Media critic and spelling champ Beck complains about non-Fox media's lack of coverage of his "huge" "ACORN scandal"
September 11, 2009 6:05 pm ET
From the September 11 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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And I see how you classify Beck as a dry drunk, did you call Kennedy a wet drunk?
The videos were appalling, and I'm glad the people in them got fired. But it's not big news. It's not worthy of more than a mention here or there. Really, it's not. Beck wants it to be this huge scoop, because to HIM it's huge news.
This is my first post and I have to chuckle. I consider myself an independent. I watch Beck and other stations. For being the party (Dems) of acceptance and tolerance if this is the best your group can come up with I think I'll stay away. If Fox is to conservative then the rest of the media is dead as they don't report anything of value.
Tell me more. Where is this "on and on" you are talking about?
Furhtermore, no one here has any reason to believe you about your political alignment. In fact, touting your political allegiance (conservative, liberal, dem, rep, whatever), regardless of the issue or your posting history, only serves to prove some form of bias one way or the other. Declaring youself an independent does not grant you any kind of weight when it comes to declaring who's right and who's wrong. The only thing that matters is whether or not you're rational. Idiocy is by no means the exclusive attribute of any of the political parties, nor does political non-alignment (assuming you actually are non-aligned) grant you any immunity to it.
Beck and the rest of the folks on Fox are trying to paint this situation as being supported by ACORN. It was not. It's only big news on Fox because it supports the agenda that they are trying very, very hard to sell their viewers. The fact that the premise upon which it is being presented is false is irrelevant to the folks on Fox.
Please prove how ACORN promotes prostitution and slave trade. We'll wait. It appears you are a stupid, inbred, ignorant drunk.
What does Kennedy have to do with this thread, hick?
Boy, you are not very bright, are you?
Not exactly sure what the corollary between Teddy Kennedy and Glenn Beck is except that it's one of those "but, but, but . . . he did it first" excuses. Kennedy admitted he struggled with alcohol abuse and he received help. He never claimed to be "sober." Glenn Beck, like most dry drunks, will only admit that he had a problem, but that he has now "kicked" it and is "sober." Dry drunks may not be drinking, but they are not sober. They continue to exhibit compulsive, addictive behaviors.
Because those organizations require confirmed sources and they don't repeat lies, innuendo, and speculation.
Of course Fox repeated the story because that is what they do.
Becky, you should realize that when you have strayed that far from the pack, it's not the pack that is wrong it's you
Which of course makes it not necessarily true, and not necessarily news (no matter how many 'asterix' he throws up there).
Sorry, Glenn. FAIL. Again.
Ah yes, another right wing conspiracy.
Local case here: a woman who was employed as receptionist for a local law firm hit and killed a bicyclist and then left the scene of the accident. She went to work the next day drunk, then it was discovered that she was the hit and run driver . . . she was fired. Was her employer to blame for her illegal activity?
This isn't a story.
ACORN should be prosecuted under the RICO statutes. They are a criminal enterprise.
They're criminal for help poor people, many who are black.
ACORN is a boogeyman to the racist teabaggers because to them it represents black people.
Why is every one a racist, homophone, baby killer, war monger, flat earthier or any of the other names used to shout down people.
Acorn has refused to open their books to anybody, they bused in people to the executives home during the bonus pay issue. They have been indited in 14 states for voter fraud, they have people with questionable past as employees?
How can it be just a few misguided employees when this is happening allover ??
The whole organization stinks to high heaven they take taxpayer money for what they are also linked heavily to the SEIU that origination also stinks
Dunno -- ask Glenn Beck . . .
This griping about ACORN is often lies or just overblown bs.
A bus driver drives drunk during work hours. The bus company has never had any reason to suspect that this driver would drink and drive, much less do it on the job.
How is the bus company responsible for that bus driver driving drunk? When his bad deeds were uncovered, they fired him. How is his bad behavior a reflection on the bus company - and remember, the bus company had no reason to suspect he'd do anything like this.
That prostitute thing he's been bitching about is the least of ACORN's problems. The story that's breaking now is that the Census Bureau just dropped ACORN.
O Fortuna at Fox tomorrow - they'll be slapping themselves on the back all day, watch.
Why would you not be upset that an organization receiving TAX MONEY would have otherwise willingly given it to someone for the purposes of, among other things, child trafficking, prostitution or illegal immigration? How is this story not larger than professor-gates?
