Yes, those damn leftists and their Hitler comparisons!
Still, nice job on painting the horse, she must have started from the Limbaugh and worked forward…
I see all sorts of things in this issue. Howzabout you be so kind as to tell us what, in your view, we are missing?
I heard this stroy being discussed on NPR this morning and they mentioned that ACORN had claimed it is a right wing hatchet job but they will continue on to do the good work they’ve been doing for 40 years. I’m surprised I haven’t seen it more in oither media like the Huff Post. Why hasn’t anyone mentionoed the editing and the very significant fact that the tapes have not been released undedited.
In fact someone needs to do an entire story on how editing and sound bytes is being used
Looks like the house has decided to cut funding to ACORN as well…
http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/17/final-vote-results-for-roll-call/#more-4290
I think it’s very telling that there were 75 Democrat “nay” votes… but every single Republican voted “aye” (granted, with 5 non-votes).
Yeah, sure looks like a witch hunt to me.
The reason you’re seeing all these Alinsky quotes is that there’s a bunch of people on the right who believe that Alinsky’s tactics have been used to great effect by the left, and they’ve decided to employ them on the right to fight fire with fire.
They seem to have forgotten the first rule of Fight Club, though. If you’re going to use Alinsky tactics, you don’t talk about how you’re using Alinsky tactics.
BTW, I disagree with them.
Don’t you find it even more telling that there were 175 ‘aye’ votes from Democrats? The fact that Democrats voted more than 2-1 to cut funding for an organization they heavily supported previously is quite surprising. That’s some strange kind of witch hunt.
It’s not at all surprising that Republicans were unanimous, since they’ve always been opposed to providing funds to Acorn. The surprise is that so many Democrats are abandoning them. Makes you want to re-think your curt dismissal of all the evidence, doesn’t it?
Not at all. All it seems to indicate to me is that the Dems were willing to cross party lines. There may be some truth to the allegations about ACORN, there might not- we don’t have enough evidence right now. However, the point still stands- Democrats crossed party lines and voted the way they felt was right, Republicans voted in lockstep.
Could be this article
Or, maybe, it was that passage Michelle Obama lifted from Alinsky.
I believe the correct expression is, “My post is my cite.”
Or… Republicans and some Democrats voted the way they knew was right, and some Democrats were too spineless to defy their party and vote they way they knew was right.
I like that one much better
The head of ACORN, Bertha Lewis, is on Democracy Now. She said that these people tried to pull this scam off in several offices. They got thrown out the door in several cases. She also says that no paper work was ever filed by any office that they went to including the ones in the tapes. They have 60 some offices open right now. This is just a way to get ACORN. Unfortunately it seems to have worked.
WTF? what does votes on the congress floor have to do with evidence?
Just out of curiosity, has Acorn offered any proof of multiple scam attempts?
The Pubbies hate ACORN because they are sneaky progressives. They are using the perfectly blameless process of registering voters to put their agenda forward. They seek out the disenfranchised and apathetic, and remind them that, yes, indeed, this is their country, too. That those recently refreshed citizens are more likely to lean leftish has not, I am sure, escaped their attention. So much the better.
But if the disadvantaged portion of our population doesn’t much love Republicans, how is that ACORN’s fault?
They don’t tape everybody, but they have testimony from employees.
I think it’s common sense. I find it highly doubtful that every ACORN employee approached confessed to killing their husband.
Some honesty on this from the operatives would be nice: “I approached 28 ACORN offices, and 23 of them told me to go to hell.”
It would help their case if anyone of those that turned away Pimp Daddy had told their superiors and someone wrote it down.