Friday, September 04, 2020

The Best Laid Plans....


I had planned to spend the day bashing Bill Barr.

Turns out he's a bigger liar than I realized.

Though why that surprises me, or anybody, is a mystery in itself.

This is something I was going to post yesterday:


“I was thinking, when I saw that interview with Wolf Blitzer, that I hope he’s at the beginning of a giant, lengthy, long, daily, all-day, all-night media tour, because when you see him — if suburban women are the problem that the Trump campaign has diagnosed, Bill Barr is never, ever, ever going to be the answer,” Wallace explained.

“He looks out of step, he looks out of place, he looks out of it, period,” she told the panel. “He has either turned out to be less smart than all the people that are afraid of him or were impressed by him at the beginning thought, or more corrupt than even his greatest critics thought he was. That interview went on to contradict the ODNI [Office of the Director of National Intelligence] and we’re going to talk about this more in the next hour, but he not only denied the existence of systemic racism. As you said, [he] talked about it as ‘a feeling.’ I mean, 70 percent of Americans share that feeling. He also denied and contradicted the ODNI on Russia’s election meddling and being in a different category of China and Iran, who simply have a preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump. He sort of went through a whole litany of things where he sounded almost exactly like Donald Trump did in that interview with Laura Ingram, where she had to stop him three times because he was so off the rails.”

I was reading about this interview and wondering "Is Barr just this stupid?  Is he just this corrupt?  Both/and?"

You could say he's a "fixer" for Trump, and he is "unserious" about "racial unrest" in America.  I prefer to be more blunt:  he's a fat, stupid racist.  He hasn't been "bent" by Trump, he's always been in that position. He's clearly as crooked as a dog's hind leg, and always has been.  He's quite comfortable that way.

Good to know it wasn't just me.  And either way, it seems sure to get him out of office in November:
Pretty clear now Barr is just that corrupt. Trump didn't "get" to him; Barr came along of his own accord, recognizing a fellow "bent" soul.  Here's another post I had prepared, with further detail on that case of 1700 fraudulent ballots, that wasn't a case at all.

The excuse?

After being asked about Chatham’s account, Kerri Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in a statement: “Prior to his interview, the Attorney General was provided a memo prepared within the Department that contained an inaccurate summary about the case which he relied upon when using the case as an example.”

Which just makes things worse because it sounds mendacious as shit (still no clue where the "1700 ballots" number came from) and it sounds like the DOJ is full of brain-dead clods who can't properly prepare a briefing memo.  What, did Barr agree to the interview 10 minutes before going to the studio?  So Barr's not responsible for the words coming out of his mouth because his staff is so incompetent?

Sure, why not?

Still sounds more like this to me:
As I said, kindred bent souls; and I wouldn't take the word of Barr's DOJ that it was raining outside.

Of course, today, even that is overshadowed by the Atlantic article.  "October surprise" came a few weeks early.
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