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 doubt it. When one is losing an argument the mud slinging usually begins. It’s a tell-tale sign…
eanax on September 25, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Quick question for context, Is Ron Paul a bad guy?
lol, better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.
disillusioned on September 25, 2009 at 12:00 AM
In or out?
dmann on September 25, 2009 at 12:06 AM
I enjoy the site and enjoy reading the commented posts. I believe that AP and Ed are the best on the internet as to date. I don’t mind being called a troll for voicing an opinion. I tend to disagree with a good many of the posts, but I’m always keeping an open ear.
disillusioned on September 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Concur. Carolina Kat was being sardonic.
MB4 on September 25, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Ron Paul seems a little out there, but to be honest I don’t know that much about him. Mostly, what I remember reading in an article Tucker Carlson wrote for the New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/article/pimp-my-ride Yowza. But then again, I voted for Pat Buchanan every time he was in the primary, and by gum, I’d do it again!
cynccook on September 25, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Well I guess its back to virtue class for me and the goats!
dmann on September 25, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Breitbart and Hannah must have some evil ulterior motive to expose such good-intentioned, hard-working supporters of the One!
How dare you interrupt them as they pave the road to Hell!
Doesn’t Gehenna deserve a good, shovel-ready highway, too?
Raaaacciiisssttss!
profitsbeard on September 25, 2009 at 12:17 AM
I’d agree by gum, Yowza. I guess we’ll just have to disagree.
disillusioned on September 25, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Did anyone else laugh out loud at this post as hard as I did? If this is what counts as a defense of ACORN, they are as done as Kelsey’s nuts. I’m just sayin’.
tcn on September 25, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Thank GOD O’Rielly was on top of this story from the get go.
Ugly on September 25, 2009 at 12:46 AM
I laughed out loud at it.
Seemed like a parody.
Anders on September 25, 2009 at 12:59 AM
I am reminded of the mob boss who sued for libel claiming his reputation had been damaged. The judge threw the case out, ruling that the plaintiff did not have a reputation to damage.
topdog on September 25, 2009 at 1:08 AM
With these people it’s practically an instinctive response. Groups like ACORN are designed from the ground up to crush individuals in support of the poltical re-election machine.
Apparently the suits haven’t even been served yet. So far this is just the pro-forma media smear campaign and civil suit threats they use against anyone who stands up to them.
ACORN’s tactics have crushed dissent of many precincts and individuals in the past. What’s different now is that people are finally uniting to stand up to them. They have never faced anything like that before and, like any bully, they don’t have the slightest clue how to deal with it.
Once a thug, always a thug.
logis on September 25, 2009 at 1:19 AM
Hahahahahaha. You think Team Obama want this story to linger for months in the headlines as people are deposed, and motions for discovery are filed? You think the community organizer and chief wants people reminded that that was his one gig…his one trick pony before elbowing his way into politics?
Keep dreaming.
Breitbart and every taxpaying American should be pleased. You must stand up to bullies otherwise they continue to shakedown the very people that pay their freight.
R Square on September 25, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Good will win the day
Zetterson on September 25, 2009 at 1:45 AM
Where is the 10k or 20 donation from O’Reilly or Hannity?
Savage puts his money where his mouth is
Ugly on September 25, 2009 at 1:46 AM
If they can get it declared a SLAPP, they’ll take attorney’s fees from ACORN. If they’re righteous, at that point they’ll refund everyone’s contributions to the fund. Maybe even with a little interest, but I doubt that it can earn much in a demand account. The interest might be enough to cover the expenses of the fund’s own internal accounting, though.
Either that or commission Hannah and James action figures to be given to the contributors.
The Monster on September 25, 2009 at 1:48 AM
Having them on camera doesn’t help
Ugly on September 25, 2009 at 1:49 AM
I would take time off work to watch this trial…I would volunteer to help out but I am not an expert in the field or particularly famous so I doubt my offer would be accepted – so I shall watch and cheer the good guys.
HawaiiLwyr on September 25, 2009 at 1:50 AM
Where did O’Reilly get that picture of Hannah? If he needed pictures, AP has tons on his computer!
Advocate For Change on September 25, 2009 at 1:58 AM
wow..this turd is looking incredibly desperate tonight. What maroon.
hey troll…I waveth my private parts in your general direction!
Bwahahahahhahahahhaha.
Fighton03 on September 25, 2009 at 2:03 AM
Me, too. I was more than urged to watch him by my son. I think he gets way too emotional for my tastes. I’ve given up entirely on O’Reilly (after his interview with Obama), stick to Special Report nowadays, especially since Krauthammer has crossed the line from finding Obama supremely intelligent, to the dirt-bag idiot that he really is. Anyway, back to Beck, I totally stand and applaud at his superb, sneaky re-coil from the left on the subject on Acorn. Maybe, after all, it was as simple as that and I just
didn’t understand.
betsyz on September 25, 2009 at 2:16 AM
I don’t think so. He’s been gone far too long and all of a sudden crops up. Is he really a paid troll? Did the Feds
extend the troll comp., like unemployment benefits? I thought he was gone, but no. Who in the hell would keep going to the site where they are going to get beaten up and tromped by superior minds (not mine, others). What sort moron would do such a thing, especially when they offer only pudding remarks as some response. A paid troll????
betsyz on September 25, 2009 at 2:24 AM
I thought Democrats and the press loved whistleblowers.
drjohn on September 25, 2009 at 7:09 AM
These two youngsters are simply racist. In the white SB lady’s case, they’re methheadaphobic.
