House Votes to Suspend Acorn Funds After Video Uproar

[Conan71]

The Faux model didn't work for Air America, though.  Maybe left-wing listeners are more likely to be turned off by hyperbole and vitriol.  Maybe they have other things to do rather than listen to radio.  It'll be interesting to read the post-mortem.   

Funny though, Olbermann, Matthews, and Maddow Maddog seem to have no problem with commercial appeal.  Plenty of vitriol and hyperbole available.

I personally never listened to Air Amerika, but after hearing Gaspar's account of it, no wonder it went tits up.

[rwarn17588]

ACORN is cleared by prosecutors of criminal charges.

The video by the now-discredited Mr. O'Keefe was "edited to meet their agenda." So the evidence apparently was fabricated.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/03/01/2010-03-01_bklyn_acorn_cleared_over_giving_illegal_advice_on_how_to_hide_money_from_prostit.html#ixzz0gxpib9Cn

[guido911]

ACORN is cleared by prosecutors of criminal charges.

The video by the now-discredited Mr. O'Keefe was "edited to meet their agenda." So the evidence apparently was fabricated.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/03/01/2010-03-01_bklyn_acorn_cleared_over_giving_illegal_advice_on_how_to_hide_money_from_prostit.html#ixzz0gxpib9Cn

So I assume since the evidence was "fabricated", and what we all saw and heard apparently never took place, the ACORN workers that were wrongfully fired in NY and Baltimore will be rehired. Whatever.

[nathanm]

So I assume since the evidence was "fabricated", and what we all saw and heard apparently never took place, the ACORN workers that were wrongfully fired in NY and Baltimore will be rehired. Whatever.

That the conversations on the video took place is no evidence of any real wrongdoing.

[Conan71]

That the conversations on the video took place is no evidence of any real wrongdoing.

I will remember that the next time there's a Republican gotcha moment which seems a little too good to be true.

Let's face it, edited footage was cobbled together of some unsavory advice which apparently was dispensed.  Where there's smoke there's fire.

[nathanm]

Where there's smoke there's fire.

Sometimes. Other times I just got the grill too hot before searing my steak.

[rwarn17588]

Where there's smoke there's fire.

The only smoke was what O'Keefe was blowing. Events in recent weeks show that he has no credibility.

[guido911]

The only smoke was what O'Keefe was blowing. Events in recent weeks show that he has no credibility.

Um, Hannah Giles was also in those videos. She has no credibility either? On the topic of credibility, ACORN is so darned credible that they are renaming themselves now.

[nathanm]

Um, Hannah Giles was also in those videos. She has no credibility either? On the topic of credibility, ACORN is so darned credible that they are renaming themselves now.

I guess in your mind this is like renaming ValuJet to AirTran.

And your point about Giles is? Are you seriously trying to argue that because there were two people there one of them could not have been dishonest?

[Hoss]

Um, Hannah Giles was also in those videos. She has no credibility either? On the topic of credibility, ACORN is so darned credible that they are renaming themselves now.

Yep, kinda like how the Republican Base are trying to rebrand themselves as the "Tea Party".

[guido911]

I guess in your mind this is like renaming ValuJet to AirTran.

And your point about Giles is? Are you seriously trying to argue that because there were two people there one of them could not have been dishonest?

Are you seriously trying to suggest those ACORN folks in Baltimore that advised those two on the tax issues pertaining to underage sex slaves were honest?

[mr.jaynes]

I find methods bordering on entrapment distasteful no matter who uses them.

Regardless of one's ideology, there's really no way that he can take the hiugher ground on this, especially with the matter of his scam at Senator Landrieu's office.

[rwarn17588]

Are you seriously trying to suggest those ACORN folks in Baltimore that advised those two on the tax issues pertaining to underage sex slaves were honest?

One person involved has been criminally charged; ACORN hasn't. It's not hard to see which one is more credible here.

[guido911]

One person involved has been criminally charged; ACORN hasn't. It's not hard to see which one is more credible here.

Got it: ACORN good, O'Keefe and Giles bad.  lol!

[guido911]

Looks like ACORN is pulling up its tent pegs:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Acorn_folds.html?showall