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New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story
Acknowledging what the blogosphere has known for weeks, the New York Times finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad.
But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT staff reporter Stephanie Strom's reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady's "public editor." Hoyt used the word "nonsense" to describe the allegations of impropriety leveled against ACORN and the Obama campaign.
Hoyt writes in the Sunday New York Times
On March 17, a Republican lawyer, quoting a confidential source for a Times reporter, testified to Congress that the newspaper killed a story last fall because it would have been "a game-changer" in the presidential election.
The charge, amplified by Bill O'Reilly on Fox News in April and reverberating around the conservative blogosphere, is about the most damning allegation that can be made against a news organization. If true, it would mean that Times editors, whose job is to report the facts without fear or favor, were so lacking in integrity that they withheld an important story in order to influence the election.
I have spent several weeks looking into this issue - interviewing and e-mailing those involved, reading transcripts, looking at campaign finance records and conferring with legal experts. In a nutshell, I think the charge is nonsense.
In his very first sentence Hoyt makes a careless mistake: it was March 19, not March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), that the "Republican lawyer," Heather Heidelbaugh, testified before the House Judiciary Committee.
Then Hoyt gets caught up in minutiae, agonizing about whether the story would have been "a game-changer in the presidential election." He downplays the illegalities, calling them "technical violations of campaign finance law."
Hoyt writes
The story involved allegations that Barack Obama's campaign, in league with Acorn, a left-leaning community activist group, was guilty of technical violations of campaign finance law. Evidence supplied by the source could not be verified. Even if the story had panned out, it is hard to see how any editor could have regarded it as momentous enough to change an election in which the Republicans were saddled with an unpopular war and an economic meltdown.
On the surface if one doesn't think through Hoyt's explanation carefully, it may seem quite reasonable. But spend a few minutes thinking about it and holes begin to appear in the house ombudsman's reasoning.
A quick digression: Of course, we can only wonder what the New York Times would have done if it had gained information that John McCain's campaign had committed technical violations of campaign finance law. The NYT did publish a blog item about the DNC's allegation that McCain's campaign had illegally procured a loan and the paper was only too willing to imply in a Feb. 21, 2008 story that McCain was having a romantic affair with a female lobbyist three decades his junior. The charge, which was based on information provided by anonymous sources supposedly working for McCain, ultimately proved groundless and the newspaper retracted it a year later. The NYT disingenuously claims that it had never intended to suggest that the lobbyist "had engaged in a romantic affair with Senator McCain."
The aborted story that gave rise to the Obama/ACORN controversy centers around information provided by Anita MonCrief, a former ACORN employee whom Hoyt acknowledges "fed information to Stephanie Strom of The Times for several articles on troubles within the group." Apparently the information MonCrief provided was good.
We know this because Strom broke a number of important stories about ACORN and surely much of the information she used came from her trusted source Anita MonCrief. In July she reported that Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from the group. She also reported that ACORN management covered up the embezzlement for eight years, withholding information even from ACORN's national board.
The next month Strom reported that Tides Foundation founder Drummond Pike, a comrade-in-arms of liberal philanthropist George Soros, had personally covered what remained of Wade Rathke's debt (the embezzler had agreed to a slow-as-molasses repayment plan that would have kept him in debt well into old age).
In September Strom reported on two ACORN national board members' lawsuit aimed at forcing ACORN to provide financial documents regarding the embezzlement.
She followed up the next month with a story on ACORN's efforts to sever its remaining ties with its founder. (Strom reported that Wade Rathke resigned as chief organizer of ACORN. In fact, Rathke was fired, as shown in the ACORN national board's minutes of June 20, 2008, available at page 11 of the linked PDF file.)
The same month Strom wrote about an internal memo written by ACORN's lawyer that alerted the group to potential legal problems related to its organizational structure.
But apparently MonCrief's information was suddenly no good when it might have embarrassed the Obama campaign.
Heidelbaugh testified before a congressional committee in March that the nonprofit group violated a host of tax, campaign finance, and other laws. She said the Obama campaign sent ACORN its "maxed out donor list" and asked two of the avowedly nonpartisan group's employees "to reach out to the maxed out donors and solicit donations from them for Get Out the Vote efforts to be run by ACORN."
Hoyt describes the interactions between ACORN and Democratic campaigns this way:
On Sept. 7, Moncrief wrote to Strom that she had donor lists from the campaigns of Obama and Hillary Clinton and that there had been "constant contact" between the campaigns and Project Vote, an Acorn affiliate whose tax-exempt status forbids it to engage in partisan politics. Moncrief said she had withheld that information earlier but was disclosing it now that the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin was "all over it."
Hoyt writes that Strom received from MonCrief "a spreadsheet purporting to be the Obama donor list, but there was no on-the-record source or other way to verify that the list came from the Obama campaign." MonCrief agreed to go on the record but the NYT suddenly discovered that she had "a credibility problem" because she "had been fired by Acorn for using an official credit card for personal expenses."
