Unless you’re a GOP’er. Then you wonder why he was picking on Russia and Donnie.
Me? I’m just waiting for the inevitable leaks from the closed session with Comey. That’s where the truth is…
Right now Sen. Collins (how Maine can stand her I’ll never know) on Toadie Todd’s show says that Comey leaked a work product to trigger a special counsel that never should have happened on Comey’s part. Is she high on something, or what? Her description of it being a work product sounds almost exactly like what Trump’s lawyer is arguing…pure bullshit.
It was held in a SCIF so the chances of any leaks getting out would be easily identifiable from that perspective I would imagine. But I hope like you, it happens.
His testimony wasn’t good news for John McCave, that much is certain.
It is a bit stunning that the tactic is to smear Comey as a “leaker.” Amazing attempt at distraction/deflection; guess what, it ain’t gonna work.
OMG…now I know why I don’t usually watch Todd anymore. He really is reaching for straws with the false equivalency bullshit…calling today a bad day for the Justice Department under both Loretta Lynch and now. Why this has anything to do with Loretta Lynch??? Again, total bullshit. WTF is wrong with Todd? He is so intentionally dense in forcing himself to understand anything with any deep consequences which shows Republicans in a bad light. Its always both side-isms with him. He’s insufferable. One day they’ll get rid of him for his obvious bias on such important issues of the day. Until then, Todd the Toad will continue to be as willfully ignorant as MSNBC allows him to be, while still managing to get a paycheck every fucking week for totally subpar work. Worst anchor of a news show ever.
It is. And his lawyer sounded screwy and most of the tv talkers were collectively head scratching.
Not Todd however. He indulged her of course. Took Collins seriously.
When DiFi came on next, he had no problem asking her a question and when she didn’t agree with him, he tried to reproach her with a question to make his point again. Something he didn’t do with Collins, which is why its so obvious which side he tends to go with. One is allowed to make unsubstantiated claims without any followup (Collins) and the other (DiFi) refutes one of his claims and is taken to task for her disagreeing with him.
What a dumbshit. His notes are not work product.
And he wasn’t Trump’s lawyer either. Work product my ass. Comey didn’t work for the President.
Honestly, even if they were…they’re his words…it belongs to him. They’re not someone else’s notes or work product. So what? If he went home and wrote it in his diary…
Dear Diary,
Today President Goofball tried to fuck with me by making me take a blood oath in his presence over hamburgers, and I resisted. He said the family could come but then changed his mind. He said he wanted to meet with me privately to discuss important shit so what’s an G-man to do? Diary, I think that whole day was weird…and its not the first time either…
Yours truly,
Jimmy
…would that be ok then?
Work Product is a thing only because lawyers and their clients do have a privileged relationship.
No privilege exists between the President and the FBI.
His notes are not work product.
Shouldn’t matter if they are. He was a public servant. FBI can classify, but they can’t claim proprietary ownership. The FBI serves the citizens of this nation.
That’s exactly the obfuscation that’s being employed here that Todd and Collins and whoever else gets on that bandwagon is trying to advance. Its a rightwing talking point for today from the fever swamps of Trump’s putrid brain trust, based on pure nonsense. Comey’s memos to self, passed onto others wasn’t privileged or classified. That’s the entire point right there. Only a couple of days ago, or was it yesterday, Trump said he wouldn’t invoke executive privilege on Comey’s testimony too. That’s because he probably was told he couldn’t or at best shouldn’t. Such nonsense.
Rather than illuminate what happened in that hearing the people who should be responsible for separating the wheat from the chaff are being total dicks on some of these shows. This is really the first time in awhile that I’ve watched more than my usual two prime time news shows in the evening…and its starting to really piss me off. My guess is that Todd is desperate to book some ReThug for his Sunday morning show and he needs to appeal to someone out there with this phony crap that highlights his sympathetic attitude with these pukes. Pathetic.
That’s why I don’t watch cable news. It seems to drive everyone who does watch it crazy.
I never liked Todd and when he got that job I just about died because I’ve always thought he was right next door to stupid.
Or maybe he really is that stupid and possesses a third rate authoritarian mindset. I don’t mean to say he isn’t also an opportunist, but there isn’t exactly a golden age of Chuck Todd for him to live up to.
Shuck Todd does seem to be challenging DGregory for the title you cited.
Point well made. His only role models are David Gregory on what not to do and Tim Russert, who we all know has been idolized and cast in bronze at NBC, a tough act to follow for someone so lacking. I don’t even think Todd finished getting his undergrad degree if I recall, so its still looking to be quite a challenge for him trying to sound informed no matter how hard he tries. He seems intent on presenting all his opinions as facts without any basis to back them up, and that’s never a good thing, especially when he constantly won’t admit it.
I really dislike him.
Is it just me, or does David Gregory remind you of that guy in sales at every company where you ever worked?
You know – that guy…