Hillary Clinton email witch hunt getting surreal: Column Are incessant Hillary-haters hoodwinking the public? Evidence suggests she's more innocent than we think.

James Carville | USA TODAY

Last week, Americans were treated to the latest release of Hillary Clinton’s emails. I learned that Hillary takes skim milk in her tea and she likes the television show Parks and Recreation. As interesting as these insights might be, even for a scandal-loving media, there was not much scandal to report. Still, yesterday Hillary fully apologized and she sent an email to her supporters taking responsibility for her email practices. I hope this means the media can move on to focusing on real issues.

This whole email story has been so surreal. I had recently taken a break from my busy schedule, which was heavy with commemoration events for the 10th anniversary of the great engineering failure of our beloved New Orleans, when I ran across a transcript from a radio show featuring Congressman Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.

I heard that when trying to get to the bottom of Colin Powell’s testimony that helped launch the war in Iraq, Congress couldn’t get a single email from him. And then nothing useful from Condoleezza Rice either.

Congressman Lynch pointed out that Hillary Clinton, also a former secretary of State, months ago released to the State Department over 30,000 emails, and she has now turned over her entire server after months of GOP grandstanding. He also noted that Hillary’s system may be the only one not compromised in the Office of Personal Management hack.

So I am a little “confused.” Why doesn’t the public know all the steps Hillary has taken to share her emails with them? Has any other secretary of State requested that all their work-related emails be made available to the public? Colin Powell said he has used his personal email address for work-related emails and said that he does not have any emails to turn over.

Do folks know that it’s the government, not Hillary Clinton, that has been the subject of hacking? According to CNN, the federal government in 2013 incurred almost 61,000 cyber-attacks and security breaches. On the other hand, there’s zero released evidence that Hillary Clinton’s emails were ever compromised. Has the incessant Hillary hating in the national media become so obsessive that we’re keeping this information away from the public? I don’t know.

This reminds me of a hot, sultry Louisiana day, more years ago than I’m glad to admit. I was trying to change a disc on a plow and my Uncle Lloyd made a rather cultured observation to my daddy. “I swear! I don't think the boy knows whether to wind his ass or scratch his watch.”

When I look at the coverage of this idiotic email “scandal” there sure seems to be a lot of watch-scratching out there.

James Carville was Bill Clinton's campaign manager.

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