To repeat, although the newspaper knew of the supposed credibility problem, it found MonCrief's information highly reliable in previous ACORN articles. All of sudden MonCrief was deemed not credible on a story that might have an adverse impact on Obama's candidacy.
Hoyt wrote that Suzanne Daley, the national editor, "called a halt to Strom's pursuit of the Obama angle."
Hoyt then presents an expert opinion about how, even if true, MonCrief's allegations would not have been a game-changer for the election.
But PowerLine's John Hinderaker skillfully dissects Hoyt's sophistry, writing:
Hoyt also argues that the story about Obama and ACORN would not have been a "game-changer" in that it would not have swung the election to John McCain. I agree. But since when is that the standard? Is Hoyt telling us that the Times' policy is only to print stories that have the potential to change the result of a Presidential election? Of course, if the story did have the potential to change the outcome of the election, that, too, would have been offered as a reason not to print it.
Hinderaker also argues that "the facts as related by Hoyt don't rebut the charge; they support it."
Read Hinderaker's commentary on the case and decide for yourself if the New York Times was right to end its probe.
(crossposted at NewsBusters)
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Pingback| 5.18.09 @ 2:20AM
New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story | But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Daisy| 5.18.09 @ 2:50AM
The NYTimes is America's Pravda. Big surprise there.
donald palmer| 5.18.09 @ 5:57AM
Gamechangers - The NYT won't run them when they are true, and Dan Rather makes them up out of thin air and runs them harder than SeaBiscuit, even when the curtain has been drawn back and the entire world knows they are pure fiction.
Larry C| 5.18.09 @ 6:48AM
Gee, I wonder what the Left would've said if Woodward and Bernstein didn't chase Nixon because he was handsome, eloquent, and agreed with his politics?
justavoter| 5.18.09 @ 7:43AM
We all know the main stream media are democrats and they relentlessly attack conservatives on a daily basis, with only a few exceptions. While they are attacking Miss California for answering a question I wish someone could tell us who is going to take care of America after every asset she has is spent, the Chinese or the Arabs? This administration has already borrowed 50 cents on every dollar we have in only 100 days. Wait until healthcare is on the table. It appears that the media is more interested in the mighty dollar than they are in their fellow Americans. So no matter if you are on the right or the left who is going to take care of Americans in the end if things keep going like they are?
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New York Times Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story « Aeronaut links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
kiwikit| 5.18.09 @ 8:42AM
and reporting about a 20 year old drunk-driving charge against George Bush is not a gamechanger because. . . he's in the wrong party! Only people desiring to read lazy, liberal fawning stories about 'RATs should read this rag.
Pingback| 5.18.09 @ 8:57AM
AmSpec « Sister Toldjah links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Trotter| 5.18.09 @ 9:21AM
So, voter fraud is now considered "technical violations". Hmm, wasn't this the same paper that wrote feverish articles about voter intimidation in Florida during the 2000 election, which later turned out to be people not registered, voting at the wrong preinct, etc.?
JPousson| 5.18.09 @ 9:45AM
Just another example of how "journalism" does not exist in the newspapers or television "news" networks. Personally, I can't even watch Fox News because of all the fluff and pap. The entire election of Obama was a blatant act of racism, because the media and the young lefties thought it would be so hip and cool and edgy and avant-garde to vote for a black man for president, especially one with Muslim background and middle name of "Hussein" to attack this nation for DARING to go to war with the Islamofascists.
Conservatives will need to excise the cancer in the Republican Party that is the go-along-to-get-along Democrat-Lite New York/Washington Insider Axis and back a REAL American candidate from REAL America, Sarah Palin. Electing her would set this nation back on the right course, and give the media and elites apoplectic aneurysms.
'Twould be a lovely sight to see!
William| 5.18.09 @ 9:58AM
"technical violations of campaign finance law."
will ultimately lead to a dynamic renegotiation of the social contract.
Just wait for the 2010 election to see election fraud writ large. There will be no 'conservative gains' when there is a 125% voter turnout in the cities.
Sally Hill| 5.18.09 @ 10:16AM
JPousson - you hit the nail on the head - very insightful comment.
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NY Times Spiked a Story on Illegal Obama-ACORN Coordination During the Election « Gab links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Fred Beloit| 5.18.09 @ 10:32AM
Hoyt writes: "...Acorn, a left-leaning community activist group,..."
Pardon his redundancy.
"...was guilty of technical violations of campaign finance law."
Is a "technical" violation of the law less egregious than a run-of-the-mill violation of the law?
Pingback| 5.18.09 @ 11:01AM
Michelle Malkin » The immortal words of NYTimes chief Bill Keller links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
WeWonYouLost| 5.18.09 @ 11:23AM
Look at how churches have become the political arm of the Republican Party. Politics have infiltrated every aspect of American life. You people are just angry now because the Democrats have figured out a way to combat the politicization of right-leaning organizations and the justice department during the Bush years. Very hyprocritical to now claim it's Democrats stealing elections. Seems to me that Republicans cannot compete on an even playing field.
