Triple-snort-worthy: White House “distances” itself from ACORN

By Michelle Malkin  •  September 17, 2009 09:02 AM

(Photo source: 2008 ACORN slideshow presentation)

Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN:

“W.H. distances from activist group”

Choking. Up. With. Laughter.

Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.

He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. The “accountability” that White House flack Robert Gibbs says they take “extremely seriously” doesn’t extend to Team Obama itself — and the accountability they have evaded for pouring more than $800,000 into an ACORN front group for campaign advance work that was mysteriously re-classified as “get-out-the-vote” work.

As for the ACORN “advisory committee” that will “audit” the group’s illicit activities, I repeat:

Choking. Up. With. Laughter.

SEIU is ACORN. ACORN is SEIU.

See Anita MonCrief for more background. And here.

The foxes guard the corrupted henhouse again.

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  1. #101
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:32 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI PURPLEPEEP / B-CAT / FLYOVERMAN–on the 6 digit comment numbering system–and human basics.
    ***
    As a retired engineer I certainly understand the need for extreme precision IN SOME CASES.
    In other cases “close enough for gubmint work” applies.
    ***
    As someone who grew up with a (horrors!) slide rule the first step was to get a “ballpark” idea of the right answer and then use the “slipstick” to get 3 digit (0.1 percent) accuracy. If more precision was needed then hand calculation was needed–and it was only done for these cases.
    ***
    I have seen tremendously high precision calculations done by super computers with very high accuracy. Only problem was that the simulated missile was 20 miles below the surface of the earth–flying backwards at high speed yet!
    ***
    Most people are basically “analog” one percent type thinkers. I don’t refer to your previous posts by the 6 digit numbers–too much typing for the rocketman. I would have used numbers in the 1 to 1000 range.
    ***
    It’s tough to teach old dogs new tricks!
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

  2. #102
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am, infidel4life said:

    Obama’s acornssssss…are coming home…to roost…

  3. #103
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:37 am, pueblo1032 said:

    Thanks for the heads up with your headline MM… I still almost lost my FROSTED FLAKES reading this entry… Ten I made the mistake of reading some of the comments, and there goes my COFFEE!!!

  4. #104
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am, cabrerski said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:32 am, rocketman said:
    As someone who grew up with a (horrors!) slide rule…

    No one was faster on the logarithms slide than me (was it that long ago?)…

  5. #105
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am, rightwingrocker said:

    As I said on another thread just a few minutes ago …

    If this administration weren’t so dangerous, it would be hilarious!

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  6. #106
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:58 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    You know what would really help here? Sending ALL of our jobs over to China. The reason the private sector of our economy has not created a single net job since 1997 is because we keep orchestrating jobless “recoveries”. The reason for the latter is that we are also outsourcing the very risk capital that fuels the “hidden hand” of capitalism. In the past, we innovated our way out of our problems. Not because we are a superior race but because of our enthusiasm for creating and investing risk capital in our own country. That is almost gone today.

    Our “global corporations”, who have no loyalty to anyone or anything, are gutting our economy systematically because Americans insist on making a good living. Financial innovation has replaced economic innovation. Who needs to create better machines when there is an endless supply of cheap labor trapped in oppressive countries like China? This process may have made a lot of wealthy people even richer quickly but behind the mask of what is being presented as “creative destruction” is a leveling of the playing field for global government exploitation. It’s more like razing than leveling. Good-bye middle class. Good-bye freedom.

    So what do we need missiles and missile defense shields for? In WWII, we had no reservations blowing up enemy targets because they were enemy targets. Considering how global corporations now own politicians, will be willing to blow up a GE plant in Russia, for instance, while listening to Mark Mobius gushing about investment opportunities in that country on CNBC? Who is “us” and who is “them” today?

    That is the real cost of abandoning our respect for national sovereignty. Our leaders no longer seem to care about the US Constitution and national borders anymore. The rights and freedoms defined and protected by our Constitution and contained within our borders are merely impediments for free trade in the new Friedman (Tom, not Milton) “flat world” of fascist capitalism. We may all be digging ditches soon. And as always happens in these “revolutions”, many of those who made it happen will also find themselves at the guillotine. No need for intellectuals after the deed is done. (from my comment at Powerline)

  7. #107
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am, Flyoverman said:

    rocketman said,

    Only problem was that the simulated missile was 20 miles below the surface of the earth–flying backwards at high speed yet!

