It should surprise no one that Fox News is hammering the ACORN affair with characteristic rightist zeal. They have featured the story across their media platforms on TV, radio, print, and the Internet, almost to the exclusion of all other news. Watching Fox would leave one with the impression that ACORN and a police car chase were the only stories available to tell. Fox News’ hooker and pimp show, starring Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, has virtually taken over the schedule.
But the so-called “fair and balanced” network is demonstrating how inapt their slogan is and how transparently they manipulate what they call news.
ACORN’s CEO, Bertha Lewis, has been making the media rounds the past couple of days to rebut the charges against the organization. While taking responsibility for their shortcomings, she has announced that they will be conducting an independent review to uncover any and all misbehavior and will let the chips fall where they may. In addition, she has aggressively defended ACORN’s mission to increase voter registration and their work on behalf of low income citizens who are seeking assistance with housing.
Lewis’ appearances have raised important questions about the attacks on ACORN. For instance, the raw, unedited tapes are still being withheld from independent reviewers. This brings into question whether they were altered to intentionally create a false impression. Also, O’Keefe has steadfastly refused to turn over the tapes from dozens of their stings where they were thrown out of the ACORN office. This is deliberate deception intended to disguise the fact that, by far, the majority of ACORN employees are honest and moral.
These questions remain unanswered despite Lewis’ having raised them during interviews with journalists across the dial. She has submitted to multiple inquiries from the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Ed Schultz, Rick Sanchez, and others, on all of the cable news networks without regard to ideology. By contrast, O’Keefe and Giles have refused all interviews except for those on Fox News. They have already appeared on Hannity, Beck, Fox & Friends, and America’s News HQ. All Fox programs. The other news networks have standing requests for them to appear but, so far, none have been accepted. What do you think they are afraid of? They clearly have time available for the media, so long as it’s the friendly variety that will embrace them in a protective cocoon.
Obviously O’Keefe and Giles are either afraid, unprepared, or they are not being permitted to stray from the santcuary of Fox by their handlers. They refer to themselves as journalists, and O’Keefe went further describing himself as “the future of journalism” and told the New Jersey Star-Ledger that:
“The tone of my videos is unique. I’m not just reporting on something, I’m becoming something I’m reporting on.”
So he’s becoming a pimp? That would explain his association with Fox News. But if O’Keefe and Giles are unwilling to have their work be reviewed for accuracy, and they can’t defend themselves in independent forums, then how can they pretend that they are journalists? How can anything they report be regarded as credible?
How are they different than Borat?
How bout using the beckfans to attack real corruption, see if we can push them to investigate things like the sex trade near us military instilations?
See if we can get the to attack newscorp interests?
It really wouldn’t be that hard they are claiming the moral high ground, let’s push them on it.
I’d settle for just investigating Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater. These are military contractors who have actually been convicted of crimes but still get new business with the government.
Well, O’Keefe has admitted that the real reason he has been attacking ACORN is purely political:
This is a partisan stunt being propped up by Fox News.
Yes, you guys are right. Fox News is firmly on the side to expose corrupt dangerous organizations, who abuse taxpayers money, and get who ACORN and their supporters, who they want elected by their massive voter registrations to sign up non exsistent people and just plain made up names.
That is called voter fraud of which they have been charged with already. I wonder how many people were voted in by ACORN fraud, instead of by a majority of people who actually voted.
But this doesn’t matter to far left libs, since they expect their reps to commit whatever crimes they have to, to obtain the outcomes they desire, at any cost.