A newly released internal audit appears to indicate that the Government Accountability Office and President Barack Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development incorrectly argued that a specific organization wasn’t ACORN-affiliated. HUD’s office of general counsel and the GAO have both claimed that Affordable Housing Centers of America, or AHCOA, is not affiliated with the Association ...

    The Big Three network morning shows on Monday all reported on the possible showdown between Occupy L.A. protesters and the LAPD. NBC’s Today and CBS’s Early Show highlighted that the left-leaning demonstrators held a “block party” as they defied law enforcement. All three media outlets also played up the supposedly “peaceful” nature of ...

    “The first line in Barney Frank’s political epitaph,” The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes predicted on Monday’s FNC Special Report upon news the longtime liberal Democratic Congressman won’t seek re-election, will “be the housing crisis.” But that isn’t what those who decide the first draft of history considered relevant. via Networks Trumpet Barney Frank’s ...

    All three morning shows on Tuesday trumpeted the latest woman to make accusations against Herman Cain, hyping this as a possible “death blow” and sign of coming “doom” for the “Sixth Sense” campaign. [MP3 audio here.] Ginger White insisted that she and Cain had engaged in a 13-year affair.  CBS, unlike NBC and ...

    CBS’s Early Show on Wednesday boosted a claim by Democrats that a recent Mitt Romney ad takes a line from a 2008 speech by then-candidate Barack Obama out of context. However, CBS noted at that time that Obama was using that line to counter a McCain campaign ad which played up the Democrat’s ...

    On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, correspondent Chip Reid filed a report which took a sympathetic look at a family of illegal immigrants in Alabama who fear enforcement of the state’s new law against illegal immigration. Reid also highlighted aspects of the law that even supporters consider to be flaws that should be fixed. ...

    As Thursday’s Today show on NBC gave attention to GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s support for allowing some illegal immigrants to gain legal residency status rather than face deportation, substitute co-anchor Carl Quintanilla asked correspondent John Harwood if the former House Speaker was “pandering” to gain votes in the general election. via NBC’s ...

“Bring the Family: Looking for Adventure with the Kids” reads the tag line over a weekly series of tips to Boston Globe readers suggesting what to do with them on weekends. In Saturday’s “g” section, the headline announced the “what,” a bizarre recommendation to expose them to a volatile, unsanitary and politically heated situation: “Occupying ...

CNN’s Carol Costello borrowed from the Democrats on Monday’s American Morning and demanded that conservative Grover Norquist explain why he wasn’t “exactly what a lot of voters hate” about America’s political system. via CNN to Norquist: ‘Aren’t You Exactly What a Lot of Voters Hate About Our System?’.

    The three network morning shows, which have been mostly ignoring crimes at the Occupy Wall Street protests, hyped the “ugly” and “disturbing” “outrage” of students at the University of California, Davis campus being sprayed with pepper. Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos interviewed the school’s chancellor and repeatedly berated her about resigning. via All ...