UPDATE, 4:25 p.m. Eastern: Apparently, Tara Setmayer wants us all to watch our rhetoric and call out the President while she’s still allowed to talk about Fox News rhetorically making the President masturbate. In a tweet reacting to this article, Setmayer wrote that she “stand[s] by everything I said in my podcast”:

What a classy individual. Whether it’s folks like Tara Setmayer, Max Boot, David Jolly, Tom Nichols, Jennifer Rubin, Charlie Sykes, Rick Wilson, or any other number of ardent Never Trumpers, not only is supporting diehard liberals and progressives and giving them the power to carry out their far-left policies the proper way to restore conservatism, it’s also appropriate to engage in lewd talk and curse on the air.

Of course, only Trumpers are the ones who have put America into the gutter.

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CNN political commentator and pro-Russian Congressman Dana Rohrbacher aide Tara Setmayer has been a diehard Never Trump while supposed still claiming to be a conservative, Republican, or something along those lines. But like almost cable news Republicans, she’s lurched leftward.

On her October 30 podcast, she hypocritical lectured listeners that “words matter” and “we have to be better” while bashing Fox News for being a network that “jerks the President off every single day” and is filled with “political masturbation.” She also suggested that anyone who supports the President or any of his policies might as well support murderous drug dealers.

The podcast was taped during the liberal media-wide campaign to blame the mail bombs and Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on anyone and everyone who wasn’t a left-of-center, so Setmayer first lashed out just past the 15-minute mark, condemning the President’s insistence that the media have been to blame for the state of discourse (which polling suggested he’s right).

“I mean, with words that have come out of his mouth and what he said at rallies and the environment he’s fomented and what these — these evil people have decided to now carry out into action,” Setmayer opined, blaming what “comes right out of the President’s mouth and on Fox freaking News all damn day” for the anti-Semitic synagogue shooter.

Showing a visceral hatred for Trump supporters, she lashed out (click “expand”):

Just another point for people who are Trump supporters. I don’t think you probably listen to me, but if you do, yes, the white nationalist, anti-Semite who killed those people in Pittsburgh, said that he didn’t like Trump. Yeah, well, he didn’t like Trump because Trump wasn’t Nazi enough, okay. He wasn’t anti-Semitic enough, just like I read from that article in The Washington Post. They said they think that he’s got an issue with Jews. Yeah, well, his daughter and son-in-law are Jewish, but he aligns with us on certain issues and so, okay. So, I don’t want to hear it. Don’t tell me that the caravan talk and what Trump has done and what he keeps repeating, making shit up about who’s in the caravan, who isn’t, without proof, sending our troops down there just for window-dressing.

Talk about wanting an expanded tent! So uniting!

She also condemned “so many people” who “are just not acknowledging where Trump has some influence on this” and won’t accept how “his tone and repeated attacked on the media and repeated attacks on his political opponents” led to the mail bombings. Going back to the media, she dismissed those concerns about the media, saying she’s “so sick of that.”

As if she had Oliver Darcy or Brian Stelter write her a script, she went on an extended bend about the gloriousness of the movie The Post and the Supreme Court case concerning the Pentagon Papers. She noted the Nixon-Trump connections with their disdain for the media and how Roger Stone was close with both, but again, Setmayer should be careful about casting stones about someone as pro-Putin as Stone.

After reading a passage from Justice Hugo Black’s opinion about the genuine role of the press, Setmayer stated that she went on that bend to reemphasize the “right of the free press” because “[i]t’s not to be a lapdog to the President of the United States.”

She then dropped the masturbation line about Fox News and ruled that “mainstream media does not” lie or make things up (click “expand”):

It’s not to make the President, you know, feel good about himself like Fox News does, okay. Fox News jerks the President off every single day. It is political masturbation on that channel. That’s right. I said it. That’s what that is. That’s not the role of a free press. It’s supposed to hold people accountable. We do not go out there and deliberately lie. That’s not what we do. That’s not what responsible journalists do. Do we get it wrong sometimes? Yes. Are we the enemy of the people? No. Are we generating fake news on purpose? No. Some right-wing sites are, some left-wing sites are, the fringes do that. Mainstream media does not. You can argue if there’s an agenda. Maybe, you know, a point of view which you tell the stories. But we are not, under any circumstances, the enemy of the people of this country and shame on the President of the United States for continuing to repeat that. Because when you do that, then wack jobs like this guy in Florida riding around in a van with all these sick pictures and targets on political opponents of the President with signs that says [sic] “CNN Sucks” and everything else, decided to take action into their own hands. So, I don’t want to hear it.

Just to name two examples, Dan Rather and Brian Williams were not available for comment

Moments after her Fox News/masturbation comments, Setmayer’s twice insisted that “words matter,” but added the qualifier (and thus to lessen the importance of her own tone) that it’s “especially when they’re coming out of the mouth of the President of the United States with the bully pulpit.”

Setmayer followed up with her suggestion that people who supported the tax cut plan and conservative Supreme Court justices were akin to folks who support drug dealers as long as they give back in the same communities they murder people in (click “expand):

You know, my husband and I were talking about some of this before. We were talking people we’ve known about for a really long time and now, like when you hear them rationalizing Trump’s behavior it makes both of us kind of pause because, at some point, you have to decide if the integrity of this country is less important than your tax cuts or your Supreme Court? Just the very selfish things you want now. What are we doing to ourselves? Who are we as a people that we are rationalizing this? So you rationalize what Trump does. You make excuses for him. “Well, I don’t like what he says or how he says it, but look at what he does.” Really? Well, where do you draw the line with that? Where do you draw the line with that? Drug dealers are horrible people. They’re killing thousands of people, but guess what? There are some drug dealers that they care about folks in their community. They pay the rents for people. They buy people turkeys at Thanksgiving. They give, you know, buy sneakers for kids in the neighborhood. Well, so what? So what if they kill all kinds of people with their poison? They’re nice. They’re good to our neighborhood. What kind of rationalization is that? It’s about, like where we are with Trump. So what kind of people are these that continue to rationalize this? Tells you something about their character and people now, they’ve swung the other way.

She mocked those who were upset with Obama’s divisive remarks toward Christians and conservatives for having “internalized it” and allowed Trump to speak to them like he’s “a cult leader” and would approve of their children behaving as crudely as Trump has in his life.

Setmayer again hypocritically declared: “And we have to be better. We have to do better.” While invoking Ida B. Wells, Setmayer took yet another shot at Fox News (click “expand”):

[S]he famously said, “the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” That’s what I try to do everyday. That’s what my colleagues in the media try to do and no bout of terrorism, intimidation, coming whether it was coming from domestic terrorism — terrorists or whether it was coming from the podium in the Oval Office in the White House in the press room in the White House or anywhere else or Fox News or Breitbart or anywhere else. No amount of intimidation will stop me, I can speak for myself at least from turning the truth of light upon them. That’s why we do what we do and that’s why I do what I do.

To see the relevant transcript from October 30's Honesty Speaking with Tara Setmayer, click “expand.”