Today in hyperbole: Matthew Dowd has found a bigger threat to America than North Korea

There’ve been a couple of big shakeups in the news today. First, it’s looking like Andrew McCabe checked out of the FBI due to something in the Inspector General’s report, and second, the House Intelligence Committee voted to release the Nunes memo which is believed to outline surveillance abuses by the FBI during the campaign.

As Twitchy reported, Peter Daou is bummed out because he now believes Robert Mueller will only take down side-players in the Russian collusion scandal, and ABC News’ Matthew Dowd believes what’s happening today is more of a threat to America than North Korea’s nuclear program.

This is not hyperbole: what is happening within our country today is much more dangerous to our Constitutional Republic than North Korea is.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) January 30, 2018

Otto Warmbier would beg to differ.
You know, if he was alive to do so. https://t.co/nRF82U47u9

— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) January 30, 2018

That’s quite a 180 — we’ll remember it the next time liberals assume duck-and-cover positions when Trump talks about “fire and fury” or tweets about his big red button. In each of those instances, you could practically hear the missiles approaching, the threat was so real.

And we thought refusing to respect the result of the 2016 election was the biggest threat to our democracy:

Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election. By doing that, he’s threatening our democracy.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 21, 2016

?? Hyperbole, sorta. He’s making comparisons that don’t really make sense to begin with. Like: this banana in my fruit salad poses more of a risk to my palate than the rain outside. Ok? But it’s still hyperbole. https://t.co/Rx4d8kg8zF

— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) January 30, 2018

Even scarier is that people actually take your analysis seriously. This is irresponsible drivel. https://t.co/4EhGIPhXr6

— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) January 30, 2018

Seems legit. https://t.co/2ag6wvTypR

— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) January 30, 2018

Who knew rising stock prices and accelerating GDP were more dangerous than nukes? https://t.co/M1xJgbwkDm

— Lawrence Hamtil (@lhamtil) January 30, 2018

Maybe he has a point? He really didn’t specify what he meant by “what is happening within our country today.”

https://twitter.com/TommyPryor/status/958154531174604801

For once Matthew Dowd is correct,

What appears to be a criminal conspiracy & politicization of America's intel agencies to take down an elected President and then the media acting complicity by refusing to cover it or distorting it IS more dangerous to the U.S. than North Korea. https://t.co/8pnIdNuDar

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) January 30, 2018

Oh yeah. Insinuating an elected president was a Russian plant put here to bring down democracy. That was horribly dangerous shit. https://t.co/lDf8cfTGjH

— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) January 30, 2018