Breitbart:
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
Oh, and all you Pennsylvanians out there, just FYI, Bobby Casey voted to support the pimp 'n' ho helpline.
I'm going to contain my boundless glee at this development for a few seconds to point a some things out. First of all, ACORN is going down because two kids had the nerve to take a video camera down to those offices and expose this atrocity. According to James O'Keefe, he and Hannah Giles took it upon themselves to undertake this expose and O'Keefe rightly wants to know where is the Mainstream media? Why are O'Keefe and Giles the story and NOT ACORN? And O'Keefe's reaction to the fact that ACORN is making noises about suing him? Bring it on:
It's not in their interest to attack me and Hannah. If they want to equate sex trafficking of young girls with videotaping someone without their consent, that's their moral prerogative, but that just shows you how low they are.
(courtesy Hot Air):
Kind of makes you wonder what our watchdog media has been up to, no? Well about that, Ace has this to say:
John Nolte writes this is the media's Waterloo, as there is a big, interesting, important story out there the public actually now knows of, and knows damn well the "news" media isn't even mentioning it. And they know there's only one possible reason for that.
The media could have chosen to clean up their acts and to do their jobs, or to commit suicide and pretend they can still hide a story from the public. They can't, and the public now sees their agenda and unprofessionalism exposed.
The Past-Tense Media
Because keeping you ignorant is a noble mission.
Yes, that's right. It's another "Van-Jones-if-we-don't-cover-it-then-it-didn't-actually-happen" story. Except we all know that it did. Is there anyone who HASN'T seen the videos, or at least heard of them yet?
Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated matter:
A new poll by the Pew Research Center has reveled that almost two thirds of Americans do not trust the mainstream media to deliver the truth, marking a 20+ year low.
63%, the vast majority of the over 1500 respondents to the survey, stated that the news media is dominated by special interests, rendering it biased and inaccurate.
When Pew first asked the question in 1985, the figure was 34%.
Now in 2009, just 29% say they trust the media to deliver straight facts.
...and we're back. Jonah Goldberg sums up my thoughts on ACORN appropriately:
I just think it's beyond hilarious that Acorn gets their dream president, the guy who swears they'll have a seat at the table, and largely because of the heightened profile the shady group got as a result of Obama's election, the super-majority Democratic Senate just voted overwhelmingly to deny them government money. Maybe Pelosi will ensure this is just for show by killing the move in the House. But still, what an awful week for Acorn and what a great week for cosmic comeuppance.
La la la.
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