ABC Cracks MSM TV Silence

Ed Driscoll is amused:

ABC finally airs a segment on ACORN; click here to watch. Jake Tapper does a reasonable job, but it’s fascinating to watch “omniscient” anchorman Charlie Gibson set up a report on an organization that as of yesterday he admitted knowing virtually nothing about.

And by the LA Times double standard.

Is Gibson due to retire before he comes on Don and Roma's show again?

Is it raaaaacist to ask that question? ( I guess this is what ABC thinks is fair and balanced.)

P.S. Yeah, I am hoping for a Chicago (Obam)ACORN tape to round this pile of steaming corruption off nicely. Hillbuzz thinking along those lines too. Earlier Hillbuzz post on ACORN in action in the Dem primaries.

More: Video, full transcript, GOP Chairman Michael Steele on CNN, answering the predictable raaaacist charge. Via Newsbusters:

You know, I’m looking at cities around the country where black folk live. Now, you showed me the Congress with all these wonderful black Democrats and white Democrats- but I go to black neighborhoods that are run by those same Democrats, and you tell me where racism really exists. Is it in the words of a congressman who says ‘you lie,’ or is it how we strip education funding through opportunity scholarships, or is it how we cut money for our HBCU [historically black colleges and universities] around the country, or is it the fact that so many African-Americans still live in neighborhoods that are burnt out and run down, and those same Democrats that are in that hall and that are running those cities aren’t investing capital, time, interest in that community- and instead, just giving the typical 40-year lip service out of the Great Society, that- trust us, we’re better, and if you don’t, the Republicans- the Republicans are going to come in a white hood. I’m sick of that.

BLITZER: All right.

STEELE: Right now, let’s talk about how we move people beyond poverty and into opportunity. That’s a debate, and when we get into that one- instead of talking about this stuff- when we get into that one, you’ll start to see some heads turned in this country, and the Republican Party will stand there and have something to say in every community, not just black, white or otherwise.

ACORN is part of the problem, not the solution. It's sick. Sick. Perpetuating burnt and run down neighborhoods--they are skimming this money off to themselves, the pols, and god knows what else. Precious little actually helps the most needy.