How Do You Spell ACORN? Let Us Count The Ways

That ubiquitous internet denizen and prolific poster Anon left the following comment to my post, Acorn Assists Genital Contractors:

Going Nuts
ACORN: Alien Children Offered Regularly Nationwide
ACORN: Authorities Caught One Registering “Napoleon”
ACORN: Assembly of the Complacent: Organized, Registered & Non-productive!
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties
ACORN: Assorted Crazies, Oddballs, Reprobates, and Nincompoops
ACORN: “Audacity” and “Change” that Obama Represents Nationally
ACORN: A Crooked, Offensive, Repulsive Nut
ACORN: Agitators, Cheats, Offenders, and Repugnant Nonentities
ACORN: Association of Crooks O’Keefe Revealed in a Nanosecond
ACORN: Advising Criminals, Organizing Radical Nutjobs
ACORN: Assisting Call-girls, Obama, Reid & Nancy
ACORN: Advancing Collectivism, Obamamania, Reparations Now!
ACORN: After Clinton, Obama Retards a Nation
ACORN: Alike Carter, Obama is Regretful and Negative
ACORN: America, Could Obama Resign Now??
ACORN: Against Conservatives, Order, Republicans, and the Nation
ACORN: American Cash Outflows to Rathke’s “Nonprofits”
ACORN: Apparently “Community Organizing” Really is Nefarious
ACORN: Awarding Capital to Objectionable Rent-seeking Noncontributors
ACORN: Apathetic, Crybaby, Odiferous, Rejected Nothings
ACORN: Andrew Clearly Outplayed the Resentful NYT
ACORN: Always Cheating, Often Ruining Neighborhoods
ACORN: Addled Crack-heads and Obnoxious Race-baiting Neurotics
ACORN: Appalling Cesspool; Obscene Revolting Nightmare
ACORN: A Clan of Odious, Ridiculed Nitwits
ACORN: Another Corrupt Obama Run Network

Others? Please suggest!

ACORN Assists Genital Contractors

The Audacity of Hos:  John Stewart is Funny Again
It's great watching the president's old shakedown syndicate, ACORN, getting the snot kicked out of it in the press and in DC.

Even the NY Times is jumping in! You can read The Opinionator article here. It's a good summary of what lefties and righties are saying about the scandal.

As a bonus, there's a John Stewart clip at the end that is hilarious. He really jabs the press, as well as invents a few of his own euphemisms for prostitute. My favorite: "Genital Contractor." It's great to see comedians being funny again without worrying about the politics of it...

If you just want to see the John Stewart video, Go Here

Walter Krankheit: Press is Acornered

Hannah Giles and James O' Keefe. Extraordinary citizens doing the investigative journalism the American news media just won't do.

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman

Like my hero General William Tecumseh Sherman, I generally detest reporters, and my time in the Middle East only reinforced my dim view of this "profession."

Oh, there are some excellent ones: Robert Kaplan, Michael Yon and Michael Totten come to mind. Nat Hentoff is another good one, and I admired Lucia Newman's reporting on the Noriega regime. I was there and can verify she was brave and on-target, so much so her life was in danger. She had to leave so fast she couldn't even take her stuff with her. A friend of mine had to watch her apartment for her so her stuff wouldn't get stolen.

But the vast majority of reporters and news presenters could fall off the edge of the earth with no noticeable impact.

Is it any wonder Pew Research reports that the news media's credibility is completely shot?

Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate.

Similarly, only about a quarter (26%) now say that news organizations are careful that their reporting is not politically biased, compared with 60% who say news organizations are politically biased

Walter Krankheit Syndrome (Noun):
A severe psychological disorder that seizes those who claim to be journalists. It is characterized by inflated ego coupled with paralysis of the thought process. It is made worse by the euphoric hopium-induced haze that beclouds the media's collective consciousness. Named in honor of the late war correspondent and CBS News anchor, and with a nod to the German-speaking psychologist Sigmund Freud. (Krankheit is German for Sickness.)

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