To put it bluntly, April Ryan’s dislike of Sarah Huckabee Sanders or anyone opposed to her has arguably reached an unseemly territory. Appearing on Wednesday’s CNN Tonight, the American Urban Radio Networks correspondent dismissed the harassment and threats against the White House Press Secretary and melodramatically surmised that Jim Acosta’s “life...was in jeopardy” at Tuesday’s Trump rally.

Later, she also showed a visceral disdain for conservatives and Second Amendment supporters by brushing aside that part of the Constitution in favor of the First Amendment which many journalists seem to think only concerns them.

Host Don Lemon fired up the crazy train, refusing to note CNN’s role as chief mouthpiece of the Resistance and refusal to be a neutral arbiter of our discourse: “It's no secret that the White House's relationship with the press is terrible and we know why. It's because this administration is waging a war on journalism and the truth.”

“Are you supporting a free press if you spread falsehood — excuse me — if you spread lies from the podium? And does the President support a free press, if he also supports the people who try to stop journalists from doing their jobs,” he added before focusing in on Acosta’s supposedly horrid state of affairs.

After a clip from Wednesday’s briefing in which Sanders declined to defend Acosta, Lemon stared with annoyance into the camera for a few moments before teeing up Ryan.

Ryan replied that Sanders was “trying to justify the irrational, trying to justify foolishness” and stoop to Trump’s base who’s leader “is embattled” and “go[ing] to sports or talks about the knee, or he goes to the press, or he goes to some other things that just make his base get into frenzy and forget all the other stuff” with “a big shiny silver ball at the detriment of free press.”

After some more melodramatic behavior from Lemonon whether it’s “surreal” to be in a briefing room with “someone” who’s “lying to the American media and the American people,” Ryan swooned about the dignity of people who anonymously leak to the press.

She also trashed Sanders as a “shameful” liar and pivoted to Acosta while mocking Sanders’s death threats: “And Jim Acosta's life, in my opinion, was in jeopardy that night. There was a safety issue and you know she gets run out of a hen house a couple weeks ago, and gets Secret Service detail.”

Ah, so we’re dismissing Sanders being harassed and receiving death threats? But wait, there’s more (click “expand” for more):

LEMON: Yeah. We don't have Secret Service detail. RYAN: Jim Acosta — that's what I'm saying. And this President, this President, President Donald J. Trump has stoked the flames for reporters to feel like they are in jeopardy. Their lives, their safety is in jeopardy. Their lives are in jeopardy at these rallies and something has got to stop. She gets taxpayer-funded — she gets taxpayer-funded security for something that she stokes. LEMON: Yeah. RYAN: But yet, it's okay. It's freedom of speech for us. It is not right...This has now gone beyond politics. This has gone into life. This has gone into changing lives.

Earth to CNN executives: Is this acceptable rhetoric?

Lemon stepped into clarify that “we don't begrudge her security or anyone who has Secret Service” and Ryan muttered that she agreed, but Lemon then threw that clarification out the window by blaming “this President and this administration” for journalists having to fear for their lives.

Regardless of any puny clarification, it’s clear where her true feelings are, which is that the harassment and threats to Sanders’s life are not that serious compared to anything she or Acosta has faced.

Once Lemon hilariously claimed that this whole debate is “not about CNN” (spoiler alert: It’s all about them), Ryan concluded by mocking Second Amendment supporters and proclaiming the virtues of the press being cited in the First Amendment (again, click “expand” for more):

But see here's the problem and people want to listen to the now and listen to this President and be entertained by him and they talk about patriotism and talk about the constitution in this country. But they forget. Before they talk about you know the guns, Second Amendment, there's the First amendment that beat out the Second Amendment, the First Amendment. And within that First Amendment is freedom of the press. The Founding Fathers put into the Constitution, this accountability piece. You know, if the checks and balances over here between executive, legislative, and judicial branches don't work, you still have a press that ask questions, to find out, to give transparency to a situation that — or — or — initiatives or something.

To see the segment’s transcript from August 1's CNN Tonight, click “expand.”