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New York Times Misleads in Editorial on Census and ACORN

The New York Times was less than truthful in an editorial yesterday on ACORN's involvement in the 2010 census.

After pontificating that Republicans' fears were overblown about Robert M. Groves, the statistical voodoo practitioner who was recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate as census director, the Old Gray Lady opined

Still, some Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate are clinging to an even bigger red herring, that the Census Bureau is inviting manipulation of the 2010 count through its partnership with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The group, Acorn for short, is one of tens of thousands of census partners - including state and local government agencies, community groups, business clubs, corporations, media outlets and churches - that voluntarily promote the importance of being counted. First used in the 2000 census, such partnerships were credited with reducing the undercount of hard-to-count groups, like African-Americans, Hispanics and the poor.

In 2008, some Acorn workers were fired and prosecuted for submitting false voter registrations. And in 2009, the organization was charged in Nevada with violating that state's voter registration law. Acorn is fighting those charges. The bad registrations, most of which Acorn says it flagged as problematic before turning them over to election officials, never resulted in any known fraudulent votes being cast. But Republicans who flogged the voter fraud angle in 2008 are now raising fears of census fraud. That's overblown. Census partners promote the census; they do not fill out forms or collect personal information. [...]

New York Times editorial writers, it's worth noting, are also adept at throwing out red herrings.

An entirely justified concern that some Americans have is that ACORN is actively involved in the 2010 census planning process (including hiring decisions) and that the Obama administration lied about it. This was proven in the document dump ably engineered by Tegan Millspaw of Judicial Watch. Of course the NYT ignores this issue altogether.

We've come to expect this kind of behavior from the New York Times

In the days leading up to last Election Day it spiked a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad. The story concerned possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN.

And as far as I know the Times hasn't even bothered to report on the fact that authorities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are investigating ACORN --the organization itself-- in connection with actual voter fraud (as opposed to voter registration fraud) after a man registered to vote multiple times by ACORN was indicted by a grand jury for casting a fraudulent vote in an election.

Then there's the newspaper's woefully inadequate coverage of its business partner Bruce Ratner's ACORN-assisted land grab related to the taxpayer-subsized proposed Atlantic Yards project right in the newspaper's own backyard in Brooklyn, but perhaps I digress.

It's common sense that ACORN shouldn't be anywhere near the census but the Old Gray Lady will never say that.

Comments

David| 7.17.09 @ 8:37AM

The NYT misleading? Wow. Who woulda ever thought that.

Tim| 7.17.09 @ 8:44AM

One day soon, the average horny teen from flyover will get more facebook hits than the Times sells actual papers.

Teflon93| 7.17.09 @ 9:00AM

The New York Times has better hire ACORN to cook the books on its circulation numbers or these clowns will be telling the ACORN census workers they're unemployed in 2010.

Don L| 7.17.09 @ 9:01AM

Having the NYT as our constitutionally protected press and watchdog, makes as much sense as buying a pit bull with false teeth guard your home.

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» The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : New York Times Misleads in … - 2010 Census links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…York Times Misleads in … But Republicans who flogged the voter fraud angle in 2008 are now raising fears of census fraud . That’s overblown. The rest is here: The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : New York Times Misleads in … This entry was posted on Friday, July 17th, 2009 at 4:15 am and is filed under Census Fraud, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.…

Oldefarte| 7.17.09 @ 11:02AM

This is typical of the daily BRAINWASHING that Americans [readers of the MSM' output] are subjected to and hynotised by; and it's shameful that those same Americans obviously do NOT have the mental capacity to READ BETWEEN THE LINES OF PRINT,etc!!!!!!!!

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Obama Lied – The Census Died « Speaking My Mind links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Speaking My Mind Speaking My Mind Home Funnies Glenn Beck – At Least SOMEONE Is Screaming July 17, 2009...11:40 am Obama Lied – The Census Died Jump to Comments Once again The American Spectator is right on top of this crapolo sandwich we’re being handed with the help of on the the Obama partners, The New York Times. After all, the partnership between Obama and The New York Times…

Marc Jeric| 7.17.09 @ 1:01PM

ACORN brownshirts are getting $9 billion in Obama's stimulus bill (that is $9,000,000,000). All 14 voter fraud investigations by the FBI in 14 states will be squashed by AG Holder. Our Community Organizer-in-Chief, Abu Hussein from Kenya, knows what he is doing; his only "working" experience was as community orgaizer and their lawyer. Now - for a better understanding; in the defunct USSR (thanks RR!) the word "soviet" meant community organization. Are you getting closer to what is happening to this country?

Liberal Reader| 7.17.09 @ 2:05PM

Vadum --

Why should the Times cover an investigation into ACORN in Ohio?

The proper thing is to cover a case once an indictment has been issued. I know that doesn't gladden you now that you've adopted ACORN as your #1 hobbyhorse, but there it is.

Patriot| 7.17.09 @ 5:22PM

The NYT will never cover the corruption of democrats because they are part of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy--so is Liberal Reader/Jeremiah.

Barb| 7.18.09 @ 8:03AM

Mark Levin says it best....The NY SLIMES !!!
They have always been part of the progressive machine moving our country to a socialist state!

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