All the news that’s fit to suppress
Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
My syndicated column today takes another whack at the New York Times. Outside of the blogosphere and Fox News, the Fishwrap of Record’s admission that it spiked an election eve story on the possible illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN’s canvassing arm, Project Vote, has gotten zero scrutiny.
Fortunately, when the Times sees fit to suppress the news, you can get it straight from the sources they seek to silence. ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief continues to shed light on the tangled network of shady left-wing affiliates on her own blog here. ACORN whistleblower Gregory Hall warns of the Census fraud to come and blogs at SpeakingTruth2Power.
Examiner columnist Kevin Mooney reports:Tax documents show ACORN link to affiliates
More: What’s going on at Elysian Fields?
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All the news that’s fit to suppress
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Conflict of interest stories make great front page headlines – except when the newspaper that revels in breaking them is itself in the middle of an ethical morass. Take the New York Times.
One of the muck-raking newspaper’s reporters, Jennifer 8. Lee, recently boasted on Twitter that the Paper of Record has now “sold $2 million worth of [O]bama merchandise (book, commemorative editions, etc.).” The president, she noted chirpily, “is good for the bottom line.” This lucrative media-government partnership is on proud display at the Times online Barack Obama store, where readers can buy mugs, books, and framed photos of the newspaper’s political boosterism.
A press plate of the Times’s inauguration front page goes for $149. A “set of Obama victory coffee mugs” sells for $24.95. And for only $1,129, you can own a signed and framed messianic photo of Obama taken by Times photographer Damon Winter – and neutrally titled “Shining Moment” with the candidate in artsy silhouette as a sunburst illuminates the scenery.
It’s a short leap from there to Times reporter Jeff Zeleny, who infamously asked the president in a prime-time press briefing a few weeks ago what had “enchanted” him the most about being in the White House. You could almost see the sunbursts in Zeleny’s pupils as he tossed the drool-covered softball to Dear Leader.
I’ve often said that it’s the journalistic sins of omission that are more damning than the industry’s sins of commission. Right on cue, the Times acknowledged this weekend that it had spiked a story on possible illegal coordination between left-wing activist groups ACORN and its canvassing arm and the Obama campaign just before Election Day. The charges involved Team Obama sharing top campaign donor lists with ACORN’s supposedly non-partisan canvassing arm, Project Vote (the same group Obama worked for as a Chicago community organizer).
Times public editor Clark Hoyt tried to spin it as a “tip that didn’t pan out.” He airily dismissed the charges by ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief as “nonsense” and quoted a Times editor who shrugged, “You have to cut bait after a while.” It was an all-too-convenient judgment that just happened to be made as Election Day loomed. (Contrast this with the editorial doggedness of the Times’s editors in pursuing and publishing the Star Magazine-quality insinuations that GOP presidential candidate John McCain had carried on an affair with Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman.)
Hoyt attempted to paint MonCrief as an unreliable source. But Times reporter Stephanie Strom had relied on her for months to break a series of ACORN corruption stories. Moreover, MonCrief’s allegations fit the shady money-shuffling pattern among ACORN and its affiliates to a T. Strom had reported on ACORN’s own internal review of shady money transfers among its web of affiliates conducted by lawyer Elizabeth Kingsley.
The Kinglsey review of the incestuous relationship between ACORN and Project Vote found, in the Times’s own words, that it was “impossible to document that Project Vote’s money had been used in a strictly nonpartisan manner” and “raised concerns not only about a lack of documentation to demonstrate that no charitable money was used for political activities but also about which organization controlled strategic decisions.” ACORN, independent investigative journalist Matthew Vadum joked, “moves money around its network with a boldness and agility that Pablo Escobar would have admired.”
MonCrief says she was prepared to hand over documentation on the Obama/Project Vote donor-sharing arrangement to Strom before the Times’s editors decided to cut bait. The paper’s Election Eve incuriosity about potential tax and campaign finance violations by Team Obama belies its repeated denials of bias and conflict. At a self-aggrandizing media conference in 2007, Times chief Bill Keller declared:
…we are agnostic as to where a story may lead; we do not go into a story with an agenda or a pre-conceived notion. We do not manipulate or hide facts to advance an agenda. We strive to preserve our independence from political and economic interests…We do not work in the service of a party, or an industry, or even a country. When there are competing views of a situation, we aim to reflect them as clearly and fairly as we can.”
Rhetoric, meet reality.
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Is that “cut bait” or “cut throats”?
“Dear Leader”?
Shouldn’t that be “Der Leader”?
……please.
Anyone with 1/4 of a brain that functions knew all about this a very very very long time ago.
