Dispatches From the GOP Braintrust
ACORN does indeed operate like the Mafia, but it more closely resembles another organization that began as an affiliate of the Democratic Party, the Ku Klux Klan. Aside from intimidating some bank executives, ACORN does not engage in violence, but like the KKK it has vote fraud as a top priority.
I totally see the parallel. The KKK would ride at night in hoods to terrify African-Americans, and sometimes to hang them if they got out of line. ACORN registers poor people to vote. That’s totally the same thing.
Like ACORN, the Ku Klux Klan operated with impunity until Republican politicians and journalists sounded an alarm. In 1869, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the KKK’s Grand Dragon, ordered the Klan disbanded. Why? The national organization was getting too much attention, so Klansmen would have to soldier on in state-level organizations, such as the Red Shirts in South Carolina and the Men of Justice in Alabama. Nonetheless, most members of these spin-off groups considered themselves to be Klansmen.
Exactly, the Klan was a domestic terrorist organization. ACORN was brought down by doctored videos and dishonest Congressmen. Republicans are always the victims, aren’t they? I mean, there’s no way that they could actually get less votes than Democrats unless Democrats were cheating, right?
On ABC’s This Week last Sunday, host Elizabeth Vargas asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) what she would say to her members “who are in real fear of losing their seats in November” when it comes time for the House to vote on health care reform again. Pelosi replied that “we are not here just to self perpetuate our service in Congress. We’re here to do the job for the American people.” The comment was interpreted as Pelosi saying that lawmakers should sacrifice their jobs for health care reform. On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh took that a step further, saying that “Mullah Nancy Bin Pelosi” was “no different” than those who “convince all these people to put bombs on their kids.” Listen here:
Exactly, because getting health insurance for millions of Americans who don’t have it is just the same as strapping a bomb to yourself and blowing up innocent people.
Tags: ACORN, Republican Crazy, Rush Limbaugh
Between the pill-popping Oxicontin addict and the false preacher who blames earthquakes on the victims – when are fair-minded people going to stand up and say “Enough!”?
when are fair-minded people going to stand up and say “Enough!”?
Unfortunately I think this only works one time in history, then it loses its potency. Republicans evolved and adapted by losing their sense of shame.
Yesterday, a NY branch of ACORN was exonerated by the AG or DA of any wrong-doing. Last week, there was a bit of a buzz on how ACORN chapters have closed and staffers have worked with locals to rebuild as independent organizations to continue the work they had been doing.
My DE ACORN friends have done that in Wilmington. They are now a brand new organization and are getting back to helping low-income individuals with their tax forms, helping people avoid foreclosure etc.
This is from Media Matters this morning:
” Breitbart confirms he was duped by O’Keefe and the ACORN pimp hoax
It turns out that Andrew Breitbart didn’t actually know what was on the ACORN tapes when he helped launch them on his website last year, and used the videos to fuel his oddly personal crusade against the low-income advocacy organization.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/201003020001
That’s right — Breitbart didn’t know what was on the tapes. Take a few seconds to let the implications of that confession sink in, and what it means to Breitbart’s already dented credibility.
Recall that for months Breitbart personally vouched for the ACORN videos, braying loudly that they could not be ignored and that they represented the unvarnished truth. Breitbart claimed he had told “the truth” every step of the way about the controversial ACORN clips and bragged that “[t]hroughout the ACORN story I applied my conscience to the material.”
But now it turns out that Breitbart was fooled by the ACORN pimp hoax and mistakenly assumed, after watching deceptively edited clips from his protégé James O’Keefe, that O’Keefe strolled into ACORN offices wearing the outlandish pimp outfit.
Now Breitbart, the chief promoter of the ACORN sting, claims he “didn’t know” the truth about the tapes. Although he’s quick to insist it doesn’t really matter anyway.
And yes, that sound you hear is Breitbart throwing O’Keefe under the bus. Because it’s O’Keefe who Breitbart now blames for the “discrepancy” regarding the pimp hoax. It’s O’Keefe, who Breitbart once touted as a should-be Pulitzer Prize winner, who created the false impression that he walked into ACORN offices last summer dressed as a garish pimp.
In a video interview posted Monday at Crooks and Liars, Stark Reports, as well as The Brad Blog, Breitbart, filmed by blogger Mike Stark at the recent CPAC convention, claims he did not know the facts about O’Keefe’s pimp outfit. (See video below.)”
You’d think that Dem pols who keep getting punked by these wingnut jihads would get a clue. There’s more than stupid wingnut tricks to be ashamed of here.
I’m glad you brought that up Nancy. I was thinking about writing about the whole sordid O’Keefe/Breitbart mess but just hadn’t gotten around to it. There’s actually a video of Breitbart admitting that he didn’t know that O’Keefe and Giles didn’t wear those silly costumes into the ACORN offices. So I guess Breitbart is saying that he was punked.
One thing that is making me mad about the whole thing is that Dan Rather and his producer were railroaded out of the industry because of documents that hadn’t been sufficiently verified. Breitbart and Fox News ran videos that were heavily edited and not verified (in fact we know a lot of stuff is NOT factual) and the rest of the media ran them as well. Where is the accountability on that?
You make an excellent parallel to the Dan Rather situation. It is the exact same kind of hyper-multi-caterwauling that also got us the Florida Bush vs Gore decision. I remember the khaki and loafer crowd of O’Keefe-y breatheren who stormed the halls screaming and yelling for the chad counting to stop. And the counting stopped. Horse shit.