https://twitter.com/Me_In_Jersey/status/793132098374737920
Count Joy Reid among the many liberals who suddenly find themselves righteously indignant over James Comey and the FBI’s renewed interest in Hillary Clinton’s emails. Today, Reid’s taken her indignation to Twitter to explain how this whole mess is really all the Republicans’ fault:
Having established the ugly precedent of confirming details, and releasing parts of its investigation related to a presidential candidate…
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
James Comey's FBI continues to *not confirm the investigation into the other major candidate, for something far worse…
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Top aides with ties to Russia, and Russian hacking operations. That's why Harry Reid and Dems are demanding balance: https://t.co/IAqFS4z2fJ
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
BC what Comey has done, wittingly or not, is to hand Trumpists the dishonest talking point of "only one candidate under FBI investigation."
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
That’s quite an about-face for Reid, as The Federalist’s Sean Davis found when he dug up some earlier tweets of hers:
A very good, and sober accounting of the emails story, and James Comey's nonpartisan seriousness of purpose. https://t.co/eREEajxq2w
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 31, 2016
Comey is the guy who stopped the Bush White House from strong-arming an incapacitated man to back warrentless spying https://t.co/CsL7lfdRI3
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 5, 2016
Comey's also the guy who gave this pretty remarkable speech on race and policing from a law enforcement leader: https://t.co/JgcdIODQcy
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 5, 2016
Comey is no hack. There are things to easily disagree with him on (fed iPhone hacking, the so-called "Ferguson effect," but he's no hack.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 5, 2016
We will definitely talk more about that tomorrow. Comey has tarnished the FBI, but Republicans have, in a sense, tarnished Comey, no?
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 29, 2016
Beyond the unprecedented and anti-protocol actions of James Comey, congressional Republicans use of the FBI for politics is also alarming.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 29, 2016
1 of them is James Comey, a rare hero of the bush era @JasonLeopold 2 Bush officials in running to be next head of FBI http://apne.ws/epPuXb
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 20, 2011
Comey is being as blunt and forward leaning on race as I've ever heard someone in law enforcement be, besides Eric Holder himself.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) February 12, 2015
Wow.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/793131112914706432
You think the Comey takes are amazing? Wait’ll you see what else Reid’s got to say:
A bald falsehood which Sarah Huckabee just deployed on CNN with remarkable alacrity, to the grim silence of her interviewers.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Most importantly, though, is the boldness with which Republicans have criminalized politics in this country, going back 30 years.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
The GOP has developed an almost third world attitude toward the presidency: if they can't have it, they will seek to destroy whoever does.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Let’s stop there for a moment:
Yeah, because I'm sure democrats will be lining up to work with President Trump if he wins. Good call. https://t.co/wc6BK5sTP2
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) October 31, 2016
OK, where were we?
This is the essence of authoritarianism. They have drafted the FBI, likely against the agency's will, into this criminalized politics.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
John Dean is right when he calls this crass kind of politics more Nixonian than even Nixon.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
The stories of extreme pressure being put on the FBI by Republicans to produce a Clinton indictment reminds me of what Cheney & Co did …
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
…to the Pentagon, demanding they manufacture a case against Saddam Hussen so Cheney et.al. could have their war.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
And yet when Democrats regained power, they didn't seek to jail Cheney, Wolfowitz, Feith et.al. for lying to Congress, cooking intel etc.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
No, the Democrats totally rose above petty stuff like that.
Nah, they just sent the IRS after conservative groups. https://t.co/Xh59TjUN8h
— Senate Popular VotEEE (@EEElverhoy) October 31, 2016
Don’t stop now, Joy. You’re on a roll:
Say what you want about Democrats, but they don't play politics that way.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Hold on … can we see that again?
Say what you want about Democrats, but they don't play politics that way.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Oh, Joy. Bless your heart!
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/793125023452131328
She’s adorable, isn’t she?
The GOP says it will accept the election results but they never do. At this moment, they're probably starting their impeachment paperwork. https://t.co/jJwa6tEzQx
— BRAD (@PassTheBrad) October 31, 2016
Indeed. They will spend their time trying to hound her out of the White House, obstructing the operation of government, and not governing. https://t.co/18alN0Vg6s
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Can the cookie cutter FBI deflection quote "We cannot comment on an ongoing investigation" be taken seriously now?
— Barbershop Politics™ (@knowpoliticsnow) October 31, 2016
No, it cannot. Not ever again. https://t.co/BlNyDa4H2p
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
The scary truth is, there are some of our fellow Americans who would be comfortable with a system where political opponents were jailed.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Americans have this conceit that we are immune to authoritarianism. But mobocracy is a part of this country's history, too. https://t.co/6MayfO8sfm
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Not even Nixon was jailed. Carter never entertained the thought.
— Bijan C. Bayne (@bijancbayne) October 31, 2016
Exactly. And Ford destroyed his own presidency in order to pardon him. https://t.co/Pv90nv2QfL
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Dems never get THE CHANCE to play those politics. GOP always set so many fires on the way out, TRIAGE means no time for revenge. @JoyAnnReid
— ???? Only4RM ???? (@Only4RM) October 31, 2016
Agree on that, but I also think there's something in Democrats' political DNA that is accommodationalist. Perhaps their demo/geog breadth. https://t.co/o9SR38bEsS
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
Yes. And Dems are naturally the *real mother* in the Solomon tale while GOP keep showing us, they're fine w/ splitting the baby. @JoyAnnReid
— ???? Only4RM ???? (@Only4RM) October 31, 2016
Amen. https://t.co/tywmJpnLeY
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
It's in their nature, period, to seek compromise and common ground. It's woven into Democrats' psychology, generally.
— Steve 949 (@steve_949) October 31, 2016
Liberals generally wrestle constantly with self & dogmatic doubt, where conservatives are imbued with self-belief and faith in authority. https://t.co/dhsi3mSYp9
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) October 31, 2016
‘Fraid we’re gonna have to leave it at that. We’re laughing way too hard to say anything else.
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