I think CNN's pansy boy, Jonathan Klein, just got his *ss kicked!
Posted on 09/11/2009 11:46:06 AM PDT by nomoremods
As read on “The Rush Limbaugh Show”:
So far CNN has only reported on the breaking story on blatant ACORN CORRUPTION from angles that attempt to extricate the government funded “community organizing” enterprise from the extreme crime we caught on videotape.
First CNN pushed the false ACORN line that “[t]his film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed.”
To set that record straight please check the Washington D.C. tape we dropped today at BigGovernment.com, which is also being aired on your cable news competitor with curiously higher ratings.
Now that ACORN lied to you, Jonathan Klein, what are you going to do?
Here’s what I have noticed from your coverage: You brought in the damage control crowd to FRAME the story. Before even airing our damning Baltimore video. You know your audience would turn on ACORN if you showed them the evidence. So instead you put your competitors in journalism in the crosshairs instead of airing a blockbuster report making massive waves elsewhere.
You even trotted out shameless Clinton era apologist Joe Conason to challenge the ETHICS of our expose. Unreal.
What about the ethics of those at ACORN caught on tape trying to help create a brothel featuring illegal immigrant age range 13-15 from El Salvador?
What about the countless laws broken on tape from a group that stands to get billions from President Obama’s “stimulus” package?
Why don’t we wait to have the Columbia Journalism School debate on “journalistic ethics” after you do actual journalism.
When you air the raw ACORN footage that is now viral on the Internet, and being played on FOX NEWS and countless talk radio shows, then and only then — when America can see, hear and smell the stench we have exposed — will I subject myself to a CNN hit job.
What a fantastic post!
Just damn! I like those 2 young fearless reporters!
How can they do any more damage to CNN that it hasn’t done to itself?
The most flipping awesome thing I have read in a long tome!!
James’ response was PERFECT. A thing of true beauty. Conservatives should NOT talk to the MSM. No stories, no interviews, no talking heads, Nothing, Zip, Zilch, Nada. Go to the New Media, the small-town papers, the blogs. Give THEM the stories.
This had me grinning from ear to ear while listening to Rush! BRAVO!!!!
” Why don’t we wait to have the Columbia Journalism School debate on “journalistic ethics” after you do actual journalism. “
ZINGGGG!!!
That’s gonna leave a mark..... ;)
BTW, the ‘hidden camera fake client’ has been a mainstay of the Liberal-darling “60 Minutes” for decades... (tick-tick-tick)
tome=time. Sorry.
A righteous smackdown.
These two kids are very good .... and very brave! I will also add I have come to really, really like Andrew Breitbart.
CNN does journalism like Ernest Borgnine sings opera.
CNN - OWNED !!
Keep it up, liberals: you're digging your own graves. Make sure you have the jOker join you before you start pulling in the dirt over yourselves.
CNN: Tailhook
‘nuff said.
“Why don’t we wait to have the Columbia Journalism School debate on “journalistic ethics” after you do actual journalism. “
Damn!!! That HAD to hurt!
CNN, with the exception of Lou Dobbs, is a propaganda outlet for the Democrat party.
Ugh, Joe Conason...such a vile creature.
It revolved completely around if these "rightwing activists" were acting illegally (just like Linda Tripp they said), by taping the Acorn employees.
...must be an unintended pun, funny.
Wham! Direct hit! Mnay, many secondaries! I think that one landed right on the old CNN ammo dump.
I haven’t looked into this issue in depth yet, but from what I read, I actually have to agree theres some ethics issue with the reporter who was engaging in fishing for crime. Its no different to when a police fish for crime then book them. The only difference here is that the target is a left wing organisation. Reporters fish for crime in right wing revenues all the time, so they’re being hypocrical when complaining. Remember the news where ABC reporters have two male actors kiss at a bar and have cameras around to see what would be the reaction of people around or when they dress up a muslim man in a turbin and have him go to Nascar event, expecting racist comment to be thrown at him
HOW EXACTLY IS IT A “SMEAR” SHOWING A TAPE OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS? THE RACIST VAN JONES ALSO ALLEGED A “SMEAR”.
WOULD’NT THE MEDIA HAVE TO REPORT THE FACTS FOR IT TO ACTUALLY BE A “SMEAR” CAMPAIGN?
WOULD NOT A SMEAR BE 20 UNFOUNDED ETHICS CHARGES VS A GOVERNOR IN ALASKA,A MANUFACTURED “MACACA” INSINUATED A RACIST RUNNING FOR SENATE IN VIRGINIA THAT THE WASHINGTON POST RAN 157 STORIES ON.
WOULD A “SMEAR” BE TAKING A TWENTY YEAR OLD THESIS AND INSINUATING IT MAKES THE CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR IN VIRGINIA A SEXIST AND A HOMOPHOBE? (excuse the cap lock)
Just saw a black obamunist CNN Reporter try to make ACORN excuses. He HATES it.
I hope these two intelligent, brave young people have very long and successful careers ahead of them. Well done, James and Hannah, well done!
This is not “fishing”.
We KNOW that ACORN is incredibly corrupt. These young people simply laid out the truth. Decent freaking human beings would have called the cops on them, NOT gone out of their way to teach them how to break the law.
There is absolutely NOTHING unethical about these brave young people EXPOSING the fraud and waste being perpetuated by ACORN on a daily basis..
Go back to DailyKossacks.com, OK?
Wish Palin would have done and said that to Couric..
LOL!! Back on form there, Mr. Dead!
The entire MSM, with the exception of Fox and Dobbs, is a propaganda outlet for the Democrat party.
