Porkbusters on Patrol at Eyeblast
posted at 7:30 pm on August 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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I mentioned this yesterday during my interview with Danny Glover on TEMS, and today Fox News covers the latest Porkbusters project, too. Eyeblast has partnered with Porkbusters to have thousands of investigative reporters generate videos of pork-barrel spending in the districts, with an eye to embarrassing the porksters in Congress:
In fiscal 2008, Citizens Against Government Waste unearthed nearly 12,000 examples of pork in federal spending bills. The projects cost the taxpayers $17.2 billion — and too many Americans are clueless about where the money went or which lawmakers are to blame for the wasteful spending.
With the help of citizen journalists all across America, Eyeblast.tv and the Porkbusters coalition hope to change that. We’re under no illusion that we can utterly quench lawmakers’ insatiable appetite for pork. But we can expose them for the oinkers they are while they feast at the taxpayers’ trough.
How will we do that? Three words: “Porkbusters On Patrol.” That’s what Eyeblast and Porkbusters are calling the networked journalism project we are announcing today.
“Porkbusters On Patrol” combines the concept of AFP’s earmarks tour with the vision that Instapundit Glenn Reynolds shared in his book “An Army Of Davids.” The goal is to equip an army of citizen reporters with pocket camcorders to produce an ongoing series of on-site video stories about Congress’ pork-barreling ways.
Contributors could get paid for their efforts, too. Check out Eyeblast for the details. Looks like I may have more use for that new Panasonic SDR-H60P than just the convention …..
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Hmmm…
BBQs, parties, buildings with no occupants, road to nowhere.
I don’t think the gobment is misspending our duckies.
Are they?
madmonkphotog on August 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM
“8:00. Saturday Night. Porked.”
I can’t wait.
Rhinoboy on August 1, 2008 at 7:38 PM
The only problem with this is that Courtney Friel wasn’t the one saying “Porked” repeatedly.
D0WNT0WN on August 1, 2008 at 7:40 PM
Oh, sweet Courtney. :)
Um, what`s the topic again?
ThePrez on August 1, 2008 at 7:43 PM
Ha.
amerpundit on August 1, 2008 at 7:44 PM
Putting her picture and the work “pork” in the same article is probably not a good idea.
/beavis and butthead
CurtZHP on August 1, 2008 at 7:50 PM
[[BTW, Who came up with that moving scroll thingie across the bottom of the TV screen? Messed up Mary Katherine Ham the other night, and this one too. Dumb, really dumb idea.]]
Pork Busters on Patrol? OK…paying people to go around with concealable pocket video cameras submitting visuals of pork [obviously wasteful government spending]? Just can’t help but get images of Miss Piggy and Captain Link Hogthrob and Dr. Julius Strangepork in silver mettalic body suits skulking around the neighborhood.
Anyway, it’s just so crazy it might just work! [I borrowed that line.] What is the limit of legal liability for those capturing the vid shots?
coldwarrior on August 1, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Porked,sounds like financial porn!haha!
canopfor on August 1, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Now thats an eyeblast! McCain I think I just found your VP if Palin won’t do it.
dhunter on August 1, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Pork Busters on Patrol!
For some reason,some clown with a (free)
camera will somehow merge Pork Busters and
Girls gone Wild in the same video!
I can’t wait for that story!haha.
canopfor on August 1, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Pork Busters on Patrol already has plans for that. Going to call it “Porkies.”
coldwarrior on August 1, 2008 at 7:57 PM
This girl is pretty. :}
Chakra Hammer on August 1, 2008 at 8:09 PM
I suppose there’s news involved here, but I’m just staring at the picture.
wccawa on August 1, 2008 at 8:35 PM
When she does the Chris Farley thing with her fingers, I felt a tingle go up my leg.
wccawa on August 1, 2008 at 8:36 PM
She starts talking and all I hear is the teacher from the Peanuts Gang.
I wish Fox would stop shoving her down our throats. She is terrible!!!
IrishGirl17 on August 1, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Irish,
Bingo. What a bimbo she is.
On the other hand, Jane S. (I think that’s who the other one was) is striking. All that talk of pork was … unseemly. Is there any other known use of that verb than the sexual slang?
Jaibones on August 1, 2008 at 9:10 PM
This phrase had an entirely different meaning when I was a young soldier paroling the streets of Heidelberg on a Friday night… It usually involved a drunken bet and a bevy of, how should I say, “Rubenesque” young ladies. Great friends, hefeweizen, regret, shame and pulled muscles. :) I would change anything.
Claypigeon on August 1, 2008 at 9:17 PM
Wow, Courtney Love looks fantastic in this video! I’m glad she finally kicked the habit.
Kevin M on August 1, 2008 at 9:43 PM
Some of us are praying for Fox to shove her down our throats.
Big Orange on August 1, 2008 at 10:45 PM
Thank you for the adolescent boy’s point of view.
IrishGirl17 on August 1, 2008 at 11:58 PM
She is pretty terrible. The Pork thing was good but Fox and the other networks seem to stray too far from hard news to be really informative.
lexhamfox on August 2, 2008 at 2:57 AM
Hey Beavis, Uh…huh….she said…pork. Uh,…huh..huh..
RobCon on August 2, 2008 at 7:39 AM
Lol. My thoughts exactly. Why do people have such a downer on Fox? And Julie Banderas? Wow-a-wee-wa! Where do they get them from?
schiehallion on August 2, 2008 at 9:08 AM
Why do I feel guilty looking at the blonde and thinking about “pork.”
Ali-Bubba on August 2, 2008 at 10:54 AM
As they say at AOSHQ, I’ll be in my bunk.
Ali-Bubba on August 2, 2008 at 10:56 AM
I want to nibble her earmarks.
Ali-Bubba on August 2, 2008 at 10:59 AM
I have no idea what Courtney said…
…I was too busy drooling.
ballz2wallz on August 2, 2008 at 11:24 AM
they call it Fox news for a reason, mmmmm Patti Ann Browne…………
Bobnormal on August 2, 2008 at 11:26 AM
Panasonic SDR-H60P eh? Ya, Panasonic makes some mighty fine doorstops/paperweights.
oakpack on August 2, 2008 at 5:00 PM
WHAAAA!!!
Big Orange on August 2, 2008 at 7:05 PM
Truth hurts….don’t it, little boy?
IrishGirl17 on August 2, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Vergessen Sie nicht, Dunkelweizen.
Johan Klaus on August 3, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Well I will turn forty in two months so I can only dream of being an adolescent. What I’m thinking is you really need to develop a sense of humor and quit whining like a liberal. Life just ain’t that bad.
Big Orange on August 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Umm, what was the topic again?
eanax on August 3, 2008 at 11:11 AM
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