Bertha Lewis, Chief Crook Organizer spews
The relentless attacks on ACORN’s members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a “news” agency (Fox), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working families in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they’ve had these tapes for months.We are their Willy Horton for 2009.
Funny, how Bertha wants us to view ACORN as much as a “victim” as a convicted murderer and rapist.
[...] it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist “filmmaker” O’Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was – our lawyers believe a felony – and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.
Meanwhile, compare and contrast how the NYTimes covers the Census Bureau’s dropping of ACORN without ever mentioning the prostitution/sex slave tapes with the UK’s Telegraph actually reporting the facts (even if they can’t help themselves by labeling O’Keefe and Giles as “right-wing activists”).
(h/t NRO and BigGovernment)
James O’Keefe, independent filmmaker, to Bertha, “Bring it on.”
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UPDATED: O’Keefe released yet a THIRD sting tape — at ACORN’s New York office. This is about as “isolated” as ACORN’s voter fraud scandals. (h/t SBP) Why is this organization still getting taxpayer money??
For snorts and giggles (thanks, Carin), please read BigGovernment’s “Counterpoint” column by Laurie Essig who manages to resemble nothing more than a teacup poodle baring her teeth while using every Leftist/Vagina Warrior shibboleth at her disposal (privileged, racism, straight white male who hates, etc.).
Comment by Russ on 9/14 @ 3:50 am #
I’m thinking “RICO.”
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:55 am #
And O’Keefe and Giles release a third video this morning. New York, this time.
Another “isolated incident”, no doubt.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:57 am #
BTW, The Telegraph is a conservative paper, as such things go in the UK. I’m not surprised that they’re covering it.
Comment by Paul Moore on 9/14 @ 4:04 am #
The third video is accompanied by an Alinsky quote that makes his tactics clear. He knew in advance that they would claim Baltimore was atypical. First the feint from the right, then the left hook when their block leaves them open. He is using their own methods to destroy them!
Comment by meep on 9/14 @ 4:31 am #
I assume they visited Chicago… and are saving that one for last.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 5:03 am #
You gotta read that Laurie Essig piece on the Big Government website. It’s a hoot.
Interesting use of the “SMART WHITE PEOPLE ARE TRICKING THE POOR STUPID BLACK FOLKS” defense.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 5:13 am #
Interesting use of the word “fantasy” as well.
To Essig, “fantasy” apparently means “documented on videotape”.
Comment by B Moe on 9/14 @ 5:17 am #
Just can’t quite summon the courage to press play, I suppose.
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 5:40 am #
Man, are these people stupid. This is outstanding stuff and O’Keefe is playing it brilliantly.
Meanwhile, over at Fox, they’re salivating over the prospect of being sued by ACORN, specifically the prospect of doing discovery.
Comment by Abe Froman on 9/14 @ 5:47 am #
Interesting use of the “SMART WHITE PEOPLE ARE TRICKING THE POOR STUPID BLACK FOLKS” defense.
I suppose it’s easier than being outraged that such “poor stupid black folks” are being paid via the government to help people in need when they can’t help themselves. The latter is the same sentiment, only it would at least reveal that she cares something about the well-being of poor minorities instead of seeing them as mascots like she does. But like all good leftards her only loyalty is to the narrative.
Comment by DavidL on 9/14 @ 5:50 am #
Yes the ACORN employees seem to be several bricks short of a hod. But once could be a coincidence. Two is a pattern and three is criminal conspiracy. Gotta give the one credit. This Allinsky stuff really does work.
Comment by JHo on 9/14 @ 5:58 am #
Seem kinda terribly educated to me, Laurie.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 6:08 am #
ACORN is apparently scrubbing its web site of names and addresses.
Stupid fucks haven’t heard of archive.org, I guess.
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 6:09 am #
Where in the world is Scott Levinson? Has he been taken hostage?
Comment by alanstorm on 9/14 @ 6:11 am #
When people write an article with terms like “class hierarchy” and “power dynamics” without quotation marks, you can be pretty sure that the article is used food.
Comment by JHo on 9/14 @ 6:28 am #
Undoubtedly out somewhere being the most convincing parody of himself imaginable. Scott’s really a keen-minded conservative, entirely practiced in the nuances of inner city doublespeak. Has to be. No other explanation.
Comment by TheGeezer on 9/14 @ 6:40 am #
NOW IN BROOKLYN!
I love it.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 6:53 am #
In a world that was not turned upside down (with a crank in the mouth Jim Webb style) she would be shamed and embarassed for what she wrote.
Comment by serr8d on 9/14 @ 6:56 am #
James O’Keefe is a real-life Borat. He should send a finder’s fee to Sacha Baron Cohen. “There are many job opportunities in the US and of A. For men, construction worker, taxi driver or accountant. For woman, prostitute.” (Oh, sorry, that’s ACORN’s line… )
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/14 @ 7:30 am #
Bertha Lewis unwittingly makes an excellent analogy when she compare ACORN to Willie Horton. Because they are a criminal enterprise, which has already been causght in wrongdoing, that will to violate the law, the rights of people, and defraud the government of money and the right to fair and accurate elections if faciliatated by liberals; just like Willie Horton was allowed to continue to brutalize people while on “work” release from his life sentance in prison…
She wants to sound the oft employed dog-whistle of RAAAAACISM!, but unfortunately for her and ACORN, the proof is in these videos; not to mention that her allies on he left have worn out the race card in the eyes of most Americans with it’s gratuitious use attacking all who oppose Obama’s policy prescriptions…
And sue the filmaker? I’m afraid there is way too much precedent set for hidden camera sting video operations done by news organizations and whistleblowers. And all the howls of RAAAAAAACISM in the world won’t change that inconvenient truth…
This is RICO all the way…
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 7:46 am #
How much longer can the MSM ignore this? I would so love to be the one that gets to make the campaign commercials about this – tie these videos in with Barcky’s speech in ‘07 where he told them they would be called on to help set his agenda.
Comment by Joe on 9/14 @ 7:53 am #
What complete and utter idiots ACORN are. Hot Air reported this last week.
Where can I send a check to the O’Keefe and lovely Hannah legal defense fund. I definitely do not want harm to come to them for blowing the whistle, but I also want this story known by as many people as possible. What ACORN should be doing is firing everyone even remotely complicit in this and say it is cleaning shop.
Comment by donald on 9/14 @ 8:00 am #
Kanye West hates white people. Just in case anybody forgot.
