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1. The thing about reporting on the financial industry is that a lot of it shows up in publications whose main audience is the financial industry.

There is some great reporting but it's packaged in a way that won't upset its core customers too much popular.info/p/you-helped-b…
2. So when hedge fund tycoon Ken Griffin bought the most expensive home ever purchased in the U.S. (a $238 million penthouse) the WSJ, Bloomberg, and CNBC didn't mention that Griffin was a major beneficiary of the 2008 bailout.

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3. And they didn't mention that the architect of the bailout, Ben Bernanke, NOW WORKS FOR GRIFFIN AT HIS HEDGE FUND.

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1. Some updates on the major retailers of the National Enquirer that I highlighted in popular.info yesterday.

75% of sales come from chain stores.

The two biggest @Walmart (23%) and @Kroger (10%) have not gotten back to me

popular.info/p/enquiring-mi…
@Walmart @kroger 2. @FoodLion got back to me and said it was going to continue to sell the National Enquirer despite AMI's alleged criminal activity
3. Barnes and Noble (@BNBuzz) told me that it no longer sells the National Enquirer in stores. (It does offer electronic subscriptions through it's Nook ereader.)
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Judd Legum
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1. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking about Ilhan Omar and anti-Semitic tropes.

Can we spend 2 minutes talking about Duncan Hunter, who is still a Congressman because of his brazenly bigoted anti-Muslim smear campaign against his opponent?

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2. Hunter ran a TV ad claiming his Dem opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, was trying to infiltrate the gov’t on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood so he could give national security secrets to terrorists

Not that it matters, but Campaign-Najjar is a Christian popular.info/p/omar-versus-…
3. As far as I can tell, Kevin McCarthy, who postured yesterday as a paragon of religious tolerance, never said anything about Hunter’s vile attacks.

This isn’t about religious tolerance for the GOP. It’s political opportunism.

popular.info/p/omar-versus-…
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Judd Legum
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1. The National Enquirer admitted to participating in an illegal scheme to pay off women to help Trump get elected.

Then it threatened to publish Jeff Bezos' dick pics.

WTF is the National Enquirer still doing in checkout aisles across the country?

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2. It's not a magazine. It's, at best, a gonzo political operation. It may be a criminal enterprise.

The National Enquirer exists because chains promote it. 75% of sales come from major chains.

@Walmart alone accounts for 23% of sales. @kroger is 10%

popular.info/p/enquiring-mi…
3. Along with @Walmart and @kroger, other top retailers of the National Enquirer:

@GiantFood
@FoodLion
@Albertsons
@Safeway
@BNBuzz (Barnes and Noble)
@CVSHealth
@Hudson_News
@Publix
@Walgreens

These companies are enabling the National Enquirer.

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