Thank you Dumba$$ Voters 08′
My dog refuses to crap on the New York Times….. he told me it would be redundant.
I get so tired of O’Reilly sucking up to “the one”. If Beck was every opposite of his, Beck would blow him away.
Welcome to the Communist Party USA.
Obama is a “Red Diaper Baby“, raised from birth onward as a Marxist, and spending his entire life associating with Marxists.
ACORN and the Communist Party are “like family“.
And there is no discernable difference between the agendas of:
the New York Times,
the Democratic [Socialist] Party, and
the Communist Party USA.
Democrats seek financial rescue of minority-owned broadcasters
http://tinyurl.com/qn6mpz
Unbelievable this congress is out of control this needs to STOP!
This is how they play the game….
More “community organizing” Brown-Shirt style.
ny times, acorn, zero, this country was hosed royally. the sheep bit and got what it wanted, less than nothing.
Hey, in that Shining Moment picture, are those two teleprompters???
A Shinola moment for POTUS and TOTUS?
Great column as usual. I can’t get past their full-bore indiscretion with the McCain affair allegations juxtaposed with what you called the “incuriosity” about Obama’s network.
There’s just so much mis/dis/non-information out there about the guy that it’s mind-boggling. The acceptance of his well-packaged life-story as
divinegospel, as opposed to the teams of investigators sent to dig through Sarah Palin’s rubbish is also telling.It seems like nobody in the mainstream media is willing to serve the public with anything they’re not spoon-fed by the administration. Where is the news media’s independence?
I believe that information, like all things, balances out in the end.
The unfortunate thing is that by the time the populace finds out the true objectives, means, and outcomes it’s too late to reverse the “change”.
There must be a legal way to punish such behavior
Hey chapoutier give me a hand with this. One thing I’ve learned about you is, You might be crazy, but your not stupid.
Pretty much one and the same. NYT is our very own Pravda.
The Communist Party USA must be pleased its goals are being achieved by our Dem leaders in congress and the White House.
Oh, please. Like people care. Dancing crowned another champ and Idol is set to do the same.
Bruce, as I tell clients all the time, “The law is a hammer, not a scalpel”.
There isn’t any legal way to get to the NYT.
The market, however, is wonderfully subtle and creative. Markets are scalpels.
The market is already taking care of the NYT.
Now, as to the Brown-Shirts we call “community organizers”, there ARE laws. We just have to find people willing to enforce them….
Free press and suppression . . .
The information at the heart of this spiteful post comes, of course, from the newspaper of record itself. The public editor described what happened at the Times in an article called The Tip That Didn’t Pan Out. They decided that the story was false. The difference between the Times and right with blogosphere and it’s cousin Fox is that the Times cares about truth while Fox cares only about impact.
Errah at what point does this type of stuff become an impeachable offense??!! I’m hoping to have the 50 stars removed and a hammer and sicle sew on my flag for my dear leader by the 4th or should we just blow off that day in favor of May 1st??!!
Is Lying is too strong a word? From Comedy shows, late night talk, news broadcasts to the News that Fits there seems to be an almost messianic need for the Glitterati to Praise and Protect all things Obama.
No, Lying is not too strong a word-Idolatry isn’t either. Yes indeed Obama is a “Red Diaper Baby“-that so few of our populace knows or cares is the scary part-he never really hid it.
Concord/Lexington is our model.
If only the New York Times had given us the opportunity to decide for ourselves, maybe the vote would have been different. Besides, they do stories with less due dilligence quite often.
That’s why they print so many corrections.
Of course, the false story is on page one and the correction is buried at the bottom of page E42.
The big problem at the NY Times is that every reporter there is a liberal ideologue. It is not just the spike acorn story. You had Selena Roberts, a radical feminist, being allowed to handle the phony Duke rape story for the Times. Roberts virtually pronounced the students guilty from the minute the phony arrests were made. Not once did Roberts dig into the sordid background of the accuser and the Times spiked the proof that one of the students was photographed at an instant teller at the very moment the rape was supposedly taking place. Instead of admitting that she was wrong, Roberts shifted and said it didn’t matter, there was a culture of male chauvinism at Duke.
Then there is left wing reporter Deborah Sontag. After Arafat torpedoed the the 2000 talks at Camp David, and Clinton and Albright blamed Arafat publicly, Sontag and the Times foreign desk were incensed. So they sent out Sontag to do a series of articles on how Arafat was the peacemaker and Barak and Clinton were the guilty parties.
Then we have Maureen Dowd stealing a whole paragraph from a left wing blogger and not even giving the guy credit. Dowd is an intellectual property thief. And Clark Hoyt won’t write a word about it.
