NSA Head Rodgers, DNI Dan Coats Deny Washington Post Story that Trump Asked Coats to Get the FBI to Dial Down Its Investigation Into Flynn

Wow, the National Laughingstock really is batting 1.000.

Posted by: Ace at 01:22 PM

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1 Live by the unnamed source, die by the direct testimony of the guy you tried to diss.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 01:24 PM (le7jz)

2 It's always something.

Posted by: Ronster at June 07, 2017 01:24 PM (CDUSe)

3 Hey, time for a random unrelated post. 4th! Or 5th! Top ten, at least!

Posted by: Your Local Friendly Jehovah's Witnesses at June 07, 2017 01:25 PM (jngwH)

4 Off sock.

Maybe I'll summon the corgis.

Posted by: Vanceone at June 07, 2017 01:25 PM (jngwH)

5 So all those "high-level officials" and "people with knowledge of the situation" were just making shit up.

And then there are those anonymous letters.

Hearsay. Compounded hearsay. Lies.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:26 PM (+7/1f)

6 WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS

Posted by: Don Lemon with masking tape on his forehead at June 07, 2017 01:26 PM (HgMAr)

7 6
WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS

Posted by: Don Lemon with masking tape on his forehead at June 07, 2017 01:26 PM (HgMAr)

I was there when Trump said that thing to Comey

Posted by: Brian Williams at June 07, 2017 01:27 PM (jxbfJ)

8 They know in their souls that there is a there there.

Just one more unnamed source serious you guys!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 07, 2017 01:27 PM (4ErVI)

9 So, Rogers and Coates are Russian agents too. They are everywhere.

Posted by: Louise Mensch at June 07, 2017 01:28 PM (ul9CR)

10 "Democracy Dies Laughing."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:28 PM (VWp7G)

11 You just know that the doughnuts at the WaPo meetings are 100% organic kale/quinoa mixes with a nice glaze coating made from whatever Sandra Fluke left last night.

It's no wonder the paper is revolting.

Posted by: Vanceone at June 07, 2017 01:28 PM (jngwH)

12 I cancelled my subscription to wapo after the 2008 election. The coverage was so over-the-top I couldn't stomach it anymore . Little did I dream that they were just getting started. One wonders when the stories about Putin's and Elvis Presley's baby will appear.

Posted by: Pep at June 07, 2017 01:28 PM (o0xBE)

13 As a true conservative, I commend the Washington Post's fair and balanced reporting of Trump's personal hacking of voting machines. Also, the stellar reporting of conservative patriot Louise Mensch has been invaluable.

Posted by: Egg McMuffin at June 07, 2017 01:28 PM (OD2ni)

14 Amazon Prime is totes cool, though.

Posted by: josephistan at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (ANIFC)

15 >>>It's no wonder the paper is revolting.

Yeah, they stink on ice! - Mel Brooks

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (VWp7G)

16 Bullshit dies in the light.

Posted by: Dang at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (8b+oT)

17 If you get every story wrong, you might want to rethink your business model.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (7ZVPa)

18 Yeah, but what version of this story will the general public remember?

This is the MSM's strategy: publish so many damning stories about Trump, new (fake) scandals every day, that people can't keep track of which ones end up to be false.

It's creating an overall narrative of Trump's behavior, fake story brick by brick. Even if one story is known to be false, the intended response is to be, "Yeah, but we know he was doing this with other people, so...guilty!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (NOIQH)

19 It wasn't Trump that asked Coats and Rogers, it was Batboy. According to sources, he is an unofficial high level advisor to the president on the needs of the monster-American community.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (hLRSq)

20 We're probably about 2 weeks away from them putting out a story saying that Trump sent Manafort and Flynn to Russia for secret KGB training on how to assassinate Hillary...

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (9TK8E)

21 17 If you get every story wrong, you might want to rethink your business model.

This is also the story of Jharles Chonson.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 01:30 PM (ul9CR)

22 "I cancelled my subscription to wapo after the 2008 election. The coverage was so over-the-top I couldn't stomach it anymore."

Cancelled mine in 2004. Worthless after Michael Kelly died.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 07, 2017 01:30 PM (OD2ni)

23 Ace, if you want a good "dismissive contempt" thread, check out this article from the local Berkeley newspaper, titled "Training helps Berkeley liberals communicate with Trump supporters":

http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/06/05/ opinion-training-help-berkeley-liberals-communicate-trump-supporters/

It's hilarious, because the article itself, while recommending that Berkeley leftists take classes to "listen to" and "communicate with" Trump voters, is flamboyantly insulting, dismissive and contemptuous of Trump supporters, and relies on every false trope about them being all neo-Nazis, etc.

Examples:

"Given who we're dealing with , attempting to engage in peaceful dialogue runs the risk of violent escalation , a potentially dangerous situation especially for non-whites and Muslims . After the horrific incident in Portland last month, where a white supremacist is charged with murdering two men who tried to protect two young women of color being racially harassed by the accused, our first concern must be safety, and sometimes the safest course is avoidance.

That said, I recognize that there are people who feel compelled to engage with members of hate groups and, if that describes you, then yes, the workshop will be valuable."

Posted by: zombie at June 07, 2017 01:30 PM (DQ4Fv)

24 Bezo's blog proves they are the real fake news media.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 07, 2017 01:30 PM (npdX6)

25 Does the Washington Post ever bother to check their sources? And maybe try to get someone else to confirm?

Nah, don't bother to answer that.

Posted by: bluebell at June 07, 2017 01:30 PM (3TDfv)

26 They should have stuck with the space alien and bat boy stories.

Those had at least a little bit of credibility.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (7ZVPa)

27
One would think that after a while, the face plants would become intolerable.

One would think.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (S/hVx)

28 Putin is the new "Da Joooooz".

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (9TK8E)

29 Of course those guys are going to say that in public. If they repeat what they said in private as unnamed sources, they would be fired. Everyone knows this.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (m9X4Y)

30 I guess this is "stray voltage journalism." Seems to be the new WaPo editorial direction.

Posted by: no good deed at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (hJamr)

31
I'm listening to testimony now. It's a Soviet 1930s show trial.

And Angus King deserves to have a sack of manure shoved into his face.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (mbhDw)

32 MSM is on a path to take a great legal fall.
After tomorrow, a lot of their recent reporting will be discredited.

Also, MSM does not have the right to publish leaked classified material. To be more clear, the government has a high legal burden to stop the publication beforehand (that's the Pentagon Papers case) but that doesn't mean the publisher can't be charged afterwards. MSM may learn this the hard way.

