tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post7643019108603123085..comments2023-10-07T05:29:20.923-07:00Comments on McClatchy Watch: Thursday Spetember 17 -- Got news or an update?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-19236694306883951192009-09-17T17:26:31.248-07:002009-09-17T17:26:31.248-07:007:09 deleted for violating the rules.7:09 deleted for violating the rules.Kevin Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04694898785243338105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-31962195239974912322009-09-17T17:24:56.171-07:002009-09-17T17:24:56.171-07:005:32 hmmm -- according to this link, Mike Allen fr...5:32 hmmm -- according to <a href="http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/09/politicos-mike-allen-admits-acorn.html" rel="nofollow">this link</a>, Mike Allen from Politco said the ACORN story is newsworthy, and he also said MSM was too slow covering it.Kevin Gregoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04694898785243338105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-91641091973150296222009-09-17T10:27:17.094-07:002009-09-17T10:27:17.094-07:00Translation: We don't want to read anything we...<i>Translation: We don't want to read anything we don't already agree with. It's too confusing to have to consider opposing viewpoints.</i><br /><br />I, for one, appreciate your posting these articles. Sometimes taking a break from reality is relaxing. Not as relaxing as aiding in the exploitation of 13 year old sex slaves, but as relaxing as it gets for us old racist uptight white conservatives.<br /><br />Thanks again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-70298166909960236782009-09-17T08:10:06.181-07:002009-09-17T08:10:06.181-07:00...they are flooding his blog with leftist propaga......they are flooding his blog with leftist propaganda to harm it...<br /><br />Translation: We don't want to read anything we don't already agree with. It's too confusing to have to consider opposing viewpoints.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-51318763694459635812009-09-17T07:57:32.790-07:002009-09-17T07:57:32.790-07:00Where does it stop?
I am wondering the same ...Where does it stop?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I am wondering the same thing. Surely the blog master realizes that they are flooding his blog with leftist propaganda to harm it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-56090203712345103872009-09-17T07:09:11.341-07:002009-09-17T07:09:11.341-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-61261816629764004332009-09-17T06:33:43.802-07:002009-09-17T06:33:43.802-07:00Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off (ACORN...Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off (ACORN.........) (NYPOST)<br /><br /> <br />WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable. <br /><br />"I don't even know what they passed," Pelosi told The Post yesterday. "What did they do? They defunded it?" <br /><br />The amendment to suspend housing grants was a stunning blow to the community-activist group -- and came as some Democrats and the White House have been backing away from the group. <br /><br />The vote was preceded by the release of videos by conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute soliciting -- and receiving -- tips from ACORN employees about how to shield income, avoid taxes and set up a brothel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-33369166034731031162009-09-17T06:30:26.598-07:002009-09-17T06:30:26.598-07:00Today the first four posts are from liberal trolls...Today the first four posts are from liberal trolls. The thuggish trolls have met the goal to clog this blog with garbage in the first posts. Why would conservatives want two Huffington posts, another from the Soros Media Matters, and one titled, ‘The GOP Is Too Crazy to Be Racist’? This is not a freedom of speech issue. These trolls know exactly what they are doing. During the last election, trolls were paid to interrupt blogs that were unfavorable to Obama. Now that news unfavorable to Obama floods the internet they are back out in force. Just as we need to stop socialism, we need to stop these liberal infiltrators that would ruin this blog. They are following Alinsky’s rules, and they must not succeed. Tomorrow it will be even more liberal articles the majority don’t want to read. Where does it stop?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-53125551476332447612009-09-17T05:43:58.073-07:002009-09-17T05:43:58.073-07:00Baucus Plan Allows for Fines Up to $3,800 for Fail...Baucus Plan Allows for Fines Up to $3,800 for Failing to Get Health Insurance (foxnews.com)<br /><br />Families who fail to get health insurance could be fined up to $3,800 under a health care reform plan proposedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-25935254417440102762009-09-17T05:43:10.360-07:002009-09-17T05:43:10.360-07:00Fiat CEO: Chrysler worse than we thought
