A massively viral tweet exposed a 40-second clip from a 2023 interview in which former FBI Director James Comey encourages TV producer Dick Wolf to create FBI-themed shows to publicly showcase the agency’s work. As could be expected, MAGA sounded off on him and the FBI with a vengeance in response to the clip.
In the odd slip, Comey notes the proliferation of such programs compared to NCIS, viewing it positively as a matter of visibility. The poster labeled it evidence of Hollywood as a “propaganda wing” for Democrats. In the comments, many conservatives blated this as media-connected social engineering, with users calling out deep state influences in entertainment.
In the offending clip, the controversial deep-state official crowd, “I did a strange thing at the FBI. I worked very hard to try and get people like Dick Wolf to produce TV shows about the FBI, because I saw that as another way of showing the work to the American people.”
Adding more support to his claims, the former FBI Director said, “It turns out that paid off. Remember meeting with him and saying, ‘Why do I turn on the TV and see NCIS all the time? They’re a fine organization, but it’s like eight people who are going at NCIS.'”
Wrapping up his bizarre claims, he added, “And now, I turned on the TV and I got FBI all over the place. That’s a good thing in the main—it’s incomplete. Your work is much more reality-based, but it helps to show an organization to the American people that matters.”
In another clip from the same show, Comey alleged, “The only way I can share my work with the American people if I’m the attorney general or the deputy attorney general or the FBI director in the main is through you [the media]…I believe it was really important to have a professional press operation one that didn’t view the press as an enemy…so that information flows freely so that people can see the work as much as possible.”
Showing more of his bizarre reasoning, in the same interview, Comey claimed, “It’s the reason I was so frustrated watching the silence that followed the court-authorized search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. Three days of silence, except not silence, because a lot of lies were told about the FBI and the Justice Department, yet those organizations were silent… And in the absence of your voice, that spot is being filled.”
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Reacting to these wild claims on social media, conservatives were enraged. “Apparently James Comey asked people like Dick Wolf to create propaganda tv shows about the FBI. Just more proof that Hollywood is part of the propaganda wing of Democracy Inc,” a viral post noted.
Outraged, another commenter wrote, “They are everywhere and interconnected. While we have been scurrying around trying to do the right thing they were busy building a hidden army of destructors.” Building on this point, one man added, “I haven’t watched L&O for years b/c it became so politicized, and some episodes of FBI over the past few years were, too. I didn’t know Comey was behind it, but it’ll tell my wife they were pushing the Deep State narrative.”
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