Census Severs Relationship With ACORN

Golly.
We won’t have ACORN creating more phony people?
Oh snap.

Hmmm! The “religious” right and ACORN. Aren’t they on about the same level?? Oh, I remember the difference! The religious right is a hate group!

Isn’t it strange that there is nothing on CNN or CBS about this. The liberal media is getting worse by the day.

What about the other branches of the “Acorn” tree. There are so many affiliates. What about them?

I have been shocked and so angry that this story about Acorn has been ignored for almost 2 full days by 99% of the media.
I applaud the Census Bureau for doing the right thing and hope other government agencies sever ties also. Acorn is such a corrupt company, it’s outrageous!

Amazing. Fox breaks this yesterday, and NO ONE picks it up besides the WSJ. Now that it’s come to a head, I guess ABC HAD to report on it. I’m sure Barry told Groves to nix ACORN, and is probably working some behind the scenes deal with ACORN to pacify it. Regardless – you go O’Keefe! You just got rid of 1.4 million useless ACORN workers who would’ve fudged the census.

You people are soooo funny! ACORN would have no problem if they did the right thing. Stop looking for someone else to blame.

LooksLikeArepSetup: Good retort! You are right on. Of course, when this kind of thing happens to a Republican or right wing group, it would be “entrapment”. And it would be “unfair”, etc, etc, etc.

Government earmark money is seen as easy money with little accountability. Often the administrators of programs so funded have little qualifications for their positions and are paid salaries considerably higher than the norm. In a recent report I read on the subject excessive travel reimbursements and fees paid to consultants were also potential problems. The program in question was the Citizen-Soldier Support Program (CSSP) in North Carolina which was intended to help soldiers returning from battle assignments. Some of the employees lacked experience in military or health issues and even had politically left leanings
This an on-going program that has spent several million over the past several years, I mention it only as an example of money that is paid where the recipients don’t have to look anyone in the eye to receive it. The government is terrible on oversight as can be seen with TARP and stimulus earmarks. Healthcare and “cap and trade” if implemented will just be more of the same, look at what ACORN is doing at present with “wink and nod” oversight. No my friends, a “nanny government”, more big government, is not the answer. Our congress is inept (intentionally so) in rolling back its own salaries (the average congressional salary is a ludicrous $130K higher than street salaries/wages) so how can one believe it can oversee these programs. Also, the programs would be managed by Czars which are not beholden to congress and answer only to the president (of late it seems that the congress answers only to the president also).

lookslikearepsetup said,
Somethings fishy here
Sounds like an accurate description of ACORN. What’s fishy about the tape? What difference does it make who presented the opportunity? They messed up big time in 2 different cities!

Didn’t see anything about how the worker had no problem with the couple bringing in 13 young ladys to work in the sex trade. This report only said they were seeking housing which Acorn was trying to help with. This report almost makes Acorn out to be heros. Way to twist a story!!!! You truely are word smiths!

The ACORN tree is rotten all the way down to its roots.

Glad to hear the Census Bureau cut ties with this organization. It was a major concern to many people that Acorn would have any hand in the 2010 census. Also good to see ABC news doing some REAL reporting for a change. Used to be ABC led the way! I hope they keep on this story, there is so much money involved and so few details that need to see the light of day. Americans work too hard to give money to organizations that have no qualms about breaking the law with taxpayer money. Hope we see more of this investigation!

Thanks to the census bureau for doing the right thing. Funny how so many people turn a blind eye and look to blame someone else. It’s like blaming Dateline for setting up on-line predators. Don’t blame the predators, look for who motivated Dateline to go after them.

These people are just criminals that don’t have a prison to go to. Thankfully someone is waking up and taking a stand against them….. at least I know what a “community organizer” does now!

this is why the dems are trying to silence glenn beck.he is exposing the frauds.

joe wilson couldnt have done any better.

this is why people were so wary of the stimulus bill.

I dont care who funded it. Who sent them in. How they were dressed. They exposed people who needed to be exposed.

For all of you that think this is bogus or a setup, I want to know how these two got the Acorn workers to say what they did. And what are the chances that both the DC and Baltimore offices handled it the same way?
Hmm

Whoever defends these scum bags is just as bad as they are.

I can’t wait to hear Obama say
“Not the ACORN I knew”
Too funny, and too funny that ABC finally has to report on this.

No wonder the Census dropped Acorn. Acorn ‘creates’ people that don’t exist.

I’m a Dem, but real Americans should never stop asking questions when taxpayer money is involved just because they are in love with Obama. I kept asking about the millions that disappeared in Iraq when W was president too.

Now will Obama sever his ties to ACORN too?

To get the real news you have to watch Fox News. ABC news never would have reported this,. All the tea parties that are going on I say go down to these news stations and protest there. If all the news stations reported really what was going on Obama would have never got elected. If this country goes down I BLAME THE NEWS.

Thanks for having abc finally report on ACORN. Now, how about the voter registration fraud in HOW MANY STATES so far that remains a NONSTORY. I think they have been tampering with elections for many years.
I knew someone who worked his butt off for them, and quit after finding out what they really are all about.
It is NOT their decision who should be in office, it is the VOTERS.

Yeah Terr, Start cooking up the next demonization talking points your group will begin with there.

>Kinda sad the only “journalists” who >are doing their job lately is Fox. >Never thought I’d see the day.
>Posted by: Gaga | Sep 11, 2009 8:09:09 >PM
This is posted under a story run on the ABC website? Boy I’m confused.
>Whoever defends these scum bags is just >as bad as they are.
>Posted by: Mike | Sep 11, 2009 8:08:29 PM
Yes let’s do away with the system of justice in the US. These people are so bad, they don’t deserve to be defended. Is that what you are saying? New conservative agenda?
Who don’t you want defended?

Has anybody checked out WHO this “staffer” really is and whether she is a PLANT?

Acorn should not be receiving one cent of Stimulus money. We need to protest this and stop it. They are nothing but corrupt racists out to destroy thsi country.

Obama at one time was a lawyer for ACORN I’m sure he will help them out.

Old Ange, it was the lead on the Foxnews site all day and some other posters hijacked Tapper’s other story and was going on and on about it. I’m assuming because the story was out the census cut ties with the org.

Correction: That should have said, “No participation in White House functions.”

The key words in the story?
That the “tipping point” was the videos showing two ACORN offices with a systemic willingness to promote a conspiracy with criminals and aiding and abetting criminals and people who prey on women and children.
Tipping point?!
That’s like saying this was the straw that broke the camel’s back!
This is not a mere tipping point.
It is a ringing indictment of ACORN.
Whatever it was in the past, it is obviously a sick organization that should be rejected by every person regardless of politcal affiliation.

