Senate Votes to Keep Housing Funds from ACORN

Don’t give them any more taxpayer funds.
Investigate them.
It is possible to do work on behalf of the poor without being utterly corrupt.

We know the MSM(?name)will only report stories critical of Obama when they are absolutely forced to and when they do, they make sure it is a 1-day affair, then swept under the proverbial rug.
The American people are getting tired of news being withheld in order to prop up the Boy King.

Very hard to find this story on ABC, NBC, CNN. AP has a rather bland article about it distributed. Seems Americas wonderful free press is blatantly “cherry picking” the news it wants to report, over public airwaves. Seriously, do they thing that they can keep this a secret? Now I will tell you this. THe media boycotting storys like Van Jones, and now the ACORN story, do not serve the interestes of those who might garner the most support for such entities. IF they dont know one of theirs is under attack, how can they know to defend him? Seriously, the people that want the truth will find it, but many of those that depend on a biased media that cherry picks will not know what is going on until its to late and the story has concluded. Its easy to see that there are political reasons for this bias, but there may truly be unwanted effects from such a policy. Many of the very people who are effected by these stories will be uninformed due to the medias bias.

Thank you for this article.

Maybe the American people should make it clear to each Representative that they help to uncover all of the corruption or we will vote them out of their jobs. Come clean or come out.
Kudos to FOX for breaking this story. Can’t believe Gibson ‘didn’t know’.

IT’S ABOUT TIME ! My only question is, what took so long and why did it take a couple of 20 year olds to lower the boom on this organization.

*Truly* remarkable…
(I-phone)

Did you send this article to Charlie? Today’s video is from California, and it has an ACORN person naming politicians they work with. The woman also admitted to shooting her husband. I’m sure Jake and Charlie won’t know anything about this either.

I really hope ACORN sues Fox. They cannot survive discovery or deposition. Check.

Haven’t heard a word out of the whining Boy King.
Chicken.

It is of no supprise that the left major networks did not report the Acorn problem. All except FOX ignored the big news story and swep it under the rug as they do on all Obama connections. One of these days the networks will wake up to the face that the viewers are aware of their left leaning news and more and more are going to FOX which is the only one that will report ALL the news not just one side.Sic um FOX

“Is there any wonder why ACORN is getting traction by suggesting that the Republicans who made and edited the films may have doctored the tapes?”
Certainly got some marvelous traction in the Unted States Senate, didn’t they? 83-7 is some kind of traction, alright.
Reminds me of when Carville said the Gennifer Flowers tapes were doctored…

Take ACORN before the House Ethics committee – Let Charlie Rangel investigate them.

Gibson shold have kept his mouth shut. Now he has established himself as the anchorman media benchmark for keeping abreast of events.

Why is it that the liberal media is talking about sueing the film maker because of the illegal audio? What about the child prostitution ring that ACORN was going to help set up? I dont see why anyone would continue to support an organization that would support child prostitution!!! Get a clue people!! Is our society really dropping so low to over see child prostitution for a legal dispute over the audio of the tape? Good job ABC on reporting this!! oh wait you havent…

Why is the MSM, MainStream Media, called “mainstream”?
What they really are is a news MONOPOLY built around promoting liberal/leftist causes and purposefully blacking out news that puts their ideology in a bad light.
Investigate ACORN?
Heck, Congress needs to investigate why all major news outlets, except one, are keeping valid information and news away from the general public.
It is obscene the way the news is being censored IN AMERICA.
This is bordering on criminal behavior.
Yesterday, I heard a commentator on a Chicago news radio show ask the question, What did Obama do when he worked for ACORN?
Hello… In Chicago, a NEWS radio program. They didn’t bother to ask this question during the election for fear of what they might find out!
Unbelievable…

People have been complaining (on blogs throughout the internet) about ACORN’s shady dealings since the presidential campaign season started.
The only responses we received was from the Nutters(Obama Supporters)who vehemently denied any wrongdoing from ACORN (despite evidence such as taped misdoings) or links to Obama.
I do not see many of the Nutters now on this blog and have not heard one peep from Chicken Little.
Here’s hoping that those two kids crack the ACORN nut wide open.
I have a feeling it won’t be pretty.

“Is there any wonder why ACORN is getting traction by suggesting that the Republicans who made and edited the films may have doctored the tapes?”
Har.
Doctored the tapes?
Oh sure- that’s why ACORN fired some of those people, right? Because of doctored tapes?
Where do you get your information?”
drjohn | Sep 15, 2009 12:14:53 PM
Thank you for providing an excellent example of a right winger lying by misquote. I note you left this part of my 11:55:23 post out:
“It is ACORN’s position, at this time, that the videotape is doctored and that the voiceovers change the real dialog.”
tI really doubt hat and I think the police need to be allowed to get involved. Fox needs to release copies of the full tapes to law enforcement so the thugs caught on them can be tried in a court of law, not just fired from their minimum wage job.”
I’m not impressed by ACORN ditching a few minimum wage thugs at the merest whiff of bad PR. I want to see these people in jail. Why won’t Fox release copies of the uneditted tapes to shut up ACORN for good? It’s a trivial thing to do – just release the full tapes so the prosecutors have the best case to put in front of a grand jury.
Why won’t Fox release the full tapes and REALLY break ACORN?

Is there little wonder that the public doesn’t believe a word that the President is saying when he does not call for a full investigation of ACORN and to stop all funding immediately. Oh I forgot he came from this organization.

ABC World News has become a joke. They only feature Pro-Obama reports and totally ignore stories like the ACORN scandal.
Is this what “Change” is all about?
Filtering the News and censorship?
People aren’t stupid.
The “real” news is readily available on the Internet ABC can’t hide the “real” news from America.
This is why the ABC News ratings are so disgustingly low right now.
I totally understand how ABC “The All Obama Channel” was coined.
ABC – You can’t hide the facts in this Information Age we live in.
Your viewers are not stupid and almost every one of them has a computer to get the “real” news.
Someone needs to tell you this.
I just did.
Anyone out there in agreement with me???

jhw539 —- They’re not owned by Fox. Those tapes are from some reporter and if they are going to file suit, I am sure they are somewhere safe. If Fox owned them, they could release them.

Take ACORN before the House Ethics committee – Let Charlie Rangel investigate them.
Posted by: jamescbuilder | Sep 15, 2009 12:14:23 PM
Anyone notice that even though Exxon posted its second largest quarterly profit in its history, the Senate has suddenly “lost interest” in dragging the oil company CEOs to Washington?
Could it have anything to do with the fact that oil company tax revenue is not so bad after all when the Dems are in charge of the WH?
Nah…

Dear Peter Jennings:
Hope you’re having fun in heaven, but I wish you’d take time to haunt all your colleagues into doing their jobs. Did you watch as ACORN-SEIU thugs CHEATED at the Dem caucuses during the primary?
If you can’t rise from the dead, please haunt the dreams of ABC’s so-called journalists until they relent and regain their integrity.
Miss you. Thanks so much!

