Morning Joe (morning shows) what will they cover?

Posted: September 16, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I didn’t hit the sack till way after 1 and couldn’t fall asleep right away but I HAD to know what people was saying.

Fox is covering Acorn of course…

CNN is opening with the awful murder in Connecticut. Very legitimate story and important to cover and heading straight to Carter.

Morning Joe is leading with Carter but unlike MSNBC in general they are not liking what they hear. Mika is calling Carter not only wrong but irresponsible. Barnicle is saying race is playing a part but Carter is overstating it and Joe is with Mika and says that the hatred Obama is seeing pales before what he saw in the 94 campaign concerning Clinton.

The top 6 stories don’t include the Acorn news.

Morning Joe is calling the attacks on Wilson racism and mentions bigotry against the South. R.S. McCain would agree and so would I.

Update:

6:21 Politico is covering the media coverage on Acorn and Van Jones and is on the air over it. Nothing on the new tapes yet, they are making the story the MSM story more their story rather than what Acorn is doing. The MSM angle is a legit one but the most interesting point is the statement that if we don’t cover the stories they will lose viewers.

They admit that if the Christian Colition was covering this story it would have been front page. Scarborough is hitting them on ideology saying it was because it was a Fox story. Mike Allen is saying there is just too many other stories to cover too.

But news executives argue that they have limited staff and resources, and there is a lot more to cover on a daily basis than a handful of controversies stirred up primarily on the right.

“For Glenn Beck to devote 45 minutes of his show to ACORN and Van Jones says more about his news judgment than mine,” said Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief of the New York Times.

“He’s not a newsman and that’s not a news show,” Baquet continued. “He’s not trying to cover the economy, two wars, health care, the aftermath from one administration to another, negotiations with Iran or North Korea.”

What was that line from the Godfather? Your foes grow strong on what you leave behind.

Update: 7:44 a.m. They are directly covering the Acorn story with Lisa Myers doing a full NBC story. This should be good.

Sen. Shelby is on now and pointing out the taxpayer dollars that they are getting. The Irony that a senator from Alabama is on directly after Dyson is huge.

Barnicle: How many other groups out there are also getting money and not being checked on.

Some early reporting today

Posted: September 16, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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Well the New York Times has a story on the subject, how about that:

The undercover videos showed a scantily dressed young woman, Hannah Giles, posing as a prostitute, while a young man, James O’Keefe, played her pimp. They visited Acorn offices in Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn and San Bernardino, Calif., candidly describing their illicit business and asking the advice of Acorn workers. Among other questions, they asked how to buy a house to use as a brothel employing under-age girls from El Salvador.

Mr. O’Keefe, 25, a filmmaker and conservative activist, was dressed so outlandishly that he might have been playing in a risqué high school play. But in the footage made public — initially by a new Web site, BigGovernment.com — Acorn employees raised no objections to the criminal plans. Instead, they eagerly counseled the couple on how to hide their activities from the authorities, avoid taxes and make the brothel scheme work.

The Article has a bit of a slant, I wouldn’t expect otherwise but at least reports the basic facts. It was accessible on their web site as the 3rd article on the politics page. I don’t know if it is in the paper proper.

The AP has a video story up:

An a “print” story that we take from the Kansas City Star:

A Republican lawmaker wants the Justice Department to investigate ACORN, the embattled community organizing group.

Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday requesting the investigation. He cites reports that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now may “have been engaged in illegal activity.”

There are several stories in the NY papers concerning scrambling in the State Legislature:

In the State Senate, Minority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) called for a halt of any state funding to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the affiliated New York Agency for Community Affairs, and other groups doing business with them. “The possibility that our tax dollars are being misused for potential criminal activities must be investigated and the flow of tax money must be stopped,” Skelos wrote in a letter asking Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli to freeze all funding to the group.

ACORN and its affiliates were slated to receive about $500,000 in the 2009-10 budget, largely through grants from the legislature’s Democratic majorities to aid homeowners facing foreclosure. No funds have yet been allocated, the comptroller said.

A source familiar with ACORN’s state funding said Cuomo would not approve new contracts until the conclusion of a separate criminal probe by the Brooklyn district attorney.

Considering California’s budget issues I can’t see how their local funding survives.

Yesterday I thought the Senate vote would be meaningless because the house will back them up. Now I’m not so sure. If the house votes to go after Wilson and ignore Acorn they it is going to be a disaster.

Update: Glenn agrees that the times story is “surprisingly complete and fair“.

Who are you going to believe; Us or your own eyes?

Posted: September 16, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech
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So asks the Acorn Co-Founder concerning their latest killer tape:

Wade Rathke, ACORN’s co-founder and former chief organizer, blasted FOX News on Tuesday for its “unfair” coverage of a group he said has served as a champion for social justice since 1970. Rathke, in an interview, said FOX News should “be careful and fair about how it looks at the organization’s work.”

“It’s a wonderful organization. I do nothing but wish for its success,” he said. “You have to look at the motivation of some groups.”

Now there really isn’t much else they can say, not only do they have to defend the meal ticket of the organization but if people decide to talk to avoid charges then a fellow who left just a year ago might have some legal problems.

How long can the MSM can continue to keep quiet on this? You can only play the Joe Wilson card for so long. Even NPR felt compelled to give it some coverage before today’s stuff.

The media has to decide if it is going to be relevant or not. It is going to be interesting to see what happens over the next three days.

It’s a RushLance! Well a secondary RushLance

Posted: September 16, 2009 by datechguy in oddities, personal
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I was very surprised that being the first trackback on Michelle Malkin’s Charlie Gibson post produced the second biggest day in the history of the blog.

However a little digging has discovered the cause.

Apparently Rush linked to Michelle Malkin’s piece and as I was the first trackback it became a secondary RushLance!

Considering the silly day I had it’s rather ironic.

Anyway if you are interested as of 9:30 p.m. only my instalance produced a more active day. About double of what I had yesterday.

I don’t know if I’ll get any tech business out of it but it can’t hurt. But with more new eyeballs I’m hoping I can keep the quality up.

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