Breitbart: I thought Bertha Lewis was grateful that we exposed ACORN’s corruption
posted at 10:28 pm on September 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
Yeah, I thought so too. Follow that link and watch the clip — “they sort of did us a good service” — because if this travesty ever makes it to trial, you can rest assured that it’ll end up in the evidence file. That’s one of two key talking points here, touched on in both Breitbart’s clip and the one of Giles from “Hannity” that’s also embedded below. The other is the fact that because ACORN receives taxpayer funding, your money and mine is being used to fund this legal retaliatory strike. Which prompts a question that’s guaranteed to be impressed upon the jury: Who’s acting in the greater “public interest” here? O’Keefe and Giles, by exposing corruption at a publicly supported nonprofit? Or ACORN, by applying the cash they’re supposed to be using to help the poor to suppress the evidence of it?
No surprise, per Breitbart’s aside, that the response to Hannah’s defense fund has been “overwhelming” so far.
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I saw this tonight. I think it is interesting about the “investigator” that they appointed website is going after the people doing the undercover work than the cheats and child abusers. Makes me ill!!
Also, I couldn’t stand the guy before or after him that said everyone who oppose Obama is a racist. THat argument is really making me ill.
deidre on September 24, 2009 at 10:33 PM
It will be fun watching Breitbart navigate through this funhouse of stupidity. I don’t think Bertha et al. realize just who they’re taking on. ‘Cause that is one clever dude.
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I wish someone would buy that Lewis lady some hair.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM
As I’ve posted on my site, I think the attorneys defending O’Keefe and Giles might be overlooking a couple of good strategies in killing off this ridiculous claim.
But the point of this post is spot-on: what a public relations nightmare from ACORN’s perspective, eh?
cackcon on September 24, 2009 at 10:35 PM
actually, I wonder what else they have. You know they have something else. I bet that they will wait until the trial and all eyes are on them, and then they will let something really big out. heh.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:36 PM
“K-I-C-K-A-S-S: that’s the way we spell success!”
blatantblue on September 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM
BTW, everybody make sure to mosey on over to Biggovernment.com Lots of hits=revenue, right?
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Those acorn dopes must really be stupid. They have to believe there are more videos and documentation on the corruption in acorn.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:38 PM
So, ACORN has partnered with 2 fired employees who assisted in an underage sex ring in order to sue two whistleblowers?
Do I have this right?
ACORN is simply trying to stop any future visits to their offices – so they can re-open them.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Can you say televised trial?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Shoulder length – front as well as back.
MB4 on September 24, 2009 at 10:40 PM
“I wish someone would buy that Lewis lady some hair”
Thanks for the belly laugh.
silenced majority on September 24, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I read the ACORN office in NC is closed. heh.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:41 PM
ACtually, they disconnected the phone, first. heh heh.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
This lawsuit is a dream come true for Breitbart. And that defense fund is going to more than pay for Giles and O’Keefe’s defense.
WWS on September 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Team Barry, ACORN, and the congressional Dems want to suppress anything or anyone who opposes or exposes their pet projects, nefarious associations, or unethical and illegal activities. The national gag order will be fait accompli if the FCC’s Diversity czar, Mark Lloyd gets his way.
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Breitbart is the biggest dummy and liar i have ever seen on teevee. What a complete fraud. This is the same idiot who blamed Obama for kids calling a holiday potato day.
Speaking of Acorn, Cons need to get a grip of themselves. This is why you all continue to lose elections and revert back to blogs like this to vent your frustration. No one cares about Acorn. There is too much going on for you to put Acorn front and center.
Develop a clear plan on how to either help Obama or create a new plan to turn this country around if you ever want to win back the white house. America is moving and chugging along without you backward thinking cons. Just a word of advice.
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Acorn Locations
Have fun.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Hello, cons.
Lanceman on September 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM
And I’ll guaran-damn-tee you that allegations of “Racism” will dominate their argument. Not because they’re valid, they seldom are, but because an attack on ACORN is an attack on Barack, and that is Racism in the first degree to these criminal idiots.
ronnyraygun on September 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM
When Barry is ousted in 2012, the new President **cough**Sarah Palin**cough** should not even think twice to tap Breitbart for press secretary.
If he would take the job, he’d be an unbelievably valuable weapon.
red winger on September 24, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Do wattch a teevee in a teepee? Barry don’t need our help. He can do it all by hisself.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Thanks Afrolib, you convinced me. I am chanting Obama, Obama, Obama right now.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM
In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.
