David Cay Johnston on CSPAN Book TV talking about why US media refuses to talk about

[Gabi Hayes]

Trump’s mafia connectioins, but has appeared expressively on European outlets about this

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-trafficker-donald-trump-risked-his-casino-empire-to-protect

At a book fair in Tucson

Compelling

Watch it!

They just ran a bit from the panel, and now are interviewing him live:

100 milllion people couldn’t vote in the election, but didn’t, he says, and we’re outsourcing our government to people who are using it like a piggy bank

Etc

Callers about to start in

[HipChick]

1. Good article...again all questions the media

never bothered to ask or follow up on..

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Believe me, journalistic malpractice the likes of which the world has never seen!

It’s SAD!

[Gabi Hayes]

3. He knows Trumps business deals better than Trump:

Trump asked him how he knew so much about his business dealings, to which he answered, “I read the public record.”

Called him ‘’appallingly ignorant’’

Touting book: It’s Even Worse Than You Think it Is, about the first 250 days, and how the administration is dismanting the foundations of government as we know it, while the media IGNORE it

[Achilleaze]

4. OK. Why does the media refuse?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. Great question.....why did they refuse to ever discuss BUsh AWOL? Look what happened to Dan

Rather when he tried

There are myriad examples of this

Every big wheel in the Reagan admin should have gone to prison for both the October Surprise AND Iran Contra, but the media resolutely refused to follow up on the ignored coverage of reporters like Dan Bonner and Robert Parry

Who knows why?

[Gabi Hayes]

7. Remember the Bush pardons?

Cap Weinberger is one of those I mentioned who certainly should have done time for obstruction of justice, perjury, to name a few counts, but he never even had to stand trial.

[Achilleaze]

9. CBS recently moved Scott Pelley out of the anchor chair

and moved in some corporate toady named Glor. Pelley was doing a kick-ass job reporting on the treason against America. CBS buried him for a corporate toady who is soft as puppy shit on Dirty Donnie and the republican traitors. CBS is just a corporate whimp out spigot most nights.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Gabi Hayes]

10. Interesting, not surprising. I never watch the news, only the bobble heads on CNNMSNBC

Should do less of that, and more of this:

[pangaia]

13. The pandas are smarter than the zookeeper.. :))

[tblue37]

14. Gimmee dat! nt

[yonder]

12. Why? Big money at the top of the heap.

Old wealth leveraging the wheels of the world. Dark wealth controlled by unknown (to us) faces and forces. Unimaginable wealth that calls the shots even to the likes of the Koch brothers. Yeah sure, the so-called "liberal media" pretends to report the news, but if it hits too close to home or uncovering their agenda, nothing, time to pull the plug. Like dark matter in the universe: the science says it's there, but we don't know where and are unsure of its nature.

Of course, I have no proof and would be the first to say I sound a whole lot like a tin-hatted conspiracy kook. But I have a blind faith in the idea of the inherent evilness of the pursuit of wealth for wealth's sake. Not much good can come from that chase. Just follow the money trail upward while observing the misery all around us. The ubiquitous misery that never. quite. gets. attended. to.

So, in my opinion, that's why. As kooky as it might sound.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Hes a registered Republican

Lou Dobbs asked him, his bosses at the NYT at the time were not happy

Too late.....all over

Hope the panel with Katy Tur, John Nichols, and Devil’s Bargain guy will be replayed. Caught the last half hour of that

[Gabi Hayes]

8. And on a repugnant note, Betsy DV is on regular CSPAN, speechifying on how great shes going to

Make education, by destroying the public system as we know it

[Angry Dragon]

11. Another Trump Hemorrhoid

[pangaia]

15. Wow.. What anybody with a brain has suspected or just instinctively known,

pretty much evidence that trump is just another mafia gangster...

who is so stupid he is in over his head.. I HOPE!!

THIS makes me wonder anew who really controls the media....

And maybe not just TPTB.
Unless the gangsters are actually TPTB.

[mountain grammy]

16. Good article..

and good question. Why isn't the media covering this?

[Gabi Hayes]

17. Any mention of this on the shows today, given the Duterte like comments?

Of COURSE not

They never talk about this, when, if they had two years ago, might have sunk his campaign in its infancy

What a surprise

[Gabi Hayes]

18. Not on Joy, so far.....

Wonder why MSNBC avoids.....

[Gabi Hayes]

19. Tucson Book fest on again today, for 7 1/2 hours. Might rerun the panel and DCJ on the phone

Worth checking out

[liberalla]

20. posting reminder to read later

[Gabi Hayes]

21. He was just on another panel with Nancy McLean, whose work is just as important as his

Democracy in Chains leaves me with hope: Perhaps as books like MacLean’s continue to shine a light on important truths, Americans will begin to realize they need to pay more attention and not succumb to the cynical view that known liars make the best leaders.”
—New York Times Book Review

“A remarkable new book which argues that the radical right revolution engineered by Charles and his brother David is not just about accruing political and economic power, but about restricting democracy itself.”
—The New Republic

“[A] vibrant intellectual history of the radical right . . . [MacLean] has dug deep into her material—not just Buchanan’s voluminous, unsorted papers, but other archives, too—and she has made powerful and disturbing use of it all. . . . The behind-the-scenes days and works of Buchanan show how much deliberation and persistence—in the face of formidable opposition—underlie the antigoverning politics ascendant today. What we think of as dysfunction is the result of years of strategic effort.”
—The Atlantic

“This sixty-year campaign to make libertarianism mainstream and eventually take the government itself is at the heart of Democracy in Chains. . . . [MacLean] takes the time to meticulously trace how we got here. . . . If you’re worried about what all this means for America’s future, you should be. . . . And if someone you know isn’t convinced, you have just the book to hand them.”
—NPR

“It’s the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century. To read Nancy MacLean’s new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, is to see what was previously invisible.”
—George Monbiot, The Guardian

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/533763/democracy-in-chains-by-nancy-maclean/9781101980965/

It’s worse than you think, especially if they get Koch’s major goal accomplished....a constitutional convention

It’s also exactly why her work is being ignored, after the initial, coordinated “outrage” by the right, at having their agenda so clearly revealed