Powerline; Former FBI Director James Comey has been a public figure for a long time, but we are only now really getting to know him. It is difficult to fathom the depth of his self-regard. He is deeply imbued with the sense of his own righteousness. He therefore played the part of a straight-talking G-Man with undiluted conviction.
No one would ever mistake him for a man with a sense of humor or irony. We learn from his Twitter feed that he may be the least self-aware man in the United States.
Martin Luther King’s fraught relationship with the FBI has long been a matter of public knowledge. David Garrow focused on this element of King’s ordeal in his ground-breaking 1981 history The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. It makes for painful reading. Garrow recounts the FBI’s surveillance of King, its use of paid informants on him, and its carefully orchestrated letter-writing campaign against him. Perhaps some day we can get Comey’s reflections on this history in the context of the bureau’s work on the 2016 presidential campaign. Comey, however, prefers to have us see him lost in reveries of “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” (tweet below).
“No one would ever mistake him for a man”
I agree. Isn’t this the same Jack Ass that dresses like drapes so he blends. Insane in the membrane.
Actually we now know that MLK was a pretty despicable human being. Liar, manipulator, poser, adulterer, deadbeat, extortionist, con artist, plagiarist who submitted a stolen archive copy of another students thesis for his PhD, screaming racist and, like Obama, a committed Commie/fellow traveler.
It was MLK who perfected the Jesse Jackson shakedown. MLK’s star and fundraising abilities were both in decline and younger more militant black leaders were already wresting Da Movemint away from Grampa Martin. He was killed just in time to avert the collapse of his carefully crafted false public image.
MLK and Obama. A generation apart, and birds of a feather.
If MLK had a son…
Before Comey came into the public sphere I knew little about him; his ties to the clintons that go way back; his career path in and out and back in to the gov’t. But when I saw him testify before various congressional committees, and especially when he stated that he leaked those notes of his meeting w/Trump to his prof friend, I was blown away by his utter belief that he was somehow singlehandedly “saving” the Republic. He became a caricature, like Dudley Do-Right or Captain America. Who really behaves like that but someone who isn’t quite put together? The entire Left suffers from a God complex.
Jim, you might want to read some Chuck Colson. Here’s some you can tweet…
“The lure of power can separate the most resolute of Christians from the true nature of Christian leadership, which is service to others. It’s difficult to stand on a pedestal and wash the feet of those below.”–Charles W. Colson, God and Government
FBI has not had a competent, honest, decent directer in 45 years! Eliminate it!
Downhill ever since Scully and Mulder left…