Conason: Conservative filmmakers' ACORN video is "propaganda" not "journalism"

my4cents:
"wise, articulate guy. We need more people like him." Are you serious? Did you watch the video? Those women were disgusting and broke more laws than I could count! It is one thing to want to bash Fox News, but this was not the time to do so by defending those women. Conason is weak, and no journalist. He write opinions, not news.

Karl Rove is a journalist? He is out there on Fox News everyday spreading propaganda he created.
Is there a law in MD against recording without consent?

Yes, poor ACORN ,they are the victims again. Funny how that happens, over and over and over and over again.

It's always fun when you compare the sweet slightly tartness of apples with the lush sweet acidity of oranges.

Whenever 60 minutes did it they knew the incidents were isolated and relative to the individual committing the crime. They didn't try to say the entire company was corrupt because some employees were corrupt.

If you did an internal investigation of all the assistant managers at burger king and did sting you would find that 6 out of every 10 burger kings assistant managers were either taking food home or skimming a little money off the top. Do I have any "data" to support this? No, its just my journalistic gut telling me. That and I use to work at Burger King long, long ago.

Poor Mr Ed. Always wrong.

>>Whether or not they went into 5 offices or 100 offices before they found people to 'help' them is pretty much irrelevant.

No it's not, for obvious reasons, which Conason points out.

No, it's not irrelevant. It is very relevant.

For example, if you have one (or 5) republicans who get caught committing adultery, does that mean the Republican party is wholly corrupt? Yeah, I kind of thought you would not think that was the case.

If you go to 4 offices, and 3 of the offices throw you out on your butt, whereas 2 people at one office go along with your scheme, it suggests the organization is not corrupt but rather some of its workers are.

Every organization has its share of employees who, when given the opportunity, will reveal themselves to be corrupt or stupid. By Fox only reporting on the one case and ignoring the three other cases, it is deliberately working to create a false image that somehow the Acorn organization rather than two individual employees was responsible and condones this type of behavior.

And, it is possible, that these women at Acorn thought these two people were crazy and just went along with it but had no intention of aiding them with anything--as indeed, Acorn affirms that they did not file or do anything on behalf of these people. Maybe, as disappointing as it seems, they just wanted to see if they could get $120 from these crazy people to join Acorn but never would have helped them with this obviously harebrained idea.

They did not find an ACORN office willing to help them commit crimes, tax fraud, and slavery--they found two people working at an ACORN office willing to help them commit crime, tax fraud, and slavery.

It should be noted, however, that even people who engage in illegal activity like prostitution or gambling are expected by the IRS to report their income.

When did two become a bunch?

Perhaps English?

prove it

Yes, the evidence shows HUMAN NATURE.

Haven't you guys seen enough legal movies?

You need the smoking memo. Without it you have NOTHING. Let me explain: unless there is an employee manual which told these two ladies how to operate when dealing with pimps and prostitutes or there was a memo from the head office titled "In Re: Pimps And Prostitutes Buying Homes" you have nothing!

You can hate ACORN all you want but it won't change the fact that they helped get Obama elected by going into the 'hood and registering Pookie and Dem to vote. Personally I love it and if they worked for McCain you would have loved it too.

"I speak from experience, ACORN got some of my high school classmates who were desperately poor jobs for the summer "

And if they limited themselves to activities of that nature instead of voter fraud and advising prostitutes they wouldn't be the target of anyone. But they have made their choice.


"IMHO ACORN does good work for people who need it. "


Does that opinion include the supposed prostitute in the clip that was just released. Ooops I mean the performance artist. And all of the potential performance artists they were talking of importing.

I agree, plus I watched Beck interview her on his show. She came across as really phony as did her whole story. Smells fishy.

Is it equally telling when the libs won't appear of Fox? What are they trying to hide? Nobody wants exposure more than politicians.

>>If you go to biggovernment.com you can see seventeen minutes of the tape.

But not the whole tape. Nor do we have the whole story.

Fisher girl, can you tell me where to go to find a review on Levin's book? Or where I can find proof that Kerry bought up all copies of *New Soldier?* Or that he prohibited it from being reprinted? Or that Nancy Pelosi uses a special plane because she, not a person in charge of security, wants it?

"What was most troubling to me is how the ladies from ACORN were willing to help traffic in underage human slaves. "

Well of course they are potential democratic voters.

I am waiting for Maxine Waters to come out and defend the fine folks at ACORN, she has been a strong supporter of ACORN. And it it noteworthy that our democrat controlled House of Reps squashed the investigation of ACORN. But as the evidence mounts, the American people will see the kind of fine folks that are proud members of the democratic party.

The 2010 elections will tell the tale, Obama may be popular enough to get a second term but he won't have the kind of majority he has now in Congress. Wait and see.

That sounds like you are agreeing that ACORN is corrupt. I presume that you don't approve of Wall St.