Defending, Not Defunding, ACORN »
Posted By jovial 1 month ago in Political News
Fox News and its television personalities, including Glenn Beck, are pushing an agenda that is to the detriment of low income and working communities. The effort to single out ACORN by Fox News' political pundits is no coincidence.
"We are not going to stand idly by while the conservative right systematically attacks organizations such as ACORN who, over the years, have done a great deal to help low income and underserved communities. These right wing attacks border on McCarthyism. We are urging Congress not to join Glenn Beck's witch hunt, and vote against the continuing resolution to defund ACORN." – Robert Greenwald, Founder and Director of Brave New Films
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jovial1 month ago
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"Brave New Films is pushing to get Congress to vote against extending the Defund ACORN Act. The House is expected to take up this vote sometime this week, with the Senate to follow in the upcoming month. Extending the Defund ACORN Act would essentially deprive ACORN of most of the funding currently used on voting rights, housing, minimum wage reform, and unemployment.
As part of its efforts, Brave New Films has come out to stand with ACORN by releasing a new video, "ACORN Under Attack." The video asks viewers to call Congress and ask that they vote against extending the Defund ACORN Act."
http://defoxamerica.com/-
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lum-chate1 month ago
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"Brave New Films has come out to stand with ACORN"
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Whoever this Brave New Bunch characters are they are undoubtedly another wacko group
we better keep an eye on! Sticking up for Acorn is like saying cesspools don't stink. It's simply not reasonable to defend this out of control over funded outfit. That is of course unless you advocate child prostitution and slavery. Fall is coming to the great northeast. Appropriately & symbolically the ACORNS are falling from the mighty oaks.
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Georgia501 month ago
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mesodude1 month ago
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"How like liberals to champion corruption for America's poor!"
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--Please don't pretend to care about the poor. Cons are stalking and harassing ACORN because your agenda is bankrupt, everyone knows this, minorities and the poor aren't voting the way you want, and you need to suppress their votes if you have any hope of winning elections. Simple as that. -
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jovial1 month ago
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/16/cracker-...
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You defended the attack on that woman in the quote in the link above. You said that this black woman military soldier should have been beat down in public while being called racial slurs in front of her 7yo daughter. You wrote that. You went on to say that the woman fitted a demographic of the type of people that had a higher propensity of having AIDS. -
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hyperbola1 month ago
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Oh, the "corruption" (if it is such) championed by "liberals" pales in comparison with the corurption that is endemic with right-wingers.
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Why do you hate Americans so much Georgia? Is it because you are an israel-firster?
ACORN and Pfizer - Who's the Pimp?
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/09/25/acorn-an...
Acorn is a poor people’s grassroots organization.
Earlier this month, some of it’s employees were caught on tape giving advice to two young right-wing activists posing as pimp and prostitute.
Pfizer is a wealthy and powerful multinational corporation.
Earlier this month, a Pfizer unit pled guilty to a felony in connection with a major health care fraud and paid $2.3 billion in fines.
So, if the Democratically controlled Congress were to vote to either:
a) strip federal funding from the grassroots group Acorn, or
b) ban corporate felon Pfizer from future government business
Which would it be? Let me guess.
Last week, the Democratic controlled Congress voted to strip Acorn of its federal funding.
Why?
The vote came a day after the release of the latest video by the two activists who crisscrossed the country trying to get Acorn employees to help them in setting up a child-prostitution business.
In some Acorn offices, workers reported the two to the police.
In others, they sought to help the fake pimp and prostitute.
Fox and Limbaugh and Hannity and Beck and O’Reilly made it seem as if Acorn was a corporate felon.
And reacting to the right-wing echo chamber, the House and Senate voted to end Acorn’s federal funding.
Unclear whether such a move is Constitutional. The Constitution prohibits bills of attainder.
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hyperbola1 month ago
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Let’s find a list of major corporate criminals who rip off the federal government.
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And bar them from ever doing business with the federal government again.
Lo and behold, we have such a list right here.
A quick and dirty list from the annals of Taxpayers Against Fraud and the Corporate Crime Reporter:
Pfizer, Serono, Takeda-Abbott Pharmaceutical, Shering-Plough, Lilly, Abbott Labs, Cephalon, National Medical Enterprises, HCA, Gambro Health Care, Schering-Plough, Astra-Zeneca, Bayer, Purdue.
Major corporate criminals?
Check.
Convicted in a court of law?
Check.
Ripped off the federal government?
Check.
Paid fines that would keep Acorn in business until hell freezes over?
Check.
Which raises an obvious question for the members of Congress who voted overwhelmingly to strip Acorn of its federal funding:
Who’s the pimp?
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FairNBalanced1 month ago
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"By keeping ACORN charities on the list, the federal government is giving its seal of approval to a group that advised people to lie to the IRS. And this position is inconsistent with congressional intent, as well as the IRS and Census Bureau's stand that they no longer want to do business with ACORN," Grassley said in a statement Tuesday.
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ACORN should clean up their act!-
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mesodude1 month ago
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"ACORN should clean up their act!"
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--We're sure you're all about cleaning up acts. Right... That's why you support the entire GOP being in bed with the insurance industry. You just don't want poor people to vote for Democrats. Get serious. We know what you people are up to. ;-P -
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ADAGUY1 month ago
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When you have this many employees, you can't know the true character of each and every one! You are bound to get lemons in the workforce.
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The real test comes when these lemons are discovered. What will be done about it? Fired, or sweep it under the rug?
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miklkit1 month ago
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The republicons have been attacking ACORN since at least June 2008. This is class warfare of the rich against the poor. If the poor can't vote, they can't vote Democrat.