Oh the transparency of it all! Isn’t this administration just THE BEST. No more lies, no more deceit, no more videos to uncover…oh, wait.
Anyway, thank God for Fox News and Glenn Beck. Whether you like Beck or not, whether you are a Republican or Democrat, you cannot deny that the man is doing everything he can to keep us, the American people who the government works FOR, informed of things we would NEVER KNOW about if we only viewed/read the MSM. Just keep that in mind, folks. Your political leanings really don’t mean alot in the grand scheme of things. What matters is that the government serves US and what is in OUR best interest, not theirs. And please, don’t start with all the Bush stuff again. We need to have openness in THIS administration as PROMISED by Obama during his campaign. So far they have been about as transparent as a brown paper bag.

Here are some more tidbits for ya Plato – because after all – those community organizers are evil.
Let’s start with the (very few) claims that critics get right. The House version of the stimulus bill does indeed include about $1 billion in funding for the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) program and another $4.2 billion ($2.2 billion in the Senate’s version) in funding for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). Neither program is new: CDBG has been around since President Ford (a Republican) signed it into law in 1974, while the NSP was authorized in 2008 as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act signed into law by President Bush.

My friends and I have turned this whole “How many days will it take ANY MSN organization to finally cave because they know they look like idiots not reporting the news” into a drinking game………………………… Boy am I drunk.

Acorn and their protectors on Capital hill all need to be in jail. Including our Comrad Obama….who not only worked for them, but paid them to help acquire the presidency.

I’m sick of the people calling others who have opinions contrary to Obama “racist.” Guess what? That word is becoming meaningless now because we know it is thrown around when you have no better argument.
Posted by: AA Bound | Sep 11, 2009 8:58:54 PM
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Due to the raising of the bar on ridicule off of republicans? An example might be yelling “You lie” at the first black president when nobody has ever yelled that at a white president? Well, the black community feels like it has to be that he’s black. Because the last few liberal presidents weren’t remotely treated with such disrespect.

After Richard M. Nixon was elected President, he appointed Annenberg as ambassador to the Court of St. James’s in the United Kingdom………..It was Annenberg who introduced President Reagan to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Reagans often celebrated New Year’s Eve with the Annenbergs. Leonore Annenberg was named by President Ronald Reagan as the State Department’s Chief of Protocol as well…………..

rukidding……… And Sarah Palin’s builder was the same guy that got Senator Stevens in deep hoo hoo over his house. Listen up. THIS ACORN THING is Fox, republicans, etc. I’ve studied up on this. All drives have some bogus ones turned in and their numbers aren’t any worse than any other one. Not to mention it’s voter “registration” fraud and I doubt “Mickey Mouse” could show an ID to vote, huh? Do tell, who in the senate has asked for this investigation?

Two wrongs don’t make it right. The Dem’s started the booing and heckling at Pres. Bush and now when a Republican house representative yell “you lie” and other members of the Republican party boo it is called racist. Two wrongs don’t make it right. But the Rep. Wilson was right, Obama is not telling legal Americans the truth about illegals not getting free medical care (they can apply for and get Medicare and medicaid) off of the hard working tax payers back.

But, but, ACORN helps poor people!
The RICO statutes need to be used to bring down this huge criminal organization that feeds on our tax dollars. The sooner the better.

Two wrongs don’t make it right. The Dem’s started the booing and heckling at Pres. Bush and now when a Republican house representative yell “you lie” and other members of the Republican party boo it is called racist. Two wrongs don’t make it right. But the Rep. Wilson was right, Obama is not telling legal Americans the truth about illegals not getting free medical care (they can apply for and get Medicare and medicaid) off of the hard working tax payers back.
Posted by: rukidding 55 | Sep 11, 2009 9:16:08 PM
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“You lie!” is not booing. Own it if you support it.
1. This health care overhaul has NOTHING to do with Medicare and Medicaid.
2. The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has scaled back a new law so that it exempts the elderly and the disabled from having to prove they are U.S. citizens to qualify for Medicaid health insurance, lawyers suing the government said on Friday. – Republicans ruled during this.

Jake,
No word of the media attempting to bury this story again because it hurts THEIR candidate Obama?

Attorney General Holder decided to dismiss the case against Senator Ted Stevens. “US District Judge Emmet Sullivan, at the request of Attorney General Eric HOlder, dismissed the conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens and appointed a special prosecutor to prove the conduct of 6 federal prosecutors involved in the case.” The prosecutors “knowingly placed a lying witness on the stand.”

Where is ABC’s demanding an investigation on Acorn? Why so scared of Obama? I mean, NBC is the only network company with any government contracts at stake (General Electric)? I understand we will never vsee any REAL news on NBC, MSNBC..but what is the deal with ABC?

Hey, ABC News, why weren’t you investigating ACORN and all the voter registration fraud in multiple states last year? Why weren’t you investigating Obama’s ties to ACORN? Why weren’t you investigating stimulus tax dollars going to ACORN (and their various fronts)?
Why aren’t you doing your JOBS?

Secondlook: I loved your comment on “The Obama Fluff Piece”.It was the only laugh I’ve had today.On a serious note:To ABC..There is a reason that your ratings are falling.The people that are genuinely concerned about the direction that Obama is taking this country are not watching you.I personally stopped after that hour long “Infomercial” that was aired a few months back with Obama.I check your web site from time to time to see if there is anything of relevance to what is really happening i.e. The Van Jones Story,The rest of his Czars,the Acorn Story,etc. And,by the way, I really don’t care about Mrs.Obama’s arms ,etc.,etc.It is a shame that you are considered “mainstream”,when you have become nothing more than a mouthpiece for the current administration.There is nothing independent in your of portrayal of the news these days.There was a time when I actually had respect for Mr.Gibson.I wish John Stossel the best in his move to Fox News.

“Attorney General Holder decided to dismiss the case against Senator Ted Stevens. “US District Judge Emmet Sullivan, at the request of Attorney General Eric HOlder, dismissed the conviction of former Sen. Ted Stevens and appointed a special prosecutor to prove the conduct of 6 federal prosecutors involved in the case.” The prosecutors “knowingly placed a lying witness on the stand.”
rukidding 55 | Sep 11, 2009 9:33:06 PM
It was nice to see Obama’s Justice Department starting to act professional and do the right thing regardless of partisan interests. It looks a little bit like Bush’s Justice Department was not just illegally partisan in it’s hiring, it also took a bit of a hit in competence by favoring third or fourth tier religious colleges. Who’d have guessed?

Obama’s government isn’t stupid – ACORN has never been a linchpin of anything. They weren’t needed to get Obama elected, they aren’t needed for the critical 2010 midterms, and they aren’t needed for the census. There’s no reason to stick with them until they get their house in order.
Meanwhile, why aren’t charges being brought against the ACORN employees? Is Fox obstructing the investigations by refusing to release the full, unedited videos? I don’t want to just see these thugs lose their jobs, they should be brought up on charges. Fox has the evidence (and the megaphone) to make this happen – why haven’t they cooperated?

“No, Wilson was flat out wrong. The bill specifically prohibits illegals from obtaining the coverage contained in the bill.”
According to whom? The AP? And you believe it? You probably believed in Hope and Change too. LOL!

