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  • …and the ACORN hits keep coming

    James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the “pimp” and “hooker” show from BigGovernment.com also went on the road to New York City and scored with the ACORN crowd there, too. From the New York Post;

    As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group — which specializes in housing and voter activism — were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law.

    “You know, what goes on in the house we don’t care,” one counselor said. “We just help you with the mortgage.”

    Here’s the videos;

    Yeah, ACORN said the first one was an isolated incident. So isolated that James and Hannah will probably tire out before they run out of offices to investigate.

  • Racial undertones?

    CNN is trying to make the very blunt point that the HUGE protest yesterday and Joe Wilson’s outburst last week has racial undertones. Both of these doofuses make it “clear” that for “not everybody…some of them…but, a lot of them…” have racial undertones in their opposition to Obama. The CNN doofus even asks if we’re just ignorant (in nicer terms).

    Apparently Wilson only lost control because President Obama is not a white man. But I wonder why Congress booed President Bush during his 2005 State of the Union Address.

    I’m not sure I like being pigeon-holed.

    Taken on a cue from DaleyGator and Gateway Pundit.

  • ACORN blames Republicans for their crimes

    Yeah, you knew it was coming, didn’t you? ACORN released a statement today blaming Republicans for the Obama Administration blowing the whistle on their criminal activities. So what if they had to fire four employees who tried to help a supposed pimp and trafficker in the underage sex slave trade, it’s those damn Republicans (Washington Times link);

    “It is no coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction,” Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s chief organizer, said in a press release Saturday. “It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months.”

    Ms. Lewis said conservative forces were conspiring to make ACORN the “Willie Horton for 2009,”

    Bertha Lewis doesn’t mind that her employees were involving her and the organization in a conspiracy to defraud the government, not to mention the forced degradation of minors. Nope – she’s worried about the political implications.

    Not to worry – they may have lost the Commerce Department gig, but they’ve still got HUD money rolling into their coffers according to Fox News;

    ACORN Housing Corporation received $1.6 million to provide housing services to low-income communities in this fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, according to USASpending.gov, a federal government Web site for tracking government grants.

    The Department of Housing and Urban Development Grants has given $8.2 million to ACORN in the years between 2003 and 2006, as well as $1.6million to ACORN affiliates.

    So all of those enterprising pimps still have hope.

  • The first stage is denial

    I’m not claiming to know the actual number of people in the rally at the Capital today, but I know more than 70,000 people when I see them;

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    The DC Fire Department has issued an unofficial estimate of 60,000 to 70,000 people in attendance, which is smallish by big DC protest/event standards

    Yeah, if you’re used to ANSWER’s inflated numbers. I’ve yet to see the Left reach 20,000 – a whole lot smaller crowd than the number of people I saw today. I’ve been doing these protests since 2000 and today’s crowd is largest I’ve seen. I didn’t go to this last Inauguration, so I can’t compare it to that – but I’ve hardly missed a protest since the World Bank protest in April of 2000.

    Michelle Malkin has published a 2 million number, and I heard that number at the rally, but I’m not sure I want to commit to 2 million. Allah Pundit examines the figures at Hot Air.

    Somehow, Think Progress thinks these pictures are important;

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    I saw very few birthers at the protest – everyone I saw was worried about their family incomes. To make this one tiny sign (added almost as an after thought) representative of the crowd is disingenuous.

    And the second sign; I guess they’re saying that white people can’t be concerned about their own civil rights. That’s what The Washington Monthly is trying to say, apparently;

    As for what the overwhelmingly-white crowd had to say, I still think these protests could benefit from some focus. We learned today that right-wing activists don’t like government spending (except when Bush and Republican lawmakers spent freely), don’t like the size of government (except when Bush and Republican lawmakers increased the size of government), don’t like deficits and debt (except when Bush and Republican lawmakers added trillions to the nation’s tab), and don’t like czars (except when Bush used dozens of them to implement his agenda).

    They don’t like health-care reform, though it’s not clear why. They don’t like gun control, though it’s not clear why they think anyone’s coming for their firearms. They also don’t like taxes, immigration, abortion, Muslims, the U.N., and the idea of “socialism,” though their understanding of the word is tenuous at best.

    The Washington Post isn’t far off TWM’s mark, either;

    The crowd — loud, rambunctious and sprawling — gathered at the foot of the Capitol after a march along Pennsyvania Avenue from Freedom Plaza. Invocations of God and former President Reagan by an array of speakers drew loud cheers, echoing across the Mall. On a windy, overcast afternoon, hundreds of yellow “Don’t Tread on Me” flags flapped in the breeze, mingled with U.S. and Texas state flags.

