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Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror. ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah. They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What's more, it ain't over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet. Stay tuned....

Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah. They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned. When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came...

When asked about the series of ACORN videos that have surfaced and appear to indicate a systemic willingness to engage in criminal enterprises by ACORN and/or its employees, ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson responded that he hadn’t heard about them...

Trying to boost the rationale for ObamaCare, Thursday's CBS Evening News ran two stories from far-left sources, but the network disguised the agenda behind both. Katie Couric announced that “while the debate goes on over the cost of insuring everyone, a new study reveals the cost of not doing it. The Harvard study says nearly 45,000 American deaths every year are linked to a lack of insurance.” Neither she, nor reporter Jim Axelrod, noted that the report was really produced by Physicians for a National Health Program, “the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing...

After a summer swoon, you would think that the evening newscasts of the Big 3 networks would start to recover a bit now that many Americans are back from vacations, kids are back in school, and fall routines are getting established or re-established. So far, you would be wrong. It's early, and there's still plenty of time this fall to recover, but during the time period after Labor Day, the broadcasts primarily anchored by Brian Williams at NBC, Charles Gibson at ABC, and Katie Couric at CBS: Are down a combined 28.5% from their peak in late January during...

What does it say when John Stewart covers a story before Katie, Brian, and Charlie? ACORN suspended operations yesterday, calling the actions of their employees at four separate locations indefensible. This was after ACORN Bertha Lewis called the BigGovernment videos a scam, that ACORN employees were just "playing along", which came right after they claimed they were suing FoxNews for making ACORN their Willie Horton for 2009, which wasn't too long after they called this an isolated incident. Next up? Bertha Lewis saying "we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids"? Zoinks! Read...

Is the ACORN scandal worthy of national broadcast news coverage? ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson said he didn't even know what the scandal was about.

Part of the fallout from the whole “ACORN-getting-busted-teaching-folks-how-to-be-better-pimps-and-prostitutes” thing is a long-overdue examination of the role of the mainstream media (I prefer the term "LameStream" Media) in basically covering up for the sins of the far Left these days. The dissembling and weak excuses issuing forth from more than a few of the so-called "giants" in the media (the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC's Charlie Gibson...who admitted to not even knowing, or caring, about the ACORN dustup etc.) over why they failed to even demonstrate a smidgeon of curiosity about what Barack Obama's favorite community organization was up...

Anyone who followed the 2008 election in even a cursory manner must rememeber the interview Sarah Palin granted Charlie Gibson in September. Much like liberal comrade Katie Couric, Gibson used the opportunity to ask Palin every difficult question conceivable, a stark contrast to the kid glove treatment received by media darling Barack Obama. In a now-famous exchange, Gibson asked Palin about the “Bush Doctrine,” as though it was a well accepted concept that had been widely circulated. Like many of us in the audience, Palin struggled to understand what Gibson meant by the term, and she received ridicule and criticism...

What does it say when John Stewart covers a story before Katie, Brian, and Charlie? ACORN suspended operations yesterday, calling the actions of their employees at four separate locations indefensible. This was after ACORN Bertha Lewis called the BigGovernment videos a scam, that ACORN employees were just "playing along", which came right after they claimed they were suing FoxNews for making ACORN their Willie Horton for 2009, which wasn't too long after they called this an isolated incident. Next up? Bertha Lewis saying "we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids"? Zoinks! Read...

Here is video of an ABC News report finally run on the ACORN Scandal. Anchor Charles Gibson leads into the story, saying "Next we are going to turn to a political firestorm." It was just a few days ago that Gibson said on a Chicago radio station he had not even heard of the ACORN story. I guess that prompted him to look into it. (VIDEO)

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...

ABC News just lead off its 3:00 p.m. radio newscast with a report on ACORN, including comments at today's condemnation by Gobbs at the Whitehouse Presser!! Just like Van Jones, they lamestream media can no longer ignore this huge political story! I guess once John Stewart made fun of Press for ignoring the story, the alphabet networks and the print media to go after ACORN -- including the LA Times and the NYT -- were shamed into reporting the story. Kudos to Fox News, Glenn Beck, Hannity, Breitbart and those two young folks who risked it all to get the...

Here is audio of Chicago Radio Host Don Wade telling Glenn Beck he was shocked yesterday when ABC News Anchor Charles Gibson said he had not heard about the huge unfolding ACORN Scandal. "My jaw had hit the console," he said. Wade said he believes Gibson really did not know about the story, and that his ignorance of it shows the diminishing relevance of the Network Evening News. . . . (AUDIO)

Backing up his anchorman, Charles Gibson, who suggested on the radio that maybe the ACORN story "is just one you leave to the cables," World News executive Jon Banner extended the liberal snobbery on Politico: While Banner admits that some stories may get more attention on cable, blogs or talk radio, it doesn’t mean they’re suited for the "World News" audience. "There’s a tremendous amount of – for lack of a better word – ‘noise’ out there. We’re not in the business of noise."

Army of the InsaneOf all my duties here at Delta-Man probably my least favorite is trolling the liberal websites and reading their crap. I do this for two reasons: first of all so you don’t have to and second, to find out what these idiots are saying and attempt to respond to their arguments in a logical manner. Now I realize that these arguments will never reach these deluded liberals since logic is a concept that’s as foreign to them as responsibility. Instead I attempt to respond to their arguments because that’s how normal people engage in a meaningful debate,...

Here is video of Dennis Miller on The O'Reilly Factor where he commented on ACORN and Kanye West. Dennis Miller jabbed Charlie Gibson for not knowing anything about the whole ACORN scandal, mentioning how he had given Palin a hard time about the "Bush Doctrine." O'Reilly said he has suggested to the Maryland authorities not to prosecute James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for doing the undercover video in Baltimore. He warned there will be thousands protesting if they try to do so. . . . (VIDEO)

Shouldn't the man who played "gotcha" with Sarah Palin be up to speed on this big news story? After all, that's his job!Remember last fall when ABC's Charlie Gibson looked down his nose at Governor Sarah Palin and tried to sound superior when asking about the Bush doctrine which the Washington Post admits has several definitions? Well, once again it appears Charlie hasn't been doing his homework. He's clueless or indifferent to the biggest corruption story to break yet in the first months of the Obama Administration: AUDIO: AT SITE Don Wade of 890 WLS radio's Wade and Roma show...

Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com is running circles around traditional media outlets. As Lori notes below, Charlie Gibson may feign an unawareness of the ACORN videos but no one is buying it. Why? Because an exposé like this is the very stuff Don Hewitt used to make 60 Minutes into one of the biggest news shows in history. After just a few seasons Hewitt's formulaic approach to the news exposé was recognized by millions of viewers. Find a suspect (possibly criminal) enterprise, send in a reporter in disguise and tape the whole thing. Hewitt's targets were usually businesses, large and small. There...

These two are the faces of liberal intellectual muscle in the world we live in today, giants, as it were. One, a very senior broadcast journalist and host of his networks nightly news show, and the other, a former president and nobel prize winning statesman. Mr Gibsons main claim to fame to date was his smirkingly condescending interview with a sitting governor and vice presidential candidate just about a year ago, a hatchet job if I've ever seen one. And, just yesterday, when asked about potentially the biggest political scandal since Watergate, (on a talk radio show no less), his...