Fox News Caught in a Smear: Media Matters calls for accountability following shameful omission during ACORN reports
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
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Washington, D.C. - Today, Media Matters for America highlighted the fact that Fox News repeatedly broadcast and promoted a shocking but entirely fictitious claim made by San Bernardino ACORN employee Tresa Kaelke that she murdered her former husband.
Media Matters also released a video of its own, titled, "Caught in a Smear," which can be viewed here.
"This is journalistic malpractice, plain and simple," said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters. "A reporter right out of J-school would have taken the two minutes necessary to call the San Bernardino Police Department and verify Ms. Kaelke's statements. But that never occurred to anyone at Fox News before the network ran with the story. This kind of shameful work raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the entire campaign currently being waged against ACORN."
BACKGROUND
On September 15, Fox News' Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity both broadcast Tresa Kaelke's assertion, recorded on a hidden camera, that she had killed a former husband.
Both made a point of highlighting the statement. On the September 15 edition of his show, Beck played the clip and then said, "She never spanked her kids, but she did shoot her husband dead." Later that night, Hannity played the same clip before adding, "Specifically, now, she goes into this scenario about her husband and the killing of him."
The following morning, on September 16, Fox News' Gretchen Carlson repeated the allegation, saying, "She killed somebody? Despite this, some lawmakers want to keep funding the group." She later claimed that the husband was still alive, "according to ACORN."
However, the San Bernardino Police Department itself has now confirmed that Kaelke's claim was untrue. A department statement released on September 15 reads:
"The San Bernardino Police Department is investigating the claims made regarding the homicide. From the initial investigation conducted, the claims do not appear to be factual. Investigators have been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands, who are alive and well."
Furthermore, Kaelke has said that when she made the claim, she was seeking to deliberately mislead the undercover videographers, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, of whom she was suspicious.
"They were not believable," Kaelke is quoted as saying in an ACORN press release. "Somewhat entertaining, but they weren't even good actors. I didn't know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me."
Kaelke's remarks have thus far been largely ignored by Fox News.
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Wow.
acted like children and she toyed with them like children. But apparently the Children who watch faux news are too slow on picking that up.
I’m a white 40 old man and I live in Baltimore just as this woman does, and let me tell you there are no white teenage pimps in Baltimore, none black or white dressed like that. If you saw them walk in your office would you be that stupid to believe that story?
Or do you think only an adult black woman in city with a population which is over 60% black, is stupid enough to fall for that?
There is REAL social problems in Baltimore that go beyond what an arrogant teenage imagination would consider reality to be huggy bear. She saw thru them
like tissue paper and your brain cant imagine it because you don’t know what reality is in Baltimore city, or probably anywhere else really.
I dress the goats up as celebrities, historical personalities and even children.
People other than yourself might ask "Yes, but are the goats clean?" or "What kind of goat?" or, maybe, even "What do you have against sheep?"
You, apparently, would be shocked and outraged and report me to Fox News and expect them to report on me.
After all, I'm also Napoleon.
As for the murder...
Maybe that was made up to make Fox News look stupid? Or expose their bias or corruption?
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Not that they needed any help...
Inadvertently Sean [klan]nity exposed what his interest and intent is and that is to discredit and ultimately bring down Obama and his administration. They are using Carl Roves' playbook to help them do it. Obama worked with Acorn, during his community organizing days. Sean and Fox News want to make a case that Acorn is corrupt therefore Obama's campaign and presidency is tainted by Acorn. Glen Beck and Sean Hannity made it clear on radio and their talk show that they are "determined to bring down Obama and his administration". These Acorn "stings" are no coincidence. How do you explain Fox News getting the "story" first? Fox News has interjected it self into the story, instead reporting the story.
Fox News won't tell you how many Acorn employees told these so-called filmmakers to “get the hell out my office” before those who said yes you may film. Fox News is evil and Sean and Beck proves it everyday. Sean and Beck want Acorn out of business. These racist bastards want to punish Acorn and black people for Obama's success. Watch the video, Sean overlooks big criminals in favor of brining down Acorn and "Obama and radical administration".
Oh give me a break lol. Hannity last night when they were airing the latest 5th video to surface concerning ACORN explicitly asked Hannah Giles two or three times how many people at ACORN had actually turned them away and kicked them out of their offices on the premise of what they were doing. And she and the guy next to her from Biggovernment.com said none. Now whether or not that statement is true I don't know but Bertha Lewis' accusations of them trying and failing at multiple locations is so far unsubstantiated by facts and ACORN is the last ones I would take at their word.
