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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Jon Stewart slams media for missing ACORN story: 'Where the hell were you!?'
2009-09-17
Last night, Jon Stewart featured video clips of ACORN employees advising undercover journalists posing as a pimp and a prostitute how to hide the nature of their business in their tax forms.

The video clips debuted on biggovernment.com and were featured by FOX News commentator Glenn Beck. Since then the clips have circulated widely on conservative blogs and news sites and sparked a vote in the Senate to de-fund the organization.

"The bad news is that ACORN appears to be a criminal organization that aids and abets criminals and get millions of dollars in taxpayer money!" Stewart said, after highlighting the clips on his show.

Stewart joined conservatives in their criticism of the media, wondering why major media outlets failed to investigate ACORN or report on the investigative videos.

"Where were the real reporters on this story...Where the hell were you?" Stewart screamed into the camera.

"You're telling me that two kids from the cast of High School Musical 3 can break this story with a video camera and their grandmother's chinchilla coat, and you've got nothin'?" he asked. "I'm a fake journalist, and I'm embarrassed these guys scooped me. Let's get to work people!"
That's it, then. Mr. Stewart's audience read the New York Times, etc, or at least they fancy themselves the kind of people who would read the NYT if they actually, you know, read. In other words, the kind of people the NYT, etc would like to seduce into becoming regular customers.
Posted by:Fred

#21  fundamental principle that the founding fathers engineered into the government - don't give the government the power or authority to do anything you wouldn't want your worst enemy to have

Procopius2k - that comment should be engraved in granite in front of the Capital.
Posted by: DMFD   2009-09-17 22:32  

#20  Poor Jon he thinks the Daily Show is lampooning the media; what he doesn't realize that the media is now a joke.
Posted by: regular joe   2009-09-17 19:27  

#19  
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2009-09-17 18:14  

#18  "Look in Obambi's back pocket"

Ummmm, Spot? I think you got the location a little off - it's more to the front. Same level, though....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2009-09-17 16:00  

#17  Wonder how many ACORN workers can't sleep, wondering if that person they gave illegal and immoral advice to, turns them in..
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-09-17 11:41  

#16  Note: I got the Rathke brothers' names reversed...it was 'Wade' that founded it and Dale that embezzled.
Posted by: logi_cal   2009-09-17 11:26  

#15  Unfortunately none of the current Republican 'alledged' leaders have the balls to use it. The're never follow through because they want to be so 'bi-partisan' and 'get along'. See also McCain and the latter years of Bush.

Kind of like the victim of a rape 'going along with it' so that the rapist's feelings won't be hurt.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-09-17 10:40  

#14  Does anyone know if the statute of limitations is sufficiently long to permit the next administration to launch criminal investigations into Bambi's Justice Dept for dropping the Black Panther case, reinvestigating the Steven's case handling, and any possible charges for racketeering/conspiracy/accessory/fraud regarding crimes committed by ACORN staff, including those that did not report illegal activity????

I believe the Holder Doctrine(c) being contemplated right now to prosecute current and former CIA for keeping this nation safe during the Bush Administration is going to provide the precedent to in fact make it happen. The left's ultimate failure in the US is the inability to grasp a fundamental principle that the founding fathers engineered into the government - don't give the government the power or authority to do anything you wouldn't want your worst enemy to have.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-09-17 10:33  

#13  and one more thing:

Does anyone know if the statute of limitations is sufficiently long to permit the next administration to launch criminal investigations into Bambi's Justice Dept for dropping the Black Panther case, reinvestigating the Steven's case handling, and any possible charges for racketeering/conspiracy/accessory/fraud regarding crimes committed by ACORN staff, including those that did not report illegal activity????

I think it's pretty obvious that there won't be investigations by this administration (but pigs have flown before...)
Posted by: logi_cal   2009-09-17 10:08  

#12  There oughta be an investigation on how ACORN even started getting federal money 15 years ago.

Um...it was created out of the Community Reinvestment Act. The Clinton Administration began the drive toward taxpayer funds through its shenanigans with the banks 'donating' funds to ACORN in order to comply with the CRA. Then came the expansion of ACORN into 'vote generation' (eh-hem, I meant voter registration).

It was created out of CRA and, for the most part, ALWAYS been funded by the 'taxpayer' (by one means or the other). ACORN was truly the first mainstream 'community organizer' organizations.

Oh, and let's not forget that its founder, Dale Rathke, resigned last year after his brother Wade was found to have embezzled almost $1million from the group. However, Dale Rathke continues as a 'chief organizer' for ACORN Int'l LLC.

This is not 'news'...it's just that nobody was paying attention (except me and a bunch of fellow Rantburgers).

http://townhall.com/columnists/CarlHorowitz/2008/08/09/acorn_cracks_wide_open

Kudos to O'Keefe & Giles, with special mention to a belated (but very well done) effort by Stewart.
Posted by: logi_cal   2009-09-17 10:01  

#11  I remember when Dennis Miller was left of center.

I wonder if Jon Stewart is going to have a similar "ake up and smell the coffee" event.
Posted by: flash91   2009-09-17 09:51  

#10  And one of the delicious side-effects is that it makes 60 Minutes look very,very, very bad. As in sclerotic, ancient ... and worse than that, out of touch. Dan Rather's old pals must be squirming like a sack full of eels this week, being the butt of jokes like this.
And ACORN is going down, and if there are a lot more episodes of the James & Hannah show, changing the name won't help, much - whatever the call themselves next may go down as well.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2009-09-17 09:32  

#9  Makes me wonder just how many ACORN videos have yet to be released. I'm hoping for a full season of 22 episodes.
Posted by: ed   2009-09-17 09:08  

#8  "Affirmative Action" is the blood that flows through the veins of all Social Justice initiatives. It has been for decades.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-09-17 08:25  

#7  See, this is what you get from affirmative action paralysis, just like with our President. You canÂ’t criticize for obvious transgressions for fear of the backlash or being labeled racist. Long ago Limbaugh said that if you are a businessman and want the ability to critics and fire employees for malfeasance, those employees better be white males.
Posted by: HammerHead   2009-09-17 08:21  

#6  Where the hell were you?
Same place they've always been. Look in Obambi's back pocket.
Posted by: Spot   2009-09-17 08:20  

#5  Now you want to act like journalists?
Posted by: newc   2009-09-17 07:56  

#4  There oughta be an investigation on how ACORN even started getting federal money 15 years ago.
Posted by: badanov   2009-09-17 07:42  

#3  Now it's okay for all the "cool kids" to say ACORN is bad without coming across as "racist".

If Stephen Colbert zings them too, ACORN's gonna be in a heap of trouble. (Who knows, maybe then Congress might actually sorta/kinda investigate what's going on in that cesspool?)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-09-17 07:19  

#2  Where were they? Covering for ACORN, that's what. Duh, like Jon Stewart doesn't know that!!
Posted by: gromky   2009-09-17 05:54  

#1  Once again - it is not possible for the MSM to scooped on a story like this by Beck et al. The only way this happens is if the MSM doesn't want to cover it.

OS is right about something needing to be done to fix the media in this country.
Posted by: Mike N.   2009-09-17 00:46  

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