Obama: 'I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.'

ABC News ^ | September 20, 2009 | George Stephanopoulos

[FTJM]

It was one of the most popular topics among the questions you submitted to me for my interview with President Obama – the controversy involving ACORN.

While the President said that ACORN "deserves to be investigated" in light of the "inappropriate" video that's gone viral, he did not endorse recent votes in Congress to cut off federal funding for the community group.

Here’s our FULL exchange:

STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?

OBAMA: You know, if -- frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely. I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.

OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So you're not committing to -- to cut off the federal funding?

OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to.

[goodnesswins]

HA...I'll be first....LIAR!

[Kickass Conservative]

YOU LIE!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hell, this is no excuse for someone who knows exactly how much each “BIG business” CEO in America is making!

[RC2]

Hell....he was their attorney and taught them exactly how to do it.

[Reagan69]

How can you tell when Obama is lying?

“his purple lips move.”

[Quickgun]

O YOU LIE!!

[Mamzelle]

Even if this is the truth, it speaks to competence. We’re supposed to trust this guy with our health?

[Kickass Conservative]

I bow to the quickest poster. LOL

[dalereed]

How can you tell obama is lying, his mouth is moving!

[steelyourfaith]

He’s clueless. Big surprise, eh?

[A message]

OBAMA: You know, if -- frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely. I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.

YOU LIE.

[fujimoh]

Obama’s exercising is narcissist character the “Liar”. He knows the exact amount of federal money being funneled to his organization ... especially if he is using his communist power for pay caps on exec pay.

[Kartographer]

[SeafoodGumbo]

Ayers is just a guy in his neighborhood, he never heard hatred at Trinity, ...

[BilLies]

Let me see what I, the Son of OBama, would rather be thought as:
1.) A LIAR;
2.) A STUPID LIAR;
I opt for a PLAIN LIAR.

[South40]

[bboop]

Tossing ACORN under the bus. Except his fingerprints are all over ACORN. And I join in — LIAR.

[UCANSEE2]

The President is very busy with important work.

He has to help Michele to ‘win’ the Olympics for Chicago.

[Vaquero]

once again I must intone

the POS-OTUS is a Lying Sack of Shiite.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Sounds like we need a community organizer “czar” to track the corruption and to get some community organizer “reform” action going. There’s too much corruption goin’ on out there.

[Steely Tom]

I do hope the Presidential Records Act, along with all the other myriad laws regulating the long-term disposition of all intra-governmental communications, including e-mails and computer files, are being followed by this White House.

I seem to recall that a rather shady character was hired to run the exec branch’s IT operation.

I can’t wait for the Friday night announcement that “oops, by gosh and by golly, 25,000 TB of White House computer data has mysteriously been wiped off hard drives, and no backups were made.”

[Man50D]

He also wasn’t aware tow million people were marching in Washington D.C. on 9/12 when he, just out of sheer coincidence, was in Minnesota that same day for a socialist health care pep rally.

[Tarpon]

WOW is it no wonder he’s called the liar in chief.

What about that $8.5 billion reeelection fund ...

They don’t call him Odummer for nothing.

[kromike]

It’s reminiscent of the Clinton “I can’t recall” Dodge.

[Man50D]

tow=Two

[libstripper]

Notice how the Illegal Alien only says what's on the prostitution videos needs to be investigated, not ACORN as a RICO organization. He's as much as saying he'd have Holder set up a narrow whitewash that might get a few little people indicted and otehwise exonerate ACORN, leaving it free to go about all its other illegal activities.

[bootless]

Oh, I don’t believe that for a minute.

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

[Batman11]

“He has to help Michele to ‘win’ the Olympics for Chicago.”

I assume that O’s Ho Mo is in the Shot Put competition!

[freeangel]

You got it in before me! LOL

[LeoWindhorse]

some people lie so easily and naturally they don’t even know they are doing it

“Yea, that’s it....that’s the ticket....”

[RetSignman]

Stunningly unbelievable.

[staytrue]

I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.

Obama is just doing his "I'm just a regular guy" schtick.

Frankly, 70 percent of the US population could have said this and it would be true.

In Obama's case, I will join the chorus and say "you lie"

Acorn got 8 billion in the stimulus bill. And since he is potus and signed it, you have to say Obama is an ignorant president, or he is lying.

[jwalsh07]

Paging Joe Wilson, paging Joe Wilson....

[UCANSEE2]

He knows the exact amount of federal money being funneled to his organization ...

Nope. ACORN has many roots and branches. He doesn't have time to find out, and does not want to know. It's called plausible deniability.

He is establishing it before any more TAPES are released by BREITBART from Hannah and James.

[cerberus]

It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to.

Sounds a lot like his reaction to "learning" about Reverend Wright. He sat in Wright's church for 20? years but would have us believe he didn't "pay a lot of attention".

What a liar!!

The truth is they have known all along, but got caught thanks to Glenn Beck, Fox and the independent journalists who got the story.

[Political Junkie Too]

If Obama is not lying, then he is defining his own incompetence.

He now has a 20-year history of not knowing what was going on with ANY association that he has had.

• He never knew that Rev. Wright was racist.
• Bill Ayers was just a guy in the neighborhood.
• He never knew his grandmother was a "typical white person."
• He didn't know enough facts of the bills in Illinois to vote other than "present."
• He's a lousy gift-giver.
• He didn't know Van Jones' past history.
• He can't give a coherent speech with being fed the words on a teleprompter.

I know there is more, but the point is made.

Obama is either an incompetent stooge or he is a liar.

-PJ

[UCANSEE2]

How can you tell when Obama is lying?

You can tell when they repeat something three times.

You know, if -- frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely.

I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.

It's not something I'm paying a lot of attention to.

[jwparkerjr]

There are two kinds of liars. The first lies and thinks the listener won't know the difference. The other lies and doesn't care if the listener knows the difference or not. The latter is a form of a sociopath with no regard for anyone but number one.

The fact that Obama will go on TV and lie without reservation says an awful lot about the kind of man that was elected to the highest office in the land.

[tcrlaf]

Let me join in the chorus...

YOU LIE!!

[UCANSEE2]

Obama is either an incompetent stooge or he is a liar.

Yeah, and for a black guy, he's not really cool, at all.

[Oatka]

A GREAT poster making the email circuit.

[UCANSEE2]

I assume that O’s Ho Mo is in the Shot Put competition!

Yeah, but She's mad because he wants to compete in bowling, and that will lower their 'average'.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

'I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money taken at the point of a gun from the taxpaying citizens of the United States.'

There, fixed it..

[aquila48]

“YOU LIE!”

DITTO!

[The Wizard]

pathological liar

[sten]

now... now... we no longer are allowed to use the word 'lie' or 'liar', as that would be offensive.

in the future, please utter the following phrase in order to be politically correct under the 1st amendment while dealing with congressional and liberal types

BULLSHIT !

[Brilliant]

Of course not... He only watches CBS, NBC, PBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC.

[UCANSEE2]

The fact that Obama will go on TV and lie without reservation says an awful lot about the kind of man that was elected to the highest office in the land.

I thought that was what the Islams did to Dhimmi's? Lie on purpose.

[ak267]

Obama was rushed to the emergency room today when his pants spontaneously combusted at a helath care speech today. He’s listed in stable condition with 2nd degree burns on his thighs, shins and buttocks.