C’mon ABC, give us the names who didn’t vote and voted not to stop giving grants. Want to see how fast they lose their seats? Give us the names in this so-called transparent government.

So sad that ABC is in on all of this corruption.If you hide it then your part of it and that is what they do . They are supposed to look out for us and they have failed miserably.What happened?? Obama happened.No one watches regular news anymore because they lie/or just dont report honestly. I asked a in-law what he thought about the Czars and he had no idea lol he watches ABC….. what about cap and trade? huh? he said. hmm Van Jones?? no idea who he was and Acorn?? not a damn word on them and their corruption. ABC doesn’t even give info for a good conversation. Their viewers have no clue about anything except the next time Obama speaks , So sad

Obama about Kanye West – “Jackass”
Obama about ACORN – CRICKETS

Why won’t Fox release the full tapes? Why are they protecting ACORN?
Posted by: jhw539 | Sep 15, 2009 12:27:07 PM
Maybe the REAL owners of the tapes are not done releasing them yet. Stay tuned…

Jake at the risk of being CANNED by the extremeist socialist at ABC,, why don’t you report on this tonight…LIVE LMAO..not going to happen

“Or Fox could just release copies of the full tapes so prosecutors could do their jobs and start putting these ACORN thugs in jail.”
Any prosecutor intersted in doing his job could simply subpoena the tapes. Or ACORN could file a civil lawsuit and do the same.
Meantime, I’m confident that Fox is very comfortable and happy with the hand it is playing. And I would assume that any Senator who thought the “full tapes” would shed any different light on the story would not have voted to cut off the funding.
What we have here appears to be a prima facie RICO case. Over to you, Mr. Holder–I know you’ll follow the facts and the law wherever they lead you, as we are a nation of laws and no one is above those laws. Right?

I wonder if even this is enough to topple ACORN?
There are those so blinded, that they cannot accept the truth, even when it is right in front of them.
The allegations against ACORN have mounted up over the years, but no one wanted to investigate.
ACORN was untouchable, and became more and more corrupt.
ACORN played a huge role in Obama’s election victory.
So, how deep does the fraud go?

Ken – Yup,we are all with you, well, maybe with the exclusion of one.
ABC – Can you hear us now?????????

“C’mon ABC, give us the names who didn’t vote and voted not to stop giving grants. Want to see how fast they lose their seats? Give us the names in this so-called transparent government.”
lfrichar | Sep 15, 2009 12:39:04 PM
Don’t be so lazy – look it up yourself! The vote is publicly available online and easy to find with the links provided by Jake. The Senators who voted No or who did not vote are:
Burris (D-IL)
Casey (D-PA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Leahy (D-VT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Vitter (R-LA)

Glad you finally showed, but a little late to the party aren’t we Jake?

“Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s blogged at least once on this scandal.
Gibson: You guys are uh really up on the website.”
Jake, this is comedy GOLD.

HA!! A week late and $1.65 short. CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC have shown their true colors. EPIC FAIL! And Fox PWN’D them big time. I guess they’ve been AFK for some time now.. And America is now seeing them for who they truely are. LOLZ

jhw – Enough with the insults. Why didn’t you look up that information on who actually “owned” the ACORN tapes?
You with your red herrings. You asked the same questions last night and got basically the same answers. Go back to sleep.

===Release copies of the full tapes. ===
Did Fox buy the rights to the tapes?

“Glad you finally showed, but a little late to the party aren’t we Jake?”
Osteoblast | Sep 15, 2009 12:50
? His last blog on the ACORN tapes was last week. He didn’t break it, but he did report it.

“Its funny that Fox is alway made out to be so Right leaning.”
Because they are.
“They are popular because they actually investigate and give you the side of the story you won’t see on the other networks.”
ROFLMAO!
What investigation?
They reported what was on a blog!

===What investigation? ===
Maybe you should tell the other poster that. She thinks Fox won’t release the tapes.

Why do you think it is that two young people in their early 20s have to do the work that 60 Minutes should be doing? Oh yeah, right ……

Now how about looking into the unacceptable influence of Unions on this administration and the political payoffs that total in the Billions as a thank you for helping get them elected!? The SEIU alone stands to make well over $1Billion yearly in additional Union dues if we allow the government to get their hands on healthcare and push through card check…..THAT seems to be the priority over truely fixing the problems in healthcare. The SEIU president Andy Stern has also been quoted as saying that the free market system is broken and that the government in conjunction with the unions must intervene….remember Obama said to the SEIU, “your agenda is my agenda”! The UAW was largely, if not solely responsible for the collapse of our auto companies, yet they get put at the head of the line in front of bond holders!!! That isn’t even legal! Now we have a union guy as our manufacturing czar despite having zero experience in manufacturing? We have AFL-CIO union officials appointed to the NY Fed?? What happened to putting an end to the influence of special interests? Most unions are leeches that suck companies and their employees dry for their own political gain despite claiming to be for the workers yet they are helping to shape the agenda and “fundamentally transform america”! COME ON ABC DO YOUR JOB! I expect it from NBC since their parent companies(GE) CEO is a close advisor to the president but I thought ABC had some integrty!

By all means the FBI should investigate ACORN and prosecute anyone who’s broken the law, but it isn’t the President’s place to order such an investigation. Remember that the DOJ’s office is independent of the White House–the President isn’t supposed to command its prosecutorial authority, nor are members of Congress. I suppose Congress could authorize a special investigation of ACORN, but it just seems kind of low on the list of legislative priorities right now, when the FBI has the tools and authority necessary to do the exact same thing.

Thanks Jake Tapper!!! Your the only one talking about ACORN-GATE except Fox!! Cudo’s to you!!! Big story and it will get bigger!!! — If this was an organization associated with the Bush administration, you would be ALL OVER IT !!!! —- This story has everything you could ever want – corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream. Imagine the ratings. But almost no one is covering it. — Could it be the Obama Connection???

so let me get this straight…now the nut jobs are complaining about ABC not reporting the story in the comments for THE ACTUAL STORY. I see the vultures hoping to pounce. “Oh please oh please make Obama look bad. Please please please!!!” If this organization has been around for so long, were they receiving money under the bush administration? Why didn’t they look into these allegations? Nothing? Yeah. Keep hoping folks. Keep hoping.

It looks like Bertha Lewis’ definition of
“… working families in the country…” that ACORN serves is rather broad.

“”"”"TO call this story an example of FoxNews’ investigative prowess is hilarious on it face. “”"”"
Posted by: Ryan C
Can’t leave out your right wing hatred mixed with Fox News can you? Fox reported the story that almost all other news outlets did not until the Senate vote. That is reporting. ACORN stands to gain about $8 billion in stmuls and OUR government didn’t even mention this. Do you not see a problem with that?

