Show Me Your Email
March 27, 2015 - by
We’re going to have to start thinking before we hit Send, Share or Post.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent a couple of weeks wallowing in a media mudbath over her State Department emails. Jeb Bush pounced on her. Then we found his staff deep-sixed many of his emails.
Roy Cooper called for more open government. Then the Republican Party called on him to release 14 years of his emails. Good thing Roy’s folks didn’t ask my advice. I’d say, “Screw ‘em. It’s a political stunt and a waste of taxpayers’ money.”
The latest advance in opposition research is scouring the social media profiles of newly hired campaign staffers, many of whom have posted statements and photos that don’t read so well or look so amusing in retrospect. A few promising careers crashed as a result.
How would you like someone examining every email you’ve sent, plus every online post, picture and hot-headed comment?
Carter and I may well have posted blogs that we would regret today. But writing a longer post, as opposed to a quick, a Facebook retort or a 140-characer tweet, usually gives you time to realize that what you’re saying is best left unsaid.
As super-lawyer Edward Bennett Williams once observed, “Nothing is frequently a very good thing to do and always a brilliant thing to say.”
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Show Me Your Email
March 27, 2015/
We’re going to have to start thinking before we hit Send, Share or Post.
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has spent a couple of weeks wallowing in a media mudbath over her State Department emails. Jeb Bush pounced on her. Then we found his staff deep-sixed many of his emails.
Roy Cooper called for more open government. Then the Republican Party called on him to release 14 years of his emails. Good thing Roy’s folks didn’t ask my advice. I’d say, “Screw ‘em. It’s a political stunt and a waste of taxpayers’ money.”
The latest advance in opposition research is scouring the social media profiles of newly hired campaign staffers, many of whom have posted statements and photos that don’t read so well or look so amusing in retrospect. A few promising careers crashed as a result.
How would you like someone examining every email you’ve sent, plus every online post, picture and hot-headed comment?
Carter and I may well have posted blogs that we would regret today. But writing a longer post, as opposed to a quick, a Facebook retort or a 140-characer tweet, usually gives you time to realize that what you’re saying is best left unsaid.
As super-lawyer Edward Bennett Williams once observed, “Nothing is frequently a very good thing to do and always a brilliant thing to say.”
Posted in General