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	<title>Comments on: American Spectator: Big Media Ignores ACORN Scandal</title>
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		<title>By: H1N1 Vaccine Contaminated? &#187; The Anchoress &#124; A First Things Blog</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/publius/2009/09/12/american-spectator-big-media-ignores-acorn-scandal/comment-page-2/#comment-606102</link>
		<dc:creator>H1N1 Vaccine Contaminated? &#187; The Anchoress &#124; A First Things Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] we have seen with Climategate (and with the ACORN expose), the US Press does not report on stories it does not like; perhaps that is why we have not seen [...]</description>
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		<title>By: aqavfemqz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: The ACORN Roundup &#171; Tai-Chi Policy</title>
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		<dc:creator>The ACORN Roundup &#171; Tai-Chi Policy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] thanks to the internet (and then trying to cover themselves in retrospect). Instead, we get the usual response that occurs when a story breaks that reflects negatively on the Dems that can&#8217;t be ignored: they go after [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] thanks to the internet (and then trying to cover themselves in retrospect). Instead, we get the usual response that occurs when a story breaks that reflects negatively on the Dems that can&#8217;t be ignored: they go after [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Barack Obama</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barack Obama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Bill Bartmann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Bartmann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This blog rocks! I gotta say, that I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I&#8217;m glad I found your blog.  Thanks, <img src='http://biggovernment.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: salblomo</title>
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		<dc:creator>salblomo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You know what I love about liberals?  It is there uncanny ability to NEVER admit when they&#039;ve been caught red handed.  First, everyday people rightfully complaining at their local town hall meetings were considered unamerican by liberals.  When that line of BS didn&#039;t work the liberals started calling these people racists.  Of course when those same liberals got nailed red handed on TV enabling illegal activities they say that they knew it was a setup!!  In fact it was such a setup, that all these people just happen to have been fired by ACORN!! 
   
Please... Ms. Kaelke is not only insulting her own intelligence by lying, she doesn&#039;t even have the human decency that Kanye West had after admitting he was wrong.  IT&#039;S A SAD DAY WHEN A LOW-LIFE RAPPER IS MORE HONEST THAN A PUBLIC ADVOCACY GROUP WHO USES OUR TAX MONEY FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES!!   
   
I CAN&#039;T WAIT TILL NEXT WEEK WHEN LIBERALS START TELLING US THAT ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE SAID THE TAPE WAS DOCTORED!!  TAKE IT FROM A FORMER DEMOCRAT, DON&#039;T PUT ANYTHING PAST THESE PEOPLE!!  IF THEY HAVE TO BULLSHIT YOU THAT THE AMERICAN FLAG IS RED, WHITE AND GREEN IN ORDER TO GET THEIR WAY, THEY WILL HAPPILY STAND THERE AND TRY TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THE BLUE RECTANGLE IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF OUR FLAG IS REALLY GREEN!   
   
NOW THAT THE FAMOUS LIBERAL &quot;BLAME BUSH&quot; GAME IS DYING OFF, FELONIOUS CRIES OF RACISM HAS BECOME THE NEW DEFLECTING SHIELD FOR OBAMA.   
   
***THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS IN BIG TROUBLE AND THEY KNOW IT!!!!*** </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know what I love about liberals?  It is there uncanny ability to NEVER admit when they&#39;ve been caught red handed.  First, everyday people rightfully complaining at their local town hall meetings were considered unamerican by liberals.  When that line of BS didn&#39;t work the liberals started calling these people racists.  Of course when those same liberals got nailed red handed on TV enabling illegal activities they say that they knew it was a setup!!  In fact it was such a setup, that all these people just happen to have been fired by ACORN!! </p>
<p>Please&#8230; Ms. Kaelke is not only insulting her own intelligence by lying, she doesn&#39;t even have the human decency that Kanye West had after admitting he was wrong.  IT&#39;S A SAD DAY WHEN A LOW-LIFE RAPPER IS MORE HONEST THAN A PUBLIC ADVOCACY GROUP WHO USES OUR TAX MONEY FOR ILLEGAL PURPOSES!!   </p>
<p>I CAN&#39;T WAIT TILL NEXT WEEK WHEN LIBERALS START TELLING US THAT ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE SAID THE TAPE WAS DOCTORED!!  TAKE IT FROM A FORMER DEMOCRAT, DON&#39;T PUT ANYTHING PAST THESE PEOPLE!!  IF THEY HAVE TO BULLSHIT YOU THAT THE AMERICAN FLAG IS RED, WHITE AND GREEN IN ORDER TO GET THEIR WAY, THEY WILL HAPPILY STAND THERE AND TRY TO CONVINCE YOU THAT THE BLUE RECTANGLE IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF OUR FLAG IS REALLY GREEN!   </p>
<p>NOW THAT THE FAMOUS LIBERAL &quot;BLAME BUSH&quot; GAME IS DYING OFF, FELONIOUS CRIES OF RACISM HAS BECOME THE NEW DEFLECTING SHIELD FOR OBAMA.   </p>
<p>***THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS IN BIG TROUBLE AND THEY KNOW IT!!!!***</p>
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		<title>By: jbd</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>ACORN Attack Videographer Caught in Manipulation 
 
(San Bernardino, CA) -- Today the videographer James O&#039;Keefe&#039;s hidden camera &quot;interview&quot; with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke, airing repeatedly on Fox &quot;News&quot;, including the Glenn Beck show, and on BigGovernment.com, has been caught out in an obvious set of lies and manipulations. 
 