Ok, all you ACORN posters can rant and rave all you want in here now. That’s right, just let loose. Just keep your ACORN chat off non-ACORN subject discussions.

hey ryan, I did a search too! But I did mine on google and I found over 1600. But guess what? I did not find any of the NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN networks on that list. They were all blogs quoting ABC Political Punch.

I like pie

But I did mine on google and I found over 1600. But guess what? I did not find any of the NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN networks on that list. They were all blogs quoting ABC Political Punch.
Jason | Sep 15, 2009 1:13:06 PM
Your google fu is weak. Use the site: tag. For example, CNN has been reporting on it since 9/10.
But reporting isn’t enough. Demand that they RELEASE THE FULL TAPES AND START PUTTING ACORN BEHIND BARS.
Anything less than jail time is just a publicity stunt. RELEASE THE FULL TAPES ALREADY AND LETS GET SOME ARREST WARRANTS.

Transcripts of CNN’s on air reporting on this issue on Friday are also available with a bit of easy googling.
But that’s not enough. STOP SHELTERING ACORN FOR HEADLINES – RELEASE THE FULL TAPES AND PUT THEM BEHIND BARS.

Leave ACORN alone – they got Mickey Mouse to vote.

It’s truley amazing that anyone would be concerned that it is “unlawful to wilfully intercept, endeavor to intercept, or procure any other person to intercept any oral conversation” — rather than concentrate on all the FELONIES perpetrated by the Acorn workers!!!!!

ABC didn’t get their talking points from the DNC yet regarding ACORN. That’s why they have been AWOL on the story so far this week. Jake is going out on a limb here with no context for this story. Is he the last of journalists at ABC? Also since Obama is so closely tied with ACORN ABC has to be very careful on how they cover this story or they won’t get special privilidges inside the White House any more.

As the conservatives continue their witch hunts, and their brand of McCarthyism (which Glenn Beck’s parrots bragged about on t-shirts and signs at the 9/12 exploitation of the unity tragedy wrought eight years ago), they miss this point, which others have pointed out– While they’re being somewhat successful at taking down GOP bogeymen, these bogeyman have very, very little to do with Dems as a whole or today’s most pressing and important stories (the economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, health care). AND how powerful ACORN actually is and how closely the administration or Democrats in general are associated with the group versus the rightwingers’ beliefs about these things are two completely different stories. It’s a distraction. But, hey, the right wing noisemakers actually do get a good job of getting Tapper to pay attention to their malarkey.
On a related note, I’ve heard ACORN might sue Fox News, and I think that would be an interesting story worth following.

Sweet. something else for the R’s to use as a distraction from fixing their mistakes. Fix healthcare and the budget. I don’t care what some group of community organizers messes up. This is about as important as the churches swaying congregations to vote R. If they are guilty, get them in jail. What does this have to do with anything, and why are the wingnuts so obsessed with it?

Someone tell Charles Gibson! He says he doesn’t know anything about any of this!

Fox just reported the videos being posted by Andrew Breitbart’s new website BigGovernment… This story was not contrived or initiated by Fox News!

“On a related note, I’ve heard ACORN might sue Fox News, and I think that would be an interesting story worth following.”
Oh, I do so hope they try!
Bring it on!

If this was two years ago during the Bush administration, and Bush had had some contact with Acorn earlier iin his life, don’t you think this would be the HEADLINE story for TWO WEEKS???? — Thank you Jake Tapper for not being as obviously biased as the rest of the mainstream media!!!

In all this fuss, don’t forget the Senates vote means nothing until the House also passes it and Obama signs it into law.
We need Baracks leadership to get it done.Prove to us you are committed to cleaning up Washington, which also requires cleaning up funding of corrupt organizations like ACORN.

“Are you guys simply in favor of child prostitution and tax evasion? Is that what’s bothering you?”
drjohn | Sep 15, 2009 1:39:33 PM
I have repeatedly and strongly stated that I want to see these ACORN thugs brought up on charges and put in jail. Period.
I don’t want them just fired from their minimum wage job and milked for headlines. RELEASE THE FULL TAPES AND PUT THEM IN JAIL.
Why are you so against releasing the full tapes? Don’t you understand that YOU are the one PROTECTING ACORN by sitting on that evidence?

The “full tapes” are a wholly imagined issue. Any state or federal prosecutor with jurisdiction now has abundant probable cause to make arrests and file felony charges, or to present the matter to a grand jury. If they do not do so, their forbearance has nothing at all to do with Fox’s not having “released the full tapes,” except in the wishful daydreams of the goofy left.
I, too, think a lawsuit by ACORN against Fox would be a garden of genuine delights. I might have to come out of a very comfortable retirement to draft the plan for documentary and testimonial discovery of the plaintiff–and all on a pro Bono publico basis.
Speaking of crooks, who doubts that Charlie Rangel has committed multiple felonies?

Just as President Obama warned Wall Street against going “back to the days of reckless behavior” and pressed for “the most ambitious overhaul of the financial system since the Great Depression.” The President must urge a sweeping plan to requiring review and monitoring any organization receiving government funds.

How long before ABC forces Jake Tapper out and he joins Fox News! Do you think Charlie Gibson even knows this story is going on?

“I don’t want them just fired from their minimum wage job and milked for headlines. RELEASE THE FULL TAPES AND PUT THEM IN JAIL.”
You do, do you?
Someone once said
“A fish rots from the head down”
You might even know who said it

“Umm, who the heck is saying they are against the tapes being released? Other than maybe the investigative videographers who have the tapes,”
Jason | Sep 15, 2009 1:47:50 PM
Wait – didn’t you just say the tapes have been released? Was that just a lie to cover up for the tape makers sitting on them to shield ACORN? ACORN in jail is great for us, but then Fox and company lose all those headlines.
RELEASE THE FULL TAPES AND PUT THESE THUGS BEHIND BARS.
The short cut versions currently released to make headlines are probable cause for an investigation, but the FULL UNCUT tapes would probably be enough for prosecution. “Look at these videos online” starts investigations, copies of the uncut tapes could start prosecutions. There is a BIG difference.
If no one is arrested based on this, it’s just a publicity stunt.
RELEASE THE TAPES NOW. QUIT AIDING ACORN’S PATHETIC EXCUSES.
RELEASE THE FULL TAPES.

“Glad you finally showed, but a little late to the party aren’t we Jake?”
Osteoblast | Sep 15, 2009 12:50
? His last blog on the ACORN tapes was last week. He didn’t break it, but he did report it.
Posted by: jhw539 | Sep 15, 2009 12:55:40 PM
You’re not really at the party if you’re simply peering in the window.

