Rachel Maddow Won’t Toe The Media Line On ACORN »
Posted By mesodude 2 months ago in Political NewsACORN is not popular these days. But Rachel Maddow doesn't give a damn, because she thinks ACORN got screwed — by the self-reinforcing Conservative echo chamber, and by a credulous, lazy media.
Last night she had on Professor Peter Dreier, a politics professor at Occidental College to discuss his recent report: “Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong” which details how “opinion entrepreneurs” planted the seeds of the story, which were picked up by the echo chamber, blown up by McCain-Palin and then Glenn Beck, et voilà.
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Endoscopy2 months ago
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What did she leave out? The biggest investigations were not voter fraud but voter registration fraud. Silly girl just got mixed up about all of the charges. I wonder why. Could it possibly be she has a bias. Silly libs fall for it every time. Now you see it and now you don't. Pick on the smallets amount of charges and make it seem like that is all there is.
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Middle man was sucked in again because he does not investigate what all of the charges were.
“Journalism is essentially a discipline of verification, and verification is what separates it from propaganda,"
I love that quote. The problem is that she leaves out big chunks of things and uses quotes that back up what she says when they do not apply.
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Charlson2 months ago
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This is another case where the right-leaning MSM has failed in their jobs as reporters and investigators and never researched the claims against ACORN but gave only the detractors side of this non-story.
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The real story is the private contractors who are allowed to defraud the government and when caught continued to reap large government contracts. No defunding when the costs are in the billions but go after a community grassroots organization that helps the poor and disadvantaged that are funded for puny percentage of what private contractors steal from our country. -
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injest2 months ago
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“Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong” which details how “opinion entrepreneurs”
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Ya mean like MSNBC, AirAmerica, and others?
"planted the seeds of the story, which were picked up by the echo chamber, blown up by McCain-Palin"
Okay where’s the McCain-Palin statement on the ACORN scandal?
Where is their JOINT statement?
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injest2 months ago
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· "82.8% of the stories about ACORN’s alleged involvement in voter fraud failed to mention that actual voter fraud is very rare (only 17.2% did mention it)"
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Who ever wrote this is an idiot.
Voter fraud, AKA Electoral fraud, includes "illegal voter registration", "intimidation at polls" and "improper vote counting".
The rest of this “report” is a bizarre conspiracy theory at best, and has nothing to do with why ACORN is in a world of dung today.
It is the 5 tapes (so far more to come) from the East cost to the West cost, all dealing with child prostitution and the international child sex slave trade and TAX EVASION that has ACORN in the wringer.
One is a “Bad Apple”.
Two is a “Coincidence”.
Three is a “Errr What?”.
Four is a “WTF O”.
Five is an “Undeniable Pattern of Criminal Activity.” -
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injest2 months ago
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I didnt know any of that.>>>>
That's why I watch her. She digs for facts, and she backs them up
Really?
“The media also failed to distinguish allegations of voter registration problems from allegations of actual voting irregularities.”
There is NO difference! Voter registration fraud IS voter fraud!
Considering no ID is required at the polls, there is NO way to verify if the person voting is a legal vote or not.
Maddow is banking on you being to stupid to understand the difference or to lazy to look it up!
Question, Is she correct?
“The “voter fraud” frame appeared in 55% of the 647 news stories about the community organization in 15 mainstream news organizations during 2007 and 2008.
The news media stories about ACORN were overwhelmingly negative, reporting allegations by Republicans and conservatives.”
Naw really? Stories about ACORN and their “voter fraud” are negative? Who woulda thought it?
What exactly would a positive story about ACORN and their “voter fraud” look like?
To date some 30 ACORN officials have been convicted of fraud, not including the conviction today in Nevada or the 11 ACORN officials currently under investigation in Florida.
Is it any wonder ACORN is viewed negatively by most normal people?
Gotta love the Al Capone “Soup kitchen” defense of ACORN
“Although ACORN is involved in many community activities around the country, including efforts to improve housing, wages, access to credit, and public education”
Any proof of that? Why won’t ACORN open their books and prove their case? Where did she back that up?
Speaking of proof, Maddow said,
“including the firing of U.S. Attorneys who refused to cooperate with the politicization of voter fraud accusations – firings that ultimately led to the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales”
Please state the case and FACTUAL evidence that PROVES “the firing of U.S. Attorneys who refused to cooperate with the politicization of voter fraud accusations” was the reason they were replaced.
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djn3nunez32 months ago
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And once more for the record - voter REGISTRATION fraud is a different animal than voter fraud. They are both crimes, but so far there is no evidence that anyone who was fradulently registered actually voted in the last election
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I think ACORN reported collecting 90,000 or more registration cards in Nevada.
Only 26 of them were fraudulent.
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injest2 months ago
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"Investigative journalism is very rare these days. It seems no one is interested in the facts anymore. Just hot air"
Go Rachel!
And what “FACTS” did she provide that somehow prove that the ACORN employees in the videos did not say what they said?
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german-shepard2 months ago
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Do tell us what gives you the inspiration (because it couldn't be intelligence) to say what is so limited by her world view. She doesn't say that her view is correct and infallible, but get the opinions of many experts to back up her stories.
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You don't have jack poop!
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jblack452 months ago
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to endscopy if you want to see shoddy journalism you should stick to the Fox misinterpetthenews network. They don't fact check anything. It's like the camera's start rolling and they start lying. Sure ACORN has a few loose screws that give the company a bad name and they have been and should have been dealt with. Every organization have some people in it that really give it a bad name even your Republican Party(Eric Cantor, Charles Grassley; Michelle Bachmann, Almost any of your South Carolina Congress people). But the point Ms Maddow was trying to make is that there are some positive things this organization has done too which Fox news And all the rest of those holier-than-thou conservatives fail to talk about. And she also points out that there are other organization like Black Water who are doing far worse things than ACORN and you never here it from Fox news or the conservatives.
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Leftist1 month, 4 weeks ago
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Why are we so concerned about ACORN? Is it because they want to represent the little guy in an Amerika that has been raped and abused by the racist, exploitative, greedy corporate culture that has ruined this country? ACORN voter registration efforts helped get out the vote of people that have been disenfranchised by the capitalist system. ACORN shouldn't be investigated, they should be getting the support of the government instead of supporting corporations and fat cats interested only in getting rich and keeping the poor in the underclass.
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jansimply1 month, 4 weeks ago
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You have to be a pathetic piece of garbage to watch Rachal Maddows or Keith Olbermann. They support parasites so, if you watch them, you must have a lot in common. They are an embarrassment in this country. That is why their ratings are in the gutter waiting to be thrown in the incinerator. If you watch them, you are among the few.
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