The faster the NYT goes out of business the better it will be for the house cleaning journalism needs in this country. May all left wing propaganda arms of the Democrat Social Party go out of business because of low circulation.
TEDDY!!!
I would think April 1 or May 5.
Their campaign was in league with the “non-partisan” vote getters, they disable the most basic security features to facilitate illegal online donations, the press ignores all this plus the credible questions about Obummer’s eligibility…
I think we’ve witnessed a non-violent coup.
But, of course, that is a lie. It wasn’t “false”, and the ACORN defector was prepared to document what she was saying.
Time and again, we hear from the LEFTISTS that the ACORN accusations are unfounded…
only to have them confirmed.
I sure hope this guy is not holding his breath while waiting for the government to investigate ACORN.
As a student at a university, one of the “free” perks are free copies of the local paper,
“The Las Vegas Review Journal”
and
“USA Today”
and
“The New York Times.”
I always pick up and read these fishwraps. I also often take a few home for wrapping items I am storing. Nothing like some good ole NYT to stuff in a vase and surrounding box for long term storage.
Besides the more of them I use the less the other students have to bother reading the tripe.
Another free paper at CSN, formerly CCSN, is the Farrakhan rag “The Final Call”
One plus about the Final Call is the size, it is more of newsstand size like the national enquirer. I always take more than one of the free editions of each of these papers, even if they only end up in my recycling bin.
I do not know what the university system pays for these rags to end up in the trash day after day, but it must be a tidy sum.
It is amazing that the dollars you are spending to send your kids to these universities are supporting the waste that is “free” papers on the campus.
So not only are you subsidizing the university, we are all subsidizing the owners and operators of these rags.
I am sure Louis Farrakhan must appreciate the irony.
happy2behere said (#22):
I don’t agree. Newspapers already print too many stories of the kind: “Opinions on the shape of the Earth differ”, where they do dueling quotes from scientists and flat-earthers and “let the reader decide”. A good reporter should look at a story, try to figure out what’s true, and print that. You want the newspaper to be a source of information, not rumor.
How about the new Obama holiday Cinco De Quatro?
The New York Slimes. We will publish no lies before they make us money.
YouLEFTISTS want the newspaper to be a source ofinformationpropaganda, notrumorobjective journalism.Truth…
No, Should be Ear Leader.
On May 20th, 2009 at 11:14 am, Dexter Alarius said:
I agree.
Me, too.
Want to close down the NYT or any other paper…go after the advertisers, let them know that if their ad is in the paper they are off of your shopping list.
As a thoght, on the Fourth of July, all flags should be flown at half mast. Can’t make a Tea Party, half mast a flag.
Errah. OMSB!!!!, I like your April 1st suggestion, it’s more amurikan!
Errah, OMSB, isn’t “Obamacorn” what you pick out of a congressional spending/appropiations bill??!!!
Consider This…
In summary…
This is bigger than Water(boarding)Gate.
… and it’s bigger than ObamAcorn.
lgm,
Unfortunately, the press has given the public too many reasons to count that they cannot be trusted to “look at a story, try to figure out what’s true, and print that.”
Rather-gate, Trooper-gate, Jesse MacBeth (and the other fake soldier stories), other ACORN corruption stories, Duke rape allegation, etc.
Remember the BS line that the “seriousness of the allegation warrants publication even if the investigation is incomplete”??
Unfounded allegations are printed without proper investigation/fact checking when they could hurt an opponent while being witheld/killed if they would be damaging to a friend.
One could make a very strong argument that the opposite to your #19 post is actually true.
Come on….I would think that even you have to admit SOME amount of suspicion when a newspaper “determines a story is false” that could be damaging to Obama, while raking in over $2,000,000 from Obama merchandise sales….
Hey, LGM, just found the perfect magazine for you to read, when the Slimes finally gasps it’s last. You don’t have to thank me, I just thought you and it were the perfect match.
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/
Be sure to read it all, you’ll be glad you did.
Which is related to what I’ve also mentioned more than once: State Media acting as a propaganda organ forces the reader/viewer/listener to acquire a sense of divining the truth from what’s not being reported.
It’s like an old radio spoof I heard at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in the old Soviet Union: it was a broadcast from the “Soviet News Network,” and it featured stories like,
The broadcast ended with the “SNN jingle,” with a serious-sounding announcer saying,
“The Soviet News Network: All the news you need to know …. for now.”
The one thing we’ve got that the subjects of the Soviet Union didn’t have is that our new Voluntary State Media don’t have a monopoly — yet. So if you want to know the truth, you can still find it as long as someone like Michelle is (a) willing and (b) able to ferret it out for you.