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NYT spiked Obama-ACORN story during the campaign « Crush Liberalism links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Leon| 5.18.09 @ 11:40AM
"Why are all Democrats buried in Chicago?
Because there they can keep voting in Presidential elections."
It's a joke with an unfortunate amount of truth to it.
How many states has Acorn been indicted for campaign/voter fraud in now?
Pingback| 5.18.09 @ 11:43AM
Liberty Pundit | NYT Columnist Lifts From Left-Wing Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Stan redmond| 5.18.09 @ 11:45AM
UH "wewonyoulost"
This is a CRIME!!! You win and lose elections in politics. ACORN resorted to fraud in a clear violation of election law and the NYT burried the story.
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NYTimes Editor Admits To Spiking Obama-ACORN Corruption Story « Infidels Paradise links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Intellibronc| 5.18.09 @ 12:54PM
Let's cut to the chase,,,show us your birth certificate, not your certificate of live birth, and your college transcripts Barry.
LaQuinta de la Shaniqua| 5.18.09 @ 1:16PM
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NY Times Killed ACORN/Obama Story | Right Wing Lunatic links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Curt F.| 5.18.09 @ 1:29PM
I recall the Times ran away from this story, but sprinted with the bogus McCain affair with a lobbyist. With a lot less to back up the facts.
Maybe this puts the N Y Times in line for one of those bailouts.
C. F.
Daisy| 5.18.09 @ 1:39PM
Yeah, my local Calvary Chapel has been out there registering Mickey and Minnie Mouse, thousands of dead people, etc. to vote. Also, they've been seen knocking heads and beating up on people who disagreed with them. Liberal freak.
don| 5.18.09 @ 2:36PM
*rolls eyes*--yeah--i am sure this "alleged crime" would have really changed things for the repugnicans...ya know...cuz the only other stuff they "had" on Obama was that he was a potential terrorist, Muslim (WTF?), socialist, "different" (code for "non-white"), blah blah blah.
YOU LOST__get the f*** over it. Your prez STOLE the election in 2000 and based on FACTS from OH in 2004, that one was sketchy at best.
IF this story is true, then I am sure it will be investigated. No one disputes the fact that the NYT leans left...but when you factor in talk-radio and the insanity known as Fox "News," the playing field quickly levels out.
James| 5.18.09 @ 2:44PM
Of course this story eventually turned out to be nothing and was little more than a bunch of lazy jerks ripping off Acorn to create the illusion that they did their job. No voter fraud, no ties to Obama no anything other than a bunch of right wing losers whining endlessly about a BS conspiracy that never happened. Please cram it or kill yourself.
jim| 5.18.09 @ 2:46PM
DON, just so you know the only people comvicted of voter fraud and tampering were democrats in, you guessed it, ohio. as for florida in 2000, had gore requested an entire state recount and not just certain counties he may have won. sounds to me you need to 'get over' some things. i'm willing to accept obama as president, after all, i voted for him, but its nuts like you that will drive me back to the other side, and then i got to deal with those nuts.
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New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story! « A Nation ADri links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Birds of a feather: ACORN and the NY Times « DPGI – the aftermath links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Bronncohowie| 5.18.09 @ 3:01PM
You morons have to get over this Acorn thing. Acorn REGISTERS voters. Acorn DOES NOT vote. GOP lost AGAIN !!! Get over it. Please make sure the GOP runs the Limbaugh/Palin ticket in 2012 to insure another blowout at the polls, Acorn or not !!!!
Grandude| 5.18.09 @ 3:22PM
Yawn, why is something true only when the media says it is? Is it not obvious that there was just a little difference in the size of the budget for the Obama machine as compared to ANY one else, EVER. A half hour prime time special right before election night ? are you serious? So the idea of illegal contributions only sound obvious to me, and the fact that it was covered up surprises anyone ? Either side? You have got to be an ostrich with its head in the the sand not to acknowledge that. ( and if you do have your head in the sand you know where your a-- is) Im not partisan because its just a game. The real people calling the shots dont care about partys, Presidents are puppets.Partys are only there to divide us, so while we are busy fighting each other, they go about thier real agenda of quietly plucking our rights away one by one.Divided we fall, people!
Our country is being raped by our leaders and we are being sold to our enemies, look around and see who is running every liquor store and gas station, look at all the products you buy and check where they are made. Look at where this bail out money is going .. Does it make sense to you?...Ohhhh never mind you people are too caught up in your f-ing party crap to pay attention.wake up and smell the s--t on your shoes.( you should be able to, your head is probably right there in the sand next to em)
Jack Kinch(1uncle| 5.18.09 @ 3:34PM
And this is not surprising. That's to bad. The times serves no purpose. It needs to fold. The democrats in congress will probably keep it going. It is a demo special interest group. The states need to stop congress from spending our taxes on such.
Reminds me of the LA Times coming out with a story about Mayor Yorty 3 days before the election, too late for more info. Bradley was elected. It was later discovered that Bradley had put a lot of the cities money into a bank account that paid no interest.
Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 5.18.09 @ 3:38PM
The fraud will be terrible in the next two elections. The times will be part of it if they still exist.
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MSM chooses NOT to Print a Potentially Negative Article About Then-Candidate Obama an links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
YouLost| 5.18.09 @ 3:50PM
After hiding the torture, the illegal extraditions, the Plame traitor, the politicized judges, the Rumsfeld shenanigans, the Cheney shadow government...you're worried about this? Suck it up: the majority--the one that WON--doesn't care. Go back to your caves and wait for your end times. Please. The rest of us have a lot to do to clean up your mess.
I also think it's hilarious that this president has done more in 120 days than Dubya "Let's Take a Break" Bush did before 9/11. The very fact that you're so incensed and it's only been *four months* should make you ashamed at what a lazy sack of crap you elected in 2000. Enjoy.
tainler| 5.18.09 @ 4:00PM
If the article would not have been a game changer then why did they scrub the article.
tainler| 5.18.09 @ 4:04PM
The dumbocrats are the actual losers. They have proven to steal, lie, cheat, badmouth anything and everything to gain power and keep it. They have ruined the democrat name. They did nothing but criticize every republican official yet they are even more corrupt than anyone else. I am an independent and dont like either party. I call them as I see them and Obama was not elected, he was inserted in office by cheaters and liars. The dem's do not need to talk bad about anyone when they are just as corrupt.
JTim0thy| 5.18.09 @ 4:05PM
James, Really? Did you just read the same article? The Barry(Barack) Dunham/Soetoe/Obama campaign handed over a donor list to ACORN to do fundraising. That is illegal.
JTimothy| 5.18.09 @ 4:17PM
"YouLost"
679 US Soldiers dead in Afganistan since B.O. sent our military in. Did you stop counting just because you won?
Harrison| 5.18.09 @ 4:21PM
It's reasons like this that made me cancel my subscription. That paper has become garbage.
Shann| 5.18.09 @ 4:27PM
Where's the love??? The people who say they're Democrats---if you disagree with them they call you nasty names and think you should die!!!!???? And the ones who say they're Republicans are bagging on the Dems right back???!!! What makes you people think that any of you are right or better? The leaders of this country on Both sides have been ruining us ever since they realized that their greed could be served by holding these offices. You think they care about us? The Constitution??? Our FEELINGS????? Nope, just their own bottom line. Wake up, America! We've all been had...
don| 5.18.09 @ 4:34PM
The People of the U.S.A need to wake up. Both parties are using all of you against each other. The Parties (dems and rep) are selling all of us down the river. Wake up all you politically motivated people. My parents raised me with right and wrong. All these politicians are thieves and liars. W e need to get all of them out of office or there will be no more U.S.A they way we have lived free for 234 years Our Founding Fathers are all rolling over in there graves. WAKE UP AMERICANS BEFORE IT IS TO LATE.
Tom| 5.18.09 @ 4:41PM
YouLost, Your party wouldn't have won the last election with out some Republican cross overs that were sick of lies and corruption! Between this, Nancy Pelosi's and Chris Dodd's lies, there are a bunch of people thinking they voted for the wrong people! 52% is not a landslide! At least 3% were crossover votes, and may have crossed back! As for the 2000 and 2004 elections, we are still waiting for "proof "that those elections were stolen! If Gore would have asked for a full recount, instead of just a few counties, he may have won! After 2 more years and , you will find out that Obama is just another Jimmy Carter! His agenda is so far left and close to socialist that hi supporters in Congress will have to vote against his agenda just for political survival! About the time the economy starts coming around, the Democrats will pass the Cap and Trade, which in turn will hurt the low income and middle class as much as the rich! Cap and Trade will cause a 30 to 50% raise in gas, natural gas and electricity prices! Part of the reason our economy tanked was because during the election Obama kept declaring doom and gloom! People stopped spending and not just the housing industry went to a crawl! As soon as those prices hit, people will stop spending and the economy will come to a crawl again! Bye, bye Congressional Democrats in 2010! Bye, bye Obama's hopes of passing his agenda!
Don Young| 5.18.09 @ 4:42PM
Harry Reid had a great uncle that voted for JFK in 1960. His name was Joseph Reid. How do I know? He was my grandfather and I was named after him, and he died dec. 1947 and probably still votes democratic.
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New York Times finally comes out of the closet - admits to killing big Obama/Acorn st links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Igor Marxomarxovich| 5.18.09 @ 4:55PM
Old Russian saying...You can tell same lie 1000 time(Ms.Pelosi) but not change truth!
Difference between USSR Communist media and USA "mainstream media"
In Russia government make media say what they want - even if lie.
In USA "mainstream media" try make government what they want - even if lie..
.....eventually they become same thing?!
