Posted on 09/21/2009 5:01:29 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
In the wake of Fox News reporting on the unfolding ACORN scandal, ACORN is now threatening to sue the network. Now that Fox is actually breaking news on this story by showing new videos, ACORN might just do it. Fox News should pray that ACORN does sue, because it would blow the doors off this story, possibly destroying ACORN and erupting into a political scandal in Washington.
As bizarre as it seems, ACORN is threatening to sue Fox for reporting on these incriminating videotapes. Glenn Beck broke news with a new tape on Monday, and Sean Hannity might be doing the same shortly. Evidently, ACORN is accusing Fox of coordinating with the filmmakers, arguing that somehow these reports make Fox legally liable.
ACORN’s unavoidable problem, however, is that suing Fox News would give Fox — or any other media organization — the ultimate Christmas present: a legally enforceable way to compel ACORN to give up all its secrets. (snip)
It could also become a massive political scandal in Washington. Two of the individuals on ACORN’s eight-member advisory board include John Podesta (the chairman of President Obama’s transition team after the election) and Andrew Stern, the president of SEIU who is intimately involved with the White House on numerous issues, including the health care plan. Some Democratic elected and appointed officials also have close ties with ACORN. (snip)
So ACORN’s legal actions would be its undoing. The resulting exposure would explode into a national story that even sympathetic media outlets could no longer ignore, bedeviling ACORN’s allies at SEIU and even dragging top advisers to President Barack Obama into humiliating legal proceedings.
And once top ACORN officials were put on the witness stand under oath, who knows what the American taxpayer would learn?
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The part on the under-aged prostitution ring begins about 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the 35 min audio segment. And it continues on at about 11 mins into it (following other news). Note: you can slide the bar over on the site's audio player to the 4:30 mark in order to skip pass the other stuff. Audio of Charlie Gibson's inexcusable ignorance on this latest ACORN scandal is on there as well (after 5 days into it!).
(WABC's) Charlie Gibson on Acorn Scandal: I Don't Even Know About It
BigGovernment.com ^ | Publius
Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:02:59 PM by ETL
This morning, the ACORN scandal was raised to Charlie Gibson in an interview on WLS AM Chicago’s “Don Wade & Roma Morning Show.”
TRANSCRIPT:
Don: Ok here’s my question, Senate bill yesterday passes cutting off funds to this group called ACORN. Now we got the…we got that bill passing, we got the embarrassing video of ACORN staff giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel with 13 year old hookers. It has everything you could want corruption and sleazy action at tax funded organizations that’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story why?
Charlie Gibson: (laugh) I don’t even know about it. Uh, so you got me at a loss, I don’t know. Uh, uh, but, but My goodness if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it we should talk about it this morning.
Roma: This is the American way…
Charlie Gibson: Well maybe, maybe that’s one you just leave to the cables.
Roma: Well I think that this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization and it’s a multi…
Charlie Gibson: Well, I know we’ve done some stories about ACORN before but uh, uh this one I don’t know about.
Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s at least blogged once on this scandal.
Charlie Gibson: You guys, you guys are really up on the uh on the website.
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Footage of the San Bernardino investigation was not available at the time of the interview.
Thank you to WLS AM Chicago for providing the audio.
Listen to the audio here:
[begins about 4 minutes, 30 secs into the audio clip. More incredible audio clips from the new Acorn videos later in the audio (apprx 11 mins into it) - total length of audio: apprx 35 mins. you can slide the bar over to the 4-1/2 min mark]
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=8e38a801-07a5-41be-b6a1-fac443716e71
There is a lot more to this than meets the eye. I saw that Acorn has now thanked the students for pointing things out to them. WHAT? It’s bizzaro world.....
If ACORN’s lawyers see this, and they will, perhaps FOX should just go ahead with a suit on slander.
That was just Bertha running her mouth.
They won’t screw with Fox.
Apparently they leave a whole lot to the cables!
The WH political director, Patrick Gaspard, used to work for ACORN....
Wait for Congressional hearings which will be a white wash. My guess is someone will be thrown under the bus but the bus will continue to roll on...this dummocrat money train will not be allowed to go into obscurity...too much money and political influence for that too happen.
I blame part of this on the GOP because when they were in control, they let this lefty group alone because of racial politics. Washington unfortunately has never come to grips with the simple concept of right and wrong. Decisions seem to rest on political shading (pun).
Vince
Bump
I want a big piece of ACORN pie.
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
Obama, ACORN, the (Marxist) New Party (Obama was a member of the New Party!) and the Working Familes Party (an Acorn front group)
numerous sources
Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 11:08:18 AM EDT by ETL:
We need to turn some of our frustration and protests towards the complicit media.
They have FAILED MISERABLY in their traditional role as watchdog.
They didnt ask any questions, even now they arent asking the tough questions.
Americans are coming to a point where we wont ever rely on the main stream media for our information again.
Good ol’ Charlie “uh” Gibson
AGREED,the GOP under Bush didn’t have the “nuts” to go after
Acorn because of race.Speaking of race,I have to get back
to discussing race with my cats(black). They’re smarter then
the average dem!
If they try to sue Fox or even OKeefe & Giles, they will open their Pandora’s Box for all the world to see.
It’s called Discovery...
So I say, sue them ACORN
I’d say that picture was racist...I think you are implying that squirrels are stupid and trying to create hatred of squirrels.
I don’t see what the issue is.
When a non-profit organization uses federal dollars to: A) fundraise, and; B) promote one party’s political agenda, they have committed two felonies. As it is being done on a multi-state level, it is eligible for investigation under the RICO statute.
What else do we need to begin?
Why does he look SO DARK in that picture and now he looks BEIGE.
No clue. Just something I grabbed from the internet.
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