Jon Stewart to media on ACORN: “Where the hell were you?”
posted at 1:36 pm on September 16, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Kudos to Jon Stewart, who doesn’t sugar-coat the embarrassment at all — to the apparent delight of his audience, who get kudos of their own. How can the national news media ignore the many allegations of corruption at ACORN, which gets millions of dollars in federal funding, and allow a couple of independents with $3,000 and a bad wardrobe scoop them on the undercover story of the year? It’s easy when newsrooms are more concerned with political direction than truth. Stick around to the end, when Stewart zings Michelle Malkin haters:
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No, O’Keefe and Giles are the ethical investigators that Woodward and Bernstein could have been, had they not decided that it would be cool to destroy a President, and instead investigated actual corruption.
drunyan8315 on September 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM
The old MSM term belongs to Fox News now…
The idoits at ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, et al are now known as the “Elite Media”… They do not rate being referred to as Main Stream any more…
Haven’t really been main stream ever, if you ask me…
Khun Joe on September 16, 2009 at 3:48 PM
So, the fake news gets it, even if the formerly-real news doesn’t.
rogersnowden on September 16, 2009 at 3:54 PM
Stewart does this every few months or so: Redeems himself with a funny, relevant, non-leftoid bit.
When he’s good, he is GOOD; usually he’s not……
Janos Hunyadi on September 16, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Best Stewart EVAH!
Maybe he will see the light soon.
TheSitRep on September 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN…hand in your pencils and tablets, you’re no longer needed.
Jeff from WI on September 16, 2009 at 3:58 PM
Though he’ll do so while inviting on conservative guests like Kristol, Huck, Bolton, Gingrich and he’ll give them a fair shake during the interview. Sometimes the conversations are more interesting than what passes for political discussion on Sunday morning.
dedalus on September 16, 2009 at 3:59 PM
Obama is still wondering what the problem is. Working your underage hookers in the black community is simply good business there.
Jeff from WI on September 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Not our BB, the other BB.
Geochelone on September 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM
They have been roundly flouted.
Geochelone on September 16, 2009 at 4:02 PM
LOL! Please, you just proved Badger40 correct!
There’s an old Axiom that goes “The more you learn, the less you know”
Perhaps you think in terms of “enlightenment” the discovery of the world and your true inner self. … The more you think you know, the less you have learned”
In other words it takes a whole lota learning to realize you’re an idiot.
On the plus side, once you realize you’re an idiot, you will truly be Enlighten!
DSchoen on September 16, 2009 at 4:07 PM
You would think that the left wing morons of the MSM would at least have the minimal amount of intelligence to cover the story. Could they possibly be thinking that it wouldn’t be covered if they didn’t report on it? They just managed to drive a few million more people to FOX. Good news for FOX…bad news for the State-run media.
orlandocajun on September 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM
With all those pigs lining up on the runways teh FAA’s gonna need some stimulus money for porcine ATC.
JEM on September 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM
The ‘are you kidding me!’ parts only point out the fact that even John Stewart has some idea which way is up in the media.
Where were the reporters on this story Jon? You got an idea?
Get to Work people!
(oh, and an acorn is a nut. All nuts are seeds.)
Chaz706 on September 16, 2009 at 4:28 PM
“voter fraud…accusations didnt really pan out”?????
How many convictions were there again?
American Elephant on September 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM
Enjoy it. He’ll be ripping conservatives and calling “teabaggers” racists by tonight. Imagine what his inbox looks like about now. He’ll be back on the reservation faster than you can say Jon Stewart’s a lib.
Rational Thought on September 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I have an extremely liberal friend.
Tells me ACORN is horrible and not connected to any party. lol
Also says, Acorn is over and I should concentrate on getting healthcare passed.
Oy
bridgetown on September 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM
My oh my! Give ‘em enough rope as they say. Heh!
ronsfi on September 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Good on ya, Stewart! I appreciate the notion that even liberals see a line (or several) that shouldn’t be crossed and see that ACORN has crossed it.
BTW, I suggest that everyone cease using the term “mainstream media”. Let’s call them the Ancien Regime – ripe for a revolution.
MochaLite on September 16, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Can Stewart explain why we even need ACORN?Is the government saying Blacks and Hispanics are too stupid to apply for a home loan, register to vote, or apply for assistance by themselves?
Jeff from WI on September 16, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Gotta give credit where it’s due–that was a great piece.