Comment by JHo on 9/14 @ 8:00 am #
As long as idiots like Laurie Essig populate the press. Which I’m thinking they do, like
wall to wallfloor to ceiling orange shag.Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 8:03 am #
Hannah is Teh Hawt ;-)
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 8:06 am #
Sadly, you are correct, JHo. My favorite metric for these things is to try to imagine the self-Lefteous outrage were Republicans involved in this.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 8:30 am #
Something tells me Laurie Essig is a bit jealous of the fair Hannah.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 8:36 am #
Lusts for her, more likely.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 8:36 am #
Essig is apparently involved with some group called the “Queerleaders”. NTTAWWT.
Comment by bigbooner on 9/14 @ 8:45 am #
Maybe Baghdad Bertha could hire Kanye as their new spokesman.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 8:51 am #
I’ve lost track of the demographic groups that Kanye hates, just as I’ve lost track of ACORN’s overriding purpose in this world.
Help?
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 8:53 am #
…ACORN’s overriding purpose in this world.
Hell, that one’s easy: Getting its hands on Government money.
Comment by Joe on 9/14 @ 8:55 am #
Talking about music, who would have guessed.
Not exactly for the same demographics as Kanye, but a innovative cover never the less.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 9:03 am #
Thanks, sdferr. Always follow the money is a good motto. Oh, yeah, Hostess Snoballs ROCK!
Whoops! Did i say that out loud? RACIST!
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 9:08 am #
The pink Snoballs (aka, pinktits) Yay! The orange snoballs, Boo! The green Sonballs, feh! The white Snoballs, Racist!
Comment by geoffb on 9/14 @ 9:08 am #
At the Big Government site.
Hell yeah.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 9:32 am #
You know who else has never been convicted of anything. Charlie Rangel. Nothing to see. move along.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 9:33 am #
Just like the Republican congress was debating gay marriage at the height of the Iraq War.
Good God you’re stupid.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 9:36 am #
That was some EPIC parody.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 9:41 am #
I love the idea that because an overtly biased MSM, in the bag for Teh One, does not cover a story about one of Barcky’s historical allies, it is somehow not a story, like their refusal to do their jobs is some kind of defense.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 9:41 am #
Glenn Beck has a
poorterriblenonexistent grasp of natural right theory. It would be far better for him and his argument if he’d let go of his “God granted rights” shtick and read Thomas Hobbes. Injecting God into every discussion of the foundation of right will always end badly.Pingback by “We doin’ big pimpin’ up in NYC”: From a little ACORN, a scandal grows in Brooklyn « POWIP on 9/14 @ 9:41 am #
[...] which ACORN is responding, Fuhgeddabowdit !; Darleen at PW covers the story where Bertha Lewis invokes a comparison to Willie Horton, all while threatening legal [...]
Comment by LTC John on 9/14 @ 9:44 am #
#37 was almost to the level of Witheld.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 9:46 am #
LtC John – You are correct, but it lacked the subtlety.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/14 @ 9:47 am #
Hey “wingnutz gone wild”,
ACORN doesn’t have any convictions because most of the cases have yet to be tried…
I mean, as long as Obama doesn’t let them off like he did the Black Panthers…
Peddle your propaganda somewhere else…
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 9:48 am #
Meanwhile, compare and contrast how the NYTimes covers the Census Bureau’s dropping of ACORN without ever mentioning the prostitution/sex slave tapes
That was an AP story and they did mention the tapes.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/14 @ 9:49 am #
And I wonder how it knows that they “shopped” ACORN offices until the filmmaker got the scandal clips they wanted..?
Creative writing perhaps?
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 9:50 am #
I don’t believe that Kanye West has been convicted of anything but I’m also reasonably certain that he is a douchbag.
As far as ACORN is concerned, there are plenty of investigations in many states. BTW: I didn’t know that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Washington and Pennsylvania were “Republican States.” Whoo hoo! You can also go down the list and see a number of convictions.
But that’s OK! Wingnutz ur Teh Crazee!
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 9:50 am #
How do you like how your fellow travelers are acting, snotnose? fellow
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/14 @ 9:52 am #
BTW, The Telegraph is a conservative paper, as such things go in the UK. I’m not surprised that they’re covering it.
Sadly, SBP, The Telegraph is not the paper it once was. I blame the exit of Mark Steyn – I think he was the last conservative writer on the paper. And, worse yet, The Times (the real one, not the NYT) has also turned into a bowl of O! slurping mush. I still can’t bring myself to read the Daily Mail; you have to be fitted for incontinence trousers and express a preference for soft food before you like reading that rag.
Comment by SDN on 9/14 @ 9:52 am #
Amazing what 3 seconds with Google will find:
link
Comment by Joe on 9/14 @ 9:55 am #
ACORN should be prosecuted, but I do not have a lot of faith in US Attorneys and prosecutors in going after them.
I am still amazed that O’Keefe went into those offices like he was attending a George Clinton funkadelic party and got away with it. Just goes to show never underestimate stupid.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 9:56 am #
Those are isolated convictions, you racist wingNazis !!!
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 9:58 am #
Does being indicted count or only “convictions?”
You know … smoke … fire … RACIST!
Comment by Ric Locke on 9/14 @ 9:58 am #
#37: Yah. Nobody in George Bush’s administration has been convicted of anything substantive, despite eight years of unrelenting effort by a prosecutor who’s really good at what he does, but you folks still take “criminal Bush” as axiomatic.
What you’re really bitching about is that we’re learning how to do Alinsky tactics without even having the Press as a support function, and it frosts your butt. Hide and watch, guy. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Regards,
Ric
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 10:00 am #
SDN’s Google fu is more powerful than mine. I bow.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:02 am #
@53, SDN
Technically, lieberal gone wild has a point.
That isn’t a single conviction.
As for your other “lack of point”, lieberal gone wild, when it comes to the Acorn Fraud not being reported anywhere else, Van Jones was fired/resigned before any of the other media outlets noticed he might be in trouble.
Fox News and the conservative blogoshpere was all over the Van Jones story, though. Hmmm.
Comment by metakid on 9/14 @ 10:02 am #
I wonder what other action is going to follow after this trilogy. If ACORN is truly wrong, then something must be done to correct it. Maybe an audit or something? http://www.newsy.com/videos/backed_into_acorner. It would be too early to say if the entire ACORN should be shut or anything. Are any of the lawmakers on this?
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 10:06 am #
I’m sure Eric Holder has a gripe on this. Nothing to worry about.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 10:06 am #
or a grip
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:08 am #
metakid,
No company would be allowed to remain in business after being caught aiding and abetting prostitution, under investigation in 31 states and convicted of multiple counts of fraud.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 10:10 am #
How do you like how your fellow travelers are acting, snotnose? fellow
I think Obama is grateful to the Right for providing him with an excuse to distance himself from ACORN, JD.
