Posted on 10/06/2009 3:34:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Acorn chief executive, Bertha Lewis, met with reporters at the National Press Club in Washington this morning. It was one of several appearances she has made in the weeks since conservative videographers, posing as a pimp and a prostitute successfully elicited advice from the group’s counselors on tax evasion and securing housing for a brothel.
But if critics and even some supporters are looking for an “apology tour,” they are not getting one.
Ms. Lewis, rather, provided a defiant answer to her critics, even while acknowledging that the behavior of the Acorn workers who were caught on tape was unacceptable, and that her organization – whose full name is the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – is still pursuing needed structural improvements.
She decried a “modern-day Acorn McCarthyism,’’ and blamed some of the group’s current problems on its more than 40-year history of “going after the rich and the powerful.”
She said that through years of mismanagement that predated her start as the interim chief executive last year, and through the misguided actions of some employees, “In a way we’ve aided and abetted our attackers.”
But, she said, some workers caught on the tapes – all of whom have been fired – had suspended their judgment of the woman they took to be a young prostitute, out of a misplaced sense of sympathy.
And, ticking through Acorn’s work in housing, minority lending and on workers’ issues since its founding in the 1970’s, Ms. Lewis vowed, “Nothing will ever be able to wipe away those forty years of work, and nothing will stop us from forty more.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
I denounce ACORN’s air of Marxism.
“Acorn Chief Denounces Air of ‘McCarthyism’ “
Lol, the same old warhorses trotted out. Did she cry racism too?
I would call it the air of the Mafia. Bertha you run a corrupt organization.
I prefer Americanism Commies leave.
McCarthyism rulez in the appiled case of ACORN. Root out all those corruptible radical socialists and communists within their ranks!
Lengthy Congressional investigation(s) of ACORN and its subsidiary groups and organizations is long overdue. I mean geezus, if the Congress can investigate steroid use in MLB, it surely can investigate actual fraud, corruption, etc. in ACORN, etc. =.=
Using false charges of “racism” to silence your critics is the only modern example of “McCarthyism.”
So she admits they're commies?
Mccarthy was right!
....McCarthyism ha!...a white man told her to say that...she wouldn’t know McCarthy from Dick’s house cat....personally, I’d like to see a second coming of McCarthy...it’s time we called out these destructive Lefties.
She is actually right because McCarthy was right so now McCarthyism should stand for the truth.
This is, evidently, the leftist polemics version of ‘rotating the crops’. When the ‘racist’ accusation wears out, go back to ‘McCarthyism’.
Ask her to explain Mccarthyism.
Leave Charlie McCarthy ALONE!!!!!!
EXACTLY!!
Glenn Beck may be as close as we'll get to a new McCarthy.
We must defend him at every opportunity.
“had suspended their judgment of the woman they took to be a young prostitute, out of a misplaced sense of sympathy. “
Wait, just last week it was: The employees all thought it was a joke and they were going along with a joke... Riiiiiiiigh.
Someone Get Bertha a wig, those nasty rows look hideous on her, and she is gonna be on camera a lot in the future, she needs to look at least like she is trying to be attractive while she spins like a top.....
The woman is a certified moron.
Yes, she has already done that. I read it earlier today right here at F.R.
(It's racist of me to tell you that though and if you've read my reply to this point, you are racist too.)
Who’s on the blacklist then?
I denounce the air of criminality.
Ms Lewis
“McCarthyism” is a favored shibboleth, used by leftists to shut-up people who challenge or disagree with them. It’s almost as popular with them as “racist.” Leftists have gone to the well too many times with ‘racist’ and the word is becoming meaningless. ‘McCarthyism’ is losing its punch too, because Joe McCarthy has largely been vindicated by history (no thanks to those who should be teaching it). It will take more than these to deflect any notice of the stench coming from ACORN.
Man, That is Bone Fugly! Can someone say time for a “Makeover”.
Whenever anyone invokes McCarthy to claim their innocence it means the suspicions against them are justified.
McCarthy was right.
The Commies needed a Black face to hide behind.
"What the? That bitch says it like it's a bad thing."
FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.
Bertha’s voice is very coarse. Maybe it’s because she appears to have a Michelin tire around her neck. Bertha, has your thyroid been checked? And make sure it’s an affirmative action doctor, of course.
FOX NEWS SPECIAL REPORT TO AIR THIS SUNDAY
This Sunday night at 8:00 PM central /9 PM Eastern. Fox News is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, The report will go back to Obama’s earlier days, showing even then his close ties to radical Marxist professors, friends, spiritual advisers, etc. It will also reveal/detail his ties to Rev. Wright for 20+ yrs. How he was participating with this man, and not for the reasons he states!
The report has uncovered more of Obama’s radical past and we will see things that no one in the media is willing to put out there. It will be a segment to remember.
Mark your calendar and pass this on to everyone you know: Sunday night,
8 PM. CT; 9 PM ET. Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how YOUR country is being sold down the road to Totalitarian Socialism.
OBAMA NEEDS TO GO-NOW!!!
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/
Obama’s Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008
Is “coalition politics” at work in Obama’s rise to power?
In his biography of Barack Obama, David Mendell writes about Obama’s life as a “secret smoker” and how he “went to great lengths to conceal the habit.” But what about Obama’s secret political life? It turns out that Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist.
In his books, Obama admits attending “socialist conferences” and coming into contact with Marxist literature. But he ridicules the charge of being a “hard-core academic Marxist,” which was made by his colorful and outspoken 2004 U.S. Senate opponent, Republican Alan Keyes.
However, through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his “poetry” and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just “Frank.”
More available through the link posted above!
BTTT
Give me a ping on Sunday prior to its’ airing.
OK, ACORN teaches people how to cheat on their taxes - and how to lie to get a "house"... How is that connected to going after the rich?
Unless she means ACORN goes after guilty rich white liberals for cash... mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, that's tacky.
Oh, definitely. Along with Trotskyism, Dispensationalism, and Sadomasochism.
I’m disgusted with the whole idea about the so-called “evils” of “McCarthyism” when the fascism exhibited by Woodrow Wilson and progressives during the first world war was far more pernicious. McCarthy was a bit of a loose cannon, but there were reds in government. Wilson’s war on the nation resulted in many innocent people being imprisoned and some murdered. Newspapers and magazines were shut down for disagreeing with Wilson’s war. Civilians were hired by the government to spy on their neighbors and report them for “seditious” statements. Read Jonah Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” for the whole story on what “progressives” like Wilson hatched.
Wilson is probably the most racist president we’ve had.
They haven’t seen anything yet, wait until this breaks, we need to make it go viral....
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LOL!
McCarthy was right on the money.
1,000% spot on. His praises need to be sung.
But what is troubling is that during all this Obama’s ratings went back up. Help, I need a sociologist.
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