The Adults Have An Important Scandal

While fired prosecutors alleged personal phone calls from Republican officials and members of Congress (one of them at home) pressuring them to investigate Democrats, while they outlined how they were purged from the Justice Department for political reasons, while the chief of staff to the Vice President was convicted of a felony for the first time in over a century, this is what the right has been busying themselves with - apparently Hillary used an accent.

Except there's so much less here than meets the eye.

The Drudge headline links to this audio of Hillary speaking yesterday. If you listen to it, the main thing you'll hear is Hillary speaking in a southern drawl, saying phrases that sound like her own words:

"I don't feel no ways tired..I come too far from where I started from...Nobody told me that the road would be easy...I don't believe he brought me this far to leave me." [...]

But as always, a simple fact-check shows this latest wingnut preoccupation to be highly dishonest. The audio clip Drudge linked to cherry-picked that quote and removed it completely from its context, which would have shown that Hillary wasn't adopting this accent or grammar or language as her own at all.

Rather, it turns out that Hillary was actually quoting the hymn lyrics of someone else -- while clearly and very openly imitating (not very well, it turns out) the cadences she thought the lyrics would traditionally have been delivered in. There was nothing phony about it at all.

SCANDAL: Hillary quotes a Southerner!!!

By the way practically every major news organization picked this up.

These are the people that came into Washington saying that the adults have taken over.