What’s missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN
The Fishwrap of Record has finally seen fit to tell its readers about the latest ACORN scandals (the San Bernardino tapes, which don’t get a mention, are beyond belief). True to form, the New York Times commits grievous sins of omission that whitewash the paper’s own role in deliberately covering up ACORN’s illicit activities before Election Day last November.
The Times article by Scott Shane casts the ACORN stings as a purely partisan game: “Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn, Favored Foe.”
The lead sentence paints any investigative journalism of ACORN’s long history of taxpayer abuses and shady business and campaign finance practices as opportunistic attacks on Barack Obama: “For months during last year’s presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign.”
But it was a then-liberal whistleblower Anita MonCrief, formerly of ACORN affiliate Project Vote, who worked extensively with New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom last year on several investigative pieces exposing the financial shenanigans in the ACORN web of money-shuffling, non-profit, tax-exempt affiliates. Strom called MonCrief a “gold mine” in July 2008. One of the last stories Strom wrote — blowing the whistle on an internal report raising red flags about ACORN’s massive potential violations of federal law– appeared in the Times on October 21, 2008:
An internal report by a lawyer for the community organizing group Acorn raises questions about whether the web of relationships among its 174 affiliates may have led to violations of federal laws.
The group, formally known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been in the news over accusations that it is involved in voter registration fraud, charges it says are overblown and politically motivated.
Republicans have tried to make an issue of Senator Barack Obama’s ties to the group, which he represented in a lawsuit in 1995. The Obama campaign has denied any connection with Acorn’s voter registration drives.
The June 18 report, written by Elizabeth Kingsley, a Washington lawyer, spells out her concerns about potentially improper use of charitable dollars for political purposes; money transfers among the affiliates; and potential conflicts created by employees working for multiple affiliates, among other things.
It also offers a different account of the embezzlement of almost $1 million by the brother of Acorn’s founder, Wade Rathke, than the one the organization gave in July, when word of the theft became public.
“A full analysis of potential liability will require consultation with a knowledgeable white-collar criminal attorney,” Ms. Kingsley wrote of the embezzlement, which occurred in 2000 but was not disclosed until this summer.
In a telephone interview on Monday, Ms. Kingsley and Bertha Lewis, Acorn’s top executive, said the group had begun addressing the concerns raised in the report.
“Has everything been done yet? No,” Ms. Lewis said. “We’ve been at this for three months, and we have taken everything she said in the report very seriously. It’s a huge undertaking.”
Over the weekend, Ms. Kingsley said, the national board adopted several good-governance policies, like appointing an audit committee for the first time.
Disclosure of her report, which was distributed to Acorn and 10 affiliates, increases pressure on the organization at a particularly troublesome time. Besides the inquiries into its voter registration efforts, Acorn faces demands for back taxes by the Internal Revenue Service and various state tax authorities. At the same time, foundations that have backed Acorn are withholding support.
Ms. Kingsley’s concerns about the way Acorn affiliates work together could fuel the controversy over Acorn’s voter registration efforts, which are largely underwritten by an affiliated charity, Project Vote. Project Vote hires Acorn to do voter registration work on its behalf, and the two groups say they have registered 1.3 million voters this year.
As a federally tax-exempt charity, Project Vote is subject to prohibitions on partisan political activity. But Acorn, which is a nonprofit membership corporation under Louisiana law, though subject to federal taxation, is not bound by the same restrictions.
“Project Vote and Acorn have a written agreement that specifies that all work is nonpartisan,” Michael Slater, Project Vote’s new executive director, wrote in answer to e-mailed questions about the relationship.
But Ms. Kingsley found that the tight relationship between Project Vote and Acorn made it impossible to document that Project Vote’s money had been used in a strictly nonpartisan manner. Until the embezzlement scandal broke last summer, Project Vote’s board was made up entirely of Acorn staff members and Acorn members.
Ms. Kingsley’s report raised concerns not only about a lack of documentation to demonstrate that no charitable money was used for political activities but also about which organization controlled strategic decisions.
