James Comey

Networks Punt on Bret Baier’s Fox News Interview of James Comey
April 27th, 2018 1:54 PM
In what should sadly be to the shock of no one, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all refused on Friday morning to cover the hard-hitting but fair Fox News Channel interview of new author and former FBI Director James Comey by Special Report host Bret Baier.

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Tour De Force: Bret Baier Grills James Comey in Epic Interview
April 26th, 2018 9:11 PM
Former FBI Director and new author James Comey has spent the past 12 days on his book tour promoting A Higher Loyalty, the supposed greatness of Comey himself and the lack thereof on the part of President Trump. However, no prior interview compared to his Thursday hit on the Fox News Channel’s Special Report as host Bret Baier offered a masterfully tough tour de force akin to interviews of…

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CNN Stacks Comey Town Hall Audience Questions 2:1 Against Trump
April 25th, 2018 11:29 PM
CNN’s major primetime event on Wednesday night was their town hall featuring former FBI Director James Comey taking questions from the students, faculty, and staff at the College of William and Mary (his alma mater). Being a town hall-style event, the evening was filled to the brim with questions, a majority of which were asked by moderator Anderson Cooper. But when it came to the questions asked…

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CNN's Toobin Has Sad News for James Comey on Leaked Memos
April 24th, 2018 9:22 AM
If CNN's Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin has bad news for former FBI Director James Comey you know it has to be real bad. Toobin delivered his bad news about Comey's leaked memos on Monday's The Lead which was hosted by Jim Sciutto. The news that Toobin presented might be enough for Comey to break out his worry beads: he placed himself in a "pretty vulnerable position" by leaking them.

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Former AG: Comey Memos Were Classified; Hillary Cleared to Spare Obama
April 23rd, 2018 7:40 PM
Laura Ingraham interviewed Former Attorney General and former federal District Judge Michael Mukasey on her Friday Ingraham Angle show. Mukasey reminded viewers, contrary to assertions made by most other so-called experts, that memos and notes prepared by former FBI Director James Comey while he performed his federal duties "were classified as soon as he wrote them." He also recalled that James…

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CNN’s Chris Cuomo Accuses GOP Guest of Engaging in ‘Ugly Politics’
April 23rd, 2018 6:39 PM
CNN's pompous New Day co-host Chris Cuomo kicked off the new week by hammered Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan, pathetically accusing the GOP official of taking part in “ugly politics” and claiming that he and his fellow Republicans are guilty of “selective outrage” depending on the person or issue involved.

AP Won't Admit That Comey 'Leaked' Last Year (Instead, He 'Revealed')
April 20th, 2018 8:10 PM
Friday, the Associated Press reported that in early 2017, President Donald Trump and then-FBI Director James Comey agreed there should be a crackdown on leaks from within the administration. But the AP reporters refused to apply any form of the word "leak" to Comey's release of a memo through an intermediary to the New York Times in May 2017 — even though it did when the leak originally occurred.

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Eric Holder Howler: No Talk of 'Partisan Things' at the Justice Dept.
April 20th, 2018 2:34 PM
Former Obama attorney general Eric Holder made an incredibly sober and unfunny appearance on Comedy Central on Tuesday night's The Daily Show. Host Trevor Noah turned to the Jim Comey book, noting Comey trashed Trump, that "He's a liar, he mistreats women, he's not fit to be in office." Holder quipped back: "Well, Jim got those three things right." But what about what he got wrong?

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Nets Hype ‘Bombshell,’ ‘Infamous’ Comey Memos, Skimped on McCabe
April 20th, 2018 1:07 PM
All three networks on Friday hyped the “bombshell,” “infamous” James Comey memos released overnight. ABC, CBS and NBC devoted 12 minutes and 12 seconds to the documents with each network claiming they “obtained” them. In contrast, the same outlets skimped on coverage of the Justice Department recommending charges against the fired-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.

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Maddow Accuses Comey of Casting ‘Aspersions’ on AG Lynch’s Reputation
April 20th, 2018 12:44 AM
The second high-profile stop for former FBI Director James Comey on his book tour Thursday was MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. Just as the show began, the White House released all of the memos Comey kept on his interactions with the President to Congress (and then they leaked), so the interview was dominated by softball questions mostly stemming from those. But as the show was wrapping up, Maddow…

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‘Hardball’ Guest Laments McCabe Referral Is Diversion from Mueller
April 19th, 2018 11:21 PM
Princeton University professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude appeared to complain during Thursday’s Hardball that, along with new demands from Republican congressmen for documents from the Clinton e-mail investigation, the FBI Inspector General’s criminal referral concerning former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was part of an “assault” on Robert Mueller’s investigation.

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CNN's Brownstein: Comey Hurts Trump With White College Grads
April 19th, 2018 9:15 AM
CNN's Monday Situation Room tortured its audience with an out-of-thin-air assessment by Ron Brownstein that James Comey's book and his public visibility would hurt President Donald Trump's standing with white, college-educated voters — because they "look like" him. This is what passes for "analysis" on the formerly serious cable news network.

Comey Surprised on D.C. Radio Station by Question on Clinton E-Mails
April 18th, 2018 7:01 PM
During his ongoing tour to promote his book -- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership -- former FBI Director James Comey responded to a question on Wednesday from a reporter that he said he had never before been asked: Is the “smashing of cell phones and destruction of thousands of emails” by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016 “obstruction of justice?” The query came from…

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View’s Hostin Gushes Over ‘Unassailable’ ‘Patriot’ Comey
April 18th, 2018 5:20 PM
While token View conservative Meghan McCain on Wednesday attacked James Comey as a greedy attention seeker, fellow co-host Sunny Hostin cheered the “unassailable” ex-FBI Director as a paragon of integrity. Hostin prefaced her question by fawning: “And I have said this on the show before, when I was with the Justice Department — and I think it continues — your character was unassailable, and I…