# Thank You, Glenn Beck; Buh Bye, ACORN! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 11, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754 "2009-09-11T23:10:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/221 "2009-09-15T11:56:51Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > _Sigh_ > > Again, what did ACORN, as an organization, do which is illegal? I’m not talking about a handful of their employees- what did the organization do illegally? > > ACORN. NOT 11 employees. **ACORN**. What did Fox News do that was illegal? Not its employees, Fox News. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/222 "2009-09-15T12:28:29Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > What did Fox News do that was illegal? Not its employees, Fox News. > > Regards, > Shodan Has anyone actually accused Fox News of _doing_ anything illegal? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/223 "2009-09-15T12:38:52Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > Oh man, my friend’s cousin’s mom has seen this totally devastating tape of Michelle hating white people but the MSM won’t release it because of their liberal evilness. Nah. If they were really that evil, they would have broadcast it in prime time before anyone knew about the embedded Rickroll, just to make sure it inflicted the maximum amount of pain. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/224 "2009-09-15T12:39:45Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > Has anyone actually accused Fox News of _doing_ anything illegal? 😕 Post #211. Notice in particular who wrote it. I find it helps to read a thread before posting to it, or at the very least the last page. Of course, I can only speak of my own experience, so that of a blithering idiot may vary. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/225 "2009-09-15T12:44:13Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Word tonight is that an absolutely devastating tape on ACORN will be released on Tuesday. I wait with bated breath. > [@](#): > > Nobody will think less of you for abandoning the SS ACORN as it’s going down. But if you insist on going down with the ship, would you mind playing “Autumn” on the violin? Here’s a secret I’m not supposed to spill: ACORN is far more important to you guys than to us. It’s your obsession, not ours. Ditto Obama’s birth certificate, the supposed drive to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, and the Obama Administration’s plans to round up everyone’s guns. But if stuff like this keeps you guys busy and out of trouble, we’re good with that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/226 "2009-09-15T12:49:49Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Post #211. Notice in particular who wrote it. Gotta admit, the significance of the author is lost on me. Maybe it means something to **LeeshaJoy**. A corporation can certainly be held responsible for the consequences of acts of their employees committed in the course of performing their duties. But be that as it may, in that post, **Lightnin’** nowhere put the onus on Fox News as an organization. > [@](#): > > I find it helps to read a thread before posting to it, or at the very least the last page. It certainly does, doesn’t it? > [@](#): > > Of course, I can only speak of my own experience, so that of a blithering idiot may vary. > > Regards, > Shodan Can’t see why it would. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/227 "2009-09-15T13:03:20Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Post #211. Notice in particular who wrote it. > > I find it helps to read a thread before posting to it, or at the very least the last page. Of course, I can only speak of my own experience, so that of a blithering idiot may vary. Try to learn to read for _comprehension_, **Shodan**. Fox News didn’t do anything illegal, _the guy who recorded the sting did._[Although I suppose it’s possible that Fox did, in fact do something illegal by rebroadcasting it.](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27139.html) I find it helps to read a thread before posting to it, or at the very least the last page. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/228 "2009-09-15T13:03:24Z")
I haven’t seen the pro-torture crowd this excited since they used a petri dish in some guy’s fridge in Iraq as justification for destroying that country and killing hundreds of thousands. I raise my sippy-cup to you, fellows! Today Acorn, tomorrow the Hanna Montana Fan Club! The world is your mollusc now! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/229 "2009-09-15T13:05:29Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Here’s a secret I’m not supposed to spill: ACORN is far more important to you guys than to us. It’s your obsession, not ours. Seconded. I’d never even \*heard \*of ACORN until something like a month or two before the election… when the wingnuts started to scream about the organization. I must admit I’m a bit confused by the hardon they’ve got for taking ACORN down. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/230 "2009-09-15T14:00:51Z")
I was familiar with ACORN, but was surprised by the right wing media attacks, because the sinister organization of their fevered imaginations has nothing to do with the rather benign institution of apolitical do-gooders that I was familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/231 "2009-09-15T14:16:41Z")
Well, it’s Tuesday. Where’s this devastating video? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/232 "2009-09-15T14:29:00Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > Devil’s advocate: many conservatives (like **Shodan** above and the OP) believe that ACORN is intimately linked to the President; some further believe that they played a major and fraudulent role in getting elected. This could be the first step in another avenue of attack on him. You are totally correct sir. This is what happens when the right starts to actually believe some of the preposterous lies that their handlers feed them. We may scoff at the birthers etc., but keep in mind that these people actually believe, to the core of their beings, anything told to them by Beck, Rush, Limbaugh et al. Those 3 must be splitting their sides! P.S. **Steph96** : your credibility called; it’s lost and scared and promises to come back if you start treating it better ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/233 "2009-09-15T14:36:22Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, it’s Tuesday. Where’s this devastating video? I think they accidentally taped over it with a copy of the Michelle Obama/“Whitey” video. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/234 "2009-09-15T14:45:56Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, it’s Tuesday. Where’s this devastating video? oh, oh, I"ll get this one: - suppressed by the vast left wing media conspiracy? ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/235 "2009-09-15T14:47:17Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Post #211. Notice in particular who wrote it. > > I find it helps to read a thread before posting to it, or at the very least the last page. Of course, I can only speak of my own experience, so that of a blithering idiot may vary. > > Regards, > Shodan To paraphrase your own words, sir: Where did **Lightnin’** accuse _ **Fox News** _ of doing something illegal? Not its employees, _ **Fox News.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/236 "2009-09-15T14:55:50Z")
Post #227. Cripes, you people are transparent. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/237 "2009-09-15T15:11:34Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Post #227. Cripes, you people are transparent. > > Regards, > Shodan You’re just taking the piss now, aren’t you? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/238 "2009-09-15T15:12:30Z")
You knew\*\* Lightnin’\*\* was going to post an accusation that FoxNews might have done something illegal three posts \*\*\*after \*\*\*you asked the question? _Whoa._ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/239 "2009-09-15T15:19:31Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Post #227. Cripes, you people are transparent. > > Regards, > Shodan :rolleyes::D;):rolleyes::D;):rolleyes::p:rolleyes::p;)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/240 "2009-09-15T15:20:00Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Post #227. Cripes, you people are transparent. _checking_ Nope, still not seein’ it. Maybe I’m so transparent that light passes right through my eyeballs and as a result I’m completely blind. I specifically said that the \*filmmaker \*did something illegal. I also linked to a site where it is claimed that ACORN may be suing FOX for airing the illegally-gained footage- but as I’m not a lawyer, I’ll leave the analysis of that to the experts. Please do show us where I said that Fox did something illegal. We’ll be right here, waiting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754.md?page=13)