Comey’s Numbers Aren’t News…or a Threat |
Photograph Source: Mark Warner – CC BY 2.0
“8647.”
Those numbers are spelled out — in seashells — in a May 15 Instagram photo posted by former FBI director James Comey.
The meaning doesn’t seem unclear. To “86” someone, as I recall from my brief late-1980s career in nightclub security, means to remove and ban someone from a bar or club for bad behavior. “47,” of course, refers to Donald Trump, 47th president of the United States.
Cute? I guess. Comey doesn’t like Trump, Trump doesn’t like Comey, and neither of them ever skips an opportunity to tell us so. Big whoop. Any serious editor would classify a story on the seashell photo as “dog bites man.” It’s just not “news” by any traditional........