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Funtatlaguy

(10,887 posts)
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 07:34 AM Jul 2019

Epstein tentacles 🦑 and the MSM appetite for this story.

With Epstein arrested, will the mainstream media go full board after this story?
With rumors floating that this story might be far reaching amongst the rich and powerful, will the media first wait to see where it goes or will they investigate under every dark rock.

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Epstein tentacles 🦑 and the MSM appetite for this story. (Original Post) Funtatlaguy Jul 2019 OP
Sunlight is the best way to get to the bottom of this. marble falls Jul 2019 #1
This is a rhetorical question, right? watoos Jul 2019 #2
Just follow the Miami Herald malaise Jul 2019 #3
Loved that song.... spanone Jul 2019 #25
Don't we all malaise Jul 2019 #26
👍🏼😎 spanone Jul 2019 #27
So good to hear that one today! Thank you mucho! n/t Judi Lynn Jul 2019 #28
Rachel has already been all over this story some time ago when the particulars shraby Jul 2019 #4
Catnip to the media DeminPennswoods Jul 2019 #5
Well, it's not like they tried to bribe their kids into a good university UpInArms Jul 2019 #8
So far 8 am CNN and MSNBC lead story is.. Books_Tea_Alone Jul 2019 #6
Sickening. Just as Biden's hair sniffing was, apparently, worse than rape. Vinca Jul 2019 #7
It was a nightmare! Sniffing someone's head! Help. Judi Lynn Jul 2019 #15
Hair sniffing comes up only in Linda Flores' story and after she twisted an innocent moment emmaverybo Jul 2019 #31
Gura had Julie Brown, the Miami Herald reporter, DeminPennswoods Jul 2019 #9
Is Bill Clinton one of those tentacles? panader0 Jul 2019 #10
I hope not. But, if we turn over Every rock, we might find Dems too. Funtatlaguy Jul 2019 #11
I'm pretty sure Big Dawg was a passenger on Epstein's plane a few times. panader0 Jul 2019 #12
Here's a little article from last month about Andrew, O (Guardian): Leghorn21 Jul 2019 #16
This message was self-deleted by its author Duppers Jul 2019 #21
It was an AIDS project tour. lapucelle Jul 2019 #24
Deleted my post because Duppers Jul 2019 #34
Not just Dems Doctor Howard Jul 2019 #32
As I said in another thread gratuitous Jul 2019 #30
And royalty shanti Jul 2019 #13
This woman who was the girl in the photo was shut down in the last go around trying to get Epstein lunasun Jul 2019 #17
Hell no they won't. They'll bring up Benghazi of HRC email Baltimike Jul 2019 #14
Found this: shanti Jul 2019 #18
LOL Scurrilous Jul 2019 #19
Couric's a winger. Always was. I remember her being an Iraq war apologist. lindysalsagal Jul 2019 #20
George Stephanoupolos JustAnotherGen Jul 2019 #33
I see them going after the Epstein/Bill Clinton angle. spanone Jul 2019 #22
my money is ona far and wide media blackout BadGimp Jul 2019 #23
There is nothing here that can't be explained with a conspiracy theory and blamed on Obama, Clinton Thomas Hurt Jul 2019 #29
no way the msm wants this story brettdale Jul 2019 #35

shraby

(21,946 posts)
4. Rachel has already been all over this story some time ago when the particulars
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 07:48 AM
Jul 2019

of his unusual plea deal came out.
I'm sure she won't let it rest.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
5. Catnip to the media
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 07:55 AM
Jul 2019

They will not be able to stay away from this story. It's got everything, sex, wealth, power, celebrities, the rich and famous, maybe even some politicos.

Vinca

(50,304 posts)
7. Sickening. Just as Biden's hair sniffing was, apparently, worse than rape.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 08:07 AM
Jul 2019

Why do they give Trump a pass???????????????????

Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)
15. It was a nightmare! Sniffing someone's head! Help.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:10 AM
Jul 2019

I always felt she made that up, knowing it sounds funny, and a grown adult would never stoop to claiming "I didn't sniff her hair." It would be so petty!

I have never known anyone who goes around sniffing anyone's head. Never!

It would have been funny if he had done that, and then told her "the top of your head smells funny."

You do make an excellent point. The media leaped at that unprovable story. She could have said anything, it was clearly a "she said" whopper, and they chose to make an uproar.

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
31. Hair sniffing comes up only in Linda Flores' story and after she twisted an innocent moment
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:56 PM
Jul 2019

with a small boy into Biden mocking women, mocking CONSENT, she is absolutely not a responsible narrator. She is heavily Bernie-connected, was still at the time she felt such a need to
push her nothing really happened but...story, and as such, can not be considered a credible source.
If THAT, sniffing hair, was Biden’s M.O., a hundred women could have testified to it and undoubtedly would,

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
9. Gura had Julie Brown, the Miami Herald reporter,
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 10:08 AM
Jul 2019

on and his panel was peppering her with questions. AM Joy will be discussing the case later in her show today.