I Igor produce Obama Birth Certificate at www.igormaro.org
Thomas| 5.18.09 @ 5:17PM
I lean left, and I voted for Obama, but I agree with a lot of the Republican sentiment here. The NYT has becoma a shrill joke, and if this is true than they are a disgrace. Also, even though I voted Dem, there is this aggravating sense of cool among many younger lefties about having a black man as Prez. Let's focus on the issues people, too much of this cult of personality crap is perceived as having importance.
jdawg| 5.18.09 @ 5:18PM
uh....where the heck am i? did i just stumble upon ron paul's wacko followers website or sumtin? This article is so long because it has to connect imaginary dots. and your comments are delusional paranoia. have fun with all that you psycho freaks!
jdawg| 5.18.09 @ 5:20PM
by the way, why igor marxymarx talk likem caveman? fire bad....me go catch crabs now ungabunga.
listentoit| 5.18.09 @ 5:27PM
did anyone who thinks Obambi is the smartest, coolest guy in the room listen to the Totus as he spoke with Benjamin Netanyahu today. "Uh", was his number one word, with "and well" coming in a close second. Nothing of substance, or that could discernably be used as substance was uttered because no one wrote it down for him.
NYT, Acorn, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Fannie, Freddie, Barney, and Dodd are the left wing conspiracy
vnohara| 5.18.09 @ 5:38PM
Igor Marxomarxovich| 5.18.09 @ 4:55PM
Well said! Having lived in both systems, ITA!
joseph a canzoneri jr| 5.18.09 @ 5:38PM
the "old grey lady" ?? its more like the "old red whore".
MT| 5.18.09 @ 5:39PM
Where did the liberal nuts come from? Freaks.
Darron| 5.18.09 @ 5:43PM
Sure, ACORN is a fraudulent group. That was widely reported before the election. Absent hard proof that someone in the Obama camp (especially Obama himself) was aware of that, I don't see what the big deal is here.
The real irony here, (If you can ignore the NY times clear left-leaning bias) is that all media outlets should behave as they did in this case, with ALL news stories. It's not popular in the era of the 24 hour news cycle, but stories should not be reported absent hard information. It's a shame that at this point in time, someone making an accusation is as good as actual proof. I'd like to see all news agencies demand multiple sources.
Greedy_Old_Perverts| 5.18.09 @ 6:09PM
You Rethugs didn't seem to mind when NYT and their hack Judith Miller withheld stories and printed lies that helped the Dumbya administration. Hypocrites.
SoreLosers| 5.18.09 @ 6:09PM
Serves you right, righties. It's prety profound that you're all complaining about campaign laws after the Rovization of the Right, the abuse of the churches as a right wing arm, the push-polls, the computer calls, the purging of voters lists, mailing to black soldiers who are oversees then striking them from the voting lists when they don't respond. Dirty, dirty tricks, used in force by the Righties for decades now. And you're upset about the killing of this article? You must only get upset when something illegal happens when it negatively affects YOUR party, but you're ok with it as long as the election goes your way. I think there's a word for that. Oh yeah, HYPOCRITE. Dem's have been complaining about these tactics for years, welcome to the party. Now that we're using the tactics we learned from YOU, it's no longer FAIR? You should probably let this one slip under the radar, because if campaign laws were enforced on an even (and ethical) field, your "party" would evaporate.
Oscar| 5.18.09 @ 6:10PM
Oh JPousson,what do you have in mind when you propose for President a woman that cannot even supervise the virginity of her own UNDERAGE daughter?.Whould Ms Palin become President someday the example will be for all mothers to allow their UNDERAGE daughters to sleep with anybody they (the daughters) call boyfriend at the time in their own house.Do you really know what you are advocating?.Shame on you.I hope if you have daughters you look after them a little better that Ms Palin looked after hers.Childs born out of wedlock is not exactly what christian conservative Republicans advocate.Or is it?.
Donny| 5.18.09 @ 6:16PM
I will say it up front: i register as a republican but that is only because they are the lesser of two evils. Is that clear liberals? If not, why dont you go find something else to tax.
Obama is a clear travisty to freedom. All the money that he is giving out is MY money. MY tax money. It is MY money thagt I worked hard for. Someone elses children are not MY responsability. Do you all not see how he has turned us socialist? Of course not because you all think it is free money! This is NOT what america is!! You want healthcare, get a job! if you dont like the healthcare, find a different job! Take responsability for yourself. grow up.
REALIST| 5.18.09 @ 6:39PM
I'm guessing that, as conservatives, most of you are to focused on trying to `maintain' the so-called American Way of Life to see the hipocrasy in your own statements.
After every election, the losing side always beats the same drum, in the same manner, for the same outcome, which is, inevitably, nothing.
Our government has been turned into a beaurocrats paradise, by the people YOU elected. Do you really want the same old thing?! Yet another eight years of lost productivity? How about a lost generation? Thats what dubya gave us.
Electing Obama was the best thing that has happened for this nation in over 8 years. At least he is focused on moving our country forward, instead of looking backwards and pointing fingers, laying blame for what could have been. Did your parents teach you to wallow in the past, or is it societies fault?
