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If you've ever had any questions about how down and dirty national politics are in general and the Democrat party in particular, here's some copy you won't want to skip.

There is one blurb in here about a billionaire level-three sex offender who the Democrat National Committee okayed to still accept donations from and cleared to attend events. Former President Bill Clinton is noted to have flown on the billionaire sex offender's private jet "up to 26 times." What's that told saying about birds of.....

This close to the Democrat Convention no doubt the minimalists and parse jockeys will be out in force. Perhaps the worse part is the obvious attempt to derail the Sanders' campaign, noted in these emails, in what many will see as obvious collusion between parts of the MSM and the DNC. Sanders' voters wer4 not just cut off at the pass, they were stopped dead in their tracks by obvious DNC favoritism.

Here are some sample quotes. Wasserman Schultz and Miranda brainstormed ideas to attack Sanders’ position on the Israel/Palestine conflict with her communications team in one thread, with Wasserman Schultz saying that "the Israel stuff is disturbing” in reference to Sanders’ platform committee appointees attempts to include language denouncing the occupation of Palestinian territory in the Democratic platform.

An email titled 'Bernie narrative' sent by DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach to Miranda indicates that top officials in the party were trying to find an angle to disparage the Vermont senator in the media.

“Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess,” Paustenbach wrote in the May 21 message. “Specifically, [Debbie Wasserman Schultz] had to call Bernie directly in order to get the campaign to do things because they'd either ignored or forgotten to something critical.”

“It's not a DNC conspiracy, it's because they never had their act together,” Paustenbach suggested.

Wasserman Schultz seemed to have already counted Sanders out of the race in a May 21 email, when there were still nine primaries to go. “This is a silly story,” the chairwoman said. “He isn't going to be president.”  

Further evidence of the DNC's extensive "content control" over mass media was revealed when Wasserman Schultz sent an email to NBC anchor Chuck Todd with the subject line "Chuck, this must stop," and set up a time for the two to talk about MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski calling on Wasserman Schultz to step down.



In an email that concerned Sanders out-polling Clinton in Rhode Island, where the state reportedly only had a fraction of voting stations open, one staffer took a contemptuous tone of Sanders’ supporters,  speaking about them more as a nuisance than an arm of the party. “If she outperforms this polling, the Bernie camp will go nuts and allege misconduct,” the staffer writes, “They’ll probably complain regardless, actually.” 

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Another email shows similar 'us and them' language being directed at Sanders supporters. “We have the Sanders folks admitting that they lost fair and square, not because we 'rigged' anything,” the email said. “Clinton likely to win the state convention with a slim margin and we'll send a release with final delegate numbers.”

There is much more here.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-23/leaked-dnc-emails-confirm-democrats-rigged-primary-reveal-extensive-media-collusion

Enjoy you're weekend reading.