Ho-kay. I said that I was going to be commenting in a post on a commenter’s comment, so here it is. This is from a guy named Wes Curtis whom I taught in high school. He quotes or refers to a Wall Street Journal article that says the following:
“It was Mr. Comey who botched the investigation of Mrs. Clinton by appropriating the authority to exonerate and excoriate her publicly in an inappropriate press event, and then by reopening the probe right before the election. This gave Mrs. Clinton’s supporters a reason to claim they’d been robbed, which in turn stoked the ‘resistance’ that has overrun U.S. politics.” From WSJ 6/09
So I think that the actual WSJ article (there wasn’t a link to it in the comment, and I just looked online and couldn’t tell which one it was) is probably just making the point that Comey is an equal-opportunity mistake-maker. He shouldn’t have done what he did about the Clinton e-mails, and (perhaps the article’s point) he shouldn’t now have done what he’s done about the President’s conversations with him. Something like that. And in the hearing on Thursday Comey confirmed that Loretta Lynch had asked him to call the Clinton investigation a “matter.” (This statement was being treated as some big revelation, but I know I’d already heard that.) So Wes had originally asked me what I thought about this LL thingy, and I said that I just wasn’t all that interested in it. To which he replied,
“That comment is more revealing about your motives than I expected.”
My motives? My motives are now and always have been perfectly clear: I am banging the drum trying to wake my readers up to the dangers of having Donald Trump in the White House. I said that before the election and I’m a-sayin’ it now. So what’s the big reveal? I don’t get it.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but it almost sounds to me as if Wes’s point is that somehow Comey back in June said what he said about Hillary Clinton’s e-mails so that when she lost the election her supporters would have a reason to complain about its legitimacy. Comey was setting things up ahead of time. He’s part of the “deep state.” (Hey, if Trump would just pull himself together, do his job, and nominate people to fill the positions now being held by Obama appointees, most of the DS would disappear.) Is that it? If so, I have to say, “Say what?”
I’m reminded of an article that Jonah Goldberg referenced in his G-File yesterday, in which this person named David Danford wrote an article on a website called “American Greatness” titled “Is There Genius and Power in Cofefe?” I desperately want to think that the article is a joke, but apparently it isn’t. No, my friends, there is a secret meaning in the Trump Tweets that only those in the know can know. And the secret symbols in the floor at Denver International Airport predicted this long ago, I guess.
My goodness.