Posted by
Tom Kummer on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11:21:44 PM
Yesterday I commented on the obvious corruption of ACORN, in light of the videos released which show ACORN staff advising undercover investigators on how to set up a brothel. I had thought that this so plainly demonstrated the nature of ACORN that anyone could see it, but I was wrong.
First, as reported by biggovernment.com, Charlie Gibson said, in response to being interviewed about it, “I don’t even know about it.” See the full story here: http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/15/charlie-gibson-on-acorn-scandal-i-dont-even-know-about-it/
Charlie, is ABC news asleep on this? How could any national journalist not have heard about it? The only answer I can think of is that they don’t want to know about it.
The second story comes to us from Reuters. Read the story here: http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1422457320090914
You can tell how Reuters stands on ACORN just by the title of the article: “U.S. Senate denies funds for poverty group”. Oh, is that what happened? Looking at the title, you wouldn’t think that there was any scandal, and you’d have to read towards the end of the article to even get a hint of the story:
“ACORN more recently has been embarrassed by conservative activists who secretly taped employees in several cities giving tax advice to a couple posing as a p(imp) and prostitute.” Well, I’d hope they’d be embarrassed. Also, what difference does it make if they were “conservative activists”? Clearly the author of the article is trying to impugn the motives of those who have exposed the corruption.
Then the article closes with this observation:
“The group has fired several of those taped while denouncing the actions as a smear campaign.” A smear campaign? That has to be the most outrageous thing I’ve read about this. Are those who run ACORN clueless? Those employees gave the advice on how to set up an illegal enterprise and hide it from the law. If there was any smearing involved, they smeared themselves. Back to my example involving H&R Block, does anyone out there think the same investigators would have been able to get an accountant from there on tape giving similar advice.
In watching the O’Reilly Factor tonight, he showed a clip from MSNBC where someone was saying that the employees were entrapped. Are you kidding me? How could they have been entrapped? They freely talked to the undercover investigators, and anyone can tell from the videos that they took the questions they were receiving seriously.
The corruption of ACORN is obvious. It’s on tape. The fact that some choose not to see it, like Reuters and MSNBC, speaks volumes about their character, or lack thereof.