Relentlessly playing catch-up is never a good look.
This reporting should have taken place around the time many of us were saying this shit out loud almost three years ago.
@HillaryClinton told you he was too fascinated with dictators and that he was Putin's puppet.
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This reporting should have taken place around the time many of us were saying this shit out loud almost three years ago.
@HillaryClinton told you he was too fascinated with dictators and that he was Putin's puppet.
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She also warned you that he would dismantle our systems of government, wreak havoc around the world, govern solely for his own benefit, attacks the press, and never tell a single truth.
She told you all of that.
And so much more.
@NPR
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She told you all of that.
And so much more.
@NPR
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She told you Russia was trying to interfere in our elections. She told you Putin was an intolerable egoist. She pointed at the Ukraine and said "LOOK."
She even talked about the bots.
Math is easy when you complete the equation, and it's beautiful when you show your work.
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She even talked about the bots.
Math is easy when you complete the equation, and it's beautiful when you show your work.
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But collectively, the entire media establishment dug in their poisonous heels with a big giant "But..."
But her emails.
But no one likes her.
But Bernie.
But she's as bad as he.
But perfection.
But there has to be something there.
But her vagina.
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But her emails.
But no one likes her.
But Bernie.
But she's as bad as he.
But perfection.
But there has to be something there.
But her vagina.
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It literally did not matter that our most dangerous historical rival was actively aiding a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, self-obssesed, dangerous, greedy sociopath pull off the most large scale political coup in modern history.
It did not matter how often she warned you.
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It did not matter how often she warned you.
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It did not matter how often @sarahkendzior screamed it, and many of us with her. It didn't matter what the evidence was or how intolerably obvious it all was when you looked at it.
None of you did your jobs, well, a few tried, some hard, but with too few resources.
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None of you did your jobs, well, a few tried, some hard, but with too few resources.
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But they mostly did so with no support from their editors, producers, colleagues, or peers.
They/we/she was often mocked. Openly.
Full eyerolls.
"Excuses."
"Impossible."
More.
Actual conspiracy theorists of the fake moon landing variety called us conspiracy theorists.
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They/we/she was often mocked. Openly.
Full eyerolls.
"Excuses."
"Impossible."
More.
Actual conspiracy theorists of the fake moon landing variety called us conspiracy theorists.
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What it all boils down to, and what's almost never said, and what is most nauseating is the fact that the only reason the whole world didn't know this was happening at the time was because the 4th Estate shrugged its responsibility.
If that's not your one job, then what is?
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If that's not your one job, then what is?
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There's nothing you're finding now that you wouldn't have found then if you had either looked, listened, or devoted the proper resources to do either.
Instead you spent all of your time, budgets, and talent on a fraudulent investigation that ended a month after the election.
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Instead you spent all of your time, budgets, and talent on a fraudulent investigation that ended a month after the election.
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And you spent the rest actively ignoring every fault, every accusation, and every witness that confirmed what we all now know. Instead, you watched his plane sitting on tarmacs, and produced endless profiles of the Trump voter. Many of you openly marveled at his style.
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You did Russia's job so completely that Putin couldn't have written it more successfully than you did on your owns.
I've talked endlessly about the massive media malpractice that led us here and I will never stop reminding any of us / you.
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I've talked endlessly about the massive media malpractice that led us here and I will never stop reminding any of us / you.
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Especially when the catch up you are playing isn't even close to actually catching you up.
Two years late signals you are two years behind.
Do your jobs.
Two years late signals you are two years behind.
Do your jobs.