MSM may get sued by Trump for libel. Yeah, yeah, The NY Times v Sullivan case. But MSM is creating quite a record of actual malice with things like using anonymous unknown unvetted sources.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (+7/1f)

33 It appears that they are now fishing for information on what the conversation was actually about and not if Trump pressured them to stop any investigation.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (le7jz)

34 As to Amazon prime. If you have it break your orders down to one package so it eats into their bottom line.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (npdX6)

35 At some point, I'd like to believe that the this story which we all know is complete BS, finally comes home to roost for these assholes. And that they are made to own it...and own it completely.
I really hope the GOP (whats left of it) use it as the cornerstone of the elections next year. Accusations and lies...all trumpeted by the media, while nothing gets done.
Jeez....Ronald MacDonald could get elected.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (0tfLf)

36 >>>And Angus King deserves to have a sack of manure shoved into his face.

Angus Scrimm, the Tall Man from the Phantasm films, would be a better congressman.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (VWp7G)

37 32 Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:31 PM (+7/1f)

Facts are irrelevant. The meme for '18 and '20 is Russia and Trump stole the election. Period.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (mbhDw)

38 Just pure speculation for a lark - what if Trump is the source of all of these leaks and he is doing it so that the press, unable to help resist the temptation, continuously beclown themselves to the point that their reputations are irretrievably ruined?

Again: This is just for fun speculation.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (hLRSq)

39 16 Bullshit dies in the light.

Posted by: Dang at June 07, 2017 01:29 PM (8b+oT)

Yep. Which is why Trump needs to be aware that he holds a, for lack of a better word, Trump card.

I call it the Samson Option.

If they go forward with impeachment proceedings in their effort to bounce him out of office with a kangaroo court, take out the pen and phone, and declassify everything that does not pertain to military technology.

Everything.

Throw it all out in the light, and let people see how the sausage is really made. 4chan and Wikileaks will have a field day sifting the dump for the worst bits. Heads will roll.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:33 PM (X52ZZ)

40 The lie was out there for weeks.
The legend was made.
Will anyone remember the truth in five years?

Posted by: rd at June 07, 2017 01:33 PM (XSEwK)

41 "MSM may get sued by Trump for libel. Yeah, yeah, The NY Times v Sullivan case. But MSM is creating quite a record of actual malice with things like using anonymous unknown unvetted sources."

For an entity like CNN, employee statements on Twitter may be enough to show actual malice.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 07, 2017 01:33 PM (OD2ni)

42 36 >>>And Angus King deserves to have a sack of manure shoved into his face.

Angus Scrimm, the Tall Man from the Phantasm films, would be a better congressman.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (VWp7G)

Governor of Maine. Home of Collins and Snowe. That so beautiful a land should be so disgraced by scum like that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2017 01:33 PM (mbhDw)

43 Angus Young would be a better congresscritter and he'snot even American.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 01:33 PM (ul9CR)

44 "This is also the story of Jharles Chonson. "

Chucky was right about the TANG memos.

Of course, he was hitting a ride on Buckheads work.

But...he wasn't wrong.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 01:34 PM (J+eG2)

45 I get egg mcmuffin, pit bull, moby and bezos confused. All bald white guys are the same person

Posted by: NCKate at June 07, 2017 01:34 PM (QS6Kp)

46 The Democrats keep saying that Comey's testimony tomorrow will be like the "Super Bowl". They are almost giddy in their subversive behavior which will be shown to have no basis in fact.

I stayed to someone it will be the super bowl alright, with the Democrats playing Denver in Super Bowl XXIV.

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 01:34 PM (sNAef)

47 Ok, even if you're a Lefty praying to the gods of Global Warming that somehow, somewhere there is proof of Trump-Russia collusion, wouldn't you at some point get pissed off about being lied to constantly by the jokes that pass as mainstream reporters? Surely at some point you would think fuck, these guys are hardly ever right about anything.

Posted by: Marmo, now with 10% more covfefe at June 07, 2017 01:34 PM (xujbM)

48 39 Heads will roll.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:33 PM (X52ZZ)

Still waiting for that avalanche of skulls from '09-'16. I do appreciate your optimism, though.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2017 01:35 PM (mbhDw)

49 Chucky was right about the TANG memos.

But he's now Dan Rather's biggest fan so he even f'd up the one thing he ever got right.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 01:35 PM (ul9CR)

50 >>>Governor of Maine. Home of Collins and Snowe.

Sorry, thought he was a congresscritter.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:35 PM (VWp7G)

51 "NSA Head Rodgers, DNI Dan Coats Deny Washington Post Story that Trump Asked Coats to Get the FBI to Dial Down Its Investigation Into Flynn."

Is this some kind of logic test?

"If Bill told Susie that Sam asked Mary not to tell Bill about Susie's secret, can you prove that Mary whispered Bill's secret to Sam? Show your work."

Posted by: zombie at June 07, 2017 01:35 PM (DQ4Fv)

52 BUT HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT OUR INTREPID REPORTERS!?!?!?!? OUR ANONYMOUS SOURCES ARE IMPECCABLE!!!1

Posted by: CNN Bimbo at June 07, 2017 01:35 PM (44OyV)

53 It's not very nice of them to make definitive statements like this.

Posted by: James Comey at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (fD1ST)

54 London police are saying a "controlled explosion" was just done outside the new, under construction US embassy. Story at WZ.

More lone wolves.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (/tuJf)

55 The internet will remember.

It is, you realize, the closest thing to immortality yet devised.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (S/hVx)

56 >>>>>The Democrats keep saying that Comey's testimony tomorrow will be like
the "Super Bowl". They are almost giddy in their subversive behavior
which will be shown to have no basis in fact.

I stayed to someone it will be the super bowl alright, with the Democrats playing Denver in Super Bowl XXIV.
.
.
.This is going to be a repeat of Trumps tax returns with kohn...it will deflate like a leaky balloon when it happens. Heck they are even running a countdown clock on CNN like MSNBC did with that story.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (le7jz)

57 Since 1974, everyone in the WaPo newsroom has been trying to be Woodward and Bernstein all over again.

With the romance of trying to build scoops around _seekret insider knowledge_ rather than tedious, interminable shoe-leather collecting of hard facts.

The advent of the Internet and social media has simply made that already bad situation even worse.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (ujwCG)

58 50 >>>Governor of Maine. Home of Collins and Snowe.

Sorry, thought he was a congresscritter.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:35 PM (VWp7

OOPS!

