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Politico offers up the media-generated fake Clinton scandal of the day

By Laura Clawson
Thursday Sep 01, 2016 · 2:33 PM CST

The AP’s turn is done and the latest spin of the “create a fake Clinton scandal” media chore wheel has landed on Politico.

In a headline that Hillary Clinton’s press secretary has described as “egregiously false,” [

This headline is egregiously false. Server hosting HRC's email during State tenure was paid for w/personal fundshttps://t.co/FblUHKlOhQ

— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 1, 2016

] Politico implies that the private email server hosting her email was paid for with taxpayer money. If you read on (and on and on), though, you find that the headline is talking about a different email server and the article is trying to create scandal out of nothing.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/bill-clinton-used-tax-dollars-to-subsidize-foundation-private-email-support-teneo-227613

According to the story’s opening paragraphs, though “the investigation does not reveal anything illegal”:

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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/1/1565896/-Politico-offers-up-the-media-generated-fake-Clinton-scandal-of-the-day