ACORN suspended operations yesterday, calling the actions of their employees at four separate locations indefensible. This was after ACORN Bertha Lewis called the BigGovernment videos a scam, that ACORN employees were just "playing along", which came right after they claimed they were suing FoxNews for making ACORN their Willie Horton for 2009, which wasn't too long after they called this an isolated incident.
Next up? Bertha Lewis saying "we would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids"?
Zoinks!
The Gang at BigGovernment.com
CNN finally got around to writing an article on the controversy for their web site, after six days of ignoring the whole damn thing. Wolf Bitzer did exactly what you would expect, get the "victim" on for some screen time:
MSNBC took two days off from covering the affair, but the TODAY show did go out of their way this morning to mention that ACORN's spokesman was quoted as saying the whole thing is faked. (Someone must not have given him the memo that said they were going to suspend their operations for a bit). Ed Shultz couldn't help putting Nuts vs ACORN on the screen:
Charlie Gibson, meanwhile, was replaced by a rock, who broke the story that the Earth was round. Gibson was quoted as saying "well, that's the first I heard about this."
The New York Times did finally write an article as well, however the reporter couldn't help throwing in the usual labels (as Newsbusters reports)
portraying the scandal in pure political terms, with "the right" as "gleeful" in claiming its "latest scalp," as opposed to expressing outrage over a tax-funded leftist organization with connections to the Census Bureau and IRS (!) encouraging tax evasion and child prostitution. Shane couldn't even bring himself to call the housing activists at ACORN leftist; instead he said "the right" are trying to weaken Obama "by attacking allies and appointees they view as leftist.
Stay tuned to The Hippo's Ass for further updates, as we hear the kids over at BigGovernment have plenty more videos to show. Since the Ostrich Media refuses to cover this story, I guess it's up to us bloggers to spread the word. Follow us on Twitter @thehipposass or become a fan on Facebook. If you have a tip or would like to send in a story, email us at hipposass@gmail.com
It is day five of our CNN.com ACORN Watch. The Hippo's Ass has been monitoring the CNN web site for the past few days looking for any indication they are aware of the astonishing events surrounding the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
According to CNN.com's own search engine, the last time CNN wrote a story about ACORN was September 10, 2009
1 Day before the Obama Administration fired ACORN from their Census collection program.
2 Days before a third video (this time in New York) surfaced showing workers giving questionable advice to filmakers posing as a pimp and a prostitute.
3 Days before the Senate took up a vote to add an amendment to the Housing bill to cut all funding to ACORN. Seven members of the Senate voted to keep funding ACORN.
4 Days before a fourth video is broadcast, this time of a worker telling how she "laid some groundwork" before shooting her abusive husband dead.
Five Days.
Five days and not one written story on the CNN.com web site. Oh, there are a few video clips hidden on the site (you really have to look for them) but nothing on the front page. One video clip is from Lou Dobbs of all people, but doesn't really address the videos, just politicians' ties to ACORN (and they make it sound like they are doing an "investigation".) Another video is of an ACORN lawyer calling the undercover videos a sham.
Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring and evading the IRS.
CNN is not alone.
Charlie Gibson of ABC News told WLS AM in Chicago, yesterday morning was the first he heard of it!"(of the scandal)
MSNBC's coverage has been mainly about Joe Wilson and whether or not the Tea Party participants are racist.
CBS...are they still around?
Rachel Maddow is making teabagging jokes (as if she knows....)
The big story on Monday was Kanye West. The big story on Tuesday? It was a toss up between Joe Wilson getting his hand slapped and President Obama calling Kanye West a Jackass.
Well, I guess a broken clock IS right twice a day.
The House of Representatives is set to vote on the amendment that will cut funding for ACORN, an organization that is tied to SEIU (who have been a force behind the Health Care Debate) and to President Obama himself.
But if Sarah Palin makes a statement about Death Panels, you can be sure CNN, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and the New York Times will be all over it.
Today, the top story is former President Carter calling dissent against the Obama Administration based on Racism. As I type this, the TODAY show is saying this is a "conservative" sting and ACORN has "long been the target of conservative". Well at least they are finally reporting it.
The fact is, the main stream media was upstaged by two young adults, aged 25 and 20, who spent all of $1,800 on this investigation and exposed one of the largest community organizations in the country as being crooked and corrupt, an organization that stood to gain billions of tax payer money, and an administration that is tied to the President of the United States. (oops, sorry Jimmy...I must be racist for saying that.)
