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How ACORN Helped Its Enemies
Chicago Tribune @ RCP ^ | September 27, 2009 | Clarence Page

Posted on 09/27/2009 8:33:57 AM PDT by skimbell

Never underestimate the power of a 20-year-old woman in hot pants.

Just hook her up with an apple-cheeked young man dressed as a sort of preppy pimp, add a video camera and send them off for a chat with some dimwitted neighborhood financial counselors for ACORN. Stir in enough chutzpah to make Borat look like a shrinking violet and you've got one heckuva scandal.

Young conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles hardened up their fresh-faced looks just enough to pose as a pimp and prostitute seeking advice at ACORN offices on setting up a brothel...

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acorn; clarencepage; corruptdems; corruption; hannahgiles
No surprise, but here come the lib's with excuses/explanations for 0's ACORN gig!
1 posted on 09/27/2009 8:33:57 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

James and Hannah are awesome. ACORN needs to be totally investigated because Obama *IS* ACORN.


2 posted on 09/27/2009 8:43:16 AM PDT by Frantzie (Do we want ACORN running America's healthcare?)
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To: skimbell

The headline should be: ‘How Acorn Helped The Democrats By ‘Stealing’ From The Poor.’

Most of Acorn’s money went into the campaign coffers of democrats and the leftist marxist machine. In essence..Acorn took taxpayer money away from more deserving groups that were competing for federal dollars to ‘help’ the poor. THAT is the story here..but don’t expect any intellectually honest reporting on it.


3 posted on 09/27/2009 8:44:22 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: skimbell
”Now ACORN's big embarrassment sends to the world the worst possible picture of low-income Americans, the very people whom ACORN is supposed to help.”

LOL…And just what ‘best possible picture’ could they expect from these sewer rats?

4 posted on 09/27/2009 8:44:55 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: skimbell

5 posted on 09/27/2009 8:50:11 AM PDT by NMEwithin
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To: skimbell
Yet mere mention of ACORN can transform Fox News' Glenn Beck into Howard Beale, the deranged commentator in the movie "Network" who leads the nation in shouting, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."

And this is a bad thing???

IMO, it's about time someone spurred people to action.

6 posted on 09/27/2009 8:59:32 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: skimbell

ACORN has evaded scrutiny for years due to democrat protection. They probably thought it would go on forever and just got careless. Too bad. /s


7 posted on 09/27/2009 8:59:41 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: skimbell

Don’t you just hate it when criminals and their apologists get caught? Sad state of affairs in our wonderful country.


8 posted on 09/27/2009 9:01:33 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: skimbell

A humble start around the kitchen table of assorted communists, violent radicals and other criminals.


9 posted on 09/27/2009 9:01:50 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: skimbell

According to Clarence, ACORN is just another one of those “occupants” of Obama’s neighborhood! The $800,000 Hussein paid to ACORN last year?? Somehow that didn’t come up in Page’s article! An OVERSIGHT no doubt! Sorry, Clarence. But those evil “right-wing” kooks who populate the radio have already reported this story to many, many millions of people. Your ilk no longer monopolizes the ENTIRE media.


10 posted on 09/27/2009 9:04:56 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: skimbell

These two kids should go into the investigative reporting Hall of Fame, if there is such a thing. I wonder whether they ever considered what could have happened to them if the camera they used had been discovered by the “dim-witted+ Acorn tax and vice advisors.

Many ACORN rank and file workers are thugs and ex-cons. ACORN leaders know this. I wonder what those leaders would have done to those kids, considering that the filming of their extra dim-witted employees may bring down the entire criminal organization.


11 posted on 09/27/2009 9:06:30 AM PDT by SkipW
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Nevada atty. general has indicted acorn. poor things get no respect. Help ‘em out obango. lol


12 posted on 09/27/2009 9:13:26 AM PDT by manonCANAL
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To: Oldpuppymax

From the article:

“The organization and the former community organizer [Obama] have not had much contact since, other than connections that have been alleged or exaggerated by conservative media.”

Right there is the whole reason for this article - Clarence has his kneepads on, and is busy trying to make sure nobody is going to get a shot at Dear Leader’s behind.

Of course, Page conveniently overlooks Obama’s promise to ACORN that his administration will not only be sensitive to their concerns, but that he’ll be seeking their input.

Listen to these jerkwads and they’d have you believing that the community-organizer-in-chief is barely aware of the existence of the operation that’s crime central in the world of community organizing.


13 posted on 09/27/2009 9:35:12 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: skimbell
How ACORN Helped Its Enemies

This sounds to me as though Page just admitted that ACORN is at war with America and considers America as its enemy.

14 posted on 09/27/2009 10:02:02 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I don't remember Americans being called "racists" when we fought against Hillarycare.)
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To: skimbell
From the article, an example of Pulitzer Prize winner Page's great and miraculous knowledge of the Illegal Alien's ties to ACORN:

Back in 1995, young Harvard Law grad Barack Obama helped ACORN and a team of Chicago attorneys -- along with the U. S. Department of Justice -- win a lawsuit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal "motor-voter" bill. The organization and the former community organizer have not had much contact since, other than connections that have been alleged or exaggerated by conservative media.

He seems to ignore the little matter of Obama representing ACORN and other grifters in a successful lawsuit that forced one or more major Chicago banks to loan money to totally unqalified borrowers, Obama's being one of their lead teachers on organizing and getting out the fictitious vote, and the $800,000+ the '08 Obama campaign gift to ACORN to gin up fictitious votes.

15 posted on 09/27/2009 10:03:44 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: NMEwithin

Lord have mercey. If ACORN commies can be taken in by these two "squeeky clean" nice looking young kids, it's really expanding the definition of Stalin's reference to "useful idiots".

They fell for this?!? Talk about sub-zero IQ's...

16 posted on 09/27/2009 10:46:58 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: skimbell

Why doesn’t Clarence Page talk about the ACORN staff giving information about how to cheat on taxes, used underaged girls as whore etc? Why doesn’t he address the issue?


17 posted on 09/27/2009 7:03:28 PM PDT by GOPJ (UN mixing democracies & dictators' is like mixing ice cream and shit-all of it stinks.(Steyn))
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To: originalbuckeye
Don’t you just hate it when criminals and their apologists get caught?

That does seem to be the "take" of most journalists..

18 posted on 09/27/2009 7:04:55 PM PDT by GOPJ (UN mixing democracies & dictators' is like mixing ice cream and shit-all of it stinks.(Steyn))
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