Jon Stewart Gets It!
By pm317 on September 16, 2009 at 8:01 PM in Current Affairs
Where the hell are the media scoundrels on the recent ACORN scandal?
I will let Jon handle that with one wish — that he do this more often than not.
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FROM LARRY JOHNSON: PM317 stole my thunder. Good for her. Stewart cuts to the heart of the issue–the media abdication of its job to be the Fourth Branch of government. The staunch refusal of the mainstream media to do even a cursory investigation of ACORN is despicable and ultimately poses a threat to our democracy. Thank God for Andy Breitbart and the balls to do a serious investigation.
To add to Larry’s note: Here is an article from Politico, that minimizes the scandal at the same time revealing the depravity of the elite media. The executive producer of “World News,” Jon Banner called the scandal “noise” and the anchor of that program, Gibson was not even aware of the scandal.
ABC “World News” anchor Charles Gibson seemed caught off guard by the ACORN tapes on Tuesday when he told Chicago radio hosts Don Wade and Roma that he hadn’t heard of them, in a clip flagged by prominent conservative blogger Michelle Malkin. Gibson added that “maybe this is just one you leave to the cables.”
And how many stories these news networks carried on the multiple scandals we have had in the last couple of weeks:
During Beck’s show on Monday, he stood in front of a blackboard-like screen, citing statistics that he said demonstrated the mainstream media’s lackadaisical coverage of the ACORN and Van Jones stories.
“Reports on Van Jones, from appointment to resignation. Look at this: Fox had 51 reports on this guy. CNN was next, with nine. MSNBC, two. The New York Times, one. Washington Post, four. The ACORN corruption — this is your money. Fox has had 133 reports on it. CNN, 90. MSNBC, 10 — how’s that possible? Hey, ABC, how’s it working out for you, with two?” Beck’s onscreen tally credited CBS with two Jones stories, and ABC and NBC with one apiece.
The Politico article is a mish-mash of condescension toward Fox News Network and the ACORN sting operations and of getting flat footed about reporting on the burgeoning scandal stories. I hope more Hannah Giles’ and James O’Keefes step up in place of where traditional news people used to be. There has never been a time when the mainstream media has been so irrelevant as it is now.
And Jon Stewart did get this one right!






















