Sounds like the sham impeachment hearing is full of bombshells

[senseandsensibility]

and Rs are looking like fools. Many of their claims have been exposed as Russian propaganda. Bill Barr has been implicated in the false claims.

My question is: why isn't this being shown on CNN and MSNBC? It's just as important to expose these lies to the American people as it was to show the real impeachment hearings against cheato. The people should see how low these rightwingers will go, and how intermeshed they are with Russian interests. That's important. That's newsworthy, don't you think?

[senseandsensibility]

1. Not only are they not covering it live

they're not leading with it either. I have only checked intermittently, but I don't know
if they are talking about it at all.

[Cha]

3. Yeah, you'd thihk M$m would be All Excieted about a

Biden Impeachment hearing?!

Oh except when Lev Parmas is Throwing Truth Bombs.

[senseandsensibility]

4. Weird, isn't it?

When the truth starts to come to light, it's time to look the other way I guess.

[Cha]

9. It's the Twilight Zone.. and Orwell's 1984.

Hopefully Rachel and LO'D will talk about this Bombshell news Against the Fascists.

And, Thank Goodness for Social Media!

[B.See]

34. NBC Nighty News with Lester Holt didn't get to the story

until 10 minutes into their half hour broadcast... after reports on a number of other stories and an Al Roker weather forecast.

But at least they did air Parnas' saying Repugnantcans enlisted him to find dirt on Joe Biden, he found absolutely none, and that the MAGA scum in Congress were essentially acting as treasonous agents of Putin.

[senseandsensibility]

35. That's something I guess

But you know it would be otherwise if the hearing had gone bad for Biden!

[B.See]

37. Absolutely. Though for contrast, here's how FUX News handled it

Watch: Fox News cuts off Lev Parnas as soon as he admits Russia is behind Biden smears

Fox News cut away from its coverage of a House hearing Wednesday as soon as one of the witnesses testified that Russia was behind allegations against President Joe Biden.

While the hearing was on impeachment, a much-talked-about topic at Fox News, the network did not spend much time covering it after Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani and a witness called by the Democrats, began speaking.

"The American people have been lied to by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and various cohorts of individuals in government and media positions," he told the House Oversight Committee. "They created falsehoods to serve their own interests, knowing it would undermine the strength of our nation."

[DiverDave]

44. Its all about the

Money. Right wing money is on the trump train.
And there is a boatload of money.

[barbaraann]

2. I keep checking Google News.

Nothing in the top stories. Has the objectivity of the mainstream media been an illusion my entire life?

[senseandsensibility]

5. Wow.

That's really amazing. You know that if there were any bombshells that implicated Biden we would be hearng about nothing else.

[NanaCat]

15. Yes

Because, other than a brief spell in the 70s, the media has always had the backs only of the rich, the powerful and especially the white and conservative.

[erronis]

30. I do go to the google news site every morning and am consistently disappointed

by their lack of important coverage. I'll see lots of stale 2+ day-old articles. Of course they don't let us select which sources since they know best.

Always looking for a better overall news aggregator.

[erronis]

31. Oh, I'll add that google (and everyone else) watches what sites/articles you look at.

[hurl]

42. I don't think so

Back when mainstream media was more unbiased, the rightwingers came up with the ingenious strategy to 'work the refs' and complain that the objective coverage was inherently biased against conservatives (because reality is, as we know, biased against conservatives). The end result was that networks became so afraid of being called by rightwingers biased against the whiners that they started this current both-sidesing trend that has diminished media from its traditional position as an adversarial watchdog to feeling the need to include minority views no matter how insignificant lest they be accused of bias.

[IcyPeas]

6. MSNBC have it live on their youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/live/5hhJJObk8rk

[senseandsensibility]

7. That's good to know but I wonder

how many people watch their youtube compared to MSNBC.

[Kaleva]

8. Not that many people watch CNN and MSNBC

Less then 5% of the adult population.

And many of those that do are or lean D or liberal already.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Doesn't explain the lack of coverage

when many newsworthy things are happening.

[RussBLib]

14. And you KNOW you won't see it on the big networks

I mean, we should not preempt Judge Judy, Family Feud or Kelly Clarkson just because the GOP is being humiliated!!

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Kaleva]

21. I haven't watched tv news in years

and yet I feel I'm well informed. I prefer reading and using multiple sources.

[MOMFUDSKI]

11. If my dad were still alive he would say

They Bit a Hog in the Ass

[RussBLib]

12. Alicia Menendez next segment on it

...but yeah, why no coverage? Fox was on it awhile, not even C-SPAN

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[senseandsensibility]

13. Glad to hear it

I just saw that CNN is covering it but they are referring to shenanigans on both sides and not addressing the real issue, that the charges are false. And they're not live; Tapper is putting his spin on it.

[progressoid]

32. Fox does their spin afterwards.

I watched about 15 minutes of The Five and saw some mind blowing spin. They have nothing but still scream about how corrupt Biden is. Even with no evidence.

[2naSalit]

16. I had to turn it off...

Before the third minute so I would guess they thought too many would do the same. I bet tonight there will be plenty for the night crew to say after they have had time to digest it. And it's the middle of the day in the middle of the week, who is watching anyway? I'm waiting for this evening.

