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Rachel Maddow: New Lawsuit Means ACORN May Get The Last Laugh

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Considering her tenacious coverage of the subject it’s not surprising that Rachel Maddow jumped all over news that former ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera, depicted on the infamous and heavily edited tapes talking to James O’Keefe about how to orchestrate their human-trafficking scheme has filed a lawsuit against both O’Keefe and his partner Hannah Giles.

The lawsuit alleges that Giles and O’Keefe broke a California law “that prohibits recordings of confidential communications without the consent of all the participants.” Vera is reportedly suing for at least $75,000.

Says Maddow: “Turns out, there may have been a scandal after all, just not the bogus one that Fox News and conservative activists promoted.” Watch below.

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  • Ninja

    Tell me again how giving the type of advice that the ACORN employees gave is not a scandal. A government funded organization giving tax advice about how to get tax deductions of 13 year old illegal immigrants is not a scandal? Really? Also, what is with the “heavily edited” comment? Apparently the author has not seen the entire tape was released.

  • TfT

    Poor Rachel – just more propaganda from the station that does it best.

    The only thing bogus here is Rachel’s statement that the ACORN scandal was bogus.

    MSNBC=meltdown

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Acorn did wrong and paid the price.

    If O’Keefe did wrong then he too must pay the price.

    Simple really.

  • ImNotBlue

    This is the same law that might get Mel Gibson off the hook.

    WTG Rachel! The champion of racist celebrities and human smugglers everywhere!

  • RTB

    Doesnt matter though, acorn was exposed, the damage has been done…even if this guy wins this lawsuit, whats maddow whoo hooing about? Insignificant.

  • sarainitaly

    ” depicted on the infamous and heavily edited tapes talking to James O’Keefe ”

    The ENTIRE transcripts have been available online since the videos came out. The videos were edited for length, but the entire tapes were transcribed and posted for all to see.

    Telling that Maddow supports the guy who offered to help smuggle girls in for prostitution, and not the people who exposed him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rose-Salomon/1077166392 Rose Salomon

    You right wing nuts are pathetic.. The guy was going along with these idiots to get information. He didn’t smuggle girls. You will defend these right wing nuts even though they are the ones that commited the crime. You people that defend these criminal is what is wrong with this country now.

  • BatBoy

    Rose….are your glasses “Rose Colored” also?

  • notsofast

    Now let’s go after Mel Gibson’s ex-girlfriend for breaking that law RM. I’m sure you want justice served, Rachel, don’t ya?

  • notsofast

    Rose Salomon said:
    You right wing nuts are pathetic.. The guy was going along with these idiots to get information. He didn’t smuggle girls. You will defend these right wing nuts even though they are the ones that commited the crime. You people that defend these criminal is what is wrong with this country now.

    That’s the funniest post of the day! ACORN was just conducting its own investigation!

    LOL

  • Ninja

    Rose Salomon said:
    You right wing nuts are pathetic.. The guy was going along with these idiots to get information. He didn’t smuggle girls. You will defend these right wing nuts even though they are the ones that commited the crime. You people that defend these criminal is what is wrong with this country now.

    No, it is people like you Rose that accept the behavior of the sickening individuals that worked at ACORN that is the problem with this country.

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Rose Salomon said:
    You right wing nuts are pathetic.. The guy was going along with these idiots to get information. He didn’t smuggle girls. You will defend these right wing nuts even though they are the ones that commited the crime. You people that defend these criminal is what is wrong with this country now.

    LOL!

    Oh, it was actually an ACORN plot to trap the investigative reporters!?
    What color is the sun in your world Rose – I’m sick & tired of the LIES & SPIN of the Left!

    WE SAW & HEARD WHAT WENT DOWN – ACORN IS OVER!

    Next up is the race-baiting Marxist naacp!

    Then the Left-Wing ACLU!!

    Anyone for Tea!!!!

  • mproust

    Glynnis and Rachel, Rachel and Glynnis… who the fuck cares? One would have to be a lib retard to watch screwball Maddow in the first place.

  • Scott_in_MI

    I just hope Ms. Maddow will report when the case is thrown out of court, but I suspect that it’ll be ignored like when O’Keefe was slapped on the wrist for his wire-tapping “crime.”

