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Here are twp important things to keep in mind as we go through this presentation. One: the story about Hillary Clinton's email server was covered more consistently, by more news networks, over a greater period of time than Watergate. (It was covered for six hundred days in total.)

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Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the primary against Bernie Sanders by 55.2% versus 43.1%, or 3,708, 296 votes, despite his supporters' claims that the DNC was rigged against him, which he refuses to refute. She also won the popular vote in the general election by 2,012,331 votes. And yet she is still maligned as unlikeable by the press on a pathological basis.

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does the narrative exist that Hillary Clinton was a disliked, unpopular candidate? Maybe it has something to do with the literal hundreds of articles written about how unliked she was by the media! So many of them! Weird how that happens.

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Ultimately I am arguing that the media's pre-existing bias towards HRC prevented them from covering her fairly as a presidential candidate. They treated her campaign as a way to rehash old grudges and revisit Clinton-presidency-era scandal coverage, even though every single non-Lewinsky related scandal in the administration resulted in the Clintons being cleared of any wrongdoing.

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Media coverage of Hillary Clinton over two decades has been marked by criticism of her outfits, her hairstyles, her manner of speaking, her expressions while on camera, her emotions, her lack of emotions, her faithfulness to her husband or lack thereof, her capability to do things as a woman, but for some reason never really much about her policies or her career as a lawyer co-founding Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, or a Senator, or any of the work she did for CHIP, a health insurance program for children. Cool fact about that last one: Trump's Congress let funding for it expire! Good thing we're repealing the estate tax!

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Also, the tape where Trump admitted he sexually assaulted women was overtaken in coverage by yet another thing about the emails by James Comey two weeks before the election? Remember that? The thing that may have swayed voters in the last days of the campaign? New information says his report was based on fake intelligence from Russian Comey knew was fake at the time. So that's fun!

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was First Lady of the country from 1993 to 2001. During that time, her and her husband were the focus of a relative amount of political scandals--not really unusual for an administration, but stories such as the Vince Foster suicide (theorized to be a covered-up murder, though his sister discredits this), "Travelgate," (firing White House staff members for favors, although a DOJ report in 2000 by Robert Ray exonerated both Clintons), and the Whitewater Scandal, which is honestly mostly just a bunch of people being bad at real estate. Oh, and Monica Lewinsky. That....went very poorly.

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Bill Clinton is a creep who sexually coerced a young intern while being the most powerful man on the planet. That is not up for debate. The problem is the media backlash--Dennis Hastert, a convicted serial child rapist and speaker of the House at the time, was essentially an inquisitor who used Bill Clinton being a creep to paint Bill--and the Democratic Party, by association--as an immoral, godless party of adulterers. Secretary Clinton continued to stay married to Bill Clinton, prompting scorn from both the public and the media.

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"Filegate," a scandal in the Clinton administration based on Craig Livingston requesting background reports from approximately 700 people, many of whom were former White House employees, and Livingston was accused of being an incompetent Hillary Clinton hired because of nepotism, although independent investigator Kenneth Starr exonerated her of all charges relating to the case and confirmed she had nothing to do with the hiring. This pre-cursor to the email panic essentially laid the groundwork for a lot of media talking points surrounding the emails.

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I literally cannot write down everything I am feeling about how Hillary Rodham Clinton was covered by the media in this presentation. There is too much to take in and too colossal of a failure on the part of the media and the voting public to pay attention to the major, prescient threat that her opponent presented. As a young American voter with a longstanding connection to politics and a vested interest in the issues of this election, seeing it all fall to optics and the media's refusal to put their grudge aside about HRC and let that personal bias turn the tide of coverage the way it went is....infuriating. This was a failure. This was a betrayal. And anyone who is still angry about how she was treated has every right to be heard. This is a larger societal problem of misogyny at work, and keeping that in mind regarding her campaign and its media coverage is paramount.

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remember how literally one of the most qualified political candidates of all time with over a hundred pages of policies and statements on her beliefs and the way she would enact legislation on her campaign website, who served as a Senator and a Secretary of State and was a major political figure for about two decades ran against a sexual predator with no public office experience or legal experience or legislative knowledge?  Remember how the entire fifty thousand years of coverage that the election got gave  approximately 2 million dollars of free advertising to her opponent because he was good for ratings? Remember how this race became about "optics" rather than policy because to debate the two candidates on policy would be like bringing Toby Keith to a Judith Butler fight? Yeah. I remember. I am angry. I openly admit I am furious, because I firmly believe we were cheated of fair coverage of the issues and facts about the candidates in favor of covering nonsense until it was beaten into the ground. I believe the media failed the country by pretending this was a normal political race between equally capable opponents rather than a woman who was frankly overqualified to be President and an incompetent buffoon with doll hands. I am so angry it makes my head light and my eyes ache. Even now I am angry because the media has not owned up to their failure in how this election was covered. How can I trust them to do better in 2020 and beyond when they refuse to acknowledge their mistakes in 2016?

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I still have to talk about these emails and I hate it but here we are

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I still have to talk about these emails and I hate it but here we are

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Listen. I am not saying that the emails were indicative of great judgment on her part, but you would think they were extensively detailed plans to force every Republican voter into gulags. Here is a video containing some of the actual text of the emails, some of which regard finding a way for young girls to seek asylum, or to make it easier for trans people to change their gender on their passports.
Also, here is a link to a Us Intelligance Committee Report confirming that Russia deliberately sought to use these emails as a way to undermine American's faith in HRC and the political system. At this point, the only thing worth talking about is how these emails were used to destroy her campaign with incessant media coverage that hyped it up as a scandal because of pre-existing biases against both women and HRC specifically, and we as a nation fell for it.

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I literally never want to hear the words "Hillary Clinton's private email server" ever again for as long as I live

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I literally never want to hear the words "Hillary Clinton's private email server" ever again for as long as I live

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do you know how many times I had to hear that over the approximately ninety billion years the 2016 election season took? I am so tired. I feel like at this point the phrase alone activates some killswitch in my brain. But I digress. Ultimately, the email server, which was something she maintained on advice from departing Secretary Colin Powell, and for what it is worth, this was back in 2008, and the pace of technology in the White House had not quite caught up to understanding what keeping things on an email record implied versus a phone. Nevertheless, this became a lynchpin of coverage regarding Hillary Clinton for literally the entire campaign. For comparison,  the other candidate was caught on tape bragging about sexual assault, and received three weeks of coverage about it in response.
Also, for what it is worth, here are six current White House officials using private email servers.