Anyways the reason why I think ACORN is a easy target is because they don’t have lobbyists to lobby Congress and give them the big bucks. So they really don’t have people in Congress that would be behind their back. Republicans do like them because they do mobilize people (mainly minorities) to vote(the got 1 million people to vote this last election), and they also help the poor get the help they need. ACORN was one of the main organization that was telling Congress about those sub-prime loan scams but no one listened.

What makes ACORN an easy target? I think I know why — what would your answer be?

Prostitution rings, fraud (real fraud/ losing billions of Americans dollars),killings of innocent Iraqi civilians and OUR AMERICAN SOLDIERS, does this not upset you?

Just like Republicans cry over ACORN or some other organization that helps minorities and the poor, but when they are in power they do sh*t about it.

Republicans are only targeting ACORN because they see them as a easy target to get back at the Dems.

I do say I will agree (and hopefully the last time) with that the Dems are being pussies by going alone with the fake outrage that Republicans are spewing out. The Dems are only digging a hole for themselves.

I bet you do.

By which you mean Rep. Frank is more concerned about irregularities at Acorn than republicans are about KBR, Blackwater, etc.

Waiting on you guys, Wil.

Where’s the beef?

Why don’t you find some young hot chick and the both of you could go into KBR and Blackwater and do the same thing the O’Keefe and Giles did and get it on tape and become liberal heroes, Wilbur.

I think I’ve got a chinchilla coat up in my attic somewhere if memory serves. I’d be happy to loan it to you.

That’s the only conclusion you can draw when Congress is controlled by Democrats and they don’t defund Halliburton but they do defund ACORN? You blame Republicans?

83-7 Senate vote to defund ACORN.

345-75 vote in the House.

And they beat the Halliburton horse to death for a full eight years; even more, actually. Then when they get control of all branches of government, what? They still can’t come up with anything. Yet when two young kids do a little investigative work on ACORN and expose them for the corrupt organization that they are, your Democratic-controlled Congress folds yet again like a cheap rug. As does Obama, and the Census and the IRS.

I’d think you’d be embarrassed to bring up Halliburton now. Pretty weak defense.

But you still blame Republicans.

By which you mean Rep. Frank is more concerned about irregularities at Acorn than republicans are about KBR, Blackwater, etc.

I don’t really see any other conclusion to be drawn.

Dude, ACORN lost freakin’ Barney Frank.

Put that in your bong and smoke it.

So Dennis, why are you not upset that the government is not defunding Blackwater (or “Xe” as they are known now), or Halliburton and KBR? These companies continue to receive hundred millions of dollars from the US government. One contract alone (which they all have several contracts with the government) cost more than what ACORN received in 15 years. And these companies have been accused of fraud, and are being investigated in being involved in prostitution rings, and in the killings of Iraqi civilians and AMERICAN SOLDIERS.

Why the hell hasn’t Congress defunded these bastards? And why aren’t the Republicans crying bloody hell over that?

No, Dennis, I wasn’t.

And I included the link for anyone who care to read the rest of it, so there’s absolutely no intellectual dishonesty. I just didn’t want to add insult to injury.

FAIL.

You seem to left this part out of your quote, Dennis:

ACORN officials, recently embarrassed by a video sting that showed counselors providing assistance to people posing as a pimp and a prostitute, said Grassley’s accusations are based on financial transactions that occurred before a leadership shakeup last year. Bertha Lewis took over after co-founder and longtime director Wade Rathke was pushed to resign over his role in concealing from the full board his brother’s embezzlement of ACORN money. Lewis said she has shut down dozens of affiliates.
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“Senator Grassley made up his mind, and he didn’t bother about the facts,” Lewis said in an interview. “He’s dealing with a lot of outdated information and decided to frame it with a predetermined conclusion. Yes, we had problems under Wade Rathke. . . . And we have been overhauling how we do things ever since.”

Hmmm. Wrongdoing uncovered and corrected. A strategy utterly alien to right, it’s true, but you could have at least included these paragraphs in your quote in the interest of intellectual honesty, Dennis. Oh, oops. Another alien concept to you …

WARNING: If you’re a fan of the Council of Conservative Citizens (The “CCC,” get it?) and their ilk (Trent Lott et al), this is not your cup of tea.

