House Votes to Suspend Acorn Funds After Video Uproar

[Gaspar]

Yes, it's a terrible thing to get people more involved in the political process. For shame!

And Gaspar? Can you at least try? 10% of their funding was from the federal government. 10%. It took all of 20 seconds to look it up.

Don't you think if there were real wrongdoing that some DA, somewhere would have brought charges?

Different for different states.  As I mentioned the ACORN wing in Chicago received 75% of their funding from various government grants and programs.

[Conan71]

Don't you think if there were real wrongdoing that some DA, somewhere would have brought charges?

And do you think if the O'Keefe phone crew really were trying to wire tap phones that they would have all walked off with pleas to something which basically is along the lines of malicious mischief?

Nixon's plumbers fared a whole lot worse.

[guido911]

I hold political violence in contempt no matter who is doing it. Whether or not I post about a particular incident has no bearing on my position. If you haven't noticed, I'm not generally one to bring up stupid partisan smile here, only respond to it after somebody else has created the thread.

Translation:  I'll speak out against Republican acts of violence but expect to hear crickets when its Democrat acts of violence.

[Gaspar]

Violence is violence.  It's wrong, and evolves into a platform for continued dooshbagness.

[nathanm]

Translation:  I'll speak out against Republican acts of violence but expect to hear crickets when its Democrat acts of violence.

I'll speak out against any acts of political violence that are brought to my attention. Not that I'm under any obligation to do so because you have a double standard.

[fotd]

This is one juicy thread.

Just watched Maddow's coverage of the California Attorney general investigative report.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7783

excerpt: " On Friday night, responding to the CA AG's finding that the ACORN "Pimp" Hoax videos --- as created and published by righwing con-artists James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart --- were precisely the hoax we'd long described them as, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow hit it out of the park, detailing precisely the reason we've been focused on this point for so long: "The triumph of fake politics...The unmooring of politics from facts," and the unforgivable truth that you've heard far more about the partisan-driven hoax/politics agenda in the media, than about the fact that that these things were all hoaxes.

Maddow takes the opportunity to highlight not only the "triumph" of the ACORN "Pimp" Hoax, but of other successful GOP-played/MSM-enabled scams such as "ClimateGate" (also near and dear to our hearts as we've covered that scam in great depth in our Green News Reports for months, most recently on Thursday), faked GOP outrage about recess appointments, health insurance reform, Miranda rights and civilian trials for accused terrorists, the stimulus bill, "death panels," Obama's birth certificate, supposed threats to the Second Amendment, armed IRS agents coming to get you, abuse of the census, Obama's "plans" to ban sport fishing, et al.

These things are, as she declares in no uncertain terms, "all bull." Yet, she adds, "there's more bang for the political buck to make stuff up like this than to try to debate real problems in the real world. So just go with the bull"...

There sure are many posties at TNF who appear naive through out this thread.

And Gwee, I will not mistaken your sarcastic "Giles,O'Keefe bad" comments as being right. They make you look like a dumb a$$ lawyer.

[Cats Cats Cats]

I guess they clear 2 of the people in the video but not the third.  I like how the "child trafficking" guy calls the police after they leave.  Of course Fox news wouldn't report that.  LOL.

[nathanm]

Of course Fox news wouldn't report that.  LOL.

And it takes away too much of the funny factor for them to report that O'Keefe wasn't actually dressed in his ridiculous pimp costume while he was in any of the ACORN offices.

[fotd]

Turns out Okeefe is a pimp.....for the lying GOP whores.

[Gaspar]

This thread is awesome. 

[fotd]

Too late as the bad guys won.....

Perfect example of how pathetic Americans have become from lousy educational institutions and MSM creepiness....

Fox Failed to Vet O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited Video and 'Reporting' – ACORN Cleared of Wrongdoing in California

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2010/04/08/fox-failed-to-vet-okeefes-deceptively-edited-video/

The New York Times couldn't stop the presses fast enough to run this unsubstantiated slander. The Times never met a right wing lie they couldn't love.  "A legitimate news organization would have checked O'Keefe's reporting. The raw footage would have been accounted for and follow up calls would have been made." Funny, a legitimate news organization apparently doesn't exist in America.

[dbacks fan]

Okay, I'm taking bets on the following, choose one:

A:Glenn Beck apologizes for false reporting on Friday

B:Glenn Beck falls of the wagon and is removed from Faux.

Ruppert Murdoch's hero, Elliot Carver

[heironymouspasparagus]

Whew!!!   Talk about a BREATHTAKING turn around!!

Violence is violence.  And it's wrong....

Fly that in the face of the cheering and jeering for the video of the Apache helicopter mowing down unarmed civilians.  Just a day or two ago.


What is even more amazing is the people that are still taking the Republicontin and falling into the Cheney/Rove/Murdoch cesspool.

[Gaspar]

Whew!!!   Talk about a BREATHTAKING turn around!!

cheering and jeering for the video of the Apache helicopter mowing down unarmed civilians. 

You guys are a riot.  I love it when you all get in a thread and just whack-it together.


These are better than the old 20 page FOTD threads, where he just talked to himself for months.

O'Keefe behavior bad.
Acorn behavior still worse.

[fotd]

You guys are a riot.  I love it when you all get in a thread and just whack-it together.


These are better than the old 20 page FOTD threads, where he just talked to himself for months.

O'Keefe behavior bad.
Acorn behavior still worse.

How is ACORN behavior worse?

Those threads of FOTD were intended to be dominating. Can you identify them? I think one may be centered on the domestic right wing terrorism which seems to continue being an important topic (lest we forget Murrah?) and another thread which may have focused on the right wing media that's lost credibility (ask Tom Coburn). I recall a couple dominating threads advocating for then Senator Obama...maybe one or two threads ridiculing our idiot in the White House before 2009.

Sometimes I feel like I am yelling sex offender in a gassed up hillbilly family reunion here at TNF.

Future dominating threads: Obama's replacement for Stephens in the SCROTUM....The  fate of the GOP....and, of course, the dumbing down of our city. And I will continue to drum beat against hate and intolerance.