Laura Ingraham: 'Time' is up for anti-Trump fanatics, with their Russian collusion delusion and 'best of' lists

The left mourns the loss of a magazine like the loss of a friend: "We had so much quality time together!" "You understood me!" The motivation to save these outlets is both political and cultural -- if one is allowed to die off, the rest will follow, along with their influence.

Enter, TIME magazine. Bleeding circulation for years, unable to translate its print appeal to an Internet age, TIME has gone from a circulation of nearly 20 million worldwide to a few million, primarily web-based. The only thing really keeping it going is its two flagships: the "Person of the Year" issue and its "100 Most Influential" issue. The latter was released with P.R. worthy of a queen's state visit on Wednesday.

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Aside from the obvious "influential" folks (Bill Barr, Bob Mueller, and President Trump), TIME included a few other curious choices, like Justice Brett Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford. About her, guest profiler Kamala Harris wrote, "Her story, spoken while holding back tears, shook Washington and the country ... Through her courage, she forced the country to reckon with an issue that has too often been ignored and kept in the dark."

Totally political. What Blasey Ford did and said last October was accuse a man of sexual misconduct 30 years prior with zero corroboration. And remember, she initially sent an anonymous note accusing Kavanaugh, which was then leaked to the Washington Post. Most importantly, this "icon" (at least according to TIME) failed to derail the nomination. How is that so "influential"?

And then you have another TIME influencer, Taylor Swift. She continues to be an entertainment juggernaut, but her big move this past year was to throw in with the Democrats and endorse Marsha Blackburn's Senate opponent in Tennessee. Blackburn decided to "shake it off" and won. Not so swift, perhaps, to think your pop music translates to any great political appeal.

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Again, rather than be introspective about its loss of appeal in middle America and beyond, TIME just keeps clinging to the old liberal model of journalism and political correctness. "We have 48 women on the list this year, up from 45 a year before," said TIME editor Ed Felsenthal of the "Influential" issue. "When we started the list in 2004, there were only 24, so we have a ways to go. But it shows we are like society."

No, you're not. The rest of society doesn't throw itself a glamorous party when its business model is losing money.

Speaking of glamorous, model and wife of John Legend, Chrissy Teigen was also chosen as one of the 100 "Most Influential." Known for her vicious attacks on President Trump, she was chosen because "all her life, Chrissy Teigen has liked to eat. She's not shy about that -- or anything else, really."

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That's nice and innovative, but did most Americans like her take on female empowerment during last week's Democrat retreat? When asked whether there was one word, she would like to help women use more frequently, she answered, "F--k you!"

Oh, and big shock: joining the Trump-hating model on the list is a Trump-hating comedian, Trump-hating filmmaker, and a Trump-hating TV producer. And for good measure, they threw in Michelle Obama.

TIME magazine is sort of the last gasp almanac of the elite. But the elites don't admit defeat easily. There is perhaps no better example than how they've dealt with Mueller's "no collusion" and "no obstruction" findings. With Thursday's release of the Mueller report, minus redactions, we are bound to see more gyrations from the same suspects and from activists who raised millions off the defamation that Trump was a traitor. They have moved from "he conspired with the Russians" to "Barr is just redacting stuff to help Trump!"

The hard-core socialists and their media co-conspirators will cling to the Russian delusion for as long as they can, or simply shift to new targets within Trump World ... They can't see their ongoing self-sabotage.

And now, they are grasping at something new -- the timing of Bill Barr's press conference. We've gone from Trump's guilty of sedition to the attorney general is guilty of aggressive scheduling. Why don't they wait for the report to come out, read it, then gripe?  Decide if you have issues with it.

In the end, the Mueller team spun its wheels and in the process threw a lot of mud at good people. Sure, there were indictments and guilty pleas, but between Attorney General Barr and the Inspector General Michael Horowitz, we may just find out that the supposed guilty ones were just Deep State pawns.

The Mueller probe should have never been started in the first place. We told you that they'd find nothing on the president, that its origins were politically tainted. We were right, and the left was wrong.  Even an Op-Ed in the Washington Post admitting this: "Fox News was right and the others were wrong. ... even regular viewers of CNN and MSNBC must certainly recognize the straws being grasped to justify sticking with a conspiracy theory that has been largely debunked."

Of course the hard-core Socialists and their media co-conspirators will cling to the Russian delusion for as long as they can, or simply shift to new targets within Trump World. They are such anti-Trump fanatics that they can't see their ongoing self-sabotage.

Like their creaky "best of" lists, their TIME is (FINALLY?) long since up.

Adapted from Laura Ingraham's monologue from "The Ingraham Angle" on April 17, 2019.