{"id":4800,"date":"2009-05-21T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2009-05-21T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T13:01:55","slug":"the-american-spectator-amspecblog-new-york-times-finally-admits-it-spiked-obamaacorn-corruption-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4800","title":{"rendered":"The Whole Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember discussing the Obama\/ACORN link, and some of the allegations against ACORN, before and immediately after the election – and especially after allegations surfaced that ACORN was going to directly and indirectly benefit from Porkulus – and being told “There’s just no story!”.\u00a0 (“Told” was, let’s just say, a nice way of putting it – it was usually more of a “sneer”).<\/p>\n

And I’d look at the evidence on the one hand, and see and hear what I was being told on the other, and wonder – why don’t <\/em>these people think this is a problem?<\/p>\n

I realized it when I read this bit the other day<\/a>; when the New York Times <\/em>claims that it’s “All The News That’s Fit To Print”, American lefties just take that very, very literally;\u00a0 if it doesn’t appear in the NYTimes, then it must not be news:<\/p>\n

Acknowledging what the blogosphere<\/a> has known for weeks, the New York Times<\/em> finally went on record to admit that just before last Election Day it killed a politically sensitive news story involving corruption allegations that might have made the Obama campaign look bad.<\/p>\n

But the admission on Sunday, which came seven months after NYT<\/em> staff reporter Stephanie Strom’s reporting about possibly illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN last year, took the form of a snarky column from Clark Hoyt, the Old Gray Lady’s “public editor.” Hoyt used<\/a> the word “nonsense” to describe the allegations of impropriety leveled against ACORN and the Obama campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n

And observe the pattern,which follows Bill Clinton’s old pattern for dealing with issues; Deny, Delay, Destroy (or at least Denigrate).\u00a0 It’s a pattern every lefty, in the media and politics, big and small (remember how the Minnesoros Monitor\/”Independent” <\/em>reacted to allegations they were on George Soros’ payroll? delays, denials and, finally, snark?).<\/p>\n

Eventually America will get tired of getting led, and informed, by a pack of ethical greased-pigs who learned english from Jon Stewart.<\/p>\n

Won’t they?<\/p>\n

Ya gotta have faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember discussing the Obama\/ACORN link, and some of the allegations against ACORN, before and immediately after the election – and especially after allegations surfaced that ACORN was going to directly and indirectly benefit from Porkulus – and being told “There’s just no story!”.\u00a0 (“Told” was, let’s just say, a nice way of putting it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}