SENATOR. I'm way off.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (mbhDw)

59 How do we know Obama/The Clinton Crime family/Soros, etc. haven't given Comey a bunch of fake memos that will supposedly implicate Trump?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (qES5k)

60 "what if Trump is the source of all of these leaks"

I'd take the bet that Trump was the source of the two pages of tax return that Rachel Maddow orgasmed over.
It may have the only year in a decade that Trump paid sizeable federal income tax.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (+7/1f)

61 Amazon Prime is totes cool, though.

If you're a welfare leech.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2017 01:37 PM (PCof0)

62 >>>I stayed to someone it will be the super bowl alright, with the Democrats playing Denver in Super Bowl XXIV.

NOT COOL, MAN! IT STILL HURTS!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:37 PM (VWp7G)

63 wishcasting.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (xVRrG)

64 Dear diary,

Today I heard someone make a direct comment on matters that they were not involved in. These actions, while illegal, are beyond my ability to judge. But they're illegal.

Posted by: James Comey at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (fD1ST)

65 @ 54

Another member of that pack of lone wolves.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (S/hVx)

66 Right now its a mud-throwing operation to claim Trump is dirty dirty dirty.

It doesn't matter if Trump is dirty or not, look at all that mud flying around!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (oVJmc)

67 Reading through the comments, I see many of you are thinking similarly.

Posted by: Marmo, now with 10% more covfefe at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (xujbM)

68 Posted by: zombie at June 07, 2017 01:30 PM (DQ4Fv)

I read the opinion piece.

The condescension, it burns.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (PE8W2)

69
We're probably about 2 weeks away from them putting out a story saying that Trump sent Manafort and Flynn to Russia for secret KGB training on how to assassinate Hillary...

CALL The WP Tipline from a phone booth.

Posted by: rd at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (XSEwK)

70 Never fear. Ferret-faced Rachel Madcow will roll with another conspiracy theory.

Posted by: I'm Tucker Carlson and I will destroy you at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (+3sAq)

71 Journalism dies in DC

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (3OIiX)

72 Um...what chain of command authority does either of those men have to tell the FBI what to do?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (6wURk)

73 66 Right now its a mud-throwing operation to claim Trump is dirty dirty dirty.

It doesn't matter if Trump is dirty or not, look at all that mud flying around!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (oVJmc)

Classic muckraking yellow journalism. It's come around again.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (X52ZZ)

74 I think most of what is happening is a side show to keep us occupied while members and camp followers of both parties scoop up cash as fast as they can before the whole thing crashes. I get the feeling everyone on top knows the train ride is almost over.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (7ZVPa)

75 .This is going to be a repeat of Trumps tax returns with kohn...it will deflate like a leaky balloon when it happens. Heck they are even running a countdown clock on CNN like MSNBC did with that story.
Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 01:36 PM (le7jz)

It'll be Fitzmas all over again!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (PE8W2)

76 "Democracy Dies Face-Down in a Toilet."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 07, 2017 01:40 PM (VWp7G)

77 We're probably about 2 weeks away from them putting out a story saying that Trump sent Manafort and Flynn to Russia for secret KGB training on how to assassinate Hillary...

CALL The WP Tipline from a phone booth.

Posted by: rd at June 07, 2017 01:38 PM (XSEwK)

We should send them anonymous letters with spurious revelations.

We should do this to ALL major news organizations.

Let them go to the presses with their "scoop".

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:40 PM (X52ZZ)

78 @52

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 01:40 PM (m9X4Y)

79 "Facts are irrelevant. The meme for '18 and '20 is Russia and Trump stole the election. Period. "

If that's all they got, and Trump has kept his promises as much as he could, it's a loser.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:41 PM (+7/1f)

80 I get egg mcmuffin, pit bull, moby and bezos confused. All bald white guys are the same person
=====

Psssst - hey you! Wanna get on our supersekrit spy pron lists? Handouts are xeroxed only for the insider cognoscenti -- like you.

I swear those vicious idiots are like that unfortunate reporter getting teary-eyed about the spies toiling in obscurity and waving his binder of 'Tucker Carlson Lies'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 07, 2017 01:41 PM (MIKMs)

81 Of course, you all know this means that it only proves Trump should be impeached.

Posted by: RoyalOil at June 07, 2017 01:41 PM (ZQpd0)

82 I don't really care about what the media is trying to hype. I hope that all they are doing is driving media trust down several more notches.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 07, 2017 01:41 PM (xAvrH)

83
@51

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 01:41 PM (m9X4Y)

84 Classic muckraking yellow journalism.

Yellow journalism? That's layciss!
Posted by: We Tu Lo

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (PCof0)

85 These suckers of cock really do just make it up as they go.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (0mRoj)

86 74 I think most of what is happening is a side show to keep us occupied while members and camp followers of both parties scoop up cash as fast as they can before the whole thing crashes. I get the feeling everyone on top knows the train ride is almost over.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 01:39 PM (7ZVPa)

The Kleptocracy has been pillaging the treasury at the speed of light, and filling it up with IOUs since the Stimulus.

I think they knew the wheels were coming off in a permanent way when the housing market tanked, and our debt exceeded GDP.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (X52ZZ)

87 I wouldn't mind that the newspapers use anonymous sources if it merely was about the story.

I could give a crap if the New York Times or Washington Post makes up lies. We know they are all full of shit.

But there are criminal investigations and Congressional hearings being conducted based on those fictional stories. That is the most alarming part.

The newspapers have become the indictments -- without naming the accuser.

If tomorrow, a newspaper named an innocent person in an article without attribution, that person could face criminal trial and have their life destroyed.

With no attribution.

That is alarming.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (4AVeu)

88 Continuing the Julius Caesar post, don't they realize the senators are the villains in that play?

Dante put Brutus and Cassius at the center of Hell.

Posted by: goodluckduck at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (yqvys)

89 79 "Facts are irrelevant. The meme for '18 and '20 is Russia and Trump stole the election. Period. "

If that's all they got, and Trump has kept his promises as much as he could, it's a loser.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:41 PM (+7/1f)

That is all they got. The same old same old class warfare is wearing thin, even with the millenials. You just won't know it from the media and entertainment.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (mbhDw)

90 I'd take the bet that Trump was the source of the two pages of tax return that Rachel Maddow orgasmed over.
It may have the only year in a decade that Trump paid sizeable federal income tax.
-----
My guess? It was Trump's book publisher. They wanted to verify his income/ losses he talked about iin his book.

But if Trump trolled the NYT and NBC? Yes!

