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Old 09-15-2009, 07:20 AM
 
Location: North Cackelacky....in the hills.
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I expect that 60 minutes will cover it. But they usually do investigative reporting, which takes time to investigate, film and put together.

I saw it on local news, CNN, the newspaper and heard about it on NPR.
Well...these two amateurs were able to do it easily enough.

Ever thought that the reason there hasn't been any investigation by the MSM is more politically based than newsworthy based???
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Old 09-15-2009, 07:26 AM
 
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Gee...where's 60 minutes known for using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation...

ACORN Story Grows But Mainstream Media Refuse to Cover It - FOXNews.com
The lamestream has to keep the general population ignorant of what their propped up leftist leaders are doing or the Obama's approval would be less than 20%.

They went to bed with Barry and are not about to admit (yet) that they got made a big mistake.
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Old 09-15-2009, 07:29 AM
 
Location: deafened by howls of 'racism!!!'
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The lamestream has to keep the general population ignorant of what their propped up leftist leaders are doing or the Obama's approval would be less than 20%.

They went to bed with Barry and are not about to admit (yet) that they got made a big mistake.
they're still awaiting their 'coyote-ugly' moment?
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Old 09-15-2009, 07:43 AM
 
Location: Dorchester
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Oz, I understand what your saying, but I wouldn't place it ALL on the Organization as a whole, that would be letting those off too easily that are committing the crimes. I agree that those in Charge of the Organization that are sitting in their offices need to run it like a corporation and not an organization, they need to be held responsible for their lack of oversight considering the amount of tax payers funds they recieve, but its bigger than that.
You have to know who your employing, there has to be standards. Just looking at the women on those tapes (and I'm reverse profiling here) there is NO WAY IN HELL they would be hired to clean my bathroom.
b and p.
This is clearly some kind of organizational ethos not the actions of some renegade employee. There were two employees at that table.
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Old 09-15-2009, 07:58 AM
 
Location: South Fla
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Are you changing the subject of the this thread. The original title was that the MSN channels were not covering the ACORN scandel, which is NOT true. But of course if FAUX claimed it in a LINK you ran with it.
Yeah being sarcastic lets not sit here and act like msnbc is really covering acorn. I was just on msnbc web site and wow NOTHING about acorn on the front page. A group that the president of this country once worked with very closely , getting out federal dollars and its NOT on the front page of msnbc. yet you wanna sit here and say they are seriously covering this

MSNBC does have on the front page how the IRaqie that threw a shoe at Bush on the front page talking about he would do it again. NOTHING about acorn though.

Yes please keep trying to tell us how much msnbc is covering this
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Old 09-15-2009, 08:04 AM
 
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It doesn't matter anymore...nobody in their right mind will watch the mainstream media for news for a long time and it shows in their viewer ratings!

On top of that Acorn is soon history and they only news about Acorn might be associations that might come out...., but we can follow it on Fox News the only channel that will be lft sooner than later...
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Old 09-15-2009, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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Maybe FAUX news should stop enciting. The story on ACORN and the tapes have been reported since last Friday by all of the news channels. Maybe if you broaden the clicker on your remote you would know that.
Covered as in a blog post does not count, the story was not on the evening news. It like the NYT says they covered a story, and you find out they buried it in the entertainment section. If NBC or ABC covered the ACORN story it would be a 5 second blurb, and then on to Kanye West & Taylor Swift.

The point is not even so much about them not covering the story, its about the news media not investigating, not doing their job. They dug up all the dirt on Joe the plumber in record time, and they covered the Kanye West & Taylor Swift story with more vigor then any attempts at an investigation into the fraud in ACORN.
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Old 09-15-2009, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Wisconsin
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It doesn't matter anymore...nobody in their right mind will watch the mainstream media for news for a long time and it shows in their viewer ratings!

On top of that Acorn is soon history and they only news about Acorn might be associations that might come out...., but we can follow it on Fox News the only channel that will be lft sooner than later...
ACORN is huge, it has its tentacles all over. Some offshoot or subsidiary of ACORN will take over, and the same people will remain, just simply change their address labels and email addresses.
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Old 09-15-2009, 08:31 AM
 
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ACORN is huge, it has its tentacles all over. Some offshoot or subsidiary of ACORN will take over, and the same people will remain, just simply change their address labels and email addresses.
I think too many people are on top of this story and the people behind it, now they can't run and can't hide anymore...but you are right, we have to stay awake and alert!
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Old 09-15-2009, 08:55 AM
 
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Acorn has been completely discredited with recent scandals. That's too bad since there are many low income families that could have benefited from it's services. But why the obsession with an organization that has been exposed to be corrupt? As if no other organization that is as large and as thoroughly investigated would turn up equally corrupt. It happens. A few really bad apples can bring an organization down.

Our foster care system is wrought with horror stories, yet a lot of necessary and noble work is done with our tax dollars in that system as well. No one is railing about that every day and questioning why the abuse and mismanagement isn't discussed in the news daily. The fact is, few care.

Acorn IS news. I've seen some level of reporting of the recent scandals on all the networks, just not 24 hours a day as on FOX. The preoccupation the right has with Acorn is way out of perspective and is just another attempt to hang Obama by association. Only FOX will make that it's main mission and condemn the other networks for not doing the same.
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