As I reported in May (see here and here), multiple e-mail messages between Strom and MonCrief show that the Times reporter grasped the depth and breadth of the ACORN racket:
In an e-mail message to whistleblower MonCrief last summer, New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom told the truth: “The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what.”
By October 6, 2008, Strom had thrown in the towel in the wake of blistering phone conversations with the Obama campaign. She wrote:
“I’m calling a halt to my efforts. I just had two unpleasant calls with the Obama campaign, wherein the spokesman was screaming and yelling and cursing me, calling me a rightwing nut and a conspiracy theorist and everything else…I’d still like to get that file from you when you have a chance to send it. One of these days, the truth is going to come out.”
I uploaded the entire e-mail exchange here in PDF form. Be sure to go back and read or re-read them all.
Earth to NYTimes reporter Scott Shane: It wasn’t a right-wing partisan who wrote these words:
It was your fellow reporter Stephanie Strom.
Let me repeat what Strom said to make sure you didn’t miss that key paragraph:
“The real story to all this is how these myriad entities allow them to shuffle money around so much that no one really knows what’s getting spent on what — and for the charities like the housing orgs, that’s a problem. Charitable money cannot be spent on political activites. It’s a big no-no that can cost charitable organizations their exemptions.”
The files that Strom was planning to get from MonCrief (files that I have since obtained and reviewed) were spreadsheets of donors from Democrat campaigns — Obama, Clinton, Kerry — as well as from the Democratic National Committee that had been passed on to non-profit, tax-exempt, and supposedly non-partisan Project Vote. There were no Republican donor lists. MonCrief told Strom that the Clinton and Obama campaigns were in “constant contact” with Project Vote. A few weeks after I reported in August 2008 on how Obama hid an $800,000 payment to ACORN through “Citizen Services, Inc,” Strom told MonCrief: “Am also onto the Obama connection, sadly. Would love the donor lists. As for helping the Repubs, they’re already onto this like white on rice. SIGH.”
But the damning story of coordinated corruption between Democrats and Project Vote never appeared. The Times suddenly “cut bait” — and the story never saw the light of day in the purported Paper of Record.
All of this information is readily available on the Internet, and MonCrief continues to expose ACORN’s tentacles and thuggery at her own blog here despite Project Vote’s litigious efforts to shut her down. News outlets including the Examiner and Fox News have relied on her whistle-blowing testimony and reporting for months — including her knowledge of ACORN’s Muscle for Money program & the H&R Block shakedown, and ACORN’s gala for Democrats in New York in June to celebrate its 39th anniversary.
Times readers, alas, will learn none of this from reading its story today about ACORN, which ends this way:
It was Acorn’s election activities that drew opponents’ attention last year, including registration cards filled out by Acorn workers in the name of Mickey Mouse and other imaginary voters. Republicans highlighted the fact that the Obama campaign had paid more than $800,000 to an Acorn affiliate for get-out-the-vote efforts.
I will end with a quote from Strom, who wrote in an e-mail on October 6, 2008:
“One of these days, the truth is going to come out.”
Indeed, nearly a year after Strom wrote those words, the full truth about the ACORN racket is finally coming to light. But it’s no thanks to the partisan news suppressors at the New York Times.
And you can quote me on that…or not.
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No surprise here. The NY Times can’t bleed out fast enough.
Shades of Rathergate. Citizen journalists / bloggers go after the story and nail it, and the MSM has no choice but to follow along.
Outstanding effort by O’Keefe and Giles, and Breitbart for backing them.
BTW, Okeefe’s total budget for the project: $1300. He posted the receipts on Big Gov.
Who pulled the plug on Strom’s reporting?
Like most Americans, I wouldn’t have a clue what the New York Times has to say about anything, let alone ACORN.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
… nor would I care.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Doesn’t matter a wit. So the people who did you’re Times’ job happened to be Conservatives and scooped you. Boy, there’s sour grapes. You know, the green with envy ones.
Well I think the NYT claimed that Woodward and Bernstein were conducting opportunistic attacks on Richard Nixon so what’s fair is fair.
Actually it’s more fun to see what the NYT won’t print. It’s time to save some trees and stop the presses at the NYT.