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/14 @ 10:15 am #
OT, But all you football lovers join uncle Jimbo at Ace’s in his effort to have Keith Olbermann removed from the Sunday night football broadcast.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/292257.php
Thank you, we now return to the original conversation about the corrupt organization ACORN and how they should be recieving no federal monies whatsoever…
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:15 am #
Snowcone,
The depths of your stupidity is truly breathtaking.
You don’t care that Obama worked with Acorn. You only care that Obama now has the chance to distance himself from a criminal enterprise that receives tax dollars.
Amazing, simply amazing.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 10:16 am #
“…an excuse to distance himself from ACORN”
That is profoundly moronic. Obama doesn’t need an excuse. He is a man in control of his faculties, we assume. He can motivate himself to do what he thinks right wherever he may choose.
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 10:16 am #
Oh, yeah. He’s totally been trying to get away from ACORN.
Glenn Beck says he’s really going to help him have good reason to distance himself from them tomorrow. I don’t know what he’s got up his sleeve, but Barack should remember to send Beck a thank you card.
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 10:18 am #
Hey, that’s exactly what Beck said! :)
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 10:22 am #
You don’t care that Obama worked with Acorn. You only care that Obama now has the chance to distance himself from a criminal enterprise that receives tax dollars.
Think of ACORN as Obama’s Halliburton.
Has ACORN electrocuted any of our troops while they were showering?
Comment by Bob Reed on 9/14 @ 10:25 am #
No, but ACORN has murdered confidence in fair elections in 12 states of our nation; and has yet to be causght in the balance of them I’m sure…
And ACORN is less like Halliburton and more like Rohm’s SA…Or maybe the NKVD!
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 10:26 am #
Snotcone, do you like movies about gladiators?
Comment by TheGeezer on 9/14 @ 10:29 am #
No, but they wanted to.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:29 am #
Snowcone,
Try again. This is another version of “your guy did first” defense.
And, I’m sure it would go over well with the employees of Halliburton to know that you’re accusing them of intentionally electrocuting our soldiers.
Hint: There’s a difference between willful misconduct (ACORN) and an accident such as you describe.
Although, I really shouldn’t allow you to get away with your assertion about Halliburton, because there’s no cite.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:32 am #
By the way, Snowcone,
What product or service does ACORN provide for the government that no one else can?
Same question about Halliburton: What product or service does Halliburton provide for the federal government that no one else can?
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 10:33 am #
Hint: There’s a difference between willful misconduct (ACORN) and an accident such as you describe.
Blake, are you aware of how many of our troops Halliburton killed?
Not to mention Iraqis.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 10:33 am #
Well snowcone if Zero is looking for a way to throw ACORN off the buss, The very organization to which he owes his Presidency. What chances do you think it gives a useful idiot such as yourself being allowed into “Teh Utopia”.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 10:35 am #
You don’t even know what you do not know, snotnose, and so many of the things you think you know are just flat-out wrong.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 10:36 am #
Look! Hallibunnies!!
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:39 am #
Snowcone,
Are you really that stupid? Again, ACORN has engaged in willful misconduct.
Halliburton (and I’m giving you the benefit of a doubt on that assertion) did not intentionally set out to kill our soldiers.
If you don’t understand the distinction, you’re hopeless.
By the way, Snowcone, what do you care about our troups? You’re from the wing of the party that says “we support our troops when they shoot their officers.”
So, spare me any righteous indignation over Halliburton.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 10:40 am #
ZOMFG – This is fucking incredible to watch.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:41 am #
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH…we’re all bushbeckhalliburtonlovingcrazies over here.
Tell us a new one, untruth teller.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 10:42 am #
Does anyone really give a shit that the Bush family fortune came largely from profits of Dubya’s grandfather, Prescott Bush whose dealings with companies financed Hitler’s rise to power?
Ha. No. Why should I? I know, it’s a very shiny penny.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 10:44 am #
I am just waiting for the twoofout/mediamatter/thinkprogress links sure to follow …
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 10:44 am #
Man our trolls are stupid.
It’s truly disheartening.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 10:45 am #
Lots of people have never been convicted of anything. Richard Nixon, for instance. And Hitler!
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 10:48 am #
Oh shit LOL! so hard my sides are spliting a “truth teller”. What a dumbass……….
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 10:49 am #
Apparently untruth teller and snotnose approve of ACORN’s attempts to facilitate people bringing underage sex slaves into their communities.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 10:49 am #
Untruth teller, you should will your head to science after you die. It appears to be made of a new, unknown and very dense material. It might even make the periodic chart.
Let me spell it out for you: Most of us here are not fans of President Bush.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 10:51 am #
Slarti – The difference between ACORN and Nixon is that ACORN has been convicted, repeatedly.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 9/14 @ 10:53 am #
Well, hell, truth (cough)teller, my family’s fortune (currently approx. $2500.00 and some change on the dresser)came largely from an ancestor reiving English cattle and being deported to South Carolina in the 1740s.
I thought my factoid was just as relevant as yours.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 10:55 am #
Truth teller, hate to break your heart, but we’re aware of that stuff.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 10:57 am #
And, if you don’t see the difference between that actions of ONE’S ancestors, and criminal conduct w/in an organization linked to the sitting president? Well, you’ve got some major problems with rational thought.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 10:58 am #
I thought it was wrong to compare people to communists/socialists/Nazis.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 10:59 am #
My ancestors got their wealth by clear-cutting timber and slaughtering animals. It’s probably why I get this itching sensation in my hands every time I see a beaver lodge in the wild. It’s that I just can’t help myself.
Thank God for truth teller, because now I know it’s genetic.
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 11:01 am #
Yes, JD. The level of discourse need to be raised, and that’s why (for example) we can’t call Obama a fascist, or make even the slightest comparisons to hitler. Such hyperbole has not place in politics.
Except, natch.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 11:02 am #
SJY,
Wow, you’ve amassed quite the sum in ill-gotten gains over the years.
How does it feel, knowing how you’ve crushed the less fortunate, on your way to amassing the SJY fortune?
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 11:02 am #
You know, Slart, I think you’re onto something. Wasn’t Obama’s father a communist?
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 11:04 am #
Again, ACORN has engaged in willful misconduct.
Goodness, Blake, if Presidents were forbidden from dealing with outfits that hadn’t engaged in a little “willful misconduct” now and then, they’d be real lonely.
I’m afraid this ACORN “story” is as anemic as the Right’s previous “stories” on the Republican car dealers, the Iranian revolutionaries, the coup plotters in Honduras, etc., etc. etc.