Posted by: rd at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (XSEwK)

91 85 These suckers of cock really do just make it up as they go.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (0mRoj)

Which is why we need Hordianism.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (X52ZZ)

92 My fear with the whole Russia thing was never that Trump actually colluded with Russia.

My fear was Trump would do something stupid because he thought the whole thing was stupid and wanted to move on.

Just like him telling Comey to lay off Flynn. It was a really stupid move, but being stupid is not illegal.

And so now we are here where everything hands on Comey all because Trump said something stupid.

Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (hVd7x)

93 Even when the Russia/Trump brouhaha proves absolutely false, the leftists/MFM will just invent something else.

The assassination rhetoric will also accelerate.

Posted by: Soona at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (6yCLd)

94 Chucky was right about the TANG memos.
Of course, he was hitting a ride on Buckheads work.
But...he wasn't wrong.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

He was always dependent for others work. I brought him one of his big scoops. I was surfing ex-pat Iranian blogs and found something. He was still asleep on the other coastline.

By the time he woke up he had hit the big-time again. Later on, after the bannings and course change, the New York Times linked to *my* story in giving him creds. He had to re-direct NYT peeps to another story. Because I can be petty.

Posted by: Leftist 'F' Student at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (HTdUD)

95 38 Just pure speculation for a lark - what if Trump is the source of all of these leaks and he is doing it so that the press, unable to help resist the temptation, continuously beclown themselves to the point that their reputations are irretrievably ruined?

Again: This is just for fun speculation.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (hLRSq)

The leakers are Obama administration holdovers. They were political appointees that got civil service jobs at high enough levels to still get some intel.

Also, they are like most of the Obama era appointees, they are just waiting for their time to be able to resign publicly and with much fanfare over the false information that they are leaking to the press making them martyrs so that they develop a fundraising base from which to run for the state house or congress.

And, there is a reason why the WaPo doesn't need 2 sources on these stories, it is because the above source is a buddy of the WaPo reporter/reporterette and thus does not need to have the story corroborated. Plus, it's Trump, they don't give a shit.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (1JnAL)

96 I like when Coats tried to respectfully say the WaPo was full of shit. Gave me a bit of a chubby it did.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (/tuJf)

97 Once this deflates tomorrow and the MSM runs out of baseless sophism, you will need to put up a scoreboard to keep track of the "Trump is Hitler" mentions.

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (sNAef)

98 Eh. I like Amazon. I liked them even before I worked for them.

It, like Bezos, is mixed good and bad, fair and foul.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (3OIiX)

99 Democracy Dies in Darkness is supposed to be a slogan not a threat.

Posted by: Mega at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (DKlbL)

100 Oh and I got my 'Covfefe AF' hat, wearing it at work today.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (3OIiX)

101 I like Amazon less since spouse began working for them. Haven't ordered anything since he started there.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (qES5k)

102 Now's the time where every "unnamed source" is Captain Janks from the Howard Stern show.

Posted by: Sponge at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (xttKs)

103 If tomorrow, a newspaper named an innocent person in an article without attribution, that person could face criminal trial and have their life destroyed.

With no attribution.

That is alarming.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 07, 2017 01:42 PM (4AVeu)

And that's why it's our patriotic duty to feed them deliberately contrafactual but bias-affirming stories, anonymously, that they will rush to publish - and utterly beclown themselves with.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (X52ZZ)

104 Per Reuters, a controlled explosion was used outside the new US Embassy in London.

Posted by: no good deed at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (hJamr)

105 The personalized animosity and insanity toward Pres. Trump is just amazing. I mean, it was bad with W but it's gone to a whole new level.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (0mRoj)

106 What is the Washington Post's favorite song?

I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fart Leader at June 07, 2017 01:45 PM (Nwg0u)

107 One of only 10 Rules God thought it was important enough to engrave into stone for us...

Thou shalt not bear false witness.

Posted by: Don Q... at June 07, 2017 01:45 PM (NgKpN)

108 Democracy dies when Deep Throat is choking on a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 01:45 PM (sNAef)

109 Let's be frank, the WaPo and the NYT are not even fit to wrap 3 day old rotten fish or to line the bottom of bird cages, at what point do they admit the following:

1. Hillary's campaign was deader than three day old rotten fish when she got the nomination because she was unlikeable (and she doubles down on that with the deplorables comment) and she did not campaign well. She was obviously ill, both mentally and physically, and was unable to bring either wit or energy to the fight. Coughing and fainting fits do not inspire confidence, particularly when coupled with attacks of aphasia and confusion.

2. The average canary pooping on these papers has more brain power on its worst day than Hilldog has on her best.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 01:46 PM (kXoT0)

110
My fear was Trump would do something stupid because he thought the whole thing was stupid and wanted to move on.

The whole thing has been nothing but a perjury (impeachment) trap.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 07, 2017 01:46 PM (oVJmc)

111 The personalized animosity and insanity toward Pres. Trump is just amazing. I mean, it was bad with W but it's gone to a whole new level
=================
Oh yeah, well then, who was PHONE!!!!111

Posted by: the post at June 07, 2017 01:46 PM (xVRrG)

112 Trump gets elected. So how did the "news" spend 18 months missing the biggest "news" story of the last 40 years? Is anyone asking this question, or are we full into the "pretending it didn't happen" phase.

Posted by: Mega at June 07, 2017 01:46 PM (DKlbL)

113 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fart Leader at June 07, 2017 01:45 PM (Nwg0u)

That's great; I may use it for a whiteboard sign, if you'll allow me?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 01:46 PM (qES5k)

114
And so now we are here where everything hands on Comey all because Trump said something stupid.

Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 01:43 PM (hVd7x)

Thank you for your concerns, Mr. Helper. I haven't heard that "Trump says stupid things" meme for at least five minutes.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (hLRSq)

115 According to anonymous sources within the military who viewed memos of unnamed senior officers at an undisclosed based, there are unconfirmed reports that the next aircraft carrier will be named the USS Covfefe.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (4AVeu)

116
Another dead end for the MFM. I heard that clown Clapper say that the Russian thing is bigger than Watergate. The MFM will run with that for weeks

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (493sH)

117 The Echo Chamber is at work on a lot of this.

Someone like ValJar or Rhodes comes up with an idea damaging to Trump. e.g. "Comey was going to ask for more resources to investitage RussiaGate." The story gets planted with two or more sources. Reporters call the sources and get corroboration because the sources say the same thing.

On some stories they've gone to single sources. Like someone reading a purported Comey memo. And even anonymous poison pen letters.

