Clinton Campaign did NOT circulate those photos.

[BlackVelvet04]

A post by Kurt_and_Hunter .........posted here with his permission:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4760625&mesg_id=4760815

The “story” (offered by Drudge as almost a blind item) is that someone received an email from a Clinton staffer that included the photo taken from the internet. Was this a one-on-one personal correspondence, an email sent to three or four friends, or what? Not specified.

We know that it was not a “broadcast” spam email, and we know it was not something sent to a bunch of media outlets. It’s a “Drudge Exclusive,” and there are not a hundred blogs saying, “I got that same email!”

So someone got an email from a Clinton staffer or “staffers” (a population described as being at least 700 people) with a photo in it that was taken from the internet where it has been kicking around for a year and a half. We are not talking about proprietary photographs taken by campaign operatives hiding behind potted palms… we are talking about a person linking a photograph from an article on the internet.

And either that recipient forwarded it to Drudge, or someone with access to that recipient’s email forwarded it to Drudge. Drudge's source is either an over-zealous Obama supporter, a deranged Hillary hater or a Republican sympathizer. (The Obama campaign itself has no interest in the photo being disseminated.)

If your primary intention is to hurt Obama, you do not send the photo to Drudge as something “circulated by Clinton staffers.” You send it as a photo from Geeska Afrika Online Magazine from August of '06.

http://www.geeskaafrika.com/ethiopia_31aug06.htm

So the purpose of the Drudge piece, which is sourced like a gossip piece, not a news item, is to hurt Clinton, AND to hurt Obama.

So we know that either Chris Dodd is plotting a big comeback after taking down Clinton and Obama simultaneously, or the Drudge piece is a Republican stunt.

As for the word choice “circulate”… the Obama photograph has been published on the internet at least three times previously. (Sunniblog.com on Feb 11, National Examiner tabloid, Geeska Afrika Online Magazine) Every person on the Internet (about a billion?) has had access to it since 2006. It is not “leaked.” (I have seen people descibe it as such, which is funny. That’s like me “leaking” something posted in DU last week by linking to it in this post.)

Most Importantly: Let’s say Hillary wants to disseminate this photo of Obama looking like a crazy Muslim. And let’s say that Hillary is in bed with Matt Drudge, and want’s Drudge to disseminate the photo… accepting all of that,

Why does the Clinton campaign want the photo disseminated by Matt Drudge as something “circulated by Clinton staffers”???

Critical thinking is your friend.