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Let's apply the same rules to ACORN as we do to Halliburton and Blackwater.-
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Georgia501 month ago
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Heck...in 2000 it became clear that even wealthy Democrats in Florida didn't know how to vote...even when casting a ballot designed by Democrats.
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If you're too stupid to vote, there's not much decided by voting that's going to matter to you anyway.
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Commodore11 month ago
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Well since ACORN has proven itself to be corrupt and untrusting FOX has a good point. They probably were good at one time but not any more and everyone in the world knows it. Only after they clean up their act should they receive funding. Participating in child prostitution is not a good reason to receive funding. Even liberals should be able to understand that.
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jovial1 month ago
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Blackwater was in to actual child prostitution in Iraq. Not just talking about it. They still receive billions in government contracts. They also have powerful lobbyists to protect their interests. ACORN on the other hand is being singled out, because they don't have powerful lobbyist backing.
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mesodude1 month ago
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"Well since ACORN has proven itself to be corrupt and untrusting FOX has a good point."
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--Um, but *FOX* is corrupt in the extreme (as is the entire GOP) so if you cared about corruption, you wouldn't be listening to them or voting for criminal Republicans who are insurance industry wh*res.
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Hhussk1 month ago
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ACORN isn't designed to help people. That's the problem. How are you helping people when you don't care if they traffic illegal immigrants in prostitution rings?
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Does that sound like "helping the poor"?
And yet, Democrats can't seem to keep themselves from giving ACORN money.-
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jovial1 month ago
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Does it sound like conservatives (Fox News ones..), care about the poor when they continually attack an organization that is trying to help the poor in this country, but continually make excuses for Blackwater, Northrop Grumman, etc.
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mesodude1 month ago
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"ACORN isn't designed to help people. That's the problem. How are you helping people when you don't care if they traffic illegal immigrants in prostitution rings?"
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--LMAO. Your acrobatic spin is breathtaking. ACORN isn't designed to help people in a way that serves YOUR AGENDA. ACORN is *designed* to help poor people register millions to vote, they're doing a great job at that, and you don't like it because they're empowering people who aren't likely to vote for racist cons who want to destroy an agency that's helping them.
"Does that sound like "helping the poor"?
--Your manufactured red herrings don't change the fact that you support the voter suppression party. ;-P
"And yet, Democrats can't seem to keep themselves from giving ACORN money."
--What make cons go postal is knowing that these people won't vote for you no matter what. It makes you chernobyl because the best you can do is to get poor people *not* to vote for Democrats in hopes of benefiting from razor thin close elections. That's the reason you have to resort to vote suppression and hiring weasels to entrap a handful of dupes. Your agenda is BANKRUPT and this no con can deny. ;-P
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fsev411 month ago
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NWM, don't you know that those under-represented segments of our society are not worthy of having a right to vote, or a right to health care, or a right to a living wage? They're here to do the dirty work and hopefully die young so the elite can live a "comfortable life".
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jjbuff1 month ago
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Where was FOX when Bushes Interior Dept was being bribed by Oil Companies with Prostitutes and Cocaine.They also were quiet about Blackwater compensating their employees with Drugs and often underaged Prostitutes while being payed billions in taxpayer dollars. They instead go after Van Jones and Accorn,Give me a break.
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tattooednomad1 month ago
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Maybe the poor unfortunates should get off their collective rear ends and go get a job. Oh, that's right. Their job is to stay home and breed and collect money from those who do actually go to work. Acorn is a corrupt agency whose job it was, was to get nimb-rod in office and to scam the goverment at any cost as evident in their last scandal. AKIA Nomad
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jovial1 month ago
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More stupidity. There has never been a time in history when everyone in this country was employed. There has always been poor people. Not all poor people are that way because of choice. It's a shame that people need this type of education in the 21st century.
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mesodude1 month ago
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"Acorn is a corrupt agency whose job it was, was to get nimb-rod in office and to scam the goverment at any cost as evident in their last scandal. AKIA Nomad"
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--So you're saying you support voter suppression because you think poor people are lazy and don't even deserve voting rights. Correct? ;-0 -
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jblack451 month ago
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If you would listen to a real news network and not Fox you would realize that jobs are hard to find and that not all people that are unemployed are there by choice. Maybe you have a job. maybe you don't. But if you do what if you lost it tomorrow and had to go for months and months and could not find one? As far as ACORN goes Fox misinterpet the news only gave one side of the story.which is the side they used to start their smear campaign.. As usual they gave only the negative side of ACORN. There are many positive things that they have done that you will never hear about on Fox news. I know that there were some wrong doings by people in this group and they were dealt with. But cutting their funding and allowing Black Water and KBR/Haliburton off the hook is a travesty. Maybe if ACORN had paid lobbyist like these two companies nothing would have ever been said about it. Oh and by the way isn't Haliburton the group that Dick Cheney is connected to? And didn't this group try to keep a woman's rape claim thrown out because of a clause in the company's contract ? Where is Fox news on this? Fox news We report You decide. Fair and balanced. Yeah right.
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philbrick1 month ago
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Here's the real misuse of government funding from Haliburton/KBR:
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"It is stunning that 30 Republican members of the United States Senate would vote to protect a corporation, in this case Halliburton/KBR, over a woman who was gang raped".
Here are those who vote to protect a corporation over a victim of rape:
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)
The thirty co-criminals, all republicans all the time.
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Progressive1 month ago
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As the recession has dragged on, conservative distaste for the poor has increased, egged on by the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, who want to blame the country's economic problems on the have-nots:
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