You would think that after the fallout stemming from the lack of reportage on the Van Jones story, as well as the revelation of falling public trust in their accuracy and objectivity in a recent Pew poll, that the legacy media would be on top of the most recent scandals involving ACORN; especially since they were dropped from participating in the census and the Senate overwhelming voted to cut off their access to public funds. But that is not the case.
As usual, all we hear “crickets†and deafening silence…
Don Surber points out that the NY Times has one of the largest reporting staffs in the US, but amazingly does not have anyone available to cover the growing ACORN scandal, an organization who counts among their alumnus the current President of the United States, and instead are going with wire stories. And, in an almost absurd statement, ABC’s Charles Gibson proffered that he didn’t even know about it!
Instead, major media outlets seem to have become obsessed with reporting, and “outingâ€, the hate-mongering racists that are behind the dissent to Mr. Obama’s legislative agenda. Speaking about this past weekend’s protest in Washington DC, Howard Kurtz strains to reach for a racist motivation, an exercise which ACE thoroughly destroys. Conversely, I doubt that Mr. Kurtz or any of his colleagues will see anything wrong with Congressman Johnson’s (D-Ga.) assertion that unless Joe Wilson is censured, and his underlying “ideas†rebuked, then folks will once again don white hoods and go riding through the countryside. Is the Congressman’s assertion asinine and hyperbolic? In a word, yes. Will he be taken to task by the legacy media for inflammatory remarks that demonstrate a racialist outlook? Somehow, I don’t think so. Heck, Keith Olbermann will probably crown him as the best person in the world! It’s just the usual pathetic media double standard, as Mark Salter observes at RCP.
This is a subject that I’ve written a few posts on, and unfortunately will likely have the opportunity to do so in the future. But the Democrats and their media allies should reconsider the bias in their reportage. Not only to slow the decline of the legacy media outlets, but to ensure that those charge others of racism, perhaps the most toxic pejorative in America today, does not go the way of the boy that cried wolf in the fable.
Exit Question:Â Is Allah Pundit right when he pronounces the much heralded post-racial Presidency dead and buried?
UPDATE (SHOCKAH!): Boston.com  breaks meta-narrative ranks reporting on how Obama’s Kenyan relatives live in ABJECT! poverty. You’d think he would do them a solid and let them hold a little somethin’…
Considering that Obama often admonishes us on how, “WE are our brothers keeper”, and on, “Spreading the wealth around”, you’d think that the legacy media would be all over it; as they often say about conservatives, “Because of the Hypocrisy!”. I wonder when MSNBC will tackle this one..?
At POWIP, we report, you decide…
Haven’t read the post yet, but… RACIST~~!!!!11!!!!111!!~~
Now, let’s see…
Nothing new. The MSM is leftard-biased, as usual and expected. Anything touched or sanctioned by Obama is off-limits, especially including ACORN. The Van Jones story just wouldn’t go away, it was forced to front and center.
If we want to get any of this stuff that’s embarrassing to Teh O!ne out into view, we have to keep on it until it’s big enough to not be ignored.
Oh, and if AP believed we we ever had a ‘post-racial Presidency’ in the first place, he was sadly mistaken. Like Patterico was with his ‘good man’ argument.
They wanted to come off as moderate, serr8d; unlike us far-right, knuckle dragging, misogynistic, and of course-RAAAAACIST!, WINGNUTZ!1!!1!eleventy…
They wanted to be more like Brooks and Frum, and less like Krauthammer and Steyn…
I wonder if Glenn Beck is a Good Man.
Cute pic.
Where’d you find two others that look just like Eno?
Bada-zing!
Racist!!!!!!!
Man, I hate to be the one to sing the bad news to ya, Bob, but it’s obvious that it’s not them but, rather, you who has the intellectual curiosity of a chicken McNugget.
