Acorn Finds Itself an Organization in Turmoil

To bad there were not any more sideline journalist who could have done the same thing to the banks, finacial institution and car companies who were bailed out. Those two who opened up acorn for what they are should be an example of what the media should be, a protector of the people

It's about time ACORN was exposed. And while Obama is "considering" an investigation, maybe some light will be shed on how he was elected. I seriously doubt if Obama will order any kind of investigation, as it will be his ruination, if it's done correctly and truthfully.

The video of Obama and ACORN.........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7urG0DWbcrY................ ............Frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely," Obama said. "I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money."....................................................Here is Obama in 2008 PROMISING ACORN that they will help reshape the domestic policies even before the inauguration of his Presidency. He states that he DID NOT KNOW that ACORN was getting money. YOU LIE! (Please take the liberty to copy and paste and spread the words of Obama and his LIES).

If they are in such turmoil and "struggling", how can they be such a menace as they are claimed to be?

Here is a great article explaining ACORN's involvement with the housing crisis. Both Clinton, Obama, and Dodd are three key primary players in the destruction of the housing market. McCain and three other Senators tried to stop this corruption but were silenced. Fannie and Freddie Mac were generous supporters to Obama.

http://iperceive.net/how-bill-clinton-acorn-barack-obama-fueled-the-mortgage-crisis/

Actually, It Is NOT Only NO-Corn That Is In Tra-Booo. Robin Da' Hood and his merry crew of Demo-QUACK CrookZ (Pig-Losi, Barney Fife, Chris Dope, Chuckie "I Ain't Payin' Tax 'Til I GetZ Caught" RanglED, Box-Head etc) Will Not Stop Until They Get Their Evil IDEALS Established And In Place Befo' The 2010 Elections. Vote These Moh-RONS OUT! We Da' FREEDOM LOVING LEGAL Tax Paying CITIZENS Must Take Our Country Back And Make ANY Politico Accountable!! Butt-Rack Is In Tra-Booo

Last week they were unconcerned about the Senate voting against further funding, remember? They blew it off. They said they relied on contributions and donations. Now that the House has also voted overwhelmingly to cut off funding they're "an organization in turmoil." Which is it? Are they self-sufficient or not?

And just so I understand this correctly, could someone please confirm this? ACORN contributed $800,000 to Obama's campaign but couldn't pay the IRS or their medical bills? And we're supposed to believe Obama knew nothing about that? And just as soon as he gets in office he goes after mismanaged banks and mortgage companies....

The National Enquirer couldn't make this stuff up.

Don't worry, ACORN's nuts will re-emerge in a different form under a different name. They are just like a weed in our society.

ACORN is broke? Apparently the millions of tax dollars that went to them were used to buy votes, instead of paying for their infrastructure.

I found this posting on Propeller about Fixed News. Those of you who don't believe that Faux is a legitimate news venue already know this.

Fox Sues for Its Right to Distort the Truth
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/1...
http://www.publictruth.org/index2.php?option=com_c...
"In 2003, a Florida Appeals Court unanimously agreed with FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying news. The Appeals court claimed that the FCC policy against falsification of the news does not rise to the level of "law, rule, or regulation," it was simply a "policy." It is up to the station whether or not it wants to report honestly."

Memos from Fox Executives Instructs Employees to Further the Conservative Agenda and Support Bush when Reporting the News
http://mediamatters.org/items/200407140002
"As The Washington Post reported on July 11, 'a handful of memos from a top FOX executive suggests tilting the news.' In the memos, Moody instructs employees on the approach to take on particular stories. His instructions reflect a clear interest in furthering a conservative agenda and in supporting the Bush administration.

The Post quoted Larry Johnson, identified by the paper as 'a former part-time Fox commentator,' describing the Moody memos as 'talking points instructing us what the themes are supposed to be, and God help you if you stray.' On July 13, Salon.com reviewed the film, and provided "some of the most notable excerpts" from the memos, referred to as 'marching orders' by Jon DuPre, whom Salon identifies as 'formerly of Fox News.'"

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthi...
"Matt Gross, now an assistant editor at New York magazine, used to work at Fox. Continuing the recent action at Romensko's Letters about The Memo, he recalls a certain day when an executive from Fox News Channel came to talk to the online troops, with a mission to better align the site with the televised Fox News.

'Seek out stories that cater to angry, middle-aged white men who listen to talk radio and yell at their televisions."

That's what Gross recalls hearing. This directive had consequences. "What followed was a dumbing-down of what had been an ambitious and talented news operation," Gross writes.

