Silly question
Miz Peggy to the question, “Who do you love, Donald Trump or Jim Comey . . . or the cheers of the Beltway establishment ?”
Peggy Noonan:
“James Comey’s written testimony outlining meetings with President Donald Trump was telling and damning because believable .”
“In the end Mr. Comey appears to have done himself little or no harm, but he harmed the president by documenting, again and persuasively, that Mr. Trump does not understand the norms, rules, and traditions of his job.”
“Will all this damage the president with his supporters?
“What consumes Blue America does not consume Red America.” Miss Peggy concludes…
“…photojournalist Chris Arnade reported on Twitter what he was seeing in Mountain Grove, MO…as Mr. Comey testified: He asked a middle aged man in a T-shirt if he planned to watch the hearings. …(He)said no: ‘I got a lot of yards to mow.”
“Then again, A CONSERVATIVE INTELLECTUAL (caps ours) with small town-roots wrote, during the testimony, that he thought this might be a break point, a moment when Mr. Trump’s supporters would listen close (Peggy, wouldn’t that be ‘close-LY’?) and think he’s not so much like them, and not so different from the swamp he means to drain.”
The lady ends her column, “I myself don’t know.”
It was not disclosed by Ms. Noonan if this “intellectual with small-town roots” was wearing a T-shirt.
MAYBE PEGGY HERSELF “DON’T KNOW”…BUT THERE’S SOME INPUT IN ADDITION TO THAT OF ‘T-SHIRT CLAD YARD WORKERS’ IN MOUNTAIN GROVE, MO. THAT SHE MIGHT FIND — USEFUL IN INFORMING HERSELF:
Jonathon Turley: “…he (Comey) said that he wanted to ensure the appointment of a special counsel. However on that Monday, many of us were saying that such an appointment was virtually inevitable. More importantly, he could have given the memos to investigators and properly laid the foundation for a special counsel.
“The testimony of James Comey proved long on atmospherics and short on ethics. While many were riveted by Comey’s discussion of his discomfort in meetings with President Trump, most seemed to miss the fact that Comey was describing his own conduct in strikingly unethical terms. The greatest irony is that Trump succeeded in baiting Comey to a degree that even Trump could not have imagined. After calling Comey a “showboat” and poor director, Comey proceeded to commit an unethical and unprofessional act in leaking damaging memos against Trump.”
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Howie Carr: “James Comey is a legend in his own mind.
“This hack’s ego is so overinflated it’s amazing his head could fit into the hearing room yesterday.
As he told the senators, the fired director of the FBI doesn’t want to be compared to “Captains Courageous,” after which he then modestly compared himself to St. Thomas a Becket — a martyred saint.”
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Daniel John Sobieski (American Thinker): “Lynch ordered Comey to drop the word “investigation.” Did she also order him to drop the investigation itself and take the hit for doing so? Questions still remain as to why Comey did not attend the final Clinton interview, why the interview was not recorded, why Clinton was not under oath, and why obvious follow-up questions were not asked. It would seem that Comey, perhaps at the order of Lynch, was doing everything that would benefit the Clinton campaign.”
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Newt Gingrich: “So, what we have here is a fired FBI director, who leaked private material to the press, so he could get his friend appointed as a special counsel in order to take retribution on the President – with the aid of a department full of federal lawyers who would have rather seen Hillary in the White House. And we are supposed to believe this will be an objective, unbiased investigation?”
DLH
