Disappeared media stories?

[Reader Rabbit]

Not that there aren't enough other things for the media to cover, but did it seem to anyone else that the Kushner-Saudi bribe and the Ginny Thomas Insurrectionist stories disappeared from the public eye pretty damn fast?

[dalton99a]

1. "Wrong party. Not interested - DELETE"

"When are we gonna prosecute Hunter Biden???"

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. This x 1,000

[SoonerPride]

2. They don't care about those stories when they've got Hunter Biden's laptop to slobber over.

Our press is pathetic.

[pwb]

3. Silence is the new tool the media wealth owners use against us.

What news?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. TFG called the press the enemy of the people. I'm not sure he wasn't right.

But not in the way he meant it. He should be on his knees thanking the press. Not just the RW media. In general the media has trivialized, normalized, and enabled his rude, crude, abhorrent, criminal, and anti-democracy behavior.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Dems need to keep the story going. Republicans are experts at this.

That's why there were so many Benghazi investigations, and you couldn't see a Republican being interviewed who didn't throw in a Benghazi reference.

They are doing the same today with Hunter Biden's laptop. Every RW talker and politician is on message.

They know there is no "there" there. The whole point is to keep bringing it up, regardless of validity.

Recall when trump tried to extort Zelinsky. He didn't ask for an investigation into Hunter Biden. He asked for Zelensky to "announce" an investigation. Whether the investigation was real was of no importance. The announcement was enough to build the narrative.

We need to decide on a narrative, give it legs, have consistent messaging, and keep swinging the hammer in the media.

[Effete Snob]

6. What further information is there?

Is the idea to just keep repeating them?

Ginni Thomas texted Meadows her batshit stuff about Jan. 6, and probably talked to her husband about it too.

That’s pretty much the whole story in a sentence. What else is there to know?

No, they aren’t talking about it and, no, Thomas doesn’t have to recuse from Jack Shit if he doesn’t want to. Congress isn’t going to impeach him, so what else is there to say?

I’ve seen this sort of complaint before, and would really like to know what, exactly, is supposed to be in the news about a story like that on a continuing basis. Can you explain that to me?

[RAMS38]

20. Investigate Ginni and Clarence's formal and informal social

There is much more to investigate:

Ginni is reported to have numerous associations with "hard right" people and groups. She is the owner of Liberty Consulting. She has Frank Gaffney as a client and then there are those Jan 6th emails to Mark Meadows. I want to know about the content in those emails and the nature of her relationship with "hard right" people and groups. Plus Clarence's failure to recuse on a recent supreme court decision dealing with Jan6 needs further elaboration and response from the Chief Justice Roberts. If you view "hard right" as not "conservative" but essentially "reactionary" i.e. antidemocratic practices/policy, anti-egalitarian policy promoters, immoral libertarian practices of the "southern strategy" variety; then, there is a moral need to expose and punish if needed and/or possible their actions surrounding Jan6 events.

The Press and the House Jud. Com. hopefully will provide more substantive details. I find it a very incomplete story. ymmv

[Sympthsical]

7. What kind of attention span do you think people have?

I'm still waiting for people here to realize almost no one outside media and political junkie circles cares about Jan. 6th. I'm not saying what happened isn't important. I'm saying people ran out of care about it some time ago.

Cable news and Twitter just aren't real life.

Go to your local grocery store. Poll people coming out. Ask them if they know anything about the Kushner deal or Ginni Thomas' activities.

Observe the results.

That's where those stories went.

[Kaleva]

11. +1

[ShazzieB]

16. 👍

[Tickle]

25. Correct nt

[Ohioboy]

8. I haven't heard any updates on Trump taking sensitive documents to Mar a Lago either

It seems there would something new to report with these stories.

The other side has pundits like Hannity that keep things like Hunter Biden's laptop front and center, even when there is nothing new to report.

[Kaleva]

10. It's been awhile since I've seen a thread here about that.

[Kaleva]

9. You can look at DUs 1st page and see we have short attention spans

[Hoyt]

12. If people wanted to hear more, it would be 24/7 (except maybe on FOX and right wing radio).

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Benghazi still gets more coverage. Ask Eric Boehlert why.

If only we could.

Media sleepwalks past Ginni Thomas’ treason
Burying a blockbuster

Eric Boehlert
PressRun Media, March 28, 2022

The Sunday morning talk shows sprinted into “gaffe” patrol mode after President Joe Biden made a 9-word, ad-libbed comment in Poland over the weekend about how Vladimir Putin should not be allowed to stay in power in Russia.

On “Meet the Press,” USA Today’s Susan Page emphasized Biden’s comment was “distracting” and “undisciplined.” The assembled pundits spent nearly ten minutes discussion the story, along with a new NBC poll that was bad news for Biden. (Inflation!)

What was mostly ignored by the round table was the blockbuster story about Virginia (Ginni) Thomas, wife of right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She had been texting unhinged QAnon-like messages to Trump’s chief of staff after the 2020 election, strategizing and urging that Biden’s victory be overturned, saving America from “the end of Liberty.” The NBC pundits on Sunday spent 45 seconds discussing that story.

Like when Trump was recently caught smuggling boxes of top-secret documents out of the White House, the Beltway press is treating Ginni Thomas’ seditious assault on democracy as a middling story; one that will likely receive little or no new coverage in coming days.

The revelation that Thomas’ plugged-in wife who enjoyed easy access to the Trump White House hoped that “Biden crime family & ballot fraud co-conspirators … will be living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,” came just after Republican Senators used QAnon signaling during the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. She was smeared as a child pornography apologist.

Continues…

https://pressrun.media/p/media-sleepwalks-past-ginni-thomas?s=r

Still have yet to read the NJ police or NJ transportation report on how Mr. Boehlert died in a “bike-train accident.”

[Duppers]

24. 🕯️

He and his reporting will be greatly missed.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. And we're into the third year of "Hunter's laptop"

Before that years of Hillary's email account.

After the years talking about a Bill Clinton BJ.

[Mr.Bill]

15. If they read this thread

probably 90% of America would not know what the hell we are talking about.

And that's the real problem.

[brooklynite]

17. No.

What element of the stories have not been reported?

[uponit7771]

21. All of it reported fairly little of it flooded at same level as Benghazi or WhiteWater

[brooklynite]

22. So, do you think the Democrats should have wasted time on "Kushner Committee" to generate buzz?

[uponit7771]

23. Nah, special counsel would do

[Ohio Joe]

19. It is too much work, even here people do not want to know...

I've tried promoting this story and only a handful of people have cared. I'll keep doing it but I have little hope... For all the moaning the DOJ is doing nothing, the information is out there if you do in fact care:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216597309