Why are you treating the notion that Trump is punishing Brennan for being a critic as factual? There is no factual or journalistically valid basis for that claim. Do you really think Brennan didn’t do anything you would want him fired for, if all his acts at the CIA were known?
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I've called for his firing (or non-confirmation) on numerous occasions. But Trump has already explicitly said this was about Russia criticism, which, as a private citizen, Brennan is perfectly entitled to engage in.
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One of the things that gets me is how willing the left is to take Trump’s words at face value precisely when they obviously shouldn’t, while calling him an abject liar etc.
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They do so, in my experience, when Trump's words coincide with his overt actions, as is the case here.
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In my experience, it has a whole lot more to do with whether the words can be made to jive with what the left wants to believe or not. This is probably statistically verifiable: count every time a journalist takes Trump at face value versus questions his veracity.
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we're both saying the same thing. Me: When Trump's over actions and other facts coincide with his words, believe his words. You: The left believes Trump's words when it coincides with their beliefs. They're both true bc the left adheres to facts more than the right.
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The left doesn’t adhere to facts more than the right in 2018. Maybe in 2008 that was true, but not today. It wasn’t Fox telling their viewers that it’s illegal for them to read Wikileaks, for example.
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Uhm, Comey comes to mind.
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Yeah, but that wasn't about criticism, but about impeding an investigation. Lots of relatively nameless bureaucrats in various agencies, especially EPA and NASA, though? They were fired for being critics.
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Ah, I get the distinction now. (Though I guess it all sends the same message - "do my bidding or I will find a way to punish you.")
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Agree.
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