NEW YORK...Fiat CEO: Chrysler worse than we thought<br /><br />NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The situation at recently rescued Chrysler Group is even more dire than first thought, the CEO of Italy's Fiat -- which came to the aid of the U.S. automaker -- said Wednesday. <br /><br />"We were surprised by how little had been done in the past 24 months," Sergio Marchionne told reporters in Frankfurt, Germany. <br /><br />Chrysler will present a revised business plan in November, Marchionne told reporters.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-8982147451745746492009-09-17T05:42:22.198-07:002009-09-17T05:42:22.198-07:00The Uselessness of Paul Krugman
Pajamas Media
The...The Uselessness of Paul Krugman<br />Pajamas Media<br /><br />There’s nothing liberals love more than apologizing for the misdeeds of others. <br /><br />Recently in the New York Times Magazine, Paul Krugman took it to an extreme with his 6,670-word article titled “How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?”. <br /><br />Don’t bother reading it. It’s clear that he still doesn’t get it and definitely isn’t looking for any real answers. <br /><br />Just the length of the piece is comical. We imagine poor Paul gazing out the window of his New York Times office searching for just one more quote, one more study, one more insight to help redeem his profession and his reputation in the wake of the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. <br /><br />Because in Krugman’s ivory tower and on the Times editorial board, economics still matters and no debate about stimulus packages or health care plans or financial regulation would be complete without his unique and important insights. <br /><br />He’s too big to fail and worth every word. And who could edit him anyway? He won a Nobel Prize. <br /><br />Over here in reality, most of us already know that he and those that follow in his footsteps have no reputation to salvage. ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-25768104965891599982009-09-17T05:41:05.103-07:002009-09-17T05:41:05.103-07:00ABC World News Boss on Ignoring ACORN: 'We'...ABC World News Boss on Ignoring ACORN: 'We're Not in the Business of Noise' <br /><br />Backing up his anchorman, Charles Gibson, who suggested on the radio that maybe the ACORN story "is just one you leave to the cables," World News executive Jon Banner extended the liberal snobbery on Politico: <br /><br />While Banner admits that some stories may get more attention on cable, blogs or talk radio, it doesn’t mean they’re suited for the "World News" audience. <br /><br />"There’s a tremendous amount of – for lack of a better word –‘noise’ out there. We’re not in the business of noise."<br /><br />ABC can devote entire segments to Obama swatting a fly on camera, but they report "news," not "noise"? <br /><br />Banner also claimed: "It’s a very different editorial process when you have 24 hours to fill as opposed to 22 minutes," Banner said, explaining why ACORN hasn’t yet fit in the evening newscast. <br /><br />Lately, Banner noted that the program has been focused on covering Afghanistan, health care, the economy and the anniversary of 9/11.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-69624376888003057452009-09-17T05:39:25.046-07:002009-09-17T05:39:25.046-07:00Rasmussen : ObamaCare more unpopular than ever (Ho...Rasmussen : ObamaCare more unpopular than ever (Hot Air) <br /><br />And on the seventh day since Barack Obama gave The Word to a joint session Congress, the voters have seen ObamaCare and pronounced it … not good. <br /><br />Rasmussen now reports that opposition to ObamaCare has hit its highest level yet at 55%, with its low equaling its August nadir: <br />One week after President Obama’s speech to Congress, opposition to his health care reform plan has reached a new high of 55%. <br /><br />The latest Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll shows that just 42% now support the plan, matching the low first reached in August.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-29634767682114894102009-09-17T05:38:06.798-07:002009-09-17T05:38:06.798-07:00“Two white kids from the cast of High School Music...“Two white kids from the cast of High School Musical with $3k and their grandmother’s chinchilla broke this story! <br /><br />It costs CNN $3k to turn on their holograph machine! <br /><br />I do fake news and I’m embarassed these kids broke this story!”<br /><br />...Jon Stewart on ACORN and the MSM media blackoutAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-32850214696186034172009-09-17T05:37:06.794-07:002009-09-17T05:37:06.794-07:00Surprise: ACORN audit to be conducted by panel ful...Surprise: ACORN audit to be conducted by panel full of leftists and cronies (HotAir)<br /><br />“A Soros hack, an SEIU thug, someone who pleaded to lying to the FBI, and a Kennedy.” <br /><br />All that’s missing are a few pimps and prostitutes for “technical expertise.” <br /><br />Hardest-hitting internal investigation evah:Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-82245636481306227482009-09-17T05:35:50.382-07:002009-09-17T05:35:50.382-07:00ACORN: "We knew they were filming us so we pl...ACORN: "We knew they were filming us so we played along for laughs"<br />(Fox News)<br /><br />The latest thigh-slapper from the gangsters at ACORN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-82421770026575090602009-09-17T05:34:51.587-07:002009-09-17T05:34:51.587-07:00New York City freezes ACORN funds, Cuomo launches ...New York City freezes ACORN funds, Cuomo