Poor ‘Liberal Leaning’ ACORN: AP Plays ‘Pin the Blame on GOP’
Leave it to the Associated Press to drive the establishment media’s attempt to portray ACORN’s serious impairment as almost entirely the product of the Republican Party.
Never mind that Democrats control the Senate, which voted 83-7 to pull HUD funding from the group earlier this week, meaning that the vast majority of Democrats supported the measure. Never mind that the House, including about 70% of Democrats, yesterday voted to totally defund ACORN by 345-75.
In the world of Jim Abrams and the Associated Press, it must be almost all the GOP’s fault that this happened. Check out the headline (frequently used elsewhere, as seen in this Google Web search on the exact title in quotes) at the reporter’s story:
In AP’s partial defense, the headline without the final six words is at links such as this one with the same time stamp of 1:40 a.m. this morning. In AP’s complete non-defense, what’s with the word “strike” in the first sentence, even if it’s not in the headline? It was a GOP “move,” because the Republican Party can’t “strike” anything, let alone get the majority indicated, without getting a lot of Democrats to throw their weapons (i.e., votes).
Abrams waited until the 5th paragraph to describe the video undercover work of James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. To the AP reporter’s credit, he didn’t reflexively tag O’Keefe as conservative, instead going with O’Keefe’s self-description as an “activist filmmaker.”
A big miss by Abrams is in this later paragraph:
ACORN said Wednesday that it is ordering its own independent investigation of the incidents, while stressing that they were isolated cases.
Isolated, schmisolated. After the ACORN announcement, the BigGovernment web site released similar O’Keefe/Giles vids out of San Diego (teased on Wednesday evening; fully released very early Thursday). ACORN’s contention crumbled further, and Abram’s failure to report it Thursday evening is pathetically weak journalism.
Make that two big misses by Abrams. O’Keefe and Giles have been so relentless, I almost forgot to mention their adventure in San Bernardino, California. Abrams totally forgot.
But look at the bright side: AP is only 36-48 hours behind in the news cycle. That’s better than the five days of ignorance Charles Gibson displayed earlier this week.
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
It could have been a whole lot worse – Title:”Dems keep campaign promise to “drain the swamp” – defund ACORN”
Comment by MDr — September 18, 2009 @ 1:42 pm
This link to Progress Ohio’s blog story created by Lorraine Bieber is a photo of ACORN organizer Barbara Clark during an ACORN partnership project promoted by Dave Harding and Brian Rothenberg’s Progress Ohio, a so called non-partisan non-profit organization.
http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/lorrainesblog/CqWX
Comment by Hickmania — September 18, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
Communist Party USA and it’s associated publication People’s Weekly World held an awards ceremony for people associated with ACORN and Labor Unions.
“In Cleveland and Columbus the paper presented Distinguished Service Awards to Unsung Heroes of the November Elections including Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, Harriet Applegate, executive secretary of the North Shore (Cleveland area) AFL-CIO, Mary Keith, president of Ohio ACORN, and Barbara Clark, president of Columbus ACORN.”
http://www.pww.org/article/artic…icleview/14468/
Comment by Hickmania — September 18, 2009 @ 3:57 pm
Here’s a working link for story above … sorry
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/14468/
Comment by Hickmania — September 19, 2009 @ 2:14 am
If the AP wants to “blame” the Republican party for the bi-partisan vote to de-fund ACORN I’m all for the Republican party accepting full responsibility for de-funding these child-prostitution advocates
Comment by Bestmedia — September 19, 2009 @ 5:24 am