct all State Department and government business, and never even had a government email account.
2:22 -
"The State Department said yesterday that the emails were regularly preserved"
FALSE - The State Department spokesperson said that after sending her a letter requesting the emails, she provided them with 55,000 that Clinton claimed were pertinent. That was just a few months ago. See for yourself
HERE
3:42 -
"It's not clear that didn't happen (that the emails were preserved regularly in the State department recordkeeping system) the NY Times doesn't establish that at all."
FALSE - From the article:
"Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act.
It was only two months ago, in response to a new State Department effort to comply with federal record-keeping practices, that Mrs. Clinton’s advisers reviewed tens of thousands of pages of her personal emails and decided which ones to turn over to the State Department. All told, 55,000 pages of emails were given to the department. Mrs. Clinton stepped down from the secretary’s post in early 2013."
3:47 -
"The 2009 law you're referring to isn't even cited in the NY Times"
FALSE - From the article:
"Regulations from the National Archives and Records Administration at the time required that any emails sent or received from personal accounts be preserved as part of the agency’s records.
But Mrs. Clinton and her aides failed to do so."
5:18 -
"I'm not twisting anything... Her predecessors did the same thing..."
Misleading - The national archive regulation on records keeping wasn't established until 2009 when Clinton was Secretary of State, so it did not apply to her predecessors.
5:30 - Mika asks Brock who has control over Clinton's email correspondence as Secretary of State, Clinton or the State Department. Brock answered
"Well, I think both."
FALSE - The State Department had no control over her email account or access to her archives, otherwise they wouldn't have had to request them from her a few months back.
That's 6 false or misleading statements in under 6 minutes, and that doesn't even count the repeats.
So I stand 100% by my assessment that David Brock is a dishonest partisan hack, that Media Matters has 0 credibility, and nothing that Media Matters publishes is worth the half a second of time it takes to download it to your screen.
