Posted on 09/16/2009 9:26:06 AM PDT by Steelfish
Editorial
From ACORN, A Mighty Controversy Grows
After the release of several videos highlighting atrocious behavior by some of its workers, the liberal advocacy group needs to clean house.
September 16, 2009
The videos, aired mostly by Fox News and other cable news outlets, are truly shocking: A pair of conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute go to the offices of the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, pretending to be seeking assistance getting a loan to run a brothel.
Their hidden camera captures ACORN workers dispensing such advice as how to create a fictitious business name, how to classify the business on tax forms ("performance arts") and how to handle the tax consequences of smuggling more than a dozen underage prostitutes from El Salvador to work at the facility (an ACORN worker helpfully advises them to write off the girls as "dependents").
Unfortunately for ACORN, this isn't the first time the liberal advocacy group has been in the news. It became a liability for then-Sen. Barack Obama during the presidential campaign after almost a third of the 1.3 million new voters it registered were rejected, in some cases because they were fraudulent.
During one of the debates, Sen. John McCain questioned Obama's past relationship with the group, which Obama had represented as a lawyer in a 1995 lawsuit.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
ABC News sez it’s just noise. MSNBC sez it’s Racism.
Of course, if there was a hidden camera expose' of the NRA instructing someone how to smuggle guns into the states without records, the earth could come to a halt.
Gallows would be erected in Times Square in front of ABC News.
O'Keefe's hidden-camera methods are distasteful, and the extent to which his videos were edited is unknown. Their content is nonetheless devastating to ACORN -- so much so that, on Monday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to withhold federal housing funds from the group. That's a shame because ACORN does worthwhile work in poor communities, helping people avoid foreclosure, giving them tax help and, yes, registering them to vote. If ACORN is to survive and retain a shred of credibility, it needs to stop deflecting blame and clean house.
I mean, really -- is it worth all this fuss? So some of them are murderers and human traffickers. Should we really take their taxpayer funding away because of that? Gee whiz, look at all the helpful community organizing they do otherwise!
I would have pointed out that little jab too!
I’m assuming no reporter for the LATimes has ever done any distasteful undercover work...
“Of course, if there was a hidden camera expose’ of the NRA instructing someone how to smuggle guns”
Speaking of smuggling guns....when I was reading about ACORN activities in San Bernardino, I read something about a local sheriff (or some official) who could not account for an arsenal of weapons in his custody that disappeared. Not sure if he had ACORN connections, but it would not surprise anyone.
Of course, this activity is just “noise” to the alphabet snooze.
“Last week, according to WJZ, ACORN called the act of breaking into Donna Hanks’ home near Patterson Park an act of civil disobedience. ACORN has been trying to draw attention to the foreclosure crisis in cities across the country, while also urging a moratorium on foreclosures.”
Does this apply to whites as well as the ‘other’ color?
The Slimes, bringing up the rear. Where you been? This story is old news. The story now is, how is Obama connected to this corruption. And no, ACORN doesn not need to clean house. The ACORN house needs to be burned to the foundation.
Catheterization? No. Castration? Yes. :)
Bingo! Spot-on. And the LA Times has become irrelevant. This is what happens when a major daily is and has been in the tank for 0 and suppressed video of 0 with his communist pals and failed to investigate his connection to Rezko. To the LA Times, no need to say get lost, you already are.
I happen to think that if you can't be bothered to go get yourself registered, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. Anyone who needs help registering should at least make the effort to contact a BIPARTISAN volunteer group set up for that purpose, that is not funded with tax dollars. Under no circumstances should people be approached to register to vote who haven't requested assistance.
Hmmm. How much tax help do poor people need other than how to fraudulently claim more exemptions and maximize their Earned Income Tax Credit illegally?
You need to strip the foundation too, or they'll just build another house using our money.
We should refuse to use that word and start referring to it as "the R word".
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