ACORN Busted, But Media Ignores Story

Fox News.com has an article on the current ACORN scandal, and it begins with:

This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings. But almost no one is covering it.

There should be no surprise that nobody's covering the ACORN story since the mainstream media is fully in the tank for President Obama, and ACORN is a staunch ally of Obama (he used to work for them).

The article continues:

This is the news media in the era of Van Jones and President Obama. The major outlets cover what they want and create the themes they want. When they find something inconvenient, they let it pass. They didn’t like the Van Jones story, so they ignored it. The network news media liked the financial entity known as Fannie Mae, so they ignored that scandalous organization for years. ACORN is getting the same treatment.

But it isn’t working any more. The ACORN fiasco has now impacted three offices – Baltimore, Washington and New York – with laugh-out-loud videos reminiscent of the hookers and pimps from the 1970s “Starsky and Hutch” show. Huggy Bear returns! Four employees have been fired, with more likely to come. And the controversy was so laughably bad that the Census Bureau cut off all ties to the group known formally as the "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now." -- They called it the “tipping point” to shed themselves of ACORN. More nuts for someone else, I guess.

And yet. And yet it’s still been ignored by the network news. Nothing on ABC, CBS or NBC.

Thankfully, the U.S. Senate has voted to bar any housing funds to ACORN. The media will probably ignore that story, too.

To read the full article, go here.

UPDATE (9/16/09): FoxNews.com is reporting that another video of an ACORN worker giving illegal advice has surfaced.

A fourth video by an independent filmmaker posing as a pimp along with a purported prostitute has surfaced depicting an ACORN staffer in California assisting the couple in their quest to obtain housing for their illegal sex business.

Of course, the liberal media will ignore this as well.