Posted on 05/19/2009 11:53:16 AM PDT by bs9021
Inconvenient Emails from the NY Times
by: Bethany Stotts, May 19, 2009
Now that New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt has published his official story of the events surrounding the decision to spike Stephanie Strom’s investigation of ACORN’s alleged fundraising connections to the Obama campaign, it becomes imperative for this correspondent to reiterate that Strom personally attempted to mislead AIM just days after she cut off contact with Anita Moncrief.
“The story involved allegations that Barack Obama’s campaign, in league with Acorn, a left-leaning community activist group, was guilty of technical violations of campaign finance law. Evidence supplied by the source could not be verified,” wrote Hoyt for the NY Times on May 16. “Even if the story had panned out, it is hard to see how any editor could have regarded it as momentous enough to change an election in which the Republicans were saddled with an unpopular war and an economic meltdown.”
Hoyt maintains that if the NY Times had spiked the ACORN story because of the election, “it would mean that Times editors, whose job is to report the facts without fear or favor, were so lacking in integrity that they withheld an important story in order to influence the election.”
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According to Hoyt,
“On Sept. 7, Moncrief wrote to Strom that she had donor lists from the campaigns of Obama and Hillary Clinton and that there had been ‘constant contact’ between the campaigns and Project Vote, an Acorn affiliate whose tax-exempt status forbids it to engage in partisan politics. Moncrief said she had withheld that information earlier but was disclosing it now that the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin was ‘all over it.’....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
...what is anyone surprised by this?
There is a reason that the NYT ad revenue is DOWN, DOWN, DOWN...
Is there any chance this story will grow legs?
Not if it’s DemonRAT corruption.
Yes, Michelle Malkin was all over it, and nailed them to the wall.
Tiffany Wilson with Palestra.net was also on top of the voter fraud, and the evidence she shot has been scrubbed from their servers. Typical Obozo Netroots crap.
see start of footage: http://www.palestra.net/videos/play/16469 (but the video has been change to an unrelated topic)
The starting image from one of the shot is still there, but when you try to look at it, you get a recent footage. Nothing to do with the original "get out the vote" voter fraud.
I hope a good company snatched-up Tiffany for a great job that she did.
WOW!
Tiffany Wilson and Shelby Holliday were great young reporters on this subject.
You can see their pics at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445555,00.html
At the time I wrote Fox and told them they should “hire them now!”
Hope they did.
Here is the video that has been scrubbed from the Palestra servers:
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/stealing-ohios-election-nonpartisan-registers-encourage-obama-votes
Some how this does not surprise me at all.
I agree with you.
Here is a video by Michelle Malkin that describes the intimidation:
And on the same link a piece about Tiffany Wilson silenced by accusing her of registering to vote in Ohio illegally. More strong arm blackmail.
SENATOR OBAMA CAMPAIGN LAWYER: TRYING TO covertly INTIMIDATE COLLEGE JOURNALISTS?
Here is the coverage of this from Greta at Fox:
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