Yep, not a good day at CNN.
I see the story is gone from CNN.com, and has been replaced with “Paula Deen hid fish roe in eggs, sons say”
It would have been “fishing” if they had offered the ACORN individual money to go beyond their job. It was the general acceptance as “commonplace” about what the two were doing that bothers me! Here was evidence that these ACORN lowlifes would ASSIST in child slavery!
You should be ashamed to try and offer a defense to these animals!
There might be one or two others who aren't in bed with dems, but that would be it. I wonder if ACORN tells the MSM that they're really "performance artists"....
That was VERY appropriate. The MSM = Obama’s performance artists. Very appropriate indeed. Somebody could do something with that. They are whores for the socialists. Make that cheap whores for the socialists. Cheap and easy.
Not only do James and Hannah have the ability to damage ACORN, they also can do damage to CNN's severely limited reputation.Heard this on Rush today; exactly my thinking ...
I think CNN's pansy boy, Jonathan Klein, just got his *ss kicked!
You go, James! You have more integrity in your pinky than the entire group of CNN 'reporters', et al.
Hannah and James are American heroes. We should help Hannah replenish her savings that she spent doing this, she has saved us billions of tax dollars. These two deserve medals.
How refreshing to know that there are young people out there that did not drink the Kool-aid. Your parents must be proud!!!!
Mr. 'Ethics', Joe Conason
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CONASON: It's not journalism unless they report everything that happened. It's propaganda. If you're a reporter and you're doing something this, then you would report, yes, we went to the four offices and one said, you know, fell for -- took the bait.
If you don't report that, if you act as if you went into one office and they did it, then that's dishonest. The other thing is, Bill mentioned that it's a two-party state. The filmmakers could be liable to civil or criminal action, in fact, for taping people without telling them in the state of Maryland. I have a reporter who works in the capital district that knows about this. It came up during the Linda Tripp affair whether Tripp could be prosecuted in Maryland for recording Monica Lewinsky unlawfully. So that could be an interesting sideline, and may be why the filmmaker did not show up to be on television to discuss this tonight.
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In 1992 Conason wrote an article for Spy magazine naming Jennifer Fitzgerald and Jane Morgan as women who allegedly were having affairs with George H. W. Bush, using Linda Tripp as a source.
Conason was a regular guest and a guest host on The Al Franken Show
In 2000, he co-authored the book The Hunting of the President: The 10 Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Joe Conason: Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a deft--and dishonest--strategy.
Joe Conason book: Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth
CHRISTIE: I think it only underscores, Kitty, the reason why many conservatives, many Republicans think that there should be a federal investigation into ACORN. And it’s not just this specific case. There have been of a number of cases with ACORN over the years where there have been allegations of illegally registering people to vote.
This particular incidence of allegedly allowing prostitution or those funds to be used, I think that there should be an investigation. And Mark Levin, a conservative radio talk show host, has been on this for years. The silence has been deafening from the Democrats and the Justice Department.
CONASON: You should...
CHRISTIE: And, again, these people...
CONASON: You should present the evidence to the Justice Department if you have evidence of a federal crime.
CHRISTIE: It’s not me...
CONASON: And this is...
CHRISTIE: I didn’t cut you off.
CONASON: This is a lot of vague stuff.
CHRISTIE: Excuse me. I didn’t cut you off. It’s not me. It’s for those in the federal government who are looking at whether or not the federal elections have been tampered with. I think that’s a serious enough allegation that has been out there...
(CROSSTALK)
CONASON: Where’s the evidence?
CHRISTIE: ... but for years, that I think it would be warranted, rather than some of these frivolous cases that the Justice Department seems to be interested in pursuing on partisan lines.
More...
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/joe-conason-acorn-video-its-not-journalism
Now THAT is journalism. Pulitzer Prize committee, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Now I just saw a black so called Republican Strategerist on MSNBC stating he agrees with the Commietator that the 10th Amendment does not count. In re to Pawlenty.
Remember the news where ABC reporters have two male actors kiss at a bar and have cameras around to see what would be the reaction of people around or when they dress up a muslim man in a turbin and have him go to Nascar event, expecting racist comment to be thrown at him
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Why didn’t you drop the other shoe? The results.
There was no huge negative reaction to the two guys kissing, and there were not racist comments made at the NASCAR event (which stunned the ABC reporters.)
Vs. what happened in this instance. ACORN not only bit, but went farter than anyone ever dreamed. Not just one, but at least twice.
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,609,000
FOXNEWS BECK 3,340,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,986,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,522,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,362,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,040,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,573,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,164,000
CNN KING 965,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 882,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 734,000
CNN COOPER 691,000
Hey CNN...How’s the basement look?
Do you actually mean Operation Tailwind?
And even Lou Dobbs is an economic ignoramus anti-growth, protectionist, isolationist, in agreement with leftists at least as often as with conservatives, and more often it seems to me on the rare occasions I can stand to sample his yammerings. He's a populist first, and a so-called conservative far second, at best.
I can't think of anything on CNN that doesn't suck to some significant degree.
The only thing I have to watch on any of the MSM networks is Kudlow's show on CNBC. The rest is worthless so far as I know. (Maybe I'm missing something, but I doubt much.) Even Fox is pretty superficial much of the time. There's excitement from Beck, fun from Red Eye, and solid news from Special Report. The rest of the crew seems constantly poised to go "All Jacko" at any given moment.
IOW, you just can't get your news from TV alone, or even primarily. I guess you never could, but it's disappointing how little multiple 24 hour news networks have changed that.
Rich irony: A journalist pretending to be a whore and a press whores pretending to be journalists.
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