As Twitchy told you yesterday, media firefighters wasted no time rushing toward the Donald Trump “I’m f*cked” quote from the Mueller report without bothering to check or care about the context.

Out of the entire report, this is what the Washington Post decides to go with as important. Read a couple sentences down to discover WHY he thought it was the end of his presidency – because everyone told him it would drag on for years and inhibit his ability to get things done. https://t.co/lIOEqnYG8W — Amy Swearer (@AmySwearer) April 18, 2019

So, it should come as absolutely no surprise that expert political analyst Stephen Colbert — who fancies himself a firefighter in his own right — would go a similar route:

Colbert hits Trump after Mueller report: "Innocent people don't say 'I'm f-cked'" https://t.co/CMmpHDsUxc pic.twitter.com/BsU812ZNWs — The Hill (@thehill) April 19, 2019

Watch (starts around the 6:35 mark):

Context? Colbert doesn’t need no stinkin’ context. He needs applause. That’s all that matters. If he gets it by misrepresenting the truth, so be it.

That's a really bad take. — Sir learn to code Mycroft (@sir_mycroft) April 19, 2019

Out-of-context-Colbert, at it again. — Hercules Rockefeller (@OttoWeinert) April 19, 2019

Context to that statement is important. — JDSparty (@jd_sparty) April 19, 2019

Neither the Hill, nor Colbert interested in the actual context of that quote. I suspect willfully disinterested. — biff hooper (@biff_hooper) April 19, 2019

and responsible reports don't take comments out of context. the whole comment was people tell me once you have one of these things going, you can't get anything done. he meant his agenda was in peril. — Nancy Gill (@nancygill) April 19, 2019

This willful misreading of the context of this remark is rampant, such that I don't even feel the need to correct it. It will fall on deaf ears, in part, because no one who has read the thing would make assertion in good faith. https://t.co/jYYRIWVyJT — Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 19, 2019

The Mueller report does not exonerate Trump of any and all wrongdoing. But focusing on the “I’m f*cked” line out of context suggests that the goal here isn’t so much to let the truth speak for itself as it is to control the narrative — which is exactly how the Resistance has, for lack of a better term, f*cked themselves over the past two years.

Remember when facts mattered?

No one cares. Life is meaningless. — Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 19, 2019

"Why even bother" is how you should approach discourse on this forsaken platform. — Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) April 19, 2019

Sad, but true.

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