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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 Todays Susan Page emphasized Bidens 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 Trumps chief of staff after the 2020 election, strategizing and urging that Bidens 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.
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Blue Owl
(49,937 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)elias7
(3,976 posts)The MSM is either driven so strongly by profits that real news is no longer relevant or tasked by their conservative masters to play up this and play down that. Either way, they do tend to suck, falling deeper in that abyss of irrelevance.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)The media is controlled by the big advertisers who are also the big donors to politicians. They will not focus on anything the advertisers dont want told.
MagickMuffin
(15,893 posts)They have no interest to report or discuss anything that would have a negative impact on their financial wealth.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)At 8:05 p.m. on June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg was executed at Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York.
At 8:15 p.m. on the same date, Ethel Rosenberg was executed at Sing Sing Prison.
When democracys enemies have been judged guilty of a crime as horrible as that of which the Rosenbergs were convicted; when the legal processes of democracy have been marshaled to their maximum strength to protect the lives of convicted spies; when in their most solemn judgment the tribunals of the United States have adjudged them guilty and the sentence just, I will not intervene in this matter.
There was a time when crimes against democracy and the United States of America carried a terrible price. The Thomas' should be subject to trial and given a fair hearing, but justice cannot be done by a scowlaw and his poltical hack wife or the concept of one nation under LAW is torn asunder.
If tried and found guilty, they should be punished accordingly.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,721 posts)No regrets.
dchill
(38,324 posts)Functions of corporate press.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Our popular media overlords would rather do practically anything than fashion a story/scandal out of Clarence and Ginni Thomas. For good or ill (and it's for ill), the Thomases are in the club, and they aren't to be touched.
Ford_Prefect
(7,830 posts)a high profile outspoken female member of the Conservative Christian Nationalist movement. They want to pretend she's nothing more than his wife, no matter her extremist opinions. The same way they want to normalize the behavior of the establishment RW fascists.
bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)Revealing the truth would topple the whole structure. Can't have any of that.
Jetheels
(991 posts)NewHendoLib
(59,940 posts)That's why.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Apparently.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And so do most of the big MSM. (On the subject of pointing out the obvious.)
ck4829
(34,977 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)if it's bad news for the cons and they can't ignore it they rationalize, downplay, distort, distract (biden) or whatabout for as long as it takes
it's really amazing dems and liberals continue to do nothing about that advantage, the only unique advantage rep[ublicans have
Martin68
(22,671 posts)Washington Post are giving the story a great deal of coverage, much of it shared in posts on DU. Please identify the media involved instead of issuingg a blanket condemnation of "The Media."
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dlk
(11,438 posts)The level of hypocrisy is astounding!
Marthe48
(16,695 posts)for the turncoats to get to D.C. to try to overthrow the government