“The reason I wanted to tell this story, was because I had very, very deep feelings about what happened to my country in 2016 and what is happening to my country right now. I felt that the Comey story was the right vehicle to express all of that.” | REVIEW
may be “the most important drama of this election year”. Perhaps. Yet there’s little in the two-part CBS series that will be unfamiliar to those who’ve followed the deeply unsettling political storm that erupted following the election of reality-TV show host Donald Trump as president in 2016.
His broad concerns were specific and he’s direct about them. “For me, the big picture is about how heartbreaking it can be to be a public servant in America right now. If you see the institutions and the values that you care about being degraded, what can you do about it?”as well as write it,” he continues, “because it is such an incendiary climate. It’s so volatile: I’ve already been ripped apart by [conservative news website] Breitbart and they haven’t even seen the series yet.
“There was a pause and he said, ‘I’d like to think there were other factors.’ And then I said, ‘You created a six-point swing and that was enough.’ And he picked me anyway. That to me is a very telling story about who he is and about his integrity. Because, given the same circumstances, I would not have picked me.”
The series opens with a clip from a Stephen Colbert monologue: “I just don’t know what to think about James Comey,” the talk-show host confides to his appreciative audience, raising an eyebrow to underline the fact that he’s being ironic. Is he speaking for Ray? “It was me at a certain point in time,” Ray concedes. “When the election first happened, I hated James Comey. And I told him that. Then I started to wonder if I’d misjudged him.
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