Today\’s quote comes to us from Chris Matthews – MSNBC show host, and Suckup Supreme to Democrats, most especially the Obamas and the Clintons.

Here is his remarkably lame explanation for Hillary Clinton keeping her emails while Secretary Of State private, rather than using the Federal system she was specifically told to use:

“Ialways look at these stories and I say, well, there\’s got to be abackstory here…. Is it this supposition on the part of her criticsand maybe standby critics, just people watching her over the years,that she is very private about her person. Not wrongdoing orsomething like that. She just doesn\’t like to be totally exposedin what she does everyday. It\’s her instinct based upon, perhaps,years of being attacked by the Right when she was down in Arkansasand since then. A built-in instinct for self-protection, a built-ininstinct for privacy which this displays. I just wonder if thatisn\’t coloring this story and the news interest in it…”

Got that?  Hillary Clinton breaks the law because….the (Right Wing) devil made her do it.  All those years of being attacked by the opposition caused her to remove her emails, as Secretary Of State, from federal accountability. 

Hey, it\’s obviously those damn right wingers and their Hillary hatred, isn\’t it?  I mean, when has any other national political figure been attacked by the opposition?  Did you ever hear of such a thing until Hillary?

Amazing, isn\’t it, that the Clinton kiss-butts like Matthews spend so much of their time telling us what a strong, competent woman she is…until she\’s caught in something like this, at which time they shamelessly turn on a dime and tell us how frail and vulnerable she is.

I award Chris Matthews Quote Of The Day honors for thinking that this kind of unadulterated slop qualifies as a way, however absurd, of getting past a scandal so significant that even the mainstream media which usually fawn over Ms. Clinton can\’t bring themselves to do it this time.

Well earned.