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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Ah, I see. I thought your post was rhetorical.
Short answer, you probably shouldn't care. There is some minor hint of something fishy about a couple of the emails but it's all very vague, which is pretty much the sort of thing you'd expect from a red herring story thrown out right before an election to try to smear your opponent. There are also, as noted, plenty of reasons to discredit the source. It isn't exactly pizzagate but it seems to me even less consequential than "but her emails" was last time, if you need to put it somewhere on a spectrum of scandals.
The argument though is less about whether the story itself matters than whether it matters that mainstream outlets won't talk about it at all - even to make it clear why it's silly - for fear that giving it air will help Trump’s reelection prospects. So the real question is whether you care about that. At the end of the day it's about ethics in political journalism.
... erm... Maybe I should have found another way to phrase that last part.
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Personally I think the emails mean nothing, and if one could get private emails on other people in Washington, this type of behavior would be pretty standard.
The bigger concern is how the media is handling it, including Twitter shutting down the NYPost account.