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Excellent piece. A responsible, free press is essential to democracy. The alternative is the kind of propaganda and bull$hit currently being generated by this temporary, grifted administration and enabled by MAGA-media. I'm confident that your supporters will remain interested in truth.

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Responsible it the key word. In retrospect, many stories billed as facts were phony. Starting with the reporting on a crack addicted kid in DC reported by the Washington Post. Recently the Russian-Trump connection was finally admitted to be an operation that Hillary's team fed to the CIA. Then the 51 intelligence chiefs signing off on the "hallmarks of a Russian operation" regarding Hunter's laptop. Then the hysteria over COVID for everyone. Or going back again, the AIDS scare that caused C. Everett Coop to mail EVERY US address with a warning of high risk of the disease for straight heterosexuals? Man made Global Warming anyone? All journalism is yellow.

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And there you have it. Another example of the fine art of making shit up.

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That indeed is the art which William Randolph Hearst perfected.

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Wow, watch Fox News much?.

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Got all my examples from the NY Times, the Washington Post and the Columbia Journalism review. All journalism exists to create consumers who will pay.

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All politicians spew garbage for votes.

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You must have gotten those examples from the opinions pages.

The Mueller report can be read for free. Volume 2 p. 2

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume2.pdf

"If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the PresidentтАЩs actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."

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In this country, a person is innocent unless proven guilty. Ergo, your Mueller report says "we looked everywhere but darn, nothing to find." Mueller could investigate anyone of us and issue the same tripe.

So, you are left to conclude that Trump is the greatest criminal mind of all time or the FBI covered it up for him-Comey? No way.

Finally, Putin took Crimea under Obama and did zero during Trump's term. Then 2 months into Biden's term he takes another 3rd of Ukraine. The question really is, what does Putin have on the Democratic party?

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Your comment "nothing to find" is incorrect. They may have found something, but it could not be litigated because of the rules that a sitting president cannot be charged. That is very different from "nothing to find."

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Poppycock. If that were true, the report would have said that. As Robert Hur reported that Biden broke the law but he was too old to testify.

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Balderdash. Here is the text of the conclusion of the report -

IV. CONCLUSION

Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw

ultimate conclusions about the PresidentтАЩs conduct. The evidence we obtained about the

PresidentтАЩs actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were

making a traditional prosecutorial judgment. At the same time, if we had confidence after a

thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice,

we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach

that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a

crime, it also does not exonerate him.

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CYA by Mueller and his team. But believe what you want-DJT is in office, Patel at FB!, Gabbard, DNS, RFK at Health, VP Vance etc. this is going to be a helluva ride.

Your worst nightmare did come true.

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But they didnтАЩt say that. Rather than stating the facts directly, which was they couldnтАЩt find enough to prove his guilt, they used an old trick by saying they couldnтАЩt really prove his innocence, leaving the reader with doubt that there just might be something there! ItтАЩs an obvious dishonest tact used by those who didnтАЩt find what they were hoping to find.

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You have really drunk the kool-aid.

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Like most on the Left, lose the argument, resort to insults. Adios.

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The opinions that you have offered here in this thread all come from right wing media.

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What does Putin have on Obama and Biden?

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Neither Obama nor Biden are POTUS right now. The more salient question is what does Putin have on trump? Why is trump doing Putin's bidding by abandoning Ukraine and NATO and jeopardizing Europe with more Russian aggression?

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[citation needed]

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Wow Doug. Hillary, Hunter, Covid....blah, blah, woke liberals. Yet not one word about one of the biggest scandals......FoxNews and the defamation case in which they had to pay $787.5 million dollars to Dominion Voting Systems. And yet, there were NO issues in the 2024 election despite these same voting machines being used in 27 states, including Florida. Rigged!!?? Smartmatic will also be getting a huge payoff soon from Murdoch just like DVS did, except a lot more. It's not about journalism Dougy, it's about MAGA morons believing every conspiracy and BS stories Trump and Fauxnews throws at them.

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What do care I about FOX? Nothing-it is all entertainment. Do you not get that? ObtuseтАж.

DJT owns you and the Left. It is so fun!

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LOL!!!!!! Another Republican lying as usual. Your King has taught you well. Good luck getting a job in the administration since you would fit in well sucking up to him every day.

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Already won my election in November.

I enjoy watching your heads exploding.

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