When you do this enough, you can have multiple stories coming from just a handful of sources. You also have people like Rhodes and senior editors co-ordinating this.
Because it often involves classified material, prove these facts and you have serious criminal charges. Including against the likes of The Times and WaPo.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (+7/1f)

118 It's like "Fitzmas" all over again!

(When the far left pinned all hopes on Patrick Fitzgerald "frog marching" Karl Rove... only to be left limp)

Posted by: wooga at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (3I7wr)

119 1. Hillary's campaign was deader than three day old rotten fish when she got the nomination because she was unlikeable (and she doubles down on that with the deplorables comment) and she did not campaign well. She was obviously ill, both mentally and physically, and was unable to bring either wit or energy to the fight. Coughing and fainting fits do not inspire confidence, particularly when coupled with attacks of aphasia and confusion.

2. The average canary pooping on these papers has more brain power on its worst day than Hilldog has on her best.

==========

And under number 1, the sharting, don't forget the sharting.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (xVRrG)

120 The Trump-Russia fantasy will never stop being used by the Progressives as long as Trump and Pence are in office. The best result we can expect from Mueller and the House/Senate investigations is: We did not find evidence of Trump-Russian collusion. And the Progressive response will be: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Trump has been put in the position of doing the near-impossible: Proving the negative case (I did not collude with the Russians).

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2017 01:48 PM (AMIL/)

121 KUSHNER MARKETS LINE OF RUSSIAN SALAD DRESSING, VIOLATES PERFECTLY CROMULENTS CLAUSE! IMPEACH AT 11!

Posted by: Hikaru at June 07, 2017 01:48 PM (9TK8E)

122 Regarding the Washington Post, the paper went bat shit crazy when Bezos took over. It was always liberal, but it was a more "respectable" liberal paper.

Now it's like the Huffington Post.

Which makes me think Bezos is behind the "new" Washington Post and maybe Trump needs to go after Amazon for things like having a monopoly.

I tend to think these liberal oligarchs would stop dabbling in politics if they were afraid Republicans might actually go after them instead of defending them at every opportunity because they got a $2,000 campaign check.

Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 01:48 PM (hVd7x)

123 Bush Derangement Syndrome and Trump Derangement Syndrome are not unique phenomenons, or limited to only them. They are a symptom of a deeper Leftist Derangement that goes all the way to the heart of their postmodern anti-philosophy.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (X52ZZ)

124 So the "dodgy dossier" on Trump which alleged all those highly colorful episodes with the Russians, including the purported peeing hooker story, has been rumored to have come from any of several places, including that it was a 4Chan prank taken seriously.

Just read what claims to be one of the original 4Chan pranksters who asserts that the original seed of defamatory material came from Rick Wilson's son. The 4Channers then spiced it up, extended and revised, and dropped it to Egg McMuffin. McMuffin lateraled it to McCain, and McCain in turn delivered to Jim Comey. (Tinker to Evers to Chance.)

But! The 4Chan prankster then also says that at some point along the chain of custody after they gave the bogus "dossier" to McMuffin, *further* alterations and rewrites were made to it, including significantly punching up the material involving Russia.

So: who's responsible for those modifications, and why?

Posted by: torquewrench at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (ujwCG)

125 It, like Bezos, is mixed good and bad, fair and foul.

-
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fart Leader at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (Nwg0u)

126 38 Just pure speculation for a lark - what if Trump is the source of all of these leaks and he is doing it so that the press, unable to help resist the temptation, continuously beclown themselves to the point that their reputations are irretrievably ruined?

Again: This is just for fun speculation.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Order a Large Covfefe and Receive a Free Lumpy Carmgul Bat at The Outrage Outlet! at June 07, 2017 01:32 PM (hLRSq)

I think it's possible, because (time permitting) it's what I would do. Plant any number of easily falsifiable stories here there and everywhere in the Administration, especially among those who I suspect of being Red operatives. Let them burn out their back channels and crash not only their credibility, but that of the NYT and WaPo, who thereafter will never know for sure whether they're being played again or not.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (PE8W2)

127 WaPo Reporter 1 to WaPo Reporter 2: Quick! Say "Donald Trump asked Dan Coats to pressure the FBI into backing off the Flynn investigation!"

WaPo Reporter 2 to WaPo Reporter 1: Uh...Donald Trump asked Dan Coats to pressure the FBI into backing off the Flynn investigation.

WaPo Reporter 1: Perfect! Thanks!

Headline: "Unnamed Sources Say Donald Trump asked Dan Coats to pressure the FBI into backing off the Flynn investigation."

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (0mRoj)

128 >>>>>Since 1974, everyone in the WaPo newsroom has been trying to be Woodward and Bernstein all over again.

With
the romance of trying to build scoops around _seekret insider
knowledge_ rather than tedious, interminable shoe-leather collecting of
hard facts.

The advent of the Internet and social media has simply made that already bad situation even worse.
.
.
.
.When the National Enquirer scoops you on the biggest political story of the decade, you might want to check your business model.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (le7jz)

129 The personalized animosity and insanity toward Pres. Trump is just amazing. I mean, it was bad with W but it's gone to a whole new level.
Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 01:44 PM (0mRoj)

Every single outlet is telling folks over and over again that he is an insane evil dictator--comedy, Twitter, the Lamestream Media, Hollywood, academia, and so on and so forth--BECAUSE HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO WIN AND HE MADE THEM LOOK EVEN MORE STUPID THAN THEY ARE. It's a self perpetuating frenzy of bile, hate, and untruths. Nothing good can come from it.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (kXoT0)

130 I've said it before, but if the average American handled the Second Amendment as badly as any media outlet handled the First, rifles would be easier to find in Antarctica than in Alabama.

Posted by: trev006 at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (LjVLD)

131 106 What is the Washington Post's favorite song?

I Heard It Through the Grapevine.

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen

Posted by: wooga at June 07, 2017 01:49 PM (3I7wr)

132 107 Thou shalt not bear false witness.

___________________________________

I thought it was "Thou shalt not witness bare falsies."

Posted by: Archie Bunker, 704 Hauser Street, Queens, NY at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (4AVeu)

133 Nothing hangs on comey because he has nothing to hang with and, and I'll bet President Trump has the recordings to back this up.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (d76uN)

134 46 The Democrats keep saying that Comey's testimony tomorrow will be like the "Super Bowl". They are almost giddy in their subversive behavior which will be shown to have no basis in fact.

