CNN’s The Situation Room continued on Wednesday the liberal media narrative to condemn any questioning of the FBI and Mueller investigation, deeming it the sort of thing meant to confuse and permanently “discredit” institutions that occur in authoritarian regimes like Russia and Turkey.

CBS correspondent and CNN contributor Bianna Goldodryga seemed to knock the ability of news consumers to walk and chew gum at the same time, declaring that she and her media cohorts are “pretty read in on this from a day-to-day basis” but “imagine the average American at home, constantly hearing about this infighting within these investigations and these committees.”

“I mean, it becomes very confusing, and at the end of the day, it knocks credibility,” she complained in reference to the FBI.

CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger obviously agreed, arguing that “the game here is to try to discredit the Mueller investigation before the Mueller investigation comes out with anything, to discredit the FBI, to discredit the people who are trying to get to the bottom of all of this.”

It’s safe to say that Mueller should be allowed to complete his investigation as Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy (S.C.) and many others have noted, but this almost erotic hero worship of Mueller is getting a little old. Whether it be a group or individual, hero worship usually doesn’t end well. And, yes, the supposed “secret society” turned out to be an embarrassing nothingburger for Republicans, but that still shouldn't remove any ability to ask questions or demand oversight.

Former Obama official and intelligence analyst Susan Hennessey opined that “what we’re really seeing” from Republicans “is sort of a spaghetti on the wall approach” in hopes of “discrediting anything that that investigation is going to put out from the outset.”

Golodryga closed the segment by dropping a pathetic claim about questioning non-partisan agencies being the sort of behavior that's seen in Russia and Turkey:

And it's so short-sighted to knock these institutions, assuming that they will be sound in years to come. I mean, ask the people of Turkey, ask the people of Russia what happens when a dictator or president tries to undermine what's supposed to be independent organizations...You do this enough and you're going to have people really question their integrity going forward as an organization.

She has a record of liberal bias and is married to Obama Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag, so these attempts to undermine the Trump presidency and conversely trust the FBI no matter what aren’t surprising.

Here’s the relevant transcript from CNN’s The Situation Room on January 24: