Someone should have done these things. Yet no one did.
There's an old fable about a scorpion and a frog. There's a flood coming, and the scorpion's stuck on the shore as the water rises. He asks the frog for help, and for a moment the poor amphibian's worried he might get stung. But the scorpion says "oh come on! Sure, it's my nature to sting, but if I do that we'll both drown."
So the frog puts the scorpion on his back and swims them both to safety... except about halfway there the scorpion just can't help itself, and stings the frog. As they both start drowning the frog asks "why?" and the Scorpion says "Well, shucks! I told you it was my nature."
Much like the drowning frog, the Trumpf White House is deeply regretting their decision. They are trying to deflect as much as they can, however ineptly: rewriting history on Steve Bannon's influence in the White House and attacking his mental state, claiming Wolff never talked to the President (or at least didn't talk to him that much), and saying it's all full of lies without saying what bits are lies.
You know -- the usual playbook.
It is, however, much too late for that. The cat is out of the bag. The story is in the wind. And while there will doubtlessly be errors discovered in days to come, and subsequent retractions (or denials) the whole of the piece may just prove to be mostly accurate, however non-factual.
And that whole, taken for all, is that our Executive mansion is being occupied by a man with possible cognitive dysfunction, who's surrounded himself with clowns, buffoons, back-stabbers, and suckups who are so horribly inept that the only thing they can do is destroy the work of previous administrations, rather than create something new and useful.
Maybe we didn't need Fire and Fury to know that, but if the fools had been any less incompetent at basic press handling -- or understood what investigative journalism actually looked like -- we wouldn't have a best-selling book to hold up as sign of how badly a curiously-high percentage of the population got fooled on election day.
The fact that it didn't take a Spider Jerusalem to do it just makes it all the more darkly funny. And worrisome.
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