Generally when people think of Chris Matthews, they're reminded of a tingle going up Matthew's leg whenever President Obama flapped his lips to make sounds. Hopefully Chris got it checked out by a health professional. Cardiovascular health is a serious business. Especially for someone of Matthew's age. And mental state.

Today "Tingles" has some salient points (see Even Chris Matthews DESTROYS Bernie Supporter on Free College and Even Chris Matthews is Questioning the ‘Refugee’ Crisis). Say goodbye to the Trump-Russia collusion theory...

The assumption of the critics of the president, of his pursuers, you might say, is that somewhere along the line in the last year is the president had something to do with colluding with the Russians...to affect the election in some way. And yet what came apart this morning was that theory. Flynn wasn’t central to the Russian investigation. If that’s not the case, where’s the there-there?

Tingles tip-toed around just a tad. Here's what happened to the TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN SPY, OMG theory:

The Trump-Russia Connection Conundrum is the mass media equivalent of holding a firearm in one hand. Aiming the firearm directly at one's big toe. Firing that weapon in ways banned by most shooting ranges. Today media figures are attempting to stem their bloody stumps with Band-Aids. The special ones, speckled with Fred Flintstone. Yabba-dabba-do.

Had leftists practiced a smidgen of restraint, had they maintained a certain degree of skepticism and not gone all in on Trump being a Russian agent, there wouldn't be hundreds of eggs frying on faces. Add salt.

Yesterday's hearings would have gone differently had media focused more on a guy who doesn't quite understand the job, but who loves tweeting like a giddy school child. But media had blood coming out of their eyes and their wherever when Trump rose from bed each morning. They were determined to knock the Tangerine He-King (as they see him) from la Casa Blanca. Even if that meant ginning up a conspiracy which had no basis in reality.

Which is why liberals are so downtrodden today. They tuned in to hear James Comey say he saw Vladimir Putin sneaking out of Donald Trump's bedroom. Only to hear Loretta Lynch wanted Hillary Clinton's investigation to drop dead.

Hold a moment of silence for their precious Russian Conspiracy theory while you journey to Ireland.

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