February 22, 2019

Andrew McCabe, the Justice Department’s Jussie Smollett

Just like his boss and hero former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has written a Trump-trashing book. And like Comey, he’s getting hours and hours of airtime to sell laughable notions, like the idea that the FBI has been utterly nonpartisan.

Just like his boss and hero former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe has written a Trump-trashing book. And like Comey, he’s getting hours and hours of airtime to sell laughable notions, like the idea that the FBI has been utterly nonpartisan.

This man will say anything. Truth means nothing. He’s worse than Comey. It barely matters to his interviewers that he was fired from the top of the FBI for … allegedly lying his face off to the FBI. The Justice Department inspector general, Michael Horowitz — appointed by former President Barack Obama, not President Trump — charged McCabe with lying three times under oath about having leaked to the newspapers, and not for a national security reason, just to make himself look good. While the media relish the idea of jail time for Trump aides caught lying to investigators, this man gets a red carpet and a pat on the back.

McCabe’s book tour has created headlines like this, from a CNN interview: “McCabe: It’s Possible Trump Is a Russian Asset.” Let’s be blunt. This is as credible as birtherism. It’s exactly as responsible and reliable as broadcasting a headline that says, “Trump: It’s Possible Obama Was Born in Kenya.” McCabe is the Jussie Smollett of the Justice Department.

McCabe’s publisher, St. Martin’s Press, is reaping a bonanza of book advertising. Thirty minutes on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” 15 minutes on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” 24 minutes on ABC’s “The View,” an hour on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” 30 minutes on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” 40 minutes on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell,” 20 minutes on CBS’ “Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” Then more MSNBC: On Feb. 20 alone, he had 40 minutes on “Morning Joe,” another 40 minutes on “Deadline: White House” and then 20 minutes on “All In with Chris Hayes.” Then came the “PBS NewsHour.”

There’s an obvious term for a media that offers a shameless partisan liar this much free advertising/mudslinging. It’s the “Opposition Party.”

McCabe despises Trump. The press (and Hollywood) despises Trump. The media love McCabe. Most of these journalists have presented McCabe as nonpartisan and skipped asking (or even reporting) about how his wife, Jill McCabe, ran for the Virginia state Senate as a Democrat in 2015, and how Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe directed almost $500,000 in PAC money to her campaign. This created an obvious conflict of interest if McCabe was later working on the Hillary Clinton email probe. The media forced then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the Russia probe, but McCabe never recused. It was never an issue.

The toughest pushback on McCabe’s lying came from … Meghan McCain on “The View.” She said to his face: “I don’t believe you’re a reliable narrator. And I’m not convinced this not just some kind of PR campaign to stop yourself from getting indicted. You were fired at the recommendation of the FBI.” Republican members of Congress like Rep. Jim Jordan have sounded this same alarm — including new charges of lying — but their objections aren’t included in the gushy interviews.

McCabe’s lying under oath also drew several minutes on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and even then, NPR cut the interview into two segments and eagerly promoted the other half — the Trump-and-Russia half.

Most interviewers flunked. “60 Minutes” and “Morning Joe” strenuously made excuses for lying under oath. Anderson Cooper arrived on the subject only as the interview wrapped up. NPR “Fresh Air” host Terry Gross tossed one perfunctory question. MSNBC’s Lawrence O'Donnell and Nicolle Wallace didn’t ask a single question about it over their 40-minute interviews.

Unsurprisingly, comedian Stephen Colbert did worse than avoid the question. As he asked McCabe to grade the press on their Trump-scandal coverage, he joked with McCabe that he was “under oath right now.” Those words mean nothing to McCabe. That’s why he smirked.

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