ACORN, an umbrella organization of community groups that serves poor people in major cities across the country through housing, legal advocacy, family services, and higher wages, has lost all federal funding, after decades of working for low-income, disadvantaged Americans.
The website Mediaite obtained an e-mail written by from Fox News Vice President of News and Washington managing editor Bill Sammon and sent to Fox News D.C. bureau staffers. The e-mail was sent after a Fox News producer was caught pumping up the crowd during the 9/12 tea party broadcast.
From: Sammon, Bill
Sent: Monday, September [...]
Editor’s note: This video was removed from the Internet Tuesday by the person who created it without explanation. We have not found another version available for embed. However the video can be viewed at this link.
Some additional interview footage that did not make it into the original 9.12 D.C. Tea Party film, which can be seen here. This film was produced and edited by New Left Media’s Chase Whiteside (interviewer) and Erick Stoll (camera operator).
Rick Sanchez took Fox News to task Friday for claiming in a newspaper ad that the network, along with other news outlets, failed to cover the tea party protests in Washington, D.C. last weekend. Here’s the transcript:
RICK SANCHEZ: There is something that I got to tell you now. If you watch this show every day- [...]
Here is the question that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked during her weekly press briefing Thursday and her full answer.
Q: Madam Speaker, in terms of the political tone, the tone of the debate, [House Majority Leader Steny] Hoyer said earlier this week he thought it was the most vitriolic since ‘93-’94. And [...]
Congressman Jerrold Nadler denounced a Republican amendment adopted by the House of Representatives Thursday to deny all federal funds to the advocacy group ACORN as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to unpopular organizations everywhere.
This film was produced and edited by New Left Media’s Chase Whiteside (interviewer) and Erick Stoll (camera operator).
Please click HERE to watch additional footage from the protests that did not make it into this video report.
