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Posted on 03/22/2010 8:52:21 PM PDT by DaveCooper
CHICAGO – The once mighty community activist group ACORN announced Monday it is folding amid falling revenues — six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.
“It’s really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activists that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need,” ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.
Several of its largest affiliates, including ACORN New York and ACORN California, broke away this year and changed their names in a bid to ditch the tarnished image of their parent organization and restore revenue that ran dry in the wake of the video scandal.
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It is an AP story so it is a lie.
Yup. Whenever you see an AP story - it is a lie and it is Dem or leftist or islamic propaganda. Always.
My thoughts exactly!
Disbanding? They’re just rebranding.
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Come on! If anyone believe they are disbanding, I have a nice bridge for sale! Caught red handed but Well endowed by this administration, 6hey are regrouping under a new banner with more evil plans up their sleeves.
He will replace them with illegal aliens.
I bet their mascot is that lizard or snake that grows a new tail, when you cut off the old one.
They are not disbanding. They are changing their name.
Never...Just the usual shell game...Commies never quit...
This is the key to defeating this sort of scum. the one hing they cannot abide is the truth and without total control of the media they cannot hide behind their lies. The worst thing ever to happen to these Marxists is the Internet. DRUDGE had it's second biggest day yesterday with over 35 MILLION hits to the site. people visit, people read and people talk to other people. I'm guessing that by last evening over 100,000,000 people were talking about what was on the DRUDGE site. None of what was there was favorable to the Left.
yaright,whatever.
Don’t believe everything you read...
Exactly.
ACORN is like “The THING” that Kurt Russell battled. Who knows where it will show up next and what it will look like.
So ACORN, everyone's favorite nuthouse, finally closed its doors. I quietly mourned, just as I had when "Just Nuts" at the local mall shut down. It had 60 kinds of nuts, including the Ogbono - which isn't really a nut, but a drupe. Fun fact: macadamia is neither a nut or a drupe, but a follicle.
Maybe that wasn't a fun fact after all.
Kind of an opposite of a fun fact, if you ask me.
But you didn't. Anyway, with ACORN gone, it leads me to two thoughts. One: if it were a right-wing entity, and the pranksters were lefties - this would immediately turn into a mega-million dollar movie, directed by Steven Soderberg, with George Clooney comically hamming it up as the bad guy.
In fact, they should do that, anyway!
Turn ACORN into a drug company, with James O'keefe and Hannah Giles becoming whistleblowers who discover that the lifesaving cancer drug was made from fetuses! No wait. That won't matter. It's made from puppies! Right! puppies!
Matt Damon could play O'keefe, or possibly even Giles. He'll take any excuse to show off his marvelous legs.
But you get my point. In the past five years, we've had two very funny movies by Sasha Baron Cohen, a performer who used either racist or overly obnoxious characters to create discomfort among clueless Yanks (who, for the most part, reacted politely). But none of his pranks ever exposed corruption or real, deadly hate. I've said it before - Cohen, a Jew, would have scored more points if he hit a Willesden mosque, instead of a southern rodeo.
But he's the star.
Anyway, I look forward to the newest incarnation of ACORN. This stuff just doesn't go away, you know - it only finds another shell.
(What, you thought I wouldn't end with a nut metaphor?)
And if you disagree with me, you're a homophobe racist who bullies overweight flight attendants.
Dang! I always assumed Bono was a nut...Should have recognized the truth from the poor shoulder posture...
"Fun fact: macadamia is neither a nut or a drupe, but a follicle."
Well...Well... 76 and I'm getting smarter all the time...Now I learn that my shower and sink have been filling up with macadamia's all this time. I could have been bottling and selling them...
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