[img]1|left|||no_popup[/img]This morning’s edition of the Los Angeles Times resembled a chastened, teary-eyed 5-year-old boy who had been horsewhipped by his mean daddy.
After devoting 6 of the last 7 days to diligently evading writing the newest Acorn scandal story, the Times weakly surrendered to common sense, and perhaps the demands of sensible readers.
Across the bottom of good, ol’ Page 16, where every journalist intern knows the most critical news is positioned, the Times planted — as in buried — an effete We Apologize to Our Black Friends story.
You see, Acorn is a heavily black organization. It serves the poverty stricken, or those who say they are. For liberals, this formula has meant they historically have assumed a hands-off stance, no matter how egregious the instance of corruption is. During last year’s election, Swish Obama dived under the table and covered his ears when his dear, intimate friends at Acorn were mentioned. Next to Mad Michelle, it was the only other object that made him shudder.
But Fox News, avidly pursuing the worst ethical offenders in the Obama administration,and there is a stadium full, has been uncovering unethical, illegal behavior by Acorn, one day, one community, at a time in the past week or so.
Great Scott
Two days ago, under the byline of ethically wobbly Scott Shane, The New York Times did the same kind of We Apologize to Our Black Friends Story But We Couldn’t Ignore This Any Longer.
As in the case of the despicable race-baiting,ousted green jobs czar Van Jones and other gutter-types Swish has sneakily recruited, Mr. Shane in New York and the L.A. Times reporter, Jimbo Oliphant, bragged that no wrongdoing was involved.
In a stunning double display of chutzpah, both reporters said there was no objective fault to be found. The trouble was those pesky conservatives who keep finding inconvenient truths in the President’s gimpy-eyed hires and a few dozen outside pals.
In the L.A. Times this morning, Mr. Oliphant’s story made him look like a gangly, cross-eyed, turtle-minded teenager picking up his first date.
Reading his lopsidedly unfair reporting, you could picture him lowering his eyes, lifting his pants cuffs, picking his nose, scratching his back teeth with a leaky pen as he crafted an Acorn story that an 8th grade teacher would have thrown back at him.
Nah, Nothing Is Wrong
Well, wrote Mr. Oliphant while striking a humiliated pose, those darned conservatives caught one of our guys again.
The Van Jones firing scandal hardly had burned out when those detestable people over at Fox News — they sure know a crook when they see one — have compounded that insult by creating an Acorn scandal.
Now everybody knows the good work that Acorn does with poor folk. Same as we know all of those admirable Jewish causes that Jimmy Carter supports.
(Aptly acronymed Acorn, it is a haven, wouldn’t you know, for community organizers, the Assn. of Community Organizers for Reform Now.)
The Times, failing because of remarkably unbalanced reporting, had to do today’s story because Congress, which moves slowly, reacted swiftly this week to the mushrooming Acorn scandal.
By a vote of 345 to 75, the House voted to defund Acorn, which has slyly collected at least $53 million in the last 15 years. In a related move, the Senate, for the second time this week, voted onesidedly, 85 to 11, to deny funding Acorn.
