It’s abundantly clear that Fox News was given advance notice that the Pence White House was about to fire McCabe. The mistake that was made here was just that somebody jumped the gun by a few hours in posting their coverage.

To be honest, the posting of the story wasn’t the biggest problem seen at the channel over the past few days. It was bad, to be sure, but in the greater context of Fox News’ coverage this week, it was more like the icing on a rancid cake. It was frankly more distasteful to see pundit after pundit at Fox News cheerleading the notion of firing a man as an act of political revenge, with the express purpose of trying to destroy his pension. Some of the Fox News personalities actually took it a bit farther, in advocating for McCabe to somehow be thrown in jail too, for his temerity. It was interesting to see how much gleefulness Fox News showed throughout the week about finding this technicality so they could try to put a personal hurt on the man. The last time I saw that kind of approach was when Dick Cheney and Karl Rove went after Joe Wilson by trying to endanger his wife. You’d think these people would learn at some point.

It’s a guarantee that McCabe will appeal this action, given the way it was handled and given the capricious approach taken by the Pence White House. If I had to guess, I’d say that a federal judge will restore his pension but allow the firing to stand – in other words, the courtroom result will be that the Pence White House will be affirmed in its right to fire who it wishes but not in its blatant attempt to strip someone of their 20-year-earned pension as a cheap political shot.

It’s also a guarantee that Jeff Sessions will be taking other actions fairly soon – particularly when Mueller indicts Trump Jr and Kushner. If Sessions wants to keep his job and knows what’s good for him, he’ll have indictments ready to throw at the Clintons, so that we’ll wind up with competing coverage and headlines – one set about Trump’s blanket pardoning of his kids and another with the juicy footage of the Clintons being arrested and publicly frog-marched.

Demented Donnie will keep Jefferson Beauregard Sessions around for a few more weeks. Or until DD has another fit about the Mueller investigation.
Meanwhile, Judge Jeanine and Judge Nappy are ready to take over as AG when Sessions is ultimately fired.

FAUX FAKE NEWS fuck up again, they are sinking fast, viewership is way down, DON the CON is going down fat also. putin made a mistake in fucking with America, it will take a couple of years but Russia is going down also and remember the Russia republican party is done.

Fox and the right go absolutely ape-sh*t when another news organization makes a mistake … so where’s the outrage from the right about this mistake —?

There is none, because it’s okay to break the rules as long as you are a republican.

What’s the point of firing someone ~24 hours before they retire? Good grief! Trump and his pet Sessions are so vindictive and petty. 😡