ACORN didn’t have the opportunity to have a “no admission of guilt” resolution that the SEC routinely permits–here’s the tricky part, try to focus–because the SEC wasn’t involved. The only “privilege” we’re discussing is the one you asserted, that non-ACORN corporations get some kind of pass that ACORN does not. I pointed out multiple instances of huge fines and executives going to prison as a consequence of their wrongdoing, but that was not analogous to you. Apparently no other corporation has been similarly penalized; ACORN stands alone. That said, you have yet to support this assertion with anything other than your concerned conviction that this must be so.
So, you can pass on whatever you want, but the fact remains–people and corporations who commit fraud and similar wrongdoing have faced significant consequences. You were called on your statement that ACORN alone has ever been treated thusly, and you have yet to provide any evidence. Your self-righteous stomp out of the thread is transparent.
If ACORN’s demise is unique, then it is a unique example of something that never, ever should have happened. If it is not unique, then it is merely another example of something that never, ever should have happened.
I am glad that we take the effort necessary to keep these crucial distinctions in mind.
Well, this seals the deal. No question,NPR is liberal. Not lefty, liberal. Lefites would kick them in the shins and box their ears right smartly. Start a special impromptu pledge week, “Maybe We Go Down, But We Go Down Fighting, Goddamit!” Week.
But they act like liberals, like a possum treed by a pack of rabid dogs. Gutless, feckless milquetoast pukes! Fer Chrissake, put on the *Car Talk *guys!
“And even though rightarded shit-for-brains clap their hands over their ears when they hear us say it: you know whats wrong with your car? You’re driving it in a country run by thieving plutocrats, that’s what’s wrong with your car! And don’t vote like my brother…”
According to the article after quoting the someone else, Schiller said he agreed with them. Which makes O’Keefe’s editing even more ridiculous. By distorting the conversation he undermines a legitimate point about Schiller’s statements.
I’m not Bricker, but let me see if I can help. First, the interesting thing is that it was FoxNews that did this analysis. I would ask where is the immediate condemnation and disbelief that follows any citing of FoxNews? But that is really just a side show.
Here’s the telling part:
Yep, he’s “largely recounting” (not quoting), but apparently paraphrasing two other people. And yet:
So, he agrees with these guy’s opinion that he was paraphrasing. What’s the difference if it was just him saying it instead?
A little more damning is what I read in the paper today (not in this link) concerning his statements about NPR being better off in the long run w/o federal funding. What was edited out (and what I kind of suspected even before reading this) was that he said it would be disasterous in the short run. So, yeah, that kind of puts a different spin on things.
Fox News has a conservative bias. They don’t like NPR. If there’s any plausible way for them to make NPR look bad, they’ll jump on it like a starving pitbull on filet mignon. But even Fox News has standards. O’Keefe got greedy, and overreached.