KSDK decided to participate in propaganda today, airing a story of former ACORN members as a new organization called MORE that was standing up for homeowners. But MORE is ACORN, run by former Midwest director Jeff Ordower, who changed his organization name but not his tactics.
KSDK was a willing dupe, sending a van and a reporter to take statements outside the AMDOCS building in Chesterfield, ignoring the criminal trespass of forty people invading a business office and carrying out a professionally organized protest to generate news coverage. KSDK shoots funny footage outside.This is what happened inside.
Luckily, St Louis Tea Party Special Elite Investigative Units were there, capturing footage inside and outside, including the news teams, the organizers, and the police response. This video shows what it was like inside, as forty protestors storm into the AMDOCS building to molest the sole Chase Office. Note how KSDK shows no footage of the invasion of the business, and the attempt by workers in the building to ask them to leave. KSDK's footage is tame, making the ACORN spawn out to be kindly protesters, and not criminals storming a building with a plan to maximize pressure and generate friendly media exposure.
Strange. Do TV stations often let themselves get used for agitprop? The whole thing was staged. And we can prove it.
The St Louis Tea Party has over two hours of footage, and in the next few days, we're going to show how radical leftists invade a business, use a complaint media to generate coverage, and promise to bring this mayhem to companies all across St Louis.
Keep in mind this report from Ashley Yarchin:
It ended up being a peaceful protest and the only reason why MORE was kicked off of Chase's campus was that the bank granted Kogbo a meeting and saw no more need for a protest.
Ashley lies here. We have video to prove it. The protesters were ordered out of the building, sent their paid organizer to speak with police while a second organizer prepared media interviews, and leave to avoid arrest, as police had had enough.
We have their names, faces, and backgrounds. Prepare to understand how a small group of radical leftist with friends in the media bring pressure on corporations as part of an organized propaganda campaign.
The story here is the media's lack of context of the story. Just like the media uproar over the Sherrod case, no context, no truth.
Posted by: SentBarbe | 07/22/2010 at 07:22 AM
Two things that came to mind to me about the whole thing, reiterating how planned and staged this "protest" was about why they chose this particular branch?
Why Chesterfield? Why this specific branch? I wonder how far the protestors came from? Chesterfield's population is around 90% white. Other than the two "leaders", all of the protestors are black. The protestors used the branch to show a juxtaposition of race. Not only that, but they picked a branch that probably had few employees and a smaller customer base, and most importantly, little to no security.
The protestors would have gotten more credibility had they protested in a larger bank, especially one closer to where I'm betting they live (I'm going out on a limb and assume that these protestors were "bussed" in from elsewhere in the metro area). Of course, had they gone to a larger bank, they wouldn't have been able to "showcase" the racial aspect, much less would they have gotten far if the larger bank had adequate security.
Posted by: Wading Across | 07/22/2010 at 02:17 PM
New Zeal has info possibly linking one of the leaders of this protest to the Communist Party USA. Is that Julie Terbrock in the video?
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/07/do-communists-still-lead-missouri-acorn.html#links
Posted by: Rick Tsa'ara | 07/22/2010 at 04:41 PM
Rick, I saw that posting by New Zeal too.
And it made me wonder if Julie is any relation to Tom Terbrock of Emmis Communications, 97.1, etc. Not that it really matters.
Posted by: Wading Across | 07/22/2010 at 08:09 PM