Hi, welcome to MediaRutes Radio.

After the finalization of the Mueller report on Russia Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

After the finalization of the Mueller report on Russian collusion with the Trump administration,

Abby and I decided to take you guys on a trip down memory lane.

When we first started noticing this anti-Russian hysteria campaign building in the United States,

and the clip that we're going to open this episode with is a little montage of different clips.

We just sort of wanted to remind you guys that we've been covering this long before it was even called Russia Gate,

and we sort of felt alone in covering it.

We were so confused and just so alarmed by the lack of coverage on that particular issue that you can really hear the frustration in our voices.

And no, this isn't going to be one of those bullshit clips episodes or best of episodes.

90% of this is going to be new commentary from Abby and I discussing the conclusions of the

Mueller investigation and what that means and where this is going to go from here.

I hope you enjoyed this little montage to open up the episode.

Starting with our sort of our shock and confusion at why when the Sochi Olympics,

Winter Olympics happened in 2014, why the U.S. media here just seemed to constantly shit on it

in a way that we had never seen before with other countries' Olympics.

February 2020. seen before with other countries olympics. February 26th, 2014.

Well, let's talk a little bit more about the Sochi hype because I've never seen,

I mean, I, I guess I don't remember when the Olympics were in China, I don't remember the media honing in,

and like organ harvesting and like the execution of like Falun Gong prisoners and like labor camps of Falun Gong practitioners and stuff like that.

It's clearly disproportional.

Oh, and it was even, it was interesting to me, too, the way that they kept comparing

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