Althouse: Knees news.

September 29, 2025

Knees news.

1. "'We will not live on our knees’: A defiant Comey mounts a video defense/The former FBI director said he is innocent..." (Politico).

2. "FBI fires agents seen kneeling in iconic photo during George Floyd protests five years ago" (CNN).

25 comments:

Aggie said...: Was he under the impression his trial will be in the court of public opinion?; 9/29/25, 1:42 PM
Kevin said...: Comey: "We will not live on our knees."

But will Soros ever let him stand up?; 9/29/25, 1:43 PM
n.n said...: Take a knee to Fentanyl. Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter. Nice.; 9/29/25, 1:44 PM
n.n said...: Take a knee to Democracy and bureaucracy. Ok, deplorable.; 9/29/25, 1:46 PM
rehajm said...: clearly he does not expect to go to prison....; 9/29/25, 1:50 PM
Leland said...: Good thing they don’t wear shorts.; 9/29/25, 1:50 PM
Meade said...: Cool knee formation on your beach walk, Comey!; 9/29/25, 1:51 PM
tim maguire said...: Somebody needs to teach the CNN headline writer what the word "iconic" means.; 9/29/25, 1:54 PM
Kai Akker said...: Alas, #1, he wins in all likelihood.

But #2, USA wins. More winning like that please!; 9/29/25, 1:55 PM
Goldenpause said...: Has Comey set up a GoFundMe page for his legal defense fund yet or are the usual hard left deep pockets going to pick up the tab?; 9/29/25, 1:58 PM
john mosby said...: tim maguire: "Somebody needs to teach the CNN headline writer what the word "iconic" means."

Well, kneeling = veneration = what you do with an icon. So almost accurate. CC, JSM; 9/29/25, 2:00 PM
rehajm said...: The whole thing is odd, a clip of the saying It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees Clipped it sounds odd, obtuse and sexually creepy in its connotations...; 9/29/25, 2:01 PM
tcrosse said...: I forget in which book one character says it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. The other says, no, it's better to live on your feet than to die on you knees.; 9/29/25, 2:03 PM
Jersey Fled said...: “ clearly he does not expect to go to prison....”

Or maybe he does. He seems to acting like a desperate man to me.; 9/29/25, 2:08 PM
rehajm said...: ...this is the obligatory 'Trump that old meanie' statement. If it makes it to trial we don't get flag to flag coverage on the cables, they toil behind the scenes so we don't highlight the fact he's guilty as Hell, then he walks...triumphantly for him but not for justice...; 9/29/25, 2:16 PM
Breezy said...: Such a bizarre take. He’s forced others to live on their knees. He’s a whack job. And arrogant as hell.; 9/29/25, 2:19 PM
dbp said...: I can't opine on the strength of the case against Comey, but from the poetic justice side, there's hardly anyone who deserves to be punished for a process crime than Comey.
His agents convinced Martha Stuart that if she traded on information about a company in which she was not an officer, that would be a crime, it's not. Then he prosecuted her for misleading agents. If Comey misled or lied, he should be held to at least the same standard he enforced when he was entrusted with power.; 9/29/25, 2:46 PM
hombre said...: Comey is many things. “Innocent” is not among them.; 9/29/25, 2:49 PM
gadfly said...: James Comey has retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (a friend and colleague) as one of his personal attorneys for the upcoming EDVA trial. "Fitz", as he is called, is none other than the infamous Special Prosecutor who nabbed Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, "Scooter "Libby, for his role in the Valerie Plame affair. Never mind that Richard Armitage, a former Deputy Secretary of State, admitted that he was the initial and primary source for journalist Robert Novak's column in 2003 that exposed Valerie Plame as a covert CIA officer.; 9/29/25, 2:50 PM
Aggie said...: I'm not so sure that claiming Scooter Libby's scalp is quite the 'own' you think it is.; 9/29/25, 2:54 PM
Joe Bar said...: tcrosse said...
"I forget in which book one character says it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. The other says, no, it's better to live on your feet than to die on you knees."

Catch 22?; 9/29/25, 2:55 PM
gadfly said...: dbp: Martha Stuart is a very rich and famous entrepreneur, totally capable of defending herself using the best lawyers available. But she was found guilty by a jury. Those who investigate and prosecute cannot convict.; 9/29/25, 3:04 PM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: is that a dig at Kumalot Harris?; 9/29/25, 3:05 PM
Iman said...: “former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald” can fuck right off alongside his buddy Andy McCarthy.; 9/29/25, 3:15 PM
gadfly said...: Aggie said...
I'm not so sure that claiming Scooter Libby's scalp is quite the 'own' you think it is.

Huh! I never said or implied anything when I was describing who Patrick Fitzgerald is and why he is famous.

Perhaps you also didn't know that George W. Bush commuted Libby's sentence, and The Don pardoned him.; 9/29/25, 3:17 PM