But a "crisis" came up relating to another course, and I'm just going to leave you with the links
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091602341.html?hpid=topnews
w/ video (1:26
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Amid a firestorm of criticism from both sides of the political divide, the community organizing group known as ACORN announced Wednesday that it would launch an independent review into "the indefensible action of a handful of our employees" who were secretly videotaped while giving advice to actors posing as a pimp and prostitute on how to buy a home and start a brothel.
The announcement by Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief executive, came on a day when her organization's actions were strongly condemned by White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and days after conservative members of Congress called for a complete cutoff of federal funding for the group.
today's story, with video,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091704805.html?hpid=topnews
Who's Blogging» Links to this article
By Darryl Fears and Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 18, 2009
Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle,
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/16/MNFS19NG5L.DTL
Nut falls near the ACORN tree
Debra J. Saunders
Thursday, September 17, 2009
I would not go see the film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" because I found more cruelty than humor in deliberately exposing unwitting civilians to the easy ridicule of smug sophomores.
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Congress should pass a measure ending federal funding for ACORN, and President Obama, who represented ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit, should sign it.
But I won't join those who are hailing the enterprising O'Keefe and Giles for doing the sort of work "60 Minutes" should have done. There was so little fact-checking in this exercise that Fox News' Glenn Beck ran a video in which a San Bernardino ACORN organizer said she had killed her husband - when she had not.
Conservatives, beware. Any activist can grab a camera, head for a church or a campaign, and record some stupid quotes. When they do - and they will - the right will complain that it is wrong to brand a cause by the careless comments of a handful of disciples.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200909160047 "Videotaping may have violated state criminal statutes"
Sean Hannity "Fourth ACORN Video Most Explosive Yet"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,550841,00.html
HANNITY: Let me go to the other aspect of this which we just showed here. Not only does she admit to — if I heard her correctly running a prostitution ring.
GILES: Yes.
HANNITY: Heidi Flies is my idol. Is that the right word?
GILES: Yes, her hero.
HANNITY: Her hero. OK. Specifically now, she goes into this scenario about her husband and the killing of him.
GILES: Yes.
HANNITY: Why don't you explain exactly because I want to make sure people understand it?
GILES: So this is exactly what happened. She said she was abused by her husband. And that she killed him. Now, if a woman is getting abused, she has the right to defend herself. And I went ahead and I asked her oh, was he abusing you when you killed him? And she goes no, not right that instant; which is huge.
HANNITY: All right. She is saying she killed her husband or created the plot to kill her husband?
GILES: Right, then after — she goes well, she tried to cover up for saying she didn't kill him in self-defense and said she went around to the community and let different groups know that she was being abused. And so it's basically she set up the murder of her husband.
HANNITY: Have you ever checked to see if, in fact, she had a husband that was killed?
GILES: We are working on that.
HANNITY: You haven't gotten to the details on that?
BREITBART: Look, there is so much stuff coming in, we have — there are more than four cities as you know.
HANNITY: Because she could have just — in fairness.
BREITBART: She certainly does exist. And if you look on the Internet you can see that she's also involved on the other side of ACORN, ACORN political side. So she is a community organizer in the political sense as well.
GILES: There is a criminal record also for her if you look her up and different things and then...
HANNITY: So you are really investigating that now.
GILES: We are working on that.
HANNITY: So she's on the tape admitting that she plotted to kill and had her husband killed but we don't know if it's true yet.
GILES: Yes. We don't know if it's true. She also threatened to kill someone else.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.ci.acorn11sep11,0,7738162.story
Charles Cooper, column on CBS News,
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/16/blogs/coopscorner/entry5316534.shtml
If I had a nickel for each time a Fox News talking head put down "the mainstream media," we'd be talking Rupert Murdoch money already.
Over the years, the network's anchors regularly have sounded that snarky refrain. It's become even more insistent since the Republicans lost control of all three branches of government in the 2008 elections. Of course, there's special irony when employees employed by a multi-billion dollar conglomerate pretend that they're not part of the big, bad establishment. Especially when you consider that that their corporate parent owns two of New York City's four major dailies, but that's another story for another time.)
Still, it's effective marketing, no matter how inaccurate or self-serving.
The Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun's blog "The Swamp," Monday - with video of Greg Gutfeld, host of 'Red Eye' on Fox News
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/09/acorn_a_doubleedged_lightning.html
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Here's a wrapup that aired yesterday on National Public Radio. And here's report by ABC News political editor Jake Tapper that goes into some of the journalistic ethics involved.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/14/AR2009091400790.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401272.html
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