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Good morning. The NYT didn't even try to caveat the truth to make the medicine go down a bit more smoothly for their readers. Their front-page headline this morning, as crystal clear as it gets: 
The last 2 1/2 years of media humiliation, profiteering, and historic levels of abuse of reader trust in two images - courtesy of @guardian and @lukeharding1968
Rachel Maddow is Judy Miller now - except that Judy Miller got scapegoated for what a lot of her male colleagues also did and had her career destroyed, while Maddow is too valuable an NBC brand, so will continue to make $10 million/year with zero accountability or consequence
I hope I'm not putting this too harshly, but you have to be the world's dumbest person to believe Mueller filled his report with incriminating collusion claims, but he - and his whole team - are sitting silently while his long-time friend Bob Barr lies about what's in his report.
And as for the growing "isn't-it-time-to-move-on-dot-org" sentiment: no way. This wasn't some 2-week story. This was the single biggest story the US media fixated on for *3 years* & got the crux of it totally & completely wrong in a very damaging way. It's accountability time.
As for those trying the angle that collusion existed but poor little Mueller just couldn't find it: please. That may be the most embarrassing & insulting excuse of all. For 20 months, all we heard was he had assembled the most aggressive & skilled team ever. This is what they did
