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We see some pretty amazing feats of journalism here at Twitchy. Not a day goes by that we don’t cover some attempt by the legacy media to gaslight and just plain lie to the American public. 

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But every once in a while, we see a piece of ‘journalisming’ so breathtaking, we simply have to sit back and stare at it in awe and wonderment. It’s like the scene in the movie Contact, where Jodie Foster’s character simply cannot believe what her eyes are beholding: 

Dear Twitchy readers, that was our reaction last night when we saw what Politico had written in an article describing the political fallout from Joe Biden’s train-wreck performance in the presidential debate on Thursday. 

Gaze upon the following: 

Read that again: ‘President Biden was hurt badly by the debate, but Donald Trump didn’t benefit on any measure, except the vote.’

We’ll give you a minute to gather yourself … and pick your jaw up off of the floor. 

The full Politico article — in fairness — does not pull any punches in describing how badly Biden performed. But the phrasing in this section, from a YouGovBlue survey of Democrat-leaning voters, is simply fantastic. The people surveyed were two-thirds in favor of Biden before the debate. Afterward, Biden left with barely half of them still committed to him. 

We suppose that the credit for the paragraph above really should go to YouGovBlue. But Politico selected that exact phrase — and none other from the survey — for its article. THAT is the highlight they wanted to include. 

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Indiana Jones is staring at it in awe, like a forbidden idol.

First-ballot Hall of Famer. 

Nope. You weren’t missing anything. They really said it. 

The joke is a classic for a reason. We just didn’t think Politico would try to live it out. 

And then the hilarious analogies from Twitter began to pour in. 

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OUCH on that analogy. 

The endless mocking comparisons all boil down to one truth: ‘The vote’ is THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.

We feel you, Charlie. Our brains hurt too. 

The author of the article, Jared Mitovich, is listed as ‘an intern at Politico.’ So, maybe he didn’t get paid? 

Please tell us he didn’t get paid. 

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We would like to apologize to the English language for the violence that was inflicted upon it by that sentence. 

LOL. The paragraph from Politico was exactly like the moment in the debate where Trump said to Jake Tapper, ‘I really don’t know what he said … I don’t think he knows what he said either.’

The depression phase is going to be off the chain. 

Don’t try to make sense of it. Just bask in its glory. 

In fact, it is selfish of us to want to keep this screenshot all to ourselves. It needs to be shared with the world. It should be framed and given a place of honor in the Smithsonian so future generations can appreciate the wonder of America’s 21st-century mainstream media as much as we do.

Just make sure to put it behind glass so climate alarmists don’t throw soup on it.