Pete| 5.18.09 @ 6:41PM
It is really great to see all these liberal propaganda rags burying themselves and going out of business. They only remain in business with funds from democrats, liberals and other brain dead Obamaphiles. Who needs their biased reporting, fact omissions, editorial opinions and deciept but the idiots who are not smart enough to get the facts.
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Blog Word Mouth Add-ons | World News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Cuvrups| 5.18.09 @ 6:52PM
And whatever happened to the NYT story about the brick under Dubya's jacket during that presidential debate? Just curious. Love the righteous indignation. Rail about individual rights, states' rights, whatever, until it's a pet result at issue - then damn those pesky principles and get the result. Oops. Guess it's all about who's got more votes when and where it counts - popular, electoral, or on the Court.
JimCap| 5.18.09 @ 6:53PM
I think the New York Times was right to end its probe. After reading what you wrote, and reading some other things about this, it appears nothing of substance was there. I can see why no other media organs picked this up either.
juan| 5.18.09 @ 6:54PM
geez folks...you really must get over your election losses.
JimCap| 5.18.09 @ 7:04PM
Every other day I read some story about "ACORN is corrupt and they like Obama and vice versa!!!" It's not as though this allegation wasn't out there.
My reaction---and the reaction of most Americans was to yawn. We all knew about "the ACORN story" and the majority of us said, "Who cares? There's nothing there."
It's funny. Some people can't give this up. The election was more than six months ago. This ACORN thing just makes you look silly and whiny.
It's like you've been shouting this at the top of your lungs for almost a full year. And you seem to believe that the only problem is that you're not shouting loudly enough.
We hear you. And we heard you the first time. But the majority of us don't care. This isn't very important. Sorry, boys.
KevlarKevin| 5.18.09 @ 7:06PM
MT:
It could be that the liberal freaks are afraid of this story.
If you google "New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story" in quotation marks you get more than 1,500 hits. It is spreading like wildfire.
I smell fear.
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New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story - TCVR Empire F links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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D_Right_One| 5.18.09 @ 7:25PM
Anybody who thinks Sarah Palin can run this country are the same kind of people that believed Hitler was sane and wanted the best for Germany. http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp
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NY Times (almost) Comes Clean - Political Forum links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
alex from ok| 5.18.09 @ 7:44PM
REAL American candidate from REAL America, Sarah Palin. Electing her would set this nation back on the right course, and give the media and elites apoplectic aneurysms.
really she represents america then screw this i am leaving anyone who does not know that africa is a continent should not represent anything i would have an aneurysm as well.
i did not vote for the president mainly because of their vices palin is an idiot who needs to redo every grade in school while biden is a freiking fascist. i say this because of his stance on internet freedom and net neutrality he has not only been bouight out by the corporations (not that important its way too common) but he is attacking internet freedom which is likely to start a war between us hacktavists and the gov. this will not be a good thing . we are bound to lose but we can at least make it a costly victory for the bastards
Joseph mammain| 5.18.09 @ 7:51PM
That the NY times is biased is a well known fact. I stopped reading it a long time ago. To me it's irrelevant. Yeah, "All the news that's fit to print" is really a lot of nonsense and hypocritical.
The biggest con game the democrats are planning is the legalization of illegal's and then they will bring in their relatives to have a field day with entitlements. It will pretty much assure the democrats victory in every election. This great nation will become another third world republic and go bankrupt in the process. I wonder what the liberals will do then? I suppose go to Australia!
Joseph
Die4USA| 5.18.09 @ 8:12PM
Grandude said it best "Americans have their head in the sand"! THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A 3RD PARTY...period. Until that happens, we will never see "Change", unless you count the color of the ties the liars are wearing. America is now Made in Mexico, financed in China, and as free as Venezuela. Our young men are dying in the lands of the Middle East - for what - so we can GIVE AWAY what we act like we are FIGHTING FOR in some other country, for some other people?! WTF!!! Bring our troops home, put them on our Southern border and on OUR streets, quit bailing out companies that do not function correctly and let other newer, leaner, brighter companies emerge. CAPITALISM IS GREAT, when it is allowed to function properly. Let it finish it's course. It may be hard medicine, but after the Great Depression, America DID become the greatest country on the face of the Earth. Why do we need to sell it off, piece-by-piece this time? OBAMA IS KILLING THIS GREAT COUNTRY. Americans need to decide, is America worth dying for, or are we going to stand aside as it is in the middle of a "hostile takeover"?! This is for real folks, there willbe no do over's here.
CREATE A 3RD POLITICAL PARTY
CREATE A NATIONAL PARTY
CREATE A PARTY BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE!
THE TIME HAS COME.
Jeffrey Schrembs| 5.18.09 @ 8:27PM
What a SHOCK that a DIEHARD PARTISAN PUPPETT LIBERAL made a determination that keeping a story from the public, for PURELY political reasons, would not of been a "game changer". COWARDLY PATHETIC MINION.
