Questions whose premises have to be proven.

Does Talking Points Android Debbie Wasserman-Schultz even think?

I mean outside the parameters of her programming?

//Overnight, we also learned that Awan reportedly also consulted for the DNC and possessed the password for the iPad which then-chairwoman Wasserman Schultz used for official DNC business at or around the same time that the DNC's email system was hacked and DNC emails were published by Wikileaks.

This means that during the intrusion into IT systems containing national security information (as well as potentially the DNC and their election information), Democrats were wagging their fingers at Republicans for purported Russian interference, while Democrats themselves had a fox in their own henhouse.

The hypocrisy of Democrats is stunning.

Their unwillingness to help law enforcement is even more so.

Initially, Wasserman Schultz refused to fire the IT aide "despite being a known criminal suspect in a cybersecurity probe," instead placing him in an advisory capacity in order to circumvent the ban on having him as an IT provider. As of Tuesday morning (the day he was arrested), Wasserman Schultz still employed him. In her own interactions with authorities, she also previously refused to turn over her laptop to law enforcement and threatened the Capitol Police for getting involved.//

Media totally uninterested in collusion with foreign governments, obstruction of law enforcement investigation, hacking DNC emails and related topics....

....when it involves Democrats.

//So let's digest this story. In a media environment obsessed with the DNC hack, it turns out five individuals were abusing their access to the DNC email system while -- possibly -- committing an assortment of crimes.

* Imran Awan's wife (herself one of the IT 5) already fled to Pakistan, carrying $12,000 in cash with her.

* Imran Awan man himself wired $280,000 to Pakistan, then attempted to flee there.

* Debbie Wassman-Schultz has threatened "consequences" against the Capitol Police unless they return her hard drives before the police are done using them as evidence in a case they're investigating against the IT 5. Almost as if she has something to hide.

* Despite the IT 5 taking all sorts of liberties with the DNC email and passwords while the DNC freaks out about an email hack, and despite them doing shady shit on the side (Imran Awan was arrested for bank fraud), they somehow manage to land a big attorney with deep DNC/Clinton connections.

* The Daily Caller reported that stolen hard drives were recovered from Imran Awan "smashed" by hammers. (His new Friend of Bill lawyer denies this.)

* Despite all these goings-on, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz actually kept Imran Awan on the payroll for reasons unknown, even as he was subject of a Capitol Hill police probe. She only (finally!) fired him after his arrest, then refused comment.

So: lot of interesting stuff going on here.//

If you think of the media as Democrat operatives with press credentials this all makes sense.

Democrat staff member arrested for bank fraud while fleeing the country, but the news coverage is cursory and the connection to former DNC head Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, who this guy worked for until last Tuesday, is deeply buried in the story.

Politicians seem to be venal and shallow by nature...

...but this woman seems to break the mold.

//Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office offered to change her position on medical marijuana if a major Florida donor recanted his withering criticism of her, according to emails obtained by POLITICO.

The proposal to Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan was straightforward: retract critical statements he made to a reporter in return for Wasserman Schultz publicly backing his cannabis initiative that she had trashed just months earlier. Morgan declined the offer with a sharp email reply sent to a go-between, who described the congresswoman as being in a “tizzy.”
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“No,” Morgan responded. “She is a bully. I beat bullies up for a living.”

It would take a person with a heart of stone not to enjoy the destruction of Debbie Wasserman Schultz by the leftist machine.

And kudos to the Hillary Clinton machine for such early pay-back and battle space preparation!

Devastating.

That's really the only way to describe Politico's piece on DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

(I hereby nominate her for Worst Week in Washington.) (Editor's note: Three words -- Joseph. Robinette. Biden.)

Based on interviews with DNC staffers -- both former and current -- the piece described Wasserman Schultz as something of a modern-day Tracy Flick: over-eager, disloyal and not shy about promoting her ambitions. It would be fair to say that she sounds like, well, a lot like other politicians. And this would be accurate. But the wholesale bashing of Wasserman Schultz at every level of the party -- White House, Congress, donors, aides in her own shop -- is especially rough, even given the reality of Beltway politics.

She comes across as a woman without a party, holding a job that could be a stepping stone, but now seems more like a trap door. (As Philip Bump notes, it might be a stepping stone no matter how it ends.) This is a public firing, Washington-style.//

Buh-bye, DWS.

Enjoy your brief guest-hosting stint on MSNBC.

Leadership!

The Democrat Convention is living up to its full potential for the zaniness that only unhinged leftists can unleash.

DNC's Wasserman Schultz, Gaspard cancel interviews amid platform debacle.

Democratic National Committee chiefs Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Patrick Gaspard cancelled interviews with local media outlets tonight, amid controversy surrounding the party's decision to reintroduce "God" and "Jerusalem" to the platform.

Jon Ralston, host of the Las Vegas-based "Face To Face" news program, told POLITICO that he was sitting in the chair waiting for a 2:45 p.m. PT (5:45 p.m. ET) interview with Gaspard when he was told that his guest had cancelled, without explanation.

Blair Miller of WSOC TV, ABC's Charlotte, N.C., affiliate, also tweeted that Wasserman Schultz cancelled her interview with him, without explanation. "After my Romney intv today, we were planning to interview @DWSTweets live," he wrote. "However, she did not show up. Her staff not answering calls."

DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse did not respond to a request for comment regarding the cancellations, which came after reports that the party had put "God" back on the platform and affirmed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Wasserman Schultz went on CNN tonight and denied reports of “discord” with the White House over the party’s decision to include the terms, claiming the party had "a two-thirds vote" on the issue.

”Did you really think that it was two-thirds? It seemed like a lot of people felt like it wasn’t quite there,” CNN's Brianna Keilar asked.

“It was absolutely a two-thirds,” Wasserman Schultz said.

After the interview, CNN host Anderson Cooper said Wasserman Schultz's version of events was "an alternate reality."

"From a reality standpoint," he said, "to say flat-out, there was no discord, is just not true."

If the Democrat's Official Lifelike Talking Points Robot says it you can take it to the bank!

If we keep this convention going for a full week, they will be passing resolutions condemning the existence of Israel.

Is the emergence of Fox News and the blogosphere causing other media sources to move toward a more "fair and balanced" position?

Or is it the fact that CNN is tired of the fact that by after two decades of catering exclusively to the Left, it has no audience?

First, we have the Newsweek cover featuring a Niall Fergusson article.

Then, we have Wolf Blitzer grilling Life-like Talking Points Robot Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on her repetition of the claim that the Ryan Budget would affect seniors.

Now, we have Anderson Cooper holding Lifelike Talking Points Robot Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's feet to the fire about the DNC's and her own lies and misrepresentations on abortion policy - Cooper even points out that the LTPR "completely misquotes" the LA Times.

When did CNN grow a pair and decide to start acting like a news source?