The breaking news of the dismissal of FBI director James Comey came as a shock, but NBC's Chuck Todd just implied on NBC that both (A) the optics are terrible, and yet (B) both parties had lost trust in Comey. Feel free to leave your comments below. Here are a few NewsBusters reminders:
Comey the Scandal: In the days right before the election, Hillary's email scandal quickly became a Comey scandal instead. In network reports, the soundbite radio of Comey critics to Hillary critics was 3 to 1 against Comey.
April Ryan compared Comey's letter to Congress in October as a scandal akin to the FBI wiretapping Martin Luther King!
The New York Times compared Comey to J. Edgar Hoover, that "some historians" compared him to Hoover feeding information of President Truman to the Thomas Dewey campaign.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting President Clinton at an airport somehow avoided these kinds of character attacks.
