Talk about a stretch.
The mainstream media have been beating up Hillary Clinton since reports emerged that she used a personal e-mail account during her time at the State Department, so much so that her allies have been forced to find creative ways of defending her, albeit ineffectively.
One such ally — former Gov. Ed Rendell (D-Penn.) — attempted to justify Clinton’s exclusive use of a personal e-mail account on MSNBC Tuesday afternoon by identifying the problem with government e-mail: Edward Snowden.
“It seems to me that Edward Snowden effectively hacked government e-mail up the kazoo,” Rendell told host Alex Wagner. “Am I right?”
“The officially term is ‘up to the kazoo,’ actually,'” Wagner responded in jest.
“I don’t understand what the issue is here,” Rendell continued cluelessly. “Can anybody cite an individual case where something happened because Secretary Clinton didn’t use her government e-mail?”
“We don’t know!” Politico’s Glenn Thrush exclaimed, dumbfounded. “That’s the question!”
“Don’t you think you would know?” responded Rendell.
“Absolutely not!” shouted Thrush as Wagner chuckled in disbelief. Of course, Rendell betrayed his own logic right there: Edward Snowden hacked government e-mail, meaning Clinton — without a government e-mail — might not have been found out by Snowden. So, even his ridiculous argument doesn’t obey its own logic.
Rendell also claimed that the controversy will not present an issue for Clinton ahead of her likely bid for president in 2016 because “ordinary Americans” won’t care about it. Who is he, Jonathan Gruber?
Watch the video below, via Washington Free Beacon.
