Posts Tagged ‘acorn’

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.

Have you heard this one? It’s a killer!

Posted: September 15, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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You know there are times when you become so cynical that nothing surprises you.

And then there is Acorn.

You know I would have thought it was just as likely to find Bikini pictures of Robert Stacy McCain and Bikini pictures of Charles Johnson on the net then it was to have someone admit manslaughter to a total stranger in a public place to a complete stranger but apparently I’m still a wide eyed innocent in this world.

Reaction: Hotair:

Can’t wait for that House vote on whether to keep funding this syndicate.

Robert Stacy:

That sound you heard was my head exploding. Even mixing psilocybin and Bolivian flake, it would be hard to have a trip as weird as that.

Steve Den Bestie via Glenn:

“Think O’Keefe will get a Pulitzer Prize for this expose? heh heh heh… yeah, right.”

You know I’d really be interested in his opinion on the McCain/Johnson fight.

Charles Johnson:

Yes, really. This is how bad it’s getting.

Just kidding. That was concerning Pat Buchanan. You didn’t think he would actually comment on a group Glenn Beck opposes do you? Instead he is pushing a Color of Change press release.
(He has a very good point about the Buchanan thing however.)

Wizbang nails it with the post title

Andrew Breitbart As The New Don Hewitt

Gay Patriot:

Wonder how many media outlets in the Golden State will investigate this story?

Glenn goes all Charlie Brown:

Good Grief!


Confederate Yankee:

Tell me, Madame Pelosi: Why should taxpayers still fund this organized criminal conspiracy?

Don Surber

Maybe ABC should get knowledgeable about this because ACORN may go down and take President Richard Milhouse Obama with him. Or maybe not. We shall see.

Gateway Pundit quotes Achmed the dead terrorist :

Holy Crap

I think he has it cold.

More updates when my D & D character is done fighting his way out of our party’s ambush.

Update: Lost a 3rd of my HP but hey I haven’t played D & D for almost a decade.

Flopping Aces:

Kicking ‘im in the ACORNs

The Radio Patriot:

This is stuff you can’t make up

BTW on the lefty blogs the favorite story is Joe Wilson. but Steve Benen at Washington monthly is now quoting Charles Johnson, expect a lot more of this in the days to come.

Talkleft: A search for Acorn newest result is from Oct 2008.

Dissenting Justice Acorn search. No Results.

Firedoglake: Nothing on front page.

Media matters accuses Beck of using Breitbart as a source!

Beck has credited the “instrumental” work of conservative columnist and Web publisher Andrew Breitbart, who has a history of smearing progressives and making inflammatory statements.

You know I’d think Soros would get more for his money that this pap.

The left coaster calls for help:

Help Us, Obi Wan Pelosi!

You’re our only hope.

No that’s not a joke at least not an intentional one.

Crooks and Liars says it’s not journalism, of course as an MSNBC fan he might not have a clear definition of the term.

Update again: Another D & D fight surprised in my sleep but things are still going.

Powerline:

ACORN employee describes bankers who didn’t want to lend money to start a brothel as right-wingers. “If they were liberal, they’d be helping you,” she says. The entire encounter is surreal:

Rich Lowry of National Review:

The E. F. Hutton of Prostitution When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen.

Hugh Hewitt talks media:

Increasingly, though, the major divide is between those who report the news –like the ACORN scandals– and those who don’t.

Patterico:

Don’t miss this one

Rockwall County line asks a great question:

My question is, how did the film makers know what questions to ask? Did they have inside information from former workers who had left in disgust when they found out about the perversity of the place?

Chicago Boys answers it:

Since this is definitely far from the first time Acorn has enabled criminal activity, I feel certain that the journalist heard stories and decided to follow them up. Apparently, there has been deep suspicion about Acorn in the non-profit world for many years. No doubt the journalist started there.

I like the title of Small Dead Animals’ post:

But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One

Update yet again: a few more before I head home.

Atlas Shrugs:

While we, the free of America, enjoyed the fruits of the fight, the toil, the bloody sacrifice of our fathers, grandfathers, founding fathers ………….the left set about to infiltrate our institutions and destroy this country from the inside. Rotting, decadent — lifting up the rock on the left in America.

Or they are just a bunch of crooks.

Pundit & Pundette notices something:

It’s 7:00 pm and there is almost no reporting on this by the mainstream media. One AP story from yesterday; the rest are FOX News and blogs.

Protein Wisdom is lucky she wasn’t drinking when he read Acorn’s press release:

UPDATE: [guffaw, snicker] San Berdo ACORN organizers claim Tresa Kaelke was afraid of O’Keefe and Giles … or was just joking … Take your pick of excuses.

Lucky for me I put down my water before reading the link.

Right Pundits have their priorities down:

More importantly, we get to see more shots of Hannah Giles strutting around like a hooker. Now that’s quality entertainment! I have a great idea for a “business” venture, let’s open an ACORN office and see if we can entice Miss. Giles to stop by and interview us!

I’ll be getting some Bikini pics hits from them.

Nice deb:

They wanted to see how corrupt ACORN was on the West coast.

They found out

Ace goes over the defense:

Because claiming to have shot your husband is a laugh riot, as is a sex ring featuring underage girls illegally in the country. Maybe it was just me but I didn’t get the sense that Tresa had such a wry sense of humor.

And we will end the day with HotAir’s quote of the day:

Former Acorn board members tell me the group has always been confident it will be protected. After the Nevada voter-registration fraud indictment last May, Bonnie Greathouse, Acorn’s chief organizer in the state, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that ‘we’ve had bad publicity before’ and survived. ‘People always come forward to our defense. We’re just community organizers, just like the president used to be.’”

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