It’s only important to you short attention span residents of the Right-wing echo chamber.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 9/14 @ 11:04 am #
Damn. All you have to do is google: acorn convicted, and out pops a shower of links to criminal convictions of ACORN employees. 10 seconds to type and hit return, tops.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 11:07 am #
“this ACORN “story” is as anemic”
So the Census Bureau thinks ACORN has a case of sickle cell then, snowcone, and that’s reason enough to dump their partnership? Ooh, bad racist Census Bureau, we condemn you.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:09 am #
Prescott Bush was never President of the United States, was he? Oh, and he’s dead.
So, the possibility AND urgency of taking any action at all in the case of the Bush/Nazi connection are both dead, wouldn’t you agree?
So, why bring it up, other than to serve as a red herring?
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 11:13 am #
No, it’s totally irrelevant, truth teller.
Connections of the bush family? The “Bush Family” wasn’t president. George HW and George W were. We don’t do “family sins” here in the US. You are aware of that, right?
Shit, if Kennedy could get away with what he did, with the only negative being “he didn’t get to be president” …
Speaking of “war profiteering” … you do know liberal hero Soros bought Halliburton stock in 2006, right?
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 11:15 am #
This is just a conjecture but it looks to me as though truth teller has all the posting characteristics of theas/william yelverton the guitar teacher.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 11:18 am #
Hey snowcone I’m still waiting for a answer to my #76 above.
Comment by slackjawedyokel on 9/14 @ 11:18 am #
@99:
I LOVE crushing the less fortunate! It’s tiring, though.
I’m thinking of applying for a government grant to assist my efforts. Maybe get some experienced former ACORN staffers to do the hard work.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 11:20 am #
Ancient teller: We’ve seen and heard it all doizens of times over the past several years and none of it means anything to anybody except you and the members of your echo chamber. I’m Portuguese and I’m pretty sure my ancestors were slave traders. Am I colored in some way by what my ancestors did 300-400 years ago or is that far enough back for me to be indemnified?
Get a life. Bush isn’t president anymore. We’ll deal with Teh One now. The whole ragged, obtuse historical moral equivalency argument is tired and trite. Especially this one.
Good allah: Hallibunnies and Nazibunnies. Somebody needs to shoot a steroidal hormone into the trolls before the rabbit population explodes.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 11:22 am #
Snowcone,
Nice to know you classify abetting underage prostitution/slavery as a “little misconduct.”
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 11:22 am #
What happened, william yelverton the guitar teacher, that you had to start hiding behind anonymous sockpuppets? Too many of your peeps get a gander of the hateful horseshit you’ve been posting on the internet and start to ask whether you were propagandizing their innocent children in your music classes? Have folks in authority at Middle Tennessee State U. begun looking askance at your political nonsense and let you know about it?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:23 am #
Hmmm.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 11:24 am #
Has it been definitively determined that William Yelverton is theas?
If so, that is so disturbingly pathetic as to warrant an intervention or something. Somebody needs to contact William’s friends and family STAT, before he descends any further into narcissistic Google splatter.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 11:24 am #
@ 109.
I’ll bet if you go to Acorn, you can get a “performing arts” grant, with their help.
Heck, crushing peasants under foot is nothing if not performance art.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:29 am #
Oh, and the Nazi industrialist that Bush was supposedly in cahoots with? He wound up in Sachsenhausen; his company siezed and nationalized by the Third Reich.
Epic. Fale.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 11:29 am #
Is it worse to make money off of, or to share the same ideological tendencies as the Nazis?
Comment by Bunny Rabbit Tells The Truth on 9/14 @ 11:30 am #
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THOSE ACORN COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS IN THREE DIFFERENT CITIES COUNSELING A COUPLE ON HOW TO SET UP AND FUND AN UNDERAGE PROSTITUTION RING, YOU RACIST WINGWALNUTS!!
THE BUSHES WERE NAZI SYMPATHIZERS! THAT PROVES ALL OF YOU CHICKENHAWK WARMONGERING MISOGYNIST CLUCKERS ARE FASCIST NAZI STORMTROOPERS WHO ARE SECRETLY GAY LULZ!!!
NOW … GIVE ME A DAMN CARROT!!!
Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 11:31 am #
But, Slart, truth teller has LINKS. The New Hampshire Gazette!
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 11:32 am #
Yea, Slart, and it’s in the archives!!11!ELEVENTY!!111!
Archives rule, don’cha know!
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 11:33 am #
“…definitively determined …”
Oh hells no BJTexs. That is next to impossible I think. Until he chooses to out himself.
But I have watched his act here carefully. I watched as his name echoed back and forth with folks here digging up his web presence when he was posting here as william. And then he disappeared. And onto the stage stepped theas, posting exactly the same drivel with exactly the same language, argument (or not, actually, creditable argument, but a facsimile thereof) and link citation habits. Cut and pastes, redundantly, obsessively … Bush hating obsessively … and a firm insistence that rightwingers are all fanatical christian anti-evolutionists of little or no intelligence. So, in my opinion, there isn’t much chance that theas isn’t william yelverton the guitar teacher. Whether truthteller turns out to be the same one is yet to be seen.
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 11:35 am #
Slart, you’re not gonna believe the Jooooos, are you? Neocon.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:35 am #
It’d be cool if the IP addys matched, though.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 9/14 @ 11:35 am #
Trruth Teller. Bush? You mean the last president who is no longer president? That guy? O!bama is now the leader of the military industrial complex and is killing mother fuckers the world over. How come I think you’re a hypocritical dumbass who’s afraid of his own shadow? Good Lord, PW’s trolls have reached the bottom of the barrel. What a bunch of complete and utter morons. No wonder they like acorn. Maybe they should just apply. I’m positive acorn is looking for some lily white dumbfucks, too. Diversity and all.
Comment by Stephanie on 9/14 @ 11:36 am #
rightwingers are all fanatical christian anti-evolutionists of little or no intelligence.
Could be Cahrles Jhonson…
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 11:38 am #
Slart, Darleen has pointed out that theas is using some proxy thingamajig to bounce to a new IP at every post. So how would you match anything?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 11:42 am #
Not that the attempt to deflect should even be justified with a reply, but the “New Hampshire Gazette” is run by some hippie out of his bedroom closet. Despite the claim, it has no connection whatsoever with the 18th century paper of that name.
Hint: when you find a lie right on the masthead, it’s not a good idea to grant credence to anything else in that “paper”.
Oddly, these people who clutch their pearls at the mere allegation that Bush’s grandfather might’ve once SEEN a Nazi never seem to worry about Ted Kennedy’s father’s actual and thoroughly-documented, on-the-record, expressions of Nazi sympathy and admiration.
Funny, that.