Jeff from WI on September 25, 2009 at 7:23 AM
What’s the difference between Trial Lawyers and a bunch of Vultures picking the bones of a dead and rotting carcass?
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Nothing.
(Hey Afrolib, let me know if I need to explain this metaphor to ya.)
BigAlSouth on September 25, 2009 at 7:28 AM
AfroLib is simply precious, an early morning giggle while I drink my coffee. It’s always good to begin the day with a smile on your face. Kudos to you, AfroLib!
Red State State of Mind on September 25, 2009 at 7:47 AM
I suspect Afrokid is probably some skinny little white boy who likes loud rap music ’cause of the neato swear words. Could he be a crusty sock-puppet for Charles Johnson? His arguments are similarly robust.
trl on September 25, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Afrolib:
Put down the joint and crack pipe and take some slow deep breaths of fresh air to clear your mind. You just might see that the usurper Obama and his minions are all naked commies trying to destroy America.
If it comes to pass, your welfare check will bounce!
txdoc on September 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM
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Current events are proving you wrong–census dumping ACORN, the IRS dumping ACORN and IRS IG now investigating ACORN, and other authorities jumping in. ACORN is important short term and long term because it completely undermines our American way of life. It’s a cancer; indeed, it’s a plague.
Beyond all that, I thought Obama’s administration could do more than one thing.
BuckeyeSam on September 25, 2009 at 8:15 AM
ACORN is going to quietly drop this suit in the next weeks or months. They’re like a one legged man in a butt kicking contest on this one. The result will quicken the revelation of all the intertwining corrupt and fraudulent tentacles it has with union thugs (SIEU) and other front organizations associated with voter fraud and intimidtion and vote stealing. Why invite all this when they should be on their knees in front of the democrat socialist fellow travelers begging for some way out of all this (with funding intact, of course)?
kens on September 25, 2009 at 8:56 AM
http://finance.senate.gov/press/Gpress/2009/prg092409d.pdf
Folks, Chuck Grassley’s office released this document above, a report into ACORN. It appears to RIP into the corrupt funneling of money into ACORN from at least 10 tax exempt organizations.
Chuck Grassley is bringing out the boom stick on these guys.
Check it.
ted c on September 25, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Are the American taxpayers paying for ACORN to sue?
Where is the money coming from to hire lawyers for ACORN.
nondhimmie on September 25, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Afrolib is Obama himself.
Jeff from WI on September 25, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Translation: “Uh oh, all this socialist sh*t we’re slinging isn’t distracting from our corruption enough!”
SirGawain on September 25, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Doesn’t that make Obama weak for pandering to a mere 20%? I bet people like you aren’t happy about it. Heh heh heh.
SirGawain on September 25, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Afrolib I have a question for you and how do you think that Obama can make communism work here in the USA when Brezhnev and Gorbachov could not make it work in the old USSR? Likewise Castro can’t keep the shelves full in Cuba either and he has had since 1959 to do so? Also why is it that none of these communist states have an immigration problem problem that they have here. I would love to hear your answers.
garydt on September 25, 2009 at 9:49 AM
I’m all for what they did, but please, spare me the “poor little twenty-year-old” nonsense. Makes us sound like the libs.
The Zoo Keeper on September 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM
ACORN is officially under the bus! Oh this is just so sweet.
Sharke on September 25, 2009 at 10:26 AM
Just think: It was only a few short months ago that these moonbats were CRAZY about Barak Obama.
Now they say they couldn’t care less about him. It’s a fickle bunch.
logis on September 25, 2009 at 10:36 AM
afrolib—-pahleeeeeeeeeeeze!
i know your head cant be that far up your butt!
somebody send this man a glass naval so he can see!!
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on September 25, 2009 at 11:55 AM
Be nice everyone, Afrolib just spit up on his bib!
inevitable on September 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM
This is actually a FANTASTIC thing for those who despise ACORN. By the time the lawyers get done crawling up the proverbial arse of this particular monster, the dirty little trails are gonna lead straight into the lap of their Golden God, Barack Obama.
I guarantee this will NOT make it beyond a few motions, not only because the whole thing is ridiculous, but also because the Obama Administration will not stand around and let the presidency of the First Black President (have to capitalize that, don’t you know…) be besmirched by the actions of some group of criminals and crooks. The problem is, I don’t see how this presidency can NOT be tarnished by this issue.
ACORN, after all, is a large part of how this man got elected. All these investigations into fraudulent voter registrations are, I’d be willing to bet, just the tip of the iceberg. I bet the margin by which this man won the election would be a WHOLE lot smaller should the bad registrations be thrown out. Why the hell do you think ol’ Harry “God you little people STINK” Reid is blocking investigations into ACORN?
I’m so happy to have finally found an issue upon which I feel completely free to point at libs and laugh about.
Mad Mad Monica on September 25, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Hey, thanks for the “heads up” there, sport, but we are already holding our sides, laughing as we listen with disbelief to the “advice” all those idiots at ACORN were offering these kids.
Gee, 20% of the “populace” is now following HotAir? Neat!
Uhhh . . . source?
Oh, just so you know . . . we’re not worried about Obama taking away our America! It won’t happen, friend. He and his little street troop of ACORNites and SEIUettes, the ones who he used to train in the Alinsky methods, and stupidly give him money, are now being fully exposed for exactly what they are, and stripped of their resources.
Trochilus on September 25, 2009 at 2:12 PM
I’m not a lawyer, but I was just wondering…
Doesn’t ACORNs lawsuit open them up to DISCOVERY… and couldn’t this be a really, really, REALLY big mistake for them?
Just wondering…
dominigan on September 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM
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