“No, Wilson was flat out wrong. The bill specifically prohibits illegals from obtaining the coverage contained in the bill.”
According to whom? The AP? And you believe it? You probably believed in Hope and Change too. LOL!”
Mary | Sep 11, 2009 9:45:01 PM
According to EVERY factcheck done on it- including Jake Tapper’s- and the explicit wording of the bill.

“Hey, ABC News, why weren’t you investigating ACORN and all the voter registration fraud in multiple states last year?”
Because they’ve got much more important things to do? I guess nobody at ABC is very worried that thousands of Mickey Mouses and Donald Ducks are going to show up at the polls with picture IDs and try and vote.

The bill does indeed contain language saying it’s not for illegals.
Your republican leaders are trying to suggest since there is no way to know who is an illegal the democrats are lying.
So I guess you need to be asking your republican leaders if they would like to propose a national ID card to cover this. Then you can ask them why this is a big deal right now when it never has been in the past with them.
Then you can acknowledge that Wilson lied.

Wow, ABC “News” (i say that loosely) was finally forced to run a ACORN story. I hope they didn’t cry too much. No wonder everyone is turning to Drudge, Fox and other internet entities to do real journalism.
And I love how the lead story on GMA was Joe Wilson not being sorry. Forget 9-11. Joe better not apologize until Harry Reid apologizes for his statements.

I applaud Jake Tapper for covering this story, but once again ABC reports the news after an organization (or czar) resigns or is fired. We need to call ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, WAsh Post, etc. the PAST-TENSE MEDIA!!! They present the news “after” it happens. ———-The corruption in this organization has been rampant and known since before the election. Thank goodness for biggovernment.com and Fox News (Glenn Beck) for bringing it to the tipping point. I wish we had more investigative journalism in this country! ————Congress has its hands tied…this administration wouldn’t even let the Judiciary Committee (John Conyers) investigate ACORN. Wake up people!!!

“According to EVERY factcheck done on it- including Jake Tapper’s- and the explicit wording of the bill.”
Don’t be so naive. Obama and this Congress HAVE EVERY INTENTION of providing healthcare to illegal immigrants, despite Obama’s rhetoric. Medicaid and S-CHIP ALREADY DO and Democrats intend to expand coverage. This is about votes and power and the Democratic Party will do everything they can to secure both. Nobody is fooled, except Obama’s shills.

Why did the House take out specific language that said “no illegals will be eligible for Gov’t run health care plan, medicare, medicaid?” Why did the House vote down the following proposal from Congressman Sam Johnson? “For those who are convinced that gov’t run health care won’t sacrifice quality and won’t lead to rationing, I back a resolution saying that if a Member of Congress votes to support the Gov’t run option, then the Member must be automatically enrolled in it.” “If Members of Congress are convinced that the gov’t run option will deliver the same quality of care as their Congressional health plans, then they should be the first in line to enroll.” Why? why? why? 1000+ pages of legal garbage to cheat the hard working Dem, Rep, Indep. American tax payer.

Yeah obama’s friends. His community organization friends. When u going report on the czar CASS SUNSTEIN the one that believes that animals should be able to sue humans ? ABC When you going to get to work and do some real journalism!

“When u going report on the czar CASS SUNSTEIN the one that believes that animals should be able to sue humans ?”
lilo | Sep 11, 2009 9:59:14 PM
What is wrong with you people? ABC reported on Sunstein extensively, including a indepth look by Jake Tapper on this very blog yesterday. The right wing paranoia is starting to get out of hand.

ACORN has already attempted to change their name.
Obama will find a way to funnel our money to them.
They helped cause the housing bust and they helped Obama get elected.
So even if we didn’t vote for Obama we helped him get elected through ACORN.

Pg. 469………Community Based Home Medical Services…. (any time I hear of Community based anything I think of ACORN)
Pg. 472………Deals with payments to Community Based organizations
Pg. 170……..Any nonresident Alien is EXEMPT from individual taxes.

The MSM would much rather you stay focused on Joe Wilson.
ACORN and Obama are joined at the hip.
Will anyone ever ask Obama why ACORN gets taxpayer money when they have so many legal problems?

We need to find out who ordered Congressman Conyers to cancel his hearings on ACORN.

Poor Obama.
All of his old friends are going down.
How will he fundamentally change (destroy) America without them?
He’s still got the MSM.
They would do anything to protect him.

trueAmerican | Sep 11, 2009 10:10:54 PM
Your posted title says it all. You seek to define your fellow Americans that you don’t agree with as not really being Americans while we see everybody as being Americans that don’t always agree. That is your great weakness and will be your undoing at the polls.

Obama… taking the US down, one corrupt handout at a time.