    I believe your simulation was correct. The error was that it was a simulation of an Oozelfinch and not a missle. I have read reports that indicate an Oozelfinch is capable of such a manuever.

  8. #108
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, shooter said:

    hehehe

  9. #109
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, shooter said:

    hehehe …

    Ha…hahahah HAHAHAH…snchrdphchphsch.

  10. #110
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:22 pm, shooter said:

    uhmph.
    .
    .
    .bwa.
    .
    .
    .shnrnphsch.
    .
    .
    BWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
    .
    sorry, tried to hold it in.

    hrechh, schrnphnfsch…..I needs a towel, there goes the coffee.

  11. #111
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:24 pm, shooter said:

    Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.
    I cannot think of a better relationship quote.

  12. #112
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:34 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.

    Absolutely perfect, Michelle.

  13. #113
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:40 am, cabrerski said:
    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:32 am, rocketman said:
    As someone who grew up with a (horrors!) slide rule…
    No one was faster on the logarithms slide than me (was it that long ago?)…

    Oh great! The nerds are playing slide rule whipitout! :roll:

  14. #114
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, rambler said:

    The connection BHO has with ACORN as well as his commie progressive czars will help sink him.

  15. #115
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:39 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:59 am, Flyoverman said:
    rocketman said,

    Only problem was that the simulated missile was 20 miles below the surface of the earth–flying backwards at high speed yet!
    I believe your simulation was correct. The error was that it was a simulation of an Oozelfinch and not a missle. I have read reports that indicate an Oozelfinch is capable of such a manuever.

    I heard that if you bent the veeblefetzer on the fogarty bevel of a fillyloo bird, you can get the same result.

  16. #116
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:42 pm, John Deaux said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Oh great! The nerds are playing slide rule whipitout!

    That made my afternoon.

  17. #117
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:46 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.

    “I’m being followed by a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow.

    Leapin’ and hoppin’ on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow.”

    Cat Stevens

    Now try to get that tune out of your heads.

  18. #118
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I heard that if you bent the veeblefetzer on the fogarty bevel of a fillyloo bird, you can get the same result.

    Rougue,

    That is true, if the fillyloo bird is a “D model or beyond. The original A Model as well as the B and C variants were not fogarty bevel equipped.

    For the unenlightened; The Oozlefinch

  19. #119
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:59 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, Flyoverman said:
    I heard that if you bent the veeblefetzer on the fogarty bevel of a fillyloo bird, you can get the same result.
    Rougue,

    That is true, if the fillyloo bird is a “D model or beyond. The original A Model as well as the B and C variants were not fogarty bevel equipped.

    For the unenlightened; The Oozlefinch

    Fly, you are absolutely correct! The A-C models came stock with a bogart phreniated plebney, which everyone knows, is nowhere near as efficient as a well cambered fogarty bevel with a neoprene calyptra. Thank God those early designs were quickly dispatched as unworkable.

  20. #120
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Was there a frappenator in there somewhere?

  21. #121
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Rougue, your knowledge of these issues is truly impressive. Fascinating. My compliments!

    I can only hope NASA has engineers of your caliber.

  22. #122
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:22 pm, Laree said:

    Hey Michelle how did you get a photo of my bus driver ;)

  23. #123
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:23 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    ACORN and the Communist Party USA are like “Family“…

    from The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections:

    And the chair of ACORN and Working Families Party who called upon us [the Communist Party USA] as family to make our contribution known. Did we respond? YES, we responded!

    Why was Bertha Lewis chair of (supposedly non-partisan) ACORN **and** co-chair of the Working Families Party?

    Why did Bertha Lewis call upon the Communist Party USA “as family” to make their contribution known?!?

    It should come as no surprise that Bertha Lewis is using claims of “McCarthyism” as her defense! She herself says that the current charges against ACORN are equivalent to saying,

    “Are you now, or have you ever been, associated with ACORN?”

