AG Barr’s press conference this morning may well have been the final straw that broke the media’s back. We haven’t seen this many explosions and temper tantrums since election night 2016. Guess if we’d spent YEARS pushing a Russian-collusion hoax story in hopes of getting Trump impeached that turned out to be a total nothingburger we’d be losing our minds as well.

This ‘take’ from NYT columnist Michelle Goldberg isn’t even the most insane take we’ve seen this morning, but it’s up there.

That arrogant, willfully misleading press conference was shocking even by 2019 standards. We continue to underreact to our government's transformation into an authoritarian junta. — Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) April 18, 2019

Arrogant.

Willfully misleading.

She could be describing the media in this tweet.

And authoritarian junta? Does she realize if this were true she wouldn’t be able to tweet such things in the first place? We knew today would be bad but holy cow.

Insane hot takes like this are why normal people under-react, quite frankly https://t.co/qiCmBxrcob — Guy Benson (@guypbenson) April 18, 2019

Guy nailed it.

Something like that.

cry more — Bear ?? (@John_Leib) April 18, 2019

Not seeing a whole lot of sympathy for the media this morning.

Gosh, that’s strange.

Heh.

You are using such big words. Ii is obvious that you dont't know what they mean. — Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) April 18, 2019

Get a grip. — Quin Hillyer (@QuinHillyer) April 18, 2019

Too late.

Keep pushing trust in your industry deeper into the sewer. — Pouncing Coder Brad (@bradcundiff) April 18, 2019

Get some fresh air. It will do you good. — Ant O'Fearghail (@aofarre) April 18, 2019

There's unhinged…and then there's this. — Brian Knotts (@brianknotts) April 18, 2019

Have a Snickers, Miss Hyperbole! — BigChinoDon (@BigChinoDon) April 18, 2019

There may not be enough Snickers bars in the world today.

Related:

TAKE COVER! Chuck Schumer has LOST IT over Barr’s presser … this is NOT a test, he has LOST IT! Keep your distance (ha!)

EASY there, Spartacus! Cory Booker gets TOUGH, DEMANDS #MuellerReport RIGHT NOW (there’s just 1 hilarious problem)

Now THIS is funny: Brian Stelter’s ‘humble, naive hope’ for the #MuellerReport today has people HEE’ing and HAW’ing