After saying over and over that she wouldn’t apologize for putting the security of the American people at risk by sending confidential information over her private email server, Hillary broke down and apologized. But she did it so badly that the Morning Joe panel soundly ripped into her.
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WOW. Here’s a transcript from Media Research Center:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Climactic ending to Hillary Clinton and the dragging and the finally apologizing. Let’s watch. Let’s see how it went.
HILLARY CLINTON: What I had done was allowed. It was aboveboard. But in retrospect, certainly, as I look back at it now, even thought it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related e-mails. That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility.
[Extended silence on Morning Joe set; Joe Scarborough mockingly wipes a tear away.]
MIKE BARNICLE: When are we going to see the real ending?
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I think she did it on —
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Just do the end of it. Hold on a second. Replay that ending. Just listen to how flat her voice is at the end. Seriously, this was a hostage video . . . It’s almost as if she purposefully said it as quickly and as flatly and as —
MIKA: — unwillingly.
JOE: — unwillingly as humanly possible.
. . .
JOHN HEILEMANN: The whole, the point that she’s now gotten to does suggest that everything that she has said previously about the fact that no one’s paying attention, it hasn’t affected my campaign, none of this has mattered, no one cares, that that has all been a lie.
. . .JOE: The best way to describe this, Mika, you just said it, it’s all so ham-fisted.
MIKA: Well, I’m just going to say, I think she can do ten times better than this. I really do. I’ve seen it, I know it. And I know it’s in her. And I want it to work for her, which is frustrating. But there’s a couple of things that they cannot get around and that is being overly controlling to the point of being freakish.
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WILLIE GEIST: She was obviously pushed in this direction. But I’m more with you. Less about her tone than with the “allowed” and the semantic game about what was legal and what was allowed. There was a State Department policy nine months into her term that said it was not allowed. Everything had to be captured on State Department servers, and all of her e-mails were not captured on State Department servers.
That is pretty harsh… but accurate.