On another issue, “ACORN” may have not been convicted of anything, just as “The Mafia” has never been convicted of anything. ACORN members certainly have been convicted of all sorts of things.
That’s why we have the RICO statute, I believe.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:43 am #
I plead “wasn’t paying attention”.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 11:46 am #
There are a limited number of proxies, each with a limited amount of IP address space. It’s easy enough to block the entire range at the .htaccess level. I’ve offered a free consult on this before….
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:50 am #
I don’t think all blogs permit block-banning, SBP. Maybe this one does, though.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 11:52 am #
Doesn’t depend on the blog software, Slart. This is at the Apache level.
Comment by Richard Aubrey on 9/14 @ 11:53 am #
I believe Soros got his start riding with his Christian daddy helping mulct the Jews out of their property on the grounds that wouldn’t need it, anyway.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:53 am #
Don’t you have to own the hosting machine to do that?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 11:54 am #
Nope, most web hosting services let you add your own .htaccess file. It controls access to a folder and anything underneath it.
Comment by JeffS on 9/14 @ 11:54 am #
Haw! Truth teller and Snowcone are in a permanent virtual circle jerk inside an echo chamber. Must be lonely, living in your parents’ basement.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 11:56 am #
Guys, is this an example of the sort of means these sockpuppets use to conceal their origins?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 11:56 am #
So, SBP, what if you had a Typepad blog? Would Typepad let you do that?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 12:00 pm #
#136: exactly, sdferr
#137: it doesn’t matter what your blog software is, or even if you’re using plain ol’ web pages. You just have to make a file named .htaccess in the root folder for your blog and put the right commands in it.
Here’s lots of info.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 12:03 pm #
Note that this will only work if your web server is Apache (which virtually all hosting services use nowadays). I don’t think it works on Microsoft IIS, although I believe there’s something similar for that.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 12:04 pm #
Bush, Nazis & Halliburton – This is a perfect recipe of a Moronic Convergence, as we have witnessed. Next is screaming racist and faggot …
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 12:06 pm #
I think we should all take a break and check our emails, starting with Obstreperous Infidel.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 12:07 pm #
Thanks for the primers fellas [ I'm looking at you SBP, :-) ].
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 12:17 pm #
“I think Obama is grateful to the Right for providing him with an excuse to distance himself from ACORN, JD.”
We have always been at war with Eastasia!
Comment by JeffS on 9/14 @ 12:21 pm #
“We have always been at war with Eastasia!”
EASTASIAIST!!!!!!
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 12:23 pm #
Nice to know you classify abetting underage prostitution/slavery as a “little misconduct.”
Djibouti is the primary transportation hub for underage girls sold into sex slavery in the Middle East and Africa.
It is also where the Pentagon chose to set up a large base of operations…which props up the ruthless and corrupt government there.
Should we close down this base?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 12:24 pm #
#145: I love the stench of desperation that’s exuding from you, Snotcone.
ACORN is going down, and they’re going to take Teleprompter Jesus with them.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 12:25 pm #
“Does anyone really give a shit that the Bush family fortune came largely from profits of Dubya’s grandfather, Prescott Bush whose dealings with companies financed Hitler’s rise to power?”
Liar.
And a moron.
Great combo you got going there, bunky.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 12:27 pm #
“It’s all documented in the National Archives.”
No, it’s not, liar.
Comment by Eben on 9/14 @ 12:35 pm #
I dunno, ask the guy in charge, ObamaBush.
Comment by Eben on 9/14 @ 12:36 pm #
SO WHAT YOU’RE TELLING ME, SNOTCONE, IS THAT OUR BELOVED LEADER IS NOT ONLY AFFILIATED WITH A CORRUPT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION BUT IS IN CHARGE OF PROPPING UP A CORRUPT AFRICAN NATION???3?
DEAR GOD NO!
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 12:38 pm #
ACORN is going down, and they’re going to take Teleprompter Jesus with them.
Haha, SBP…that statement isn’t desperation?
Maybe you guys should spend your time recruiting candidates that don’t require drool cups instead of chanting along to the phony outrage of the day.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 12:40 pm #
Haha, SBP…that statement isn’t desperation?
Nope. Just fact.
And I’m loving every minute of it.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 12:42 pm #
“My point is that these connections of the Bush family to Nazi Germany”
Liar.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 12:43 pm #
The frozen treat troll is beginning to sound very … alphielike or monkeyboylike or Neville Chamberlain like or sniggleslike or …
Alphie, is that you, oh ruler of all things teh obtuse?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 12:43 pm #
I’m pretty sure it is alphie/actus.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 12:49 pm #
BRING ON THE BALLOON FENCE!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 12:51 pm #
Thanks, SBP! Not that I won’t ask more dumbassed questions later, but thanks for now!
Comment by DarthRove on 9/14 @ 1:00 pm #
If the Obama Bus has any more Friends Of Barack thrown under it, the axles might break.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 1:01 pm #
MILE HIGH DIRT BERMS™ OFF OF THE STARBOARD BOW, CAPTAIN!!
Comment by LTC John on 9/14 @ 1:04 pm #
When alphie left/got banned, it was really, really angrified. If sno gets really hateful and starts hoping for harm to befall you (especially if you happen to go overseas with the US Armed Forces) – it may be. As happyfeet once put it “ohnoes. Dark Alphie.”
Right now, it just seems like another of the same type of third tier troll that PW has attracted for so many years…
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:11 pm #
LTCJohn,
These may be third tier trolls, but they represent the right side of the leftist bell curve.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/14 @ 1:13 pm #
phony outrage of the day.
I, for one, welcome our new Salvadoran underage girl prostitute overlords.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:20 pm #
Snowcone,
The subject is not about a base set up in Djibouti. Don’t try changing the subject.
You’re not denying that you classify abetting underage prostitution/slavery as a “little misconduct.”
So, why should you care about white slavery/prostitution in Djibouti, anyway? You’ve already said you think abetting under age prostitution/slavery is a just “little willful misconduct.” As in no big deal.
Since you obviously have no problem with white slavery/prostitution, what I think isn’t going to matter anyway.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 1:28 pm #
OT I don’t think I’ve seen this site linked here, if it has been forgive me. It has some very good pics of the 9/12 march. Be sure and scroll all the way to the bottom and look at the after comparison of zeros inauguration and 9/12.
One thing I noticed was the lawn areas off to each side of the Mall are jam packed, There has to be over a million people there. BTW I have been to NASCAR races which have had 225,000 people so I have seen big crowds before. Anyway enjoy.
Comment by JeffS on 9/14 @ 1:29 pm #
#163, Blake:
You’re not denying that you classify abetting underage prostitution/slavery as a “little misconduct.”