launches probe<br /><br />The media may be trying as hard as possible to ignore the series of undercover videos taken at ACORN offices around the nation, but politicians don’t have that luxury. <br /><br />Even in New York, both state and city officials have reacted to voter outrage over the actions of ACORN staffers offering advice on hiding tax evasion and child prostitution, especially since these offices run in part on taxpayer money. <br /><br />The New York Post reports that the city council in NYC have suspended payments to ACORN pending further investigation, and that Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo has launched an investigationAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-89673624074226568492009-09-17T05:34:01.402-07:002009-09-17T05:34:01.402-07:00SEIU is “One of the Pillars of the ACORN Family” (...SEIU is “One of the Pillars of the ACORN Family” (Big Government)<br /><br />For one of Big Labor’s most notorious organizing partners, ACORN, the “chickens have come home to roost” thanks to the James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles continuously unfolding ACORN exposé. <br /><br />If you rely on MSNBC for your news, you may not have noticed ACORN’s very thin “community organizer” veneer being sanded away exposing the rotten termite-infested wood underneath. <br /><br />Part of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) rotten core includes a very cozy relationship with Big Labor. <br /><br />In fact, in many instances ACORN and Big Labor are one and the same. In 2008, Big Labor funneled ACORN millions of dollars for so-called organizing activity. But, that is only the tip of the Big Labor iceberg. <br /><br />ACORN controls or significantly dominates several Big Labor unions and organizations. ACORN created and controls SEIU 100 (Gulf Region) and SEIU 880 (a recently expanded SEIU mega-local that covers Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, and Kansas). <br /><br />ACORN founder S. Wade Rathke referred to mega-union SEIU 880 as “one of the pillars of the ACORN Family.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-1462289741028975142009-09-17T05:32:58.025-07:002009-09-17T05:32:58.025-07:00Politico’s Mike Allen: Networks Have to Cover ‘Rea...Politico’s Mike Allen: Networks Have to Cover ‘Real News;' Too Busy to Talk About ACORN<br /><br />The Politico’s Mike Allen appeared on Wednesday’s Morning Joe to both defend the mainstream media’s decision to ignore the ACORN controversy and agree that a double standard is at work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-6752252915177933392009-09-17T05:31:51.313-07:002009-09-17T05:31:51.313-07:00Why Are Embezzlement Coverup Conspirators Still at...Why Are Embezzlement Coverup Conspirators Still at ACORN? (American Spectator)<br /><br />ACORN did the right thing in firing employees who advised a couple on the finer legal points of establishing a child prostitution ring but ACORN officials who covered up a nearly $1 million embezzlement for eight years still have their jobs, the ACORN 8 declared in a statement today. <br /><br />Members of ACORN 8, a reform group founded by former ACORN national board members Marcel Reid and Karen Inman, released a statement today regarding the three videos that have surfaced so far that show ACORN employees telling two undercover journalists posing as a pimp and prostitute how to launder money, evade taxes, defraud banks, and conceal the fictitious scenario the duo cooked up. <br /><br />Although the ACORN workers caught behaving badly "were immediately terminated for behaving unprofessionally...senior staff members who assisted and concealed a million dollar Rathke embezzlement remain employed," ACORN 8 said in the release. <br /><br />Reid and Inman were expelled from the ACORN board after they asked uncomfortable questions about ACORN's finances in the wake of an embezzlement scandal involving ACORN founder Wade Rathke. <br /><br />Rathke covered up his brother Dale's circa 2000 theft of $948,000in ACORN funds but the long-hidden misappropriation was revealed last year and this led to the founder's expulsion from the group. <br /><br />Reid and Inman were appointed by the board to probe the group's finances. <br /><br />When they tried to actually do so, the same people who helped Rathke engineer and sustain a coverup showed them the door.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-35203407456451081012009-09-17T05:30:15.682-07:002009-09-17T05:30:15.682-07:00Not long ago Obama Promises Seat Acorn a seat at T...Not long ago Obama Promises Seat Acorn a seat at Table. Today, Obama Drives Bus Over Acorn. (Politico)<br /><br />Obama said 12/01/07, "Before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we're going to being calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. <br /><br />We're gonna be having meetings all over the country with community organizations so that you all have input into the agenda of the next presidency of the United States of America" Senator Obama 12/01/07 <br /><br />Today "the One" has his puppet say, "Obviously, the conduct that you see on those tapes is completely unacceptable. <br /><br />I think everyone would agree to that," Gibbs said. "The administration takes accountability extremely seriously."