What’s especially satisfying about these ACORN videos is that they were produced by ordinary people. People like you and me have the entire government in a panic as they continue to press the buttons and pump the pedals yet nothing works anymore. Then the hear the mocking laughter… They must be very desperate.
Time to trigger those
swineMexican flu riots?The country’s controversies boil down to the difference between Truth and Lies. This makes it blatantly obvious which side the New York Times is on…protect “The One” who lies, even if it stifles the biggest story of corruption that I have heard of in my entire life (that’s almost 5 decades).
SEIU/ACORN/OBAMA/Ayers/Jones/Communist Party/Socialist Party/Street Criminals/La Raza/State Of California/State of Maryland/State of Illinois/HollyWood/’former’ MSM/Barney Frank/Chris Dodd/…Talk about organized crime!
Examples:
Abortion is murder.
Abortion just disposes of a few extra cells.
Unions protect the worker.
Unions destroy companies by making them uncompetitive, resulting in the loss of jobs and eventual collapse.
NYT contains the news that’s fit to print.
NYT suppresses news that differs from their ideological views even if it hides activities detrimental to this country and its citizens.
What is going to be very interesting, is there are more tapes, and more drip drip dripping of scandal with each one. They can’t ignore it for ever.
My hat goes of to James O’Keffe, and Hanna Giles, and to biggovernment.com
Only journalists read the New York Times anymore. If it weren’t for others reporting on the Times then no one would know it even went to print today. Seriously. Ride the subway and see how many people are reading the NY Times. Most read the Post, then the Daily News. I hardly even see discarded copies of the Times (or as I have referred to it for years as Pravda). In a couple of years it won’t even exist on the web. It is junk bond status.
James and Hannah are heroes in my opinion. To get out there and do what the Old Liberal Media won’t do, is amazing.
They just went out there and did this. I hear that there are more cities yet to come.
Can you imagine if these two young people bring about the downfall of the Obama presidency? It’s possible…
Wow. If this is the best the typing chimps on the Right can do, it’s gonna be a long, long eight years with no “Hamlet” in sight…
Doesn’t it ever occur to any of you that you’re being played?! With all of the issues facing this nation, you’re wasting your time chasing after penny-ante swindlers and low level former Marxists. How’d that whole San Bernardino thing work out, you know, where the ACORN dudes pretty much just made you look like idiots for pushing the “big revelation” that just happened not to be true?
Look, if you really think that “toppling ACORN” is going to hurt or even slow this President down, you need to get back on your meds and call us after your nap. Too many of you here are just not that stupid, (including La Malkin, who appears to be fomenting some Beck-connected churn to keep her book selling – but hey, nothing wrong with that, a lady’s gotta make a living…)
If you want to be taken seriously, start behaving seriously. You want to play in the game, then be serious players, not screeching little banshees chasing after so-called “corruption” the likes of which both sides do in their sleep. Oh, I know, I know, I’m a libtard, I’m an Obambot, whatever. If you had any real idea how all this looks to the 250 million Americans who don’t let Beck dictate what they think, you’d move on to something substantive.
I humbly disagree. And I think you will agree with my disagreement.
Two enormously courageous, patriotic, and entrepreneurial people.
Hey, Michelle – thanks for staying up late to make fresh posts for us folks in the Pacific time zone!!
If anyone needs a refresher/tutorial course - try this one.
At least OneMonkeysUncle has chosen an appropriate name. I don’t watch Glen Beck. So explain why I think a well funded through my hard earned tax money organization that encourages the prostitution of underage girls is a big problem. Nixon’s aids only broke into the opposition’s campaign offices. Smaller things have brought down bigger people. He who laughs last laughs longest.
Well, if the shoe were reversed I’m certain you wouldn’t care that Republicans were involved with a criminal enterprise, now would you?
The real fun is watching what the NYTimes won’t print about the Democrat’s taxpayer funded criminal enterprise ACORN.
OneMonkeysUncle:
Since you refuse to comprehend, let me spell it out for you. Those Americans who are losing faith in Obama (as indicated in the polls) are not just losing faith in the Democrats.
