Frank Figliuzzi on MSNBC: Finally someone backs up what I have been saying.

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28. He wants to use them to make money.

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That's ALL he EVER wants to do.

You've heard of the kid with the most toys. Well, HE'S the kid who wants to be the one with the most MONEY.

He gave the store away when he said "it's not theirs. It's MINE." That's WHERE he is and WHAT he's about and HOW he thinks.

What really annoys me is how naive the media's been, most of the commentators have been, most of the reporters and so-called specialists have been. Having done this for a living, I learned that there's an effort in the media to BEND OVER BACKWARDS AND INTO PRETZELDOM to be, or at least sound, objective. You've GOT TO seem like you're treating everything equally, and you strive to be absolutely immaculately unbiased.

But if you're working so painfully hard to be unbiased, then you're not really doing the job. Your reporting has no direction and no guts. Your approach is cowardly in that you move heaven and earth NOT to point the finger at anybody. Especially when there's such ridiculously glaring proof that one side is pretty much evenhanded and the other is so crooked we're actually talking possible charges that - well - might, could, maybe, come along one of these centuries.

The news media consistently shies away from calling a spade a space, even when reality regularly hits them in the collective face with a big messy cream pie. WAY too cautious when we've long ago established there's reason not to be. TOO MUCH SO, for my taste.

How long did we stay calcified like this? The earliest glaring offense, at least that comes to mind for me, is when all those Russians were invited into the Oval Office, and not a single American journalist or news network/publication/channel/blog was included in the coverage. Not ONE. We had to take what the single invited Russian news outlet made available.

This is one crook who hasn't deserved the benefit of the doubt FOR DECADES by now. He squandered that LONG ago. Why too many people still insist he deserves that privilege. I am NOT one of them. I'd daresay nobody else on this board is, either.

And where was the uproar? Nothing but a shrug - "...Meh, guess that's how we do business these days..."