Posts about Michelle Malkin as of September 15, 2009

ACORN… The Hits Just Keep Rollingcaffeinatedthoughts.com
09/15/2009
Just when you don’t think it can get any worse … it does.  Fox News Reports : A fourth video by an independent filmmaker posing as a pimp along with a purported prostitute has surfaced depicting an ACORN staffer in California assisting the couple in their quest to obtain housing for their illegal sex business. Much like in their previous undercover stings at the group’s offices in Baltimore, Washington and Brooklyn, N.Y., filmmaker James O’Keefe, 25, and his 20-year-old partner Hannah Giles, who posed as a prostitute named “Eden,” were given assistance on Aug.
09/15/2009
Okay: so the Senate votes for de-ACORNization of the federal transportation bill. They’re cutting off the money. The vote: 83-7. Broadly bipartisan, overwhelmingly affirmative. How does Reuters headline their story? U.S. Senate denies funds for poverty group “Poverty group.” The Senate denied funds for a “poverty group.” Bastards. Oh, but it doesn’t stop there.
09/15/2009
“Size matters,” notes Columbia Journalism Review , in a post on the September 12 ” Tea Party Express ” rally in Washington DC (where some protester signs read , “Bury Obama Care with Kennedy “). “Which is possibly why Matt Kibbe — president of FreedomWorks , the organization that mobilized Saturday’s protest — declared to the crowd assembled before the Capitol that, per the estimates of ABC News, rally participants numbered between 1 and 1.5 million people.” While ABC “never reported that the protest had over a million participants,” rally attendees, conservative commentators like Michelle Malkin , and right-leaning websites and media ran with the inflated number.