James Comey

MSNBC's Capehart Dismisses Comey's '8647'—A 'Pseudo Controversy'
On MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart dismisses former FBI Director James Comey posting a photo of 8647, which can be interpreted as a call to assassinate President Trump, as a "pseudo controversy."

NewsBusters Podcast: Comey’s Seashore Seashells, Tapper’s Credibility?
NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck is back from vacation and joins me in discussing the liberal media’s largely muted response to disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s seashore seashells threat against President Trump. We also call out the false penance Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson were trying to perform on behalf of the liberal media to atone for not reporting on President Biden’…

ABC Skips Comey’s Post Allegedly Threatening a Trump Assassination
Late Thursday, former FBI Director and cringe, lefty D.C. Boomer James Comey posted and deleted seashells shaped into “8647” while walking on the beach that he claimed to have found interesting while not aware until later it translated to call for President Donald Trump’s assassination. But on the Friday morning network news shows, ABC’s Good Morning America was nowhere to be seen and…

FLASHBACK: Media Sniffed ‘Fascism’ After Trump Fired Comey in 2017
The media are offering wall-to-wall condemnations of President-elect Trump’s choice of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. From the NewsBusters’ archives, here’s a quick recap of how the media lost their minds the last time Trump canned one FBI director in favor of another.

The Smell of Mendacity Down in Georgia
Court decisions can sound complicated because they sometimes contain legal language that is difficult for a layperson to understand. That’s not the situation in the case of Fulton County, Georgia’s District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Judge Scott McAfee gave Willis a choice – either dump Wade, with whom she’d had a romantic relationship, as prosecutor in the case…

Obama Warns About ‘Raw Sewage’ of Disinformation — Ignores Dem Garbage
In the wake of the “Twitter Files,” let’s revisit former President Barack Obama’s warning last April about the spread of misinformation: “You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage. You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing that citizens no longer know what to believe.”

Despite 'No Evidence,' MSNBC Pushes Trump Ordered Audits Out of Office
On Wednesday, The New York Times via Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt published a fairly weak article suggesting former President Trump had ordered the IRS to conduct audits of former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Despite the blatant inconstancies and admitting there’s “no evidence,” the liberal media’s ‘it rings true’ barometer carried the day on…

Dirty Tricks: The Sequel
“Dirty tricks” was a term used to describe the behavior of operatives within the Nixon administration to smear the reputations of opponents and undermine the appeal of certain politicians. Fifty years ago, these dirty tricks included a false allegation that Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA.) had fathered an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old girl and the break-in at Democratic National…

Media Hide Carter Page Suing FBI Over Russia Probe
Since news broke over last weekend that businessman Carter Page is suing the FBI and Justice Department for $75 million over the improper targeting him during the Russia collusion investigation, the liberal media have shown no interest in the story alleging abuse of power against the former Donald Trump campaign economic advisor. By contrast, Fox News Channel have covered the story several…
‘Deliberately Corrupt’: Nets Hide Comey Getting Called Out in Hearing
During Wednesday’s Special Report, Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier predicted that the rest of the media would refuse to cover former FBI Director James Comey getting chewed out and admitting to major problems with his Russia investigation. “I guarantee you it's not getting a lot of coverage on other networks and that is the former FBI Director Jim Comey testifying on Capitol Hill…

Twisted, Outdated ‘The Comey Rule’ Targets Trump, Flynn in Part Two
In “Night One,” Showtime’s The Comey Rule was a distorted liberal fantasy of lies and made up scenes and the “Night Two” conclusion on Monday wasn’t much different. In the second episode, the biggest target was General Michael Flynn.

‘The Comey Rule’ Is Distorted Liberal Fantasy of Lies, Made Up Scenes
In what The Guardian called “the longest and most star-studded attack ad in history,” the Showtime limited series The Comey Rule is full of distortions and liberal fantasies of what they wish had really happened in the FBI investigations into Hillary Clinton’s email server and Donald Trump’s involvement with Russia.

Cover Up: Nets Punt on Bombshell FBI Texts, Steele Dossier Revelations
To no one’s surprise, the top morning and evening broadcast network newscasts have yet to utter a word about either of the week’s two major bombshell’s in how the FBI went about its spying of the Trump campaign and Operation Crossfire Hurricane. With one pertaining to text messages from FBI agents and the other about a key Steele dossier source having been investigated as a possible Russian…
CBS’s Brennan Proves to Be Dem Party Pugilist: GOP Fine With Death
After omitting Susan B. Anthony from her Sunday Morning segment on the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, CBS host Margaret Brennan was in a fighting mood later on Face the Nation. Between smearing Republicans as being totally fine with 170,000 COVID deaths and assailing disgraced former FBI Director James Comey on behalf of the Democratic Party, Brennan was…