Posted on 09/18/2009 4:03:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The money quote: “I think that says a little bit about what Mr. O’Keefe thinks that a black and brown organization would go for.” Well, no. It says a lot about what O’Keefe and Giles think the public would go for, and they’ve been proved correct. A sting involving basic tax/mortgage fraud simply wouldn’t have colored the national imagination as vividly as a dorky kid dressed up like Huggy Bear escorting a three-quarters-naked 20-year-old into ACORN offices. Frankly, if not for the horrendous detail about child-sex-slave trafficking, the premise would have made for a killer Anthony Michael Hall vehicle circa 1985. If they chose this storyline because they thought it might hold some special appeal for ACORN, that almost certainly has more to do with class than race: Prostitution is usually a function of poverty so it stands to reason that they thought it might lend them extra credibility with a group that serves a low-income clientele. Besides, if O’Keefe and Giles really believed streetwalking is a “black thing,” wouldn’t they have hired a minority actress to play the prostitute?
No matter. It’s “shoot the messenger” time for Bertha Lewis — and for WaPo, which contents itself with shooting the messenger’s father instead. From today’s piece about the ACORN sting, your non sequitur of the year:
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Giles did not respond to phone calls and requests through Townhall.com editor Jonathan Garthwaite for an interview. Her father, Doug Giles of the radical Clash Church in Miami, had complained of what he called the evils of the Obama administration and its alliance with ACORN.
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In an online opinion piece last month, titled “What Obama’s Town Hall Charade and Pam Anderson’s Breasts Have in Common,” Doug Giles complained of Obama’s “rent-a-mobs” at a health care town hall in New Hampshire. He claimed Obama could “summon a cabal at the drop of a red fez,” including “ACORN lug nuts ready to register Mickey Mouse” to vote.
You’re not going to trust exhaustive documentary video evidence gathered by the daughter of a “radical,” are you?
The relevant bit here comes at around 1:30. Meanwhile, Boehner warns the base that defunding ACORN is hardly a done deal just yet. Because the House measure was attached to a bill that hasn’t passed the Senate, it could still be eliminated in conference committee. They’re going to push a standalone bill to match the one Mike Johanns pushed through the upper chamber to force it to Obama’s desk. Will Pelosi let it come to the floor?
CLICK ABOVE LINK TO WATCH ACORN CEO BERTHA LEWIS ON CSPAN
I would like ACORN to be prosecuted under the RICO statue.
Only an idiot would try to use the much overplayed and over-hyped race card as a floatation device.
But where a close personal friendship (mentorship) with an unrepentant domestic terrorist is dismissed as “just a guy in my neighborhood” and the racist rhetoric of a church you have attended for twenty years is first unable to be disavowed, then disavowed and then completely dropped.
No justice, no peace!
ACORN, just about what everybody expected from a criminal enterprise.
Not nearly as much as the fact that it worked says about the organization.
YO, BERTHA... the only RACIST I’ve seen or heard lately,, is YOU!!!!
LOL!:)
Not necessarily. Remember the Mayflower Madam, who ran a "high class" prostitution ring. Her motto: "Hire good people and pay them what they are worth".
I remember reading her book at the time I was teaching a course in Management. It was fantastic. She applied the very management principles I was trying to get across to my students. Unfortunately I couldn't use the book as outside reading for the students.
I'd like to see ACORN tax preparers under the IRS microscope.
LET'S DO THIS NOW: Contact the IRS Criminal Investigations Division (IRS-CI) (CALLERS CAN REMAIN ANONYMOUS)
> To report suspected tax fraud activity, Tele toll-free 1-800-829-0433
> To report suspected tax law violations, Tele toll-free 1-800-829-0433
MISSION STATEMENT The IRS-CI mission is to follow the money. No matter the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes. The IRS-CI utilizes the broad authority of Title 26 and 31, tax, currency reporting and forfeiture and Title 18 money laundering, conspiracy and forfeiture to identify, investigate and prosecute the most significant tax, currency and money laundering offenders; and to pursue the assets of those offenders both domestically and internationally for criminal tax and asset forfeiture purposes.
Contact the IRS when you suspect :
> Unscrupulous Tax Return Preparers
> Frivolous filers/non-filers who challenge the constitutionality of the American tax system
>Income Tax Evasion
> Failure to File
> Filing False Returns
> Employment Tax Cases
> Claims for Fraudulent Refunds
> Abusive Trust Schemes
> Illegal Source Financial Crimes (Money obtained illegally or through fraud)
> Narcotics Related Financial Crimes
> Money Laundering
The IRS is also interested in leadership and members of groups involved in tax, money laundering, or currency violations and persons engaged in fundraising activities using tax exempt organizations, and complex, extensive or convoluted financial transactions.
Wayne Rathke is also founder of the SEIU thug organization.
Thanks Liz. The IRS criminal division might get a call from me in regards to ACORN.
Since they were both white and walked into a mixed race organization and made a proposition to receive aid for prostitution, how can the sting be racist?
The scumbags at ACORN jumped at the prospect of helping a prostitution ring, nothing racist about it, just a totally criminal organization from bottom to top!
OK, it’s official- now, I have truly heard everything!
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
Why not. We already know it’s racist to accuse a black politician of being a liar.
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