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CNN Headline Says They're Lining Up Behind MF (Original Post) WiVoter Friday OP
Who's MF? lamp_shade Friday #1
The orange Turd WiVoter Friday #2
The question is why are they lining up? Raven123 Friday #3
Yes, they're all in on normalizing this and blowing it off senseandsensibility Friday #4
Wikileaks started releasing DNC emails that afternoon Qutzupalotl Friday #19
I just heard that too and changed the channel mcar Friday #5
I heard that too on MSNBC yesterday--their source was one Megyn Kelly tweet. Then Bloomberg used Mike 03 Friday #6
It's called a "narrative" and the corporate media senseandsensibility Friday #10
And it seems like some people MorbidButterflyTat Friday #21
For those who don't or can't go to the CNN website, the actual headline is the following lostincalifornia Friday #7
Thank You WiVoter Friday #8
Bannon is in the Epstein files like Musk said newdeal2 Friday #9
I won't be surprised if the WH pressures the MSM to drop coverage of this, and they cheerfully oblige. lostincalifornia Friday #12
Lawrence O'Donnell won't MorbidButterflyTat Friday #22
No Shit.. I Cancelled All Manipulative $$$$$ Media Cha Friday #17
Will someone explain to me why Steve Bannon's opinion Boomerproud Friday #11
Because they like unshaven conspiracy jackasses who don't take showers. lostincalifornia Friday #13
And drink their weight MorbidButterflyTat Friday #23
might take more than a weekend, but i'll be amazed if this is what brings donnie down. unblock Friday #14
None of this will fucking cause the MAGA fuckstains to stop protecting & endorsing child rape. Piss on those MAGA turds. SoFlaBro Friday #15
Some of the corporate media is now trying to shift the nation's focus from the disgrace Uncle Joe Friday #16
The cult really couldn't care less if he raped a 9-year-old on 5th Avenue in broad daylight on live television dalton99a Friday #18
Stick to bdamomma Friday #20

Raven123

(6,868 posts)
3. The question is why are they lining up?
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:41 PM
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Battle to replace him?

Seriously, I think it’s BS too

senseandsensibility

(22,917 posts)
4. Yes, they're all in on normalizing this and blowing it off
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:43 PM
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as a nothingburger. I just switched to CNN for a moment and some dude was saying that this feels like the Access Hollywood situation and that blew over so this will too, basically. They are already signaling last night that their message would be that this helps him with his base.

Qutzupalotl

(15,440 posts)
19. Wikileaks started releasing DNC emails that afternoon
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 06:02 PM
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seeded with a few fakes. That helped Access Hollywood die down, thanks to Russian asset Assange. The WH can’t count on help this time, so they have to make their own distractions.

mcar

(44,942 posts)
5. I just heard that too and changed the channel
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:43 PM
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They are looking at it only through a political lens. The reporter also claimed that the WSJ's story about the sophomoric birthday letter TACO gave to Epstein has convinced his followers that everything is A OK.

Mike 03

(18,572 posts)
6. I heard that too on MSNBC yesterday--their source was one Megyn Kelly tweet. Then Bloomberg used
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:50 PM
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that same Megyn Kelly quote as its "evidence" MAGA is lining up behind Trump. But that's not what I'm seeing, at all.

senseandsensibility

(22,917 posts)
10. It's called a "narrative" and the corporate media
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:55 PM
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excels at creating narratives to normalize trump.

lostincalifornia

(3,886 posts)
7. For those who don't or can't go to the CNN website, the actual headline is the following
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:52 PM
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"MAGA influencers line up behind Trump after days of pressuring administration for more on Epstein"

With a photo of banon, implied as leading the charge.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if the MSM rags quietly stop covering the story about the epstein/trump connections, if they are ordered to by this WH.

Just look at how CBS, ABC, and a good number of law firms caved to the dictator.

It should be clear to most people that the MSM cannot be trusted as a reliable or accurate source.



lostincalifornia

(3,886 posts)
12. I won't be surprised if the WH pressures the MSM to drop coverage of this, and they cheerfully oblige.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:59 PM
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Boomerproud

(8,864 posts)
11. Will someone explain to me why Steve Bannon's opinion
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:57 PM
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means anything? Also, the more important question is if the Access Hollywood tape didn't ruin T, which it obviously didn't, and the smirking MAGAS agree that Epstein won't either, what does that say about American character? Too afraid to ask it and too afraid to answer it.

unblock

(55,400 posts)
14. might take more than a weekend, but i'll be amazed if this is what brings donnie down.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:01 PM
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they all knew he was a convicted felon, the biggest liar in history, credibly accused of sexual assault by over 2 dozen women, found legally liable for at least one of those, has paid to kill negative stories about himself, has signed thousands of non-disclosure agreements to keep negative stories quiet, and so on and so on.

they know who he is. they know he's a crminal, they know he "grabs 'em by the p*ssy", they know he just takes to satisfy himself and does not care about consent, they know he walks into teenage dressing rooms to ogle the girls, and the know he's been multiple times with epstein. c'mon, do the math. they've always known.

but the bottom line is that there are no lines they won't cross.

they may be uncomfortable crossing some of those lines, but eventually, they will cross them.

they have *never* demonstrated an ability to say no and stick with it.

SoFlaBro

(3,569 posts)
15. None of this will fucking cause the MAGA fuckstains to stop protecting & endorsing child rape. Piss on those MAGA turds.
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:07 PM
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Uncle Joe

(62,363 posts)
16. Some of the corporate media is now trying to shift the nation's focus from the disgrace
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:10 PM
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of actual sexual trafficking, sexual abuse, and pedophilia by the most wealthy and powerful including potentially the President of the United States to a political argument using the Wall Street Journal's depiction as somehow a counter to the former.

That's the thing about the corporate media, always politics, never policy.

Thanks for the thread WiVoter

dalton99a

(89,477 posts)
18. The cult really couldn't care less if he raped a 9-year-old on 5th Avenue in broad daylight on live television
Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:30 PM
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and murdered her parents

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