Maybe SnoBone is disappointed that the brothel story was just a front, and he couldn’t indulge himself with a little underage nookie?
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 1:35 pm #
You’re not denying that you classify abetting underage prostitution/slavery as a “little misconduct.”
How many Republicans knew Mark Foley was bonking Congressional pages and did nothing, Blake?
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:35 pm #
@ 165, JeffS
Well, (and we’ll not go into why I knew such people many years ago) I guy I knew told me a story about a buddy of his who liked underage nookie. Evidently, it was due to a physical shortcoming. “Roll of Certs” was the somewhat trenchant description.
We already know Snowbone is anatomically deficient in the big head…..
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:39 pm #
Snowcone,
Stop trying to change the subject.
You cannot erase the fact you see little to no problem with underage white slavery/prostitution.
This is fact, you said it, you own it.
I’m far from the smartest person on this board, yet, you can’t even match up with me.
Give it up, if you can’t talk even take me on, you’re definitely no contest for anyone else here.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:40 pm #
Oops, “I guy” should read “a guy”
Comment by alppuccino on 9/14 @ 1:40 pm #
How many Republicans knew Mark Foley was bonking Congressional pages and did nothing, Blake?
I’ll take Barney’s Frank for 600 Alex.
Snowcone,
I see that over the weekend you got stupider. That’s a marvel.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:45 pm #
Give it up, if you can’t talk even take me on, you’re definitely no contest for anyone else here.
>>>Teh typo edit force is defeating me, keyboardwon<<
Sigh.
“Give it up, if you can’t even take me on, you’re definitely no contest for anyone else here.”
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 1:45 pm #
Hey, Snocone! Do you think that the massacre at VA. Tech was “no big deal compared to a day’s worth of civilian casualties in Iraq?”
Also, how’s that R & D going on the Balloon Fence Missile Shield™?
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 1:46 pm #
I’ll take your Barney Frank and raise you a Gerry Studds and a Gary Condit.
Call or fold.
Comment by Pablo on 9/14 @ 1:48 pm #
Yeah, but what about Obama’s slaveholding ancestors? ACORN should repudiate him.
On a more serious note, I wonder if anyone *cough* MajorGarrett *cough* is going to ask Gibbs how Teh One feels about being used by ACORN as cover for enabling child sex slavery.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 1:48 pm #
I’m actually finding Snotcone’s increasingly desperate attempts to change the subject quite amusing.
What, you don’t think that being associated with illegal alien child sex slaves is a winnner for Obama?
Snicker.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 1:50 pm #
You cannot erase the fact you see little to no problem with underage white slavery/prostitution.
Blake, I’m just laughing at the latest futile attempt to turn a mole hill into a mountain.
I’m sure if there was an actual crime committed somewhere the boy-heroes will be on it.
As it is, we just have…the phony outrage of the day.
How long until this story drops from the wingnut boilerplate? One week is my bet, never to be heard from again.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 1:53 pm #
The trolls have to be on someone’s payroll. Why else would they bother? It’s one thing to drop a few comments and move on, and another thing to continue to “engage teh wingers” for hours on end.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 1:53 pm #
Snowcone,
Yeah, this is such a nothing, the Census Bureau has dropped its association with ACORN and 4 people, so far, have been fired.
You are seriously delusional.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 1:53 pm #
I have them all hammered anyway.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 1:59 pm #
#179
You took them out for drinks??
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 2:00 pm #
The trolls have to be on someone’s payroll.
Most likely ours, sad to say.
Comment by Joe on 9/14 @ 2:01 pm #
It is wack-a-troll today. You can swing the troll hammmer without hitting a few of them. They are like demented lemmings.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:07 pm #
#180
Yes, but I left the table to “visit the restroom” and booked, thus leaving them with the tab.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:07 pm #
But like SBP said, we’re probably all paying it anyway.
Comment by BuddyPC on 9/14 @ 2:15 pm #
38. Comment by Carin on 9/14 @ 9:32 am #
You know who else has never been convicted of anything. Charlie Rangel. Nothing to see. move along.
No need to make this a TKC issue, Carin.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 9/14 @ 2:17 pm #
How in the hell was that even possible. Never underestimate the abject stupidity of snowcone is the lesson learned here today.
JD, e-mail checked and replied.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 2:20 pm #
Alphie’s old blog has been silent since March of 2008.
Whither Chinese troops in shipping containers?
Comment by Deborah on 9/14 @ 2:20 pm #
We are playing right into the hands of the powerful elite who are running this country. (Of which Obambi is a puppet). They want racial and class wars, this satisfies their agenda of divide and conquer.
These Acorn women in these videos have probably been trained or told to make loans and not worry too much about specifics. They probably have quotas just like the quotas that Acorn put on their voter registrars. These are administrative directives coming from the top. Throwing the little people under the bus is a waste of time. I feel for these women who are probably just doing what they have been told, they are just trying to make a living in these hard times.
They put these poor people out there and then when it hits the fan they are thrown to the lions.
The brothers Dale and Wade Rathke are some of the real criminals, and I am sure there are many more higher ups (elites).
These people want a race war and they are doing everything they can to start one.
People we need to put the blame where it is due and stop attacking each other.
These women are out sisters and need our support. The people who we really need to see indicted are the administrators, going all the way to the top of the heap, and you should know who that is (BHO).
Sometimes I get the feeling that we, the American people, are just playing into the hands of the corporatocracy. They want white people to blame black people and black people to blame white people, this way we don’t see who the real criminals are.
This is how they destroy countries by having the people within countries destroy each other.
Please people lets hold the big guys accountable (the powerful elite and the elites who work for them) not our sisters and brothers.
We need to investigate Acorn and all of their subsidaries to the inner core and not blame the little people.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
PROTECT THE INTERNET
RESTORE THE REPUPLIC=LIMITED GOVERNMENT
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:21 pm #
Keep one name, troll-boy. Quit changing it. That just makes you even more of a tool than you have already demonstrated.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 9/14 @ 2:22 pm #
Obama wants to help America? Yes, become more like Communist China. I guess to an idiot such as yourself that is helping. How come Obama is continuing on Bush’s murderous ways, though? I don’t get it. Another hypocrite. I’d beat the shit out of you more for your hypocrisy than for your stupidity if that’s any consolation.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/14 @ 2:22 pm #
That Hitler-stache never stops being funny.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 2:22 pm #
#186: Seek professional help for the sake of your family and friends.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 2:24 pm #
You, william, are the political monster in this scene. Bush’s family history, distorted by you and yours beyond recognition justifies your calumnies against him: no one can gainsay your hate. Obama, on the other hand, wants to “help America” by surrendering his negotiating stance to its enemies before he’s even managed to get them to the negotiating table.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 9/14 @ 2:24 pm #
The barista over at LGF still has a blog? Who knew.
