I have seen Berth the Nut on CNN. She is typical of this criminal organization. A blatant racist who feel she is entitled to other people's money, and a woman without God or a moral compass.
Posted on 09/14/2009 4:24:16 PM PDT by Bob017
This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings. But almost no one is covering it.
Bruce Springsteen once wrote: “From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come).” I doubt he expected that story of love gone wrong would become ideal political commentary for the group known as ACORN.
The small scandal showing an embarrassing video of Baltimore ACORN staffers looking like they were giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel, is now national news. -- This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings!
Only almost no one is covering it.
This is the news media in the era of Van Jones and President Obama. The major outlets cover what they want and create the themes they want. When they find something inconvenient, they let it pass. They didn’t like the Van Jones story, so they ignored it. The network news media liked the financial entity known as Fannie Mae, so they ignored that scandalous organization for years. ACORN is getting the same treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
And yet. And yet it’s still been ignored by the network news. Nothing on ABC, CBS or NBC. The only thing any one of the three broadcast networks has done appeared in a blog post by ABC’s Jake Tapper. It's hardly worth noting except to show that the networks know about what’s going on. They just don’t care to report it. Only FOX News has bothered to report on the controversy.
The video scandal is only part of the fiasco that is this Saul Alinsky-esque community group. Just last week CNN reported that other ACORN employees were arrested in Florida. “Arrest warrants were issued Wednesday for 11 Florida voter registration workers who are suspected of submitting false information on hundreds of voter registration cards, according to court documents,” said CNN.
That’s typical. The Web site "Rotten ACORN" is devoted to election fraud complaints against the organization. The site’s map shows 14 different states where complaints have been filed. The last time any one of the broadcast networks talked about that was before the 2008 presidential election. That was NBC on Nov. 1. Nothing since.
Yes, the newspapers have taken a passing glance at the video story. The Post wrote about the firings in D.C. The New York Times ran a story by the Associated Press. Nothing more. I am underwhelmed. At least the Times covered it this time. With Jones, the Times waited until he had resigned to report he was under fire.
What’s worse with ACORN is that we’re paying for all this. At least in part. The Washington Examiner writes that they “found that ACORN has received at least $53 million in federal money since 1994.”
For its own part, ACORN naturally blamed someone else. In this case, FOX News, calling itself “their Willy Horton for 2009.” The ACORN state reads like a paranoid’s interpretation of the videos. Here’s Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, for the group:
“The relentless attacks on ACORN's members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a ‘news’ agency (FOX), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working families in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they've had these tapes for months.”
Yeah, all that about under-aged prostitution, corruption and government connections isn’t news. People are just out to get ACORN. No wonder their name symbolizes a kind of nut. Too bad the rest of the media don’t want us to know that.
One of many disturbing things about the last election is the fact that when O presented himself as a “community organizer” no one seemed particularly interested to know what that meant. No one knew what an Acorn was, and no one knew it had anything to do with O or anything else.
Keeping Acorn out of the public eye is still an important part of O’s survival strategy. This is the organization he helped train, he was their lawyer, he promoted them as low level politician and as president he gave them 8 billion dollars. I think its high time someone looked into who and what they are. If you read FR you know these things, but if you get your news from TV you haven’t got a clue.
Are there any Repubs out there who would like to make their bones? You might not get a Pulitzer but you might be the next president.
NEXT: Sting ACORN on Voter Registration.
Glenn Beck teased today that there may be another tape tomorrow and that it may be aired on his TV show. Whole show devoted to ACORN.
“just when health care reform is gaining traction. “
ROTFLMAO!!! Big Bertha should check herself into detox, maybe then she’ll stop hallucinating!
I contacted my representative demanding he heed the call for ACORN to be investigated and demand immediately ceasing anymore federal funding for ACORN. I suggest everyone contact their representatives for the same reasons.
Yea!! I’m off tomorrow. Thinking they have a sting operation for almost every major city in the U.S.
Those kids deserve the Congressional Medal of Honor, if we will be giving those out four years from now.
This story and the 9/12 March on DC have exposed the media for what they are. Fox, much to my surprise, has sparkled like a gem and have begun hunkering down.
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And hardly any investigation. That's shameful. There could be little children being trafficked and kept.. Somebody needs to investigate Acorn financed homeowners.
Kick them to the curb (not physically) and keep going to the sources where you find the stories (Fox News, talk radio and the internet).
I don’t particularly like Shep Smith, so tend to watch Lou Dobbs at 6 if I watch anything... he covered the ACORN scandal quite well tonight and I actually thought that reporter-ette who did the story with Lou really enjoyed sinking her teeth into a real scandal story.
Lou, of course, did a good job on the Joe Wilson story, too.
Anyone who could condone human trafficking of anyone much less young girls 13 years of age are just plain sick and that goes for the media. What about that one show that tapes perverts who have made dates with young girls over the internet then they go somewhere for a rendezvous and meet up with the guy who tells them they are on TV?????? Aren’t they trying to catch perverts who would try and have sexual relations with minors?????????? What’s the difference then with Acorn and the videos ... they are doing the same thing. Shame on the media. I am shocked and surprised they would not want to stop such a disgusting and sinful use of young girls. ANYONE with girls would want this stopped. Shame, shame, shame on all the media who are not covering this. God forgive them.
Anyone who could condone human trafficking of anyone much less young girls 13 years of age are just plain sick and that goes for the media. What about that one show that tapes perverts who have made dates with young girls over the internet then they go somewhere for a rendezvous and meet up with the guy who tells them they are on TV?????? Aren’t they trying to catch perverts who would try and have sexual relations with minors?????????? What’s the difference then with Acorn and the videos ... they are doing the same thing. Shame on the media. I am shocked and surprised they would not want to stop such a disgusting and sinful use of young girls. ANYONE with girls would want this stopped. Shame, shame, shame on all the media who are not covering this. God forgive them.
And they (acorn rep.) seemed so cavalier about little children being kept for sex - like it's done all the time.. Must be allot of people who right now are doing that with Acorn financing.. All acorn financed homeowner’s need to be investigated now.
Except Republican perps.
That's why it isn't being covered.
-PJ
Shep is driving people away.
I have seen Berth the Nut on CNN. She is typical of this criminal organization. A blatant racist who feel she is entitled to other people's money, and a woman without God or a moral compass.
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