NY TIMES OBAMA/ACORN STORY - "IT WAS A GAME CHANGER" - Anita Moncrief »
Posted By pc25 10 months, 1 week ago in News
This was the reason, according to former ACORN worker, Anita Moncrief, why the New York Times killed a story about the connections between the activist group and the Obama campaign.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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how did this slip under the radar just 4 days before the election
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An Acorn Whistleblower Testifies in Court
The group's ties to Obama are extensive.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533169940482893...
Acorn, the liberal "community organizing" group that claims it will deploy 15,000 get-out-the-vote workers on Election Day, can't stay out of the news.
The FBI is investigating its voter registration efforts in several states, amid allegations that almost a third of the 1.3 million cards it turned in are invalid. And yesterday, a former employee of Acorn testified in a Pennsylvania state court that the group's quality-control efforts were "minimal or nonexistent" and largely window dressing. Anita MonCrief also says that Acorn was given lists of potential donors by several Democratic presidential campaigns, including that of Barack Obama, to troll for contributions.
The Obama campaign denies it "has any ties" to Acorn, but Mr. Obama's ties are extensive. In 1992 he headed a registration effort for Project Vote, an Acorn partner at the time. He did so well that he was made a top trainer for Acorn's Chicago conferences. In 1995, he represented Acorn in a key case upholding the constitutionality of the new Motor Voter Act -- the first law passed by the Clinton administration -- which created the mandated, nationwide postcard voter registration system that Acorn workers are using to flood election offices with bogus registrations.
Ms. MonCrief testified that in November 2007 Project Vote development director Karyn Gillette told her she had direct contact with the Obama campaign and had obtained their donor lists. Ms. MonCrief also testified she was given a spreadsheet to use in cultivating Obama donors who had maxed out on donations to the candidate, but who could contribute to voter registration efforts. Project Vote calls the allegation "absolutely false."-
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NoWayMan10 months, 1 week ago
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instead of trying to change the scoreboard well after the game is over (you still lost, btw) why aren't you looking to the future and getting angry at the repubs for their complete lack of ideas and vision?
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all this stuff just makes you look like a crank.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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Scandal Grows-- Another ACORN Worker Pleads Guilty In Missouri
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http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/04/scandal-...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Scandal Grows-- Another ACORN Worker Pleads Guilty In Missouri
The Missouri Republican Party released this report on ACORN voter fraud crimes in Missouri.
The list of crimes is extensive as you can see below.
It is no wonder then that Senator Claire McCaskill (Dem-MO) voted last week to allow funding for ACORN in the Youth Brigades Bill.-
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skyking2p10 months, 1 week ago
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Scandal Grows-- Another ACORN Worker Pleads Guilty In Missouri
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The Missouri Republican Party released this report on ACORN voter fraud crimes in Missouri.
The list of crimes is extensive as you can see below.
for years the republican party has been trying to suppress minority voter registration in Missouri so i am sure a lot republicans think: minority voter registration is a crime.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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Video: Smoking gun on NYT-spiked-ACORN story?
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Klarissa10 months, 1 week ago
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"By the way, keep this story in mind as plans continue to unfold regarding the federal government subsidizing newspapers. If the NYT was willing to spike a story just to help its chosen one, what will they do when that chosen one is paying the bills?"
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Follow the money? change (big) and hope (not found out?) -
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Klarissa10 months, 1 week ago
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the worst thing about all of this is: There were numerous reports of voter fraud, ballot shenanigans, people being bussed to different precincts to vote several times. Reports of this made the person reporting the problem look like the guilty party.
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What is sick about this is the role the media played in taking justice away from the courts and putting it in their own hands.-
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vor10 months, 1 week ago
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We used to have idealogical differences but now I think some of you people are simply going off the deep end! Let's see how this thing plays out. My guess is that it remains a very low level story and never rises above that. Kind of like the GOP voter fraud in Ohio '04. Or the accusations of fraud in Florida in '00. But I have never seen the sort of desperation I am now seeing from the Right. You don't realize how sad and pathetic your comments come across.
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"But I do wonder if many people realize the lengths that the MSM would go to in order to see their boy to the finish line."
A news journalist never writes in such a way. Not even at the "ultra-liberal" NYT. This shows the clear and obvious bias of the story writer. This is Limbaughesque rhetoric.
