Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email account, not a government one, while Secretary of State is a real story, Jon Stewart said on Wednesday night's Daily Show, raising issues of archiving and accountability. Her aides shouldn't get to pick which emails to turn over to the State Department for the same reason "Doritos doesn't get to decide which ingredients consumers need to know about, or why you don't get to tell the cops which pockets to search."
But all anyone seems to care about is how this story will affect Clinton's presumed 2016 presidential ambitions. Stewart's guess? None. "What, do you think maybe wrong-email-address-ghazi will be a big boost to her Democratic primary rival, TBD?" he asked. And in the general election, Republicans "pretty much already believe her and her husband to be treasonous, murderous griftasaurases." If fact, he added, "personally, I think her email trouble helps sew up the senior vote — you know, they can relate." Well, it's a theory. —Peter Weber
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