In the O’Reilly / NY Times War, Who’s Right?

It’s not a surprise that Fox’s Bill O’Reilly doesn’t like the New York Times; he considers the paper left-leaning and has targeted it many times throughout the years of his broadcasts both on radio and TV.  But, after last night’s program, in his own words, O’Reilly’s complaint against the NY Times has turned into outright “war” against the venerable newspaper.

O’Reilly’s “war” regards his claim that the NY Times “killed” a story regarding alleged ties between then-candidate Obama and the controversial ACORN group before the presidential elections and that, if the paper had run a story outlining alleged corruption within ACORN, it could have affected the results of the November elections.

O’Reilly’s attack last night against the NY Times came after an editorial in Sunday’s paper by Clark Hoyt who O’Reilly calls an “ombudsman” for the NY Times in which Hoyt briefly refers to O’Reilly.

Who’s right?

Your answer will probably depend on which side you lean more toward.  But to be fair about this, they both are valid in their claims although O’Reilly tends, later on, to jump off into the deep end leaving reality behind.

This beef centers around an interview by the Times that was being conducted with a former ACORN employee, Anita Moncreif, who claimed that ACORN broke the law by having partisan ties with Obama and that ACORN was actually supporting him for president.

To be fair to the Times, they were hesitant to run with the story based only on Moncreif’s claims because of her credibility:  Moncreif, according to the Times, had been “fired” because of misusing an ACORN credit card.

The NY Times did run another alternate story about potential corruption within ACORN from a more credible source.

O’Reilly has blasted the Times for not running Moncreif’s claims, accusing them of conspiring to throw the elections.

While it’s true that it might look better now, in retrospect, if the NY Times had run Moncreif’s story too, and also inserted that her claims weren’t entirely verified because of her credibility issues, O’Reilly is not being realistic in claiming that the Times decided to “kill a story” because they are, according to O’Reilly, “a dishonest publication” who were behind Obama’s election!

The links to both O’Reilly’s and the New York Times are below so you can check it out for yourself and decide.  A note about the Fox link:  go about 1 minute 40 seconds into the 5 /18 video for O’Reilly’s side of this issue.

Fox News Bill O’Reilly Link:

http://www.foxnews.com/oreilly/index.html

NY Times Link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/opinion/17pubed.html?scp=3&sq=stephanie%20strom&st=cse

 

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ACORN: New Charges of Voter Fraud

Seven more members of ACORN were charged with voter registration fraud yesterday in Allegheny County in Southwestern Pennsylvania which also encompasses the Pittsburgh area.

These charges are in addition to similar charges filed in Nevada earlier this week.

As in the earlier charges, ACORN itself is denying any wrongdoing even though authorities are indicating that “hundreds of” voter “registrants were indeed fraudulent,” according to District Attorney Stephen Zappalla.

See this link for more information:  http://kdka.com/local/ACORN.voter.fraud.2.1003882.html

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ACORN’s Partnership With Feds Disturbing

Despite the recent criminal fraud charges against ACORN in Nevada and several other states involve falsifying information in exchange for money, ACORN remains a partner of the Federal government to help take next year’s census!

Washington should be more responsible with our money and should be less political in its choices with whom it does business; of course, perhaps this is too much to ask for from those political animals to whom we trust our tax dollars!

This news of ACORN’s continued business with Washington makes Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann actually look correct because she wants an amendment to stop tax money from going to ACORN and other businesses like them!

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Vegas Accuses ACORN of Illegally Squirreling Voter Registrations

ACORN is being accused of forcing their workers to meet a daily quota of registering voters or they would be fired.  This, according to Nevada authorities, amounts to voter fraud and charges have now been filed on 39 counts against two former ACORN employees.

ACORN – Association of Community Organizations and Reform Now – was accused of misdoing last year during the Presidential race.  ACORN’s spokesperson, Scott Levenson, is using the same excuses as last year.  By blaming its hired help and claiming that ACORN itself is the victim, ACORN is trying to steer public opinion away from the potential voter registration fraud by blaming their employees for turning in “bogus forms,” according to Levenson.

These new Nevada charges, however, point directly at ACORN’s policies including a bonus compensation called “Blackjack” which paid employees an extra bonus amount for obtain 21 or more registrations in one day.

The Nevada investigation grew from original complaints regarding voter fraud.  The Clark County Registrar of Voters filed a complaint after receiving a number of voter registrations, tied to ACORN by serial number, which appeared fraudulent.

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