    That very statement equates ACORN with the Communist Party. They are one and the same. Note the color of the ACORN flag and compare it to the color of the flag of the former U.S.S.R.

    ACORN and the Communist Party USA

  24. #124
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:28 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    1) McCarthy was right.

    2) Teddy Kennedy tried to help the U.S.S.R. during the Reagan administration.

    3) Bill Ayers is a self-admitted Communist.

    4) Van Jones is a self-admitted Communist.

    5) ACORN is a Communist organization, funded with your tax dollars.

    6) Obama taught classes for ACORN.

    7) Obama has a long history of being associated with Communists.

  25. #125
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, swede said:

    The A-C models came stock with a bogart phreniated plebney, which everyone knows, is nowhere near as efficient as a well cambered fogarty bevel with a neoprene calyptra.

    Aside from the ad populum logical falicy “everyone knows”, you may have forgotten the neoprene calyptra tended to disintegrate above 60 nagstroms per second and had to be replaced with a kevlar nannystater.

    Sheesh.

  26. #126
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:51 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:28 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Birds of a feather…..

  27. #127
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:53 pm, rightwingmom said:

    M/M ~ Excellent work. Keep exposing ACORN. Sunlight disinfects!!!

    Prayers and support!

  28. #128
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, cabrerski said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Oh great! The nerds are playing slide rule whipitout!

    I guess I earned that after the DelinquentGouda remark…still miss the Stooges quotes, though.

  29. #129
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:00 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Flyoverman said:

    Just a fast question, VELLA or DSCS ring a bell?

  30. #130
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:01 pm, drjohn said:

    Why the hell are we sending taxpayer money to this hyperpartisan oranization in the first place?

  31. #131
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:02 pm, drjohn said:

    Obama was ACORN’s lawyer and trainer. It’s about time we heard that from someone.

  32. #132
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:02 pm, nosheep said:

    I was at the 9/12 DC march(inspiring to say the least) and wore this shirt I designed: http://www.zazzle.com/sanford1
    Yes, that’s a shameless capitalistic promotion but just look at the design if you will. I was at the hotel bar with all the other terrorists and this lady grabbed me and said, “Shame on you. You are a racist, and I bet you don’t even know what Marxist means”. I told her that racism has nothing to do with this t-shirt design, that how dare she call me a racist, do you know me? and obviously SHE was the one that doesn’t understand Marxism. I will be back next year hopefully, with my kids, and give them a real education.

  33. #133
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pm, GladzKravtz said:

    Of all the people the left and progressives could have supported for president.
    What a shame for all of us but especially for minorities; to have our first minority president to be this corrupt individual.
    Some role model.

  34. #134
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:18 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Flyoverman said:
    Rougue, your knowledge of these issues is truly impressive. Fascinating. My compliments!

    I can only hope NASA has engineers of your caliber.

    You flatter me too much. Unfortunatley NASA does have engineers of my caliber, thus no Moon visits for another 50 years.

  35. #135
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:
    That is such a shame really, when I was working all those years in the network, I met engineers that could design a Cray 2 Super Computer out of beer Cans, and make it work. If there was ever another real Space Program and they would take me, I would work for food and just a roof over my head. It really is fun.

  36. #136
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm, swede said:
    The A-C models came stock with a bogart phreniated plebney, which everyone knows, is nowhere near as efficient as a well cambered fogarty bevel with a neoprene calyptra.
    Aside from the ad populum logical falicy “everyone knows”, you may have forgotten the neoprene calyptra tended to disintegrate above 60 nagstroms per second and had to be replaced with a kevlar nannystater.

    Sheesh.

    Yes, yes, the early prototype calyptra was prone to failure, but the kevlar nannystater was merely a stop gap measure. They went back to the calyptra design when they found that it could be case-hardened with unobtainium, which everyone knows (there I go again) is 10X stronger than a hoodadoodata laminated anakanapoona. Compared to that, using kevlar, might as well be using kleenex?! Sheesh right back.

  37. #137
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:33 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:55 pm, cabrerski said:
    On September 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:
    Oh great! The nerds are playing slide rule whipitout!
    I guess I earned that after the DelinquentGouda remark…still miss the Stooges quotes, though.