Comment by JD on 9/14 @ 2:25 pm #
Let’s see if we can follow the troll path – Bush, Halliburton, Nazi, Djibouti, Foley. Brilliant.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:30 pm #
The only people promoting race-based agendas are the Democrats and some fringe lunatics. They are the ones fomenting hatred. If you believe in identity politics, you are part of the problem. If you think that equality of outcome is all that matters, you are part of the problem. Naturally, if you’re a whatever-concentration-of-melanin firster, you are part of the problem. If you make excuses for people’s bad behavior because the are poor, or “minorities,” or other things like that, you are part of the problem.
Everyone must be held accountable.
There is no race besides the human race. Anything else is a fabrication. We are all the same color (the difference is the intensity), we all have the same DNA makeup.
As far as a star chamber belief goes, meh. Corporations have a lot of leverage, true. So do some individuals. The way to fight them is to shine a light on them. Conspiracy theories don’t help.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 9/14 @ 2:30 pm #
How many Republicans knew Mark Foley was bonking Congressional pages and did nothing, Blake?
The funny thing is that no one ever even accused him of touching any of them . . . unlike the warm reception for Gerry Studds who actually, you know, had sex with his.
From wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:31 pm #
I feel better now, thanks for asking.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 2:35 pm #
JD
Let’s see if we can follow the troll path – Bush, Halliburton, Nazi, Djibouti, Foley. Brilliant.
But, them he said this.
As it is, we just have…the phony outrage of the day.
How long until this story drops from the wingnut boilerplate?
LOL! This guy is so stupid he thinks he won’t be thrown off the buss to “Teh Utopia”. It doesn’t get more stupid than that, At least not for anything with a pulse.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 2:36 pm #
Mike Kelly would be having a field day with this ACORN story were he still alive. Damnit.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:37 pm #
All of our outrages are phony because Teh One says so!
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 2:37 pm #
Wow, just wow..LGF cited as a source on this blog, even though most of the commentators here agree Charles Johnson has gone around the bend.
Btw, stupideous troll, at least one Obama/Hitler sign in the past was a plant by a pro-Obama supporter.
Comment by mojo on 9/14 @ 2:41 pm #
I’d say they’ve got the timimg pegged. Release, let ACORN blather, release, repeat.
Time to hand out the clown noses?
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 2:44 pm #
Not to mention that several of the Hitler/Obama signs are the work of the Teh Crazee Larrouche crowd.
What are that chances that several hundred thousand people show up at a rally and there won’t be at least a few loony-bugs present? That doesn’t even consider the fringe element that showed up at anti-war rallies with many, many Bush-Cheney Nazi references.
In other words: We will judge you by your loonies but don’t judge us by ours. RACISTS!
Comment by alppuccino on 9/14 @ 2:44 pm #
On a lonely Hershey highway,
A greased and open maw,
You can hear the fat house member moanin’ out his manhole song.
Here I am………..turn the page.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 2:45 pm #
Actually Blake they were linked to the Lyndon LaRouche leftards which are somewhat critical of Zer0. They are coming at Obama from the left if that is imaginable.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 2:45 pm #
These Acorn women in these videos have probably been trained or told to make loans and not worry too much about specifics.
Sorry, “just following orders” didn’t work for Eichmann and it shouldn’t work for them.
I don’t care how you’ve been “trained”, some things shouldn’t be on the table.
Go after the higher-ups, certainly, but these women shouldn’t get to skate. If they want some leniency, they can turn state’s evidence.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 2:47 pm #
I’m beginning to miss Jimmy Carter.
Comment by BJTexs on 9/14 @ 2:48 pm #
On the flip side william is certainly a very accomplished guitarist.
One question: What’s with the big assed box?
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 2:50 pm #
Dead tango news from Somalia. Brave Pres. Obama signed the order.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 2:52 pm #
Royf,
thanks for the correction.
Ah yes, Lyndon LaRouche, the “last person picked in a high school gym class” of politics.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 2:52 pm #
Musicians are emotional people. Emotional people gravitate towards the Democrat party, the party of emotional politics. Good playing, though.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 2:52 pm #
“…they can turn state’s evidence”
Yoda voice again: “Oh, they will be, they will be.”
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:02 pm #
#206 I’m really glad I hadn’t started dinner yet.
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 3:04 pm #
…he thinks he won’t be thrown off the buss to “Teh Utopia”.
I’m already in Utopia.
I wake up, realize Barack Obama is now President and smile.
My smile keep getting bigger as the day goes on.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:10 pm #
OT: A worthwhile preliminary analysis of Osama Bin Laden’s latest missive (and strategic shift) to the west by Walid Phares. It’s all about Obama.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 3:14 pm #
Wow. He’s getting a little…thin, up top.
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie…
Rogaine
Comment by Slartibartfast on 9/14 @ 3:15 pm #
Me, too! I haven’t had this much fun in years, politically speaking.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:19 pm #
Amendment to cut all funding for ACORN on Senate floor now… I hope it goes to roll call.
Comment by cranky-d on 9/14 @ 3:21 pm #
#220
Exxxxcelent. Smithers, my robe.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:23 pm #
CSPAN-2 is showing “quorum call” right now.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:26 pm #
Looks like the October appropriations bill is coming up, including housing funding.
Comment by Mars vs Hollywood on 9/14 @ 3:28 pm #
I’m already in Utopia.
Cool. So stop trying to inflict it on the rest of us, OK?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:32 pm #
Here we go!
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:33 pm #
Hmm… lots of Dems seem to be absent.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:35 pm #
The chamber seems completely empty. What’s up with that?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:36 pm #
Dunno, sdferr. Cowardice?
Comment by Snowcone on 9/14 @ 3:37 pm #
Osama Bin Laden’s latest missive
But, but, the Right keeps claiming bin Laden is dead.
How can this be?
You sure it’s not from Tom DeLay’s bunker?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:37 pm #
Maybe they’re trying to keep a quorum from being present?
But you’d think they wouldn’t even bother having the vote if there weren’t a quorum.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:42 pm #
Must be a heap of committee meetings going on concurrently, I guess. At least in my experience, generally when a vote gets going there are on the order of ten to twenty Sens on the floor. It just seemed unusual to find only two or so, and having gone through the roll call, only eleven total on the first go round.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:42 pm #
“…the Right keeps claiming bin Laden is dead”
More bullshit from the eternal bullshit artist.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 9/14 @ 3:43 pm #
Have you never watched “Weekend at Osama’s,” Snowcone? His ‘appearances’ are stiched together from exisitng footage and recordings.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:44 pm #
Lots showing up now… mostly voting Aye.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:48 pm #
Many Dems voting aye (to defund ACORN).
