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On Why I Don’t Return Phone Calls from an Intrepid CNN Producer
Big Government.com ^ | 9-11-09 | James O'Keefe

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.


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Not only do James and Hannah have the ability to damage ACORN, they also can do damage to CNN's severely limited reputation.
1 posted on 09/11/2009 11:46:07 AM PDT by nomoremods
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To: nomoremods

What a fantastic post!


2 posted on 09/11/2009 11:48:29 AM PDT by spyone (ridiculum)
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To: nomoremods

Just damn! I like those 2 young fearless reporters!


3 posted on 09/11/2009 11:50:12 AM PDT by libbylu ( Palin begins from Wasilla not only a campaign, an Iditarod of a crusade ....YEAH!)
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To: nomoremods

How can they do any more damage to CNN that it hasn’t done to itself?


4 posted on 09/11/2009 11:50:55 AM PDT by mort56 (He who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither. - Ben Franklin)
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To: nomoremods

The most flipping awesome thing I have read in a long tome!!


5 posted on 09/11/2009 11:51:53 AM PDT by sissyjane
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To: spyone

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!!!!


6 posted on 09/11/2009 11:51:55 AM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: nomoremods

” 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)


7 posted on 09/11/2009 11:51:59 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: sissyjane

tome=time. Sorry.


8 posted on 09/11/2009 11:52:41 AM PDT by sissyjane
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To: nomoremods

A righteous smackdown.


9 posted on 09/11/2009 11:55:28 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Proud FR Mobster)
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To: nomoremods

These two kids are very good .... and very brave! I will also add I have come to really, really like Andrew Breitbart.


10 posted on 09/11/2009 11:56:06 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: nomoremods

CNN does journalism like Ernest Borgnine sings opera.


11 posted on 09/11/2009 11:56:20 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: nomoremods

CNN - OWNED !!


12 posted on 09/11/2009 11:56:30 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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More evidence why FOX is rising and CNN is falling.

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.

13 posted on 09/11/2009 11:58:59 AM PDT by kromike
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To: nomoremods

CNN: Tailhook

‘nuff said.


14 posted on 09/11/2009 11:59:46 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: nomoremods

“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!


15 posted on 09/11/2009 12:00:14 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON!!!")
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To: nomoremods

CNN, with the exception of Lou Dobbs, is a propaganda outlet for the Democrat party.


16 posted on 09/11/2009 12:01:05 PM PDT by KansasGirl ( Obama's heroes have always been left-wing radicals.)
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To: nomoremods

Ugh, Joe Conason...such a vile creature.


17 posted on 09/11/2009 12:02:31 PM PDT by mancini
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You all should have seen the only discussion CNN had on this last night.

It revolved completely around if these "rightwing activists" were acting illegally (just like Linda Tripp they said), by taping the Acorn employees.

18 posted on 09/11/2009 12:05:09 PM PDT by roses of sharon (If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. - Orwell)
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...must be an unintended pun, funny.


19 posted on 09/11/2009 12:08:05 PM PDT by auntyfemenist (Just wait till Obama reverts back to Islam...)
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To: nomoremods
Why don’t we wait to have the Columbia Journalism School debate on “journalistic ethics” after you do actual journalism?

Wham! Direct hit! Mnay, many secondaries! I think that one landed right on the old CNN ammo dump.

20 posted on 09/11/2009 12:08:45 PM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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