The majority of Americans are sick and tired of the political corruption that the Beltway continues to deliver. These good citizens that are rising up to speak their minds will lash out at any corruption, be it a Democrat or Republican. They are starting to find their way through the smoke screens that career politicians continue to set, hoping to make it a Dem v. Rep, liberal v. conservative set of issues.
But Americans are starting to see the shell game for what it is and are keeping their eye on the ball. We refuse to judge who is the bigger boogeyman and will throw all of these perps out on their ear come 2010.
Don’t you see why the biggest swing in party affiliation is to re-clssify as independents? If not, then go sell your tired and lame excuses down the road. We want real solutions grounded in reality, not pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
We are citiaens of the greatest country on Earth and we deserve better.
There you go. As with alcoholics, the first step is in recognizing that you have a problem.
And just so you don’t misunderstand, we’re laughing at you, not with you.
Same old liberal memes:
1. An organization that takes tax dollars and is utterly corrupt is okay… Check.
2. A president, HEAVILY involved in ACORN, and seeks to use them to “reorganize” society until we’re all equally poor… Check.
3. MM is just further exposing the sewage that composes ACORN to sell more books instead of informing the public… Check.
4. To be taken seriously in Washington one must participate in the same corruption… Check.
5. One must be a knuckledragger and stupid to listen to Glen Beck and read MM… Check.
6. Insulting the opposition is all liberals have on tap these days as their “power” dwindles away… Check.
Am I missing anything? Other than the fact that you’re utterly disengenuous, think the shenangans of ACORN are okay as long is it continues to prey on poor communities and keeps Dems in power in perpetuity. The sad fact that you dismiss and defend all this means you really don’t want a Republic, you want one-party rule.
I’d feel sad for you if I had any empathy left for Constitution-shredding liberals like yourself.
Jeepers, Monkey. Speaking of typing chimps! You type Hamlet. We’ll type “The Rise and Fall”.
Poor Monkey, guess you were in a coma during the G.W.B. years. You missed the authentic, died in the wool, “screeching little banshees”.
Don’t sweat it, libtard, obamabot. We banshees are not going to stop our screeching … BTW, I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for banana today … bwahahaha
The NYT, Charlie Gibson and monkeys- all saps for ACORN and Obama. That MILLIONS of Federal dollars are being used by a corrupt organization for corrupt purposes is not a minor scandal. That a tax exempt organization is using public money to fund political campaigns is not a minor scandal and that same organization is set to receive BILLIONS more in Federal dollars is not a minor scandal.
The NYT, Charlie Gibson and monkeys as with President Obama, his second generation Chicago Machine wife and ALL his cronies are utterly corrupt. How long a Republic can survive with such corruption is to be seen. With the MSM firmly in the tank for the Corruptocrats entirely too few of our people are truly aware-or perhaps they do not care?
Without the internet and talk radio and FOX would we know? The Corruptocrats have firm plans to control both the internet and talk radio so can FOX long survive?
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Thank you emjem24-knuckledraggers have more fun
We read our copy of Culture of Corruption by the light of a whale oil lamp.
Yup, emjem – the lad’s abject terror at ACORN being exposed for what it is. If it weren’t a big deal he wouldn’t be so panicked.
Like the state controlled media and other left-run sites, I’ve noticed there is hardly a peep about ACORN, other than a quick mote how furious the left is that it’s being held up to scrutiny.
But in one of the rare posts about it at the Caily Kos Asylum, one commenter actually listed the ACORN front operations at just one location – here’s the list, verbatim:
“ACORN subsidiaries all located in 1024 Elysian Fields Ave, New Orleans 385 Palmetto Street Housing Fund Corp.
4415 San Jacinto Street Corp.
ACORN
Acorn 2004 Housing Development Fund Corp.
Acorn 2005 Housing Development Fund Corp.
ACORN Associates
ACORN Benefi cial Association
ACORN BeverlyY LLC
ACORN Campaign Services
ACORN Campaign To Raise The Minimum Wage
ACORN Center for Housing, Inc.
ACORN Children’s Benefi cial Association
ACORN Community Land Association
ACORN Community Land Association of IL.