And ACORN SHOULD be out of business until at the very least they have been fully investigated for all allegations. They have too many people being shown taking part in illegal activity that is far worse than simply helping to cheat on your taxes. Advocating the prostitution and trafficking of minors is a serious crime and it's not like ACORN has some spotless record. They've been accused of voter fraud during the 2008 election in states all across the US. They get millions of dollars in government grants and if they are corrupt they need to be exposed.
Mediamatters.org has decided to make a big issue out of Fox News reporting on this woman from ACORN stating she killed her husband without calling the local police department to verify first when really all they did was report on exactly what she admitted to in the video, regardless if she actually did it or not, which is the real issue at hand here.
And if mediamatters.org actually wanted to expose the real truth and go after someone for poor investigative journalism they should be focusing their attention on MSNBC who rolled footage of someone at a health care reform rally that they then labeled as a white racist carrying weapons which they then continued to go on this spill about whether these things have a racial overturn concerning people showing up at the rallies with weapons. What they FAILED to reveal in the video however is this man they showed only a glimpse of was actually a black man there advocating for his rights to bear arms which was his legal right to do so.
Take a look for yourself if you want to stand up for black people:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=3313&t=1562373
Where are you Mediamatters? Does what the media report or fails to report only matter if it airs on Fox News? Maybe they should change the name of this site to Agendamatters.org since it would seem to fit their liberal news agenda much more accurately.
A bunch of you are trying to start a smear campaign against Fox News on the account of them showing racism when in fact all of these things they've been saying and reporting on doesn't have jack to do with race. What it has to do with, and ALL it has to do with, is not approving with Obama's policies. Since when does that automatically equate to racism? Is it so hard to believe that not every person in America holds exactly the same values as those who support Obama? People need to quit playing the race card as a crutch for everything.
And has everyone forgotten that Obama is only HALF black? So I guess now if I make any kind of stand against Obama's policies I'm a black AND white racist? When does this crap ever end and people wake up and realize skin color doesn't mean anything.
Oh give me a break lol. Hannity last night when they were airing the latest 5th video to surface concerning ACORN explicitly asked Hannah Giles two or three times how many people at ACORN had actually turned them away and kicked them out of their offices on the premise of what they were doing. And she and the guy next to her from Biggovernment.com said none. Now whether or not that statement is true I don't know but Bertha Lewis' accusations of them trying and failing at multiple locations is so far unsubstantiated by facts and ACORN is the last ones I would take at their word.
And ACORN SHOULD be out of business until at the very least they have been fully investigated for all allegations. They have too many people being shown taking part in illegal activity that is far worse than simply helping to cheat on your taxes. Advocating the prostitution and trafficking of minors is a serious crime and it's not like ACORN has some spotless record. They've been accused of voter fraud during the 2008 election in states all across the US. They get millions of dollars in government grants and if they are corrupt they need to be exposed.
Mediamatters.org has decided to make a big issue out of Fox News reporting on this woman from ACORN stating she killed her husband without calling the local police department to verify first when really all they did was report on exactly what she admitted to in the video, regardless if she actually did it or not, which is the real issue at hand here.
And if mediamatters.org actually wanted to expose the real truth and go after someone for poor investigative journalism they should be focusing their attention on MSNBC who rolled footage of someone at a health care reform rally that they then labeled as a white racist carrying weapons which they then continued to go on this spill about whether these things have a racial overturn concerning people showing up at the rallies with weapons. What they FAILED to reveal in the video however is this man they showed only a glimpse of was actually a black man there advocating for his rights to bear arms which was his legal right to do so.
Where are you Mediamatters? Does what the media report or fails to report only matter if it airs on Fox News? Maybe they should change the name of this site to Agendamatters.org since it would seem to fit their liberal news agenda much more accurately.
As for your criticism of MM and it's propensity to go after FOX and other rightwing media,rather than say MSNBC?
MM makes it quite clear that they are a "progressive research and information center" concerned primarily with 'Conservative misinformation".Surely you will admit that FOX spreads misinformation on an hourly/daily basis?