Great. The great republican lying machine Fox News and other conservative lying anti-ACORN voices have prevailed. The haters have won. Very pitiful. I never even heard of ACORN until this past year when it was demonized by the right wing extremists who lie constantly.
Posted by: Vicki | Sep 11, 2009 10:22:29 PM
~~~~~~~~~~~~ Really Vicki the video says it all! You didn’t hear about it that’s because ABC NBC CNN all other media don’t report on it . Since obama was a lawyer for acorn. Maybe you should open your eyes.

HEY ABC are you going to report on tomorrows protest in Washington DC or is only fox going to cover it !

I really don’t care about illegal immigrants. I do care about health care reform for America. But if people keep spreading these republican lies and scaring their wacko followers the health industries will keep right on getting the best of all of us. Hopefully President Obama will ride right over the fear mongers and hate mongers and do what is right.

Don’t post a right-wing link Mickey, just name the court cases. Don’t even name cases, just name one case.

ACORN “volunteers” forced banks to make sub=prime loans by mobbing lobbies.(No national coverage, of course) What’s next? And, they are tax payer funded. How did that happen? Whose on watch in D.C.? Time to investigate this group from top to bottom and for once tell all the truth. Will anyone have the courage to face charges of racism to tell the truth?

Yup, ignorant people about to completely ruin a party. Just wait. Thinking repubicans will at some point begin to call ya down over there.

Thanks ABC for FINALLY giving this some coverage! What took you so long? When do you plan to look into this corruption in depth?

secondlook, you earned half a mil under that evil Bush guy? You are such a whiner!

I can’t believe that abc is covering this. I thought abc lost their integrity and honest journalism about a year ago. Maybe abc editors are closet Americans … come on out guys, America is a great country, don’t destroy it. Tell the truth .. have some guts.

ABC= Another Barack Czar

trueAmerican | Sep 11, 2009 10:42:54 PM
Do you have a musical score to accompany that? Everybody who doesn’t want corporate America running the government isn’t a hateful ingrate. Business IS selfish–they’ve proven that beyond any doubt or decades. If they were so generous and compassionate we wouldn’t have to constantly fight with them for safety regulations and pollution standards and quality controls and everything else we have to battle them tooth and nail for to protect our citizens.

once again the “state” run news organization like ABC, NBC, and CBS chose not to cover this story. Only Fox had the journalistic integrity to report this story. ABC, CBS, NBC are a joke and cannot be trusted anymore. Once again Fox has kicked them to the curb.

When will ABC actually do their own investigation into this criminal organization. ABC get a clue….

ABC is insignificant. They are gettting there tail handed to them by FOX.

secondlook, have you ever watched Keith Olbermann on MSLSD? That guys is as loony as they come. He needs to stay with the Sunday night football gig.

Uh, Skip, 10:16:09, type in St. Louis voter fraud.

Quoted: “$300 billion dollars is allocated for the 2010 Census. I wonder how much Acorn was going to receive out of this amount? 250 billion?” … Well, the “entertainment” should be top notch. :P

Hey ABC, your politically scrubbed news was picked by my 7th grader as the topic for his history project… “How boycotting really does work” He also got the highest grade on his preconsititution test thanks to his enthusiasm for FOXNEWS! Wake up – even a 12 year old can figure it out.

“Only Fox had the journalistic integrity to report this story.”
Mike | Sep 11, 2009 11:02:11 PM
Fox MADE this story, and since they aren’t releasing any of their primary sources all everyone else can do is report on what they watched on Fox. Hopefully, Fox will quit obstructing justice and give prosecutors the full unedited tapes so that the (ex)ACORN idiots can be put on trial. I don’t understand why Fox refuses to help put them behind bars.

secondlook, there are leftists who actually think Bush planned 9/11! The terrorists were in the country when Clinton was President! That’s a good example of stupidity and insanity on the left.

I wonder if Pelosi will call anyone against Acorn, un-American. For those that haven’t been inform, it is ok for Pelosi to call anyone against HCR bill, Un-American. Pelosi told a group of immigrants that enforcing our nation’s immigration laws is “UN-American” So why isn’t ABC all over these quotes from Pelosi?

Who broke this story…the National Inquirer?

Oh, more is coming to mind . . . the republicans covering for Mark Foley, Mark Foley, spying on phone calls, torture, K Street Project, Abramoff, Tom Delay, Frist charged with insider trading, the Terri Shiavo stupidity that was absolutely overstepping their authority . . . .

About time ABC
About time Jack….
I know it’s hard to go aganist thigns the president believes but this si for you not to decide…

Listen to you all. We are more devisive than ever. Even on this day when this country was attacked by those who hate our freedoms.Think about it! This is exactly what they want..Pretty soon we will all be no matter what your politics are, as we will have been too busy bitching at each other to notice what is really going on.. Get A Clue! We are being played.

Hey everyone – remeber the census is still being run from the WHITEHOUSE – First time in history !!!!

I only wish that Our President would stop spending money until he flushed out all the corruption in the US Government on both sides Dems and Reps… That would be a great thing for this country. He would be one of the greatest Presidents ever.

“OH PAAALEEEEEZZZEEE. What on earth else can you make up here?”
Obamabots truly are clueless.
From the Washington Post (2/5/09):
“President Obama has decided to have the director of the U.S. Census Bureau work directly with the White House, the administration said today, a move that comes as the Census Bureau prepares to conduct the 2010 census that will determine redistricting of congressional seats.
Under the Bush administration, the Census Bureau director reported to the commerce secretary. Obama is adding oversight of the director by senior White House aides.”
In other words, the Census Director reports to Rahm Emmanuel, a huge conflict of interest.

“McCain has ACORN ties.”
LOL!

O.K. then I shall ask. What on earth can they do to stick it to you if Obama is remotely involved with that census? They going to ask some question that will ruin your life?

This country would be a lot better WITHOUT ACORN.
Please get the AARP popup off of you homepage!!! It is annoying.

“McCain is indeed on video telling ACORN they’re the best of this nation.”
What’s your point? This isn’t about McCain. This is about ACORN running a criminal operation and their strongly documented ties to Obama. Try to stay focused.

“McCain is indeed on video telling ACORN they’re the best of this nation.”
What’s your point? This isn’t about McCain. This is about ACORN running a criminal operation and their strongly documented ties to Obama. Try to stay focused.
Posted by: Mary | Sep 12, 2009 12:37:07 AM
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Obviously my point is that other guy running for President was thinking they were kewl as well, huh? I’m really trying to point out you’re buying into more partisan spin nonsense. So nevermind. Continue on with the complete brainwashing.

“McCain is indeed on video telling ACORN they’re the best of this nation.”
What’s your point? This isn’t about McCain. This is about ACORN running a criminal operation and their strongly documented ties to Obama. Try to stay focused.
Posted by: Mary | Sep 12, 2009 12:37:07 AM
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And Mary, what exactly ARE those ties? The fact he worked for them years ago? I used to know a guy that held up a bank. That make me a bank robber? If we’re going to go with all of this guilt by association BS you guys are so good at. Must mean Bush was a criminal. He hung a bit with Abramoff.

Hey 007 – Didn’t the Bush family know the Bin Laden family? See where I’m going here?

Are you guys EVER going to figure out Obama really didn’t hand that ACORN billions in the stimulus bill?

I’m pleased to hear that a crooked organization got busted and the Census Bureau has given them their walking papers. It’s interesting to hear SOME of the remarks from, I guess extreme liberals, trying to spin that it was a total setup by the republicans and then in any way defend ACORN. To that, I have to say, so what if it was a setup? A crooked organization was shown for what they are and there should no longer be any argument over them from either side. Don’t defend them for breaking the law. Just like Joe Wilson showed, if anything, no tact, extremely bad manners and no self control, ACORN has shown that a full investigation of their organization might well be warranted. To the republicans, I would say it was only a matter of time until something would happen to bring their corruption to light. But don’t relish in your “victory” too much because really, this is everyone’s victory.
