Democratic strategist James Carville slammed “tool of the Koch Brothers” Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), saying he “just feeds the New York Times stuff, and they put it in the paper. Just like the neocons fed the New York Times a bunch of bunk they put on the front page of the paper, basically helped start a war” on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
Carville said of the Clinton email scandal, “my question is, will this rise to the level of scandal as the white house christmas card list back in the ’90s that had 140 hours of sworn testimony. This is the great gefilte fish day.” And the scandal is “kind of petering out every day.”
He later stated, “I think that the Clintons basically are better people than their enemies. Look at their number one enemy, Ken Starr, who is, you know, has now got a hell of a problem with rape down there at Baylor, wherever he is. You know, he used to be a cigarette lawyer. And he was the great icon of the Washington establishment. Well, we kind of know about that. Bill Clinton’s going to be probably one of the most successful post-war presidents, I guess, the third, second most popular human being on the planet now. And you know, we go through these things all of the time. And of course the New York Times, and the Washington Post, and the cocktail party, the dinner party crowd, they get all out of breath and screaming and yelling at each other and turns out to be nothing. Whatever happened to Benghazi? Which was, you know — I haven’t heard that word in I don’t know how long.”
Carville added, “You know, in the entire Bill Clinton administration in eight years, one person was ever convicted of anything, and I think it was a deputy, a chief of staff, or secretary of agriculture that involved super bowl tickets. And that’s all that they have at the end of the day. But it’s not going to stop them from taking Trey Gowdy, who’s a tool of the Koch Brothers, just feeds the New York Times stuff, and they put it in the paper. Just like the neocons fed the New York Times a bunch of bunk they put on the front page of the paper, basically helped start a war. You would think, that at some point, people that are supposed to know better would learn their lesson. But they never do, and so therefore, I’ve got to keep coming out of retirement to point this kind of stuff out.”
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