'News Gelding' Is One Of The Best Quips I've Read This Week

The most amazing cases involve Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, and Peter Strzok, with the latter’s story particularly nuts. The former deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division went on with MSNBC news-gelding Joe Scarborough to reassure Americans they should “absolutely… trust what the FBI is doing” because “it’s not that the FBI is targeting any one side or the other.” This, from a guy who headed the Trump-Russia “Crossfire Hurricane” probe and achieved fame via salacious texts with his lover (and now-MSNBC analyst) Lisa Page. In 2015 he wrote, “I just saw my first Bernie Sander [SIC] bumper sticker. Made me want to key the car… He’s an idiot like Trump...” In response to Page’s worried refrain that Trump might become president, Strzok answered, “No. No he’s not. We’ll stop it.”

These and other texts (there are a ton more) inspired Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz to testify, “We were deeply troubled by text messages… that potentially indicated… bias or improper considerations,” adding his behavior was “antithetical to the core values of the FBI.” That’s not Tucker Carlson speaking, but Michael Horowitz, someone Rush Limbaugh called a “deep stater.”

Yet here’s Scarborough yukking it up with Strzok, soliciting his opinion on the even-handedness of the FBI from a guy described by Horowitz as not only having a “biased state of mind,” but being willing to “take official action to impact the presidential candidate’s electoral prospects.” Watch Scarborough scoff at the start at people who say, “We can’t trust anything the FBI does, and look what Peter Strzok did, look what happened with… uh… just all the stuff. I can’t even remember.”