Political news outlet Axios tweaked a glowing description of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday after initially describing him as “an honorable person.”
“Jeff Sessions is an honorable person,” the original version of the post read. “He takes extraordinary pride in the fact that, during his decades-long career, he’s built a reputation as the literal and figurative Boy Scout. He loves that reputation – and doing the right thing.”
HuffPost reporter Elise Foley pointed out the flattering language on Twitter:
Quite the glowing description of Jeff Sessions from Axios https://t.co/LvTBPfa6aS pic.twitter.com/GL1cIt7sjX
— Elise Foley (@elisefoley) May 30, 2018
Several hours after the article was published, Axios tweeted that the article had been edited to “Jeff Sessions prides himself on being an honorable person.”
Axios appended an editor’s note on the post that read: “We changed the first sentence of the second paragraph to show it’s a reflection on how Sessions views himself.”
The rest of the article remained unchanged.
It really is semantics… and I can’t argue with the edit.
But to put the whole controversy in perspective remember that Simon Cameron, one of the founding members of the Republican Party and Lincoln’s first (and failed) Secretary of War once defined an honest politician as:
Come to think of it… that might be what Trump is upset about
He’s currently shooting for the merit badge for enduring humiliation.
You will recall that he gave up an absolutely secure Senate seat to get the AG position. If he gives that up, he will have traded away a position of high authority and a loud public position for nothing. That’s not what a rational person would do.
Sessions is the best friend the AMERICAN working person has ever had in Washington. Unlike Pelosi and the Scumocrats, he actually has stood up for working men and women against the tidal wave of visa workers, illegals, and the huge numbers of asylum-seeking temporary workers. He wants to continue his work, and will.
If Trump removes him, Trump will not win a second term. Period. Because a ton of Trump supporters like Sessions.
Axios is the reborn version of Politico when Mike Allen and Jim VanderHei took their schlock reporting to another venue to start all over. The good thing is that Politico got infinitely better, and Axios became what Politico used to be (a lot of partisan bullshit)…Sadly, they got instant notoriety without even doing much to begin with. We now know they were barely deserving of the attention like other publications, unless they proved themselves first. But that didn’t happen. Like I say, they got instant attention from places like MSNBC simply by changing their name and moving on…
Just my opinion.
Be Smart: Trump knows that ripping babies away from their mothers and hippies away from their doobies are winning issues in 2020.