Here’s a surprise – they’re not covering the burgeoning ACORN scandal:
Here’s the Saturday morning round-up on the Census Bureau story for the formerly mainstream media, checking out their home Web pages:
Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, CBS News, CNN Sucks — story isn’t there. WashPost did run a piece about the Big Government expose’ in DC.
MSNBC, to its credit, posted a link to an AP version of the story near the top of their homepage. Some of the others above have the AP story too, but they don’t headline it on their homepages. This is significant because all the major news organizations have an auto-feed of wire service stories to their sites — MSNBC just took the trouble to link it from their homepage.
Fox News of course has followed the story all along, and the Washington Times ran the AP version.
And kudos to ABC News (top of their homepage) and reporter Jake Tapper. Unlike the other lazy and indifferent bureaus listed above, Tapper stayed on the story doing original reporting, crediting Fox News and Big Government for their scoops, embedded one of James O’Keefe’s YouTube videos in his story…
This is a huge scandal and a gigantic story – the sort of thing which, if covered in the MSM, would get people buying newspapers and watching TV…but, for the most part, the MSM is ignoring it. Why? Because they believe that a full airing of the story would devastate the Democrat party and the larger political left. Trouble is, the damage is being done – by all those people who don’t bother with the MSM anymore and who showed up in massive numbers in DC on Saturday. 2010 will come as a shocker to liberals, Democrats and MSMers – because they are ignoring this sort of thing and trying to downplay it, they are not getting a real picture of what is going on out there.
Right now, the best estimates I see among tuned-in left-of-center observers is that the Democrats are set to lose 21-30 seats in the House next year. The best liberal observers are still stoutly asserting that the GOP hasn’t a chance of a House majority – but they’ve got to know that it is they who are engaging in wishful thinking. True, there’s no assurance of a GOP win that big next year, but at worst its an even money proposition at this time. As for me, I make no predictions – part of what will happen will depend upon how GOPers manage to convince TEA Party activists to give one more vote to the GOP – the TEA Party people don’t like us GOPers all that much either; though a more accurate way of putting it is that they don’t like the old-guard of the GOP…
A new guard – a new face of the GOP, that is – can harness this anti-establishment effort. If such people are out there and manage to do their job right, the GOP can score a historic victory over the left…and perhaps not just in the House. We’ll have to see if anyone emerges in the GOP with an understanding of what is going on – we already know for certain that Democrats are incapable of it.
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