Niere on September 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Don’t really care for Stewart, but this was funny.
jimmy2shoes on September 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Let’s give credit where credit is due – a TWENTY YEAR OLD STUDENT gets an idea, pursues it, and scoops the entire nation of so-called professional media!!!
fred5678 on September 16, 2009 at 4:56 PM
…Yeah…
Not much to say really.
Upstater85 on September 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Jackass Journalism.
TN Mom on September 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Jon Stewart hasn’t been that funny since 1999.
t.ferg on September 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Whoa! ObamACORN’s lost Helen Thomas, Jesse Jackson and John Stewart? Wrap it up, sweep it out. Take ‘em to the curb.
NightmareOnKStreet on September 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Where was the state run media? CNN ABC CBS NBC? LGTGNBC?
Jerricho68 on September 16, 2009 at 5:08 PM
That audience is mostly pissed and quiet.
They signed up for the Obama cheerleading, and nothing else. You can practically hear the eyeballs rolling.
Moesart on September 16, 2009 at 5:10 PM
they will be working overtime to change the subject every night for a few weeks. Maybe there is an aspirin factory that we can bomb somewhere.
kirkill on September 16, 2009 at 5:11 PM
I loved it! That was hilarious- I hope Charlie Gibson takes a moment from all his “important” reporting and checks it out…..
anniekc on September 16, 2009 at 5:12 PM
When the story becomes fodder for the comedians, even if it’s only Stewart, you know it’s gone thermonuclear.
Gator Country on September 16, 2009 at 5:12 PM
I think Blago emptied it out. It takes a lot of aspirin to OD.
DFCtomm on September 16, 2009 at 5:23 PM
in answer to why there is so little conservative political humor along the lines of what stewart did in this clip, i could identify probably seven or eight notes he struck in this clip that would get him removed from the air with an apology from the network if he were a conservative.
eh on September 16, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I’m really late to the thread here, but here’s my take on it, posted on my FB page this morning:
Comedy Gold! From Jon Stewart?!?!? But then again, even a blind squirrel finds an ACORN every now and then.
Fishoutofwater on September 16, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Did you watch the Crammer interview? Not sure he always gives them a fair shake, and with an audience like his, I’m not sure he’s even capable, as they tend to make their voices heard when they disagree.
Esthier on September 16, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Huh? Have you ever watched RedEye?
Esthier on September 16, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Where are the RICO charges?
GunRunner on September 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM
I’m sure it’s been said but, “ACORN – the Audacity of Hos” Nice connect to Obama.
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RalphyBoy on September 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Stewart can only laugh…because the alternative is to cry. Bitter evil tears.
Mr. Joe on September 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Will Obie be the worser or the worst in this category/
bluegrass on September 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Lets hope the sponsors of their programming figure this out and cut them loose.
bluegrass on September 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM
OUCH. Betcha this clip got emailed all over MSM newsrooms today.
rockmom on September 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Well, this particular piece of investigative journalism was really a hit-or-miss thing. The people who did it admitted they dreamed it up randomly and had no prior indication that ACORN was helping prostitutes, let alone human traffickers.
The larger problem, of course, is that no journalists conducted an actual investigation into any of ACORN’s activities–not their voting stuff, not their mortgage stuff, NOTHING. They just assumed any criticism of ACORN was Republican smearing and paranoia. Dozens of indictments and attorneys’ general investigations later, and still nobody covers ACORN.
Now, finally, after four (4) separate ACORN offices are caught willing to aid and abet the most preposterous looking “pimp and prostitute” duo I’ve ever seen, do people finally take notice of ACORN. But how does the MSM react? By again portraying it as “gotcha” fake journalism!
Outrageous.
Outlander on September 16, 2009 at 5:40 PM
I love Red Eye. But it airs at 3:00 am and has a budget about 1/5th of Jon Stewart’s. Fox News won’t air it during the 11pm or 12am hours on weeknights (which is sad). By contrast, the Daily Show is Comedy Central’s #1 show and pulls very respectable ratings at 11:00 pm.
Outlander on September 16, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Stewart’s target is usually TV journalism. He’s especially tough when it crosses the line from news to entertainment. Cramer tries to straddle that line.
CNBC needed to be called out for their lousy journalism, and failure to inform their investor audience. There are people on the network more at fault than Cramer, but he’s the one that showed up. Unfortunately for Cramer he didn’t come prepared.
dedalus on September 16, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Difference being, Fox News is a news channel; Comedy Central is a comedy channel. MSNBC wouldn’t show a Daily Show equivalent at that time either.
And surely South Park is Comedy’s #1 show.