    I miss the Stooges also, they’ll be back someday. :grin:

  38. #138
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, corona said:
  39. #139
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm, stillontheroad said:

    corona said:
    Just finished reading this — is this hard and fast or more smoke and mirrors.

  40. #140
    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:38 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm, stillontheroad said:

    If there was ever another real Space Program and they would take me, I would work for food and just a roof over my head. It really is fun.

    “They’re launching the XR2300! Do you know what that is Doctor?”

    “The muffler bracket on a 79′ Pinto?”

    “No that’s the XR2200, the XR2300 is the lunar shuttle!”

  41. #141
    On September 17th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, ScottyDog said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:58 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    I could not agree more. Obama is just following the CFR/TriLateral play book of the One World Government elitists of David Rockefeller.

    I get so sick and tired of people that think outsourcing is helping our jobs or economy. How is sending our jobs to third world sxxxholes helping our manufacturing sector? How is allowing millions of uneducated workers from Mexico(in-sourcing) helping America?

    The economic correction we are witnessing right now is the result of 5.4 million manufacturing jobs sent to China during the Bush administration by the “Free Traders”. They are systematically destroying our middle class while Congress aids and abets the plan for a New World Order.

    There was not one peep from the state run news media when Barry was down at the Guadalajara summit promoting the SPP or the North American Union in August.

  42. #142
    On September 17th, 2009 at 3:20 pm, Mister P said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 11:03 am, Mister P said:
    I want to see more on ACORN’s role of getting McCain nominated as GOP candidate. As one whistleblower said, they were told to get out the vote for Obama and McCain in the primaries.

    There’s a lot of us who would like to find out, too!

    No wonder McCain was a non-vote on Acorn.

  43. #143
    On September 17th, 2009 at 3:29 pm, J S Ragman said:

    On September 17th, 2009 at 2:31 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    laminated anakanapoona.

    Rogue, your inner Stooge is showing.

  44. #144
    On September 17th, 2009 at 3:35 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Mister P,

    Consider the primaries in the state of Florida.

    Analyze why the Democrats initially claimed that they would not seat delegates from Florida.

    I believe that the reason was to encourage Democrats to vote in the Republican Primary. There was enough time for them to switch party afiliation and vote in the Republican primary.

    Florida was an important win for McCain. In fact, even though McCain had come in 4th place in the Iowa primary just weeks earlier, the victory in Florida allowed the MSM to start repeating the mantra of “McCain is the presumptive nominee…McCain is the presumptive nominee…McCain is the presumptive nominee…”

  45. #145
    On September 17th, 2009 at 3:37 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Also, the MSM lied and claimed that Mike Huckabee had left the state of Florida the weekend before the primary.

    That was absolutely untrue, but it created a perception that Huckabee had given up on trying to win the FL primary.

  46. #146
    On September 17th, 2009 at 4:00 pm, swede said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:
    On September 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm,
    Compared to that, using kevlar, might as well be using kleenex?! Sheesh right back.

    I did not know that. I am so pwned. Sorry dude.

    But my kevlar nannystater is still inundating like a champ. I see no need to spend more money on unobtanium just to keep up with the Cheddar’s.

  47. #147
    On September 17th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow.

    In response to calls to separate himself from Reverend Wright,
    Barack Obama said:

    I can no more disown [Reverend Wright] than I can disown the black community.

    I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother

    Call on Barack Obama to “distance” himself from Karl Marx.

    If asked to do so, I expect his response would be to laugh it off.

    But if he actually responded, he would probably say:

    I can no more disown Karl Marx than I can disown the Communist community.

    I can no more disown him than I can my black Communist father.

  48. #148
    On September 17th, 2009 at 4:15 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:


    Two Things Obama Won’t Do:
    ——————————————————

    1) Confess with his mouth, “Jesus Christ is Lord”.

    2) Confess with his mouth, “I disown Karl Marx and all of his teachings”.

  49. #149
    On September 17th, 2009 at 4:17 pm, prendad said:

    If you dance with the devil……….

  50. #150
    On September 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pm, roadrage said:

    Maybe it’s time to bring back Ken Starr.