I stayed to someone it will be the super bowl alright, with the Democrats playing Denver in Super Bowl XXIV.
Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 01:34 PM (sNAef)

More like Denver in Super Bowl XXII right after Dan Dierdorff mentioned that no team has ever come back from a 10 pt deficit in the Super Bowl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa-eryLtKP0

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper singing Hail To The REDSKINS at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (1JnAL)

135 The political left didn't like Reagan very much either.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (m9X4Y)

136 Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 01:48 PM (hVd7x)

Someone tweet the idea to Trump: Dust off the antitrust acts, and use them to go after the politically-active kleptocratic oligarchy.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (X52ZZ)

137 It's going to be great if Trump live Tweets during Comey. They should do a split screen

Comey make a statement.

Trump Tweets, "Lie!" "Sad!"

Posted by: Marcus T, Playwright at June 07, 2017 01:50 PM (sNAef)

138 >>Another dead end for the MFM. I heard that clown Clapper say that the
Russian thing is bigger than Watergate. The MFM will run with that for
weeks

Gosh, why would Clapper want to change the subject?
Has anyone in the MSM asked him about how he could have contractors like Reality Winner working for him?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 01:51 PM (NOIQH)

139 Logan Act!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 01:51 PM (J+eG2)

140 That's great; I may use it for a whiteboard sign, if you'll allow me?

-
Sure

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fart Leader at June 07, 2017 01:51 PM (Nwg0u)

141 117When you do this enough, you can have multiple stories coming from just a
handful of sources. You also have people like Rhodes and senior editors
co-ordinating this.

Because it often involves classified material, prove these facts and
you have serious criminal charges. Including against the likes of The
Times and WaPo>>>

So the Media is Playing the Telephone game or now will be Known as Russian whispers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (r5KeJ)

142 So where does the National Laughingstock rate on the Kohn scale? milli, kilo, mega?

Posted by: Iblis at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (9221z)

143 The political left didn't like Reagan very much either.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator

But it took the Clinton Crime Syndicate, post-Reagan, to dial it up to '11'.

Posted by: Leftist 'F' Student at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (HTdUD)

144
What is the Washington Post's favorite song?

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (lKyWE)

145 So where does the National Laughingstock rate on the Kohn scale? milli, kilo, mega?
Posted by: Iblis at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (9221z)

Sally

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (3OIiX)

146 .When the National Enquirer scoops you on the biggest political story of the decade, you might want to check your business model.
===
that really was surreal. Might have been the inflection point, looking back on it.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (xVRrG)

147 >>What is the Washington Post's favorite song?

Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry"

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (NOIQH)

148 "When the National Enquirer scoops you on the biggest political story of the decade, you might want to check your business model."

My working theory on why MSM ignored the story of John Edwards two-headed love child was that they wanted Edwards to hang in the race because he drafted a lot more voters away from Hillary than he did from Obama.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (+7/1f)

149 What is the Washington Post's favorite song?

Lies, lies, lies yeah
They're gonna getcha

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (ul9CR)

150 Someone tweet the idea to Trump: Dust off the antitrust acts, and use them to go after the politically-active kleptocratic oligarchy.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party

++++++

I really think they should, but I'm sure TruCons would flip out.

I guarantee you if the DOJ went after companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, you'd see a lot more "neutral" politics coming out of them instead of being extensions of the Democrat Party.

These companies are essentially trying to carry out a coup.

Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (hVd7x)

151 So where does the National Laughingstock rate on the Kohn scale? milli, kilo, mega?
Posted by: Iblis at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (9221z)

Sally
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

10 Courics

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (PCof0)

152 looking forward to Comey's turn as quarterback for the Falcons

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at June 07, 2017 01:54 PM (v8zB8)

153 134 46 The Democrats keep saying that Comey's testimony tomorrow will be like the "Super Bowl". They are almost giddy in their subversive behavior which will be shown to have no basis in fact.
______________________________________

CNN is running a countdown clock for Comey's scheduled appearance.

A countdown clock.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 07, 2017 01:54 PM (4AVeu)

154 BTW, I want to send a shout out to congratulate the Sooner's Women's Softball Team on their back to back National Championships! Four titles in total for those women!

Boomer Sooner.

I want to blast the ESPN commentators for sitting there in dumb silence--dopes, you prepare for both teams to win, not just the one from your preferred conference.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 01:54 PM (kXoT0)

155

Flynn was in 32 years. Trump asked if maybe they could let it go after he was canned

Thats the crime. The stupid thing he said

Posted by: ThunderB at June 07, 2017 01:54 PM (BcLMl)

156 118 It's like "Fitzmas" all over again!

(When the far left pinned all hopes on Patrick Fitzgerald "frog marching" Karl Rove... only to be left limp)
Posted by: wooga at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (3I7wr)

And all they got was Scooter Libby on perjury because Fitz was able to get a DC jury (shocker) to believe that a white GOPer was lying when he said that he couldn't recall something while he was under oath.

Posted by: Ashley Judds Puffy Scamper singing Hail To The REDSKINS at June 07, 2017 01:55 PM (1JnAL)

157 147 >>What is the Washington Post's favorite song?
________________________________

Dream Weaver.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 07, 2017 01:55 PM (4AVeu)

158 So the Media is Playing the Telephone game or now will be Known as Russian whispers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (r5KeJ)

This just in: The latest scoop on Trump:

Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

What sordid deeds does this entail? Stay tuned until day 17 of our 24 hour coverage.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:55 PM (X52ZZ)

159 "A countdown clock. "

Will there be an earth shattering KA-BOOM?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 01:55 PM (J+eG2)

160 This just in, Donald Trump created black hole to swallow Flynn investigation.

Posted by: Don Lemon at June 07, 2017 01:56 PM (xVRrG)

161 151
So where does the National Laughingstock rate on the Kohn scale? milli, kilo, mega?

Posted by: Iblis at June 07, 2017 01:52 PM (9221z)

Sally

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

10 Courics

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2017 01:53 PM (PCof0)

2 Brian Williams

Posted by: Brian Williams at June 07, 2017 01:56 PM (jxbfJ)

162 Comey waffles
says nothing

no KA-boom

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 01:56 PM (m9X4Y)

163 Comey's still on the horns of a dilemma. It may no longer be his job to make a legal judgment about the facts, but it was at the time. If he thought it was obstruction, he was duty-bound to do something about it. He didn't, ergo he mustn't have thought it was obstruction.

Comey has been playing both sides for a long time now. His only interest is James Comey. He only did his infamous press release to cover his own ass. Wouldn't have happened if Bill hadn't been caught on the tarmac, forcing Loretta to kick it over to Comey.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (+7/1f)

164 HotAir links are so cute. I clicked and saw 58 comments, that's less than we'll have in snarky o/t banter. (like this one.)

TDS is getting tedious though, it's a schtick that is becoming stale and predictable, but don't tell the left, I want to see them pay dearly for this.