And then calling people racist for opposing such behavior, along with their willingness to aid and abet child prostitution.

Talk about Circular Confirmation.

It’s how they roll.

It’s who they are.

It’s what they do.

One People’s Project has the full-length version of this video, taken from the big 912 rally in Washington, D.C., showing a middle-aged white man and his Asian wife chasing after and harassing a trio of black people — primarily two teenagers and an adult guardian (possibly their mother) who were selling “Don’t Tread on Me” flags along the long grassy mall.

As you can see, the man — who identifies himself as Tim Jones — shouts after them: “ACORN! These people are ACORN!!! They are frauds!!! ACORN is fraud!!! Obama sucks! This woman sells signs for profit of ACORN!!”

It attracts more harassers, and it verges on the point of an outbreak of violence when the D.C. bicycle police show up and break up the scene.

Now, how does Jones claim to know that they are actually ACORN workers? He says he overheard a police officer ask them if they were selling for ACORN and the young woman — who appears to be a young teen — told the cop “yes.” The older woman tells him flatly they’re not from ACORN, but he keeps shouting it anyway.

Most of all, Jones and his wife are harassing these people based on some shaky presuppositions: that a young teenage girl would answer a cop’s question — particularly the addition of the ACORN element — accurately is probably the shakiest, but toss in the fact that “off brand” vendors, people who have nothing whatsoever to do with a political entity like ACORN, employing young African Americans often flock to these political events and sell whatever is selling in terms of hats, T-shirts, pins, flags, and whatever gewgaws can be sold. Cops regularly chase them off if they don’t have a license.

Which is probably what these people were doing, and why they fled. Well, that and the fear of being lynched by these maniacs.

The bigger question is: Why target African Americans when there are are hundreds of vendors at these things? And why assume that they have anything to do with ACORN?

Because, to the teabaggers, ACORN is synonymous with scary black people. The kind who, in the minds of Glenn Beck and his followers, are lurking, waiting to overthrow America when Obama orders them to. (Even if they later turn out to be a dance troupe.)

As Susie says, ACORN is just the new wingnutspeak code for the ‘N’ word. It’s now become an epithet — one you can chase black people around with and accuse them angrily. Just what America needs right now.

[H/t Max Blumenthal.]

Stay Klassy, party of, well, you know…

The Right’s Acorn Strategy.

In action. I wonder how it could have happened. Perhaps we should review History.
–Aqualung ed

Funny, Indeed, your hero ‘Mr. Eliminationists’ didn’t have anything to say on the violent Leftist uprising in Pittsburgh yesterday. Cat must’ve gotten his tongue. That and his video didn’t have anyone calling anyone the N-word, but that doesn’t stop him from putting it in the title of his post. Liberal bloggers are funny that way, aren’t they, Indeed? Gosh, and he didn’t even put a question mark in the title; he must’ve had more than a hunch, I guess.

Meanwhile….ACORN’s Acorn strategy.

‘Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. According to the Washington Post, ACORN took millions of dollars intended to go to the poor, and gave them to politicians — and themselves. Newly-revealed records show that ACORN may have a lot more problems than giving advice to purported child-prostitution traffickers:
–Ed Morrissey

WaPo: ACORN a Reverse Robin Hood

… Documents released by a Senate Republican on Thursday show that leaders of the ACORN community organizing network transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money meant for the poor to arms of the group that have political and sometimes profit-making missions.

ACORN’s tax-exempt groups and allied organizations, long a target of conservative ire, used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates, according to an analysis by the tax staff of Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).

On Thursday, Grassley called the transactions a “big shell game” and said ACORN donors may be surprised by how the liberal group known for helping the poor obtain housing and health care was spending their money. He urged the Internal Revenue Service to take a closer look.

According to the Grassley report, charities “are being used to raise monies which are then funneled to other charities or to other organizations for purposes other than what the donor may have intended. . . . Dollars raised for charitable [purposes] appear to be used for impermissible lobbing and political activity.”

Nice. If you have concerns about a Democrat-shilling 501 c 3 organization transfering millions of dollars of taxpayer money meant to go to the poor and channeled it to politicians and THEMSELVES, it means you don’t care about the poor….. AND you’re a racist…according to Indeed, Susie Madrak and David Neiwert.

The Left’s ACORN strategy.

On full display.