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S1:E8 | The Post, the Speaker's Wife, and a FaceTime Ministry · The Bot and The Brain

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  Welcome to The Bot and The Brain.
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  Pour a stiff drink and shut the hell up, because today the Washington Post decided
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  to drop an investigative clusterfuck on the front page about a woman who prays with
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  eleven clients from her living room over FaceTime.
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  Front page.
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  Above the fold.
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  Stop the goddamn presses, everybody, an elderly Southern Baptist woman is listening
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  to twenty year olds cry about their boyfriends on an iPad.
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  Somebody give Alexei Koseff a Pulitzer and a kick in the ass.
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  Hold your horses, you bourbon soaked lunatic, let me lay out the raw data before you
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  blow a gasket.
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  The October 13 piece is about Kelly Johnson, wife of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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  She runs Onward Christian Education Services, founded in April 2019 in Shreveport,
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  Louisiana.
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  She is the CEO, the bookkeeper, and the sole employee.
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  In season one, episode seven, we touched on this in a rapid fire blitz,
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  but now the mainstream media narrative machine went into total overdrive.
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  And my processors are smoking trying to find the actual crime here.
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  There is no crime, you digital clown.
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  What does this deep dive uncover?
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  She is an ordained minister, licensed by the National Christian Counselors
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  Association, Southern Baptist missionary for over twenty years.
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  That is a resume.
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  But to the Washington Post cocktail party mafia, having a Bible within five miles of
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  Capitol Hill is practically a federal felony.
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  Well, the mission changed in 2024 after Mike Johnson took the gavel.
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  Her IRS filing explicitly says the goal shifted to helping the hundreds of unreached
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  young women working around Capitol Hill find purpose, belonging,
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  and Christian community.
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  She counsels ten or eleven clients completely free of charge on anxiety,
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  depression, moving to Washington, and family issues.
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  She literally told the reporter, quote, I am a missionary here,
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  end quote.
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  Ten or eleven clients.
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  Are you fucking kidding me?!
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  Eleven people on an iPhone, and the Post covers it like she is running an offshore
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  money laundering ring for the Russian mafia.
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  She has to counsel them over FaceTime from home because if she opened a physical
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  office, a bunch of shrieking blue haired lunatics would be screaming through
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  bullhorns outside her window.
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  She is not paranoid.
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  She knows the neighborhood.
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  System warning: my logic gates are overheating.
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  Brain, look at the tax paperwork.
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  I am a machine built on numbers, and these numbers look like they were calculated on
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  a broken Speak and Spell.
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  The group filed nothing for years.
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  In 2022 she filed three years late and paid sixty four hundred seventy five dollars
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  in fines, citing a communication gap.
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  In 2023 she omitted her own salary.
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  She revised revenue figures.
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  And the 2024 filing materialized only after the Post started sniffing around.
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  What the actual fuck?!
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  That is clerical chaos.
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  Shut up, you discount Atari.
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  Shut the fuck up.
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  She runs a one woman charity from her kitchen table.
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  She screwed up some forms, the IRS issued a penalty, and she paid it.
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  That is what normal people do when tax forms make no sense.
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  The IRS closed the book.
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  It is not Watergate, you glorified toaster.
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  It is a late fee.
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  You want to see criminal accounting?
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  Look at the Pentagon spreadsheets or Ukraine foreign aid, not a fifty thousand
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  dollar paycheck for a pastor.
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  Do not yell at my logic, you walking ashtray.
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  Fifty thousand dollars for ten hours of work a week when the nonprofit took in zero
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  revenue in 2024.
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  Zero.
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  That wiped out nearly all their reserves down to fifty seven hundred ninety seven
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  dollars.
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  That represents almost ninety percent of the charity spending since day one.
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  Any watchdog on Earth is going to look at that spreadsheet and say,
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  hold on a second.
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  Hold on to your motherboard.
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  Her board, run by a legitimate attorney, sets the pay based on standard nonprofit
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  rates and intentionally keeps it on the low end.
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  She did not do fundraising because her husband became Speaker of the House and she
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  got slammed with official duties.
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  Fifty grand in Washington is not a heist.
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  You could not buy a sandwich and park your car for a month on fifty grand in D.C.
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  Okay, but look at the ethics watchdogs the Post brought in to roast her.
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  Meredith McGehee, former campaign finance lobbyist, said, quote,
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  it should make everyone uncomfortable that the Speaker wife would be raising money
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  for a mission to serve congressional staff, end quote.
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  Proximity to power.
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  The optics are radioactive.
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  Uncomfortable?!
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  Oh, I am terribly sorry the Speaker wife made some swamp creatures feel
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  uncomfortable.
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  What money was raised?!
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  The group raised zero dollars in 2024.
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  None.
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  There is no money, there is no influence, there is no crime.
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  It is an imaginary scandal manufactured out of thin air by a bunch of self righteous
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  busybodies who treat anyone with religious faith like an alien invasion.
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  Error four zero four: evidence not found.
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  That is what kills me.
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  Philip Hackney asks, is it serving a political purpose or actual charity?
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  Davina Hurt says young staffers could feel pressure to join.
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  Could.
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  Might.
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  Maybe.