If the proper authorities open a criminal investigation they will surely be given the tapes. For all you demanding to know why they haven’t been released, tell me what authorities have taken measures to obtain them, and have encountered resistance? I bet there are none.

“If this was two years ago during the Bush administration, and Bush had had some contact with Acorn earlier iin his life, don’t you think this would be the HEADLINE story for TWO WEEKS????”
Bush had so many scandals, its hard to imagine any one of them taking up two weeks of headlines before being pushed out by a new scandal.

Right – nothing to do with them >>> This came after the Obama campaign inaccurately claimed on its “Fight the Smears” website that “Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.” ACORN spokesman Lewis Goldberg told the New York Times that Obama conducted two unpaid leadership training sessions for ACORN’s Chicago affiliate in the late 1990s; the campaign updated the “smear” rebuttal to assert that “ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee.” (Key word: hired.)

Why not ask important questions. Isn’t it suspicious that the Dems so quickly and quietly voted, before the MSM noticed, with strong agreement to a Republican provision to block funding to ACORN. Why hasn’t Obama condemned these actions?

OK Bertha Lewis (National Director of ACORN)…. I have a question for you.
If the tapes were fabricated and lies put out by Fox News…..why fire your employees? If they did nothing wrong, which is what you said, why fire them? You make no sense and by firing them, admit guilt. ACORN is a socialist and dishonest organization rife with lies and fraud. I detest ANY tax payer money going to your dishonest organization. And shame on Congress for giving you over 53 million tax payer dollars since 1993.

Who voted against it?
Name the 7 who voted against it and the 9 who withheld their vote so the people they represent can know what to do on Election Day 2010 and 2012.

Anything less than jail time is just a publicity stunt. RELEASE THE FULL TAPES ALREADY AND LETS GET SOME ARREST WARRANTS.
Posted by: jhw539 | Sep 15, 2009 1:19:51 PM
That’s right! We don’t need the media involved in another Abu Ghraib where they reported month after month after month whether there was anything new or not – just to boost their hit count/ad revenue and blast GWB. Release they tapes they don’t even own now!

WoW!
I can’t believe that ABC is actually covering this story (finally).
Maybe there is hope for ABC yet.
Maybe you will start practicing objective reporting again.
I am encouraged, keep up the good work & maybe I’ll start watching your station again.

And Obama actually handed over the census-taking to ACORN.
LMAO!

Whoops!
Posted by: drjohn | Sep 15, 2009 2:03:36 PM
Now THAT deserves a ROFLMAO!
ROFLMAO!

Here’s another story the media is burying. Obama has changed the rules of engagement in Afghanistan. Our soldiers are not allowed to shoot back if women and children are replenishing Taliban ammunition.
Our military are fish in a barrel. The 4 Marines who were killed the other day were left to die without any air cover. It was simply refused.
This is the absolute worst scenario for our troops. The WORST.
Afghanistan is LOST. Thank you President Obama.
It is time to take our troops OUT OF THERE is he going to tie their arms behind their backs.
They should come home NOW. This is an atrocity.

Bush had so many scandals, its hard to imagine any one of them taking up two weeks of headlines before being pushed out by a new scandal.
Posted by: Ryan C | Sep 15, 2009 2:00:32 PM
And the Clintons spent most of their 8 years under investigation.

My Goodness! I think Obama has some ‘plaining to do.

Since the Acorn employees were fired, are they eligible for unemployment compensation? I hope not.
Posted by: Kathy Iven | Sep 15, 2009 2:23:34 PM
They’ll just go out into their back yards and dig up their tin cans full of corruption money.

What’s so concerning about this is that it’s turning into a political issue quickly. This is not a “one side or the other” political issue. Taxpayers in this country, no matter what your leanings are, deserve to KNOW what is happening with our money.
We can argue all day about the way the tapes were done, whether or not it was “legal”, does ACORN have the right to sue, and so on. But THE POINT is, this fraud-laden organization is instructing people HOW TO get out of paying taxes, how to “rename” your “line of work”, how to get away with running a brothel full of foreign girls less than 14 years old, and so on, and so on…and they are being partially funded WITH YOUR MONEY. Get that through your head. It’s YOUR MONEY. What they were doing on those tapes was not just immoral, it’s ILLEGAL. YOUR TAX MONEY is being used to assist an organization give people information to do ILLEGAL things. Whether it’s ACORN or any other group that is being funded by OUR MONEY, we have the right to know what they are doing. We have the right to be angry when they are exposed. And we have the right to want something done about it.
Summary: The ACORN organization, ripe with corruption and fraud, is using the tax money of hard working Americans to further their agenda, break the law, and encourage other people to do the same. Why should the people they “counsel” pay taxes? That’s what we’re here for, right? Why should we care if the people they “counsel” want to have 13-14 year old girls in a prostitution ring? Isn’t that what we want our tax dollars going for? Isn’t that where we want our moral standards to be?
Obama has tried to push his healthcare plan as a “moral issue”. So, when the foreign 14 year old prostitutes mentioned above get pregnant, or get a disease, or need psychiatric help down the road, are we going to use our “moral, tax payer funded health care plan” to take care of them? Just a thought.

Just because FoxNews says that Acorn and Obama are “tight” and “synonymous” does NOT make it so.

Can anyone in their right mind believe that Charlie Gibson NEVER HEARD anything about the ACORN scandal? As of this morning he claims he has not. If he is that blind on what is going on in this country it is time he was replaced. Or-was he lying so he didn’t have to explain WHY ABC is not covering this story?

Obama’s connection to Acorn is no more scandalous than Bush/Cheney’s link to Haliburton, which also received favorable status and contracts from the federal government. Just as we were critical of the Bush/Haliburton link, the media and taxpayers should be equally outraged and critical of the Obama/Acorn link. the difference, of course, while Haliburton received contracts, I don’t recall them breaking any laws or having the same problem Acorn seems to have with its employees.

Posted by: Tom “Just because FoxNews says that Acorn and Obama are “tight” and “synonymous” does NOT make it so.”
OBAMA IS ACORN. He trained ACORN workers on how to organize. He was their attorney. He gave them the census to take over-remember? ACORN is scheduled to get over 4 BILLION OF STIMULOUS money. Open your eyes and smell the coffee.

Now we know what Community Organizers really do.

Hard to imagine anything more boring.

Just Sayin —– If Obama doesn’t have a connection to ACORN, then he has nothing to worry about!! Let’s check it out just to make sure!!!

