Now I'll admit I didn't catch the entire segment. I was drifting in and out of consciousness. And then my wife changed the channel from a local station giving breathless extended coverage to a one inch snow storm to the NBC affiliate. And one of the Today Show anchors, I believe it was Savannah Guthrie, was in the middle of an interview with the latest Designated Administration Liar, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
The topic of course was the forcing out of Andrew McCabe, number 2 official at the FBI, because apparently he believes in doing his job rather than protecting whatever party or person happens to be in power at the moment.
Now Guthrie began by making a valid point. If Comrade Trump is so innocent of any wrongdoing regarding the Russian probe, why has he continually gone after personally and gotten rid of, any Department of Justice or FBI official involved in the probe?
Sanders then went on a rant of how "nothing has come of" this investigation. Everyone has said no evidence of wrongdoing has been found. Guthrie let that one ride while returning to her original point.
Now I'm no journalist. But a couple of follow up questions immediately came to mind. If nothing has come of the investigation and there's nothing to it, why have there been two guilty pleas and two indictments to date. And these aren't lightweight or low ranking underlings either. We're talking about a guilty plea from the President's original National Security Advisor. And we're talking about indictments against the campaign chair of the Trump campaign. The man who was chair of the campaign during the Republican national convention.
But yeah nothing to see here. And no need to point that out to the audience at home.
At one point while Guthrie was going on about all the officials involved in the Russian investigation that Trump has either fired or had others target and oust the name of former FBI Director James Comey was mentioned. This allowed Sanders to go on a tirade against Comey. She repeated that Comey had leaked materials to reporters and was unfit to be part of the investigation and Trump was right to get rid of him. And of course that whole Comey leaked classified or sensitive materials report that Trump and Fox and Friends promoted has been debunked by fact checking organizations.
Guthrie's response was along the lines of "we'll have to leave it there. Look forward to seeing you at the State of the Union tonight"? Really? Our democracy, system of checks and balances, our Constitution are under direct assault from a foreign power, with the full cooperation of the White House and the majority party of Congress and "we'll have to leave it there?" Go ahead and drop your lies on my audience with no push back and I'll see you later?
So in case you're wondering kids why America is no longer a democracy but a banana republic dictatorship, it's because one of the institutions that was supposed to protect us, the free press, continually failed to do their jobs and let us down. Otherwise Republicans and conservative pundits might accuse them of not being fair and balanced. And they might not get invited to all the cool parties.
And something about emails.