But if you think we want these kind of stories suppressed. I say H-LL NO! Bring 'em on. Anyone involved in voter fraud should be prosecuted. But until we see convictions and direct links to Obama himself I could really give a sh-t! This is all a bunch a supposition based on rather vague statements. You people were screaming to high heaven about ACORN months ago. But is ACORN really the reason you lost. Hardly!
The other rather humorous part is that now that you have lost we are hearing the very sort of charges many Dems were leveling at your side in '00. And of course there were the same accusations of direct linkage to the Bush campaign. Although the allegations sounded rather serious they went nowhere in the end.
But his time the popular vote was quite clear with a difference of 5.8 million. You all don't have much credibility left after the garbage you spewed during the election but to even try to suggest this election was somehow "stolen" your credibility is going to be down to nil. IMO it is already.
And what is the mythical MSM? Is Fox(largest cable news viewership)not part of that now? Is the WSJ no longer a member because Rupert owns it? Is Rush Limbaugh himself not now part of this (he claims to have 25 million listeners afterall). Or are their opinions so far out (like many of yours) they don't fit into the mainstream anymore? Does this mean you are all now social deviants?
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Hhussk10 months, 1 week ago
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I happen to have information on that.
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The current goal is to try and create a channel for Newspapers to become tax-exempt. This form of exemption would basically allow them to support the Democrats like they always do, and become funded by the government.
Note: The only requirement I have heard they have to follow is that they cannot endorse candidates. Everything else is fair game. I'll see if I can find a link.
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Hhussk10 months, 1 week ago
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Here is the article where the Democrats attempt to bailout newspapers that are failing.
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Hhussk10 months, 1 week ago
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My guess is that it remains a very low level story and never rises above that. Kind of like the GOP voter fraud in Ohio '04. Or the accusations of fraud in Florida in '00.
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You may very well be right that is remains a low level story. Now juxtapose your statement with the fact that the newspaper media is going out of business.-
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vor10 months, 1 week ago
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"Now juxtapose your statement with the fact that the newspaper media is going out of business."
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Newspapers are the 8-tracks of the aughts! Doomed by technology.The question then becomes, does that mean bloggers like this maroon will be our news sources in the future? A scary thought. Clearly this guy either never was taught journalism or he intentionally violated one of its cardinal rules. Never directly state your bias.
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Hhussk10 months, 1 week ago
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And what is the mythical MSM?
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MSM, or the Mainstream Media, is a term that developed out of research journals from News Media Research and Pew polling that showed that by a margin of 8:1 news reporters vote for the liberal candidate. From this research, which is normally assembled every year, reporters are asked to indicate their political leanings and votes.
By inference and implication, MSM used to fall on the shoulders of the "Big 3" (ABC, CBS, and NBC) as well as the NY Times, Los Angelos Times, and a few other papers that spanned the globe in their subscribership. But since the globalization of information and the internet, MSM now basically is allotted to media that consistantly slants information, leaving out important details, usually towards a liberal bias.
FOX news, as you say, is Mainstream. But they are not necessarily Mainstream Media. Being number #1 in a world of many news organizations only means they are the best, not the majority.
Thank Me.-
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vor10 months, 1 week ago
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I can only say laughable....when I flipped through the other day and Fox was showing one of their pretty blond anchors from the side behind a desk and she had a skirt slit up to her waist, you see how they attract ratings. Nobody ever said Murdoch was stupid. But there is now so much opinion and mindless chatter on both Fox and MSNBC that the actual news rarely gets discussed. CNN has gotten so bad it's bearly watchable except for Fareed Zakaria. They lost complete credibility by ever putting Beck on the air. Of course he is now at Fox where he truly belongs.
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O'Reilly, Hannity and Beck...what lineup! Not a bit of reason between the three of them. Swollen egos on the level of Limbaugh. The Curly, Moe and Larry of punditry. Of course Olberman and Matthews suffer from the same self worship. But anyone preaching a partisan position is like the writer of this article...giving you half the story at best. Educating yourself has actually become more difficult in this world even with the plethora of information on the net. Too much "garbage in, garbage out". The evening linep on Fox is an excellent example of that process. Thankfully it is but a relatively small number of Americans who are poisoned nightly. Especially compared to the damage Limbaugh does on a daily basis.
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nuiloa10 months, 1 week ago
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I'm sorry, but this is dumb.