    I saw a lot more minority people there than you might imagine – don’t believe me? Checkout some of the photos El Marko took today. I even saw a black family who had temporarily adopted a white disabled veteran and pushed him through the throngs in his wheelchair the length of Pennsylvania Avenue.

    The New York Times describes the crowd like this;

    But as they sang verse after verse of patriotic hymns like “God Bless America,” sharp words of profane and political criticism were aimed at Mr. Obama and Congress.

    Profane? You’d think they’d offer an example of what they mean – but they don’t. Just the standard Nazi charges;

    The atmosphere was rowdy at times, with signs and images casting Mr. Obama in a demeaning light. One sign called him the “parasite in chief.” Others likened him to Hitler.

    No mention of LaRouche?

    So the Left can try to deny what happened today and besmirch the participants, but that doesn’t change the facts. Welcome to 2009.

  • DU; some early morning moonbattery

    Well, Democratic Underground has apparently discovered that those two ACORN tax advisers to pimps and sex slavers are innocent. Why? Well because the fake prostitute is a pastor’s daughter;

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    So the problem is not that (at least) two ACORN representatives were corrupt and giving illegal advice. The folks that busted them went to church – yeah, that’s the ticket.

    While we’re at DU, let’s take a look at the assassination plot against Obama, too;

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    Criticism of Obama is domestic terrorism.  Just thought y’all should know before you join us in the streets tomorrow.

  • ACORN’s pimp tax advisors fired

    You’ve probably already seen the videos on BigGovernment.com of the Baltimore ACORN workers who gave tax advice to two folks who they they thought were a pimp and a prostitute and future slave traders.

    Well, ACORN announced that they fired those two workers today according to Fox News.

    The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions over whether the employees broke the law.

    So I guess the problem is solved. Those were the only two workers out of the thousands of ACORN-affiliated workers who were giving tax advice like “don’t file, then”, promoting the importation of under-aged sex slaves and suggesting the pimp claim some of them as dependents.

    Wonder when the story will show up in the New York Times or Washington Post.

    ADDED: Oh, look…AP finally noticed.

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  • Obama’s racism sunk Van Jones

    Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive has convinced himself that Obama is a racist and that’s why it was so easy to bail on Van Jones;

    Van Jones was probably the single most prominent progressive in the Obama Administration. A founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and a leading green jobs advocate, Van Jones represented us in the White House.

    And now he’s gone.

    Gone because Glenn Beck and the far right hatemongers kept up an incessant drumbeat of slurs, calling him a “communist” and an “anarchist”—the branding iron of traditional McCarthyism.

    We’ve seen, when dealing with the International Socialist Organization-affiliated IVAW members, how quickly they drag out the “McCarthyism” bloody shirt when they are called socialists and communists. Regardless of the fact the fact that they are indeed admitted socialists and communists.

    Beck also brought up an innocuous slur Van Jones used against Republicans, one much less salty and offensive than the term Dick Cheney has used against Sen. Patrick Leahy.

    Yeah, OK, but Van Jones said all Republicans are assholes with a broad brush – not knowing all of us. Dick Cheney told Leahy to “go fuck himself” – knowing Leahy and speaking to him personally. See the difference? Of course not.

    And Beck flailed against Van Jones because he signed a 9/11Truth petition, along with Ralph Nader and Howard Zinn and many others. Now I have my own problems with the truthers, but signing a petition seeking a redress of grievances gets you fired in today’s America?

    Well, Matthew, when you work in the White House and you sign a petition most often associated with nutty cranks, people begin to wonder whether or not you’re a nutty crank.

    Perhaps not coincidentally, Van Jones is African American. And just as Bill Clinton found it convenient to dump Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and Lani Guinier, now Obama has found it convenient to dump Van Jones, at the behest of a clear racist in Glenn Beck.

    So now Obama is a racist? I’m sure that will surprise his wife and children.

    Funny how Rothchild compares a crank like Jones to another crank like my fellow masturbation advocate Joycelyn Elders. I guess he forgot that Elders explained shifting money from heart disease and cancer research to AIDs research thusly; “Everybody has to die from something”.

    Sometimes Black people get fired for who they are, and not for what they are. It’s a brave new world.

  • Presidents to students

    The Associated Press has the text of the speech President Obama plans to give to the nation’s student today if you’re at all interested. Oddly enough, this is the first year since 1979 that we don’t have a child or grandchild in school.

    Byron York at the Washington Examiner reminds us how the national media and the Democrats treated George HW Bush when he spoke to the nation’s students;

    Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president’s school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political benefit. “The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,” the Post reported.

    With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”

    York, has many more quotes at the link. I respect good research – so read the article.

    Funny how attitudes change with political parties, isn’t it?