For the press to withhold stories, that are TRUE, about Obama for "fear" that it would adversely affect Obama is proof enough that the New York Times is BOUGHT AND PAID FOR by the Obama/Democrats/Liberals/Socialist...ethically (or in this case "lack of ethics").
For the New York Times to now attempt to justify their COWARDLY SPINELESS ACTIONS, hiding behind the "findings" of a diehard Liberal, is...revolting.
Keeping FACTS from the American Public is NOT the "right" of the newspapers. When they keep facts from the American Public, for political reasons, it shows (clearly) their bias and their alliances.
New York Times is a "shell" of a news outlet and the more the American CITIZENS learn about their cowardly/biased acts the more the American Citizens will find their news "elsewhere" as well as come to the conclusion that Obama/Democrats/Main Street Media are all "in bed together" misleading the American Citizens and it is WRONG!
Nuff said!
Scream| 5.18.09 @ 8:42PM
Please...how surprising that a left leaning, no falling New York paper is the epitome of why their papaer will crumble. The editors try to show intelligence but in their ignorance, and now illegal wranglings they will pull their pants off, spank themselves and ask for a new editor and continue their lyning and deceitful paper till the ink runs out.
Adios and good riddance
kelly| 5.18.09 @ 8:45PM
How is being a Republican the "lesser of two evils" when you have evil men like Karl Rove and Dick Cheney on your team?
Those guys would (and certainly have) sell out Jesus.
ThinkFirst| 5.18.09 @ 9:10PM
It does not matter which of the 2 major parties are the "lesser of 2 evils". They are both selfish, corrupt and ineffective. We need to support 3rd party candidates. Now.
MonkeyGroin| 5.18.09 @ 9:17PM
This country no longer exists. Its like how Rome fell, not in one day and most of the damage was from within. You liberals have destroyed this country far more with your lies and gestapo like tactics to insure every minority and wacko leftist got a nice chunk of change, food stamps have been increased, welfare payments increased, unemployment extended till whenever, if you think me or anyone not sucking commie butt is gonna pay for it your crazy. You know we are headed for a new civil war. Its inevitable, like dems and taxes or is it death and taxes ???? I forget how that saying goes and both seem to fit
MT| 5.18.09 @ 9:41PM
Kevlar, I smell more than fear when liberals are around--it's the stench that will not die. Kinda' like a skunk attack smell.
Jay| 5.18.09 @ 9:46PM
The NYT is SMALL potatos compaired to information withheld by CNN. You-tube had Republican senators asking about concerns that the Bush administration had about the stability of Fanny May and Freddie Mack back in 2004. The Democrats said it wasn't so it didn't need fixing. ALL those swell o'l boys are now in the whitehouse and in appointed possitions in the current government. There going to fix it with trillions of taxpayers dollars.
As for selling out Jesus obama has said this is not a Christian country along with apologizing for the arrogance of the 100,000+ American servicemen buried in Europe.
The lesser of 2 evils ..... the corruption of the majority of the democratic party knows no bounds.
Candy| 5.18.09 @ 10:00PM
monkeygroin
It's people like you who obiviously can't discriminate between fact and fiction. Welfare payments have not increased because of minorities, food stamps and unemployment benefits rolls have grown because many American have been let go from their jobs. These people have worked and their employers have paid into the fund for them. And they are deserving of these benefits. Are you threatening anarchy? Just like a dumb idiot with nothing between his ears but air. Grow up and realize that ultra conservatives ran this country's finances and good will into the ditch with Former president Bush. Stop trying to blame all of this country's ills on minorities. I bet there are many who wish they did have that kind of power to dictate this country's finances. It sure would not be to scratch around for pennies on welfare and unemployment. Seems to me it the "good old boys" on Wall Street that you should be berating.
Godson Nzeh| 5.18.09 @ 10:30PM
This is a balanced debate. Keep it up, I haven't seen a dispassionate web like yours. Almost all other media know what they want people to read to forge their agenda ahead but yours is great.
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Smitty| 5.18.09 @ 11:14PM
Our ONLY agenda should be TRUTH.
joseph maimman| 5.18.09 @ 11:49PM
If the liberals claim that they hold the high moral ground, how come when the truth is unpleasant or adverse to their cause, they act like hypocrites! Come on, you can do better than that. That old trick to blame everything on Bush and Chenney is getting stale.
It's a shame the media is in bed with the democrats. They can no longer be considered to provide unbiased news to the masses. Yes, the Republicans have their faults too but the democrats are even worse - they are first class crooks . ALL 100 Senators and 435 Congressman are on the take from PAC's and Special interest Groups. That includes the current President and Vice-President too! They stuffed their pockets all these years and act like saints, insisting they are clean! Damn liars they are, if you ask me.
David| 5.19.09 @ 12:09AM
REALIST - The Obama administration and many many many Democrats have nothing on their minds EXCEPT the passed and BASHING BUSH. Do you not see that? They're delusional about it.
Jon| 5.19.09 @ 7:38AM
@David - the passed? the passed what?
Fred| 5.19.09 @ 9:20AM
I can't wait for the NYT to go belly up. What a propagandist piece of garbage.
