Who cares? Sept 12^th

In today’s paper are four full columns from factcheck.org titled “More spin on Hillary Clinton emails.” What follows is a summary, nearly a day-by-day summary, of the torturous revelations about Hillary Clinton’s personal server. On Aug.11 Clinton directed her legal team to turn over her personal server and a thumb drive to the Justice Department. There has been much back and forth about this server, particularly about whether or not it contained information compromising national security.

The right has claimed that Clinton was as guilty of compromising national security as was General Petraeus. The charge is absurd on its face. Petraeus maintained personal briefing books which he handed over to his mistress. The one-time CIA director didn’t just disclose secrets to his mistress. He shared with her some of the most sensitive information the Pentagon had. The information came in the form of eight black books that contained everything from identities of covert officers to discussions with President Obama. Clinton’s emails are supposed to contain information like this? Ridiculous!

But not to the Fox News people, their Chief Intelligence correspondent, Catherine Herridge, claims the prosecution of Petraeus and the non-prosecution of Clinton reflects a double standard. Herridge, who makes about a million a year from Fox News, may be paid more for her political enthusiasm than for her reportorial accuracy. Another member of the Fox News stable, Melissa Francis, has chimed in telling us that, “This is exactly what General Petraeus is accused of.” Hey, it’s Fox News, what do you expect?

For Clinton’s supporters it is “Ho hum, who cares?”

On the other side is Donald Trump who comments on Carly Fiorina’s face and then pretends he was talking about her persona…and some people believe him.  He will also send back to their home countries 12 million undocumented aliens and their U.S. citizen children. He will do this whether or not the countries they came from will allow them to return…and some people believe him. He will build an impenetrable wall across our border with Mexico and make Mexico pay for it…and some people believe him. Donald Trump says that, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese to make U.S manufacturing non-competitive”…and some people believe him.

For Trump’s supporters it is “Ho hum, who cares?”