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$tevie wrote:
19 stories? How did they report the same thing 19 different ways in one day?
ACORN fascinates you because you are hoping you can make the "graft and corruption" stick to Obama in people's minds. And so does FOX. I am completely willing to believe that ACORN has serious problems in some, or even many, of their branch offices, but that doesn't require a Chicken Little approach nor a witch hunt for congress people that voted funding for them: if you are correct that the "liberal media" has refused to cover this, then how do you expect representatives to know what some ACORN local offices have been doing, by calling the Psychic Friends network? I truly regret any and all shady ACORN activities because I know that the right has been in a frenzy over the "terrifying" prospect of a powerful voting block of organized minorities, and has been working overtime to find a way to discredit them, and ACORN should not have played into their hands especially in such stupid ways. Not to mention the opportunity for white folks to say "pimp" "pimp" "pimp" and "prostitute" which is always fun for bigots.
Sometimes it's good to ferret out witches, $tevie. Especially when they are ripping off the tax payers. This is not a left or right thing, this is pure corruption within our government. I'd be very disappointed in a lot of Democrats if it was just pure partisan politics. Left or right, either you're for corruption or you're not.
Yes, the Democrats have the most to lose in a full investigation because they do draw a lot of support from ACORN and its affiliates. If you lay with dogs, you get up with fleas. It will be the Democrats who will take the biggest hit because they have sought the support of these renegade organizations and have consistently voted to fund them with our dollars.
Corruption is not confined to race so quit trying to play the race card. ACORN was founded by two white men. They devised the scheme that uses primarily poor black people and the working poor as pawns in their "get rich quick" plan.
The low level staff workers at ACORN are cannon fodder for the upper echelon management. Expendable. If the videos were, as claimed by ACORN, false, why were the staffers fired so quickly? Where's loyalty and innocent until proven guilty? Ha! ACORN will never sue over this because it would mean subpoenas and having to open their books and being subject to forensic audits. They're having enough trouble with ongoing investigations as it is.
If anything "sticks to Obama", then so be it. He can't deny his past connections with ACORN. He can't take back his books nor all the YouTube videos where he spoke about his early days of training ACORN employees or being ACORN's attorney.
If DOJ and the appropriate Congressional investigating committees do their job, the ACORN scandal will make Watergate look like child's play.
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$tevie wrote:
19 stories? How did they report the same thing 19 different ways in one day?
ACORN fascinates you because you are hoping you can make the "graft and corruption" stick to Obama in people's minds. And so does FOX. I am completely willing to believe that ACORN has serious problems in some, or even many, of their branch offices, but that doesn't require a Chicken Little approach nor a witch hunt for congress people that voted funding for them: if you are correct that the "liberal media" has refused to cover this, then how do you expect representatives to know what some ACORN local offices have been doing, by calling the Psychic Friends network? I truly regret any and all shady ACORN activities because I know that the right has been in a frenzy over the "terrifying" prospect of a powerful voting block of organized minorities, and has been working overtime to find a way to discredit them, and ACORN should not have played into their hands especially in such stupid ways. Not to mention the opportunity for white folks to say "pimp" "pimp" "pimp" and "prostitute" which is always fun for bigots.
One of the best things Ive read here in a long time. Swampy, still wondering why some think Republicans are racist?
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>>Sometimes it's good to ferret out witches
I'm not sure if i disagree with your point or merely your figure of speech
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swampy wrote:
They devised the scheme that uses primarily poor black people and the working poor as pawns in their "get rich quick" plan
God forbid someone help poor people. You listen to Fox way to much. You have been fed a spoon full of lies, and you just keep asking for more. Still think there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
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swampy wrote:
Probably because I know the Liberal Media is not covering it as it should. This is a huge story. ACORN receives about 40% of it's income from tax payer dollars. You'd think the folks would want to know about graft and corruption within that organization and the politicians that support it.
Charlie Gibson, head of ABC News in an interview with Chicago's WLS AM radio the day after the story broke....
TRANSCRIPT:
Don: Ok here’s my question, Senate bill yesterday passes cutting off funds to this group called ACORN. Now we got the…we got that bill passing, we got the embarrassing video of ACORN staff giving tax advice on how to set up a brothel with 13 year old hookers. It has everything you could want corruption and sleazy action at tax funded organizations that’s got government ties. But nobody’s covering that story why?
Charlie Gibson: (laugh) I don’t even know about it. Uh, so you got me at a loss, I don’t know. Uh, uh, but, but My goodness if it’s got everything including sleaziness in it we should talk about it this morning.
Roma: This is the American way…
Charlie Gibson: Well maybe, maybe that’s one you just leave to the cables.
Roma: Well I think that this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization and it’s a multi…
Charlie Gibson: Well, I know we’ve done some stories about ACORN before but uh, uh this one I don’t know about.
Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s at least blogged once on this scandal.
Charlie Gibson: You guys, you guys are really up on the uh on the website.
The audio can be heard here....
http://biggovernment.breitbart.com/
Coverage by the Media the day after the story broke. How many articles or stories were written or aired?
FOX = 19
ABC = 0
CBS = 0
MSNBC = 0
Washington Post = 1
Wall Street Journal = 1
NYT = 1
Feel free to google your own source.
Rather unfair to expect me to do my own research when you are cribbing from right wing blogs, wouldn't you say?
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According to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 2009 they (Iraq officials) declared 500munitions in two bunkers of chemical weapons munitions of which no one has figured out how to approach yet.
and 5 chemical weapons production facilities.
Declared April,2009.
Try to keep up
Iraq, Libya, Russia and the United States have all declared thier WMDs.
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$tevie..."Rather unfair to expect me to do my own research when you are cribbing from right wing blogs, wouldn't you say?"
Life isn't fair. And even if I had given you the link source, I doubt it would have compeled you to click the link or not have some objection. I can tell you that it is not a copy/paste job because the info came from a chart in a video of the Glenn Beck show. I typed it in.
Nevermind..."God forbid someone help poor people. You listen to Fox way to much. You have been fed a spoon full of lies, and you just keep asking for more."
I watch Fox because it's the only place on tv that I can get "the rest of the story". I also watch CNN, and ABC when I want the brain washing version of a story. There are many ways to help the poor, both governmently and privately. But the Rathke brothers founding of ACORN was set up to exploit the poor in order to line their own pockets. Have you ever even considered that this is possible? I guess it is hard to belive there are villains in your unicorn world.
billb..."According to the Chemical Weapons Convention of 2009 they (Iraq officials) declared 500munitions in two bunkers of chemical weapons munitions of which no one has figured out how to approach yet. and 5 chemical weapons production facilities."
Of course our left leaning friends didn't hear about that on their liberal media outlets. Don't confuse them with facts.
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Do you mean San Bernardino?
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swampy wrote:
I watch Fox because it's the only place on tv that I can get "the rest of the story".
Now that's yer problem right there. Apparently you're unaware that "the rest of the story" is just that, a story (you know, like Peter Pan, Gulliver's Travels, etc). It's amusing to think that you believe that what you are receiving from Fox's "extra credit" material is information.
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