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post #101 of 140
9/22/09 at 5:58pm
ACORN Worker in Video Reported Duo to Police


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NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — Police say a worker with the activist group ACORN who was caught on video giving advice about human smuggling to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute had reported the incident to authorities.

National City police said Monday that Juan Carlos Vera contacted his cousin, a police detective, to get advice on what to with information on possible human smuggling.
EEEEEVVVVIIIILLLL!!!!!!!
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post #102 of 140
9/22/09 at 6:23pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associa...for_Reform_Now

The conservative movement in this country are fucking insane. That's all there is to it.
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post #103 of 140
10/23/09 at 1:41pm
Daaamn youuuu, Graysooooon!
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post #104 of 140
10/23/09 at 1:44pm
Seriously, did anyone see the PIzza Hut video where the gay kids were doing gross shit to the food? These aren't the people in charge of ACORN doing - honestly - not bad things as most of the people involved knew that two white kids saying they were in the shit was bull... grrr.
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post #105 of 140
10/23/09 at 1:46pm
I'm still offended by how comical the kid's Pimp and Ho getups were. Fucking guy looked like he was about to be called down as a contestant for Deal or No Deal.
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post #106 of 140
10/23/09 at 1:47pm
Halloween costumes.
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post #107 of 140
10/23/09 at 3:04pm
The Daily Show did a good bit showing just how ridiculous all this ACORN nonsense is.
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post #108 of 140
11/24/09 at 10:18am
AAAAGUGUGUG MORE RAMPANT CORRUPTION

I also laughed at the bit near the end where the dude's all like "If the mainstream media won't indict these people, we citizen journalists and blahblahblah" whatever.

Also, gotta love the very first commenter calling them "undereducated ghetto dwellers". Way to show some class there, you hateful fucking douchebag.
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post #109 of 140
11/24/09 at 4:58pm
http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/24/...ma-power-plan/

Oh my god, they're gonna influence the political world by...playing politics and supporting candidates whose visions are aligned with theirs.

What the fuck is GOING ON HERE?!?!?!
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post #110 of 140
1/26/10 at 8:02pm
From Dellamorte via FB:

incredilols
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post #111 of 140
1/26/10 at 8:28pm
On what planet is trying to bug a US Senator's phone considered a smart idea? Unless there is another side to this story that magically explains why the apparent attempted bugging of Senator Landrieu's office is somehow not a crime, these idiots deserve to be charged.
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post #112 of 140
1/26/10 at 8:37pm
I see this guy thinking he's in Ocean's 11.
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post #113 of 140
1/26/10 at 9:06pm
Meanwhile, ACORN was cleared of any wrongdoing.
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post #114 of 140
1/26/10 at 11:54pm
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Originally Posted by jake View Post
from dellamorte via fb:

incredilols
hahahahahahahaha!
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post #115 of 140
1/26/10 at 11:55pm
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Originally Posted by yt View Post
Meanwhile, ACORN was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Clearly they do not deserve any federal money.
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post #116 of 140
1/27/10 at 12:08am
"This man says there is trouble with our telephone."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGo3a3eU4Qc
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post #117 of 140
1/27/10 at 12:19am
I love everything about this story.

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Originally Posted by Gatorboy View Post
"This man says there is trouble with our telephone."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGo3a3eU4Qc
Perfect.
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post #118 of 140
1/27/10 at 11:28am
If only word would around in his holding cell that he's a pedophile. That should get him a deserved beating.
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post #119 of 140
1/27/10 at 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by yt View Post
Meanwhile, ACORN was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Were they?
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post #120 of 140
1/27/10 at 4:26pm
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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector View Post
Were they?
Yes. But don't look to the lazy corporate media to report this.

Yes, the Republicans in Congress voted for a resolution to defund ACORN, but a federal district court ruling overturned Congress' action.

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On Christmas Eve, buried on page A24 of my edition of the New York Times, was this story: "The controversial community organizing group Acorn has not broken any laws in the last five years, according to a Congressional Research Service report released Tuesday evening."

