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US ACORN SCANDAL: International Press Round Up (CANADA) *ACORN FACES IT'S "BORAT" FROM THE RIGHT"
Cyberpress, Canada (original in French Canadien) ^ | 11 September 2009 | Cyberpress, Richard Hétu

Posted on 09/17/2009 5:09:17 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo

(AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FROM FRENCH):

ACORN fronting "Borat to the right" L'organisation de gauche ACORN , qui lutte contre la pauvreté aux États-Unis, n'en est pas à sa première controverse. The leftist organization ACORN, which fights against poverty in the United States, is not at its first controversy. During the last presidential campaign, she found herself in the crosshairs of Republicans, who were accused of falsifying voter registration campaign. ACORN, which openly supported Barack Obama, believed to have gathered 1.3 million voters poor, mostly black, in 21 states during the largest voter registration operation of the country's history ...

But the image of the organization has never been buffeted as it is today following the release on a conservative site two videos in which employees of ACORN, filmed without their knowledge, offer a couple - a woman and a man posing as a prostitute and a pimp - advice on how to commit various crimes including tax evasion and prostitution.

ACORN has dismissed the last two employees of his office in Baltimore featured in the clip below, which first aired on Big Government, the new website of Andrew Breitbart, the former right arm of Matt Drudge and then on Fox News. They should be video-James O'Keefe, a conservative activist aged 25 described as "Borat to the right in this bill that did not start the flowers.


TOPICS: Canada; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acorn; acorncoi; coi; corruption; cultureofcorruption; mediablackout
Original title was: ACORN face au «Borat de la droite» (ACORN faces a "Borat from the Right")
1 posted on 09/17/2009 5:09:17 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Borat was a clown.

A better Headline would be that the left faces the right’s Woodward and Bernstein.


2 posted on 09/17/2009 5:12:15 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

That’s the second time this morning I’ve seen the ACORN tapes equated with the farce, “Borat”..... (If I’ve seen two, there must be dozens out there..)

New ‘talking point’?? An attempt to subtly trivialize??

Pass ‘em by, folks....


3 posted on 09/17/2009 5:15:19 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: cripplecreek
picky...picky...picky...

The point is, the story is getting out there.

4 posted on 09/17/2009 5:18:13 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: cripplecreek
Borat was a clown.

There are clown schools, famous clowns and many who appreciate /like clowns.

There is clown phobia.

We have 0bama.

5 posted on 09/17/2009 5:18:34 AM PDT by This_far (Mandatory health insurance? I thought it was about health care!)
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To: Uncle Ike
Disagree. Look at the big picture. Read the comments (the context). Very good stuff. A stupid movie, which I agree with you on, is really not the point.

These websites also liked to the damaging videos, of the ACORN people being hoisted on their own petards. I am not a purist in this regard. The more viral, the better.

I am finding plenty of worldwide references to this ACORN scandal. It is unbelievable.

6 posted on 09/17/2009 5:20:30 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Automatic translation is woefully inadequate.


7 posted on 09/17/2009 5:21:36 AM PDT by smartymarty (When you know why you believe what you believe, leadership is inevitable.)
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To: smartymarty
This stuff is even showing up in INDIA in the news this morning!

Giles "कई महीने बिताए बलूत का फल के कार्यालयों का दौरा, सैन डिएगो, लॉस एंजिल्स, मियामी में और उन सहित वे प्रतिक्रिया के लिए देख रहे थे पहले फिलाडेल्फिया. "क्या टाइम्स को अपने पाठकों को बता ACORN असफल रहा था कि बलूत का फल 'शहरों की सूची एस जहां हे ' Keefe और Giles के अपराध में बलूत का फल पकड़ने में विफल रहा था वास्तव में अब: यह नई शामिल न्यूयार्क, वीडियो तीन नंबर के दृश्य. तो टाइम्स चुपचाप सूची से न्यूयॉर्क गिरा दिया, ऐसा न हो कि उसके पाठकों तथ्य यह है कि बलूत का फल 'के बयान पर पकड़ एक झूठ था. क्या हम जानते थे, शायद टाइम्स didn ' t था, कि हे ' Keefe और Giles किसी भी तरह से थे पर समाप्त हो गया. कल हम वीडियो पांच संख्या देखता हूँ. यहाँ एक पूर्वावलोकन है:

By the way, that is where human re-write comes in, agreed. But in a quick and dirty operation, this just gets the information out there, then it can be honed down and polished.

8 posted on 09/17/2009 5:25:31 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I believe India is one of the places where ACORN is operating.


9 posted on 09/17/2009 5:27:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I rode to DC last weekend with three strangers from my area. Upon returning home, I loaned two things to my new friends: 1) the book One Second After by Bill Forstchen, and 2) the movie Borat.
I think this is ironic.


10 posted on 09/17/2009 5:29:45 AM PDT by smartymarty (When you know why you believe what you believe, leadership is inevitable.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

It’s wonderfully, exhilaratingly unbelievable....Yes, AIT, this is really happening!!....WOW!


11 posted on 09/17/2009 5:33:30 AM PDT by Guenevere
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