Throughout the election season, supporters of Republican candidates portrayed ACORN’s submission of invalid voter registration applications as widespread vote fraud. In October 2008, the campaign for Republican presidential candidate John McCain released a Web-based advertisement claiming ACORN was responsible for “massive voter fraud”, a point that Sen. McCain repeated in the final presidential debate. Factcheck.org called this claim “breathtakingly inaccurate”. The ads also claimed that home loan programs ACORN promoted were partly responsible for the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Newsweek and Factcheck also found these claims to be exaggerated and inaccurate. On top of that, Republicans still haven’t realized the difference between vote fraud and voter registration fraud.
There is really nothing to connect Obama to any wrong doing with ACORN. Obama was never an ACORN community organizer and ACORN never hired him as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee and ACORN was not part of Project Vote, the successful voter registration drive Obama ran in 1992, so all you have left is the $800,000 “contribution” which wasn’t a contribution to ACORN at all. Obama’s campaign hired an ACORN affiliate, NOT ACORN for $800,000 to conduct a get-out-the-vote effort during that primary, but they did not retain ACORN for the general presidential election. If you’ve got the money (which he definitely did) to get more people to vote whether for Democrat or Republican, to help your campaign why not do it? This undoubtedly even gave some votes to McCain. And finally, in his capacity as an attorney, Obama represented ACORN in a successful lawsuit alongside the U.S. Department of Justice and the League of Women Voters against the state of Illinois to force state compliance with a federal voting access law. There’s nothing wrong with helping more people to vote.

1-Human you are talking to the hand there. It’s hopeless.

It is not about Republican vs Democrat, even though it is tempting to make it so; it is about reclaiming our country from some pretty crafty, evil people.
Posted by: DL13 |
Bingo

So…ABC…now you are making this look like you have broken a big story. Yuk yuk, what morons. Fox (Glenn Beck)broke this before ANY of you would even think about it. Now that there is some talk on the street you decide it may be a story to jump on because you can make yourselves look good. Too little – too late. ACORN is being exposed – they should be out of business – today.

Its time for the Media like ABC, NBC CNN and MSNBC…to come clean with the American Public…we demand to hear and see hard and true journalism or just throw in the towel…its pretty bad when a young 20 yr old can put herself out there and break this news…what are you guys doing and why is your ratings dropping???? REPORT and INVESTIGATE these organizations like ACORN and MOVEON.

Skip 11:20:49pm…”I see no connection mentioned to Acorn.”
You have to actually READ the many articles on the 5 pages under St. Louis voter fraud.

I agree with the politician today that called for a full investigation of this corrupt organization and it’s subordinate entities. He is also right calling for ALL federal funding to stop going to these crooks UNTIL a full warranted investigation is completed. ACORN sure as hell wouldn’t survive on donations. Keep the federal money going to them, and force them out of business. They don’t benefit anybody but slum lords and welfare consumers. Noone knows where the hell our taxpayer dollars are going, other than in the pockets of Bertha Lewis and her ilk. Too bad Obama’s busy trying to change this country into his liberal vision of what it should be, otherwise he would be free to defend ACORN again as their primary defense attorney.

Good job at ABC for covering up the Acorn story originally. Did your bosses at the White House tell you not to cover it?

Republicans will take over the Congress and the Oval Office by the next presidential election. This socialist president is way too scary for our capitalist country! Bye bye Mr. BHO!

ACORN is bad news and if the White House severs ties with them then its a start!

To claim 4 “bad apples” out of 400,000 is ludicrous. If you take into account the 3 chapters that Levenson claimed turned them away, I see 2 out of 5. There are 850 chapters and at that rate, it’s 340 “bad apples” out of 850. That is cause for concern

What does Obama know about this and when did he know it? I mean after all, every bad thing that happens these days are blamed on him. He’s gotta have some involvement in this as well doesn’t he? That seems to be the mind set of the sickies in America since Obama became President.

It is extremely troubling to have a President who has such close ties to Corruption (ACORN,) on the heels of the ex-convict Communist/Marxist Truther Nutball! He needs to get rid of the rest of these out-of-the-mainstream Czar’s OR submit them to Congress for proper vetting and oversight. They have powerful positions and can control our Tax Dollars. Therefore this is not CONSTITUTIONAL! Obama seems to think he can thumb his nose at this most important document! We will have to see about that! WE the people are ANGRY and want some answers!

We need to melt the phone lines to the White House every day next week and DEMAND an audit of the Stimulus Package AND that ACORN/SEIU or any of its 400 entities NOT get another single dime of taxpayer money. The Stimulus Package has $8.3 BILLION dollars earmarked for ACORN and its corrupt subsidiaries. The CORRUPT DEMOCRATS in Congress have been asked to investigate but it was veto’s by “the powers that be,” according to Rep. Conyers.

Amazingly laughable how obvious it is that ACORN is not reported on that heavily by the media because of Obama.
Communists, Criminals, Racists, Anarchists, Black Supremacists…ACORN, SIEU, etc
Obama is a discount bin of stories.

Why do you even write this story? You have been late reporting important topics for the past year… do yourself a favor (I can’t believe I’m saying this) but just forward your website to FoxNews….

My mom was watching Fox news it was mentioned that this scandal was not being covered by the other news. I didn’t believe it so I decided to look for myself. So far I’ve only seen ABC cover it with this much detail and no one else besides Fox. Unbelievable!

THIS SCUMBAG ORGANIZATION IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG FOR THIS ALSO CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION

Re. the so called “myths” of the health care discussion. It is no myth that the UK system is a disaster. No myth that the Canadian system is not far behind. It is no myth that the wait times in Canada exceed eighteen weeks for standard procedures. It is no myth that there are health lotteries springing up in Canada where the winners get moved up the wait lists. It is no myth that Canadian lives are saved by Canadians turning to health care in the US – how many US citizens travel north for same? It is no myth that there will be rationing of medical care given the availability of funds. It is no myth that we will be unable to pay for national health care by just cutting corruption and unnecessary procedures as Obama states. It is ALSO no myth that a “Public Option” plan would eventually squeeze out the private sector – employers will find it cheaper to pay the fine rather than to offer health plans to employees.
It it would be a far better idea to find ways to fix our current system by eliminating preexisting conditions, allowing the purchasing of policies across state lines and finally to do something about tort reform. SS is almost broke, Medicaid and Medicare are broke. Health programs for Native Americans are a joke and so will be national health care, it adopted.

There is one really good thing that can be said about ACORN as the result of this episode : they can spot a really good business plan when they see one!
They saw that the young woman had many years of prostitution left in her too – they saw the plan has sustainable in the long term.
OK – it was illegal, immoral and (the part about the Salvadorian girls) reprehensible – OK, I see that and agree.
