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In reply to the discussion: Disappeared media stories? [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,795 posts)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 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.
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.
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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.
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They don't care about those stories when they've got Hunter Biden's laptop to slobber over.
SoonerPride
Apr 2022
#2
TFG called the press the enemy of the people. I'm not sure he wasn't right.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2022
#4
I haven't heard any updates on Trump taking sensitive documents to Mar a Lago either
Ohioboy
Apr 2022
#8
If people wanted to hear more, it would be 24/7 (except maybe on FOX and right wing radio).
Hoyt
Apr 2022
#12
All of it reported fairly little of it flooded at same level as Benghazi or WhiteWater
uponit7771
Apr 2022
#21
So, do you think the Democrats should have wasted time on "Kushner Committee" to generate buzz?
brooklynite
Apr 2022
#22