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Norah O'Donnell: ACORN Video 'Might Be Viewed As Entrapment'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/15/2009 6:47:53 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Entrapment n. In criminal law, the act of law enforcement officers or government agents inducing or encouraging a person to commit a crime when the potential criminal expresses a desire not to go ahead. The key to entrapment is whether the idea for the commission or encouragement of the criminal act originated with the police or government agents instead of with the "criminal.

It's turning into quite the morning for NBCers to defend the left on Morning Joe . . .

First, Chuck Todd flatly rejected the notion that the MSM failed to adequately report on Van Jones, suggesting coverage would have been a waste of time. Later, Norah O'Donnell came on and suggested that the video of the ACORN employees giving advice on how to evade the tax laws in setting up a brothel with young illegal aliens "might be viewed as entrapment." [H/t FReeper mimaw.]

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; chucktodd; corruption; coverup; desperate; desperation; elsalvadorwhores; hannahgiles; iwouldnothitit; msmsilence; msnbcforwhores; norahodonnell; pimps; propimps; runningscared; salvadoreanminors; thewhiteho; theyarescared; vanjones
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Norah, this is what happens when you have a government-worship tumor growing in your brain. You substitute “government” for “individual” in everything. News flash, Ms. O’Donnell: HANNAH AND JAMES AREN’T FROM THE GOVERNMENT, so it CAN’T BE ENTRAPMENT!

How stupid do these media twits think we are. Well, never mind.


21 posted on 09/15/2009 6:52:54 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Proud to be an American, where I least I know I'm free!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

LOLOL!!! I guess it’s the “in thing” to twist the law like a pretzel to defend corrupt Lib organizations.


22 posted on 09/15/2009 6:52:56 AM PDT by NotSoModerate (Report dissenters to snitch@whitehouse.gov for a $4,500 tax credit)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oh please.


23 posted on 09/15/2009 6:53:20 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Nemo me impune lacessit The law will be followed, dammit!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is this the same network that sets-up online sex stings?


24 posted on 09/15/2009 6:53:30 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Too bad for John Gotti his lawyers didn’t use that defense. /s


25 posted on 09/15/2009 6:54:08 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: OneWingedShark
"Smells like desperation."

Bingo!!
26 posted on 09/15/2009 6:54:39 AM PDT by DRey
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

NAW!, I saw Entrapment and Catherine Beta Jones never looked so absolutely gorgeopus


27 posted on 09/15/2009 6:54:46 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Well, yes, it was entrapment, the same type of gotcha entrapment that many media outlets, including NBC, has practiced in the past. These videos couldn’t be used in a court of law, nor should they be. They were aimed at embarrassing and hopefully disabling a disruptive organization, and they did.

But for a reporter to use such language in describing a story that would have been so juicy that NBC would have dedicated a 20 minute prime time slot to? It’s one thing to be critical of gotcha reporting, it’s completely another to try to discount the efforts of others to the point of trying to make meaningless the actions of your own network in the past. They really gotta get out of the tank where they live and take a good look around, as people are starting to forget to feed the fishies, and they’re running mighty short of guppies to consume themselves.


28 posted on 09/15/2009 6:54:54 AM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The defense of ‘Entrapment’ requires that the police induce someone to commit a crime when that person is not already pre-disposed to commit such a crime.

Merely providing the opportunity to commit a crime is not entrapment.

Further, ‘Entrapment’ does not apply to an individual acting privately.


29 posted on 09/15/2009 6:55:03 AM PDT by Be_Politically_Erect (All Along The Watchtower.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Tell me something. How in the world could this be entrapment, when the people were so willing. There was no talking them into it. There was no bribes. They just walked in and started asking questions.

God bless these two, they are going to be fried by the media, keep them in prayer. This is the media, talk about wrong headed. Forget ACRON, forget they are ripping off taxpayers left and right. Not only in money, but, in elections and God only knows what else. Forget that ACRON didn't care that these two were talking about nothing less then the sex trade of young girls. That alone makes me sick and is even worse then them ripping us off and stealing elections.

30 posted on 09/15/2009 6:55:21 AM PDT by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I guess thats why planned parenthood filed all those charges against the brave little lady that goes undercover to show they promote and protect predators getting underage girls pregnant.

The reason Norah seems so confused and indignant is that is what JOURNALISTS USED to do to get a story. Since they are not doing it anymore (unless it suits their agenda ie spitzer) it is up to regular citizens to do citizen journalism. You cannot hide the truth, you can only choose to spin it or bury it.........


31 posted on 09/15/2009 6:55:55 AM PDT by wombtotomb (Equal opportunity does not mean equal OUTCOME!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Did anyone see the picture of the so called “pimp”? My God how stupid are these people at ACORN to actually believe that a skinny white kid like that could actually be a pimp?


32 posted on 09/15/2009 6:56:00 AM PDT by Long Island Pete (Stupidity is in the DNA of liberals.)
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To: Maverick68

Ditto ! !


33 posted on 09/15/2009 6:56:02 AM PDT by unojook
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

As of 9:54 this morning, its been nearly 5 days since CNN.com even mentioned ACORN;
nothing on the Census firing,
nothing on the New York Video,
Nothing on the Senate’s vote to defund,
nothing on the House’s bill to defund.

The media blackout of ACORN Continues...


34 posted on 09/15/2009 6:56:37 AM PDT by Portnoy (Visit me at www.thehipposass.com)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So...all those years we watched 60 minutes ambush people and go under cover was really entrapment. The whole Food Lion sting was “entrapment”, huh? Wow. These people are pathological. They seem devoid of ANY moral bearings whatsoever.


35 posted on 09/15/2009 6:57:57 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I guess she’s never watched “60 minutes”.


36 posted on 09/15/2009 6:58:09 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Non-law enforcement cannot entrap.


37 posted on 09/15/2009 6:58:40 AM PDT by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find! - I am Joe Wilson.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Co-Conspirators lack standing to bitch. Indictments need to follow and should include, but by no means be limited to: Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Roland Burris, D-Ill., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Bob Casey, D-Pa., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

If someone (Glenn Beck) will now bridge the link to SEIU, the National Education Association (NEA) and the political coffers of the members of Congress (Including Senator, Barack Hussein Obama). We will get a real pretty picture of the reason this government has to go.


38 posted on 09/15/2009 6:58:51 AM PDT by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Portnoy

They can do whatever they want. Obama has the power of pardon.


39 posted on 09/15/2009 6:59:03 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
And I suppose it was entrapment when the Columbus police department would leave a fancy car unlocked in a parking lot while they watched. It did add insult to injury when they activated the automatic locks in the doors and the stereo playing the theme to "Cops" after the attempted car theif got into the car and tried to hot wire it.
40 posted on 09/15/2009 6:59:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
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