# 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:** 15
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/281 "2009-09-16T20:50:03Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > Ah. “The bombshell video turns out to have been a dud, so I’ll try to pretend I didn’t care about it at all.” Them acorns are sour, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/282 "2009-09-16T20:51:12Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Jon Stewart represents “moonbat America?” What does Glenn Beck represent? Mount Vernon _Washington_, yo! ---
**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 16, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/283 "2009-09-16T20:53:31Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > Word tonight is that an absolutely devastating tape on ACORN will be released on Tuesday. > > 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? Hey Stephe96 old pal: I guess this video was suppressed by the Illuminati or something, eh? Or is this another one of your monkey-poo flings that you care little about now? (or do I gather that the “devestating tape” and the “fake murder confession” are the same thing?) ---
**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 16, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/284 "2009-09-16T20:56:03Z")
i heard that ACORN is putting spider eggs in kids halloween candy. Come November 1, spiders are gonna be hatching out of kids stomachs all across the nation! Them bastids! ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/285 "2009-09-16T21:00:02Z")
I heard that ACORN supports drinking milk right from the carton. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/286 "2009-09-16T21:02:28Z")
Well, can we all agree that if ACORN had been a right-wing organization and had been similarly caught in promoting illegal skullduggery to take advantage of the government, we would have heard little else from the MSM since that time…up to and including Kanye West’s contretemps? 😃 ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/287 "2009-09-16T21:05:18Z")
ACORN has not been “caught” at anything. ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/288 "2009-09-16T21:10:20Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Well, can we all agree that if ACORN had been a right-wing organization and had been similarly caught in promoting illegal skullduggery to take advantage of the government, we would have heard little else from the MSM since that time…up to and including Kanye West’s contretemps? 😃 You can agree if you want to. I’ll ask why Xe isn’t in the news 24/7. But not of you, torture. ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/289 "2009-09-16T21:11:48Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Well, can we all agree that if ACORN had been a right-wing organization and had been similarly caught in promoting illegal skullduggery to take advantage of the government, we would have heard little else from the MSM since that time…up to and including Kanye West’s contretemps? 😃 Yes, we can agree that if this had been a right wing organization, and a couple of loonie lefties had pulled this kind of stunt on them, we would have heard little else from the MSM right now - but it would be all about the evils of the loonie lefties, and how they need to be controlled in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/290 "2009-09-16T21:17:45Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Yes, we can agree that if this had been a right wing organization, and a couple of loonie lefties had pulled this kind of stunt on them, we would have heard little else from the MSM right now - but it would be all about the evils of the loonie lefties, and how they need to be controlled in the future. HAH! I’ve NEVER, in fifty-some odd years of listening to the MSM, heard ANYTHING about the evils of loonie lefties. In fact, I don’t recall having ever heard of the EXISTENCE of any loonie lefties. (Well, Abbie Hoffman, et. al, maybe, but even then it was always in a good-guy-gone-too-far kind of way. ;)) ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/291 "2009-09-16T21:17:53Z")
ACORN is not a left wing organization, by the way. ACORN is non-partisan and apolitical. All allegations that it’s left wing or political at all are complete fabrications from the right wing media complex. ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/292 "2009-09-16T21:18:55Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > HAH! I’ve NEVER, in fifty-some odd years of listening to the MSM, heard ANYTHING about the evils of loonie lefties. In fact, I don’t recall having ever heard of the EXISTENCE of any loonie lefties. > > (Well, Abbie Hoffman, et. al, maybe, but even then it was always in a good-guy-gone-too-far kind of way. ;)) I guess you missed the 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/293 "2009-09-16T21:25:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > “devestating tape” I love being insulted by illiterates. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/294 "2009-09-16T21:30:18Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > ACORN has not been “caught” at anything. So why’d those employees get fired? ---
**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 16, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/295 "2009-09-16T21:34:13Z")
Because they violated ACORN policy and directives. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/296 "2009-09-16T21:47:01Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > ACORN is not a left wing organization, by the way. ACORN is non-partisan and apolitical. All allegations that it’s left wing or political at all are complete fabrications from the right wing media complex. You have absolutely got to be shitting me!! That is the funniest post I’ve read today. Thank you for injecting some levity into this thread. Oh, My, God. That’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/297 "2009-09-16T21:58:51Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > So why’d those employees get fired? Seriously **Stephe**? I have asked repeated times for you to address this very point. In fact, if you look on this particular page, you can even re-read the question. How about it? Is it possible at all for you to answer the question? And without any insults? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/298 "2009-09-16T22:09:27Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > Seriously **Stephe**? I have asked repeated times for you to address this very point. In fact, if you look on this particular page, you can even re-read the question. How about it? Is it possible at all for you to answer the question? And without any insults? So let’s recap: employees at four (so far) ACORN offices around the country were caught on hidden camera offering prospective clients ways to: dodge taxes, ‘legally’ practice prostitution and claim underage illegal sex workers as dependents. Agreed? Now, moonbats would have us believe that these actions do not reflect badly on ACORN as an organization itself. And I suppose, if one were to stretch credulity to the breaking point, that it’s just barely conceivable that the employees at all four offices were caught _for the first and only time_ they ever advised someone to break the law. Intelligent people, however, would point out that these tapes suggest a pattern of behavior that is, and has been, rampant within ACORN from its inception. This is why most non-moonbats are scurrying from ACORN like rats from a sinking ship. ---
**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 16, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/299 "2009-09-16T22:22:23Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > So let’s recap: employees at four (so far) ACORN offices around the country were caught on hidden camera offering prospective clients ways to: dodge taxes, ‘legally’ practice prostitution and claim underage illegal sex workers as dependents. Agreed? Wait- they were caught doing such illegal things? Why then, pray tell, haven’t they been charged? Why is the only evidence we’ve got of their heinous activities a heavily edited sting tape, produced by a wannabe right-wing Michael Moore? Oh, that’s the only evidence you’ve got? Oh, okay. And those employees, they’re still employed by ACORN, right? I mean, after all, ACORN told 'em to do it. Wait… they were fired? Oh, okay. But hey, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good lynchin’. Psst… what about that BIG NEWS we were going to get? You know, that bombshell. Where is it? I mean, surely it wasn’t the video of the employee talking about how she murdered her husband, right? The filmmaker that you’re relying on so much couldn’t even stop to verify that her husband was dead. _That’s_ the kind of quality reporting we’ve come to expect from the wingnuts. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754/300 "2009-09-16T22:34:31Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > So let’s recap: Agreed. You stated that ACORN was _promoting_ prostitution. I had an issue with this, and you responded with synonyms for promote, like the word condone, which never changed the spirit of your libel. Meanwhile, another poster comes along and asks this question: > [@](#): > > ACORN was promoting underage prostitution or was a member of that organization promoting underage prostitution? I asked 3 additional times for you to address this, and you ignored the request a couple of times, and now when you do respond, you avoid the question yet again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-glenn-beck-buh-bye-acorn/509754.md?page=16)