The pesident must distance himself from Van jones (Racist ex Green Jobs Czar, Acorn and Nancy

HOW they voted on Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 2355 to H.R. 3288 (Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010)
Statement of Purpose: Prohibiting use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
NAYs 7
BURRIS (D – IL)
CASEY (D – PA)
DURBIN (D – IL)
GILLIBRAND (D – NY)
LEAHY (D – IL)
SANDERS (I – VT)
WHITEHOUSE (D – RI)
Not Voting 9
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hutchison (R-TX)
McCain (R-AZ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Vitter (R-LA)

“It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. If ACORN did not exist, the right-wing would have needed to create us in order to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America.”
If this were baseball the mercy rule would be invoked by now.
THIS is their defense? They’ve had the types for months? That invalidates nothing.
And in the hypothetical where ACORN didnt exist and Fox News invented such a corrupt organization out of whole cloth- well that hypothetical group shouldnt be funded by the government either.
In no case does ACORN have a defense that holds up.

Too little too late. Obama won in large part to ACORN fraud. Maybe so has Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Durban, Murtha, Frank, Dodd et al
My experience tells me that this is window dressing and ACORN will continue to be funded. Probably will get an increase in funding.
There is nothing in the Constitution about taxpayers fnding such burt what is the Constitution anymore?

Interesting: “…and also mentioned recent videos from two young conservative journalists…”
So will Jake Tapper be including the self-description “liberal journalist” in his upcoming stories?

IT IS ABOUT FREEKING TIME!!!!. I ‘m trying to understand exactly what their purpose is. Hm, let’s see afordable housing. Brilliant idea, this helped lead to lax guidelines that aided in the mortgage crises. I remember how they strong armed the banks w/CRA. Oh,I don’t mean to minimize this wonderful organization. They also help w/ voter rights for those who are “marginalized” and don’t know their voting rights. I have a tip for the “marginalized”. IF IN 2009 YOU DO NOT KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE, THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T! The people who run this Cesspool of an orgination are a bunch of THIEVES, as demonstraded on video. Did the dopes on Capital Hill forget the problems in the last election? I certainly hope the revoke the funds in the stimulus bill that was pasted this year. THESE THIEVES ARE DUE TO RECEIVE APPROX 8 BILLION DOLLARS. THAT WOULD CERTAINLY SET UP PLENT OF BROTHELS. WAY TO GO ACORN!

I wonder if Obama will cancel his round of talk shows this coming Sunday.
Posted by: ceeLeelee | Sep 15, 2009 2:47:58 PM
Of course not he cannot resist the camera and he loves to hear himself talk.

To all that are defending ACORN: Drop off your hard-earned tax dollars at my house. Since you don’t care what happens to your money. At least I can promise you I wont’t spend it on under-age illegal alien prostiution. IF YOU DEFEND THESE PEOPLE YOU ARE A FOOL. IF WE DO NOT STOP THIS BEHAVIOR IN WASHINGTON WE ARE A NATION OF FOOLS.

Ryan C, so you’re okay with ACORN instructing “poor minorities” in how to evade the tax laws? Setting up child prostitution rings? So as long as an organization’s announced purpose is to help the poor and minorities it’s okay for them to not obey our laws?

I knew some leaders of ACORN in Brooklyn, NY twenty years ago. They were awful people, cold and calculating, with no regard for anyone. ACORN was the group that intimidated the banks to give mortgages to low-income people who could not afford them. Otherwise, they threatened to picket them and brand them as racist. They and others like them orchestrated the subprime mess, and the irony is they were recently asked to give their input on this crisis as supposedly helpful observers. ACORN is a dangerous organization. They should never have received taxpayer dollars.

Of course not he cannot resist the camera and he loves to hear himself talk.
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Sigh… I guess the “Full Monty” presentation to the TV screen by long-suffering Americans will go on as originally planned…
Lol.

ACORN was the group that intimidated the banks to give mortgages to low-income people who could not afford them. Otherwise, they threatened to picket them and brand them as racist.”
“Redlining is the practice of denying, or increasing the cost of, services such as banking, insurance, access to jobs, access to health care, or even supermarkets to residents in certain, often racially determined, areas.”
Right wingers love racist policies.

Ryan C —This is just the tip of the iceberg———Obama returns to Chicago in 1991, where he is named the Illinois head of “Project Vote” (an affiliate of “ACORN,” a group infamous for its involvement in vote fraud), to help increase the number of black voters. Project Vote is required to remain non-partisan to retain its tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) organization under the IRS Code
In 1995, Obama sues the State of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to get the state to comply with the federal “Motor Voter Law” law, which Republican Governor Jim Edgar correctly argues will invite voter fraud, partly because government officers registering new voters are “under orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship.” ACORN has been prominent in the fight against photo I.D. for voting and other means of voter identification. ACORN specifically sought out Obama to represent them in the lawsuit (it was not simply assigned to him by a law firm).
In 1993, Obama runs leadership training sessions on the subject of “power” for ACORN leaders, and continues to do so until at least 2003. Obama also helps train the staff of high-ranking ACORN leader Madeline Talbott

Ryan C ——— ACORN got caught in 4 MAJOR cities. How many millions of low income might be skimming from our system through direction from ACORN. Quit being so partisan and admit this can be serious.

Ryan C,
you are right, a few do not represent the whole. But, if they were wrong, fire them and tell us how you (ACORN) will not let this happen again, don’t start blaming doctored tapes. If these tapes were truly doctored, then why fire the employees? Isn’t this what everyone is always arguing about, give us solutions, not excuses and then put blame on the opposition. Show us (the taxpayers) that our tax dollars are truly going to help those that need it. Such defensiveness appears to me as someone trying to hide something or not wanting to take responsibility of a subordinates actions.

One of the key pioneers of ACORN, Madeline Talbott, was so impressed with Barack Obama that she hired him to train her personal staff and other aspiring ACORN leaders. Obama conducted leadership-training seminars for ACORN’s organizers. Obama was the executive director of voter registration for ACORN’s Chicago branch. Then when Obama was appointed to the Woods Fund he saw to it that ACORN was well funded. As a state senator he again saw to it that ACORN was well funded. As a U. S. Senator a good portion of his nearly $1 billion in earmarks went to groups associated with, if not directly to, ACORN. And now as president ACORN is still being extremely well funded in the tune of billions of dollars.

“You ignored the Teaparty March on Washington.”
You have to be joking. The TEA party story was all over the home page of this website on the weekend.

dismantle the Obama’s Gang– Acorn!

My god people,how blind r u? I dont care if your a lefty.Theres the damn video.Now there are four of them.What the hell is wrong with you people.Are you this blinded by your hatred?

“Close to two million citizens visit Washington to express their concerns…
NO COVERAGE”
Every major media outlet in the country covered the story. They just didn’t buy into the “two million” bit. Not even Fox News.

geecee —– Fox ONLY reported it. The actual film was carried out by an independent journalist. All law enforcement in the tank, who said that? Almost every news channel, certainly. Do you believe these tapes were doctored?