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:49 pm #
Dodd voted Aye. That’ll leave a mark.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:49 pm #
Boxer and Feingold: AYE.
Heh.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:50 pm #
Kerry: AYE.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:52 pm #
Who’ve you caught voting nay SBP, I’ve heard Stabenow, Burris, Kohl, but haven’t paid close attention otherwise? Ah, Kohl changed his vote just now, Lautenberg too voted nay then changed. Hilarious.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:52 pm #
FRANKEN VOTES AYE!
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:52 pm #
Stabenow just changed her’s. Hi-fucking-larious!
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 3:53 pm #
Whoopsie-daisy, don’t want to get caught on the wrong side of this one helping out the pederasts!
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:53 pm #
Yep, I noticed the Lautenberg switch.
Sanders voted no, I caught that one.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:54 pm #
REID: AYE.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:55 pm #
Feinstein: AYE.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:55 pm #
Durbin: No.
Comment by Rusty on 9/14 @ 3:56 pm #
#229
Apparently you missed the campaign promise where your idol the divine mr ‘O’ told us all he would do what Bush couldn’t do and capture Osama Ben Laden. So. Hows that goin’? ’cause ,like, you dems own it now.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:56 pm #
I think Udall (CO) just switched to aye. One of the Udalls voted no earlier, think it was the Colorado one.
Comment by Wm T Sherman on 9/14 @ 3:58 pm #
What about funding for whatever organization into which ACORN is being recast?
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 3:58 pm #
Schumer: AYE.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:00 pm #
83-7. ACORN FUCKING PWNED. Hard.
Comment by Rusty on 9/14 @ 4:01 pm #
#92
Half truth teller is more like it.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 4:02 pm #
Boxer, Schumer, Feingold, Akaka, Franken, Dodd, Mikulski, Lautenberg, Feinstein: Ayes
Durbin + six others (who?): Nays.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:03 pm #
ACORN destroyed by two kids with a video camera.
Someone was saying that this still needs to go through the House. I’m optimistic, given some of the people who voted for it in the Senate.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:03 pm #
#253 Sanders was definitely one of them.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:04 pm #
They’ve moved on to fellating Ted Kennedy’s corpse now, so I’m closing it down.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 4:05 pm #
Burris too, so missing three (and the nine who didn’t vote).
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:07 pm #
Should be up here soon:
http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_1.htm
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 4:07 pm #
“There is no race besides the human race. ”
Dude, that is like so stolen.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:08 pm #
Jim Geraghty on Twitter: With just three videos, @andrewbreitbart & BigGovernment.com turned ACORN into the political equivalent of the Ebola virus.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 4:09 pm #
Hey Snowcone,
I think that big nothing known as ACORN just got some sort of mention in Congress. Something about cutting funding, I believe.
You were saying about ACORN, scandal and it’ll all be over in a week?
Although, I give you credit, you were right, ACORN will be over in a week. They’ll go bankrupt due to lack of funds.
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:12 pm #
Beck is reportedly saying that the next ACORN video will make the first three look tame.
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 4:13 pm #
Quoting Ed at HotAir: “…what Jim Geraghty said on the Twitter stream: “Who were the seven Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance Program defenders?””
Comment by N. O'Brain on 9/14 @ 4:15 pm #
william, I’ll believe you’re a real guitar player when you do Les Baricades Mistérieuses.
Accept no substitutes.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 4:16 pm #
Well hopefully this gets through the House and these scumbags get cut off the DC tit. Man that will throw a serious wrench into the dems election plans. Looks like the cost of owning a Presidency may get very expensive for Soros LOL!
Comment by SBP on 9/14 @ 4:26 pm #
SissyWillis RT @Zener39: Nays on ACORN vote were Burris, Casey, Durbin, Gillibrand, Leahy, Sanders, and Whitehouse. (via @davidhauptmann)
Comment by sdferr on 9/14 @ 4:34 pm #
Burris, Durbin, Sanders, Leahy, Whitehouse nays make sense. Gillibrand not so much. But stupid Bob Casey of Pa.? I can almost attribute that one to a plain mistake by stupid Bob Casey of Pa.
Comment by royf on 9/14 @ 4:41 pm #
I was just watching Fox News and they announced that the NYC Bureau which investigates organized crimes is starting a investigation into ACORN in NYC.
Hey snowcone that puts a big smile on my face but it not utopia, It’s just my belief that fucking crime syndicates should be destroyed even when they are integral with the White House.
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Comment by Mikey NTH on 9/14 @ 4:49 pm #
I am sure ACORN will like discovery. Such as ‘enjoy attorneys rooting through your files, all as laid out in the FRCP’. Enjoy the depositions of your employees.
Comment by alppuccino on 9/14 @ 6:05 pm #
Wow. That shut snowcone right up.
Comment by Blake on 9/14 @ 6:28 pm #
Alpuccino,
You underestimate the stupidity of Snowcone.
As another commenter said about Snowcone: “Teh stupid is strong in this one.”
Comment by B Moe on 9/14 @ 7:48 pm #
Are you honestly thinking any of the shit you are posting makes sense?
Comment by Silver Whistle on 9/15 @ 3:10 am #
The ACORN community organizing was about the only thing on Dear Leader’s wafer thin resumé. It was made abundantly clear that ACORN and Dear Leader were joined at the hip, and that was a good thing. The papers and TV nodded, even though widespread voter fraud by ACORN was known, but ignored. The media, sorry, PR arm of the DNC have only one choice now; they must put clear blue water between ACORN and Dear Leader. Either by downplaying his role in the organization (he only worked as a lawyer, there were several layers between him and actual operations, etc.) or by ignoring the story completely. I suppose they could go for ignoring the story first, and if that doesn’t work, try the smokescreen. If mcgruder was here, he’d tell us.
Either way, expect Fox to press for a RICO investigation; it will be interesting to see who else jumps on the bandwagon. The NYT, WP, LAT, SFC etc. are far too invested in their stooge now to do any real investigative reporting of their own.
Comment by Rusty on 9/15 @ 4:50 am #
#268
You had to have been there.
Comment by LegalTuber on 10/11 @ 10:45 pm #
I’m not sure Fox counts as a news station anymore.
Comment by SBP on 10/11 @ 10:49 pm #
Considering that you’re commenting on a month-old post, I’m not sure your opinion on what is “news” is particularly valid.