That they exist solely to promote rightwing ideology and to promulgate GOP talking points?You are obviously expending a lot of energy here mocking Liberals for not allowing that ACORN has problems that need fixing,so I assume you are not so hypocritical as to not recognize the "truth" about FOX and their endless fabrications.
WHAT ramifications? WHAT actions?
WHAT is all this NONSENSE you people keep harping on about?
What has ACORN done, other than support democrats, that is so horrible to you people?
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Don't MAKE me whip THIS on you!
Look ! ACORN !! Shiny object !! Imaginary ramifications !!
Hint to mitthead: ACORN is the trees, not the forest.
They violate laws to obtain these videos and release them without any research into whether the information is factual. To me, this discredits the "investigation". In the first video, did these two "journalists" actually file paperwork with the federal government for funds, or were they just told something and that was it? It is completely believable that this woman who supposedly killed her husband fabricated the story, so what is to say that the original story aired did not involve an ACORN employee who also played along with the pimp and prostitute?
You lefties are the biggest bunch of pompous asses I have ever seen.
Randy
The whole right-wing noise/attack machine? Perhaps. But that consists of a helluva lot more than these two pulitzer winners.
And causing damage doesn't make you right. Unless you can convince me that the ORGANIZTION is somehow WORTH damaging, I'd say [the damage you're celebrating] makes you a scumbag.
But hey, they only help the poor, right? And who cares about them, anyway? They alwasy vote democrat... At least until they can afford a trailer.
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As for Obama's APPROVAL rating?
1) I don't think it's in the 40's. Show me the poll.
2) If it IS, all that prooves is the effectiveness of the Right-Wing Noise Machine and the Right-Wing Media.
Did [you] all become racist in the last 6 months? No, just disgustingly misinformed, and then whipped into a frothing frenzy by a couple of College dropouts, one a druggie (Rush), and one an Alchie (Beck.)
Congratulations. You must be proud.
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Right ain't right!
" Overall, 47% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) now disapprove"
Politics is a dirty business and there are no angels. I don't have any idols , I try to use my own research and call it as I see it, if I make a mistake it is my own and open to reconsider. There is only right and wrong in the political arena, not left and right.
WRONG. It's not simplistic at all. Those 'drunks & druggies' have well funded media networks behind them. They control every aspect of the message that goes out and drown out all opposition. They lie in every broadcast (well documented by MMFA) and now their lies are treated as the truth. They have a significant following. The mainstream media won't call them out for thier lies, beacuse (1) they'll be bradned (by those very men) as liberally biased and (2) their corporate bosses don't WANT them to. The media has been systematically misinforming America since 1993, led first by Drudge and Limbaugh, then later joined by Coulter, O'Reilly and Hannity and now Dobbs and Beck. It's not the "couple of drunks" it's the several MUTLI-BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS behind the. If you're a reader here, you should be able to PLAINLY SEE what's going on.
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It ain't a conspiracy, it's in PLAIN SIGHT
By whom and why they have significant following, are we a nation gone mad, believe like a bunch of idiots whatever comes out of Fox news. I would believe you if there was just commentries by Fox, but thanks to youtube you can go and watch the speeches of radicals for yourself. watch Mark Lloyd the new diversity czar praises Hugo Chavez and how he is going to use Chavez model to shut down the opposition media, that is not Fox. NBC and its affilates are owned by GE, and the president of GE is advisor to president on cap and trade and green economy, are you telling me NBC and its massive resources are afraid to debunking Fox news just because worried of being labeled liberal. by the way the democrate dominated house just voted to cut all funding to ACORN.
are we a nation gone mad, believe like a bunch of idiots whatever comes out of Fox news(?)
IMHO, sadly, YES.
thanks to youtube you can go and watch the speeches of radicals for yourself
Yep. Plenty of Fox wannabe's cropping video and taking quotes outr of context and making thngs look worse than they are knowing that no one will call them out for it that they can't just dismiss as 'liberal.'
Mark Lloyd [...] is going to use Chavez model to shut down the opposition media
LOL. That'll be the day!
are you telling me NBC and its massive resources are afraid to debunking Fox news just because worried of being labeled liberal(?)
Nope. MSNBC "debunks" Fox news all the time. And it has little traction with Moderates and Centrist Conservatives becuase they've swallowed the lie that the media liberal and the liberal is bad.
by the way the democrate dominated house just voted to cut all funding to ACORN
Acorn lost the census contract. These things happen. What's your point?
