How so?
It was irrelevant that it was his cousin. Why should I include irrelevant details?
… that we’ve heard of yet.
Or, we have not heard about the ACORN worker that went home and said: “you would not believe the practical jokers that were in my office today! We played along and cracked up with them afterward when the cameras were off.”
Yes, because you know in my job, if someone were to call me and suggest that I take a kickback or look the other way over a known engineering defect, I might just ‘play along’ for yucks.
This casts a lot of stuff in a whole new light. John DeLorean wasn’t actually trying to sell cocaine to undercover cops - it was all just a big joke! Those White House tapes of Nixon? Of COURSE he knew he was being recorded. You’d have to be an idiot to not realize that. So the obvious conclusion is that he was just joking around. In fact, SNL did a skit with Dan Ayckroyd where they showed him doing just that - saying something incriminating, then covering the mike and laughing with Haldeman and Erlichman.
So if you ever get hauled into court for say, trying to bribe a cop, you should just use the “It was just a joke!” defense. I’m sure it will work for you.
You guys have even lost Jon Stewart from your side, but you’re going to hang in there and claim that this is a non-story. At the very least, your tenacity is impressive.
It sucks that this whole fake scandal is falling apart, doesn’t it?
Darn, just when the proof that Democrats Iz Evul and Obama Iz Teh Antichrist was *right *in their hands, too.
Sam, perhaps you could help us all by summarizing what you see as the significance of this story, along with what you consider to be the relevant facts. If it’s just the usual “The ‘Left’ is a Monolith with a Hive Mind” stuff once again, I’ll be highly disappointed, though. Not surprised, but disappointed anyway.
It is? That’s news to me.
No doubt.
The employees that were fired, including Vera, would probably disagree with this assessment. It may not be front page news anymore but given the nature of scandals, that’s not surprising.
Keep up.
Your rant would have more resonance, by the way, if your boy, Chuckles the Pimp wasn’t hiding the unedited tapes.
There is no scandal. I know that hurts, but there it is. All that happened was that a right wing Michael Moore wannabe got some face time on Fox News.
In that case, ACORN must be a really shitty place to work if they’ll fire you for no reason.
Maybe there was a reason, maybe not. That doesn’t make it a scandal. ACORN didn’t do anything wrong.
Are any of you here really stupid enough to believe that multiple employees in multiple offices all figured out they were duped AND played along? And that they played it straight the WHOLE time? Most people would have been at least a little sarcastic.
Well, Bertha Lewis says that she was outraged at what her employees did on the tapes, and anyone else should be, too.
So is she lying?
Wait…you forgot that both the House and Senate voted in large majorities to defund ACORN. And ACORN got kicked off the Census project.
So have they made the full, unedited tape available yet?
That Juan Carlos Vera story seems fishy too. The guy offers to help with smuggling underage girls into the country and asks the Ho how much for her time. He waits TWO DAYS and then contacts his COUSIN?!? Sounds like he finally realized something wasn’t right with that visit and tried to cover his ass. If he had any interest in getting law enforcement involved he would have called right after they left. Also, he probably would have attempted to get some contact info from the two.
Would you expect ABC/NBC/CBS to do the same? Absent a court order, would they ever?
Ahhh, go with the old tried and true deflection technique.
I’ll take it the answer is no.
Yes. The answer is no. I assumed it was a rhetorical question.