Remember when Bill Clinton was on the same plane as Loretta Lynch?

[Mrs. Overall]

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes

I remember basically every conservative either losing their mind or pretending to lose their mind because Bill Clinton was briefly on a plane with the Attorney General.

[Zoonart]

1. THIS X 100000

[calimary]

29. And another 100000!

Times 100,000!

[exboyfil]

2. Yep

The dissonance is shocking. A former President with no executive authority meeting with a family friend.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. It's not so much the Conservatives losing

their mind, that happened a long time ago. It was the Media harping on it insistently for days and days.

[PatSeg]

6. Exactly

And republicans are masters at this sort of thing. They know how the media will respond when they throw that crap out there.

[pandr32]

4. They should all be reminded of this

Someone on a news show should compile clips of Republicans who commented "about the optics" and with the questions and concerns they had at the time and compare that scenario to what we face now with DT or others who are in Congress supporting him.

[JHB]

5. Not even on the plane, IIRC, just on the tarmac.

[MadLinguist]

15. yeah, just the landing strip. Not a trip together

yet crucifixion ensued

[Hekate]

7. The horror, the horror

[Pepsidog]

8. Simply amazing. We need an awards show called Profiles In Hypocrisy

[DENVERPOPS]

20. WELL SAID.........N/C

[dalton99a]

9. On an airport tarmac:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/us/politics/meeting-between-bill-clinton-and-loretta-lynch-provokes-political-furor.html
Meeting Between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch Provokes Political Furor
Attorney General Loretta Lynch this week in Phoenix, where she had an encounter with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac.
By Mark Landler
June 30, 2016

WASHINGTON — An airport encounter this week between Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and former President Bill Clinton has welled into a political storm, with Republicans asserting that it compromised the Justice Department’s politically sensitive investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices while she was secretary of state.

Ms. Lynch said the meeting with Mr. Clinton was unplanned, largely social and did not touch on the email investigation. She suggested that he walked uninvited from his plane to her government plane, which were both parked on a tarmac at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

“He did come over and say hello, and speak to my husband and myself, and talk about his grandchildren and his travels and things like that,” Ms. Lynch said at a news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where she was promoting community policing. “That was the extent of that. And no discussions were held into any cases or things like that.”

That did not mollify Republican lawmakers, who said the meeting raised questions about the integrity of the government’s investigation. Since last summer, the F.B.I. has been investigating whether Mrs. Clinton or her aides violated laws on the protection of classified material by using a private email address and server in the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, N.Y.

“In light of the apparent conflicts of interest, I have called repeatedly on Attorney General Lynch to appoint a special counsel to ensure the investigation is as far from politics as possible,” Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and a member of the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement on Thursday.

Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, seized on the incident, describing it in a radio interview as a “sneak” meeting and saying it exposed the rigged nature of the process.

[HootieMcBoob]

31. The comment section is like from another world.

Everyone so worked up and distraught. Every one so critical of the Clintons and so beside themselves over the corruption.

It all looks so quaint and innocent when compared with today’s situation.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Never underestimate the selective amnesia of the American public...

[deurbano]

24. Or the priorities of American media.

[RVN VET71]

35. Yep, exactly

The GOP doesn't need FOX because the rest of the American media is there for it, and willing to do whatever it takes to knock a Liberal or Democrat. It got all over Clinton's alleged womanizing -- and understandably so because, as candidate and later president, his sexual indiscretions sold papers and TV ads. But Trump? 23 accusations of sexual assault? The media points it out on page 3 maybe 2 or 3 times and then lets it fade away into the mists of past presidential trivia. Clinton? What a scoundrel! Trump? Yeah, a bunch dames accused him so what? Happens all the time.

[Cosmocat]

33. Its a pure GD mystery

How this country relentlessly indulges republicans losing their minds over complete bullshit against democrats only to do 100 times worse.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Yes, there was a conspiracy that altered history!!

