NY Daily News Labels Director Comey 'FBI's Mad Bomber'

"Comey must go"

10.31.2016

FBI Director James Comey's announcement to reopen the investigation on Hillary's emails struck a bitter chord with the NY Daily News, which published an angry Halloween front page labeling Comey the "FBI's Mad Bomber."

The front page features a candid photo of the FBI director during his congressional hearings grinning like the Mad Hatter at a very merry un-birthday party. The three bullet points accompanying the disparaging headline read as follows:

NEWS SAYS: Reckless Comey must go
Expert: Only criminal if classified emails
Fed agents knew of laptop weeks ago

This type of gauche hyperbole has become the modus operandi at the NY Daily News in recent years, a dwindling news publication whose massive layoffs and declining readership have forced them to go for broke with nonsensical headlines of the National Enquirer variety, like "NRA's Sick Jihad," "Trump is anti-Christ," and "Drop Dead, Ted Cruz."

The publication has also gleefully endorsed Hillary Clinton twice this election season. During her primary battle against Bernie Sanders, they described Queen Hillary as a "super-prepared warrior realist."