Clinton Advisor Podesta: ‘Better’ if San Bernardino Shooter Had Stereotypical White Name

By Austin Roscoe Published on October 17, 2016

In a recently leaked email to a fellow Clinton staffer, sent the day after the San Bernardino shooting, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta expressed discontent upon learning of the shooter’s Arabic name.

After the shooting, Clinton spokeswoman Karen Finney forwarded Podesta a Tweet — accompanied by the one word comment “d***” — from MSNBC host Christopher Hayes, in which he reported the news of the shooter’s name. Podesta then replied saying it would have been “better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.” (Early reports used an incorrect spelling of the shooter’s name.)

Podesta has a long history of working to advance the progressive narrative, from operating as the Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton to serving as a counselor to President Barack Obama to founding the far-left Center for American Progress.

The correspondence was discovered in the hacked emails of Podesta, which WikiLeaks has been releasing in near-daily batches since October 7th. The emails have disclosed many disconcerting themes in the Clinton campaign, such as anti-Catholic bigotry, contradictory statements in Clinton’s speeches to Goldman Sachs and colluding with the media, among other things.

As of this writing, WikiLeaks has released 12,017 emails of a purported “well over 50,000 emails.”

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