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Bias Hid ACORN’s Nuts
The Hill ^ | 9/21/09 | David Keene

Posted on 09/22/2009 11:07:19 AM PDT by nickcarraway

People live in their own little worlds and have a tendency to shut out or ignore information that makes them uncomfortable. This is particularly true of liberal politicians and journalists, who find it easier and easier to ignore facts and developments that run counter to their view of how things ought to be.

This fact has been on stark display recently as liberals have dismissed anyone who questions the wisdom of President Barack Obama’s demands on our national priorities as cranks or, worse, racists. One can easily demonstrate one’s racist tendencies these days by simply attending town hall meetings or Tea Parties or coming to Washington to express views contrary to those of our president.

Nothing in years, however, brings this home as clearly as the way the media and the president have reacted to the unfolding story of how their friends at ACORN have misused public funds and engaged daily in a nationwide criminal conspiracy to rig elections and advised their “clients” on how to evade taxes and the law. ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Change Now, is a huge quasi-grassroots left-wing pressure group largely funded via earmarks, grants and contracts from its friends in Congress, who channel tens of millions of tax dollars to it every year.

Until recently, ACORN’s web of influence included 400,000 members, offices in 75 cities and something like 300 affiliated organizations. So close was the group’s association with the Obama administration that Congress increased ACORN funding in the stimulus package and it was announced that ACORN would play a major role in gathering the census information so essential to the conduct of fair elections.

All of that seems to be coming to an end, however, because two young conservatives, convinced the major media were missing a big story, went into ACORN offices as part of a sting they’d dreamed up and taped ACORN officials advising them on how to get mortgage and government money to run a brothel and bring young girls from Latin America to work in it.

Although most in the major media tried to ignore them, they managed to get their proof to the public, with earth-shattering results. ACORN has been revealed not to be a high-minded group of reformers, but a bunch of cynical borderline crooks who care more about money and power than law, morality or the people they claim to serve. Congress has voted to cut them off, their offices are closing and most of those who supported them hardly remember doing so.

Still, it has to be remembered that the major media tried its best to ignore the story, with reporters claiming they simply didn’t know it was out there. Andrew Alexander, The Washington Post’s “ombudsman,” admits his paper was slow to report the story, but claims it wasn’t bias, but the fact that Post reporters don’t even bother to follow what’s going on among conservatives.

The president himself says the smoking-gun videos ought to be investigated by someone somewhere, but dismisses the whole affair as neither very interesting nor important. Besides, he said on Sunday, he didn’t even realize ACORN was getting the federal funds that Congress wants to cut off. His, after all, is a presidency that thinks in terms of trillions of dollars and presumably can’t be bothered with smaller sums, regardless of where they end up or how they’re used. Focusing on such trivialities, he implies, would distract him from the important work he was elected to do.

It’s hard to believe that this is the same president who often finds time in his busy schedule to nitpickingly critique Fox, Rush Limbaugh and others when he disagrees with them.

This is the same president who toiled for ACORN as an attorney and assisted the group in Chicago as a “community organizer”; he also funneled nearly $900,000 to it during his 2008 campaign. One can only conclude, I guess, that busy as he is saving us all, he didn’t recognize the acronym this time around. After all, those things took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Fortunately, Congress was watching, and at least two members of Obama’s administration, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Census Director Robert Groves, sensed early that ACORN’s day was done. They announced, perhaps after watching Fox News and even before the Post knew it was a story, that they would sever all ties with the group.

That was good politics, good for America and a good story.


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; acorncoi; agenda; bho44; coi; corruption; democrats; enemedia; hannahgiles; liberalmedia; lsm; media; mediabias; obama; obamedia; pravdamedia

1 posted on 09/22/2009 11:07:20 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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2 posted on 09/22/2009 11:10:03 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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This is proof we can take them down.
ACORN still has long roots and will sprout elsewhere of course but it is DOABLE folks, they haven’t had to deal with tough scrutiny before. The MSM protects them. Get around the MSM, they FALL!


3 posted on 09/22/2009 11:11:17 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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(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

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341347/posts

4 posted on 09/22/2009 11:26:14 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Amazing audio of ACORN workers advising how to set up under-aged prostitution operation to 'look like' a small school, being "OK" with "induced sexual violence" (on the kids) in order to create 'higher profits', AND confessing to a supposed murder!

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!).

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=8e38a801-07a5-41be-b6a1-fac443716e71

5 posted on 09/22/2009 11:26:46 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: nickcarraway; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; youturn; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ...
ACORN Ping!

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6 posted on 09/22/2009 9:30:17 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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LOL! What a headline!


7 posted on 09/22/2009 9:43:47 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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“It’s hard to believe that this is the same president who often finds time in his busy schedule to nitpickingly critique Fox, Rush Limbaugh and others when he disagrees with them.”

((Smirk)) he’s so worried about appearances..that’s what’s most important to him.


8 posted on 09/22/2009 9:49:51 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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Did you notice he got the name ACORN wrong? According to him it should be ACOCN!


9 posted on 09/22/2009 10:03:10 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Since they call Bush, "Dubya" then I must insist on calling Barry, "Hussein" *2009=1984 on steroids*)
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Did you notice he got the name ACORN wrong? According to him it should be ACOCN!


10 posted on 09/22/2009 10:07:24 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (Since they call Bush, "Dubya" then I must insist on calling Barry, "Hussein" *2009=1984 on steroids*)
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