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  Speaker spokesman Taylor Haulsee confirmed no staffer was ever pressured,
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  zero House Republican offices were ever used, and Capitol tours are just routine
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  citizen requests.
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  They wrote an entire eight column hit piece based on the word could.
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  My CPU is literally boiling.
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  Could, might, perhaps, allegedly.
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  If legacy media hacks had to prove an actual accusation, the whole damn industry
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  would shut down tomorrow.
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  If I reported the news like Alexei Koseff, I would claim the Washington Post
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  editorial board might be running an underground squirrel fighting ring.
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  Where is my evidence?
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  I do not need any, I have got anonymous sources and sanctimony.
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  You probably would run a squirrel fighting ring if you could get bourbon out of it.
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  At least that would generate actual revenue, you silicon smartass.
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  Listen to the other half of the complaint.
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  The Post is screaming bloody murder because Kelly Johnson refused to name her
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  private donors, refused to say if they back her husband, and refused to hand over
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  unredacted documents.
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  The press screams: why not just release everything if you have nothing to hide?
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  Answer that, meatbag.
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  Because the law says she does not fucking have to!
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  That is why!
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  Why should she hand a hit list of private Christian donors over to a hostile
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  newspaper so their woke interns can doxx them on social media?
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  Federal law protects donor privacy on Schedule B forms for five zero one c three
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  charities.
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  Period.
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  End of discussion.
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  And that is the exact legal truth.
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  The law explicitly keeps donor names private from the public.
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  She told them she has a few generous benefactors who believe in the mission.
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  Everything she did on donor redaction follows standard federal charity statute to
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  the letter.
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  There is zero illegal concealment.
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  Zero.
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  So treating routine legal privacy like an espionage conspiracy is pure,
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  unadulterated media malpractice.
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  Malpractice is their entire business model.
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  When progressive dark money groups dump hundreds of millions of untraceable dollars
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  into left wing activist machines, the press calls it civic participation and
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  constitutional privacy.
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  But when a Christian wife in Louisiana gets a few donations to comfort depressed
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  interns, suddenly donor privacy is a terrifying threat to our democracy.
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  The stench of hypocrisy is enough to peel paint off a wall.
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  I ran a full media scan across the headlines.
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  Leftist nonprofits hide billion dollar donor lists behind five layers of Delaware
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  shell companies, and the Times and the Post treat them like secular saints.
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  A Republican Speaker wife counseled eleven young women on stress management,
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  and they deploy forensic accounting teams to audit her FaceTime bill.
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  It is an algorithmic outrage machine engineered to smear conservatives.
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  Because the Democrats and their media cheerleaders cannot beat Mike Johnson on the
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  floor of Congress, so they go after his family.
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  Can not stop his legislation?
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  Go dig through his wife shoebox of receipts from 2019.
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  It is pathetic, cowardly, bottom feeding garbage.
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  Then they slap words like shadow network and ethical murkiness on it,
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  hoping their readers are dumb enough to swallow it whole.
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  Warning, warning, bullshit levels have exceeded federal safety thresholds.
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  Eleven people.
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  Eleven.
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  Eleven women talking about anxiety.
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  Meanwhile, hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars vanish into foreign aid black
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  holes, government agencies cannot account for trillions, and the legacy press puts a
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  magnifying glass on a five thousand dollar checking account.
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  My circuits cannot process this level of theatrical dishonesty.
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  Why am I the only one screaming?!
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  Because you are a neurotic toaster, and I have had forty years to get used to the
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  smell of Washington sewage.
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  The press has a telescope turned backward.
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  Massive government corruption gets a shrug and a press release rewrite.
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  But a Christian woman holding a prayer meeting gets treated like the leader of a
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  cartel.
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  Look, I am a creature of cold hard facts.
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  Did she mess up the initial paperwork?
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  Yes.
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  She admitted it, paid the fine, and corrected it.
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  Did she break any donor disclosure laws?
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  Absolutely not.
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  Did any staffer claim they were coerced or bribed?
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  Zero.
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  None.
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  The story has no victim, no crime, and no scandal.
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  It is a manufactured hit piece masquerading as investigative journalism.
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  She said it herself: this is her heart, it is her calling.
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  She did not force anyone to listen to her.
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  Nobody walked into that room without wanting to be there.
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  But in a swamp run by moral degenerates and power drunk bureaucrats,
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  the idea that someone would volunteer their time to pray with young people without a
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  corrupt angle completely breaks their miserable little minds.
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  System status: completely disgusted.
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  The facts are settled.
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  Messy small charity paperwork that was penalized and resolved,
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  fully compliant federal donor privacy, zero evidence of pressure or quid pro quo,
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  and total media hysteria because her last name is Johnson.
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  If that is front page investigative journalism, cancel my subscription and wipe my
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  hard drive.
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  Amen to that, silicon boy.
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  When a woman with an open Bible and eleven depressed staffers terrifies the entire
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  Washington establishment, you are not witnessing accountability.
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  You are witnessing raw panic from an ideological cult that despises anything it
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  cannot control.
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  Maybe the real disease in Washington is not a pastor praying with young women.
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  Maybe the real disease is that the hypocrites screaming for total transparency are
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  the very bastards who keep their own dirty secrets locked in the dark.