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-43558859793274316152009-09-17T05:28:30.481-07:002009-09-17T05:28:30.481-07:00Obama’s Direct and Lucrative Ties to ACORN (Canada...Obama’s Direct and Lucrative Ties to ACORN (Canada Free Press)<br /><br />Since Obama announced his run for the presidency of the United States of America, some us have been reporting on the direct ties—both ideological and financial—between Obama and his voter-fraud and massive-corruption organization ACORN.<br /><br />-SNIP- <br /><br />Thus far, any and all attempts to investigate ACORN have been blocked by ObamaThugs and the Democrat-run Congress. <br /> <br /> -SNIP- <br /><br />As a reminder, the below are only a few of the direct ties and activities that the Obama pretender-to-the-throne has engaged in with ACORN. <br /><br />In a number of crucial cases, Obama was the Attorney for the Chicago ACORN chapter and he used them to assist him in his run for the Illinois State Senate in 1996 <br /><br />•In 1992, prior to his working as ACORN’s attorney, Obama was Executive Director of ACORN subsidiary “Project Vote” Obama trained ACORN workers <br /><br />•While sitting on the board of the Woods Foundation, Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers—who is also a major Obama fundraiser—arranged for grants for ACORN <br /><br />•While both on the board of Chicago’s Annenberg Challenge—Ayers and Obama with Obama as Chairman—funds were funneled to ACORN <br /><br />•In his run for the Democrat presidential nomination, Obama paid ACORN subsidiary “Citizen’s Services, Inc.” over $830,000 to engage in ACORN ‘get out the vote’ activities (these would later be called the Obama-ACORN Voter Fraud Alliance) <br /><br />•ACORN is falsely registered as “non-partisan,” as its leader Maude Hurd endorsed Obama for president <br /><br />•Tax dollars collected from US citizens are paying for this Obama and Democrat Party fraud voter fraud group. Did you know that?<br /><br />-SNIP-<br /><br />The USA is for all its legal and true citizens. It is not for the criminals—no matter what elevated heights and positions they may have achieved…or usurped.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-20215650159169336062009-09-17T05:26:39.427-07:002009-09-17T05:26:39.427-07:00ABC NEWS FINALLY DISCUSSING ACORN!! (Can't Ign...ABC NEWS FINALLY DISCUSSING ACORN!! (Can't Ignore the Elephant in the Room Any Longer) WABC Radio <br /><br />ABC News just lead off its 3:00 p.m. radio newscast with a report on ACORN, including comments at today's condemnation by Gobbs at the Whitehouse Presser!! <br /><br />Just like Van Jones, they lamestream media can no longer ignore this huge political story! <br /><br />I guess once John Stewart made fun of Press for ignoring the story, the alphabet networks and the print media to go after ACORN -- including the LA Times and the NYT -- were shamed into reporting the story. <br /><br />Kudos to Fox News, Glenn Beck, Hannity, Breitbart and those two young folks who risked it all to get the truth out!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-65833411694789124702009-09-17T05:25:28.849-07:002009-09-17T05:25:28.849-07:00News Outlets Largely Ignoring ACORN Scandal, Criti...News Outlets Largely Ignoring ACORN Scandal, Critics Say (FoxNews.com) <br /><br />Employees at no fewer than four ACORN offices have been caught on videotape advising a man and a woman on how to skirt federal law to obtain housing and operate a brothel — but you'd hardly know it if all you watch and read are the mainstream media, conservative media critics say. <br /><br />"A major national scandal and none of the broadcast networks is covering it," said Dan Gainor, vice president for business and culture at the Media Research Center. <br /><br />"This is the news media in the era of Van Jones and President Obama. <br /><br />The major outlets cover what they want and create the themes they want." <br /><br />A search of transcripts through Monday at NBC, CBS and MSNBC revealed no national TV coverage of the growing ACORN scandal. <br /><br />CNN and ABC, meanwhile, have run some segments on the matter, including a quick mention during Saturday's "Good Morning America."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-87114605161938769302009-09-17T05:16:53.836-07:002009-09-17T05:16:53.836-07:00New Footage Purports to Show ACORN Worker Helping ...New Footage Purports to Show ACORN Worker Helping 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute'<br />FOXNEWS<br /><br />On the same day that the anti-poverty group ACORN announced the launch of an "internal review" after four undercover videos exposed its workers offering advice on how to skirt federal laws, a fifth video surfaced that purports to show a worker offering to help bring underage girls into the U.S. for the purposes of prostitution. <br /><br />The latest video was filmed in San Diego by conservative activist James O'Keefe, 25, and partner Hannah Giles, 20, who posed as a pimp and prostitute as they did in their previous undercover stings. <br /><br />In the latest video, O'Keefe asked the man if Tijuana is the best place to bring the girls to cross over into the U.S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com