Esthier on September 16, 2009 at 5:51 PM
little, not none.
i love red eye, but it’s not formally a comedy gig. after red eye, you’ve got, what? iowahawk and scrapplehead (still around?). and that’s it. blog-based humor. in which case, you may as well include red eye, since show prep over there seems to consist of twittering with allah.
eh on September 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Also to be honest redeye isn’t really as witty and funny as the daily show. It reminds me of a bunch of news anchors sitting around trying to be “outrageous”. At least the daily show has wit whether you agree or disagree with the politics of Jon Stewart.
Norvell on September 16, 2009 at 5:52 PM
and south park.
and peter bagge, though his reason strips aren’t really that satirical and i haven’t seen one in months.
and a few artists in the traditional one-panel format, like ramirez.
eh on September 16, 2009 at 5:54 PM
That’s called being skeptical, something that the state-media never experience when it comes to things Democrat party or Obama.
ddrintn on September 16, 2009 at 5:55 PM
So does Stewart.
No, I’m sure he wore extra thick boxers that day, knowing the beating he’d get. I don’t think he planned to do anything more than bend over and take it. He never once tried to defend himself.
Esthier on September 16, 2009 at 5:55 PM
You could tell the white liberal lefties who attended this show live are uncomfortable with this sham of an organization being exposed for the fraud that it is.
Stupid liberals.
NoDonkey on September 16, 2009 at 6:01 PM
yep.
daesleeper on September 16, 2009 at 6:01 PM
the daily show is a formal comedy show with comedic performers delivering formal jokes written by comedy writers.
red eye – and this comparison is not meant to knock either show – is the blog-o-sphere’s premier rhetorical innovation, “snark”, presented on television.
i laugh more often at red eye, but then i’m usually laughing with them.
i have a harder time laughing at the daily show because the joke is more often than not intended to mock my “side”. when a joke is rooted in a fact-claim i know to be false, the more effective the joke is as a formal joke, the more offensive it is.
and depressing. the biggest lie comedy people tell is that funniness equals truth somehow. the fact is that timing, alliteration, the building of anticipation and ironic juxtaposition all play more into stimulating a laugh more than content.
i was reading something a while ago of someone who noticed that stewart’s shtick consists of reciting a headline referring to some event, person or circumstance he and his audience are pre-determined to mock, and then making a stupid face to cue his like-minded audience that it is then time to laugh.
not to slag him right under this piece. at least he gave the acorn scandal more coverage than most of the liberal media out there.
eh on September 16, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Once in awhile–the good guys win. And then it is worth all the rest.
petunia on September 16, 2009 at 6:23 PM
If Stewart would simply expand his market by going after the WAY RICH target environment of Obama and Pelosi more than he currently does, he’d beat Beck in the ratings and BOR.
But, he knows he can’t being a statist that he is.
Sapwolf on September 16, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Stewart probably sees himself clearly on the “entertainment” side of the line. He doesn’t do anything journalistic, though he does bring his political opinions into his interviews.
The stakes for CNBC viewers is higher and the network too often allows corporate leaders to use their airwaves for propaganda. Cramer (along with Kudlow) is probably the least guilty of failing the audience on CNBC.
dedalus on September 16, 2009 at 6:28 PM
ACORN Connection to Bill Gates
MSimon on September 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Charlie I have never heard of ACORN Gibson has caved and finally ABC is reporting on ACORN
lavell12 on September 16, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Acorn has claimed they kicked em out and called the cops, all over the USA!
Where are the police reports to back this claim up?
Why didn’t these cases make the local news ANYWHERE.
I can’t imagine that Acorn would not be chomping at the bit to show they thwarted all these attempts to smear them.
DSchoen on September 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Careful that could be code for something!
DSchoen on September 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Just ta make it clearer “ACORN – the Audacity of Ho’s”
Or “ACORN – the Audacity of Hoe’s”
DSchoen on September 16, 2009 at 7:02 PM
Stewart is going to lose about 20% of his Ozombies if this heresy keeps up.
He needs to return to the Re-education for Comics Camp and repeat:
“There’s really nothing funny about Obama. There’s really nothing funny about Obama….”
profitsbeard on September 16, 2009 at 7:04 PM
Jon didn’t mention Obama’s campaign contributing to Acorn. He’s still not funny.
Alfresco on September 16, 2009 at 7:11 PM
John Stewart is RAAAAACIIIIISSSSTTTTT!!!!!!
I’m shocked he isn’t trying to paint it as ‘ACORN is innocent and those mean racists were punk’d because everyone was just playing along’ while giggling like a school girl at the idea that anyone connected to Zero could do something wrong.
Hannah and James must have really impressed Idiot Stewart for him to take a 2 minute break from being a liberal propagandist.