ACORN Community Land Association of LA
ACORN Community Land Association of PA
ACORN Community Labor Organizing Center
ACORN Cultural Trust
ACORNDumont-SnedikerHousingDevelopment
Fund Corp.
ACORN Fair Housing
ACORN Fund
ACORN Housing Corp.
ACORN Housing Corp. of IL
ACORN Housing Corp. of MO
ACORN Housing Corp. of PA
ACORN Institute
ACORN Law For Education, Representation,
And Training
ACORN Management Corp.
ACORN National Broadcasting Network
ACORN Services
ACORN Television In Action For Communities
ACORN Tenant Union Training And Organizing
Project
ACORN Tenants Union
Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
Agape Broadcasting Foundation Inc
Among ACORN’s many affiliates and subsidiaries are:
American Environmental Justice Project Inc
American Home Childcare Providers Association
American Institute for Social Justice
Arizona ACORN Housing Corp.
Arkansas Broadcasting Foundation
Association for the Rights of Citizens Inc.
Associated Regional Maintenance Systems
Austin Organizing and Support Center
Baltimore Organizing and Support Center
Boston Organizing and Support Center
Broad Street Corp.
California Community Network
Chicago Organizing and Support Center
Chief Organizer Fund
Child Care Providers for Action Franklin
Citizens Action Research Project
Citizens Campaign for Work, Living Wage &
Labor Peace
Citizens Consulting, Inc.
Citizens Campaign for Finance Reform
Citizens for Future Progress
Colorado ACORN Housing Corp.
Crescent City Broadcasting Corp.
Desert Rose Homes LLC
Dumont Avenue Housing Development Fund
Elysian Fields Corp., Inc
Elysian Fields Partnership
Fifteenth Street Corp.
Floridians For All PAC
Franklin ACORN Housing
Greenville Community Charter School Inc.
Greenwell Springs Corp.
Hospitality Hotel and Restaurant Organizing
Council (HOTROC)
Houston Organizing And Support Center
KABF Radio
KNON Radio
Labor Neighbor Research and Training Center Inc.
Living Wage Resource Center
Louisiana ACORN Fair Housing
Massachusetts ACORN Housing Corp.
Metro Technical Institute
Missouri Tax Justice Research Project
Montana Radio Network
Mott Haven ACORN Housing Development Fund Corp.
Mutual Housing Association of New York Inc.
National Center for Jobs & Justice
New Mexico Organizing and Support Center
New Orleans Community Housing Organization
New York ACORN Housing Company Inc.
New York Agency for Community Affairs Inc.
New York Organizing and Support Center
Organizers Forum
Pennsylvania Institute for Community Affairs
People’s Equipment Resource Corp.
Phoenix Organizing And Support Center
Project Vote
SEIU Local 100
SEIU Local 880
Service Workers Action Team
Shreveport Community Television
Site Fighters
Sixth Avenue Corp.
Social Policy
Southern Training Center
St. Louis Organizing And Support Center
St. Louis Tax Reform Group
Student Minimum Wage Action Campaign
Texas ACORN Housing Corp. Inc.
Wal-Mart Workers Association
Wal-Mart Association for Reform Now
Working Families Association”
“Caily Kos Asylum”
should be
“Daily Kos Asylum”
Haven’t finished my first cuppa joe yet.
Bring on ACORNgate!
Did you actually expect otherwise?
Breaking news at Huffpo:“This is not the ACORN I thought I knew.” Future statement by community organizer-in-chief, Barry Obama.
ACORN very depressed today, as they thought they would be named as Community Organizin’ Czars. Their concerns are for the next election, where without ACORN, there will be disenfranchisement and voting fraud (in other words, the ballots will be authentic and match real ID’s).Dead people and felons will not be properly represented.
Coming up next: Jimmy Carter defends ACORN, as the US is a racist rogue nation, and he should still be president.
As the above list makes clear SEIU is part and parcel of this criminal conspiracy. RICO should be applied to them. In NY the worst thing George Pataki ever did is deal with Dennis Rivera of the SEIU. If this can get legislatures to forbid any expenditure of taxpayer dollars or contract relation with the SEIU then that would do two things.
1) It would be a massive blow against the criminal network.