I've yet to meet a SINGLE Liberal, ANYWHERE, who ashamed tgo be so. That's Limbaugh-nonsense. There are no socialists here. You don't even knwo what that means. That's Beck-nonsens.
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LOL. That's rich. Riiiight. I guess since we all have free speech that means we all have equal access to the airwaves too, huh?
Moron. If you control the media, you control the message and the b*llsh!t-fest what passes for analysis these days. But to do so takes MONEY. It's MONEY that got Rush into all those markets, not HIM or his IDEAS. (In the early days the show was given for free - takes money to GIVE something away!)
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But who cares, as long as it serves the con's, right?
As far as Hillary's statement? I'll be honest. For my part I honestly coudn't tell you the difference between "liberal" and "progressive." I use those words interchangably to describe myself, most Democrats, etc... The only reason I SEE to even have a 'new word' is that conservtatives have succeeded in turning "liberal" into a criticism and "liberlism" into some kind of vice. (Again, you can do that when you have control or the media and the message.) To me the whole name-game is just marketing.
Finally, Pat Caddell... Again I'll be honest. I don't who that is, or what he stands for. I have no idea where he stands on issues or on the political spectrum, so I really can't comment of his statement one way or the other, other than the say that I no longer recognize what USED to be my party... namely, the Republicans.
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Ideological shift, I guess.
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Oh well.
Obama is "woefully incompetent?"
Then what was Bush? Brain-dead?
If he's so "inept" please name anything he's screwed up so far. Name a single "failure" that isn't a direct result of Republican obstruction.
The American people ARE NOT "waking up" they're falling asleep all over again. Maybe the president can WAKE THEM UP this next week.
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The public school system can finally be proud.
Randy
Any other reasons why she might have done that, you think?
If she was just playin the game, then why did she get fired?
Why aren't you all upset that she was fired?
Why doesn't she sue ACORN for wrongful termination?
You would have us believe that she saw right through this, and instead of showing these two impostors to the door, or giving them safe, stock answers, she decided to say some things that would get her fired.
This is the kind of thing 60 minutes used to do, and they were cheered for it.
Perhaps she shouldn't have been.
Why aren't you all upset that she was fired?
Personally, I hadn't heard.
Why doesn't she sue ACORN for wrongful termination?
If it over this nonsense, and the facts as I understand them, are accurate, she should.
Randy
Revolt against mandatory vaccines and look for alternative methods to fight swine flu
ACORN - fake "murderers".
NAZIs - the real thing.
This ditwit has his/her tinfoil hat on too tight, and probably relies on faith healers if he/she ever gets sick or hurt.
He/she threw in ACORN since they are waiting under his/her bed.
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But all means, go ahead and skip it. Best case? One less Republican vote next time around.
Actually Gretchen...
That would be the ex-husband himself who claimed that he was alive, not just ACORN.
Oh wait, perhaps the ex-husband really isn't the ex-husband and it was actually the Clinton's who did it (since they are so well versed in making murder look like suicide) and the lady in the video was trying to cover up for the Obama's really and that it reaches all the way to the Carter administration because why else would he be so forward about exposing all that Southern racism and lets not forget about right-wing corporate fear of minorities being able to vote...
Chris Farrely: Remember when you were in The Beatles?
Paul McCartney: Yeah
Chris Farrely: Remember when there was this rumor that you were dead?
Paul McCartney: Yeah
Chris Farrely: That was a hoax, right?
Paul McCartney: Yeah. I wasn't really dead.
Oh yeh? Prove it.
just not on Fox and CNN, yet.
I love the simple tactic by Mrs Kaelke, scam the scammers during
their own setup. Priceless!
I am starting to ask myself if there were or still are any known concrete (job or other) relation of James O'Keefe to Andrew Breitbart?
The history similarity of them both fabricated evidences can not be mere coincidence.
Also, why is covering Faux News more of a priority then what ACORN actually got caught doing on video? Really child prostitution abosolutely sickening
"This is journalistic malpractice, plain and simple," said Eric Burns, president of Media Matters
We should wait and see on the murder issue.
"From the initial investigation conducted, the claims do not appear to be factual. Investigators have been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands, who are alive and well."
Key words being "initial investigations" and "known former husbands". We should wait and see how that turns out.
As far as the date of the videos, camera dates can be incorrect for any number of reasons. I dont put too much weight on that.