But, let’s be clear: they saw a viable, sustainable plan and decided they didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity for one of their businesses to actually pay them back for the loan and the support. Had this not been a scam there is a better than even chance that they would have facilitated her in the event she was arrested or contracted some health issues as she opened up her doors for business. You can’t lose your money maker to some technicality that would shut down production. They were savvy enough to have built that into her loan application so the loan could have been underwritten.
I’m thinking that we are selling these ACORN workers way short here – they saw an opportunity and layed out the groundwork to make it a reality.

So let’s NOT investigate TORTURE, but lets spend millions on investigating Acorn……geesh!

ACORN aids those seeking tax evasion and engaged in child prostitution. Democrats have made ACORN elegible for up to $8 billion in stimulus finds to assist those efforts.
Your tax dollars at work.

The only time that I check this website is when a scandal that might make the Obama administration look bad happens. Oops! Thats been pretty often lately. I am so glad that Charles Boustany is calling for an investigation!! I used to work with him as an RN when he did heart surgery in Louisiana. He is a great person.

Posted by: Terry | Sep 12, 2009 8:12:56 AM
LOL

About time ABC.

What is this has ABC started reporting the news. I am pleased that ABC did this story, now we have to see if they keep up reporting instead of stating their views. ACORN needs to be investigated now. No more tax money to this bunch of crooks.

secondlook: “And Mary, what exactly ARE those ties? The fact he worked for them years ago?”
Google “Inside Obama’s Acorn” and “Planting Seeds of Disaster”, two in-depth articles written by Stanley Kurtz, a Harvard University scholar, well before the election and ignored by the mainstream media. Feel free to debunk his research. Good luck.

Outrage……sit down and shut up?
You sound like a complete idiot bringing up that stupid birth certificate garbage.
On second thought, keep posting about it. You right wing wackos are political gold for the Democratic party.
Do an in-depth investigation on those fema-camps and how the President wants to teach sex-ed to two year olds while your at it.

Bob says ****Why they have not been prosecuted under RICO is beyond me: ****
Perhaps because most of is political BS.

Troy – have you ever heard of the saying, “IF IT WALKS AND TALKS LIKE A DUCK?” Obama’s roadmap to socialism has been well established by his actions.

Manitu—–
I didn’t see too much “hunting their own food” on Dianne Sawyer’s report about Appalachia. I did see a lot of roaming through garbage dumps picking up scraps. I did see out of control meth use. I did see children with no shoes, while their parents ran into town to play bingo.
and somebody get a dentist up there quick.

IS IT ANY WONDER THAT FOX NEWS IS DWARFING ALL THE OTHER TV NEWS OUTLETS COMBINED?

Finally, some common sense. Every American should join in this fight to get rid of extremes on both the left and right. Our mantra is no more corruption.

Mainstream media died, and it’s funny, the very people that are hiding all the coverage that is relevant to America like the back round of all theses czars, the massive corruption, will leave their own children to the very mess they helped create.

There are 8 million blacks in poverty and 21 million whites in poverty. Let me see nearly 3 times as many whites ion poverty. If you say well that is because whites are a majority there is a stat method that removes whites as a majority and it still shows there are far more whites in poverty. Take a ride in the back roads of West Virginia. You will shacks and some still use outhouses, I wonder if blacks in urban areas lived in shacks or had to use outhouses if the bias media would be there in a heart beat and it would national coverage. The lowest of the poor are also white — not black. There has been a bloodless revolution in our counrty and we need another by kicking out these corrupt individuals. They (Obama) want socialism or a form of socialism and capitalism. But, like everywhere else in the world is not work due to greed and corruption.

I don’t have cable TV (so you never see Fox) but I am nevertheless amazed that only Fox and conservative radio actually covers this ACORN stuff. Shame on the media. Do they get their game plan from China and Iran?

The truth hurts.

Thanks for finally reporting the truth about the corruption in our government. If you want your ratings to soar try covering the 9-12 event on your prime time news coverage. There are many of us out there waiting for either ABC or CBS to start reporting all of the news. NBC is part of the problem and they will never do honest reporting. This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. Both sides of Congress are corrupt and they need to be investigated and if needed thrown out of office.

funny, but ACORN’s response sounds a lot like marion barry’s “the $i^ch set me up” quote when he was caught smoking crack with the prostitute. clearly the film crew was trying to smear ACORN…and guess what, ACORN gave them the grease to slather on them. like others have said, 2 out of less than 10 offices gave this advice? sounds like more than happenstance. wouldn’t surprise me if there are more videos out there. so, now we have the president “mentored” by rev. wright, his political career was launched at an ed ayers cocktail party, he chooses people like van jones to be unregulated “czars” and ACORN, to whom he is/was so closely tied as a community activist, is now roundly exposed by multi-state voter fraud investigations and video evidence of further fraudulent intent. how many more of these “associations” need people see before they start to think that the president was, shall we say, less than forthcoming during the election about his views and those with whom he shares them. if his claim is that he was unaware of these people’s positions, then he has to be the biggest dupe ever. and we all know he’s too smart for that to be the truth.

The fact that these employees knew how to do something like this means that either they did it before or they were taught how to ‘bend the rules.’ This doesn’t strike me as something an employee would know how to initiate on their own although if they did have quotas as with the voter registrations it could lead to this kind of corruption. Also just because it didn’t happen in some offices while it did in others doesn’t mean it isn’t widespread and this is just the kind of fraud and abuse that happens any time the govt. starts handing out money with no accountability expected except a vote of course.

Social Justice is a click word as well as”Historically…”

ACORN in the news!! WHERE is REV jessie and old slick hair [AL SHARPTON] maybe they are on vacation.

That video shows an ACORN worker with despicable judgement. This doesn’t indict the entire organization. Just like there are videos of entirely corrupt Dept. of Defense contractors, that doesn’t indict the entire DOD. Both activities are illegal, but the DOD scams dwarf ACORN scams by a factor of millions (of US tax dollars). At least the actress prostitute’s money would have stayed in the US to further stimulate our economy. The hundreds of billions flushed down the the Iraq toilet only helped to finance extremists & terrorists. Good call Republican leadership! At least W showed Sadam Houssein who’s boss – he’ll never insult your Daddy again! Sad that 5000+ soldiers had to die for that abortion of judgement.

We can thank investigative reporting and Glen Beck for this . The rest of the media is still too busy singing kumbaya and yes we can. Now lets stop all those stimulus billions from going to these “community organizers .” They do not deseerve any assistance from our Government and Obama should be ashamed of them since he taught them and was once their lawyer. We all knew what they were up to with their fraudulent voter registrations but the radcials kept defending them. What goes around does come around.

Why are you not covering this story on nightly news?

I think acorn needs a lawyer oh Iforgot they had one OBUMMER

Acorn, a bloodsucker organization that uses people in desperate need of work to cook the books. When are they going to hammer the two brothers who started this organization. Oh we can’t touch them because they are community organizers and buddies to President O.
President Obama do not let this old ties bring you down. Look want happened to Vicks.

Barry Obama emerged from the bowel of community organiztions like ACORN. He is exactly the same as those crooked women in the ACORN tapes.

Hey ABC, it is clearly news. You probably should have discovered it. You must at least cover it.

Oh, darn, now ACORN will have to find another way to get the $300 billion dollars that was set aside to do the 2010 Census.