Mr Purple on September 16, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Eh, the guy just doesn’t do it for me.
marklmail on September 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM
I check KOS everyday for ANY mentiion of ACORN….ZIP. ZERO , ZILCH. Hilarious. There are like 100 diaries on the Wilson “liar” story. LOL. I Think these two investigative reporters should be the new 60 min! I love how they rolled this out.
lostinjrz on September 16, 2009 at 7:22 PM
According to Hotair clowns Jon Stewart never ever ever lampoons the left.
Therefore ACORN is a moronic right wing group.
Dave Rywall on September 16, 2009 at 7:23 PM
I’d be curious to know how many average viewers Red Eye gets versus the Daily Show, if they could include those of us who DVR Red Eye and watch it the next day.
Red State State of Mind on September 16, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Please, Please, Please let the next video be from the San Francisco ACORN office!
San Francisco ACORN
5319 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
Can you imagine how much fun the Daily Show could have with the San Francisco reactions to the proposed business plan for the brothel full of under-age ILLEGAL immigrants???
wren on September 16, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Also, since ACORN is claiming the tapes were doctored, why did ACORN fire any of their employees. Why does ACORN hate black women?
Red State State of Mind on September 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM
Wow. Just watched the whole thing. I don’t often catch John, and often change channels shortly after I do, but he did hit pretty hard. I think he might be truly ourtraged at some of this video, as he should be.
riverrat10k on September 16, 2009 at 7:36 PM
Just went back and read your post. More succinctly than my attempt above.
riverrat10k on September 16, 2009 at 7:38 PM
I also thought the audience was subdued. Almost shocked. I’ll stand by statement that he felt some personal outrage. Does he have children? Teenage girls? That would explain it.
riverrat10k on September 16, 2009 at 7:41 PM
No kids according to Wiki (like they are the definitive.)
riverrat10k on September 16, 2009 at 7:42 PM
From ACORN’s website: ACORN is a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C.
Someone please h el p m e I a m la ughin g me a ss of f and ca n barely ty p
CWforFreedom on September 16, 2009 at 7:53 PM
It’s funny how the crowds laughter faded slowly and surely.
just-j on September 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM
No word from Steven Colbert? What kind of fake news man is he?
mizflame98 on September 16, 2009 at 8:00 PM
I just caught a piece of this video on Oreilly’s talking points. Looks pretty good. If I have time later I’ll watch it.
Good on ya Jon.
ted c on September 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I heard the governator out in CA is demanding an investigation into ACORN
ted c on September 16, 2009 at 8:13 PM
http://foxyurl.com/uYa
jjrakman on September 16, 2009 at 8:27 PM
What Stewart fails to see, because of his self-imposed blindness, is that the very ideology he so adamantly defends, i.e., “minorities are victims and must not be held to the same standards as everyone else,” is the very foundation that supports groups like Acorn, SEIU, and the Democratic Party.
Joe Pyne on September 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Does anybody have a link for those in Canada?
keep the change on September 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Actually, Hannah Giles, (the 20 yr old fake prostitute) said she had been following the story of how ACORN was getting away with its criminal corruption/voter fraud etc. & trying to think of what could be done to bring them down. Then one day while she was out running, the idea for this undercover video came to her.
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And James O’Keefe, the 25 yr old “pimp” videographer had already made a name for himself with a similar “sting”. He exposed Planned Parenthood’s willingness to provide an abortion for an undercover woman posing as a pregnant, abortion-seeking 14 yr old who was having a relationship with a man in his 30’s. PP even went so far as to assure her they wouldn’t report him to the authorities (for child rape) as they are legally obliged to.
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While they may not have known about ACORN’s willingness to help with underage prostitution, you are wrong to say they “admitted they dreamed it up randomly”.
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Aren’t there are enough people trying to discredit these 2 brave young people? Let’s not perpetuate unfounded rumors to aid their detractors.
NightmareOnKStreet on September 16, 2009 at 8:43 PM
Oh yippe skippee I’m late to the show, on vacation, but anyone posted this yet? ACORN to run Healthcare COOPS WHAT COULD go wrong?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/acorns-public-option
dhunter on September 16, 2009 at 9:30 PM
fake news – 1
mainstream media – 0
whatzit2u on September 16, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Does anybody have a link for those in Canada?
keep the change on September 16, 2009 at 8:36 PM
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Well, people who can read see the words on the screen that say
“In Canada, Comedy Central videos are available on the Comedy Network”.
Dave Rywall on September 16, 2009 at 9:50 PM
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