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DUmmy Reluctantly Admits That ACORN IS Finished
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Posted on 09/16/2009 12:14:53 PM PDT by big black dog

Let's face it, folks, ACORN 2009 is just like John Edwards 2008...

...in that, despite the loathsomeness of the messenger, despite the reluctance of many to pick on someone demonized by Fox and the GOP, at the end of the day, Edwards was history. And so is ACORN.

I hadn't watched the footage until today, to be honest--I thought this whole thing would blow over. But it won't. After the always-trustworthy Jon Stewart expressed his view that ACORN is a largely corrupt organization, I went ahead and looked at this stakeout footage. Given that it happened in several different locations in several different cities, it's actually a hundred times more disgraceful than I thought it would be--and it's not going to go away, nor should it.

These things happen. We wish they only happened to those highly deserving folks on the Right, but the world is unfair in that regard. And contrary to whatever the usual clowns are saying, this is not the end of liberalism, of the Democratic Party, of Barack Obama, of community organizing and outreach to the poor and needy in our big cities.

But make no mistake--for now, at least, and for me, it is the end of ACORN.


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I, too, think this would have blown over if it had been just one office. Fire the workers who showed "poor judgment," lambste the right for "dirty tricks," and move on. The MSM certainly has shown no interest at getting to the truth and pursuing the matter.

1 posted on 09/16/2009 12:14:53 PM PDT by big black dog
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To: PJ-Comix

Ping.


2 posted on 09/16/2009 12:15:49 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: big black dog

Sustein next.

Alinsky knows what he’s talkin’ about.


3 posted on 09/16/2009 12:16:51 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: big black dog
Given that it happened in several different locations in several different cities, it's actually a hundred times more disgraceful than I thought it would be--and it's not going to go away, nor should it.

THUD!

OMG!! Does this mean there's HOPE that people in DUmmyland can see the light and CHANGE?!?!?! :*) < wipes away tears of joy >
4 posted on 09/16/2009 12:17:50 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: big black dog

Thank-you to those heroic young reporters for doing the job the msm will not or cannot do.


5 posted on 09/16/2009 12:18:00 PM PDT by Biggirl (Called To Be Patriots!:)=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: big black dog

Maybe, but the beast will morph morph into something else. In fact, ACORN was just an apendage of the beast.


6 posted on 09/16/2009 12:18:57 PM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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To: big black dog

UAW and other unions should be exposed too, if anyone is looking for ideas.


7 posted on 09/16/2009 12:19:10 PM PDT by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: big black dog

Of course it’s over. THey’ve already changed their name and will be operating the same criminal activies under a different banner.


8 posted on 09/16/2009 12:19:43 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: big black dog
"After the always-trustworthy Jon Stewart expressed his view that ACORN"

You know, I have a buddy of mine, a middle of the road, easy to sway moderate, that is a fan of Stewart's. The Daily Show is his main source of news. He asked me if I watch it and I responded,

"How 'bout I don't get my news from Jon Stewart, and you don't get your comedy from Brian Williams?"

9 posted on 09/16/2009 12:20:13 PM PDT by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar!)
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To: big black dog
It took Jon Stewart to claim ACORN is corrupt for this loon to finally sit-up and listen...

Liberals...

10 posted on 09/16/2009 12:20:18 PM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: big black dog

...dead...maybe, but it will re-surface with a new, improved name and mission...


11 posted on 09/16/2009 12:20:51 PM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: big black dog

I take that back—all the responses have been in the LOUSY FREEPER TROLL category basically—poor widdle picked on ACORN, they’re victims, VICTIMS! I tell ya, of Republican vengeance!!

But if Jon Stewart got through to ONE DUmmy, there’s HOPE for ALL to CHANGE, to see the light, to cross over to the right side instead of the wrong side. ;-)


12 posted on 09/16/2009 12:21:03 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: big black dog

The two young investigative reporters, James O’Keefe, 25, and his 20-year-old partner Hannah Giles, need a Pulitzer for this. They have given a real lesson to the so-called pros out there who have been reporting on their laurels the past 20 years.

This ACORN thing aint over yet just because their arms has been twisted and they have cried “uncle”. More to come today. Closer to the border between the U.S. and Mexico. hmmmm

Maybe some illegal alien traficking stuff?


13 posted on 09/16/2009 12:22:21 PM PDT by ThomasMore (Patrick Henry and Joe Wilson...Patriots past and present!)
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To: big black dog

There you go—Jon Stewart, the standad for all that is honest and true. s/o

ACORN handled the sting videos by the 2 kids very badly. All they needed to do to maintain Dhimmi support would have been to take their time and announce after a couple of their offices had been exposed that the first office smelled a rat right off the bat but played along with the kids, who were ridiculouly dressed and obvious pranksters. Then say that after they left the first office, the national organization was alerted and all local offices were told to be on the lookout for them and if they came in, to clown on them and be as outrageous as possible, since the young filmmakers were so silly that no one could ever take them seriously.

That might have worked. But ACORN proved its incompetence by firing the Baltimore and DC employees right away, thereby admitting wrongdoing, and saying that the kids had been tossed out of other offices, which was patently untrue as new tapes kept being shown.

ACORN is as foolish as it is corrupt.


14 posted on 09/16/2009 12:24:28 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: big black dog
Given that it happened in several different locations in several different cities

I totally agree. I phoned Sen. Bob Casey's office today, and the person answering the phone reading the script back in front of her, gave me the line that these were "isolated" instances and aren't representative of all of ACORN, I promptly told her that the same scenario was presented in each office, each office had no idea that this had happened in other offices, and the advice was consistent.

15 posted on 09/16/2009 12:25:15 PM PDT by Born Conservative ("I'm a fan of disruptors" - Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Jo Nuvark

“Alinsky knows what he’s talkin’ about”.

Alinsky rule # 10; “Keep the pressure on...” This is OUR chance to use Alinsky against these Marxists.
Freepers, let’s commit to calling at least one US Representative and two US Senators demanding an investigation of ACORN.

You can get extra credit if you call more than three.


16 posted on 09/16/2009 12:26:13 PM PDT by Dream Warrior (Never underestimate the POWER of an ARROGANT Marxist President and Congress!)
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To: big black dog

This person depends on Jon Stewart, of all people, for verification. Absolutely ludicrous.


17 posted on 09/16/2009 12:28:03 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: big black dog

So this guy has his news vetted by Jon Stewart.


18 posted on 09/16/2009 12:28:55 PM PDT by CaptRon
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To: big black dog

Who is ACORN and what is the scandal everyone is talking about here? I haven’t heard a word about it. /s


19 posted on 09/16/2009 12:29:32 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey (bigger government = smaller people)
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To: pillut48

Nope, they’re just mad that it hadn’t “happened” to the “folks who deserve it - the RIGHT!”


20 posted on 09/16/2009 12:30:17 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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