Election ‘08: ACORN and the MSM
Oct 9, 2008 In The News, Politics
My friend Dave writes on the hosiery-thin explanation ACORN gives for the registration irregularities showing up among the voters they register:
ACORN “blamed inefficiency and lack of resources for problems such as being unable to spot duplicate voter-registration cards†– so let’s run it against my super-obvious, way-too-easy litmus test: If ACORN’s intentions are noble – sign people up to vote, no matter what – then why is the fraud only happening in swing states? You’d think it would be happening all over the place, because homeless and low-income folks (ACORN’s target audience) in all 50 states should be getting out to the polls, right? Isn’t this about helping people to exercise their rights?
It’s a simple, easy test – and it would seem to speak volumes about the nobility of ACORN’s intentions. Are they really altruistically trying to “get out the vote†among the underprivileged and undereducated? We’ve got plenty of them here in New York, but you don’t see (or, at least my Google searching doesn’t see) any fraudulent activities here. But The Empire State is solidly in the blue – no need to falsify records to achieve the desired result here. But the so-termed “battleground†states? They’re covered.
Pretty simple, no?
You’d think voter irregularities fraud would be all over the news…Â but I suppose the mainstream media, too, may be a little one-sided (via Confederate Yankee):
As you might have heard, I am covering the McCain/Palin appearance today. At the media breakfast at the Pfister Hotel about an hour ago, you would simply not believe the vicious, nasty conversation I just overheard between several “elite” media types from the McClatchey news service, AP, and a couple of other sources I didn’t quite catch.
Over the course of just a few minutes, I heard that “Sean Hannity gives Dick Cheney the best head of his life,” and that he and Lou Dobbs are “mean-spirited sycophants,” and that McCain himself is “angry” and “crusty. One even recalled a recent campaign event at which Sarah Palin autographed a supporter’s Bible, prompting this “objective” journalist to remark “these people terrify me.”
And this was just in the span of a 10 minute conversation! I simply cannot believe that these are the people entrusted to cover the McCain/Palin campaign fairly and accurately. I have never before wanted to do a show like yours quite as badly as I do right now–so that I can expose these people for who they really are: unabashed, unashamed partisans whose callous, bitter attitude towards conservatives very clearly permeates their work.
And one wonders why I take MSM coverage of, well, anything, with a grain shaker of salt.