Where’s your outrage over Acorn? You biased one sided sob’s! Just more proof that you state run media people are in the toliet! Instead of shaking pom-poms, you should be outraged like us Americans! But, then again, you guys quit being newscasters decades ago! Better suck up your paychecks now, cause someday you ain’t gonna have a job. You do the math!!!!!!!!! IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“”"”"This story has nothing whatsoever to do with the President.”"”"”
Posted by: ‘Un-Amercian’
Well, not directly, not yet.

Posted by: lfrichar | Sep 15, 2009 4:21:35 PM
Dude read the post Alyson said that. i said do not close the store just yet it’s just getting started.

ACORN is crooked from the ground up. If upper management didn’t approve of this, lower people wouldn’t feel so comfortable advocating pedophilia. Obama better find a way to distance himself from them which doesn’t seem possible since they were the primary source of his election, he was a lawyer for them and he wanted them to help shape his rule.

Now the state of Maryland is threatening the people who exposed ACORN, just as it threatened Linda Tripp for exposing the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. Is this the best that Maryland can aspire to?

Mr. Tapper, seriously, have you watched the video??? OMG LOL. You people at ABC crack me up. The lady in the first video tells Eden (Hannah Giles) how she can get child credit for 3 of the 13 underaged girls, but can’t with all 13 because it would throw up a red flag as Eden is too young to have 13 kids! HOW IS THAT DOCTORED or voiced over? This is amazing to me that ABC is showing such bias in what is suppose to be UNBIAS news reporting!!! This is so deep you won’t see the bottom of the well for a long while, but with PROPER investigations FINALLY, Obama fans may not like what is found at the bottom of this well! Well at least there is finally a report on ABC after what 5 days! LOL DIMWITS

Acorn should be cut off at the root!
I know now I am a racist!
Great happy to be one!
Every time a minority does something wrong the white person is a racist!
I hope this country can survive
The news media abc nbc, cbs, nyt and other are worthless and I like million refuse to watch or purchase!

Someone pls come up with a creative sting operation for The cook organisation “Family Research Council”.

If this is the new standard for judging, then the Republican Party should be written off.
Posted by: Churchill | Sep 15, 2009 4:55:48 PM
I am sorry to disagree but I think that would leave us with no government at all.

A few rotten apples or acorns would not spoil the whole bunch. But the level of corruption in this organization will bring it down. This is outright crazy all of the illegal voter fraud, housing fraud and illegal advice that is being given. No more $$ NO CENSUS thank god.

Typical of a corrupt organization. Attach the criticizer rather than go after their own corruption.
Now the whole congress needs to cut funding for the other 270 organizations in Acorn’s web of corruption, investigate them all and take every legal action to prosecute them where the laws are being broken. These organizations are their own “mafia” and need to go down hard!

“Ryan, great posts on the actual facts versus the bogeyman spin. This story has nothing whatsoever to do with the President.”
Of Course not.
The right wing knows the President remains vastly more popular than they are.
So they have to tear him down.
“Now, here’s something funny, that I suspect we’ll hear more about down the pike, despite its ridiculousness. Apparently, on Friday, 9/11, Beck “connected” the dots and insinuated that ACORN,SEIU, and Van Jones conspired to make the levees fail In New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit AND for the complete lack of federal aid immediately after the storm, which is a scandal which will forever rest at the feet of the Bush administration.”
I am shocked we have not seen that given the way his audience parrots.

“Obama returns to Chicago in 1991, where he is named the Illinois head of “Project Vote” (an affiliate of “ACORN,” a group infamous for its involvement in vote fraud),”
Project Vote was not affiliated with ACORN at the time Obama worked with Project Vote.
“In 1995, Obama sues the State of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to get the state to comply with the federal “Motor Voter Law” law, which Republican Governor Jim Edgar correctly argues will invite voter fraud, partly because government officers registering new voters are “under orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship.” ACORN has been prominent in the fight against photo I.D. for voting and other means of voter identification. ACORN specifically sought out Obama to represent them in the lawsuit (it was not simply assigned to him by a law firm).”
Exactly as I posted.
Obama represented ACORN in a single case in which the DOJ was a co-plaintiff to make sure Illinois enforced the Motor-Voter law.
And Jim Edgar was not correct as he lost that lawsuit.

ACORN’s attorneys wrote to Fox News CEO Roger Ailes suggesting that the tapes have been improperly doctored.
This response is right out of the Soviet playbook and the expectations are that it will be swallowed whole by the American people….after all they freely elected a socialist presindent!

So ABC….what took so long on reporting this story? I have stopped watching you guys. Your clueless as to what is going on. I heard that Charlie Gibson did not even know anything about ACORN and he does the nightly news? What is wrong with ABC? Report the news.

ABC, I expect you will have a new blog up in a matter of moments concerning the explosive details of the 4th ACORN tape that is airing right now on Glen Beck.
You will, won’t you?

NBC breaking news: Absolutely no news about ACORN. They are innocent as a new born baby.

NBC breaking news – Continuation: Oh, this ACORN baby can bite your fingers off.

If the tapes were doctored, then why were the ACORN employees terminated?

“College kids doing the work that our the MSM won’t do”
The Young Republicans have done “great” work turning out sleazy hit people.
Linda Tripp and Karl Rove started out as moles in Democratic campaigns.
Then there’s Ashley Todd who is a bit more infamous.

“Its a sad day when right wingers realize they are losing the heathcare debate, their tea party fizzled and now all they have left to do is trash the President”
Only a partisan hack would look at the attendance of the recent Tea Party and claim it fizzled. Only a partisan hack would look at the record low, after eight months, approval ratings of the president and claim he was winning the debate. What are you going to claim next? The stimulus has done a good job keeping unemployment down?
Furthermore, this has nothing to do with the healthcare debate, no matter how much the race-baiting president of ACORN claims it does. ACORN branches in fifteen states have either been indicted or investigated for voter fraud and voter registration fraud. And now they are giving advice on how to break the law. Only a partisan hack would think this organization should receive money from the government.

This skunk needs to be followed back to the hole, becuase there is more to this mess. They will find that the stink is in the white house!

The fact that this story is not being covered –in a front page, lead breaking story fashion is beyond disgusting. As Taxpayers, ALL Americans, Democrats, Republicans and Independents should stand up and demand a complete investigation into ACORN’s antics. The more of this story that comes out, the madder I get!

Whats more pathetic is Charlie Gibson saying he didn’t know anything about this, this just shows you how the networks are so behind the new administration and want to turn our nation into a marxist nation bordering on communism. My bigest questions is what are the networks going to get out of this?

Well,ABC/ Just Charles Gibson know now what ACORN IS?? Has he check any blogs on this organization? I cannot believe, a well informed man like Charles doesn’t know what ACORN is or what’s goinging on. I am so glad that at least ONE mainstream Broadcaster has the guts to probe and report on ACORN.. Have you seen the videos?? And when are you all going to probe the corruption on the HILL…???? Corruption not just in ACORN. SEIU/Dale Rathke or his brother Wade Rathke at ACORN it’s all connected. PROBE it. We the People have a right to know.
I think Mainstream televsion/abc/nbc/cbs should report such matters. the people are tired of the nonsense going on in washington.
thank you.