Indeed, the CRS report—requested in September by House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank—finds no instances in which ACORN "violated the terms of federal funding in the last five years," and no instances of individuals allegedly registered to vote improperly by ACORN "attempting to vote at the polls."

Good to see that the New York Times ran the story. But the placement and the timing — after 18 months of screaming headlines and attacks vilifying the anti-poverty group — is reminiscent of the McCarthy era when individuals and organizations were ruined by allegations that ran as front page news, while later evidence that vindicated them was relegated to the back pages. There was little accountability for the false accusations, little redemption for those whose lives had been shattered.
Source: NPR

Meanwhile, the best thing about this thread is the hilariously haughty outrage in The Closer's thread title.
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post #121 of 140
1/27/10 at 6:06pm
Thread Starter 
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Originally Posted by yt View Post
Yes. But don't look to the lazy corporate media to report this.

Yes, the Republicans in Congress voted for a resolution to defund ACORN, but a federal district court ruling overturned Congress' action.

Also:


Source: NPR

Meanwhile, the best thing about this thread is the hilariously haughty outrage in The Closer's thread title.
Im a big guilty before proven innocent kinda guy.

Plus, Id argue that the best thing about this thread was the photo of the girl all did up in her whore gear.
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post #122 of 140
1/27/10 at 8:28pm
god is everyone prostituting these days
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post #123 of 140
1/27/10 at 10:32pm
I'd love to see this O'Keefe clown in prison. How long would he last?
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post #124 of 140
1/28/10 at 12:44pm
NBC reports that O'Keefe may have been attempting to disable the phone system, as opposed to wiretapping, in an effort to test the office's reaction to such a situation. Apparently there have been right-wing constituent complaints that it was difficult to get through to Landrieu's office to register their opposing views on health care reform.

While I assume there is a very significant legal difference between attempted espionage and vandalism on federal property, I would think these guys are still in a world of shit.

Maybe "sabotage" is more accurate? Is there a legal connotation to that?
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post #125 of 140
1/28/10 at 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by Count Floyd View Post
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Last year, O'Keefe, a 25-year-old self-described investigative journalist, posed as a pimp in the hidden-camera videos that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN.
Ah, journalism. How I miss you. I remember quite a twist to the version offered by NBC (Or rather AP), but then again, who needs facts?
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post #126 of 140
4/7/10 at 8:20am
Wait, you mean those two courageous exposers of the truth may not have been entirely truthful? Shock and amazement!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...04129#36204129

To sum up:

-- The unedited video shows O'Keefe leaving the ACORN offices in a regular dress shirt, not the pimp outfit so prominently featured in the edited video
-- The ACORN employee demonized for apparently helping the pair set up a child prostitution ring called LA police immediately after the pair left to report a suspected case of human smuggling
-- The ACORN employee reportedly shown encouraging Giles in her prostitution efforts was actually encouraging her in trying to buy a house

To quote Maddow, "Means be damned, in the end, it worked."
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post #127 of 140
4/7/10 at 8:32am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Wait, you mean those two courageous exposers of the truth may not have been entirely truthful? Shock and amazement!
The devil you say! Oh, that would truly be a shocking turn of events!

Since I can´t access the video at work, let me clarify that I was rather referring to this little bolded gem:

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Last year, O'Keefe, a 25-year-old self-described investigative journalist, posed as a pimp in the hidden-camera videos that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN.
I like the fact that the so called news organization stick to the "pimp-suit embarrasment" spin on this story instead of reporting what actually happened.

ETA: Your edit seems to point out the same argument I was heading for. And subsequently Stelios nailed it. As usual. A scholar and gentleman indeed.
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post #128 of 140
4/7/10 at 9:32am
I can't believe doing this kind of stuff in legal in the US. How hasn't the crook that made up this story already been thrown in jail? And how are the news outlets that promoted his fraud not getting the fucking blood sued out of them? If this is the US version of a free press you can keep it.

