"Hillary Replies All" enthused the teaser headline at MSNBC.com this afternoon following former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's press conference regarding the email server scandal. "Clinton on emails: 'I fully complied with every rule,'" noted the subheader for the story filed by the Lean Forward network's Beth Fouhy and Alex Seitz-Wald.
Of course, Clinton's admission that she deleted some emails -- all of which she categorizes as purely personal, natch -- was curiously absent from the splash-page tease, even as it made the lede in the article itself:
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday defended her use of a private email account as secretary of state, saying she had done so as a matter of convenience and has since turned over all work-related correspondence to the State Department. But she acknowledged removing “personal” emails unrelated to business, such as correspondence around her daughter Chelsea’s wedding and planning for her mother’s funeral, and insisted her email server would remain private.
“The server contains personal communications from my husband and me and I believe i have met all my responsibilities. The server will remain private. I think the State Department will be able over time to release all the records that was provided,” Clinton said. She added it would probably have been “smarter” to keep a separate work-related account.
Neither Fouhy or Seitz-Wald smelled a rat with the "convenience" excuse. Blackberry user and Washington Free Beacon media critic Alyssa Canobbio expressed her incredulity in a series of tweets as she watched the presser live:
I had a blackberry, I had up to 4 email addresses going on my blackberry during the same time that Hillary was Secretary if State
— Alyssa (@YR_AlyssaDC) March 10, 2015
Girl, you lived in DC. Everyone has two phones.
— Alyssa (@YR_AlyssaDC) March 10, 2015
Spoiler alert: you can have more than one email running on a smart phone.
— Alyssa (@YR_AlyssaDC) March 10, 2015
