This headline, on the front page of the New York Times today, is the dumbest I’ve seen in a very long time. The story attempts mightily to make a very strained Comey-Hoover connection — Hoover, like Comey, was accused of trying to influence an election — but even the piece admits it “may be quite a stretch.” The headline should have been “Comey Role Recalls Hoover’s FBI, Completely Unfairly,” but someone should have had the good sense never to have assigned or run this story in the first place.