This isn't a case of a journalist making an honest mistake. This is a political hit based on knowingly fabricated events. This caused people to lose their jobs and get publicly humiliated. This caused an organization that actually tried to work on a low level to help your society's less fortunate members to lose its funding and get crippled. You can't tell me no one will do something about this.
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post #129 of 140
4/7/10 at 10:13am
No one will do anything about this.
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post #130 of 140
4/7/10 at 10:13am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
I can't believe doing this kind of stuff in legal in the US. How hasn't the crook that made up this story already been thrown in jail? And how are the news outlets that promoted his fraud not getting the fucking blood sued out of them? If this is the US version of a free press you can keep it.

This isn't a case of a journalist making an honest mistake. This is a political hit based on knowingly fabricated events. This caused people to lose their jobs and get publicly humiliated. This caused an organization that actually tried to work on a low level to help your society's less fortunate members to lose its funding and get crippled. You can't tell me no one will do something about this.
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post #131 of 140
4/7/10 at 10:54am
Jesus, I posted this on Facebook and one of my friends responded, "She's complaining that he took off his pinstriped jacket..? So..?" I mean, if that's ALL you took away from watching that video, you're not worth wasting the breath to argue with.

EDIT: Oh swell, now he's gone to the "It's OK because Michael Moore does the same thing" argument.
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post #132 of 140
4/7/10 at 11:17am
Michael Moore always identifies himself as Michael Moore and that he's a documentary filmmaker. He's not dressing up in a trucker cap and a camo vest to go buy a gun.
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post #133 of 140
4/7/10 at 11:26am
I got so pissed off over this that I couldn't even finish watching that segment yesterday afternoon. Stelios's post above only pissed me off more. I hate the way shit goes down in our country sometimes.
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post #134 of 140
4/7/10 at 11:45am
I'll admit, I watch Fox News more often then not, but when I caught the Un-edited version on MSNBC I was beyond pissed... Talk about misinformation... Jesus that's some evil shit being done.
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post #135 of 140
4/7/10 at 7:27pm
White-hot rage. That's all I feel from watching this video, and from thinking that Dickson's right. I bet this doesn't get covered beyond "the liberals" at MSNBC. I bet no one talks about it at all.

I hate that people like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin have audiences that not only listen to them, but pay to do so. I hate that people in this country don't actually think about what they watch, what they consume, and what they do. Most of all, I hate that these guys fucking called it.
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post #136 of 140
4/7/10 at 7:40pm
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Originally Posted by wydren View Post
Most of all, I hate that these guys fucking called it.
Every word they speak is true.
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post #137 of 140
4/8/10 at 1:38am
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
No one will do anything about this.
Somebody already is.

Radio talkshow host Brad Friedman, filling in for Mike Malloy, had Acorn CEO Bertha Lewis on this evening and devoted his whole show to it.


http://www.bradblog.com/
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post #138 of 140
6/15/10 at 9:55pm
Well, good thing we absolutely destroyed them.

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(A) just-issued report by the Government Accountability Office that reviewed ACORN's federal funding at the behest of Congress found little grist for the mill for politicians or right-wing bloggers looking to bash the now-defunct advocacy group for the poor.

The 38-page report surveyed over 31 federal agencies, probing how ACORN used federal funds and whether adequate controls on spending existed.

The report found no evidence of fraud, lax oversight or misuse of federal funds.

In fact, the report discovered that ACORN had adequately accounted for spending $40 million worth of major and minor grants awarded by the federal government to the group since 2005 to combat a variety of problems afflicting poor Americans, including lead poisoning, housing discrimination and lack of adequate job training.
But hey, we got a funny video out of it.
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post #139 of 140
6/15/10 at 10:37pm
Lunacy.
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post #140 of 140
6/15/10 at 11:59pm
Yet BP still has billions of dollars in government contracts. As does Halliburton.
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