This is plain and simple intimidation if you don't like what they are, say or do they will call you every name in the book and some that are not. They want to make you feel like your doing something wrong when really it is them!
Didn't ACORN kick the pimp and prostitute players out of some of their offices?
Saying "all" gets you in traps if only one instance is proven false.
ACORN is a conservative bogeyman. ACORN comprises just about everything conservatives hate. That being largely poor and minority (the meek) people politically organizing and standing up for themselves and not being pimped out by the Republican elites like you are to do their bidding.
Let's all keep an open mind. After all, we are all wasting our time on this post and all other posts if what Frank Zappa said is true..."One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds".
It makes no sense to blindly support an organization that is breaking the laws of these United States! I'm sure some folks will be caught completely off guard when they finally find out that on Friday, 9/11, Census Director Robert M. Groves informed Alton Bennet, the president of ACORN,that his organization was no longer welcome to participate in the national census. They will be caught off guard because the CNN news website did not have room to report the story on their home page because they would have had to remove the story about the guy who caught the 41.45 lb. trout! (I do some fishing so I'm a little jealous...)
They will be caught off guard because the CBS news website needed the room to report Jeter's setting a new hit record for the Yankees. I never thought I'd be proud of MSNBC and ABC for anything in my lifetime, but at least they reported the whole mess.
I don't have time to channel surf so the net is my #1 news source and so far FOX has delivered the goods.
Let's keep our eyes and minds open folks. There are some Independents out here watching how you treat each other.
BTW, did you approve of the illegality which occurred during the last administration, all of which is slowly coming into public light? It was all documented in government documents before, but NOBODY would listen or read it.
By your logic, Fauxliberal, Fuax News should also be prosecuted under RICO statutes.
Shoe's on the other foot now, isn't it Troll?
There, now it's factually correct.
IF ACORN had actually PROMOTED real existing slave trade and prostitution, it would have been HUGE. But they didn't. It's a non story - outside of Fox and Glenn Beck.
And as for the term, which I really think the eejits coined themselves, they certainly revel in ignorance and stupidity. You are free to ignore every thoughtful post and article in order to give a prissy lecture, and I'm free to think you must be certifiable to come on here to defend insanity.
Salon.com, however, pointed out that "teabagging" has long had another meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging
And if you think "professional protestors" and "yes we can" go together, you need professional help.
I don't care at all about the phrase. I just think it's quite Freudian that the mad tea party people would start using tea bags to show their frustration.
I would ask you where you're getting this information, but I don't want to encourage you any further.
Mary was right -- you DO need professional help, if you think your drunken state "agrees" with you . . .
Well, Fairlyawingnut . . . if its good enough for Johnny Boy, its good enough for me:
Remember when that Fox News producer was arrested on child pornography charges? Does this mean that all of Fox News dabbles in child pornography? Of course not.
You have nothing that states that this is a companywide policy, especially when other branches threw these posers out of their offices.
For a split-second I thought "Is this a new Fox? Fair & balanced?"
Then I realized the probable reason for the report; A Republican man was having an alleged affair with an adult woman. That's a win for the rightys.
Back on topic, I believe Beck's point is that you can judge the legitimacy of a news organization by their willingness to report on ACORN. I agree with him, citing Ed Anger's article from last month regarding the town hall teabaggers.
Other idiots say the protesters are all being put together by the insurance companies. Right, not like those lie-beral protests from the last fifty years, paid for by everybody from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Teamsters to ACORN!
Best part of this link, in my opinion, is that Ed Anger has been in the WWN for years, as a satirical right wing nut, but now has a comments section that is frequented by mainstream Republicans. You can't parody the right any more.
What do you expect from a guy who spells his name "G-l-e-n-n"?
Maybe after the OLIGARH incident, he doesn't want to risk leaving out any letters.
"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." -- George W. Bush, May 26, 2005
Or maybe he just read too many of the Asterix comic books as a kid, and it stuck. No wait, those are (holds nose) French. Ewww... no way he would have read those!
Now THAT is big news.
Get it right. Rupert will be changing the name this weekend to make Beck appear to be less of a goofballl.
Also like how he uses a ":" instead of a "?" in his heading question.
A suspect has been arrested. According to a news story on CNN's website,
Authorities say the suspect, Harlan James Drake, was offended by anti-abortion material that the activist had displayed across from the school all week.
I don't care which side of the abortion issue you're on, murdering someone because of their beliefs is just. wrong.
All 3 nightly news networks also reported it.
