Acorn Scandal

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    I'm waiting for it to come out in 3-D.
     
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    I mean seriously, there were quite a few of us that called that ACORN was full of shit back in September and October of last year. Its a piece of shit org.
     
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    That guy is a terrible actor. Maybe it's only with the benefit of knowing what's going on that I noticed, but his voice really didn't work, he somehow sounded patronizing. Which, to be fair, is understandable given just how stupid those Acorn employees were.
     
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    I thought his vocabulary was far better than a stereotypical pimp. That and he was eager to give up all kinds of info.

    Hi, can I help you with a loan?

    Yeah, I am a pimp who kills dogs and cheats on my taxes and speeds in school zones and I am a racist and I steal from old ladies and I kill dogs, did I say that? anyway, I like to throw rocks at retarded children and then steal their lunch money and I whore out my girlfriend for cocaine money and I am importing sex slaves from Indonesia or Mexico or wherever they are cheaper because I am going to kill them anyway and I like long walks on the beach and I pull the legs off of bugs for sport and I adopt old greyhounds to make pimp coats out of and I voted for Bush twice and I give food laced with rohypnol to food banks and I pee in the shower and I like Tyler Perry movies.

    That last thing should have let them know it was a setup!

    Any white people here that have actually watched a Tyler Perry movie? Fox news told me not to.
     
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    I like the title best: "The Audacity of Hos"

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    I don't know if it was FOX, but I don't think these two conceived and executed the idea without some kind of help. I've seen interviews with the woman that played the prostitute, and she seems like she's reading from a script.

    That being said, it doesn't really matter to me who was behind it or whether or not they legally were allowed to film these meetings. They exposed a cancer and that's good enough for me.

    I remember when "60 Minutes", "20/20", "Nightline" or "Dateline" would have done something like this, but there are things they don't wish to see.
     
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    Fox News isn't making public sentiments, it's reflecting them.
     
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    That's a great piece. LMAO.

    Embarrassing how corrupt that organization looks now.

    This whole event reminds me of Plato's discussion of the mythical ring of Gyges. It was a ring that made the wearer invisible (aka, the Hobbit ring). If you had such a ring, would you behave ethically? Are your ethics something that's internally driven and constant, or a result of stimulus from the people around you? Do principles fly off like rags at the first good shake (to quote Joseph Conrad)? The answer in ACORN's case is pretty obvious.

    We've got Youtube, and in another year or two every cell phone made will have a video camera in it. With every passing year it seems like technology is making it harder and harder to pretend you've got that ring of invisibility.

    It's not so much that Big Brother is watching us. It's that we're getting better and better at watching each other.
     
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    Post of the Year, as far as I'm concerned.

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    Thank you, thank you very much. Is there a cash prize that goes with this award?:pimp:
     
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    You mean like ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN were trying to take Bush down?
     
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    Apparently the guy has done this sort of thing before at Planned Parenthood, so I think it's quite possible they were independent. She's just a bad actor too.
     
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    The guy and gal both say they did this on their own. If FOX news was behind it, why wouldn't they take credit? Bottom line, as stated above, is that ACORN is a rotten organization. Very willing to help perpetrate tax fraud, and have no problems helping set up a whorehouse with teenage girls from El Salvadore.

    The transcript and and video is at biggovernment.com.

    Interesting that ACORN's first response was that the video was 'false and inflamatory'. Then they fired the two workers at Baltimore the next day. Yeah, false and inflamatory my ass.

    Pretty stunning how long it took the major media outlets to report this, given our 'free press' and all.

    Obama worked for a community organizing outfit that was affiliated with ACORN when he started out in Chicago. The Prez represented ACORN in a federal lawsuit in 1995. I'd would like to hear how he feels about all this.

    11 ACORN workers were charged with voter fraud last week. There were lot's of speculation that ACORN was a party to widespread voter fraud in last fall's elections, but not much was proven.

    If you are not outraged by this, you should be....ACORN has received over $12.5 million of your tax dollars from 2003-2007. And, while the numbers are being disputed, the amount that ACORN received from the bailout/stimulus plan is in the billions.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/article852295.ece

    Now ACORN is disgraced, funding is being cut off and the Census Bureau has cut ties with them. Democrats in Congress can't seem to move away from ACORN fast enough, now that they've been exposed for the rats they are.

    My question now is, Will those employees be charged with conspiracy to commit tax fraud, or will it just be swept under the table?
     
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    Which is why Fox is by far the worst cable "news" station. Having bias is one thing, every channel has it, some more than others. But having an actual agenda you are pushing, and being a certain party's mouthpiece along with fabricating news to fit that agenda and make it fit one party and disgrace another? And of course the owners of the station putting out e-mails telling people what to do. Like after Obama was, the e-mail read "Not the end of the world, lets go ask extremists what they think of Obama's win". And sure enough, the next day, lol.

    And of course claiming you are "fair and balanced" in the process. :lol:

    As for this incident, it doesn't matter who is behind it. I'm pissed my tax dollars went to a company that would even think of doing this. Fuck ACORN.
     
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    That is utter garbage and a complete lie....

    So FOX is pushing an agenda for reporting on the story when the other major news organizations did not? Nice "biased view" yourself there....
     
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    Fixed
     
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    Fox is the mouth piece for the republican party. If you think i'm making this up you must be extremely blinded, because the proof is all there. Hell, its on YouTube.

    BTW, have you watched "Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's war on Journalism"?
     
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    Yeah Fox is on right, CCN is a little left of the middle, the rest are way on the left, and the right owns radio. What's your point?

    Do you think this is a important story? Why wasn't a story as big as this one reported by all news agencies the next day? (Hint: It reflects badly on the left.)
     

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