MSM ignores Democrat Junket to Puerto Rico; where are all the articles, photos??

1-14-19

Re the Dem weekend in Puerto Rico: What was this trip really about? When I kept seeing the same one picture of Sen. Bob Menendez on the beach in Puerto Rico, I tried to find more photos. No dice. Caps show what's available. Really???

Searching for images revealed another result: practically no major MSM outlet actually reported on the trip. If we include just the dozen or so top-of-the-heap media, FOX was the only one.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-fly-to-puerto-rico-amid-ongoing-government-shutdown

How odd is that? 30 Dems and 109 lobbyists and corporate executives go on an "extravaganda" (Laura Ingraham tonight), "living the high life," and there's a handful of alt-media articles covering the event and exactly ONE photo that actually shows a participant (exactly ONE participant).

Twitchy made the most of a bad situation, sponsoring a CAPTION CONTEST for the Menendez photo. Unfortunately, the captions aren't funny enough to report on here.

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/01/13/our-eyes-pic-of-sen-bob-menendez-on-the-beach-in-pr-inspires-the-most-hilarious-and-troubling-caption-contest-ever/

WTF was really going on down there???

Articles:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/01/12/dems-are-partying-with-lobbyists-in-puerto-rico-while-government-employees-are-lo-n2538964

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/30-dems-in-puerto-rico-with-109-lobbyists-for-weekend-despite-shutdown

https://www.dailywire.com/news/42109/dems-head-puerto-rico-beach-vacation-hamilton-emily-zanotti

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3719730/posts

>>4759700

>>4759716

Just when you think you've seen everything….

>>4759721

thx, anon. Impossible time, tho. middle of the "night"

>>4759887

==ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL, GTFO

CP BAKER==

>>4759911

Precisely-said, patriot. Ahem.

Moved from there to Portland–the Rosy one. Kek.

>>4759919

Purpose of bringing up stuff like this? Puts our focus on the negative, not the positive. Is that what you want?

>>4759922

BOSTON, really? Molasses really does have a meaningful historical connection to Boston, was a small kid there–lots of baked beans & brown bread. All molasses-based.

Moar on molasses:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Molasses-Act

Molasses Act, GREAT BRITAIN [1733]

Encyclopaedia Britannica

See Article History

Molasses Act, (1733), in American colonial history, a British law that imposed a tax on molasses, sugar, and rum imported from non-British foreign colonies into the North American colonies. The act specifically aimed at reserving a practical monopoly of the American sugar market to British West Indies sugarcane growers, who otherwise could not compete successfully with French and other foreign sugar producers on more-fertile neighbouring West Indian islands.

The American colonists protested the act, claiming that the British West Indies alone could not produce enough molasses to meet the colonies’ needs. Rum distilling was one of the leading industries in New England, and the act had the effect of raising the price of molasses there.

The American colonists feared that the act’s effect would be to increase the price of rum manufactured in New England, thus disrupting the region’s exporting capacity. The Molasses Act was among the least effective of the British Navigation Acts, since it was largely circumvented through smuggling.

(The practice of bribing customs officials to allow the import of cheaper French rum became common.) Had the act been systematically enforced, New England’s economy likely would have been crippled.

The act was later amended by the Sugar Act of 1764, which became an irritant contributing to the American Revolution.