Trump and Barr? Just a Trump and Cohen replacement. Move along.

[LanternWaste]

12. The concern trolling over that incident certainly showed the true colors

of many (alleged) Democrats.

[world wide wally]

13. Republicans stick together even in crime.... We don't

And these are the results we get

[packman]

14. Let us not forget -

The Gray Poupon Scandal
The Tan Suit Faux pas
Feet on the Desk Blunder
Michelle's Bare Arms NSFW photo

Oh, the shame of it all - too much to bear

[VOX]

34. One more: the "Terrorist fist jab."

Horror of horrors!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/2008/jun/13/television.barackobama

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thinkprogress.org/fox-news-anchor-calls-the-obamas-fist-pound-a-terrorist-fist-jab-c8e702b8f7ee/amp/

[RVN VET71]

36. Thank you.

Trump was partly right when he said he could should somebody publicly, on 5th avenue, and still get support from his loyalists.

What he left out was that he could shoot somebody publicly and blame it on Obama -- and the media would launch an investigation into the facts, look into accusations from other people that Obama had mentioned guns at one time or another, and had been on 5th Avenue in NYC and was seen, some say, pointing his finger at someplace or, perhaps, a stranger -- and pointing that finger like it was a gun. Yes, and there were reports by some people that he even muttered "pyuw, pyuw," in imitation of a gun firing.

And so it goes.

[ffr]

16. Seeing how far off course the Kremlin's GOP is, I'm beginning to wonder if elections

will matter. They'll just nullify the election if they lose or tie it up in court. We'll need the equivalent of a civil war sized crowd voting this year to make it overwhelmingly clear that they lost. Then it will take months of litigation to sue them out of office they lost, then I don't know what.

They'll be backed the entire way by Putin and the Kremlin. Barr, tRump, the SCOTUS, & Mitch McConnell will just thumb their noses at the majority who voted them out, AGAIN.

It's clear they believe they can stay in power at all costs.

[malaise]

17. But but but

They are fucking hypocrites

[planetc]

18. We must remember that the Clintons are a special case. They are presumed guilty ...

and never proven innocent. For the NYTimes as well as Fox, if they could have done something wrong, they did. And an OpEd writer for the Times recently used that tarmac meeting as an example of "All politicians lie." The quality of critical thinking at the Times tanked long ago.

[FiveGoodMen]

19. It's Not Okay If You're Not Republican

INOKIYNR

[hay rick]

21. POTUS and AG in bed together so less concerning.

[Fla Dem]

22. OMG, there are so many things this dictator has done that the Republicans have turned a blind eye to

That if Clinton (Hillary or Bill)or Obama had done, they already would have been impeached, indicted and probably thrown in jail. The Republicans in office are as corrupt as they come.

I've often wondered how in the modern world, citizens allowed tyrants and dictators to over take their governments. I am now getting a front row seat to seeing just how it is accomplished.

[Baked Potato]

23. Disgustingly hypocritical

[maxsolomon]

25. got this thrown in my face on FB just this morning

he wasn't even President at the time!

"It's still interference".

[Karadeniz]

26. I hadn't thought of that...thanks for pointing it out! Gross hypocrisy!

[volstork]

27. IOKIYAAR

That is all. The rules don't apply to them. Apparently, neither do laws anymore...

[capechacon]

28. What I remember....

I remember thinking that that stupid move by Bill C.very likely cost Hillary the election. After that, Lynch felt compelled to allow Comey to basically take over public aspects of how the Hillary investigation were handled.

Comey stupidly and unnecessarily went on to go public with a non-prosecution and ruined HRC'S chances in the election.

That's what I remember.

[Ferrets are Cool]

30. Different letters being their names...different rules.

The difference between a D and an R is astounding.

[robbedvoter]

32. Not on the same plane! Met briefly on the tarmac, then went to their

respective planes. The taramc made all the ?, obviously!