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).

48 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
RCOCEAN II said...: Comey clown is defiant and wont live in fear, blahblah. My what a change from the tough guy on TV who demanded the FBI hunt down every J6 protester and give them the maximum punishment. Or guy who laughed and fantasized on TV about Trump being put in Jail.

Comey Clown wasn't against the DOJ being used as political weapon then. Without evidence he and his MSM Supporters claim Trump forced the DOJ to indict him. But either he broke the law or he didn't. No one is above the law.; 9/29/25, 3:28 PM
Leland said...: Patrick Fitzgerald is and why he is famous.

Aggie was right, otherwise you'd use the word infamous.; 9/29/25, 3:29 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Good to know the FBI agents were fired. And BTW, the politico article says FBI agents aren't trained in "crowd control", so why did Wray send hundreds of FBI agents to the J6 protest?

And weirdly, none of the FBI agents on J6 protest knelt to "Pacify the protesters". Wonder why?; 9/29/25, 3:33 PM
n.n said...: A knee or Comey nuisance? JournoListic jingoism is fraught with humor.; 9/29/25, 3:40 PM
paminwi said...: Iman, I agree completely.; 9/29/25, 3:40 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: Comey - as acting AG - appointed Fitzgerald as special counsel party because Fitzgerald was Godfather to one of his kids.

And now that's he's Clown Comey's defense attorney, there's this Fitzgerald quote from the past:

On October 28, 2005, Fitzgerald brought an indictment for five counts of false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice against Lewis "Scooter" Libby, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff. In his press conference, Fitzgerald responded to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who said "I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality".

To which Fitzgerald responded, "That talking point won't fly. The truth is the engine of our judicial system. If you compromise the truth, the whole process is lost. If we were to walk away from this, we might as well hand in our jobs."

Quite.; 9/29/25, 3:40 PM
n.n said...: Knews.; 9/29/25, 3:50 PM
Rusty said...: Jamie is our resident expert on knees.; 9/29/25, 4:01 PM
Lazarus said...: Comey is a very weird guy.; 9/29/25, 4:37 PM
Aggie said...: "...To which Fitzgerald responded, "That talking point won't fly. The truth is the engine of our judicial system....."

Yes, well... the truth was, Valerie Plame and her husband led a flamboyant, partying lifestyle where their work as spies was openly bragged about as if it were a joke - probably because it mostly was, judging by the product of their efforts. Scooter Libby revealed nothing more than widely-known gossip from the cocktail circuit. This was an attempt to dirty Cheney's and Bush's coattails, and pretty much one that fizzled in the teacup for all - except poor old Scooter.; 9/29/25, 4:37 PM
Jamie said...: Well, I am definitely not living on my knees today!; 9/29/25, 4:52 PM
wildswan said...: Wray sent 274 FBI agents to the J6 protest after it began. They were not provocateurs it is said but mostly ineffective crowd control agents. But this means that 274 trained observers were standing about on J6 with little to do but observe. So I think their after action reports should be studied and they should be asked. Did they see an insurrection?; 9/29/25, 5:30 PM
narciso said...: at the time of his appointment Fitz already knew that Miller had leaked to Armitage, but he was on team powell, so he had to keep the circus going for three years,; 9/29/25, 5:34 PM
n.n said...: The gnus knew that news was a ruse to amuse and abuse.; 9/29/25, 5:42 PM
Not Illinois Resident said...: See that Comey has retained Patrick Fitzgerald to be his defense attorney. Well good luck with that, Jim. Fitzgerald was an ineffective US prosecutor in Chicago, so unlikely he'll pull a rabbit trick for Comey - who truly belongs in Fed petitionary for a couple of years for sedition and treason.; 9/29/25, 5:57 PM
Peachy said...: Comey in a jail cell with some goons. knees.
Do not ever forget Comey's Soviet nature.; 9/29/25, 6:00 PM
narciso said...: he was on with the political officer, Hacky Psaki,; 9/29/25, 6:06 PM
narciso said...: people who actually tried to burn down Lincoln's Church, who firebombed police cars, (thats that Drake gif); 9/29/25, 6:07 PM
narciso said...: now they have the receipts.

https://x.com/prayingmedic/status/1972662870287487316; 9/29/25, 6:21 PM
Leora said...: I associate the phrase "Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" with the Black Panthers. I note that the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs attributes it to Zapata.; 9/29/25, 7:57 PM
Leora said...: It is not a slogan that accords well with Comey's backstabbing ways. It would go with resigning noisily rather than keeping your office while undermining the people you work for.; 9/29/25, 7:59 PM
Bunkypotatohead said...: Those FBI agents taking a knee for Floyd should have known better. Look what it got Derek Chauvin.; 9/29/25, 8:13 PM
mccullough said...: Comey needs a better lawyer. Get the guy who got Roger Clemens acquitted of lying to Congress.; 9/29/25, 11:19 PM