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The $1,300 Mission to Fell ACORN
WAPO ^ | September 18, 2009 | Darryl Fears and Carol D. Leonnig

Posted on 09/17/2009 10:27:28 PM PDT by South40

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To: South40
O'Keefe, who described himself as an investigative journalist with no formal training, said he bought his won $300 plane ticket to California to visit ACORN sites in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego

Doesn't anyone read these articles before they publish/post them?

41 posted on 09/18/2009 3:39:45 AM PDT by dawn53
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42 posted on 09/18/2009 3:43:04 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (For only donating $100 bucks online to JOE WILSON, I sure feel like *A MILLION BUCKS* myself. Try it)
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To: South40

This was Hannah’s Idea!
She rocks!

Investigator with Video
Billions of Cheers!


43 posted on 09/18/2009 3:50:50 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Life, Liberty and the Department of Happiness)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Reset bort? Covert a swith?

[reset button] [covert switch]

It's those wacky chinese and their funny english :-)

I will never forget the manual I got with a software diskette from china back in the 90's it said

"The program not work unless you have a 3.5" dick!" they meant disk of course :-)

Tons of the funny stuff on http://www.Engrish.com

This sign was supposed to say
"Please clean the table and put chair back in its place when you finish dining, Thank You"

44 posted on 09/18/2009 3:55:59 AM PDT by Bobalu (I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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Note the spin here. The legacy media can’t ignore the story now, but the can minimize and mis-direct.

“Congress has taken action.” Not final action buddy. No law is in effect yet. No federal investigations underway. No one in jail. Sorry Charlie, this ain’t over by any means...

“rejects liberal suggestions that the videos were bankrolled by conservative organizations. He does, however, acknowledge receiving help and advice from a conservative columnist and Web entrepreneur. “ Look folks, when 60 Minutes does a story, we don’t care who pays their bills. We do care if the material they present is accurate, fair and complete. Any other standard proposed by the WaPo and it’s ilk is a reflection that Breitbart is COMPETITION.

“fan clubs and testimonial walls. “Hannah Giles is HOTT!” Legacy media envy is showing. And they get to display their childishness in such a manner as to minimize their own failures. The obvious take being that if two “kids” can pull this off, where the hell was the WaPo, et al.

“Though O’Keefe described himself as a progressive radical, not a conservative, he said he targeted ACORN for the same reasons that the political right does: its massive voter registration drives that turn out poor African Americans and Latinos against Republicans.” Racist much? Note the lack of direct quote people.

Spin. And fear. Note the speed with which the House and Senate have acted. Obama really wants this to go away. As in yesterday. It won’t. We need to follow through. Jail time for the guilty, and the end of SEIU and ACORN as organizations, including all their interlocking related entities.


45 posted on 09/18/2009 5:31:41 AM PDT by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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Is there any proof, other than ACORN telling us, that Philly really threw them out? Philly may be one of the branches they didn’t visit so they could safely say they “threw them out” because they know they don’t have a tape on them(or at least that is what they hope!). Remember when the first tape came out they said it was an isolated incident and then they had it thrown back in their face.


46 posted on 09/18/2009 6:52:06 AM PDT by calex59 (FUBO, we want our constitution back and we intend to get it!)
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To: calex59

One of the team of young heros said that no office threw them out or words to that effect. So who knows, they also have 40 hours (left? altogether?) so time will tell.

But if it is true and the Philly office threw them out (which we don’t know), it probably would have been because the ACORN thugs thought they weren’t a “real” ho and pimp!


47 posted on 09/18/2009 7:07:02 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Your feeble and pathetic efforts to make ACORN look “good”, along with your other leftist supporting views, are evident to all.

Transparent, in fact!


48 posted on 09/18/2009 7:09:41 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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To: South40

Bump for later reading


49 posted on 09/19/2009 1:12:56 AM PDT by SuziQ
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