Ms. Kaelke, who was approached by the actors at the entrance to the small, one-person ACORN office, immediately felt uneasy and at a loss. With their provocative costuming and outlandish scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios. 
 
&quot;They were not believable&quot;, said Ms. Kaelke of the two actors. &quot;Somewhat entertaining, but they weren&#039;t even good actors. I didn&#039;t know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephan Colbert does - saying the most outrageous things with a straight face.&quot; While her sense of humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario after false scenario and the videographer ate them up. 
 
For example, in response to the set-up by the filmmakers in which they say they are trying get the young woman away from her abusive pimp, she responds that she was abused by her former husband as well (true) and that she shot and killed him (false). He is very much alive and living near Barstow, CA. 
 
However, this is taken as the gospel truth, not just in the film itself, but also by several &quot;news&quot; personalities, indicating that no journalistic standards were applied to making the video or vetting it for broadcast. 
 
Further, as the actors repeatedly noted how nice she was being, Ms Kaelke responded, also repeatedly, that her &quot;niceness&quot; was just her, not ACORN.  &quot;My supervisor would shoot this down like faster than a bat out of hell.&quot; 
 
When the actors talked about bringing 12-13 year olds in from another country, supposedly because they needed a lot of money fast for a political campaign, Ms. Kaelke said, &quot;You are going to need it for a lawyer!&quot; 
 
These exchanges, which do not appear in the edited film put on BigGovernment.com, call into question the journalistic standards of the film and of any purported news organization that chooses to run them. 
 
Ms. Kaelke, who did not know she was being filmed, is appalled that her defensive attempts to deal with an intimidating and troubling experience have been manipulated into an attack on her work helping low- and moderate-income families fight the foreclosure crisis, work for needed health care reform, and face the economic crisis in San Bernardino.                 Ms. Kaelke is preparing a sworn affidavit to support her statement.  ACORN challenges Fox to show the complete, unedited versions of all of these inflammatory videos and allow the American people see the &quot;truth&quot;, the &quot;whole truth&quot;. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ACORN Attack Videographer Caught in Manipulation </p>
<p>(San Bernardino, CA) &#8212; Today the videographer James O&#39;Keefe&#39;s hidden camera &quot;interview&quot; with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke, airing repeatedly on Fox &quot;News&quot;, including the Glenn Beck show, and on BigGovernment.com, has been caught out in an obvious set of lies and manipulations. </p>
<p>Ms. Kaelke, who was approached by the actors at the entrance to the small, one-person ACORN office, immediately felt uneasy and at a loss. With their provocative costuming and outlandish scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios. </p>
<p>&quot;They were not believable&quot;, said Ms. Kaelke of the two actors. &quot;Somewhat entertaining, but they weren&#39;t even good actors. I didn&#39;t know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephan Colbert does &#8211; saying the most outrageous things with a straight face.&quot; While her sense of humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario after false scenario and the videographer ate them up. </p>
<p>For example, in response to the set-up by the filmmakers in which they say they are trying get the young woman away from her abusive pimp, she responds that she was abused by her former husband as well (true) and that she shot and killed him (false). He is very much alive and living near Barstow, CA. </p>
<p>However, this is taken as the gospel truth, not just in the film itself, but also by several &quot;news&quot; personalities, indicating that no journalistic standards were applied to making the video or vetting it for broadcast. </p>
<p>Further, as the actors repeatedly noted how nice she was being, Ms Kaelke responded, also repeatedly, that her &quot;niceness&quot; was just her, not ACORN.  &quot;My supervisor would shoot this down like faster than a bat out of hell.&quot; </p>
<p>When the actors talked about bringing 12-13 year olds in from another country, supposedly because they needed a lot of money fast for a political campaign, Ms. Kaelke said, &quot;You are going to need it for a lawyer!&quot; </p>
<p>These exchanges, which do not appear in the edited film put on BigGovernment.com, call into question the journalistic standards of the film and of any purported news organization that chooses to run them. </p>
<p>Ms. Kaelke, who did not know she was being filmed, is appalled that her defensive attempts to deal with an intimidating and troubling experience have been manipulated into an attack on her work helping low- and moderate-income families fight the foreclosure crisis, work for needed health care reform, and face the economic crisis in San Bernardino.                 Ms. Kaelke is preparing a sworn affidavit to support her statement.  ACORN challenges Fox to show the complete, unedited versions of all of these inflammatory videos and allow the American people see the &quot;truth&quot;, the &quot;whole truth&quot;.</p>
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