Steve| 5.19.09 @ 11:24AM
@Fred As opposed to the Spectator?
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Plumb Bob Blog » News Flash: Times Spikes Story to Save Obama Campaign… links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Gary| 5.19.09 @ 12:01PM
In an effort to save money, I have considered the price per pound and environmental impact of Charmin Toilet Paper and then the new york times. As it turns out I will continue to buy the Charmin as it is a better alternative of the two to accomplish the necessary intended purpose and besides, neither one has anything written on them worth reading.
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NY Times finally admits they spiked ACORN story during election › The Right Issues links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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NY Times (almost) Comes Clean - Political Forum links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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NY Times Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story | wade edwards links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Smitty| 5.19.09 @ 1:17PM
Yes, Steve, as opposed to AmSpec. Sack of crap liberals spiked a major story negative for Obama just to get him elected. Traitors like you are destroying our country. You shouldn't have to lie, cheat and steal to win elections--your 'victory' is suspect.
Johnny T| 5.19.09 @ 3:43PM
For years the media has been carelessly taking sides and hurting a lot of innocent people, Journalist like ckark hoyt takes his pay check runs off to his upscale neighborhood and acts like he's the the pillar of the community living the same big shot lifestyle he routinely condemns. while we clean up the mess he created. It's all about the money they earn and the parties their invited to, Wake up america
dennis | 5.19.09 @ 10:35PM
With this type of reporting, it's no wonder why the cost of the Sunday NYT is more than the cost of one share of its stock.
Nazi Pelosi| 5.20.09 @ 12:35AM
The rag doesn't even make good toilet paper.
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New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story | DougJumper.com links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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New York Times Finally Admits It Spiked Obama/ACORN Corruption Story! | semper fi mea links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Bookworm Room » Watchers stuff that I’ll be mulling over today links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Mary| 5.26.09 @ 11:56PM
I wouldn't use the New York Times to wipe my butt if all the TP in the world was used up, and it was the only paper left.
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New York Times admits ACORN coverup - MightyRighty.com - Conservative News, Discussi links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
mpano| 5.28.09 @ 8:04AM
Candy...I dont blame the problems on minorities. I do, however, blame the DNC for its standing policy of BUYING minority votes by promising furthering entitlements, of lying to minorities with the threat of the GOP taking away these entitlements and in general doing EVERYTHING they can to perpetuate slavery in America by keeping certain ethnic groups dependent on GOVERNMENT for their daily needs. I blame minorities for being to blind to this fact because its EASIER and more SATISFYING to just say, "Hey, its all somebody else's fault! And Unca Sugar's gonna make it all better for me if I just cast the vote the way they want!". The DNC is currently IMO a WORSE slavemonger than the biggest plantation owner in the old south, since at least those "good old boys" (mostly Democrats, btw), were HONEST about what they did. Its staggering how willfully blind some are to the truth. The DNC does EVERYTHING it can to keep minorities "in their place", and this current president is a prime example of everything thats just plain WRONG about that party.
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Capital Research Center: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Anne| 6.18.09 @ 2:57PM
I find I am horrified by the vitriol in a lot of the comments. Am ALSO horrified by the illiterates who write them. I assume that some of the misspelled words are simply typos, but I'll bet a lot of them come from people who were not paying attention in school. AT ALL
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NYT Misleads in Editorial on Census and ACORN links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Yedda: Why is the NY Times So Corrupt?, on MarineReconDad's questions on Yedda - People. Sharing. Knowledge., links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Ms Placed Democrat » ACORN AND ACLU In Bed Together…Trying to destroy PA Law (Update) links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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ACORN Director Pleads Guilty - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 4 - City-Data links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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ACORN Director Pleads Guilty - Politics and Other Controversies - Page 5 - City-Data links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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John Mathew327| 9.9.09 @ 12:50PM
AlanJ.Gerson,District 1 election candidate launched the Council’s first effort to support victims of human trafficking in Newyork..
Please check out his website,the link is given below:
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Gale| 9.9.09 @ 12:52PM
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joe| 9.12.09 @ 4:39AM
Like above Alan J Gerson stood with several leading environmental activists and welfare programs for children, senior citizens, WTC reforms, Cultural, Housing activities in his service till now.
A short list of those can be found from here: http://www.gerson2009.com/main.....p;s=gerson
To continue his efforts, do vote for him for Dist 1 council election 15th Sept 2009
mark.ny00| 9.12.09 @ 1:20PM
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mathew| 9.12.09 @ 1:20PM
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sam| 9.13.09 @ 10:46AM
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Please vote for him in District-1 Council election on Septemer 15th. To continue his good reforms.
vicky| 9.13.09 @ 10:47AM
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NCMike| 9.14.09 @ 8:19PM
The lack of principle and disregard for truth is sickeningly obvious in the moral relativist defenses put for by the liberal loving, democrat defenders of the NYTimes absence of integrity. Obviously, these folks are the target audience for the rag of record. No surprise here.
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