Wish I were kidding…
Fox’s attempt to smear ACORN Thursday September 10, 2009 is despicable, part of a coordinated, long-term campaign by Fox to damage ACORN, the premiere community organization of low- and moderate-income people in the United States. Every day ACORN members are working for health care reform, living wage jobs, to end the foreclosure crisis, and to strengthen our public schools. For its part, Fox is running a campaign to demonize ACORN. They will get attention, but they will not succeed.
In July 2009, Fox agents attempted to enter ACORN offices in New York, in Philadelphia, in San Diego, in Los Angeles, and possibly other locales. In each case they were turned away, and in Philadelphia ACORN staff were concerned enough that a police report was filed. In Baltimore, the Fox squad deceived ACORN staff by consistently misrepresenting their intentions. No tax returns were filed and no assistance was provided. But the ACORN personnel in question have been terminated because their handling of the Fox agents provocateurs did not meet ACORN’s standards of professionalism.
The larger pattern of Fox’s irresponsible actions here is the real news. From Glenn Beck calling President Obama a racist, to Fox inciting racism and threats of violence with the Teaparties, to Fox unleashing a hit job on ACORN the day after an inspiring Presidential healthcare speech before Congress, Fox has long since abandoned any journalistic pretense. It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage.
Remember how Obama was going to heal racial divisions — particularly, it was implied, as regards the culture of unending excuse-making and blame-shifting among the bad apples in the black community?
Yeah. How’s that working out? Any statements from Captain Wonderful instructing blacks they can’t just whine about racism when caught doing criminal and/or irresponsible things? Like, maybe that actually contributes to racial strife — blaming whitey when obviously the blame falls on specific black actors — and furthermore makes “racism,” which ought to be serious charge commanding attention, increasingly ignored?
If everything’s racism then nothing’s racism. We have a black President now, but he can’t be bothered to say something simple and obvious like “Let’s save charges of racism for… I don’t know, actual cases of racism maybe? And let us have a new cohort of responsible black leadership telling those who cry racist wolf that they’re hurting the country, damaging race relations, and hurting their own race by cynically using the charge of ‘racism’ to excuse their own personal criminality and awful behavior. Stop hijacking our agenda as a personal get out of jail free card.”
But no. Full speed ahead with the nonsense.
A largely-minority organization staffs its offices with troglodytes willing to do a solid for child sex slavers and it’s my fault.
And as a noted “racist” I’ll just keep on keeping on with the stating the obvious here, it is no shock or surprise to anyone paying attention that the folks being busted in these videos is Black. It is simply to be expected as the Black community in America is in essence waging open warfare on everyone else through dramatic lawlessness.
Took me a few lines to get it was satire. Well done.
I may have been too successful OA, sadly this isn’t satire!
[...] My Sentiments Exactly: Any statements from Captain Wonderful [a.k.a. President Oreo] instructing blacks they can’t just whine about racism when caught doing criminal and/or irresponsible things? Like, maybe that actually contributes to racial strife—blaming whitey when obviously the blame falls on specific black actors—and furthermore makes “racism,” which ought to be serious charge commanding attention, increasingly ignored? [...]