Theator of the absurd, Faux edition.
I've had a few jobs where I had to work directly with the public on a regular basis,and I met my share of looneys.Aside from the sleazy tax advice, I'm not sure how I would have handled the clownish "pimp and prostitute" if I were in the ACORN peoples' place.
I guess the new tape that was released today was also an example of acorn staff on to the scammers. Wow, they are so smart.
If you can't call a spade a spade then why bother even watching news events as they happen?
Those employees looked and acted bright enough to make the entire public school system worth its weight in gold.
IF none of these allegations are true then why are investigations being launched all over the place? Why did Obama finally cave in and ommit them from the census? Why have these employees been suspended? Why has ACORN launched an (bogus) independent investigation? Why, why, why?
I guess I should post twice each time, once for the clever folks who don't have to have simple things explained to them, and one for the cons.
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Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.
You really should get a grip on this obsession of yours with pimps and brothels. Beck and you might benefit from some mental health services; they can help with these kind of addictions.
Oh yeah, and the lying thing about ACORN and tax money ploy. Lame.
I'm guessing you don't have a problem with Uber-liberal rag THE NATION being the driving force behind these accusations? The same author who made millions on his book and documentary on Blackwater.
There are some fairly wild accusations being bandied about.."illegal weapons" in Iraq (oh the horror!), the "super double secret" plan to kill ALL Muslims, operators using racial slurs, Blackwater supported Republicans (the worst horror I'm sure!).
While I'm sure you might get to smack the hand of an operator using racial slurs against muslims, the more serious accusations will most certainly turn out to be false.
While John Doe #1's accusations are more believable than John Doe #2's it's their use of terminology and descriptions that lead one to believe that these were not ELITE soldiers that Xe recruits but some uninformed civilians that had some contact with Xe. I can't ever remember talking to an SOF operator who said things like, "semi-automatic machine guns", "hand grenade launcher" ect...
I'm guessing this is more of a publicity stunt the left is using to try and win legal cases against Xe. Don't be surprised when the charges are found to be false and witnesses hard to come by. After all there are reams of bandwidth dedicated to this but no credible links...just left wing loon sites.
This should be interesting...
So either you have proof of what your saying....well.
I believe JD 1$2 because what they say in their sworn affadavits can be seen in action. take for example the Nisor Square shootings Sept,16,2007 in Baghdad,where 17 Iraqi civilians were killed some shot in the back. 5 Blackwater employees are awaiting trial for manslaughter,with a 6th Jeremy Ridgewater already pleading guilty to manslaughter and attempting to commit manslaughter and guess what he is cooperating with the prosecution. I bet he has some good stories to tell about killing Haji's and ragheads and how he was recruited etc.,etc. Long prison sentences have a way of making canaries sing ,loyalty be damned. Hmmmm,lets see what else, how about the allegations about illegal weapons has been also been reported by :"...ABC News's Brian Ross reported in November 2008 that a "federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating allegations the controversial private security firm Blackwater illegally shipped assault weapons and silencers to Iraq, hidden in large sacks of dog food..."
So J.D.1$2 are not the only sources for this allegation. Your guess that charges will be thrown out based on how they labeled weapons is weak and unless you have something more than that like facts I'd say your talking out your butt bony. But we'll see on Oct. 5, when Judge Ellis rules.
Nisor Square 17 dead Iraqi civilians one conviction 5 awaiting trial doesn't look good there either, so I'd say Col. and Mary were correct in their post. The information I gathered came from this article by Jeremy Scahil @ the NATION but the facts are easily verifiable and nothing said is in dispute unless you know otherwise. Your serve scooter!:-)
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill
Xe was/is working for the State Dpt. (every time Hillary sets foot, if she even has, in Iraq guess who is providing her security? Care to guess?) That law doesn't apply to State Dpt as given credence by the Congressional Budget Office report which said the law does not apply to civilians working for agencies other than the Defense Dept. Proposals to expand that law have not passed in congress. Good luck on that one!
One more high hurdle for your smeg. The evidence was obtained improperly after the shootings. Interviews were conducted under legal protections against self-incrimination and the operators were told that the statements could not be used against them. Those darn LAWS!
On serve smeg. You're down a set.
