Secret Agent Editors

Must admit we have been chuckling at the NY Times trying to convince people why they were late to the news stories on ACORN and Jones. Their spinning is not working and now James Taranto nails the Times. The NY Times could only read part of a dispatch and missed the bottom part according to Taranto. We are not surprised at this liberal paper whose management would rather spin for organizations like ACORN then actually print the truth.

NY Times management seems perfectly content to allow ACORN to continue their voter fraud across the Country because it elects liberals. Has anyone looked into the fact that Congress might not be so lopsided without ACORN voter fraud? When ACORN voter fraud hits Oklahoma, you can bet it is everywhere in the Country.

When is there going to be a RICO investigation into ACORN on voter fraud, their shakedown of the mortgage industry and whatever else they are involved with including telling people how to cheat on their taxes?

Secret Agent Editors
The Obama
By JAMES TARANTO
(Editor's note: This is an abbreviated edition of Best of the Web Today. We're on assignment, returning Thursday.)

Clark Hoyt, "public editor" of the New York Times, has weighed in on his paper's coverage of the Acorn scandal--or rather its lack thereof. Right off the bat, he delivers a half-truth:

On Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, the community organizing group. Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted as saying that Acorn, one of thousands of unpaid organizations promoting the 2010 census, had become "a distraction."

What the article didn't say--but what followers of Fox News and conservative commentators already knew--was that a video sting had caught Acorn workers counseling a bogus prostitute and pimp on how to set up a brothel staffed by under-age girls, avoid detection and cheat on taxes.

It is true, as we noted Sept. 14, that the AP article as published in the Times didn't mention that Acorn had been caught in a sex-slavery sting. But that's because the paper cut the latter half of the original dispatch, which did mention it. And there were other AP dispatches on the evening of Sept. 11, such as this one, that led with the sting. Somehow the Times managed to miss those.

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