Clinton gets too much media buy-in for her anti-accountability efforts

Hillary Clinton thinks you all need to stop doubting Hillary Clinton. Don't question her health. Don't ask what was in the 30,000 emails she deleted. Don't follow the money trails that lead in and out of the Clinton Foundation, the State Department, and her own bank account.

This is what we expect from a politician with a paranoid streak. The odd thing is that parts of the media are going along with her.

Much of our news media has diligently, consistently, and expertly scrutinized both Clinton and Donald Trump. This isn't an easy task, because of Clinton's Nixon-level secrecy and opacity, and because of Trump's mind-bending inconsistency and incoherence.

But Clinton's team has tirelessly worked the refs this election: "You're making stories out of innocent emails! You're ignoring Trump's flaws! All this false equivalence! This is just a question of email server management!"

But this campaign to harass journalists who do their jobs hasn't been tethered to truth. The New York Times reported in July 2015 that the FBI was investigating Clinton's emails. Clinton's media machine immediately blasted this report, calling it a "bogus" and "fictitious." Of course, the Times was right, and the Clinton campaign knew it at the time, but this is how you work the refs.