2) It would be a massive shift in power from the judiciary to the legislature.
Hey, NYT! Read this blog page and get a clue what journalism IS!
Idiots!
Hope you enjoy the coffee but “Caily Kos Asylum” works for me! It reminds me of the Calico Cat and Gingham Dog
If only we had a Gingham Dog to rid us of that Caily Kos Cat.
This report makes me sick to my stomach. I see some leftist’s publications already trying to protect Obama from Acorn scandal by saying “They’re trying to tie Obama to Acorn.” But—I haven’t read anywhere about anyone saying Obama’s tied to Acorn except Obama himself when he said at Acorn rally, you will be at the table when I write Health care reform etc. What has the American people elected to the presidency if not Al Capone reincarnated?–Hope that remark doesn’t offend Black or Italian people
The MSM treats the American public like mushrooms—in the dark and poop all over us.
GraniteMan said
Obama was ACORN’s lawyer when they forced the banks to issue the CRA junk mortgages. He helped create the monster. He is, and should be, tied to them.
You know Uncle, I felt exactly the same way you do now when they went after Nixon. I really thought he was too intelligent to have goons surrounding him. When that guy testified about the tapes I thought, Hot Dog those tapes will prove Nixon innocent! I was young then what is your reason for being in denial?
“…a huge slush bucket controlled by Wade and Maude Hurd…”
Methinks Chum Bucket is more appropriate when angling for bottom feeders or shark.
Obama tied himself to ACORN years back as it’s lawyer-community organizer, then there’s the $800,000 he gave them in 2008 to commit vote fraud – er, work on his campaign, that is. So they should be worried!
I keep waiting for NYT to sink beneath the waves. It’s amazing how they keep poking more holes in their own hull! Scott Shane is one of those with a hammer-drill.
Uncle monkey.
You forgot ‘teabaggers’ and ‘poopie-heads’.
We understand your frustration. Your plastic Marxist messiah and his corrupt hard left machine is being exposed and fumigated.
I would suggest deep breathing exercises or herbal tea.
Is there anybody that is conservative that believes a word of what the NYT’s writes? Is there anybody with more than 2 brain cells that doesn’t know the NYT’s is a propaganda arm of the Dem party? Is it any wonder why this paper’s brand is permanently damaged. I take the NYT’s as seriously as I do the National Enquirer.
New York times guards the ACORN.
But Acorn still gets to run the elections….right…how else is Paul Newman going to get to vote? you can’t disenfranchise him just because he’s dead
As other commenters have said. This blood trail leads straight to the White House and beyond. Honest prosecutors should have an easy time packing up these criminals including the Obama and Frank and Raines snd Dodd. As said by folks earlier, this will make Watergate look like child’s play.
Excellent recap, Michelle.
As abominable as these ACORN people are, these videos are not a mortal blow to the organization. The videos raise public awareness and focus disgust, but they do not, so far, reach outside of the offices where these people worked. There’s no evidence shown that this was really coordinated, although we can, and do, draw our own conclusions. The videos raised enough concern for the low-level competence of ACORN drones to force the Census Bureau and Senate into taking some action. But does the House have to sign off on that Senate-passed ban? Will Pilosi let it get to the floor? Not a chance. Could the Census Bureau find a way to change its mind, maybe by contracting with ACORN subsidiaries? Worth watching. But nobody is looking into the financial dealings, which is where the pay dirt’s located. The White House and the Congress are still stonewalling, and can be expected to do so until Democrats lose their stranglehold on this country. This makes 2010 and 2012 incredibly important. And when (not if) we get the presidency back, and control of at least one body in the Congress, we need to start digging, no holds barred.
On September 16th, 2009 at 7:19 am, purplepeep said:
“Caily Kos Asylum”
should be
“Daily Kos Asylum”
Haven’t finished my first cuppa joe yet.
Going for that second cuppa joe, AzN and I’m glad I made your “Cay”!
Start the investigation and impeachment proceedings now. We cannot wait for 2010-2012, the knuckledraggers will bleed us out before then. Besides, too many complicit Reps & Dems to contend with yet. This has to be citizen/people driven.