I sure didn't have any problem finding reports, even with a very vague Google search.
Any murder is wrong and I hope they caught the guy who did it and he serves his full punishment no matter what. Furthermore, I truly hope no protester feels intimidated or threatened by the murderer's actions if indeed it turns out the murder was politically motivated in any way.
I'd bet History Channel would lead on that comparison.
Just 2 words: So and What?
He also is incapable of correctly pronouncing "asterisk".
At least Obama had the sense to know when someone's a liability & get rid of them.
Fox thinks liabilities are assets. They thrive in hiring hack no-bodies and crooks who know nothing more than how to incite their viewers. It's called "yellow journalism". Look it up.
Becky's a hack entertainer. Not a journalist. Not even a good entertainer in my opinion, but everyone has different tastes.
I'm all for him staying on TV, as long as he apologizes for this racist comments, and runs disclaimers on every show that he's an entertainer like Howard Stern, not a journalist, and at times he makes things up to make things more interesting.
The rest of us get this. It's people who take him at his word that he's a serious journalist that worries the rest of us.
Yes, by sheer chance Becky sometimes gets close to reality, but on the whole, he's a raving lunatic with no idea what reality is, and he get's off dragging you all along for the ride.
Yellow journalism is yellow journalism.
It comes from both sides.
Always double-check what you hear.
That's why we all come to sites like this.
But, I do try to keep an open mind.
As should we all.... keep an open mind, that is.
It would be too much to expect everyone to dislike Fox and Beck. ;-)
Yeah -- Becky's "power" sure worked against Cass Sunstein -- NOT.
1. I never watch Glenn Beck; I don't need to waste time watching a dry drunk who can't spell
2. Since I never watch him, I'm not "angry" at him; I merely laugh at his idiocy as reported here
3. As hard as I know it is to convince the wingnut Fox faithful, viewership does NOT equal content . . . and, at any one time, the Fox Comedy Channel's total viewership is about .001% of the US population . . .
Uh-huh. At last count, all that "clout" caused how many sponsors to pull advertising from his show?
0.
But I think Becky did ACORN a favor with their sneaky sting operation. The idea that anyone working for them would go along with a prostitution operation is appalling, and it serves ACORN well that they were exposed and dismissed. Sunlight is a good disinfectant.
There is many a right-wing operation that would fold under such scrutiny. In fact, the Republican Party as it now exists would melt if a Light were truly shined on all its dirty tricks...
and while I'm expostulating, why do right-wing hacks like Beck use sleazy sex as a theme in their reports??? no, don't tell me. ;0)
The right wing like to keep its loyalists busy like kittens and a ball of yarn.
Acorn has become the whipping post for the right all while they enact policies that benefit their corporate benefactors at the expense of working americans.
Also, only one party has been under a court ordered consent decree for voter supression violations
That would be the republican party.
While wingnuts have been preoccupied with Acorn, republicans doubled the debt, lied a country into war, wiretapped americans, allowed the financial markets to crater leading to the worst meltdown since the depression, had the worst job creation record in US history and wages below were the were in ten years ago.
Hey.......look over there.........hippies and blacks are doing something.
Resume whining wingnuts.
Brad Friedman on 4/5/2007 9:05PM
The GOP's ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Canard Appears Again, This Time in U.S. Attorney Purge Scandal
NM's David Iglesias Pressured by Republicans to Bring 'Voter Fraud' Charges Against Voter Registration Group
But Prosecutor Found No Case Worth Bringing...
As reported by Democracy Now on Wednesday...
U.S. Attorney Fired After Failing to Indict ACORN for Voter Fraud
There are new developments in the scandal over the Bush administration's firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. One of the dismissed prosecutors has revealed that he was pressured by Republican officials to target the advocacy group ACORN for voter fraud. ACORN was working on a voter registration drive in low-income and largely minority neighborhoods in New Mexico. David Iglesias told Newsweek that he found no case worth bringing against ACORN. But that apparently did not please the White House. Last week Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's ex-chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson testified that during the run-up to the mid-term election White House adviser Karl Rove complained that Iglesias and two other U.S. Attorneys had not done enough to prosecute so-called voter fraud.
Ah yes, the always reliable GOP "vote fraud" scammers' "ACORN canard" rears it's ugly (and unsubstantiated) head again. The NEWSWEEK article referenced above is here.
ACORN is the "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now", a group which has successfully run voter registration drives across the country in low-income and minority areas.