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So McCain didn't lose in a landslide because he...
a) ran a terrible campaign
b) picked a nitwit for a running mate
c) completely choked when the financial crisis broke.
Instead he lost because some workers at ACORN turned in a bunch of phony registrations -- even though none of those *registrations* actually resulted in any *votes*.
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Hhussk10 months, 1 week ago
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No.
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McCain lost because he was McCain, an almost anti-conservative Republican. The point is that he never really had a chance in the first place. It's not like the New York Times, which previously fawned over him, would endorse him. No, instead they ran a hit piece on him in a marriage scandal (which was immediately proven untrue). Later they endorse Obama.
The premise here is that ACORN has been, and is still, corrupt. President Obama has ties to ACORN. And what this leads to is the fact that information, which would normally be released, was shelved because of the fear that it would hurt Democrats. -
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Klarissa10 months, 1 week ago
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nuiloa, the Acorn activities are a separate issue from McCain.
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Illegal voting activties are Unamerican, regardless of whom they benefit.
Jimmy carter makes a big deal of going to foreign countries to observe their voting.
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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this is not about McCain.........this is about the NY TIMES considering you to be too naive and too much of a rube to make an educated decision on your own. This is about the NY TIMES making a decision not only for you but for tens of thousands of other people. This is about the NY TIMES who had no problem trying to slander McCain by running that Vicki Ismann story on the flimsiest of evidence and sitting on a story in which there has already been testimony given to a jury. This is about the major new outlets not living up to their responsibility of properly vetting a candidate. A low level story ?not when you have Cornyn (Bring ne the head of Bush on a plate) a democrat wanting to investigate this.
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Commodore110 months, 1 week ago
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Another story omitted by the NYT to cover Obama bin Laden's already many scandals. The NYT. What a joke. Aren't they the same ones who omitted the fact that Spanish lawyer did time in jail for his link to terrorist groups. U remember the one who said he was filing something against Bush? It's amazing. The people at the NYT are so arrogant and so stupid they just can't understand that this type of shoddy reporting is exactly why they are financially going down the commode. It doesn't matter. Obama bin Laden will be given another free pass. The more scandal he gets into the more the nazi liberals like him.
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Klarissa10 months, 1 week ago
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nuiloa, the Acorn activities are a separate issue from McCain.
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Illegal voting activties are Unamerican, regardless of whom they benefit.
Jimmy carter makes a big deal of going to foreign countries to observe their voting.
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Dionys10 months, 1 week ago
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Interestingly enough the voting activities UN monitor group that Carter has dealt with in the past said that NEITHER the 2000 and 2004 elections would have been considered valid according to the rules they require in third world countries.
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djn3nunez310 months, 1 week ago
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Hearsay literally means information gathered by the first person from a second person concerning some event, condition, or thing of which the first person had no direct experience. When submitted as evidence, such statements are called hearsay evidence.
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"Ms. Heidelbaugh said Ms. Moncrief had told her "
"Ms. Moncrief told Ms. Heidelbaugh the [Obama] campaign had asked her and her boss "
He said, She said.
Frank Zappa told me that Studebaker Hawke can write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin!-
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pc2510 months, 1 week ago
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hearsay..........here's hearsay for you............
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An Acorn Whistleblower Testifies in Court
The group's ties to Obama are extensive.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122533169940482893...
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NoWayMan10 months, 1 week ago
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still wouldn't have been a game changer.
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by the time this came out, eveyone's mind was made up.
America was DONE with the cons. big time. Bushco simply inflicted too much damage on this country. McCain DID look like McSame, old, out of touch, status quo, no new ideas. And Palin was the final nail in the coffin.
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jovial10 months, 1 week ago
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SHOCKER! Pc25 has picked another loser story to post on propeller.
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IT WAS SHAMELESS! Pc25 still can't get over the fact that the Republicans lost the presidency.
UNBELIEVABLE! Pc25 picked a story to post that wasn't from the hotair blog, but a site that is as equally crappy.
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cushi10 months, 1 week ago
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We have just turned the page on the most corrupt administration in modern history, and here are the numnuts who backed it, yammering about an insignificant splinter (if that even) while continuing to turn a blind eye to the 2x4 that hit them in the head repeatedly for the past 8 years!!
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One word: PATHETIC!!
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