- Sun Tzu
MB4 on September 24, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Me thinks thou dust project too much.
ronnyraygun on September 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I have a better plan. We win, you lose.
jhffmn on September 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM
If only you would quit violating parole, I miss your insights.
Bishop on September 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Riddle me this, afrolib. If only losers come here to vent, why are you here? The glory of Barry ain’t all it’s cracked up to be?
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Someday in the indeterminate future, it will dawn on you that a solid majority of Americans do not, in fact, agree with you.
gryphon202 on September 24, 2009 at 10:50 PM
I have a clear plan to help Obama but he refuse to make an appointment with me. I think he is afraid of electricity.
Sigmund on September 24, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Scared are we Breitbart? You stepped into it on this one dummy. Your goose is cooked now. Idiot.
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Miss Bertha is used to working with idiots. She has no idea what she’s getting into.
SouthernGent on September 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM
I wish someone would buy that Lewis lady some hair.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Finally, something Meggie Mac is knowledgeable about.
Dusty on September 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM
What the hell are you talking about you rambling moron?
ronnyraygun on September 24, 2009 at 10:52 PM
“Barack Hussein Obama….mmmm….mmmm…mmmm”
tru2tx on September 24, 2009 at 10:53 PM
He can’t hear you.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Defender of corruption , supporter of Barack.
the_nile on September 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM
If Afrolib had a world of his own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?
Cheshire Cat on September 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Want to put your money where your mouth is?
Dusty on September 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Hannity can’t even conduct a decent interview without being predictable and boring. Giles is the only thing that made that viewable.
DaveS on September 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Check the smile on Hannah’s attorney…
… Dude!
Seven Percent Solution on September 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Afrolib:
There is no way in hell that I will help this naked Marxist as he and his little Marxist minions attempt to dismantle and destroy this great country.
And I think it’s the Marxists’ goose that is cooked. All Breitbart has done in the past week is to get Congress to defund ACORN, have the IRS and the Census fire them, and get the NEA comm director fired, errrr he resigned. That’s quite a week’s worth of work for an idiot, huh?
TheAdmiral on September 24, 2009 at 10:55 PM
People not only care about the endless corruption at ACORN, but also about how closely tied Team Barry is to it.
As for a plan, Eviscerating ACORN seems like a good one.
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM
If he could just read the directions then directly he would be directed in the right direction.
Cheshire Cat on September 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Hannah reminds me so much of Governor Palin.
bloggless on September 24, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Dumbest statement of the day. This con has forgotten his party of no hasn’t won anything in the past 5 years now. What an idiot.
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Mr. Spin, Bill O’ cannot choke down enough Okra, Collar Greens and Ham hocks to justify his prostate groveling at the alter of nObama! I was a fan but now he is no better than Keith Oberdork, may Beck send him into early retirement (medical reasons)
dmann on September 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM
People have got to know whether or not their Emperor, um ah, King, um ah, President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook! The allegations by Breitbart that I ever had anything to do with, what was the name of that organization again, oh yes HAZELNUT, are clearly racist, um ah, false and I need to get back to doing important work for George Soros, um ah, the American people.
MB4 on September 24, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Breitbart is such a dummy that ACORN is going down. They are on tape conspiring to commit tax fraud and their response is to “act stupidly” and sue, because they don’t have enough really bad publicity yet…. LOL.
Stupid is as stupid does, even when it’s a bald stupid.
Carolina Kat on September 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
If that’s true then you can bet Allahpundit is busy digging dirt up on her at this very minute.
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on September 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
You are absolutely right.. Your 20% populace do care about this. And these are the same people who bitch and whine everyday on this blog.
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
We have clear plans. Cutting the personal tax rates, the corporate tax rates, as well as the capital gains tax rates would provide real stimulus to the economy, as well as produce more tax revenue than Obama is going to get through his “soak the rich” strategy. Drilling off-shore and in ANWAR to provide the abundant, and cheaper energy an unleashed economy would need to come roaring back from the layers of wet blankets the Obama administration has dumped on it. Get serious about bringing the deficit down, which wouldn’t be as hard with record tax revenues coming in, and get the currency situation back to normal, so we don’t have to worry about a) the Chinese pulling our credit card, or b) the G8 to decide to dump the dollar as the reserve currency. You all were so worried about Europe thought about Bush. But what they hell could they do to us–fart in our general direction? I’m a lot more worried about what China thinks of our fiscal policies under Obama & Co. Next eliminate the IRS, and go with the Fair Tax. Once implemented, our tax policies will be so much more favorable to corporations, we’ll be beating them off with a stick, instead of what we have now–corporations leaving to go to Ireland or other places where tax rates are vastly better than here. Oh, we got plans, alright. Just get your whining a$$, and our whining president’s a$$ out of the way.
smellthecoffee on September 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM
With the way everyone involved is playing this, I think they may have something bigger on them and the powers that be know it and that’s why they are trying to bluff and sue. Unfortunately for ACORN, they’re bluff is being called and all they have are a pair of deuces (aside from the ones that are about to be in their pants) while Breitbart, Giles, and O’Keefe more than likely have a royal flush (or a full house at least).
