Of course nobody at FOX or talk radio will issue retractions or make apologies for airing as truth O'Keefe's deliberate fabrications and slander.
By Bertha Lewis
March 12, 2013 | Guardian
Showing posts with label ACORN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACORN. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Ugly liar James O'Keefe pays another ACORN victim
Vile pipsqueak James O'Keefe, a convicted wiretapper and accessory to breaking into a Democratic senator's office, was born in the wrong country at the wrong time. He would have been a wonderful hatchet man for Joseph Goebbels.
Of course nobody at FOX or talk radio will issue retractions or make apologies for airing as truth O'Keefe's deliberate fabrications and slander.
Of course nobody at FOX or talk radio will issue retractions or make apologies for airing as truth O'Keefe's deliberate fabrications and slander.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Poll: Half of GOP believes ACORN stole '12 elections
So... we already knew that dead people all vote Democrat; now we learn that 48 percent of Republicans believe that a dead umbrella organization is helping them to do it. Oy vey!
I wonder what Zombie Reagan and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, have to say about all this undead political activity?
By Jason Linkins
December 4, 2012 | Huffington Post
Saturday, June 19, 2010
GAO probe vindicates ACORN
A preliminary probe by the U.S. GAO has found no evidence of mishandling the $40 million in federal money ACORN and affiliates received in recent years.
By John Atlas
June 17, 2010 | AlterNet
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
FOX, NYT, others fell for O'Keefe's ACORN 'pimp' scam
Oh, whither the lib'rul media? What have we come to when FOX leads The New York Times by the nose?
Giles Admits O'Keefe, Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Story was a Lie: 'That Was B-Roll, Purely B-Roll'
Woman who posed as prostitute confirms repeated misreporting by NYTimes, many others
Why does 'paper of record' still refuse to retract, apologize?
By Brad Friedman
February 19, 2010 The Brad Blog
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7708
Giles Admits O'Keefe, Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Story was a Lie: 'That Was B-Roll, Purely B-Roll'
Woman who posed as prostitute confirms repeated misreporting by NYTimes, many others
Why does 'paper of record' still refuse to retract, apologize?
By Brad Friedman
February 19, 2010 The Brad Blog
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7708
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Investigation #47 finds ACORN still not guilty
I don't have strong feelings about ACORN one way or the other, but the sheer number of investigations that have led to ACORN's repeated exoneration troubles me. At what point should all these investigations be considered official harrassment of a law-abiding organization? If the NRA, for example, had been investigated 47 times and found not guilty of any crimes, conservatives would be raising holy hell and crying "Guvmint persecution!"
Report Finds ACORN Broke No Laws
By Janie Lorber
December 23, 2009 | New York Times
URL: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/acorn-broke-no-laws/?nl=us&emc=politicsemailema1
Report Finds ACORN Broke No Laws
By Janie Lorber
December 23, 2009 | New York Times
URL: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/acorn-broke-no-laws/?nl=us&emc=politicsemailema1
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
ACORN's lawyer: Why we won
Reading this might teach all you "strick Constitutionalists" a thing or two about our U.S. Consitution.
Now can we all leave ACORN alone, and let it go back to what it does best: rigging national elections and establishing brothels? A little tolerance would be much appreciated here, folks.
Why ACORN Won
By Bill Quigley
December 12, 2009 | OpEd News
On December 11, 2009, a federal judge ruled that Congress had unconstitutionally cut off all federal funds to ACORN. The judge issued an injunction stopping federal authorities from continuing to cut off past, present and future federal funds to the community organization.
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and its allies in 75 cities will again have access to millions of federal dollars to counsel people facing foreclosure, seeking IRS tax refunds, and looking for affordable low cost housing. ACORN, which has received about $54 million in government grants since 1994, will be able to apply for new federal programs just like any other organization.
The court ruled that Congress violated the U.S. Constitution by singling out ACORN and its affiliates for severe sweeping restrictions and that such action constitutes illegal punishment or a bill of attainder.
What is a bill of attainder? Even most lawyers have no idea. Bills of attainder are acts of Congress which unilaterally punish an individual or organization. Essentially Congress acts as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
The U.S. Constitution has prohibited bills of attainder since 1787. U.S. founders objected to bills of attainder because in England, Parliament passed many such bills against political enemies, using them to throw people in prison and even execute them without trial.
Congress punished ACORN without even trying to figure out if any laws had been broken or allowing the 500,000 member organization to defend itself.
What about protecting the taxpayers against fraud? As the court pointed out, there are many legal ways for the government to investigate and terminate federal contractors which have been proven to engage in fraud or illegal activity.
But Congress did not want to wait for trials or proof or to allow ACORN due process.
Conservatives developed a voting majority and imposed punishment without a hearing or anything.
ACORN has been a target of right-wing politicians for years. Conservatives hate ACORN primarily because it registered over two million people to vote since 2003 and because it has an overwhelming African American, working class, Democratic-voting, membership.
Fox News is obsessed with ACORN. Google Fox News and ACORN and you will see over two million hits. Google Glenn Beck and ACORN and you get over a million hits, six hundred thousand for Rush, and three hundred thousand for Michelle Malkin.
