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This year was a disaster in just about every respect, but nothing compares to the overall disaster that is the media. Informing the public and seeking the truth took a backseat to agenda pushing and straight-up advocacy. While everyone in the media soiled themselves this year, to one degree or another, some people are just so awful they deserve special recognition.

Jake Tapper. Tapper lives in his own little world where he’s the smartest man living in his head. Conservatives get excited every couple of months when he accidentally commits a tiny bit of journalism by asking a semi-tough question of a Democrat (which is rarely, if ever, followed up by pressing the issue) or delivers a monologue on a 90 percent issue. But at his core, and in his work, he’s every bit the liberal activist who made his name writing about a date he had with Monica Lewinsky at the height of the scandal that haunts her to this day. He parlayed that date into a job at the left-wing blog Salon, then a book about trying to “steal” the 2000 election. He wormed his way up to ABC News, then his own show on CNN. There he sits, playing his scripted role in spreading the Russia Hoax lie like a loyal puppy, all while claiming to be the last honest man in Washington, DC. Naturally, he’s “won” many awards from his fellow travelers for his “reporting.” Expect him to recede further into his liberal hole during the Biden administration, soft kisses for access and choir-preaching will likely win him even more plaques with his name on them.