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The Associated Press Goes Around The Bend On Comey
powerlineblog.com ^ | MAY 10, 2017 | JOHN HINDERAKER

Posted on 05/10/2017 6:52:39 PM PDT by Helicondelta

Associated Press news stories on controversial topics are generally adapted from Democratic National Committee press releases, but when the AP really wants to cut loose it labels its stories “AP Analysis.” This one, by Julie Pace, is headlined: “AP Analysis: Trump thrusts US presidency into perilous area.” Not just Trump’s presidency, but “US presidency,” to reinforce the Democrats’ absurd claim that Trump’s firing of the inept James Comey somehow represents a constitutional crisis.

Why was it so shocking? The Democrats have been demanding it for months.

This is deeply dishonest. Note that the AP doesn’t say that Trump is the first president since Nixon to fire an FBI Director. Nixon didn’t fire an FBI Director. The last president to fire an FBI Director, on far weaker grounds than Trump’s, was Bill Clinton.

Why the talk about Nixon? The word went out today from the DNC that Trump’s firing of Comey was “Nixonian”–you see that claim everywhere in the Democratic Party media–and Julie Pace is following her party’s lead.

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1 posted on 05/10/2017 6:52:39 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

SELECT POLL:
Why did Trump fire FBI Director Comey?

Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz4gjOu8Cse


2 posted on 05/10/2017 6:56:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Helicondelta

The media and the Marxists have jumped the shark.


3 posted on 05/10/2017 7:04:16 PM PDT by oldbrowser (What next shall we allow people to buy insurance coverage for their car after they wreck it?)
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To: Helicondelta

The media comparing this to Watergate is stupid. There is no comparison. Obama was a lot closer to Nixon than Trump.


4 posted on 05/10/2017 7:05:12 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them.)
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To: Helicondelta

Obama basically decapitated the government and replaced it with Marxists and Muslims, to which the media of course pays no attention. Now they whine and scream that it’s unconstitutional when another president tries to undo it.


5 posted on 05/10/2017 7:11:46 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Helicondelta
We have always opposed firing Comey.

Also, we have always been at war with Eastasia.

6 posted on 05/10/2017 7:14:49 PM PDT by TChad (Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
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To: Helicondelta

The AP has gone off the deep end lately. They make CNN and MSNBC look legit.


7 posted on 05/10/2017 7:28:21 PM PDT by McGruff (The terrorists have elected to receive.)
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To: virgil

Obama was a lot closer to Nixon than Nixon was.

The Media had blown Nixon out to be some form of monster, just as they have Trump. As it turns out, Nixon was far less of a monster than Clinton or Obama.

Trump isn’t even on the scale.

It could be argued that each Clinton and Obama committed acts of treason. I think it’s very likely McCain, Graham, and possibly Rubio did as well.

Arming and funding terrorist groups known to be sworn mortal enemies of the United States could easily qualify as treason.


8 posted on 05/10/2017 7:32:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Russia is a created excuse to cover for all the illegal spying on then candidate Trump to use by Obama and Hillary against him in the election. When Trump won, they knew the spying scandal would be exposed so they invented this Russia lie as a cover.


9 posted on 05/10/2017 7:36:40 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: McGruff

AP: “The firing of James Comey was only the first step in Trump’s plan for a new holocaust, the re-enslavement of blacks and the extermination of LGBTs in slave labor camps!”


10 posted on 05/10/2017 7:38:38 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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AP: “The firing of James Comey was only the first step in Trump’s plan for a new holocaust, the re-enslavement of blacks and the extermination of LGBTs in slave labor camps!”

They left out his plan to restart the furnaces in Mount Doom!


11 posted on 05/10/2017 7:45:26 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Helicondelta
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder


12 posted on 05/10/2017 7:51:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: Helicondelta
"Trump’s firing of the inept James Comey somehow represents a constitutional crisis. Why was it so shocking? The Democrats have been demanding it for months."


13 posted on 05/10/2017 8:05:38 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (100+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Thanks, President Trump for this great reality!)
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To: Helicondelta

I’m still trying to figure out what law has been broken or even allegedly broken and by whom. This whole thing is one big diversion to make people forget the real crimes committed by HRC and those in her orbit.


14 posted on 05/10/2017 8:06:06 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: Helicondelta

I’m still trying to figure out what law has been broken or even allegedly broken and by whom. This whole thing is one big diversion to make people forget the real crimes committed by HRC and those in her orbit.


15 posted on 05/10/2017 8:06:23 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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To: vigilence

Sorry, double post.


16 posted on 05/10/2017 8:07:30 PM PDT by vigilence (Vigilence)
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You are getting sleepy and will click here.
17 posted on 05/10/2017 8:40:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Helicondelta
This one, by Julie Pace, is headlined: “AP Analysis: Trump thrusts US presidency into perilous area.”...wow - can't wait to see Julie appear next on the Fox Special Report All-star Panel - now we know what her political analysis is worth.....
18 posted on 05/10/2017 8:43:01 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: oldbrowser
The media and the Marxists have jumped the shark.

While context is everything, I think you meant the media and other Marxists.

19 posted on 05/10/2017 8:44:13 PM PDT by stevem
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To: oldbrowser

Trump’s firing of the FBI director was Clintonian not Nixonian.


20 posted on 05/10/2017 8:48:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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