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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Lieu just said that trump's name was all over the epstein files
and he told the press to their faces that they might want to cover that. I'm not holding my breath.

proud patriot
(101,474 posts)
obamanut2012
(28,210 posts)GreenWave
(10,045 posts)Kid Berwyn
(19,062 posts)The Miami Herald exposed a vast criminal network and a government cover-up but why the silence elsewhere?
Ed Pilkington
The Guardian, July 19, 2019
EXCERPT...
Reiter warned Brown what would happen were she to continue digging: Somebodys going to call your publisher and the next thing you know you are going to be assigned to the obituaries department.
Brown did not heed his warning. She flung herself at the investigation and eventually persuaded Reiter to go on record. Her resulting, award-winning three-part series last November exposed a vast operation in which 80 potential victims were identified, some as young as 13 and 14 at the time of the alleged abuse. She persuaded eight to tell their stories.
Brown also exposed a government cover-up in which Epstein got away with an exceptionally light sentence that saw him serve only 13 months in jail. She discovered that a non-prosecution agreement had been negotiated secretly in 2008 by the then top federal prosecutor in Miami, Alexander Acosta, that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution.
In 2017, Acosta was appointed by Donald Trump as labor secretary, a post that ironically is responsible for combating sex trafficking.
CONTINUES...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/13/jeffrey-epstein-alex-acosta-miami-herald-media
GreenWave
(10,045 posts)Hard to keep track of all the crime on the other side.
LiberalArkie
(17,234 posts)ever heard of the "Press" ever skipping stories. Especially ones that would sale papers.
DJ Porkchop
(635 posts)And feed back to Trump what could be demolished forever.
Nothing "ironic" there.
Bill Barr's daddy got Epstein his teaching job at university, as I recall. Bill was Trump's attorney for this reason.
Nothing ironic there.
It's a web of scuzzy backroom fuckrats.
CoopersDad
(3,041 posts)JohnSJ
(97,338 posts)NoveltySocks
(408 posts)Who looks nothing like my awesome rep, Congressman Lieu. But I guess all Asian guys look alike to these white "journalists."
senseandsensibility
(20,796 posts)Is that what happened?
NoveltySocks
(408 posts)apparently Takano called for POTUS to step aside during the Zoom meeting this reporter was discussing. The reporter falsely attributed the sentiment to Lieu, who didn't even speak during the call.
Trueblue1968
(18,380 posts)PuraVidaDreamin
(4,245 posts)Say it everytime you get in front of the camera-
EVERY single democratic senator and congress person MUST say this ALL THE TIME
flamingdem
(40,069 posts)Huge story that the MSM doesn't want to touch.
shrike3
(5,370 posts)spanone
(138,117 posts)Johnny2X2X
(22,200 posts)The Epstein papers released are full of Trump and not just mentioning him, but detailed notes of his reservations with the girl's Epstein was trafficking for private massages. If this was Bill Clinton's name and not Trump's, it would be headline stories for weeks.
THE MEDIA IS ALL IN ON HELPING TRUMP!!! The sooner everyone realizes that, the sooner we can work to defeat it.
And Katie Tur being allowed to keep her job is a sign of how bad things are. She literally works for the Trump campaign and MSNBC's leadership is so compromised they are letting her keep pretending to be a news person. 5 years ago she would have been fired. I truly believe Trump has people on his payroll at every major news outlet. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, FOX (obviously), NY Times, WashPost, and I think even NPR, this is what we're up against.
llmart
(16,332 posts)President Joseph R. Biden
johnnyfins
(1,669 posts)I say the DEMS need to go scorched earth. Put TSF on defense with this Epstein stuff. Make it so he HAS to respond. Keep it in the news cycle by injecting it into EVRY interview.
AllaN01Bear
(23,829 posts)
crud
(889 posts)of getting threats. I think we have been discounting that aspect of the fascist takeover. No one wants to stick their necks out. Attack Biden, you get clicks, attack trump you get threats.