Get the states in line for constitutional reform and let’s cripple this Federal beast. Return it to it’s constitutional role.
No, you’re an idiot.
This is all well and good, but let us be sure not to use the words “you lie” when we refer to the NY Times.
We might get a stern rebuking.
Or the race card may be played.
That’s what matters, you know.
Serious. Like pursuing war crimes for a sitting president.
Serious like exposing a few soldiers forcing detainees to wear chonies on their head.
Serious like complaining about a “mission accomplished” banner on an aircraft carrier.
Serious like blaming a sitting president for orchestrating the mass murder of more than 3000 citizens and residents.
Serious like interrupting speeches from attorneys general by standing up with banners and facing the opposite direction.
That serious?
Funny when the shoes of power are being worn by another, far less experienced man, the definition of “serious” suddenly shifts.
…and the race card gets played. Deal me in, Jimmy Carter.
I file ACORN as one of those party affiliates similar to the SA to Hitlers Germany, or the the Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies to Soviet Russia. They are essential to the deception of Americans whereby their politcal agenda can be fullfilled. The corruption they yield is a bottomless pit. They have studied American ways and means and are using the weaknesses in our system to further their cause. Its amazing we let them exist because they are traitors to the US Constitution.
if you haven’t listened to the jon stewart clip on the acorn interviews it’s a hoot. i found it on fox nation. i know stewart! but he is asking all the right questions, and it is funny.
One reason why winning back the House outright in 2010 is so important.
Oversite committee hearings, with testimony offered under oath about ACORN and Obama’s ties to it. As the majority party, the GOP can do it.
Because you know the Holder DoJ that won’t investigate the NBPP voter intimidation in Philadelphia won’t investigate one of the criminal arms of the Democrat party.
Do an interweb search for Jimmy Carter and Osama bin Laden-
In his latest audiotape, Obama recommends every American read “Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid”.
Maybe Jimmy can get Obama to write the forward of his next book…
In defense of Maureen Dowd hearing things no one has said, they make a medication for that.
As bad as that article is, it is not as biased as the NY Times pathetic defense of Human Rights Watch (HRW), which is one of the New York Times “sources” and shares the left wing ideology of everybody at the New York Times. The Times article written by reporter John Schwartz, attempted to whitewash HRW “military expert” Marc Garlasco, who was caught wearing Nazi medals like the iron cross and collecting nice Nazi souveneirs, all the while bashing Israel. The Times article concluded that the attacks on Garlasco and HRW were part of an organized effort by the government of Israel and it “right wing” allies in the US. The NY Times reporter interviewed only one Israeli, who just happened to be a 70 year old left wing university history who has a history of writing articles lambasting Ariel Sharon. This left wing professor agreed wholeheartedly with the views of the New York Times reporter. Just concidence I suppose.
Jon Stewart reports what the NYT won’t
The Audacity of Hos Too Funny.
IMO, Fox News doesn’t do a very good job of exposing Acorn’s web. Were it not for Michelle’s extensive investigation and reportage, we would still be in the dark.
I know it’s waaay too much to ask of her, but I wish Michelle had a show on Fox.
At the end of The Audacity of Hos clip, Jon Stewart tries to goof on Michelle’s appearance on Fox News about ACORN but finds out that she was right, and he was wrong after all…
Jon Stewart is hat tipping to Michelle Malkin, Now I Have Seen It All.
Thanks to Michelle, BigGoverment.com, GB, & FNC – the Truth about ACORN (& Obama) is pouring out thru more & more cracks in corruption dam – and will eventually break out and flood the nation!
Laree-
very funny. Thanks.
I thought O’Keefe should get a Pulitzer, but now I think he should share it with MM. Michelle has been putting the pieces together the whole time and what the maintream has felt was whistling in the wind has turned into a hurricane. I feel for Strom, who had the goods, but was so mesmerized by the One that she couldn’t follow through. Sigh!
Watched Stewart video and am finally proud that he went to William and Mary, my alma mater. I used to like to watch him when he was more egalitarian in his sarcasm. Once Bush lost his mojo and Obama came on the scene, Stewart lost his objective humor-meter. Do you ever think one of these clowns will admit they made a mistake backing Obama and risk being called a racist?