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (UmSfZ)

165 Comey's prepared remarks have been released. Spolier: Nothing big in there.

Posted by: Fortunato at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (44OyV)

166 BTW, I want to send a shout out to congratulate the Sooner's Women's Softball Team on their back to back National Championships! Four titles in total for those women!

Boomer Sooner.

I want to blast the ESPN commentators for sitting there in dumb silence--dopes, you prepare for both teams to win, not just the one from your preferred conference.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil

We Texans trade jabs with Okies all day long. But it's like cousins wrasslin. Let someone from the outside step in & ...

That said, a truly heartfelt congratulation to the Lady Sooners on their win. Way to go!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (PCof0)

167 There are a LOT of progs and libs at the big corps. And yes, some of them are hot to push their social justice agenda.

But mostly, the companies want to make money. So their lobbying efforts and attempts at influence, et al are mostly focused on that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (3OIiX)

168 1 Live by the unnamed source, die by the direct testimony of the guy you tried to diss.

---

Don't the ethics of journalism now require them to burn their unnamed sources?

Posted by: Moochelle at June 07, 2017 01:58 PM (vChNs)

169 Purple Monkey Dishwasher.

What sordid deeds does this entail? Stay tuned until day 17 of our 24 hour coverage.
Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at June 07, 2017 01:55 PM (X52ZZ)

"We are getting anonymous tips within the white house "Purple Monks sing with her." This can only refer to the bizarre religious practices of Melania. Let us all take a minute to harken back when a women of real grace and poise was the First Lady. Michelle Obama will surely be missed."

-CNN, probably.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 07, 2017 01:58 PM (KUaJL)

170 Comey waffles
says nothing

no KA-boom

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 01:56 PM (m9X4Y)

Not if you listen to CNN....

Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2017 01:58 PM (7uYFy)

171 Posted by: Ignoramus at June 07, 2017 01:47 PM (+7/1f)
-------

You really think they are investigating and talking to "sources"?

LOL no.

Here's how it works - Valerie Jarrett sends the story they are to print over a secure channel. They add a byline and print. Just like the last eight years.

Posted by: Mega at June 07, 2017 01:59 PM (DKlbL)

172 Well, I, for one, want them to keep letting Hillary come to all their get togethers to sit there in front of the cameras and with wild eyes and dramatic gestures ramble on incoherently about all the components of the conspiracy that led to:

Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 01:59 PM (kXoT0)

173 'Don't the ethics of journalism now require them to burn their unnamed sources?"

You would think that they would publicly identify any source which has been proven by testimony to be a bull shittting liar.

Just so that other organizations would be warned.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (J+eG2)

174 sometimes, they send the story to Jarrett and she 'corrects' it.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (xVRrG)

175 Looks like some of Comey's testimony tomorrow has already been leaked. FBN talking about Trump's request for loyalty from Comey and others.

It seems it's only going to feed the frenzy.

Posted by: Soona at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (6yCLd)

176 BREAKING NEWS: WHITE HOUSE CHEF MAKES STROGANOFF!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fart Leader at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (Nwg0u)

177 Comey's prepared remarks have been released. Spolier: Nothing big in there.
Posted by: Fortunato at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (44OyV)

But CNN is having a complete nervous breakdown and Toobin says there's clearly obstruction of justice."

Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (7uYFy)

178 "We Texans trade jabs with Okies all day long. But it's like cousins wrasslin."

That's more an Arkansas thing

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (v8zB8)

179 It's going to be funny watching the left flip against Comey again after he disappoints them.

Posted by: steevy at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (rmVvL)

180 booming voiceover ad:

TODAY COMEY SAYS NOTHiNG, TUNE IN TONIGHT TO SEE OUR TEAM BREAK DOWN WHAT HE DIDN'T SAY,
THIS,
IS CNN.

Posted by: IP at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (UmSfZ)

181 It doesn't really matter what Comey says, the WaPo and Nuevo Times will print something else, they have no need to resort to truth.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (7ZVPa)

182 154 BTW, I want to send a shout out to congratulate the Sooner's Women's Softball Team on their back to back National Championships! Four titles in total for those women!

Boomer Sooner.

I want to blast the ESPN commentators for sitting there in dumb silence--dopes, you prepare for both teams to win, not just the one from your preferred conference.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now luxuriating in vast pools of winning! at June 07, 2017 01:54 PM (kXoT0)

I had some friends out at the CWS in 2015 when UVA beat Vanderbilt. They saw one of the ESPN commentators after the game and said he was pissed off that UVA won by starting a pitcher that hadn't been in the starting rotation for the whole CWS. Said it was "unfair", and "not the way the game should be played". He failed to notice that the pitcher had actually been in the regular season rotation, and by the championship game, the others in the rotation were gassed.

But, it was an ACC team winning over an SEC team, so....

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (1JnAL)

183 If democracy dies in darkness, has any figured out what socialism dies in?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (vChNs)

184 177 Comey's prepared remarks have been released. Spolier: Nothing big in there.
Posted by: Fortunato at June 07, 2017 01:57 PM (44OyV)

But CNN is having a complete nervous breakdown and Toobin says there's clearly obstruction of justice."
Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2017 02:00 PM (7uYFy)

PDT could've simply sneezed during a meeting and they'd be engaged in the same level of apoplexy.

Posted by: Insomniac, forgotten but not yet gone at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (0mRoj)

185 Trump asked if maybe they could let it go after he was canned
=====

Famous song with little girls 'Let It Go' -- how old are those grandkids again?

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (MIKMs)

186 Its obstruction of justice . . . because Hillary isn't president. Cant you see . . . are you all blind!!!111

Posted by: toobin at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (xVRrG)

187 Le NOOD.

It's here

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (J+eG2)

188 Flynn was in 32 years. Trump asked if maybe they could let it go after he was canned

Thats the crime. The stupid thing he said
Posted by: ThunderB

++++++

I agree, but had Obama said that to Comey regarding Hillary, what would you have thought about it?

Posted by: publix at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (hVd7x)

189 It's going to be funny watching the left flip against Comey again after he disappoints them.

Posted by: steevy

Oh, yeah. I've called him the most unemployable man in America right now. Who the hell would hire him?

Posted by: Leftist 'F' Student at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (HTdUD)

190 If democracy dies in darkness, has any figured out what socialism dies in?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90

--

The camps

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (7ZVPa)

191 Oh, yeah. I've called him the most unemployable man in America right now. Who the hell would hire him?
===========

We would.

