You would think that after the fallout stemming from the lack of reportage on the Van Jones story, as well as the revelation of falling public trust in their accuracy and objectivity in a recent Pew poll, that the legacy media would be on top of the most recent scandals involving ACORN; especially since they were dropped from participating in the census and the Senate overwhelming voted to cut off their access to public funds.  But that is not the case.

As usual, all we hear “crickets” and deafening silence…

Don Surber points out that the NY Times has one of the largest reporting staffs in the US, but amazingly does not have anyone available to cover the growing ACORN scandal, an organization who counts among their alumnus the current President of the United States, and instead are going with wire stories.  And, in an almost absurd statement, ABC’s Charles Gibson proffered that he didn’t even know about it!

Instead, major media outlets seem to have become obsessed with reporting, and “outing”, the hate-mongering racists that are behind the dissent to Mr. Obama’s legislative agenda.  Speaking about this past weekend’s protest in Washington DC, Howard Kurtz strains to reach for a racist motivation, an exercise which ACE thoroughly destroys.  Conversely, I doubt that Mr. Kurtz or any of his colleagues will see anything wrong with Congressman Johnson’s (D-Ga.) assertion that unless Joe Wilson is censured, and his underlying “ideas” rebuked, then folks will once again don white hoods and go riding through the countryside.  Is the Congressman’s assertion asinine and hyperbolic?  In a word, yes.  Will he be taken to task by the legacy media for inflammatory remarks that demonstrate a racialist outlook?  Somehow, I don’t think so.  Heck, Keith Olbermann will probably crown him as the best person in the world!  It’s just the usual pathetic media double standard, as Mark Salter observes at RCP.

This is a subject that I’ve written a few posts on, and unfortunately will likely have the opportunity to do so in the future.  But the Democrats and their media allies should reconsider the bias in their reportage.  Not only to slow the decline of the legacy media outlets, but to ensure that those charge others of racism, perhaps the most toxic pejorative in America today, does not go the way of the boy that cried wolf in the fable.

Exit Question:  Is Allah Pundit right when he pronounces the much heralded post-racial Presidency dead and buried?

UPDATE (SHOCKAH!):  Boston.com  breaks meta-narrative ranks reporting on how Obama's Kenyan relatives live in ABJECT! poverty.  You'd think he would do them a solid and let them hold a little somethin'...

Considering that Obama often admonishes us on how, "WE are our brothers keeper", and on, "Spreading the wealth around", you'd think that the legacy media would be all over it; as they often say about conservatives, "Because of the Hypocrisy!".  I wonder when MSNBC will tackle this one..?

At POWIP, we report, you decide…

Rocketman

For most people in this country, the resignation was the first they had heard of Van Jones. For this sin of journalistic omission, there's institutional media blame. Bias is too tame a word for the utter shamelessness on display: Only Republican scandals - real and imagined - matter.
Compounding the problem, the Jones narrative hurts Mr. Obama because it underlines how the mainstream media helped elect the president by glorifying him instead of vetting him.

Much of America has started to realize that not only was Mr. Obama not vetted before he became president, he and his fellow unvetted cohorts continue to be given a pass by the Fourth Estate.

Two more stories demonstrate how the Democrat-Media Complex, the natural alliance of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media, is more concerned with trying to figure out how to destroy Glenn Beck - "he's nuts!" - than to follow his methodical, accurate reporting. This dynamic - used against all potent critics and off-the-reservation journalists - shows that not only is the media ignoring all the negative things coming out about the Obama administration, it is acting like President Richard Nixon's henchmen, making life difficult for its whistleblowers.

All eyes are on the media. We are judging them by the standard they taught us during Watergate: "The cover-up is worse than the crime."

Meanwhile, the MSM and the administration are engaged in an all out spin cycle in an attempt at damage control…

Oh, and did I mention that it’s all Glenn Beck’s fault..?  And that watching the opposition come after Van was like watching a Lynch Mob ! OUTRAGE! STFU RethugliKKKan H8TERZ!

Rocketman

Fascism is a particularly ugly form of collectivist economics because it retains the illusion of private industry, which is dominated by the state. Private industry does not like to be dominated; it resists. This gives the fascist an early, and urgent, need for domestic enemies he can rally the public against. Van Jones signed a document alleging that Obama’s predecessors, in collusion with a huge number of military and civilian government personnel, conspired to murder thousands of American citizens for financial gain. Obama wanted to put him in charge of an agency that would use its lavish funding to assert that uncooperative businesses are conspiring to destroy the planet for financial gain. It would disburse taxpayer subsidies to politically connected businesses that support the President’s environmental agenda, which is marketed as a mystical religious faith, with dissension treated as heresy. Does any of that sound designed to bring Americans closer together?

The media is trying to ignore the Van Jones outrage. Don’t let them. This is not a “mistake.” A mistake is a matter of chance, a momentary failure of reason and wisdom. This is part of a pattern. Are we supposed to believe Obama knew nothing about any of his appointees? Are we expected to believe his White House staff is utterly incapable of matching the research a bunch of bloggers managed in less than twenty-four hours? Would President John McCain have been indulged if he’d appointed a “white nationalist” who signed a petition calling for the investigation of Bill Clinton in the murder of Vince Foster? The paper Van Jones signed says that every soldier who fell in Iraq died to cover up an act of mass murder, joining thousands of willing accomplices. That’s not an “indiscretion.” It’s an insult to everyone who died on September 11, everyone who mourns them, everyone who comforted the mourners, and everyone who fought to bring justice to the murderers.

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Do yourself a favor, read the whole thing; it's insightful and thought provoking

Rocketman

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Good thing they aren't Black - otherwise someone would have to denounce me.

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

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Most of us in the blogosphere are aware of the growing clamor this past week over the controversial views, memberships, and statements, both in the past and more recent, of Obama’s “green Czar” Van Jones.  So why then do all of the largest MSM organizations seem to know nothing at all about it? Nor it seems do they want to!

Of course, one can’t be certain, but my conjecture is with the polls looking the way they do, they’re more interested in throwing Obama a life preserver than another anchor!

But, 2 things are certain. 1) There’s noooooo bias in the MSM… 2) I’m clearly a racist for criticizing Jones or Obama; or for even bringing this matter up…

Rocketman