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Some people think the mainstream media so bungled the Russian collusion story, they revealed

themselves to be the dishonest and servile totes of a single political party with a

bioso extreme amounted to the sort of corruption when usually only finds in the bowels of a prison

populated by the lowest miscreants on the face of the earth whose foul and twisted hearts

conspired to create a criminal empire so soaked in evil it's tantamount to a living hell.

Other people think other things.

But now journalists are speaking out in self-defense, figuring what the hell people can't

hate them any more than they already do. On CNN, for instance, Don Lemmon spoke privately

to a few close friends by going on a show and saying, quote, while it is true that virtually

every story we released was slanted to condemn and indict a president who now seems to have

told the truth about his activities and while it's also true that every mistake we made

did tend to reveal the seething bile that had transformed our hearts into black organs

of unadulterated hatred. I feel we were justified in our actions because of something having

to do with the Constitution or maybe something about race. I'm not sure.

Unquote.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow made her statement to a room full of cartoon squirrels saying, quote,

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