Right wing members of Congress accused ACORN of being a shell game using millions of taxpayer dollars to advertise for a political candidate and which helped President Obama get elected.
After a highly dubious right-wing sting operation in September, the conservative media machine overran Congress members, including, sadly, many Democrats, and passed the bill of attainder cutting off all federal funds to ACORN and any affiliates, subsidiaries and allies.
Most Congress reps knew full well this was an illegal bill of attainder as it was pointed out in the debates and even by the Congressional Research Office, but voted to let it go through anyway. Representatives Nadler and Grayson and Senator Leahy, among others, repeatedly pointed out that this was unconstitutional. Democrats who voted for the bill of attainder included many who had sought and received help from ACORN members in the past. They have some explaining to do.
Progressives who remained silent while the nation's largest low income African American community organization was under attack also should re-think their lack of support. Did anyone think that if the right-wingers took down Van Jones and ACORN they would stop there?
What is ahead? Surely the conservative opponents of ACORN will continue to bloviate and continue to try to put ACORN out of business. There will likely be fights galore. But with this ruling the fights will be a little fairer.
ACORN won this case. The U.S. Supreme Court has called the prohibition of congressional bills of attainder a bulwark against tyranny. Here the bulwark against tyranny worked to stop the right-wing smear machine.
But the rule of law won too. And all of us and Congress have again been taught a valuable lesson there are no shortcuts when it comes to following the Constitution.
Bill is legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the team who represented ACORN in their successful federal constitutional challenge. You can read the opinion at www.crrjustice.org or contact Bill at quigley77@gmail.com Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans.
Now can we all leave ACORN alone, and let it go back to what it does best: rigging national elections and establishing brothels? A little tolerance would be much appreciated here, folks.
Why ACORN Won
By Bill Quigley
December 12, 2009 | OpEd News
On December 11, 2009, a federal judge ruled that Congress had unconstitutionally cut off all federal funds to ACORN. The judge issued an injunction stopping federal authorities from continuing to cut off past, present and future federal funds to the community organization.
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) and its allies in 75 cities will again have access to millions of federal dollars to counsel people facing foreclosure, seeking IRS tax refunds, and looking for affordable low cost housing. ACORN, which has received about $54 million in government grants since 1994, will be able to apply for new federal programs just like any other organization.
The court ruled that Congress violated the U.S. Constitution by singling out ACORN and its affiliates for severe sweeping restrictions and that such action constitutes illegal punishment or a bill of attainder.
What is a bill of attainder? Even most lawyers have no idea. Bills of attainder are acts of Congress which unilaterally punish an individual or organization. Essentially Congress acts as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.
The U.S. Constitution has prohibited bills of attainder since 1787. U.S. founders objected to bills of attainder because in England, Parliament passed many such bills against political enemies, using them to throw people in prison and even execute them without trial.
Congress punished ACORN without even trying to figure out if any laws had been broken or allowing the 500,000 member organization to defend itself.
What about protecting the taxpayers against fraud? As the court pointed out, there are many legal ways for the government to investigate and terminate federal contractors which have been proven to engage in fraud or illegal activity.
But Congress did not want to wait for trials or proof or to allow ACORN due process.
Conservatives developed a voting majority and imposed punishment without a hearing or anything.
ACORN has been a target of right-wing politicians for years. Conservatives hate ACORN primarily because it registered over two million people to vote since 2003 and because it has an overwhelming African American, working class, Democratic-voting, membership.
Fox News is obsessed with ACORN. Google Fox News and ACORN and you will see over two million hits. Google Glenn Beck and ACORN and you get over a million hits, six hundred thousand for Rush, and three hundred thousand for Michelle Malkin.
Right wing members of Congress accused ACORN of being a shell game using millions of taxpayer dollars to advertise for a political candidate and which helped President Obama get elected.
After a highly dubious right-wing sting operation in September, the conservative media machine overran Congress members, including, sadly, many Democrats, and passed the bill of attainder cutting off all federal funds to ACORN and any affiliates, subsidiaries and allies.
Most Congress reps knew full well this was an illegal bill of attainder as it was pointed out in the debates and even by the Congressional Research Office, but voted to let it go through anyway. Representatives Nadler and Grayson and Senator Leahy, among others, repeatedly pointed out that this was unconstitutional. Democrats who voted for the bill of attainder included many who had sought and received help from ACORN members in the past. They have some explaining to do.
Progressives who remained silent while the nation's largest low income African American community organization was under attack also should re-think their lack of support. Did anyone think that if the right-wingers took down Van Jones and ACORN they would stop there?
What is ahead? Surely the conservative opponents of ACORN will continue to bloviate and continue to try to put ACORN out of business. There will likely be fights galore. But with this ruling the fights will be a little fairer.
ACORN won this case. The U.S. Supreme Court has called the prohibition of congressional bills of attainder a bulwark against tyranny. Here the bulwark against tyranny worked to stop the right-wing smear machine.