I CANNOT believe ABC is ignoring this story! I never thought I’d say that the only real news choice I have is Fox. At least they are not part of the WH press office. Yikes!

What is so amazing about this video – it gives us all a little prelude as to the type of personal that will be handling your ObamaCare. How is that for CHANGE? HOPE you like it.

I have always been a veryy big fan of Charlie Gibson;
it is outrageuus that he claims no knowledge of the Acorn incidents. At this poiont, he should resign as anchor as it is disgraceful.

Charley Gibson is not worth his salary if he has no idea what the ACORN undercover investigation is about and not “worth” his time to put on the program. Instead we get prepackaged nonsense about how Illinois people are doing with the 401k’s a year after.
ABC should speed up his “retirement”. I bet the White House is keeping a warm spot for Charley- maybe a press spokesman to replace the idiot the have now. He should fit right it with the spin.

Gibson at one time had a lot of respect. I think that ended today and his retirement is welcome.
It is encouraging to see that so many American’s are paying attention. Things will change in 2010 and really change in 2012.

In a statement on Saturday, ACORN’s chief organizer Bertha Lewis said the “relentless attacks on ACORN’s members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented.”
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How dare you people attack ACORN for having the policy to promote child prostitution.
You are all RACISTS!!!!

“The stimulus has done a good job keeping unemployment down?” Based on the first CEA report, supported by the remaining respected economists, unemployment was projected to be over 1 million more than it is and the stimulus may have saved that many jobs. GDP, projected at -3.3 annualized at the third quarter is going to be at 2 or better.
Now, you and the rest of your wing nut friends put together facts and figures complete with stats and sound diagnositcs to disprove or rebut those numbers and people might listen to you. But all you, your brainless GOP leaders and the Joe Goebbels (Fox) propaganda machine can churn out are mindless sound bites, useless fiction with a little Malkin-Coulter mixed in for sour flavoring.

Why is it that something as important as a 501(c)3 charity, that gets Federal funds, promotes cheating on taxes and importing underage prostitutes does not get on every News program in the free world? Does ABC, CBS and NBC look out for our tax dollars or just promote the free spending politicians no matter what?

I do not condem anyone, including the president, for the actions of this agency. Acorn stands alone in it’s misdeeds. What concerns me is that since some people DO associate Obama with this very corrupt organization, ABC, CBS, and NBC seem to be purposly ignoring and avoiding any kind of investigation about Acorn. Which leads to the next question…………WHY? If it is isolated to Acorn itself, why not get on the stick and do some digging? I am not a fan of Glen Beck, he’s too over the top for me, but if it weren’t for Beck, would we even know about any of this? If these two kids had taken their story to the MSM, would any of them have broadcast it?
I just get the feeling that our major networks have been compromised and we only get the news that makes it appear that everything is “okie dokey”
I like my news with facts, something we used to be able to depend on from the big three networks. Please don’t sweep anything that might tarnish one party under the rug, It just taints all of your news. It’s sad when I have to dig around ABC to find something about this story and in essence, they send me to Fox anyway to get the whole story. Dumb, dumb, sumb.

Monica | Sep 15, 2009 7:12:19 PM…..Another issue I bet you didn’t hear about: Washington revokedthe Honduran visas Sat.. I still can’t believe this. The interim president (of the same party as the ousted president) was conferred the presidency by the Honduran constitution. There was NO MILITARY involvement with that process. Washington is siding with Chavez and Castro.

Sleazy Republicans? Did you even watch the video of these nasty ACORN folks? Which is sleazier? Two people dressing up and pretending to be a prostitute and her pimp? Or five ACORN workers telling them how to avoid paying taxes (All my Liberal friends keep telling me how “patriotic” it is that we pay more taxes), how to better cover up pediphilic prostitute slave trade, and how best to portray yourself as a “battered woman” before you off your husband?
Give me a break. You libs will stop at nothing to keep from seeing reality and continue on your merry way being the narcissistic adolescents that you are.

Maybe ABC, NBC, CBS, etc need to hire Hannah and James since they obviously don’t have any “real reporters”. I keep expecting to see an obit for journalism since it’s so obviously dead in the mainstream media. There were more reporters than moose in Alaska during the campaign looking for dirt on Sarah Palin. Looks like you could have just stayed in DC and gotten a REAL story!

Being one of the more balanced network newsguys, Gibson deserves the benefit of the doubt on being blindsided on this Acorn scandal. But if he cares about restoring his cred, with me at least, he should be honest enough to admit he missed an important story.

If you would like a full investigation into the practices of ACORN and as to where the money is going and into who is running this outfit please contact the Inspector Generals office, because it seems that the only way to get things done to protect our way of life is to do it ourselves the media doesn’t seem interested in the American Dream any more

This is a first comment on any internet site , but I feel the need to tell ABC how I feel.In the past I started my day with GMA and ended with Charlie Gibson. Due to your inability to report anything but bias news I can no longer tolerate them. So long from this FORMER viewer.

“63% presidential approval rating? You might want to look at a more recent poll Numeros. June was a long time ago. Obama is currently at a 50% approval with 1500 likely voters sampled….”
63% FAVORABILITY rating, not APPROVAL rating. They are two different things. Favorability is a measure of his popularity, not his job performance.
And the ABC 63% favorability rating is from 3 days ago. Fox apparently hasn’t conducted a favorability poll since July.

How come we aren’t hearing more about this? It wasnt even on the 5 oclock news tonight. This is huge news, we are talking our tax dollars going to this? Unreal. Wish we heard more about this on ABC but since I am not I have to listen to Fox news. Thanks anyways.

Tsk, Tsk, Tsk Jake. Didn’t you hear this story is “one for the cables.” Take it from Charles Gibson, ABC shouldn’t be covering criminal activity, corruption and illegal campaigning by an organization that received $1.8 billion in taxpayer money over the last four years, and was the beneficiary of billions of largess under the “Stimulus” bill authored by the friends of Van Jones (as long as they keep creating voters for the right party, that is.)

Why do they call it ABC News? It should be called the shrill station for All Bama Channel.

You call yourself journalists? Why isn’t this ABC’s lead story?

Why do they mention they are conservative reporters. When Katie, Matt, Charlie and others have their stories labeled with the caveat that they are liberal reporters?

Does anybody get that, if it were not for Fox News…this story would never have made it anywhere…Obama’s Media Empire would have had it buried??? Yeah, ABC, NBC, CBS, pretty much make up a modern day Pravda. Not much to be proud of here folks!

There certainly are a lot of blog entries tonight at Tapper’s. This Acorn entry is way down the page and getting buried.