Funny how the White House only reacts when somebody finally (and courageously) exposes the truth in the garbage that supports the Obama/Emanual/Soros Infrastructure. The same garbage that put a avout Communist like Van Jones in a position to be in control of a $30B budget is STILL in the White House. Yet the won’t get rid of Valerie Jarrett and Rahm Emanuel.

-Who would have thought the right wingers would fester over the community organisation.-
And now they’re gone. Like Van Jones…

Dear Attorney General, Eric Holder,
you should FIRSTLY OPEN CASE OF ACORN-VOTERS-FRAUDERS, THEN CONSIDER TO RE-OPEN CIA INTERROGATION IF YOU REALLY WANT TO REGAIN HUMAN RIGHTS OF TERRORISTS WHO MADE AMERICAN OF 3,300 LOST ON 9.11.

“HUMAN RIGHTS OF TERRORISTS WHO MADE AMERICAN OF 3,300 LOST ON 9.11. ”
_________________________________
What about the terrorists how killed tens of thousands of people in Iraq? People who had nothing to do with 9/11?
Oh, that’s different. That was us, and we did it for our own God and our own beliefs.
Foreign troops off of Islamic homelands!
Imagine how American would feel with tens of thousands of arab troops patrolling their country ‘to keep them free’.
The arrogance and they hypocrisy is stunning.

How many fraudulent tax forms and loan applications did Acorn agents have a hand in advising? What contribution did that have to home loan foreclosures? How will the taxpayer ever recover the fraud? Where is Congress in calling for an investigation? Instead they will waste time censuring Joe Wilson.

Where was this story when it 1st brook? Why is your station always behind on anything unfavorable on Obama? Do you have any resposibility to your viewers?

Why don’t you try this little test? When you hear another report that reflects badly on anything tied to Obama or the far left, ask yourself, “How would I report this news if it were about a Republican or the far right?
Ya’ll would be all over it!!!
At least you wrote about Acorn.

ACORN is out. Obama will kick them to the curb and move on.
ACORN was hot before this and now – they are way too hot even for Obama. Just like Jeremia Wright – when he got too hot to handle Obama disavowed him and moved on.
He has proven to be a political beast – he hangs with his Buds until they show their true colors and Obama bolts.
ACORN is down the road.

Thank you for taking the “risk” to cover a story that is unfavorable of one of Obama’s cronies. I couldn’t believe I actually found this news story on abc’s website!!

Thank you ABC and Jake Tapper for having the courage to be the first “Mainstream Network” outside of Fox and CNN to Step Up and report this story. This story is pretty controversial in that ACORN is “highly” supported by the White House, the Democratic Majority Congress and Senate, and stands to receive Billions of Dollars in Stimulus Money.
I love this GREAT Country that I live in. I am not a Democrat, nor a Republican. I am for “Freedom” and the Greatness that this country stands for in what our Founding Fathers established, A Free Country founded on Laws based on the first line of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. “
And in the Great words of Martin Luther King:
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
These are great words from TWO of the GREATEST Leaders this WORLD has EVER SEEN – Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King, two of the most Influential, Intelligent Men this World has EVER SEEN, THE Creators of the GREAT and Rare Freedom of how to run our own personal lives and be responsible for our own wealth not be on welfare or dependant on others, and the Great Martin Luther King’s work on making Thomas Jefferson’s ideals REAL with his work on establishing the same rights for African Americans as the Rest of America in helping to inspire the Civil Rights Bills. This great Country was also founded on a belief in GOD , Christianity, Freedom of Religion, and the belief in the Bible. Our US Dollar Says” In God We Trust”. And the Bible states that Prostitution is against God’s Commandments.
ACORN was established as a Community Organization in the 1970’s to help low to moderate income people to obtain affordable housing loans, provide tax return service, voter registration service etc.
And ACORN has been under investigation for some shady activities, breaking locks on foreclosed homes, falsifying hundreds of voter registrations with names like Mickey Mouse, Mary Poppins, Jive Turkey, and even the late actor Paul Newman.
James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles had the courage to go undercover and create the most insane criminal scenario they could think of making their prostitution sex slave business legal through tax evasion, and TWO of the ACORN Offices in DC and Baltimore agreed to help.
What is this country coming to if we have FORGETTEN the VALUES of FREEDOM , Pursuit of Happiness, Freedom to Make your own way, Freedom to create a business, Freedom to create wealth by benefiting from the business you start, freedom from excessive taxes on the revenue from our businesses (TEA PARTY THAT STARTED US REVOLUTIONARY WAR) , Freedom from having to support England’s poor through taxes from the US’s Wealth (REVOLUTIONARY WAR). IE Freedom from excessive taxes on Small Business Owners who are mostly Minorities whom ACORN supposedly supports. So Small Business Owners who are producers in the US who are minorities who own gas stations, dry cleaners, small restaurants who make $250K or more are the ones who are taxed to death to pay for the “REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH” to pay a portion of ACORN’s subsidies to keep them in business to….Support GIVING TAX ADVICE in Baltimore and Wash DC to an International Prostitution Sex Slavery Ring on how to Evade Taxes and Get a Home Loan for their business.
THIS EXPOSE ON ACORN IN THEIR SUPPORT OF ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES IS TRULY A DISGRACE AND A SLAP IN THE FACE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF TWO OF THE GREATEST FOUNDING FATHERS OF THE US IN FREEDOM AND SUPPORT OF CHRISTIANITY AND GOD IN THE US, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND MARTIN LUTHER KING.

“All ACORN Housing staff members undergo rigorous training and are expected to comply with high standards for ethical behavior and compliance with the law”
You call that rigorious? Was the training even on ethics? You expect the public to believe that such blatant behavior isn’t known by upper management???
ACORN is rotten to the core, up to management level!!
Stop the billions of dollars in funding to ACORN!
You hear us The Obama Administration!! or else this is your first and last term!!

ACORN is a criminal enterprise that chould be investigated and then prosecuted under the RICO provisions. It is also shocking that the mainstream media is so blatent in their refusal to cover this corrupt organization that is so near and dear to Obama’s heart. Wake up America – this man campaigned from the center but he is governing form the very, very far to the left and he and his cronies will do anything, including propping up a criminal enterprise like ACORN to further his leftist agenda. NO MORE TAXPAYER MONEY TO ACORN!!!!

Thank you, ABC, for finally stepping up to the plate and reporting on this story. Keep up the good work! Apparently you do care about keeping this country free!

Thank you Mr. Tapper.
Keep digging into ACORN then are under FBI investigation in double digit states for various unlawful acts.
Who founded ACORN? Who founded the SIEU?
The founders are felonious brothers – the RATHKEs.
They work in concert with the Obama campaign and administration.
DOn’t believe me? Just go to ACORN’s website and click on their ‘campaigns’ pulldown and see what ‘issues’ they need help propagandizing.
It’s disgusting.

Thanks for posting this story. Why give this organization anything…Take the $8.5 billion and put it into Social Security and Healthcare…. It’s time to look after the folks…You must stand up and be counted!!!!

Jake, we sure can use the 8.5 billion we laid on ACORN…to do what, I don’t know,but hate to say it, I want evidence that they are, and will be, totally cut off from our collective wallets……let’s not have some Czar dream up n new “project” for these losers…….and if we are concerned that the poor and minorities will avoid the census,hell we can have the POTUS do one of his well publicized and heralded speeches to urge them to get counted…I am sure he would do that for us………………….

Thank you for covering this. Please follow the story wherever it will lead you, & no matter the head it generates.

Thank you ABC for posting this.

Thank you ABC for finally reporting a story the American citizens need to know about.
Please report more.

Jake, you’ve only done your job here, so I don’t think any “thanks” are in order. I will, however, encourage you to KEEP IT UP! (And watch your stock and ratings skyrocket.)