[senseandsensibility]

17. Did you turn it off during the R questioning?

They can be very hard to take, but the Dems got some spectacular hits in. Those should be covered in the summaries of the hearing, but on CNN it was just more both siderism. But you're right, Lawrence will be good tonight.

[2naSalit]

18. Yes, both times.

And when the two liars were lying. I don't have time for that so I'll wait, I'm patient.

I thought I could watch it but turns out...

[RussBLib]

19. Argh!

...I just spent 20 minutes transcribing Charlie Syke's comments re the hearing (it was gold) and just as I was adding italics to the post, my wife texted me, and ah! Goddamit! Accidentally erased the whole thing! My own damn fat fingers fault. I was telling myself "use the computer!" But I stayed on the phone with those tiny buttons. Sigh. Not going to do it again!

Oh well. It was only 20 minutes out of my life.

[senseandsensibility]

20. Sorry that happened!

Maybe you could give us a brief synopsis?

[RussBLib]

23. haha - transcription

What the hell, I used the computer this time. Much easier. Perhaps the PTB didn't want all those names and all that damning testimony to be seen by a wide audience.

from MSNBC, approx 3:48pm Central, 3/20/24

Alicia Menendez: "Charlie, it (the hearing) was a spectacle. I think we've come to expect a spectacle, and yet that doesn't make it any less disappointing because to the Congressman's point, there is actual work that they need to be doing for the American people, right? All of this comes at a price, not just to our politics but to the very essence of our democracy."

Charlie Sykes: "Well, yes, um, but I do have to say that what happened today was truly amazing, even by our standards. I mean, it is one thing to say that this thing is falling apart but, that actually understates how horrifically bad this is. I mean, this is Dumb and Dumber. Lev Parnas, um, coming out and just humiliating this Committee. Calling out by name Senator Ron Johnson, you know, Congressman Pete Sessions, uh, talking about the disinformation, how it comes from Russia. If there was even a LITTLE BIT of shame in James Comer's, uh, personality, they would have just completely turned off the lights and left the room and gone off to, I don't know, a retreat someplace. This was a, uh, you know, really, in one day, you encapsulated how absurd this was. And then, juxtapose it with the actual serious business in front of Congress. We're a few days away from a shutdown, and yet we have this incredibly inept circus going on. And so, it is a circus. We've talked about that before, but the ineptness, the absurdity was just on display. I mean, I just urge people, go, go watch a YouTube video of his (Parnas) testimony. Watch the way in which, uh, the Republican members of this Committee were humiliated, how they are flailing here. And, um, again, this is not going to get any better. The criminal referral is a kind of Hail Mary pass. It's a way of saying 'We're doing something.' Doesn't mean that it's not dangerous. A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower. Uh, but, uh, this was a very bad day, um, after many many bad days for this Committee."

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[senseandsensibility]

24. Thank you so much!

Love it, and sounds like Sykes got the big picture, unlike Menendez! Calling it a spectacle and moving on is not the way to cover this.

[2naSalit]

22. Oh no!

I hate it when that happens!

[RussBLib]

28. Fortunately I had recorded it

So the transcription was easy on the computer. Those fucking tiny smartphone keyboard buttons!!! And the voice transcription didn't cut it.

I enjoyed it.

[CrispyQ]

39. There are some good clips of dems in this thread, most short & to the point.

https://democraticunderground.com/100218794466

[moniss]

25. Remember how the

TV coverage was for the 8+ hours of Hillary testifying over and over to the GQP "gotcha" questions about Benghazi?

[senseandsensibility]

26. That is a very good point

Just add it to the list. The other day I read a good post on here about how Hillary was asked over and over why she didn't leave Bill during the Lewinsky thing, but Melania has never been asked why she didn't leave cheato.

[moniss]

29. I saw that post also

and it is true. From the media perspective I remember when women were on panels giving their opinions as to what Hillary "should have done." I remember female anchors and reporters with their disapproving expressions and statements. Not a word for Melania.

I mentioned in an OP awhile back how the media and the political world tore apart Gary Hart during his campaign when the picture surfaced of his "girlfriend" sitting on his lap on a boat. Basically put the scarlet A on him for his marital infidelity and ended his political career for the most part. Torn to shreds by the same people who had many in their ranks doing the same thing but yet being protected by the very same ones howling the loudest.

[CrispyQ]

40. And if HRC had left him they would have asked her, "Why couldn't you forgive him?"

They'll never hold repubs to the same standard, but the media really had it out for HRC, for many, many years. It was disgustingly misogynistic & unprofessional.

[niyad]

33. Eleven hours.

[2naSalit]

41. Unfortunately, yes.

[moniss]

27. Remember how the

number one topic for air time in 2016 was the e-mails of Hillary? No other topic got more air time. Not even close. Despite being cleared. And then came Comey.

[cilla4progress]

36. That's why these guys are

my new go to.

Meidastouch Network.

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[liberalla]

43. That was great!

Don't they know how silly they look? I don't understand how they can keep going... it's ridiculous!

[Johonny]

38. You know at one time, this kind of testimony

Would end careers. Now a days, the GOP has zero ethical standards so it won't change a darn thing.