But the rule of law won too. And all of us and Congress have again been taught a valuable lesson there are no shortcuts when it comes to following the Constitution.
Bill is legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and one of the team who represented ACORN in their successful federal constitutional challenge. You can read the opinion at www.crrjustice.org or contact Bill at quigley77@gmail.com Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Court: Congress can't single out ACORN
I'm sure this U.S. District Court decision will fill up a whole week of talk radio and FOX programming.
Concludes the story: "[A]ll the judge appears to be saying is that if ACORN has done anything wrong, it deserves its day in court."
No, no, no! ACORN is left-wing and evil and we all know it, so they can't have any federal funds, period! Waa-aa-aa!....
Actually, this is a victory for the U.S. Constitution and separation of powers. Said the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the suit on ACORNS behalf: "This historic decision by the Court affirms the fundamental constitutional principle that the Congress cannot be judge, jury, and executioner."
Judge grants injunction against Congressional defunding of ACORN
By Muriel Kane
December 11, 2009 | Raw Story
URL: http://rawstory.com/2009/12/judge-grants-injunction-congressional-defunding-acorn/
Concludes the story: "[A]ll the judge appears to be saying is that if ACORN has done anything wrong, it deserves its day in court."
No, no, no! ACORN is left-wing and evil and we all know it, so they can't have any federal funds, period! Waa-aa-aa!....
Actually, this is a victory for the U.S. Constitution and separation of powers. Said the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the suit on ACORNS behalf: "This historic decision by the Court affirms the fundamental constitutional principle that the Congress cannot be judge, jury, and executioner."
Judge grants injunction against Congressional defunding of ACORN
By Muriel Kane
December 11, 2009 | Raw Story
URL: http://rawstory.com/2009/12/judge-grants-injunction-congressional-defunding-acorn/
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Poll: 26 percent of Americans self-identify as kooks
Ab-so-lute-ly amazing.
In U.S. politics, it's not the Smarts vs. the Stupids anymore, not like it used to be. It's now the Sane vs. the Crazy. And crazy people apparently now make up 26 percent of the population. (This is making me start to think maybe the 2nd Amendment isn't such a bad idea.... How will I possibly defend myself and my loved ones when those 60 million rabid Republizombies come to storm my house and consume our living flesh?)
As you all know, it's crazy to attempt to argue with a crazy person. So we sane people basically have 3 options in dealing with them: (1) smile compassionately and pay lip service to the legitimacy of their delusions to spare them psychological stress and unpleasant emotions, (2) safely steer clear and ignore them, or (3) have them committed for their and society's good. I leave it to you, my fellow Sane Americans, to decide.
Oh, and if you hear about any teabaggers starting to bite people, let me know so I can immediately head to the nearest gun shop.
By Eric Kleefeld
November 19, 2009 | TPMDC
November 19, 2009 | TPMDC
The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
This number goes a long way towards explaining the anger of the Tea Party crowd. They not only think Obama's agenda is against America, but they don't think he was actually the choice of the American people at all! Interestingly, NY-23 Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman is now accusing ACORN of stealing his race, and Fox News personalities have often speculated about ACORN stealing the 2008 Minnesota Senate race for Al Franken.
The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26%.
Among Republicans, however, only 27% say Obama actually won the race, with 52% -- an outright majority -- saying that ACORN stole it, and 21% are undecided. Among McCain voters, the breakdown is 31%-49%-20%. By comparison, independents weigh in at 72%-18%-10%, and Democrats are 86%-9%-4%.
Now, the obvious comparison would be that many Democrats felt that George W. Bush didn't legitimately win the 2000 election. But there are some clear differences.
First of all, Al Gore empirically won the national popular vote in 2000, and lost in a disputed recount process in Florida. By comparison, John McCain lost the national popular vote by a 53%-46% margin.
In order to believe that Obama wasn't the true winner of the 2008 election, one would have to think that ACORN (and perhaps other groups) stuffed ballots to the tune of over 9.5 million votes, Obama's national margin.
PPP communications director Tom Jensen says: "Belief in the ACORN conspiracy theory is even higher among GOP partisans than the birther one, which only 42% of Republicans expressed agreement with on our national survey in September."
Monday, September 28, 2009
Why right-wing power brokers really hate ACORN
I'm no expert on ACORN, but having read this article about its 40-year history, it seems silly to me to criticize a decentralized, grassroots organization with 400,000 members in 40 states and 100 cities run by honest-to-goodness poor people for the bizarre advice allegedly given by one ACORN employee in a hidden-camera sting operation.
In advocating investigations, blah-blah-blah, against ACORN nationwide for the actions, apparently, by one ACORN adivser, conservatives are employing the same logic that they have repeatedly rejected when right-wing extremists committed acts of violence like Oklahoma City, and liberals called for regulating militant militias or banning guns. Or when conservative Republican preachers have called for U.S. holy war against Muslims, or blamed gays for Katrina, or take your pick.
When it comes to their side, conservatives are quick to point out that a few bad apples don't spoil the bunch. But when it comes to the other side, it's a different story.
By David Morris
September 23, 2009 | AlterNet
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