Democrats once blamed Comey; now they're defending him

[denverbill]

By Julie Bykowicz and Catherine Lucey, The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Starting with Hillary Clinton herself, Democrats have blamed James Comey for her loss to President Donald Trump. And yet when Trump fired the FBI director Tuesday, those same Democrats rushed to defend his job.

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This is an appallingly twisted headline to me, typical of the alt-right. And this is AP? Fucking up once does not preclude being 100% correct the next time.

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/05/09/democrats-blamed-james-comey-now-defending/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. lazy journalism by the easily misled.

[riversedge]

2. Lots of Dems on msnbc. No one is defending Comey.

[BeyondGeography]

3. And Trump once lauded Comey, now he fired him

Arguably a bigger story.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[denverbill]

7. I don't know why you put sarcasm on that one.

It's 100% a bigger story.

[stonecutter357]

4. bull shit .

[Hortensis]

24. Mostly agree completely.

Comey has had a few apologists in the party, whether just ignorant, ethically challenged and unable to understand the issues, and/or (sadly) approving his attacks on our candidate.

But just like their coverage of the divisions in the party, Comey's supposed support is greatly exaggerated by media trying to pump up interest.

[dalton99a]

6. Obama should have fired his ass, and shouldn't have hired him in the first place

[denverbill]

9. Obama tried too damned hard to try to 'bridge' the partisan divide.

But it was like Chamberlain trying to bridge the divide between Czechoslovakia and Germany.

[Skittles]

21. HUGE blunders

yes indeed

[frazzled]

15. He couldn't fire him ...

Without looking like he was making a partisan move to influence the election. The damage to Clinton ( not to mention himself) would have been even worse. There would have been screams of Saturday Night Massacre, and people would have assumed there was something big to hide.

Trump's firing of Comey has ZERO to do with that episode or anything about Hillary Clinton. That is ludicrous and makes no sense. It has everything to do with the investigation into the Trump campaign's relations with Russia. And it IS a Massacre.

[riversedge]

8. strange short article. Nothing current--but talking of past reactions by

Dems to Comey and email investigation.

[Bleacher Creature]

10. For gods sake, NO DEMOCRATS are "defending" Comey.

It's the abuse of power - plain and simple.

What the hell is wrong with the AP??

[yallerdawg]

11. We'll just have to agree...

no Republican and no one in this administration can ever take an action that leads to any happiness and ecstatic celebration when a horrible, self-righteous, holier-than-anyone asshole gets his proper due. When WE get justice. When karma comes around.

No.

I refuse to be ecstatically happy.


Well...maybe...just a...little.

[still_one]

12. It is entirely distorted. In fact every Democrat I heard today said that

Comey's actions 11 days before the elections were inexcusable, however, something is very wrong when you fire the FBI director in the middle of an investigation.

There was no defense of Comey, but there was a definite sense of a cover up going on

[denverbill]

13. I still wonder if Comey wasn't played by someone like Guiliani.

Screwed himself into releasing something he shouldn't have in October, 2016, because Guiliani told him to. There is something really f'ed up with the way people like Guiliani and other Republicans knew in advance what Wikileaks (and Comey) was going to reveal.

[still_one]

14. I don't know denver, but when the AG told him not to release the letter this

close to the election and he still did it, to me that kind of says it all

[denverbill]

16. Well, I'll tell you one thing. I didn't agree with everything Obama did, but I believe..

..he's a really good man.

I think he appointed Comey believing it would help bridge 'the partisan divide' and because he believe Comey was essentially a good guy. There is no way Obama would have selected him if he was remotely a complete asshole like Paul Ryan or Jeff Sessions.

That's why I wonder if Guiliani or someone in his circle wasn't communicating with someone in the FBI under Comey and pressuring him to release the information in 2016.

Comey could have been a stooge in November, 2016, but still an honest person.

[still_one]

17. No doubt it was to reach across the aisle, I just don't think Comey is that naive

[denverbill]

18. Ii think it's possible, under stress, to make a horrible decision.

Nobody can know 100% Comey's motives for the shit he pulled in 2016. I don't know his conscience. But some of the stuff I've read about him just leads me to believe he was played by people he needed, and didn't realize it until later.

[still_one]

19. I hear you denver, we just don't see eye to eye on this. If more information becomes

available I would reconsider

[denverbill]

20. We probably aren't that far off.

I think I just tend to try to think that 90% of the time, people are actually pretty decent. Or they think they are anyway.

I honestly don't know about Comey. Maybe he's a shitbag that slipped through Obama's screening, or maybe he's a decent guy that got screwed over by his 'friends'. It's just the latter seems more likely to me. I didn't like Obama's outreach and hiring of Republicans, but there is no way he would've put someone who was a complete right-wing douch-bag to head the FBI. That's why I think Comey got pushed.

[Skittles]

22. it is called CRITICAL THINKING, assholes

as opposed to PROPAGANDA

everything is black and white to these treasonous assholes

[Midnight Writer]

23. I don't give a fig for Comey. I care about POTUS firing FBI boss at crucial point in investigation.

[Paladin]

25. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

That proverb goes back some 2500 years, and it is certainly pertinent to this topic. Jim Comey will never, ever be a "friend" as far as I'm concerned, but he's proving extremely helpful, right now.

[still_one]

26. The New York Times did the same distortion with a video last night

Tonight in their infinite wisdom to setup false equivalencies between the republicans and Democrats, they have a video by Mark Scheffle and Shane O'Neill telling us how both republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey. It is so out of context it is pathetic. Shame on the NY Times for this garbage.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005090191/comey-fired-democrats-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

At least today, they represented this with the correct context:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/democrats-criticism-james-comey.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

[C_U_L8R]

27. Binary bubbleheads

It seems to be a republican brain defect that they can only think in absolutes.

Yes.. Comey mishandled some things - and that certainly doesn't mean he's wrong about others.
Geesh Republicans... just stop with your traitorous and manipulative bullshit. Just stop it.

[RandySF]

28. I'll never forgive Comey

But I know a coverup when I see one.