Posted by: NYT at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (xVRrG)

192 So...
Comey's testimony will lead to Trump's impeachment in 2019 after the democrats take back the house?

I would have never thought that was even possible.

Looks like it's over for Trump. He might as well resign now and save the country all that grief.

Posted by: Grunionborg the Translator at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (m9X4Y)

193 It's going to be funny watching the left flip against Comey again after he disappoints them.

Posted by: steevy at June 07, 2017 02:01 PM (rmVvL)

Steven Colbert's audience: Should we cheer or boo? Someone tell us what to think, say and do!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 07, 2017 02:03 PM (493sH)

194 They are saying that Trump said to Comey, "Please stop this investigation..." and Toobin says that "If that's not obstruction of justice, I don't know what is..."

Is it? I don't hear a demand.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (7uYFy)

195 So I guess there's no way to shut down ValJar?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (qES5k)

196 183 If democracy dies in darkness, has any figured out what socialism dies in?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at June 07, 2017 02:02 PM (vChNs)

In a disguise whimpering like a little bitch?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (1JnAL)

197 176 BREAKING NEWS: WHITE HOUSE CHEF MAKES STROGANOFF!
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I was caught stroganoff by my babushka when I was a little malyshka.

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (4AVeu)

198 CNN thought 2 scoops and covefefe were impeachable. Tapper needs to resign

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (2+tI4)

199 "Oh, yeah. I've called him the most unemployable man in America right now. Who the hell would hire him?"

Can he throw better than Kapernick?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 07, 2017 02:05 PM (J+eG2)

200 195 So I guess there's no way to shut down ValJar?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 02:04 PM (qES5k)

Cut off the power to Obama's house?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper for PEPCO at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (1JnAL)

201 It's not the lack of evidence that's important, it's the vagueness of the charges.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (QQ+il)

202 PDT could've simply sneezed during a meeting and they'd be engaged in the same level of apoplexy.
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I sneezed during a meeting and wet my pants.

(hic)

Posted by: Hillary at June 07, 2017 02:06 PM (4AVeu)

203 Can someone who was watching the hearing earlier clue me in on something? Was there something that was said/not said by one of the witnesses that caused them to release Comey's remarks NOW as if to steal the spotlight from what may have happened earlier?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (7uYFy)

204 if your unreliable source burns you then you are supposed to burn the source. Unless that source is ValJar.

Posted by: simplemind at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (xVRrG)

205 If democracy dies in darkness, has any figured out what socialism dies in?
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Reality

Posted by: Mega at June 07, 2017 02:07 PM (DKlbL)

206 Reality Winner kills socialism?

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2017 02:08 PM (2+tI4)

207 BUSH... I MEAN TRUMP...

RESIIIIIIIIGN

Posted by: Keith Olberdouche at June 07, 2017 02:09 PM (DKlbL)

208 So comey is now saying he did tell Trump that he was not under investigation.

Wow the story is morphing right before my eyes.

Posted by: The Great White Scostsman at June 07, 2017 02:11 PM (le7jz)

209 >>BREAKING NEWS: WHITE HOUSE CHEF MAKES STROGANOFF!

Heh, remember the story about Trump forcing someone to eat meatloaf, maybe it was Comey?

It's his favorite - but insisting one "try the meatloaf, it's excellent!" is the height of tyranny and scandal!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2017 02:12 PM (NOIQH)

210 I left a very credible, very specific anonymous letter at the Security Guard's desk that made these accusations. How dare anyone deny my truthful anonymous scribbles!

Posted by: John "Jihad" al-Brennan at June 07, 2017 02:15 PM (ylUqT)

211
A few minutes later the President said,":I need loyalty. I expect loyalty." I didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in anyway during the awkward silence that followed, We simply looked at each other in silence.

Commentator r notes, Does come think he's writing a novel here?"It's better than Dan Brown...but still reads like fiction

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (qES5k)

212
Dear Memo,

I like you. Do you like me?

Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton

^^^ That's ME!!! ^^^

* hearts and arrows doodles *
* hearts and arrows doodles *

~~Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton~~
~~Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton~~
~~Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton~~
~~Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton~~

Gotta go put in my butt plug!

'Bye!

~~J. Edga__~~ Jimmy Comey

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 07, 2017 02:23 PM (T7bPb)

213 We looked at each other in silence before the President gripped my hand in a meaningful way with slight pressure. No words were needed but messages were exchanged.

That was my bread creative take on it. I'm sure others here could do much better;,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 02:25 PM (qES5k)

214 bread=brief.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2017 02:26 PM (qES5k)

215
A few minutes later the President said,":I need loyalty. I expect loyalty." I didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in anyway during the awkward silence that followed, We simply looked at each other in silence.

"I need loyalty -- hard, rigid and inflexible. Firm, you know? I expect loyalty -- hard, rigid and inflexible. Firm! Do you understand what I'm saying, Jimmy?" I blushed and thought of HER.

-- in-and-out uendo for sale (lowest prices anywhere!)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 07, 2017 02:33 PM (T7bPb)

216 I read this story this morning and immediately thought ... somebody is going to get fired.

This story smells like a plant to look for leaks.

You create a story, then assign different names and drop it in different places around the White House.

I used to know a guy who used this technique on his resume to see where he sent it come have it come back in a different place. He was shocked once to find out it was the HR department of the company he had just joined.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at June 07, 2017 02:35 PM (75C2c)

217 ...and around and around we go. When do ya think The Washington Post will have to be sold in the checkout line right next to the National Enquirer?

This whole thing is starting to seem like an Amon Duul album, with tons of dramatic twists and turns, but in the end, really going nowhere...

Posted by: The Lonebadger at June 07, 2017 02:37 PM (0PPlf)

218 Yeah, but what version of this story will the general public remember?

This is the MSM's strategy: publish so many damning stories about Trump, new (fake) scandals every day, that people can't keep track of which ones end up to be false.

It's creating an overall narrative of Trump's behavior, fake story brick by brick. Even if one story is known to be false, the intended response is to be, "Yeah, but we know he was doing this with other people, so...guilty!!"
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I see it completely differently, they've cried wolf so many times that even if DJT did something that were true many folks wouldn't even lift an eyebrow b/c "that's fake" precedent has already been established so its immediately a non-starter.

I hope that they keep it up and continuing losing the very little credibility that they have left...

Posted by: Clear-as-Mud at June 07, 2017 02:42 PM (xcA0/)

219 ... it would have taken place much earlier, especially with Trump's less-than-notable impulse control.
Just like Allahpundit's acts of public masturbation.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 07, 2017 03:01 PM (nlbfN)

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