The media outlets that were known for being mainstream are now the Ostrich Media, their sense of self importance and worth leading them by the hand to obscurity and shown the door by a filmmaker in a bad pimp outfit you'd never even think twice about wearing for halloween.
And my little obscure blog that averages now 112 readers a day has printed more stories in the past few days about this scandal than a Global Media Conglomerate. Pretty pathetic don't you think?
Send a message or a twitter to the news outlets and tell them to get off their butts. Here is a list of media twitter addresses (thanks to Resist Tyranny Now)
ABC @abcnews
George Stephanopoulos @GStephanopoulos
Jake Tapper @jaketapper
CBS @CBSnews
Katie Couric @katiecouric
Mark Knoller @markknoller
CNN @cnn
Alexander Mooney @AWMooneyCNN
Anderson Cooper @andersoncooper
Allison Blakely @AllisonCNN
Don Lemon @donlemonCNN
J. Smith @JSmith_CNN
Kim Segal @CNNkimsegal
Kristie Lu Stout @klustout
Rick Sanchez @ricksanchezCNN
Saad Abedine @CNNSaadAbedine
Suzanne Malveaux @SuzanneMalveaux
Fox
Glenn Beck @GlennBeck (send him a thank you)
Huffington Post @HuffingtonPost
MSNBC @msnbc_breaking
Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC
Rachel Maddow @maddow
NBC @NBCnews
David Gregory @davidgregory
New York Times @NYTimes
Nicholas Kristof @nytimeskristof
Opinion @nytimesopinion
Politics @nytimespolitics
USA Today @USAToday
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UPDATE This afternoon CNN.com posted a video that attempted to explain the ACORN scandal; a link was added to the front page of their web site. In the clip, a good deal of time was given to the spokesman for ACORN who called the video a "scam". Later in the day, ACORN suspended some of their operations, calling the actions of their employees "indefensable".
CNN has yet to publish any WRITTEN article on their site abput the scandal since September 10...now 6 days ago.
ACORN was trying to register Mickey Mouse during 2008 Election
Each week we look forward to the Friday News Dump, that special time when the Government "dumps" a news story that will be unfavorable to them should it be well publicized. The theory being the public will be too busy to pay attention to the news during the busy weekend and when the news cycle begins on Monday, the "dropped" story will be old news.
Yesterday, Obama Administration literally dropped one of its biggest supporters: ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
The week didn't start out so well for ACORN. First they announced they had to fire several workers in Florida for registering false names during the last presidential election. (Imagine that...pitty someone didn't warn voters about them last year.)
Then a very damaging YouTube video was posted by BigGovernment showing ACORN workers in Baltimore giving advice on how a prostitute and a pimp could avoid paying taxes on the underage El Salvadorean sex workers the couple were going to import.
ACORN quickly fired the workers, saying that it was an isolated incident and that it was just a smear campaign by Conservatives.
In what can only be called a classic "one-two" punch, a SECOND video, this time showing District of Columbia workers doing the exact same thing.
We are their Willy Horton for 2009. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. If ACORN did not exist, the right-wing would have needed to create us in order to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America.
Three Scandals in one week to an organization that was connected in the last election to our current President and nary a word on the major news sites. Well it's a good thing you follow The Hippo's Ass. We report what the main News Sites fail to cover.
Which brings us to the Friday News Dump. The Administration announced that ACORN was being dropped as a "participant" in the upcoming census. MSNBC's response? They showed an in-depth report on whether ShamWow really works or not.
Shouldn't someone be investigating these "community organizers" who stand to reap millions in tax payer dollars as part of the TARP bills recently passed to "help" the economy? Rep. John Conyers of Detroit was supposed to, but mysteriously he dropped the case one day before his wife Monica Conyers, a Detroit City Council member was brought up on bribery charges. Rep. Conyers claimed "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea. Hmmm..... Anyone in the media care to follow that up? Didn't think so.
The kicker of the whole story? You have a National Community Organization that is connected to the President of the United States, being involved in voter registration tampering, tax evasion advice at TWO locations and counciling a prostitute how to hide underage El Salvadorean girls and what happens?
The State of Maryland may prosecute the FILMMAKERS who exposed ACORN as the Corrupt Organization they really are.
An you wonder why more than 1 million people marched on Washington D.C today?
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