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To: Sully- who wrote (77095)	1/27/2010 3:25:27 PM
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Networks Pounce on ‘Louisiana Watergate’ Story After Only 17 Hours, Buried ACORN Scandal By Scott Whitlock on Today NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias All three morning shows on Wednesday highlighted the revelation that a conservative activist had been arrested in connection to an attempt to tamper with the phones of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu. Despite jumping on the "Louisiana Watergate" story only 17 hours after it was first reported, the networks took five days to file full reports on the same James O’Keefe and his undercover footage exposing corruption at ACORN. On ABC’s Good Morning America, reporter Pierre Thomas recounted O’Keefe’s previous expose, charitably describing ACORN as "an advocacy group which helps the poor." On NBC’s Today, Pete Williams found sinister motives in right-wing outrage at the organization. He sneered, "Because ACORN helped register thousands of low income voters, Republicans pounced." (Could the illegal activities and voter fraud associated with the group have been another reason for GOP attacks?) Both Today and Good Morning America, though, at least managed to use the liberal label when describing ACORN and the videos showing employees attempting to help him obtain money for a prostitution ring. However, in an anchor brief, Early Show’s Erica Hill only referred to the group as "the community organizing group, ACORN." In his special report Omitting for Obama, the MRC’s Tim Graham described the media’s limited coverage of the scandal: <<< While the video aired heavily on Fox News, the networks evening news shows stayed silent for six days, until after both houses of Congress moved to deny the group’s millions of dollars in federal funding. Eventually, ABC and CBS aired only one full story. NBC aired three. ABC broke the network blackout on Saturday morning, September 12, with a brief anchor update from Ron Claiborne about the Census Bureau cutting its "ties to the community group ACORN for the 2010 Census." CBS did the first full story, on the September 15 Evening News. Correspondent Cynthia Bowers strongly brought the ACORN side of the story: "ACORN says the workers caught on tape were fired, but contends the videos were illegally obtained, doctored and deceptive, and is threatening legal action against the undercover filmmakers posing as the couple." NBC’s Lisa Myers picked up the story on Today the next morning. While Myers used the conservative label five times in her report to describe ACORN’s critics, like CBS’s Bowers, she never described the community organization as liberal. >>> And, yet, just 17 hours after it was reported O’Keefe and three others had been arrested at Landrieu’s New Orleans office, ABC’s Thomas hyperbolically announced, "This morning, some Democrats are calling this case the Louisiana Watergate." NBC’s Pete Williams ironically referred to O’Keefe as a "media sensation." (He may have been one on Fox News, but the networks certainly had no interest in making O'Keefe a "sensation.") The detached, out-of-touch response by journalists to the original scandal was summed up best by World News anchor Charles Gibson. Appearing on a radio station in Chicago on September 15, five days after the story broke, he was asked to comment on the lack of coverage. Gibson responded by laughing and then gave this bewildered reply: "I didn’t even know about it. Um. So, you’ve got me at a loss. I don’t know. Uh. Uh. But my goodness, if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it this morning. " .... newsbusters.org

To: Sully- who wrote (77095)	1/29/2010 2:11:57 AM
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Obama Orders Terror Trial Out of NYC By Matt Margolis on terror trials Well, looks like Obama got the message… <<< White House officials have told the Justice Department to consider other venues for the 9/11 terror trial that was to be held in lower Manhattan, the Daily News has learned. The decision came after Mayor Bloomberg and other politicians across the state railed against President Obama’s plan to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan Federal Court. Attorney General Eric Holder now has to think of other places where the trial could take place, officials said. >>> Something tells me, given the outrage by pretty much everyone outside of his administration, that Obama decided to do this a while ago… but chose to wait until after the State of the Union… the day after, no less… blogsforvictory.com