This is grand. America has began to awaken from its political apathy. Now is the time to kindle the flames of what America stands for. “I may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
I had my septic tank drained yesterday and it only cost two hundred and fifty dollars. I didn’t need any stimulus money or earmarks. Perhaps it is time for Washington to drain their septic tank.
Here’s my favorite line from the NYT story:
“Robert L. Borosage, co-director of the liberal Campaign for America’s Future, … said the critics were harping on minor failings ….”
Minor failings? How many people do you know who cheat on their taxes, cheat on loan applications, sell their own bodies, and enslave underage El Salvadoran girls to the sex trade? Would you call it a minor failing to condone such behavior?
That is what has bothered me most about all this, is the apologists’ seeming tolerance for the idea of slavery.
It won’t be long before ‘critics’ is changed to ‘racists’.
It’ll be here before you know it kids!
spaceycakes……
RRRACCCIIISSSSTTT!!!!
or something.
Translation: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
Just remember the old adage:
“Even a blind squirrel sometimes finds an ACORN.”
Which is pretty funny since ACORN is, in theory, non-partisan.
Just one more detail the readers of the NYT won’t have to worry their little heads about, since this aspect of the story is never even mentioned.
Yeah, but those penny-ante swindlers and low level former Marxists are the people running the country these days, from the WH on down.
Communist since the 1920′s.
I love those two kids. Tell me, and I’m not being facetious, were they homeschooled? They are the epitome of truth, justice and the American Way. You go, Kids!!!!!!
Don’t ever stop what you are doing!
I just want to say… I am so tired of all of this.
All the dishonesty, all the cover-ups, all the weaselly lying manipulative “politically-correct” BS.
All the demonization, name-calling, mischaracterization, and unfounded knee-jerk accusations of racism. Etc.
What’s missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN? Everything that matters, that’s what. What a mewling bunch of pussies these so-called “journalists” have revealed themselves to be.
Just to twist the knife in the side of the NYTimes, it was the college kids at Palestra.net (now Uwire.com) that did innumerable stories on vote fraud perpetrated by ACORN and the Obamaroids in Ohio and Missouri, to name a few of the states covered.
Where were the mainstream media on this story? Out to lunch.
Remember Woodward and Bernstein, the iconic Wa Po reporters who broke Watergate and ushered in the era of investigative journalism?
Now it’s over. So called Journalists now determine an agenda, then search for something that may support it. (i.e. Mary Mapes and Document Dan)
The new wave is internet/blogger based journalism, and MM is at the heart of it. Brietbart said tonight he hopes this inspires a million others like O’Keefe and Giles to do the same thing.
My sentiments exactly. If the media won’t pursue the truth anymore, someone else will, and they will succeed while the NYT et al crash and burn. The times they are a-changin.
Yeah, I guess you guys really are as stupid as you sound.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/16/police-acorn-employees-murder-confession-not-factual/
Huh. Imagine that. A parade of wingnuts flogging a story that turns out not to be true… Go ahead, continue your sub-literate level of “fun” at the expense of my screen name, but this turned out exactly the way I warned you it would:
You. Were. Played.
As Bugs would say, Whatta buncha maroons. And cue the babbling excuses in three… two… one…
OMU, you must have missed this in your scouring of the internet to prove yourself right:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/16/acorn-workers-husbands-still-alive-after-all/
Does Charlie Gibson think it’s a story yet?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/16/obama-used-faulty-anecdote-speech-congress/?test=latestnews Obama lied. I know, I know. “Racist”.
Its like Glenn Beck said. “they are not the main stream media any more, just a fringe element”
Same thing that’s missing from all their coverage.
Tenability
Research
Unbiased reporting
Tact
Honesty
If finding the fraud and corruption of his favorite community organization is an attack on Obama, then so be it.
Meanwhile the cynical apologist in chief picks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Poland as the time to say: “You are on you own, no shield, no defense for you, too bad.”
Why cannot Obama be indicted for this? Why is it that ONLY Republican Presidents must be held accountable, while a radical socialist Democrat gets to skate on every count?