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The Pseudo Journalist Strikes Again
The Provocateur ^ | 10/06/2009 | Mike Volpe

Posted on 10/06/2009 11:27:05 AM PDT by fiscon1

Michelle Malkin is at it again and now she brings her shotty style of journalism to the ACORN story. She is jumping over a report in the New Orleans Times Piscayne that the embezzlement by Dale Rathke could have been as much as $5 million. First, here's what the Piscayne story says.

Louisiana’s attorney general has broadened the scope of an investigation of ACORN to include a possible embezzlement of $5 million a decade ago within the community organization, five times more than previously reported.

Here's what Malkin says about this.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports tonight that the ACORN/Rathke embezzlement sum was $5 million, not the widely cited $1 million figure admitted publicly to date by the left-wing racketeering group.

(Excerpt) Read more at theeprovocateur.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: acorn; michellemalkin; weaksauce
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1 posted on 10/06/2009 11:27:06 AM PDT by fiscon1
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To: fiscon1

“shotty”? Boy, that’s the pot calling the kettle black.


2 posted on 10/06/2009 11:28:54 AM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: fiscon1

It’s “shoddy”...not “shotty”...unless you meant to say “shitty”.


3 posted on 10/06/2009 11:29:37 AM PDT by Skip Ripley
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To: Dr. Zzyzx
While we're at it, who is the "Times-Piscayne?"
4 posted on 10/06/2009 11:30:50 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: fiscon1

“Michelle Malkin is at it again and now she brings her shotty style of journalism to the ACORN story.”

SHOTTY style? This is an article about a SHOTTY style of journalism? Are they saying the journalism is hard and round, like a lymph node?

WTF??? Who wrote this crap?


5 posted on 10/06/2009 11:31:00 AM PDT by jessduntno (Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
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To: fiscon1

Shoddy spelling. I lost interest somewhere before the end of the first sentance.


6 posted on 10/06/2009 11:31:53 AM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: fiscon1

So Mike I assume you are one of those so-called real journalist? Bwahahahahahaha


7 posted on 10/06/2009 11:32:01 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: atomic conspiracy

“While we’re at it, who is the “Times-Piscayne?”

Maybe we should wait for a complete article...this could be hugh...and series...


8 posted on 10/06/2009 11:32:23 AM PDT by jessduntno (Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
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To: fiscon1

Times-Piscayne?


9 posted on 10/06/2009 11:32:30 AM PDT by GeronL (California : bankrupt ideas from bankrupt people from a bankrupt state now bankrupting America)
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To: jessduntno

>> SHOTTY style of journalism? Are they saying the journalism is hard and round...

Is that what them there real journalists call “burying the lead”? “Giving it to them with both barrels”? ;-)


10 posted on 10/06/2009 11:35:15 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: GeronL

Piscayne?

Piscayne, it’s in Blorida....


11 posted on 10/06/2009 11:36:06 AM PDT by jessduntno (Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
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To: fiscon1

Unfortunately, I spent the time required to read the article, and the author contradicts himself entirely. After belaboring his “point” that the embezzlement itself was not reported to be $5 million (an error he makes because he apparently can’t read or conjugate verbs properly), he says he talks to a director who said that it actually was. This is a stupid high school newspaper article that wouldn’t have even made the cut if the school’s english teacher was any good...


12 posted on 10/06/2009 11:36:36 AM PDT by Flightdeck (Go Longhorns)
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To: jessduntno

uhkay


13 posted on 10/06/2009 11:38:18 AM PDT by GeronL (California : bankrupt ideas from bankrupt people from a bankrupt state now bankrupting America)
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To: fiscon1
Actually Michelle Malkin is correct, the AG in LA has brought issued new subpoenas to ACORN to determine whether the missing funds were from federal, state or private funds. Wade Rathke has been unable to be reached for comment because he is in Bangkok. Who knows where his brother is.

I came across this information by following links from Big Government.com after reading about the Republican law makers who are demanding that Democrat candidates return campaign funds from the SEIU because of the close ties to ACORN.

There is a web site by some Illinois Republican that is warning that the government ties to ACORN have been cut, but not the ties to the SEIU. He also gives a timeline history of the ACORN/SEIU ties, beginning with the formation of the SEIU by ACORN in 1982.

14 posted on 10/06/2009 11:46:10 AM PDT by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: Flightdeck

“This is a stupid high school newspaper article that wouldn’t have even made the cut if the school’s english teacher was any good..”

...or an Aggie?


15 posted on 10/06/2009 11:47:15 AM PDT by jessduntno (Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
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To: atomic conspiracy

My dad used to work on Flevrolet Piscaynes.

}:-)4

16 posted on 10/06/2009 11:51:39 AM PDT by Moose4 (Ted Kennedy: "If they bring up Camelot, we get to bring up the lady in the lake.")
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To: fiscon1
"This is not the first time that Malkin has totally and erroneously gotten a story wrong."

This sentence is brought to you by the Redundant Department of Redundancy.

17 posted on 10/06/2009 12:00:19 PM PDT by UncleHambone ("Laughter is America's most important export." - Walt Disney)
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To: fiscon1
Democrat AGs ignore possible ACORN/SEIU violations

Louisiana Politics - ACORN embezzlement 5 million, not one million

SEIU/ACORN ties in Illinois

18 posted on 10/06/2009 12:18:09 PM PDT by Eva (Obama bin Lyin)
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To: fiscon1

Mike Volpe is a DOLPE!


19 posted on 10/06/2009 12:20:57 PM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: fiscon1
New Orleans Times Piscayne

What an idiot. She doesn't even get the name of the newspaper right.

It's the Times Picayune (named after an old coin) not the "Times Piscayne".

How can we believe anything else from this person when they can't even get the name of the paper right?

20 posted on 10/06/2009 12:57:32 PM PDT by capt. norm (Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.)
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