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=Com...
"Charlie Reina, a former producer, copy editor and writer for Fox News, says bias is a big problem at Fox. Reina blames 'The Memo,' a daily editorial note at Fox that explains where reporters are and what stories they'll be covering. Reina says it also imparts advice. 'The memo gives you hints. If they [Fox executives] are worried that what we write or what the anchors say might make the wrong point, it will show up in the memo.'

Reina, who's also worked for CBS, ABC and the Associated Press, says he's never encountered anything like the Fox memo. Reina goes a step farther than simply alleging bias, though. He says Fox has engaged in overtly partisan acts."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/11/14/fox-news-...
"Huffington Post has obtained an internal Fox News memo written by the network's Vice President of news. The memo details Fox's game plan the day Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House.

FOX NEWS INTERNAL MEMO: 'Just because they [the Democrats] won the [2006] election does not mean the war on terrorism is over. Be On The Lookout For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress'..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750535/
"It's apparently a printout of a channel's daily editorial memo, marching orders e-mailed to key staffers on how and where to slant the news. And how to adjust the facts to match the political conclusions and not the other way around.

According to the Memo, 'We'll continue to work the Hamas threat to the U.S. that came hours after the election results. Just because Dems won, the war on terror isn't over.'"

Fox News Employees Caught Attempting to Edit Unfavorable Information About Fox News Reporters on Wikipedia
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh...
" Virgil Griffith has created WikiScanner, a Web service that searches the change logs of 35 million Wikipedia edits and attempts to identify the organization associated with the IP addresses recorded with changes.

The Fox News link reveals, for example, that Oct. 11, 2005, someone at an IP address associated with Fox News (12.167.224.228) edited Fox News anchor Shepard Smith's Wikipedia entry to remove a paragraph about Smith's 2000 arrest 'for aggravated battery with a motor vehicle.' At some later point, that information was restored."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/aug/15/w...
"Users traced back to the Fox News have edited a number of pages about its presenters, including excising information about reporter Shepard Smith, who became infamous after saying "******" on air."

Fox News Refuses to Pay Indecency Fine After Airing Scene With Digitally Obscured Nudity and Whipped-Cream-Covered Strippers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...
"In an unusually aggressive step, Fox Broadcasting refused to pay a $91,000 indecency fine levied by the FCC for an episode of 'Married by America,' which featured digitally obscured nudity and whipped-cream-covered strippers. Fox said it would not pay the fine on principle, even as the network fights two other indecency fines in the Supreme Court."

Fox News Viewers More Likely to Have Misperceptions About Iraq than NPR or PBS Viewers
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/in...
"The polling, conducted by PIPA, also reveals that the frequency of these misperceptions varies significantly according to individuals' primary source of news. Those who primarily watch Fox News are significantly more likely to have misperceptions, while those who primarily listen to NPR or watch PBS are significantly less likely."

http://www.coldtype.net/Assets/danny/Embed.intro.p...
"The role of Fox News, an unabashed 24-hr-a-day booster of the Iraq war, probably deserves a book of its own. Its aggressive coverage pandered to the audience, simplified the issues, and attacked competing media outlets and correspondents who deviated in any way from the 'script' they were promoting."

Speech Given at U Oregon Journalism School
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/awards/ruhl/2004.php
"Yes, we'll talking about Fox News. Cloaked deceptively in the mantle of journalism, today's opinion-brokers are playing a nasty Halloween prank on the public, and indeed on journalism itself. How could Fox have left its audience so deeply in the dark?

If Fox News were a factory situated, say, in Minneapolis, it would be trailing a plume of rotting fish all the way to New Orleans. If pseudo-journalism is not journalism, what is it? Where did it come from? Will it last? What we're seeing is a difference between journalism and pseudo-journalism, between journalism and propaganda. The former seeks earnestly to serve the public. The latter seeks to manipulate it.

It is the netherworld of attack politics that gave us Roger Ailes, the architect of Fox News. Having spent much of his career smearing politicians, he now refers to himself as a journalist, but his bag of tricks remains the same."

Bias in Fox's News Coverage
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1072
"Perhaps the most reliable method of gauging an outlet's perspective is to study its sources. If Fox News Channel is the bastion of balance that it claims to be, then its pool of guests should reflect a full spectrum of debate, from left to right, and neither major party should dominate over the other...The numbers show an overwhelming slant on Fox towards both Republicans and conservatives. Of the 56 partisan guests on Brit Hume's Special Report between January and May, 50 were Republicans and six were Democrats -- a greater than 8 to 1 imbalance. In other words, 89 percent of guests with a party affiliation were Republicans.