And that’s where federal subsidizing of dying newspapers and using “fairness/diversity” to shut down non-state media comes in…
Hey Rags: The article was very revealing.
And the DHS called Right Wingers “extremists” and “terrorists”. Shades of 1984…)
A person that doesn’t have a down payment, probably can’t afford the house. Down payments show RESPONSIBLE behavior and the maturity characteristic of DELAYED GRATIFICATION.)
Only in America. The dumb Republicans keep going along with tax payer funding for the vote getting arm of the Democrats, ACORN.
This group has had questionable political partisanship activities since the 60s yet we keep sinking tax dollars into that cesspool of corruption.
The Republicans have had it in their power to stop it on a number of ocassions.
I meant to say:
State subsidized news is the beginning of the very end.
Nope. That’s the stuff that is left that does not digest when you eat corn.
Yes, and…
an income.
Does the American Democratic Partly like the Communist lable that has been attached to them? Just because they wanted to win an election they would have elected the devil,..er.. well maybe thats already been done.
On my site, I wrote a story about how ACORN operates. They are really no different than any criminal enterprise. The difference is that their political influence and scope is huge.
I’m mildly surprised the Times didn’t Photoshop-out the teleprompters in the “Shining Moment” photo.
…Then again, where would BO be without the TOTUS?
Given all we’ve seen, doesn’t it amaze you that McLame got 46% of the vote? Good grief! If all the election laws were followed, and we had a fair and impartial press, the Dems would never win an election.
There would be plenty of work for construction workers building prisons. They could hold the next Democratic Convention in Leavenworth ll.
Mike Volpe
Nice reporting on ACORN. More stories like that one and you’re liable to need a double-top secret hidey hole. That’s danged scarry. Thank you.
Has anyone ever been able to find a copy of Obama’s original birth certificate yet?
Nope. When he visited Grandma in August I’m sure he destroyed all the pictures and other evidence of his African birth, and the certificate held by the Hawaiian records office cannot be released without his approval.
Nancy Pelosi swore before a Notary Public that Barack Obama is legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.
Yet Nancy Pelosi never requested to see Obama’s original Birth Certificate from the State of Hawaii!
… and all 50 Secretaries of State took her Nancy Pelosi’s word that Barack Obama is legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.
On May 20th, 2009 at 5:55 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
Well, there you have it. It’s settled. We all know how honest St. Nan of the Bay is.
</sarc>
So, why won’t Obama be open and transparent and authorize the state of Hawaii to release of his original long-form birth certificate?
I’m waiting to hear that the Hawaiian records repository has mysteriously burned to the ground.
He’s got too much to lose now to ever allow his BC to see the light of day.
And you see nothing wrong with a reporter deciding fact from fiction for us, without ever providing all the information?! Good grief!
The constitutional charge of the press is to provide us with all the information – meaning both sides/opposite viewpoints – so that we the people may make informed decisions about our government and how it functions.
To paraphrase Justice Powell, the presentation of opposite viewpoints are necessary for a society to be truly free.
For the press to do otherwise is mere propaganda.
O/T but the feel good story of the day.
Happy birthday to K. sonofdy and A. sonofdy. 09:30 this morning.
K. 4 pounds 10 ounces
A. 5 pounds 1 ounce.
Both girls. Both fine. Red pill check your in box. I think I included you in the blast email.
One very tired sonofdy and wife are now going to sleep.
That’s one A-K delivery! Congrats sonofdy and welcome to our world, A and K! We will try to clean up a little around here before you are old enough to remember the mess we have now.
On May 20th, 2009 at 7:22 pm, sonofdy said:
The girls look precious!
I’m honored that you included me, and thank you for the heads up to check my inbox, as I don’t check that account very often.
Congratulations to you and your wife!
Anyone who believes in “transparency” should ask their representative to cosponsor H.R. 1503.
Or the ever popular Sept. 24th, “Muslim Day.”
Or Obama day Dec 57th
Um, is her middle name really a number?
Keller and Palosi must have oozed out of the same pod.
I don’t know whether to be insulted that people like this think that I or anybody would actually believe their crap, or feel sorry for them that they slipped into this dimension from wherever they came and can’t get back.
Election laws like immigration laws are not…repeat not to be used. The books are sealed and locked. Anyone attempting to open and read said laws will be branded an outcast and raciest. Acorn is now in charge of all elections they will register whom they please, as many times as they please. Only a dirty stinking racist would object to the benevolent rule of Acorn. They will tell us that it is the tradition of the US to have open elections. We will all come to realize how small minded and mean spirted it was to limit elections to one vote per US citizen.