{"id":378366,"date":"2018-09-24T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-this-ford-an-edsel\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T06:50:04","slug":"is-this-ford-an-edsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-this-ford-an-edsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Ford an Edsel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were two compelling stories this week: The Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court and the dueling tales respecting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The latter was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/twelve_points_to_keep_in_mind_on_the_nyts_rosenstein_wear_a_wire_and_invoke_25th_amendment_story.html\">brilliantly handled<\/a>\u00a0by this site\u2019s owner, Thomas Lifson, and I have little to add to his recitation of the events though I urge you to read it for a\u00a0\u00a0concise analysis of what was reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/21\/us\/politics\/rod-rosenstein-wear-wire-25th-amendment.html\">\u00a0account in the New York<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/21\/us\/politics\/rod-rosenstein-wear-wire-25th-amendment.html\">\u00a0Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>which first reported that Rosenstein had offered to wear a wire to record his conversations with the President and suggested the 25<sup>th<\/sup>Amendment\u00a0might be pursued, strikes me at first glance as Andrew McCabe\u2019s last-ditch attempt to fling poo on others when he seemed to be under threat of criminal prosecution. (It was troubling to me that, in violation of any good journalism practice, they ran it without contacting Rosenstein for his response.) In part\u00a0I was reluctant to fully credit it\u00a0because whatever you or I think of him, he always seemed too prudent to have spoken so intemperately to\u00a0a group of what is now reported to have been seven or eight other people. A\u00a0DoJ spokeswoman confirmed that\u00a0he did make some remarks along that line, but in sarcastic response to aggressive anti-Trump comments by other participants in the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>My online friend \u201cDaddy\u201d is not buying that, and offers up his own barbed\u00a0reasons why:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Maybe we ought to do &#8220;Rod Rosenstein&#8217;s best jokes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;It&#8217;d be a real shame if someone had to subpoena you House Intel staffers to testify under Oath. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, just kidding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Hey, maybe I could wear a wire when I talk with Trump and he&#8217;ll say something so nutty we can get him institutionalized in the nut House. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, just kidding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;So just for kicks I wrote this Memo telling Trump why Comey should be fired&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/09\/no_author\/is-this-ford-an-edsel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were two compelling stories this week: The Kavanaugh confirmation to the Supreme Court and the dueling tales respecting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The latter was\u00a0brilliantly handled\u00a0by this site\u2019s owner, Thomas Lifson, and I have little to add to his recitation of the events though I urge you to read it for a\u00a0\u00a0concise analysis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}