  51. #151
    On September 17th, 2009 at 5:45 pm, Laree said:

    Is Maxine Waters threatening American Citizens? Is she allowed to intimidate American Citizens, Taxpayers, Voters?

  52. #152
    On September 17th, 2009 at 6:05 pm, Elm Creek Smith said:

    Characterizing the Census Bureau’s decision as a move based on a lack of confidence in ACORN’s ability to perform its expected duties, Gibbs said he was not sure whether the president would ask Democrats to pull back from any campaign-year collaboration with the group.

    “I don’t know that I’ve had any discussion with him about that,” Gibbs said.

    Then who would know, Gibbs?

    ECS

  53. #153
    On September 17th, 2009 at 6:15 pm, Ed Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul said:

    Sort of OT, as Obama abandons Poland and the rest of the former Soviet captive nations back to the tender mercies of KGB thug Vladimir Putin:

    “Red Square” from The Peoples Cube in a rare un-funny editorial. He lived in the USSR, and thus hates communism.

    Obama absorbed the KGB propaganda from his mother, who was something of a Red Diaper baby herself, his typical white grandparents who were members of lefty Unitarian churches in Seattle and Hawai’i, the CP-USA sex pervert his grandfather picked as his Black role model when his mother abandoned him, through his student days and affiliation with suspected cop killer Bernadine Dohrn and her unrepentant terrorist commonlaw husband. and really believes the wrong side, the racist/imperialist/capitalist AmeriKKKans won the Cold War.

  54. #154
    On September 17th, 2009 at 6:28 pm, Glamchild said:

    This is what I’ve been saying about whn how the Fraud Operators = Gov. any “investigation” is really nothing but a rubber-stamped slap on the wrist, if anything.

    Certainly, no investigation will touch upon election misconduct prior to Nov. 2008. They’d never open up that can of worms.

  55. #155
    On September 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm, Glamchild said:

    What nobody wants to admit is He couldn’t have been elected without ACORN and it’s shennanigans.

    Of course, I’m racist for saying that.

  56. #156
    On September 17th, 2009 at 8:22 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    What nobody wants to admit is He couldn’t have been elected without ACORN and it’s shennanigans.

    Correct.

    Of course, I’m racist for saying that.

    This absolutely made me LOL…

    (It’s part of this larger piece.)

  57. #157
    On September 17th, 2009 at 9:02 pm, Tazed and Confused said:

    Barack Obama = Willful LIAR

  58. #158
    On September 17th, 2009 at 9:02 pm, JohnS said:

    A=Association of
    C=Criminal
    O=Obamaites
    R=Ruining this
    N=Nation

  59. #159
    On September 17th, 2009 at 9:09 pm, cicerokid said:

    Still thinking of that sabre-toothed squirrel guarding his acorn…i love squirells…i can never spell sqoorel.

  60. #160
    On September 17th, 2009 at 9:46 pm, Fineous Reese said:

    This is funny stuff.

    First thing that came to mind was

    “Finkle is Einhorn! Einhorn is Finkle!”

  61. #161
    On September 18th, 2009 at 12:43 am, Mojave Mark said:

    This is just schadenfreude-licious.

    The dynamic duo just may have changed the 2010 census.

  62. #162
    On September 18th, 2009 at 1:28 am, chilloutyo said:

    I guess the word Hitl@r must trigger some filter…even when used in a logical way.

  63. #163
    On September 18th, 2009 at 3:36 am, tonyr951 said:
  64. #164
    On September 18th, 2009 at 8:30 am, kayfromcarroll said:

    swede, may I have permission to use

    kevlar nannystater?

    (Admiration of nerd humor from fellow Swede.)

  65. #165
    On September 18th, 2009 at 9:52 am, yohannbiimu said:

    “ACORN votes Barack Obama?” ACORN IS Barack Obama! The only ACORN people who didn’t vote Obama were those who didn’t vote at all–either because they were too busy illegally registering non-citizens to register THEMSELVES, or because they were plastered from celebrating on election night.

    It would be like having a slogan from circa 1930′s Germany saying “The National Socialist German Worker’s Front Votes Adolf Hitler.” How obvious is something before it becomes imbecilic?

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