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Academia-Gate: Peter Dreier, ACORN, Revisionism, ‘Cry Wolf,’and Academic Whores
big journalism ^ | 6/12/10 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 06/12/2010 11:05:48 PM PDT by Nachum

ACORN’s radical allies are now attempting to rewrite history to cast the organized crime syndicate as victim instead of as the prolific victimizer that it has been ever since it was created in 1970. ACORN online campaign director Nathan Henderson-James served notice in February that a propaganda effort was about to begin.

“[T]here will be a fight over the narrative of ACORN’s demise,” he wrote to members of Townhouse, a discussion forum run by Matt Stoller, senior policy adviser to Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.). The other side wants “a narrative about the corruption of popular organizations and how they are simply vehicles for the personal enrichment and power fantasies of their top staff members while pushing public policies that destroy middle America.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academiagate; acorn; dreier; peter

1 posted on 06/12/2010 11:05:48 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

It’s begun at PMSNBC already- the Madcow was portraying ACORN as a sort of harmless little nonentity done in by nasty Congressional Republicans and selective video editing. BARF!


2 posted on 06/12/2010 11:17:02 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Nachum

ACORN is a Communist organization bent on destroying the US, like Obie.

They need to get the KKK-type wrath they deserve.


3 posted on 06/12/2010 11:20:32 PM PDT by wac3rd (Gulf oil spews...Obama sues.)
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To: wac3rd
Al Franken and Claire McCaskill are in office courtesy of ACORN’s chicanery.
4 posted on 06/13/2010 4:18:54 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Nachum

Sue them in court!! They must be using funds from a grant to do the CRY WOLF project. So, that means a charity or foundation gave them the money. Take away their 501c3 status for using the tax free status when they are into politics. Sue the b*@#$TArds.


5 posted on 06/13/2010 5:10:37 AM PDT by q_an_a (a)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; voteNRA; Admiral_Zeon; ...
ACORN Ping

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.


6 posted on 06/14/2010 9:34:18 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (*)
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