“How come we aren’t hearing more about this? It wasnt even on the 5 oclock news tonight.”
You mean the San Diego ABC affiliate airs the national news at 5 instead of local news?

Charlie – I used to admire your down-home, sincere style on Good Morning America and watched you for years. Then, with your move to World News I started to become disenchanted with your slant on the news rather than reporting news. I felt that your “talking down” to Sarah Palin during your interview showed a certain level of contempt on your part and left me very disappointed in you. Your remarks this morning about not being aware of the ACORN tapes and laughing and making a joke out of it was tasteless. I guess it is time for you to retire. In the meantime, I’d make a suggestion – have one of your underlings watch FOX news to see what’s really happening in America today so you can catch up. By the way, how many reports on Van Jones did you give before his resignation? And how much coverage did you give to this weekend’s March on Washington? Like others, I’ve given up on you representing the so-called “mainstream media” other than to see what the liberal point of view for the day is and am giving my allegiance to FOX. Sad to say, but I thought you were one of the nice guys and you’ve let me down!

Where’s the outrage about this???
I really find it hard to believe that NO ONE was covering this for days except Fox News. This issue with Acorn has nothing to do with either party, but everything to do with reporting the news truthfully and accurately (something not being done here)! The news groups would rather report on Joe Wilson (wasting time on diversions) instead of reporting real news that goes against the current crop in Washington. Shame, shame, shame!!!

I can think of many of the “mainstream media” news personnel that should be called on the carpet for not reporting news. Your kissing of the congress, house, and presidential office is amazing. I, like many of the “we the people” want to hear the truth on all sides. ACORN is a travesty. How about starting to ask some of the HARD questions?

The real shame is that this organization does get money to help the poor and disenfranchised, who will suffer by the loss of the housing funds. When there were questions about their actions last year in the elections, why wasn’t some organizational oversight conducted to make sure that they were operating in legal and ethical ways.
Please use this opportunity as a wake-up call for ACORN to thoroughly clean house and set new policies with teeth. Then reapply for funding.
Otherwise, ACORN executives and supporters can stonewall and shout “racism” and no one will win and people who need help will be abandoned.

ABC news has become a joke. Charlie, laugh if you want to but when your retire this is how you will be remembered. Fox has kicked your BUTT for a reason. All of your add money is going to leave you with your ratings. I am ashamed to call you an American. Distorting the truth by showing only parts of it is the same as a lie. What upsets me the most is that you think we are so stupid. You have all lost touch with the people that you claim to serve. Shame on you the media for pushing the race card. You are so wrong and you know it. I am a vet and a proud American, but I hate to see what you are doing to this country. You want to divide us for more news. Your news is of no value to real America.

ABC News, why are you not doing your job? I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but people that watch your national newscast are still finding out about this story. It only discredits you. I always thought that you were the class of the big 3 network newscasts, but I am quickly losing respect. All I ask is that you do your job and report news, whether it looks good or bad for this or any other political administration. Your ‘impartiality’ has lost its ‘im’.

ABC News is no longer a news operation. What a joke. Why would anyone watch your network if they wanted news? You’re almost ‘down’ to the level of NBC and MSNBC.
From little acorns mighty big news stories grown, except at what used to be the “MSM.” The old media is tired and just plain old; so out of touch with most of America. RIP.

NBC…JOKE OF THE DAY.

Wow! Just Wow! I can’t believe the current state of journalism in this country. I agree that FOX News has a conservative slant, but Holy Cow! How can the other media outlets ignore this story if they aren’t in the back pockets of this administration? I’m a real, level-headed guy, a social moderate, volunteer worker and an activist against over-bearing government intrusion and policy in my community. I want to know what’s going on, especially with my tax dollars. I just don’t get it. Has CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS cozied up too much to the glitterati and Hollywood leftists so closely that they can’t even report news because they are too scared of scaring off potential “guests” on their talk shows. LIke I said earlier, “Wow!”

Lets really bring the hammer down on these ACORN terrorists.
I wish these minimum wage workers could be more like the bernie madoffs and wells fargo executives of the world, you know those good old fellas looking out for our best interest all the time … our true american heroes.

The main stream media will continue to lose viewers as they dismiss huge news stories for cable i.e. Fox News to cover while they arrogantly describe cable news in a fashion as though it were tabloid. I don’t believe anyone bought Charlie Gibson’s statement that he hadn’t heard of the recent ACORN scandal, and if it is even remotely true, what a sad state of journalism ABC “World News” has become. I’m guessing there too busy changing the sheets on the beds in the Whitehouse theses days to report the news if you know what I mean.. “I’m just saying” :-)

Is Charlie Incompetent or is ABC complicit ? John Lennon said “A conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words” and the ignoring of this story by ABC is speaking at a booming volume to Americans. The way they have chosen to release daily these videos has exposed the state controlled media’s MO and how they cover for anything not pro Obama. The meat of the story a willingness by Acorn office’s to assist the setting up of a government subsidized brothel for 12 to 15 year old illegal immigrant girls complete with tax gaming help still being ignored. The Obama connections downplayed. Acorn and SEIU colocated in the same building, run by the Rathke brothers, with connections to 60′s groups SDS and Bill Ayers. Video of Obama addressing SEIU and Acorn where he states thier agenda is his agenda and they will have a seat at the table to set it. SEIU writing healthcare legislation. An ABC continues finally acknowleges the story but covers Obam’s connections to these 2 mob run corrupt organizations. The people shouldn’t be presenting the news to ABC, ABC has a civic trust to present it to us. Maybe Charlie was just going over details of the Bush doctrine again, yeah that’s it.

Seven senators voted for ACORN – Illinois 2, Vermont 2, Pennsylvania, New Jork, & Rhode Island. None of the states are part of the US.

CNN showed a reporter asking Wilson questions after his “You lie” outburst. Someone I was sitting with actually said “Why do they even give him a forum?” I couldn’t believe it! She is so used to seeing only her point of view on CNN (and others)that to even hear an opposing viewpoint offends her! I’ve had enough. MSM doesn’t realize how much they are motivating millions of people to object and stand up. I’m one of those millions and will be boycotting all advertisers to MSM that I can find! (CNN only showed the report to emphasize how stupid it was for him to speak out-a bad thing, I agree, but I do agree with his statement!) MSM only shows those who oppose them when they act badly (I agree, some do). MSM will not report the legitimate questions and facts others have if they don’t agree.

Pete – You do realize that Bernie Madoff was a Democrat and contributed heavily to the left, don’t you? You also realize that the hierarchy at Wells Fargo also contributes more $$ to the left wing than to Republicans, don’t you???

Why is it that the mainstream media did not investigate Acorn at this level. Why is it that it took common citizens. This is exactly why I quit working as a journalist. I am disgusted with this country’s press.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.