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| Bruce | Feb 23 2010, 05:36 PM Post #1 |
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By John Amato Wednesday Dec 09, 2009 2:00pm ACORN hired a former Attorney General, Scott Harshbarger of Massachusetts, to conduct an independent review of how ACORN operated after those sleazy videos were released by FOX. The resulting report concludes that ACORN did not engage in any criminal behavior, even though some of it looked pretty out there. ACORN, the community organizing group which found itself embroiled in the latest of several controversies after some of its workers were recorded providing advice to a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute, was cleared of illegality in the matter by the former Massachusetts attorney general. But Scott Harshbarger, the lawyer ACORN hired to conduct a review, criticized the organization for bad management which it said contributed to the ACORN's problems. A major problem, he said, was that the organization grew too quickly, neglecting training of its workers and other essentials. The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms. Giles's comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions. In the wake of the scandal, Congress voted to cut off all federal funds from ACORN. In response, the group is suing the US government, arguing that the measure is a bill of attainder, and therefore unconstitutional. A real news network would have spent the time necessary to prove the accuracy of the tapes. FOX News never tried to act like a news organization when they received the tapes. It's their responsibility as journalists to verify the information the tapes contain, but instead FOX repeatedly aired them in hopes of destroying ACORN, a group that has a history of great work with lower-income families. The damage has been done as Congress joined in the vilification process. Proof, once again, that this is not a news network. It's a propaganda mill posing as one. |
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| Beancounter | Feb 23 2010, 10:10 PM Post #2 |
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Yeah right! The usual left wing spin! US equivalent of the CBC. I'll take FOX any day. |
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| Bruce | Feb 23 2010, 10:26 PM Post #3 |
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Okay,,,, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,548827,00.html Edited by Bruce, Feb 23 2010, 10:28 PM.
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| xray | Feb 24 2010, 11:12 AM Post #4 |
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Gads, it's hard to tell anymore what's for real and what's not.
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| jabs | Feb 24 2010, 02:13 PM Post #5 |
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:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: Luv it! F(au)x News- on par with ethical journalism as much as Globe and the National Enquirer If I want REAL news, I go to the BBC site: world cvlass commentary with the least amount of Bias. Its just too bad I have to pay for Fox News network on my Satellite Plan Package- its junk entertainment especially that fat clown Glen Beck! |
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| Bruce | Feb 24 2010, 02:23 PM Post #6 |
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Beancounters most reliable news source....... Another Bad Week For Fox News Graphics. By Logan Murphy Wednesday Feb 24, 2010 7:00am C&L and other blogs have been documenting Fox News' use of misleading and false graphics for years. Usually, when a Republican gets in trouble or falls out of good graces, they mislabel them as Democrats -- but over the past few days Media Matters has caught some real stinkers that makes one wonder if they really are, just that bad: Almost three months to the day since Fox News instituted its "zero tolerance for on-screen errors" policy, the following on-screen graphic was displayed during the February 22 edition of America's Newsroom: Read on... ![]() Former Congresswomen???????????? Why does Fox News hate J.D. Hayworth? Isn't he the fluffernutter candidate who makes Senator John McCain look like a die hard progressive? To make matters worse, the very next day, Media Matter caught another goof. ![]() Glen Beck must be doing the editing at Fox News these days.. Edited by Bruce, Feb 24 2010, 02:36 PM.
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