Jon Stewart waffled between bafflement and ridicule on Wednesday as he processed the news that Hillary Clinton may have violated federal regulations by using a personal email account while serving as secretary of state.
It took Stewart a while to understand why it was such a big deal, given that it wouldn’t stop Clinton from steamrolling any other Democratic candidate in 2016. But he started to see the humor in the situation as State Department officials scrambled to contain the damage.
Deputy spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters on Wednesday that Hillary performed due diligence by “providing the State Department with 55,000 pages” of emails.
“I think 55,000 is a pretty big number,” Harf added.
“It is a big number,” Stewart said, suppressing laughter. “There are bigger!”
“That’s the crazy thing about numbers,” he added. “You can always top ’em. Someone could be like, ‘You have a hundred dalmatians? That’s a fuckload of dalmatians! I can’t imagine anyone having more than a hundred dalmatians!'”
Stewart went silent as images from “One Hundred and One Dalmatians” appeared on screen.
At one point Harf told a reporter she had no idea if the 55,000 pages Clinton turned over was “everything” because she’s not “in her email.”
“If you were in her email you’d be starring in the most boring Tron sequel of all time,” Stewart said.
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
“Email-Gate.” “[T]he news that Hillary Clinton may have violated federal regulations by using a personal email account while serving as secretary of state.”
Good grief – you know, it’s bad enough that we have to see and read the mainstream media jump the gun with knee-jerk reactions to one non-scandal after another fabricated by the right, only to find that the real story, complete with, you know, actual facts and context, comes trickling out over the next day or two, completely undermining the original claims, but do liberal and progressive commentators have to join in and breathlessly repeat the same “controversial” language, thereby assisting in the creation of an otherwise non-existent scandal? There is no “email-gate” and there are no “violations of the law.” So can we please stop carrying the GOP’s water for them and just report the facts of the matter minus all the hyperbole and hysterical, click-bait “scandal” language?
It’s all poliltics. If Hillary was a Republican Sec of State in a Republican administration…what would our reaction be?
But we make excuses for her since she is a Democrat.
As in 2008…she is inevitable. Don’t rock the boat. Any criticism of her is blasphemy or worse. Far be it for the Democratic Party to keep their options open for 2016.
So, if we ignore problems until a nominee is already nominated, and then we find out more and more stuff in October 2016…what then?
Sorry Hillary your not ready for prime time. Being a democrat that’s hard to say, but, I want more of a choice in candidates.
We already know, because Colin Powell did exactly the same thing. The reaction has been nothing.
You have that backwards, ollie – what you clearly mean is that you are predisposed to dislike Hillary, so you immediately latch on to any excuse, no matter how tenuous or transparently politically motivated, to justify that dislike.