Ditto. I find myself growing a yawning sense of apathy over this whole thing.
Oh, and might I note: The New York Post? Rupert “Faux Snooze” Murdoch’s flagship paper? Really?
Lots of people do, when multiple laws are being broken.
Wow! Small world! What are the odds?
It’s a victimless crime, and citing it’s illegality is a tautology. Just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean it’s bad.
This still says nothing about the institution of ACORN anyway.
Holy shit. Anyone who’d believe that “pimp” getup is guilty of criminal stupidity, if nothing else.
Acorn’s response:
(Won’t code as a link, for some reason; just C&P it into your browser’s url window.)
From BG’s link:
It’s a good response, The Willie Horton analogy is apt. I like that they’re taking legal action against Fox. The scammers who perpetrated this are slime, and I think it’s entirely correct that this whole thing is a politically motivated, public image assassination being perpetrated by the right wing media.
Maybe they just thought they had a couple of crazy-ass white folks in their office, so what was the harm in playing along? Clearly, anybody who would believe that Dudley Dipshit there was actually a playah is clueless beyond redemption.
If they didn’t really believe what they were being told, what laws were they breaking? And that bit about being a “performance artist”? Could have been droll.
I think that, myself, in a duplicate situation, would either have laughed them out of the office or might even have played along. What the fuck, who cares, right?
And if they hadn’t have been “helped”, who knows but that they wouldn’t have come out with a video “ACORN won’t help white folks in suits”?
Tell you one damn thing, people like those two idiots pictured in **Cousin Vinny’s **link make me wish there was some place you could go and resign from “white”.
Kill the messenger, much?
When the messenger spread the message as “truth” instead of “rumor”, and benefits from the message, sure.
There first has to be a message.
Thats a bit thin, Sinaijon. Why don’t you tell us what you think, here? Do you think that anyone could look at them and seriously believe that Dudley Dipshit was really a pimp? Is there some law against playing along with a put-on?
And why even do it? Did they have some evidence to act upon, that ACORN was illegally in league with the Playahs Union? Seems unlikely, doesn’t it? So, then, it was a crock o’ shit from the git-go, wasn’t it? There were no pimps, no ho’s, and damn sure no kiddie hookers from Central America.
This sort of lying shit to entrap…you approve of that sort of “news” gathering? In the finest traditions of journalism, do you think? Yeah, I can just see Walter Cronkite leading with that story, sure thing, you bethca!
I see ACORN has chosen to bluster and hand-wave rather than address any of their issues.
Probably their best bet.
Maybe they will bankrupt themselves with the lawsuit against the press agency that exposed them.
Regards,
Shodan
Heh. Irony, thy name is Right-Wing.
Will someone ask Shodan if he can look at Vinny’s Post picture above and seriously state that anyone would believe that clown is a pimp? I’d do it, but the hamsters protect him from my posts, due to delicacy.
You misspelled “denial”.
There’s been no bluster. There’s been no hand-waving. Where is it, Shodan? Show it to us.
Doesn’t matter, he’ll never know.
What would you have them do? They’ve already fired the employees caught in the (blatantly illegal and misleading) sting. How, exactly, could they “address” the issue?
Like it or not, they are now the injured party.