KS Toronado
(20,590 posts)reporters are fully aware of TSF's revenge politics, they've seen it first hand and behind closed doors
worry that he'll bring the guillotine back out. Takes a very principled reporter to attack him.
bdamomma
(67,248 posts)a government takeover or coup, you get rid of all journalists who are not in lockstep with the authoritarian.
I believe they are scared to get rounded in camps, but many of us are too. You are there to report the news to inform and educate the electorate not to protect a convicted felon. WTF!!!!
wnylib
(25,183 posts)By not doing it together, anyone who tries to stands out as a target.
Blue Owl
(55,210 posts)That fucking child rapist needs to be in JAIL, not the goddamned White House.
Jesus fucking Christ if only we had mainstream media that actually cared about our country.
FakeNoose
(36,511 posts)... but their bosses - the editors - won't allow it.
Even Woodward and Bernstein had a boss who gave them a greenlight to cover the Watergate break-in.
evolves
(5,603 posts)drag all of that depravity out into the open.
Hugin
(35,413 posts)Tree Lady
(12,218 posts)Online and offline the press is owned by republican billionaires. And I will vote for Joe even if he dies. Not that I think that will happen but making my point.
Been spreading that around Facebook. I quit twitter when Musk took over.
I also mention we have never won by changing anyone last minute. And this election is too important to mess up.
blue cat
(2,444 posts)Link to tweet
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FuzzyRabbit
(2,112 posts)I didn't hear the question but his answer to the reporter was this: "Robert Hur isn't a doctor, and neither are you!"
The Dems need to tell the truth like this more often. Too many Dems are afraid of hurting reporters' and Republican's feelings.
And I read something else the other day. The writer, I don't know who, wrote that most TV pundits don't have any more knowledge about politics than the average person. But then most of us on DU had that figured out a long time ago.
BigmanPigman
(52,557 posts)
dalton99a
(86,172 posts)Amaryllis
(9,938 posts)BaronChocula
(2,536 posts)live love laugh
(14,883 posts)
Quixote1818
(30,556 posts)nt
BaronChocula
(2,536 posts)Maybe if it hits critical mass in the socials will they lift a finger.
senseandsensibility
(20,796 posts)they can and will ignore anything.
wnylib
(25,183 posts)If asked whether they support Biden, they could respond, "Of course I do. Biden's name is not all over the Epstein papers about child rape like Trump's name is."
Or mention it in a BBC or Guardian interview so that American media feel scooped by foreign media.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,384 posts)If the reputation of TSF gets tarnished further so be it.
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gets tarnished further
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(118,417 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,349 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)He likes ones who look like his daughter (yuck!), as he told Stormy ick ick ick ick ick how vile must someone be??.
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Evolve Dammit
(19,818 posts)3catwoman3
(26,102 posts)...molested in some fashion.
There are certainly no pictures like that of me with my dad.
NJCher
(38,725 posts)How anyone could look at that sick display and not realize something is very, very wrong is beyond me.
B.See
(4,339 posts)Evolve Dammit
(19,818 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)Maybe the vampiric entity felt the loss of crowdal adulation at the debate and decided 'this one's played out' and left that night for a fresh host...
Or the drugs they gave him for the debate spazzed something and he's a puppet, like John Gill. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Patterns_of_Force_(episode)
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ArkansasDemocrat1
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Evolve Dammit
(19,818 posts)Evolve Dammit
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Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,416 posts)He caught some blowback for that lie.
Emile
(32,265 posts)Suicide or suicided?
Deek1935
(1,055 posts)BigmanPigman
(52,557 posts)That NEVER happens on You Tube. That gives me some hope that people really are pissed off about this. I have been monitoring comments on Meidas Touch videos lately.
Blue Owl
(55,210 posts)Response to senseandsensibility (Original post)
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airmid
(510 posts)jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)ffr
(23,142 posts)Ted Lieu is the MAN!