I’m not even a big fan of popcorn, but pass some this way anyway… it’ll help calm my anticipation and excitement.
MobileVideoEngineer on September 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
does ACORN expect BHO to take up for the them?
Does ACORN have something on BHO that he will be forced to take their side?
poppieseeds on September 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Do you have all the commented quotes memorized? To not comment further, if so, I am very impressed and enjoy the posts.
disillusioned on September 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Pimps International, aka ACORN, should sue FOX and the Internets. Without this, their lawsuit is incomplete.
runner on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Just keep driving on by AfroTurd… nobody cares about your Blind Puppet Monkey insight.
ronnyraygun on September 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Mcfly……………..????
dmann on September 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM
You are absolutely correct. The 20% populace who are irrelevant with regard to the voting electorate do care. The same ones who turn out on this blog everyday to whine and cry about how Obama is taking away their America.
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Exactly, and to give it to losers like you!
dmann on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
All that is absolutely true is Hannah is hot.
wepeople on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Are you planning on posting something intelligent any time soon? Or is it above your pay grade and/or mental capacity ? Just like the presidency is to baracky ?
runner on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Don’t forget that ACORN forgot to file the appropriate licenses in MD and thus are illegally operating there.
The general consensus of legal minds on this subject seems to be “WTF??!!!?!?”
No one really seems to understand what ACORN is doing by filing this lawsuit, much less what they think to gain.
Maybe they are just so full of themselves that they sincerely believe that they have been wronged.
Living in an echo chamber can lead to that type of condition.
Religious_Zealot on September 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Americans are now, more and more, telling Barack “Yes we can” Obama, “Oh no you won’t!
If it sounds like Karl Marx, acts like Benito Mussolini, lies like Pinocchio, attracts followers reminiscent of those Jim Jones attracted and stumbles like Bozo the Clown, it’s probably Barack Obama!!!!!
MB4 on September 24, 2009 at 11:14 PM
In the Hannity clip, Hannah seems amused and somewhat detached from all that’s going on around her. If any of this is freaking her out, it’s not showing.
joejm65 on September 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Shhheeeaaa… Nothing to see here, move along, move along. Don’t give the secret away!
disillusioned on September 24, 2009 at 11:17 PM
PackerBronco on September 24, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Ha! Don’t need no hidden tape to show that Afrolib is a braindead moron.
PackerBronco on September 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM
You’d be surprised how much that 20% has grown since last fall when you graduated from kindergarten.
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Now that I can say mmm…mmm…mmm to!
John the Libertarian on September 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Having a bit of trouble tonight with sarcasm are we? Breitbart is dumb like a fox.
Carolina Kat on September 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
I have family that had not heard of the ACORN corruption expose until I told them. A trial is going to eventually make headlines and look really bad on Barry and the Statists.
farright on September 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
That’s what makes me think they have an ace up their sleeve and they’re just waiting for the right time to bring it out.
MobileVideoEngineer on September 24, 2009 at 11:21 PM
That’ll teach you to expose child sex slavery enablers!
God Bless you, Bertha! Keep us safe from creeps like these meddling kids!
mankai on September 24, 2009 at 11:21 PM
If an idiot rambles on the internet but nobody reads it, will it still be moronic? Hey, next time a troll –cough, cough–afrolib–cough, cough– pops up with some stupid comments, what if we all just ignore that troll? By responding to his/her/its provocation, we’re all just feeding it and making it grow. The writing on the wall is clear and the signs are there for all to see: the left has overplayed its hand and America is backing away in horror. Poll after poll shows that people are on to them and also onto the media hacks who relentlessly promote their agenda. http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/30046_shu_national_poll_trust_and_satisfaction_with_the_national_news_media.cfm
Newsbusters breaks it down even better here:http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/09/24/baier-shares-poll-how-90-recognize-media-helped-obama-win
Heh.