Your serve misses the mark Scooter. You lambast a few community organizers for deeds that they have been fired for, that never were implemented, and never saw a tax-payer dime spent on, and despite what Sean Hannity says noone was murdered over yet you are wiling to excuse over a technicality murder by Xe employees of a giant company. Xe aka., Blackwater has received over 1 billion dollars in tax-payer(government) copntracts since March 2003 the start of the Iraq war. Hmmmm., what a shame and a scam. So bones while you and your fellow cons search and create boogeyman , us serious folk will attend to the business of ensuring this great country live up to its ideals for E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E, even you boney!
Set and match over!
It is a key word. The child prostitution charges against Blackwater are alleged, not proven yet, while the child prostitution charges against ACORN are totally fictional, as admitted by the only parties mentioning child prostitution.
Yet the right wing nuts seem more concerned with the admittedly fictional crimes than those crimes testified to by credible witnesses because they were reported in a "left wing" rag.
You get sillier and sillier, Tboner. Why don't you indulge yourself in the FEB fetish again, that was cute?.
I don't know what an FEB is, I think Koko is some sort of military buff weirdo, and he's always been pretty vague about what it is. As near as I can figure from his references to it, it's some sort of disciplinary or review board for misconduct in the military.
If I remember right, he was saying that if no evidence of an FEB can be produced, it proves that Bush fulfilled his service responsibly.
The problem with this argument (and Koko has way too much invested in it to see daylight) is that the basic problem with Bush's military service is that he was able to avoid the usual protocols and repercussions for his failure because of his family and connections.
Asking for evidence of the disciplinary measures that would be taken for the average serviceman who shirked his duty sort of works against him.
In other words, he's asking people to prove that Bush did receive special treatment by producing something showing that Bush didn't receive special treatment.
Just trying to figure out progressive thinking.
Hahaha that was too funny, good one NewBee! :-)
Right is right. Wrong is wrong. It's really that simple.
I'm just sayin...
Are you calling for the heads of Blackwater?
These A-holes are doing a better job to mess with this country than old Osama Bin Laden & crew ever could! Free speech? My butt...it's TREASON!
They are making tons of cash stabbing this country in the back! I wish they'd all go "Rapture" themselves and let us get on with cleaning up the mess they've made of this country!
Beck and Hannity on the other hand, never claimed to be journalists, their main job is commentators, however, when they found that the irrelevant media was bought and paid for by the Obama administration, they knew that they now had to take up the task of reporting news.
The next thing that we find is that our new Regulation Czar, Cass Sunstein wants to bring back the “Fairness Doctrine”. This would effectively shout out any and all news that was in any was dissenting to the Obama administration. Why? Because Fox is getting too close to the truth about Obama and his fascist agenda.
The left wing liberals are the "head in the sand" crowd. Don’t tell me the truth, I want to hold on to my way of thinking. From this comment section, it is quite apparent that none of these lefties venture out of their left wing comfort zone, even to ponder if there are any other truths out there.
Acorn, SEIU and Obama have been joined at the hip for many years. They were instrumental in getting him elected to the Senate in Illinois. They were also obviously up to their eyeballs in getting him elected president. Obama, on video, promised both Acorn and SEIU that they would help with the country’s new agenda, once he was in office and even told them that they would have a seat at his table. Pretty cozy, don’t you think.
When the right wing came out to protest healthcare reform, Obama told the liberals to come at them twice as hard. They recruited SEIU members to go to these town hall meetings and one of the SEUI members beat up a black right wing protesters. Wonderful people at SEIU. We’ll find out soon as to what will happen with SEIU.
Acorn has been involved in voter registration fraud. In Las Vegas, prosecutors found correspondence from Acorn’s main office that verified that Acorn workers were told to get at least a certain number of registrations per day in order to be able to keep their job. In every case, when their workers were prosecuted, and there have been about 60, Acorn threw them “under the bus”, effectively washing their hands in this matter. They have also fired 4 of the workers shown on these last videos. Me thinks something is rotten in Acorn.
Now we have several states who will be conducting investigations into Acorn activities all throughout the country. Louisiana has just subpoenaed Acorn’s books. You think something maybe amiss here? And I am sure that when the investigations are finished, people will be blown away as to the extent of fraud and how high up this leads in Washington DC.
So until you get out of your liberal comfort zone and get some facts that are in the conservative newspapers and blog, just try and maintain civil discourse because you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Better to keep your mouth shut and have people guessing you’re a fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.