As a comparison, FAIR also studied interviews on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports over the same time period, and found a modest but significant tilt towards Republicans, and a disproportionate minority of guests who were conservatives--but in both cases, there was far more balance than was found on Special Report."

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1067
"When it comes to Fox News Channel, conservatives don't feel the need to 'work the ref.' The ref is already on their side. The most obvious sign of Fox's slant is its heavily right-leaning punditry.

Andrew Kirtzman, a respected New York City cable news reporter, was interviewed for a job with Fox and says that management wanted to know what his political affiliation was. 'They were afraid I was a Democrat.' When Kirtzman refused to tell Fox his party ID, 'all employment discussion ended.'

Pundit Mara Liasson--who is touted as an on-air 'liberal' by Fox executives--sits on the board of the conservative human-rights group Freedom House; New York magazine (11/17/97) cited a Fox insider as saying that Liasson assured president Roger Ailes before being hired that she was a Republican."

Fox News Continues to Lie About Obama's Education Even After Its Claims Were Proven False by CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madra...
"Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate. Insight Magazine, reported on its Web site last week that Obama attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam. The Insight article was cited several times Friday on Fox News and was also referenced by the New York Post. CNN dispatched Senior International Correspondent John Vause to Jakarta to investigate. He visited the Basuki school, which Obama attended from 1969 to 1971. Reporting by CNN in Jakarta, Indonesia and Washington, D.C., shows the allegations that Obama attended a madrassa to be false."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200701290001
"Fox's John Gibson acknowledged near the end of his show that it 'doesn't seem that Hillary's fingerprints are on the story.'" "Gibson continued to parrot the InsightMag.com report and suggest that there may have been truth to the report's claim that Obama attended a madrassa. Gibson said: "I'm going to put it up on the screen: Barack's madrassa past." He later referred to the story as "the madrassa bomb dropped on Barack Obama." Gibson has not addressed the smear since his January 19 program."

"Even after the story was debunked, the folks at Fox News Channel wouldn't apologize, and in one case kept pushing a line on the air they knew was false."

Sensationalist, Yet False Fox News Headlines
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/steinreich8.html
March 14: On The Fox Report anchor Shepard Smith reports that Saddam is planning to use flood water as a weapon by blowing up dams and causing severe flood damage.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/27/fox-parody/
"On Tuesday, Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" aired at least eight segments on a purported "news" story that was actually a parody article written by a publication similar to The Onion."

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/fox_news_fans_f...
"Fox News began to spread speculation and misinformation across the airwaves. Fox News' analysis: Al Qaeda set fire to California!"

Fox News Hires Imposter as War-Time News Consultant
http://sec-global.com/services/ctp/vsg/news/020429...
"The Fox News Channel thought it had found an asset when it hired the gruff, barrel-chested Joseph A. Cafasso as a consultant to help in its coverage of the fighting in Afghanistan. He claimed to have won the Silver Star for bravery, served in Vietnam and was part of the secret, failed mission to rescue hostages in Iran in 1980.

For more than four months, Mr. Cafasso assisted and shared tips with reporters, producers and on-air consultants. People at Fox News had taken his credentials at face value.

Military officials said they had no record of anyone named Joseph Cafasso retiring as an lieutenant colonel. Mr. Cafasso, it appears, has used his story of battlefield glories to make friends, find work, and perhaps most importantly, find acceptance among people who walk the fringes of Washington's power corridors, networking his way through a community of retired military officers to arrive at Fox News."

Fox Fires Product Assistant After She Admits Voting for John McCain in Primaries
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1026
"In an exclusive report, TVNewser said Fox has fired production assistant, Jennifer Locke, after she admitted voting for John McCain."

Bill O'Rielly Lies About Winning a Peabody Award for Journalism
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hbr/issues/summer03/ar...
"In one instance, when he and O'Reilly were paired together on a panel at a conference, Franken revealed that O'Reilly had long been lying about having won two prestigious Peabody awards while working on the tabloid TV show Inside Edition. As it turns out, the show had won the considerably less prestigious Polk award -- and more than a year after O'Reilly had left it, at that."

Dick Cheney Demands All TVs Be Tuned to Fox News
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11975731/
"Vice President Dick Cheney has a checklist of requirements for his hotel suites. The vice president also requires that all televisions be tuned to Fox News."

ACORN=crooks and racist crooks. The video showing employees of Acorn telling a couple how to operate a prostitution ring and they were prime supporters and vote gatherers for Obama. Don't tell me our oh so intelligent Pres. knows nothing about that subversive group. This president was going to unite the country lol!