If the rank and file at ACORN act this blatant and reckless – you betcha, the upper management know ALL about it. ACORN is rotten to the core and it is time to stop ACORN from receiving federal funds. Glad to see that the Census Bureau has integrity.

This should be the headline story. Instead of news we hear how rappers got drunk at an awards show. ABC should be ashamed.

I came here for the forst time because I could not believe that ABC News was not making this a headline. I am shocked. This is the biggest story out there and ABC is not hardly covering it. Is ABC complicit in this coverup?

The real story is why Congress refuses to investigate how our tax dollars are being WASTED on ACORN and its corrupt leadership.

This is all you have about the ACORN Tapes? If you can’t give me relevant news what do I need you for?

These people are terrible human beings. As far as they knew, they were assisting a pimp in soliciting the rape of CHILDREN. If you ask me they should all be in prison. What other heinous deeds have they committed?
Why does the mainstream media want to cover for the most blatantly corrupt, criminal organization in the US?

Makes you wonder what else acorn might have done in the recent past to cheat I wonder why they were given so much stimulus money. Who did the work for during the elections

“Makes you wonder why even bother to watch the news on ABC.”
I haven’t watched news on ABC since long before Peter Jennings died. Nor have I watched CBS or NBC. I watch Fox News and Lou Dobbs on CNN.
I only visit the ABC website to laugh at what the same old liberal posters say over and over. They have one tune and it’s getting really funny.

Thank you for writing this. Needless to say, I was shocked to find this on ABC. Which shouldn’t be the case at all.

Maybe ABC should have a live broadcast from Acorn headquarters ala the white house healthcare infomercial. At lease then the network could say they covered the myriad of Acorn scandals with more than one in house news article.

Where is the reporting, aren’t you journalist ashamed to be working in this news rich era, and your top story is Kanye West acting like a jerk-when there is real, real corruption to be exposed! Please, tell people about this!

Jake,
I too think you are the only good journalist at ABC. I refuse to watch your network or CBS or NBC. MSNBC is not worth mentioning 9They are just a 24 hour hate fest). As a lifelong Democrat, I am embarrassed for our country and especially the media. I too only watch Fox news and Lou Dobbs at CNN. The rest of the networks and newspapers (Except wash Times) refuse to cover anything that might hurt their messiah Obama!
I read today that Obama is doing a sweep of interviews this friday with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN MSNBC and even Univision!
HE STILL REFUSES TO DO ONE WITH FOX!
Didn’t he say he was the president of all of us? I request you ask the Administration at your next press briefing! He should realize that if he wants to talk to the people, Fox has more viewers than all the other networks added together!
I only read your blog on ABC and the rest of the news is just to PRO OBAMA!!!

Charlie Gibson said this morning that he did not know about this story. How can that be??? Your attempts to bury this story makes you nothing less than co-conspirators after the fact. He does not know what is on every else?? Can’t figure out why people are considering you irrelevant. If people at a TV news would ever get it together America would be a better place. The only question is which one of the 3 “mainstream” ( thats a joke) networks will be forced into doing their job. One day one will wake up and it will be just like in “Casablanca”. They are shocked just shocked that there was gambling going on in here.

Charlie Gibson saying that he didn’t know about this story is an outrageous claim. He is either incompetent or stupid, or covering for this administration. Not only does the public not trust the alphabet media, it has contempt just as deep as the media seems to have for the people of America. It is unbelievable to me that there has been such a screw-up by the MSM. Is there no one with any ambition to break the big stories? I know people(myself included) who never even turn the dial to ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, EVER! Really, not EVER! What a failure of the American people. We are being overrun by corruption, and the MSM is averting their eyes. You all are intellectually dishonest.

Somebody wake Charlie Gibson up.

Wow! A report from ABC News on Acorn! Perhaps Jake Tapper, should mention this to Charles Gibson, who said he has heard nothing of this! Amazing a major network anchor who is clueless (or perhaps turning his head) about a major scandal in Washington!

Will someone let Charlie Gibson know about this story..

ABC NEWS. In your mind is the whole ACORN scandle over? I don’t think so. How about continue to cover it since new evidence is coming in. Illegal activity and fraud in an organization receiving billions of taxpayer dollars is pretty new worthy, don’t you think?

charles Gibson is a true MORON….

I am amazed at the lack of coverage given to the ACORN scandel that this media has showed. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO JOURNALISM.

It’s about time you cover a real story. When will your journalists get smart and either quit before their jobs and integrity are gone or start showing the truth about crooks in DC? What about the 9 12 Project…when do you plan to tell the story about taxpayers going to DC to protest BIG GOVERNMENT? Hopefully you will know it was not about race, but about taxpayers tired of the government taking over our freedoms. Your news network is no longer a source for news…guess this Democrat will watch your station for Gray’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives only…when it comes to news your staff is clueless. What executive at ABC is getting paid off to look the other way? Maybe your lack of covering the story shows your ignorance…

“SORRY CHARLIE” Where are the interns that do research for you? Don’t you have producers or someone to clue you in on the news…your career is on the line..hope you wake up and stop the romance with the current administration and cover big political storie. This is as good as Watergate and you are sleeping through a great story. I used to like Charlie, but since he never heard about ACORN and college age kids had to break the story, this shows Charlie Gibson must be lazy or too busy worshiping the left wings in the house and senate. Sorry Charlie, but you were too busy reporting on Kanye West and MTV awards. What about the low ratings of ABC…FOX News is killing all the liberal news stations that are worshiping the administration and ignoring the truth. I used to watch ABC and now I only check now and then to see if ABC is covering ACORN, the CZARS, and the TEA Parties, but you never did until you were humilliated by FOX and some kids under 25 yrs old. Sorry ABC, but you are no longer a source of news for Americans.

Hope you guys go out of business! You are part of the problem. When a crime occurs and you witnessed, but you do not report it to the authorities, then you become an accomplish. You guys are a bunch of incompetents!

I was a fan of ABC News for 20+ years. However the selective coverage based on political bias has turned me elsewhere to look for news. Why on earth did you sit on this story? Was it outright accommodation for political purposes? Or was it just plain poor reporting? Either way I’m done with it!

What is the Bush Doctrine?

Hey Charlie what goes around comes around. You are looking pretty stupid right now!
I use to trust your reporting you lost me a while ago.

No wonder John Stossel jumped ship.
I would be embarassed to be linked to ABC as well.

Has the Disney Corporation spilled over into ABC News business? There is more fantasy being reported on the “World News Now” than reality it seems. Charlie Gibson has no knowledge of the ACORN scandal? I’ll bet he knows tons on Private Tillman though and why he hated the war. That should have been reserved for the History Channel. News is supposed to be about what is happening now, not trying to play up sales for somebody’s book deal. ABC, you used to be a network with credibility, but not anymore. Now if I really want to know what is going on I tune into Fox News.

Is it possible that ABC, NBC, and CBS already KNEW all about Acorn’s internal corruption and have been sitting on the story? This would explain why they had to keep a low profile, and just hope the news would evaporate. I propose forming an 802.13c organization called “The Acorn Truthers” to further investigate this possible conspiracy.
Wait, someone’s at the door…