Hillary Clinton getting creative with the truth. Okay, maybe it isn’t news, but still, the New York Times might have reported on Hillary’s latest foray into creative nonfiction, when she told Fox News that FBI Director James Comey said she had been like totally truthful about her emails. But they didn’t. And when NYT public editor Liz Spayd asked why, NYT political editor Carolyn Ryan chickplained
“It is a subject we have covered aggressively — especially how her comments compare to what the F.B.I. found — and will continue to do so.”
Well, I earlier mansplained or at least manquestioned why Mr. Comey felt that it was his job to pass judgment, not on whether Mrs. Clinton had committed a crime (and he said she hadn’t), but rather on whether she’d been a good person. Of course, Hillary was reluctant to say “It wasn’t his job to say whether I had told the truth to the public. It was his job to say whether I had told the truth to the FBI. And I had.” Which would have been true. But, of course, that’s not what she said.
Getting back to the Times, and Liz and Carolyn, Liz could have said “Gee, Carolyn, that’s a really stupid answer,” but she didn’t say that either. But at least she’s asking the right questions.