Da wittle stories you speak of aren’t mainstream news, ya see, as in they’re merely Fux News right-wingered loony tune spew. Which speaks to why you so misunderstand the big bad world, namely because you turn your back to it while codifying your racist paranoia in a girly-boi right-wingy fish bowl.
Are you diggin’ me? Did you read your Celine yet? Did you unravel the mystery of a CMO yet? Dare I openly suspect you have done neither. Ever eaten foreign pussy? What’s it taste like, Bob; describe it without referencing the squishy texture and flavor of tuna sushi, I dare ya! You can’t, that’s why!
Fuckin’ half-crazed twice-buttered right-wing illiterate, apply yourself; read a Goddamn book!
So the growing ACORN scandal isn’t a story? The race card wearing thin isn’t a story? A congressman stating with a straight face that the Klan will ride again if Wilson isn’t censured, isn’t a story? A Pew research poll documenting the public’s lack of trust in the media and the belief that they are both biased and are actively trying to press an agenda? None of this is news worthy, eh…
Celine? No, not yet. CMO’s? We’ll be talking about them in the days to come. Misunderstand the world?!? I’ve been around the block more than a few times, and could share some fine sea-stories if you were so inclined…
And, a gentleman doesn’t discuss any relations he’s had with ladies; least of all enjoying the sweet pleasures of their affections. And I do read books; mostly facts and some philosophy. But not much fiction, I don’t need it. Because between my Navy time and my mis-spent youth, I’ve had plenty of adventures so far; and am having more all the time, thank you…
Why don’t you take my advice for a change and write about Obama’ s speech, his planned financial system reforms, and the effects thise causes will have on the markets and the overall economy. mail it to Dan, I know he’ll print it. As long as it’s free of any personal attacks. I can almost guarantee it.
Now get a grip on yourself…Oh, that’s right…You probably have!
You know who else used to be a community organizer? Besides Jesus and Obama? (but I repeat myself)
Willie the Pimp. Ol’ Frank knew what was going down 40 years ago.
Jon Stewart apparently called ACORN out tonight on his show.
Funny piece from O’Keefe’s college days, wherein they file a complaint against serving Lucky Charms in the dorms, due to its negative stereotyping of Irish-Americans.
Conservative? Opposed To Obama? You’re A Racist! – PART II…
Since I had already documented the hypocritical absurdity of the whack jobs on the left that like to throw around the “racist” accusation whenever someone opposes the policies of the anointed one, I was going to let today’s incident f…
It’s Dan, Bob and Eno doing a Hear Nothing But Glenn Beck, See No Economic Reality and Speak No Truth pic.
Ooo, oo, oo! Eee, ee, ee!
would that make Bob the monkey in the middle?
Morelike the one on the right enoch, as I try to refain from talking bad about folks…
But the truth? If I were to be characterized in such an array, I would be more along the lines of a gorilla than a chimpanzee!
Bob:
You are patient and gracious beyond belief.
he keeps feeding it though – despite the signs posted gratuitously about the grounds…
I think he suffers from the misconception that Thor has anything to contribute.
At all.
kinda like the View that way, eh?
btw – BOOBIES!
Might I suggest Stendahl’s The Red and the Black for this semester’s reading list?
ee ee oo oo!
Stendhal
Elder Dan, young Eno and myself would have to come to some sort of editorial agreement before my horrifying word swag tilts this place to where it needs to be.
If I uncork a real majestic stinker I don’t want to be subjected to any sort of childish Goldsteinian outbursts of jealous rage.
Ha.
I don’t think you can handle a thor unleashed, honestly.
yeah – that’s it tohr – to be jealous of a lout like you would be… well, like being jealous of a homeless man’s walls.
[...] some time now I’ve been noting the gratuitous use of the race card by the Presidents supporters against any who [...]
Bob:
I take your example and disengage. I’m not graceful enough to take the high road while actually conversing with thor, however, so I just have to ignore him.
Oh, and Enoch–BOOOOOOOBBBBBBBIES!!!!!eleventy!!11!!