Good. Everyone else should pile on as well.
My gut sense from how the âemail Clinton scandal worse than Watergate/Dreyfussâ affair has gone in the past is that heavy damage is done to Democratsâ chances just because the words âinvestigationâ, âemailâ and Clinton showed up in a new story. No amount of calling Comey out will make up for that, on its own.
Sure is a good thing that the Times didnât maniacally spread the dirt around when the letter first came out. Oh, wait.
You mean they stopped?!
Iâm getting a little tired of the NYT editorial board trying to cover for the paperâs shitty political coverage.
I am imagining a universe where, 20-plus years ago, the NYT wrote an editorial saying âThis Whitewater stuff is bullsh*t, and weâre not going to dignify it by giving it room in our pages.â
Please donât wake me up.
â[H]is logic makes even less sense than it did on Friday,â
Because there IS no logic to it. It makes as much sense as sending you kid out with the leaf blower to go clean up the dogshit in the back yard. I sincerely hope Clinton gets the opportunity to fucking fire this asshat.
Still looks like a pure political stunt today.
Concur.
But I ALSO am aware of the power of the âpenâ (Fourth Estate). âThe pen is mightier than the swordâ is not just a saying.
BIG TIME Press outlets have POWER. I was watching Lawrence last night and he did little if anything on the Trump-Russia connection. If he had done so that would have been more significant than from an outlet with less general population circulation/audience. What the major newspapers and broadcast outlets have is more power than smaller venues. The NYT is such an outlet.
However, implicit in your post is that the NYT is an outlier and that the rest of the Fourth Estate will be braying âemailsâ while Psycho Trump rolls on.
What I find âhard to squareâ is why Comey felt comfortable slapping Hillaryâs hand in JulyâŚâshe was carelessââŚIt keeps tickling my brain that he wouldnât have done that if it was a man. In fact he probably would have just said that the investigation was completed with no charges being brought. Republican heads STILL would have exploded but Kellyanne wouldnât have her talking points of âeven Comey said sheâd been careless, yada yadaââŚIt bothers me.
It is obvious to me that once you are identified as a Republican it just naturally follows that you are deplorable. I canât count more exceptions to this rule than I have fingers to keep track of. Republicans should be forbidden from holding law enforcement jobs.
That was Comeyâs coming out event. That was when he âcame out of the closetâ.
Comey cannot be fired by the president. He can be impeached by Congress - donât hold your breath. If he was a real man he would quit his job on November 9th.
The more information comes out the clearer it becomes that director Comey did all that is required to tilt the election in Trumpâs and in the gopâs favor. His stellar reputation is in the crapper and no amount of explanation will save it.
Wasnât Dreyfus innocent and for all intents and purposes a victim of anti-semiitism?
âŚor 14 years ago an editorial saying âThis Iraq war stuff is bullsh1t, and weâre not going to be Cheneyâs stenographer, but do real reportingâŚâ
Iâve read a few profiles on the man and it appears that heâs not âpoliticalâ, but he does give free reign to ârighteous indignationâ. It seems to me that he was closing the investigation, but had righteous indignation that there wasnât enough there to prosecute, so he took it upon himself, being the morally upright man that he is, to excoriate her while he was dropping the charges.
I, too, dream of a world in which the New York Times is rehabilitated.