Response to panader0 (Reply #12)

lapucelle

(18,334 posts)
24. It was an AIDS project tour.
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:08 PM
Jul 2019
In addition, Clinton and Hollywood guests including Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker toured AIDS projects in Africa in 2002 aboard a 727 jet Epstein owned.


The right wing came up short on their fishing expedition.

A Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service records of visits Clinton may have made to Epstein’s Little St. James Island produced no such evidence.


https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/04/jeffrey-epstein-trump-lawsuit-sex-trafficking-237983

Duppers

(28,127 posts)
34. Deleted my post because
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:37 PM
Jul 2019

I just found that Wiki source was from FOX!!
I question wiki letting any Faux sources stand.

 

Doctor Howard

(22 posts)
32. Not just Dems
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 03:02 PM
Jul 2019

but high profile businessmen, media figures, celebrities, etc.

Might be the silver bullet for why Trump runs rampant unchecked.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
30. As I said in another thread
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:47 PM
Jul 2019
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12255971

If it turns out that Clinton was involved with Epstein's nefarious deeds, then hang him, too. But if (as I suspect), Clinton was hanging around with a rich white guy because that's something politicians do and he wasn't involved, then it's going to take a pretty broad and at the same time selective brush to tar Clinton while absolving Trump. Not that the media aren't up to such a task, but if Clinton was actually involved in something illegal, I should think we would have heard about it by now. Certainly we've all heard the stories about illegal conduct that never happened (e.g., Mena airport, Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor, Whitewater, the murder of Vincent Foster dressed up to look like a suicide). Clinton's enemies haven't been very discriminating in blaming him for stuff.

shanti

(21,675 posts)
13. And royalty
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:01 AM
Jul 2019

Prince Andrew has been implicated too. Does anyone really think that this will be allowed to be fully prosecuted? It’s like that “too big to fail” bank thing. I’m not optimistic.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
17. This woman who was the girl in the photo was shut down in the last go around trying to get Epstein
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 12:03 PM
Jul 2019

just the photos or old diaries from girls are not enough . I think they have more proof this time but she felt that epstein bragging years ago that he has people to get him off was true considering how the first case against him went .
Andrew guessed her age at 16 during a conversation with Maxwell in front of the girl before having a bath and sex with her . Maxwell told him yes
But she was really 17 and maxwell later complained that soon she would be too old for these affairs
In interviews the woman talked about how everyone involved in the prosecution seemed held back by something or someone . Hard to say if it will be the same or different this time or what the media will release

Baltimike

(4,147 posts)
14. Hell no they won't. They'll bring up Benghazi of HRC email
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:07 AM
Jul 2019

or they will go full tilt boogie on Bill Clinton's connections to Epstein. Because the "liberal media" has been the conservative press all along.

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)
19. LOL
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 12:10 PM
Jul 2019

From years back...

Couric, Stephanopolous, And Rose Should Follow Prince Andrew's Lead (Jul. 22, 2011)

<snip>

"Prince Andrew resigned today as British trade envoy, in part, due to his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein was forced to pleaded guilty to soliciting under age girls for prostitution. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail, most of it served in a work release program. He has allegedly settled lawsuits with 7 of the underage girls, but there are rumors of many more young girls.

After Epstein got out of jail, Prince Andrew visited Epstein. In return, Epstein threw a pary for him. Incredibly Katie Couric, George Stephanoplous, and Charlie Rose attended the event at the home of a registered sex offender.

While the British press made a big fuss about Prince Andrew's friendship with a sex offender, the American media has not said a word about three media superstars consorting with a pedophile. Couric reproached Congress for ignoring the problem of sex trafficking just two weeks later. I am, at a loss, at how she could do this with a straight face.

When contacted, sources close to Couric said, "She was invited to the party by publicist Peggy Siegal. She was focused on the guest of honor, Prince Andrew, not the host. It is safe to say that she will not be attending events at Epstein's house in the future."

https://www.businessinsider.com/couric-stephanopolous-rose-should-follow-prince-andrews-lead-2011-7

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
20. Couric's a winger. Always was. I remember her being an Iraq war apologist.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 12:14 PM
Jul 2019

Something really twisted in that woman's head.

spanone

(135,877 posts)
22. I see them going after the Epstein/Bill Clinton angle.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 09:27 PM
Jul 2019

I heard it mentioned twice today and I wasn't paying close attention.

BadGimp

(4,019 posts)
23. my money is ona far and wide media blackout
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 10:59 PM
Jul 2019

far too many high powered people are involved and also includes those that covered up for them...

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
29. There is nothing here that can't be explained with a conspiracy theory and blamed on Obama, Clinton
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 02:40 PM
Jul 2019

(snark)

brettdale

(12,384 posts)
35. no way the msm wants this story
Mon Jul 8, 2019, 08:56 PM
Jul 2019

If Epstein had never meet trump or had anything to do with him, they would
be all over it.

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