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 11:22 PM
The PackerBronco plan has three steps and they accomplish both of your requirements:
1. Help Obama pack.
2. Show him the door.
3. Lock the Whitehouse after he’s gone.
PackerBronco on September 24, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Look at her; she’s just a kid. ACORN continues to find levels in the sewer even deeper than our astonishingly low expectations for them.
Jaibones on September 24, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I like your plan but it needs handcuffs and jumpsuits to really meet my requirements.
farright on September 24, 2009 at 11:27 PM
I saw in a Taranto piece in the WSJ that the ACORN office in Mississippi is located on Hooker Street. You can’t make this kinda stuff up.
d1carter on September 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Tomorrow Beck is going to have a live studio aduience of moms to talk about this whole shebang.
Mirimichi on September 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Time to break out the popcorn for this one. I smell a conspiracy theory brewing…
disillusioned on September 24, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Say what you will about Beck, but he has done more to expose corruption in D.C. in the last month than anyone else on television has done in what? decades? ever? I have a lot more respect for the man than I ever had before.
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Afrolib on September 24, 2009 at 10:43 PM
You again, oh puh-leeze! You are not worth dignifying by any further response to your Oborg programmed blatherings.
This is the only nibble yo will get outta me, I refue to take the bait and will not bite.
Buh-bye!
Archimedes on September 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Yo kid, sarcasm is for pukes, swallow or spit its your call!
dmann on September 24, 2009 at 11:38 PM
they need to countersue for malicious prosecution since ACORN is using a criminal statute and since the attny general was threatening to go after Breitbart, etc., I hope they do countersue if they can, based on Maryland law.
immigrantchick on September 24, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Someone should warn Lewis about the perils of making really stupid management decisions (yeah, that’s it, let’s sue the pants off of them for exposing our child sex trafficking outreach!) during a time when ACORN defenders are desperately searching for a scapegoat.
Infidoll on September 24, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Dear dmann and Carolina Kat,
I may be mistaken but after a quick review of posts, it seems like you two are on the same side.
Sincerely,
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 11:42 PM
I’ll hold my tongue here. Needless to say that some like him, and some don’t. I’m on the latter side. But, to each his own.
disillusioned on September 24, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Hey Afrolib……put on your best set of phones and dial into reality!!!!!!!!!
dmann on September 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Hannah seemed a little detached because there was a second or 2 delay. whatever satellite they were bouncing off of wasn’t real good….
About “nobody caring about Acorn?”
nobody cared about Watergate either. How did that work out for Nixon?
billhedrick on September 24, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Afrolib has been drinking the Kool Aid too long. He doesn’t understand that we despise Republicans as well when they don’t espouse true conservative principles. Bush wasn’t a conservative and we all were screwed because of it. We despise any politician that tries to set up a nanny state and control every aspect of our lives. From his posts I’ve concluded that person is a TROLL.
hamradio on September 24, 2009 at 11:50 PM
I was never a big fan of Beck’s. My dear Aunt adores him (buys the books, wanted me to get tickets for the travelling show, etc.) I always thought he seemed silly. I saw him try to force Ann Coulter to eat chocolate pudding once…AWK-ward. I think what bugs a lot of people about him is that he goes to SUCH lengths to show that he’s just a Regular Guy. Look, I eat M&M’s, Look, I have a paunch! There’s no formality, no third wall there. But like I said, I have to give him credit because behind all the silliness, dude really is going after the bad guys. Now, if your disagreement is based on his definition of who the ‘bad guys’ are, then I have to wonder why you’d be on the site at all.
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 11:50 PM
So, what’s the story with AfroTurd? Obviously not the sharpest cheddar on the cracker, and he used the word “Dummies” so much I felt like I was stuck in an episode of Sanford and Son.
ronnyraygun on September 24, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Were I Hannah Giles I would respectfully ask the judge what would be his recommendations with regard to having the prosecutor’s intimidation tactics, malicious prosecution and diversion from ACORN’s misdeeds being sanctioned as “accessory after the fact.”
viking01 on September 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
LOL @ Sanford and Son reference. I’m pretty sure AfroLib is actually a delusional middle-aged white lady with no one else to talk to. I asked him/her/it point-blank once if they were African-American and they disappeared….
cynccook on September 24, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Times is way to serious to game; lay it down and learn. Intellectual masturbation only satisfies one, reality demands far more…all we know, have, and cherish is on the line…everything. I’m all in…..what say you?
dmann on September 24, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Like Afrolibass, disillusioned is a wannabe troll.
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 11:58 PM
How’s next year looking so far?
jhffmn on September 25, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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