Why isn't the media reporting on this? It is a HUGE deal.

[triron]

Link to tweet

[H2O Man]

1. Recommnded.

Thank you.

[Iliyah]

2. Because it concerns the GOP

and corporate media is owned by the GOP.

[emulatorloo]

3. It is indeed huge deal. Thanks for posting this.

[rogue emissary]

4. K & R as I've enjoyed Levin's campaign and social media engagement.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

5. Good Question.

Considering it's going to connect everyone to the Paul Ryan Congressional Conference (R's only), where he openly discussed that everyone had to be quiet about the funding or win(?) and that it wasn't going to work if someone said something. Afterall, we're a family right?" Something to that effect. I'm the only one who saw this hidden phone film right after a political victory. I believe 2016.

[GReedDiamond]

6. Kicked and Recc'd...nt

[msongs]

7. "link to tweet" is not a huge deal. whay would media report on it? nt

[Control-Z]

9. It sometimes take a few seconds for tweets

to show up here, I've noticed. "Link to tweet" will be the only thing showing for an annoying amount of time sometimes.

(I'm assuming that's what you meant.)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Here is the tweet text the OP forgot to include

Some DU members are blocked from seeing Twitter at work. For others it often saves having to click-through to see the contents.

msongs jostled the OP subtly and humorously to remind them.

Mike Levin
‏Verified account @MikeLevinCA

Why isn’t it a bigger deal that Michael Cohen was the deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee while he was being paid by Russian oligarchs and big corporations? This is on the whole Republican Party.

from San Juan Capistrano, CA

[gristy]

14. But those who can see the original tweet end up reading it twice.

Sometimes people will post the tweet 3 times, which makes the post even more unreadable. And why folks are reading and posting on DU while at work is beyond my understanding...

[druidity33]

34. yeah, i get a half hour lunch break...

that i spend in the "breakroom". Thankfully, Twitter is ok at my job but i can see how it would be annoying if it wasn't...

[Wellstone ruled]

8. You know the Media will not go there.

Same for the fact that Cohen was listed as a Vice President of Trump Organization.

[EricMaundry]

10. Score

[Cha]

12. 'Cause the US M$M is covering for repubs and

want their usual horserace shite.

Nothing is ever going to change with them.. they should be OCUPPIED.

[DemocracyMouse]

21. I like how you think, Cha!

[NBachers]

22. "Democrats have lost their advantage over Republicans in 2018 mid-terms."

I can hear the race-track announcer's excited voice right now.

[Shipwack]

30. Actually, they are already saying it...

CNN poll: Democrats' 2018 advantage is nearly gone

[Garrett78]

13. Why isn't there more discussion about how all 3 former co-chairs are under criminal investigation?

Why isn't there more attention being paid to how morally bankrupt the GOP is? That the GOP is still considered a major political party with viability only goes to show we are living in an insane society.

[BigmanPigman]

15. This was the first post I read today...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210595088
I immediately thought that one of the cable news shows would mention it but none did all day long.

[triron]

24. Thanks. I read that as well but wanted to bring it up again.

Too big of a deal.

[certainot]

16. because the 1500 coordinated radio stations that usually decide what's HUUUUGE are ignoring it?

[DemocracyMouse]

23. Teddy Roosevelt and Howard Taft, the original trust-busters, are SCREAMING from the grave

.... break up ALL media consolidation. THIS IS A DEMOCRACY, not a playground for a rightwing, cigar-chewing aristocracy.

[certainot]

25. legislation is imppossible with this bunch of cons - protests, total boycotts of all rw radio sta

tions' advertisers are needed

[DemocracyMouse]

27. True. It worked with Laura Ingraham

[Bondor]

17. Asked and answered!

I really hate to say it, but it looks like it does not get more media attention because the creeps own the media. It really does seem possible that they might succeed in sweeping it under the rug!

[kimbutgar]

18. This should be retweeted to all the major media daily until they pick it up

[ProudLib72]

19. This is how the MSM reports

[Cracklin Charlie]

20. I will say it...

That money flowed throughout all levels of the GOP campaigns in 2016.

They had to spend it. They would not leave that filthy money in their accounts for someone to find later.

They spent it like drunken Russian pirates, cause that’s where it came from.

[Solly Mack]

26. K&R

[dae]

28. KnR

[workinclasszero]

29. Because the media is owned by the 1%

They are good with it IOW.

[erronis]

36. Just the MSM, or many of the "independent" outlets?

We all remember how PBS/NPR lost their independence through (Reagan's) political appointees. There was push-back and some sense that these "public" entities would be more fair. I don't know how really independent they are anymore. There are a lot of well-paid staffers/management that would feel a tug if their livelihood was threatened by a note from on high.

But I also wonder about all the smaller, seemingly not affiliated with secret payments/support. Of course that would include the one I'm typing into right now, but also many of those that feed DU and feed our opinions.

Just like the sense of trust that some of us had in Wikileaks (and RT!), we've learned to not trust anyone totally.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. K&R!!

[Uncle Joe]

32. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, triron.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

33. K & R

This a big deal.

[Jarqui]

35. K&R plus

Paul Ryan Keeps It All in the Family
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/paul-ryan-keeps-it-family-kevin-mccarthy-russia-trump

Audio Tape Makes Ryan, McCarthy Virtually Complicit In Russian Hacking
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/18/1663769/-Audio-Tape-Makes-Ryan-McCarthy-Virtually-Complicit-In-Russian-Hacking

[erronis]

37. Thank you for bringing this back up. It is damning. It awaits to be seen if anybody is damned!

[Jarqui]

40. I have never understood how that conversation did

not get more media, outrage and rebuke from the country.

Senator Joe McCarthy (R) would have had a field day with that stuff and ended their careers in a heartbeat. (not that he was the benchmark for ethical actions)

[Blue_Tires]

38. Because useful idiot assholes like Glenn Fuckin' Greenwald

can spend an entire day on Twitter arguing (wrongly) that the very term "oligarch" is Russo-phobic in its roots...

Oh yeah, and because Hillary has shady lobbyists, too...

[SayItLoud]

39. Cohen deputy finance chair....who was Chair?

[SayItLoud]

41. Broidy and a Playboy playmate hooked up?

Google this hog, I'm betting it was tRUMP not oink oink.