    (O’Keefe was given a 3 yr probation for entering a government office under false pretenses- a misdemeanor.)

  • writer

    In other words, Vera can’t dispute what he said on the tape, but only that he was ‘illegally’ taped. Maddow takes the far left approach that the two are mutually exclusive. If O’Keefe did anything wrong, that means Acorn must be totally innocent.

  • The Real Royal King

    One of the great pleasures in life is reading the righties defending the convict O’Keefe. Just see above. “If O’Keefe did anything wrong ….” If? He was charged, indicted, pled out and is on probation. If? Hahahahahahahahaha!

  • Ninja

    Yet you still see nothing wrong with what obamACORN did? Wow, says all I need to know about you.

  • notsofast

    The Real Royal King said:
    One of the great pleasures in life is reading the righties defending the convict O’Keefe. Just see above. “If O’Keefe did anything wrong ….” If? He was charged, indicted, pled out and is on probation. If? Hahahahahahahahaha!

    Reminds me of Al Gore’s son.

  • writer

    Royal King, are you aware that it was a jailhouse snitch that broke open the Charles Manson case? So according to you, since this information came from a shady person, it should have been ignored.

  • Sue

    I have only one question for people like Maddow and her ilk,
    where did you go to school to have your brain rewired?

  • BatBoy

    notsofast

    The Real Royal King said:
    One of the great pleasures in life is reading the righties defending the convict O’Keefe. Just see above. “If O’Keefe did anything wrong ….” If? He was charged, indicted, pled out and is on probation. If? Hahahahahahahahaha!

    Reminds me of Al Gore’s son.

    IT REMINDS ME OF AL GORE

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dan-Scerpella/1022068347 Dan Scerpella

    @sarainitaly thank you! The most prominently used meme in this is “heavily edited”. As I was formulating my comment I saw you have essentially written what I would have wrote.

    @Scott_in_MI you play their game when you use their lexicon. O Keefe was never charged with wire tapping nor was there any attempt or intent to wiretap. The presiding judge insisted on dispelling such notions in his written decision. They were charged and pled guilty to “entering a Federal facility on false pretenses.”

    O Keefe et al have done nothing different than what folks on 60 Minutes have used to become Democrat folk heroes over the past decades. Or for that matter the government as in the Abscam investigation. You pretend to be someone, dangle wrong doing in front of someone and see how they react to it. In ACORN’s case it became apparent to all save the willfully ignorant that endemically the organization was disturbingly comfortable with wrong doing and in many cases adept in it. Technically ACORN committed no crimes in O Keefe’s videos because he and Giles are not actually a pimp and prostitute. But it was clear that had they been ACORN would have been a willing partner in about a dozen different crimes.

    Vera has no choice if he wishes to have any professional life but to sue O Keefe and attempt to obscure the truth of what he did. As Sara has already mentioned the unedited truth was out there for everyone to see.

  • newzmaker

    MSNBC should be required to promote Maddow, as the left-wing activist that she actually is. Maddow has no respect for opinions, opposite her own. Apparently, Maddow doesn’t quite grasp the concept of free speech and differences of opinion. Maddow is part of the 20% fringe, with a huge chip on its shoulders. Maddow should use her platform, to defend her own radical views and opinions, and allow the fringe right to defend its own radical views and opinions. Most Americans have learned to [tolerate] Maddow and the fringe left, yet, the fringe left isn’t satisfied with finally achieving tolerance; most won’t be satified unless conformity to their views, becomes the norm. Newsflash for Maddow; 80% of the universe rejects her particular views. She is tolerated by society, yet, her views will never be the norm. Conformity didn’t work in Nazi Germany and surely won’t work in the US of A. Rant completed. LOL.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

    Vera called the cops as soon as the “PIMP” left……………he called the cops.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    notsofast said:
    That’s the funniest post of the day! ACORN was just conducting its own investigation!

    LOL

    So he called the cops afterwards reporting the situation to um…..get himself in trouble Nutso?

    Planet Wingnuttia…where logic and reality doesn’t mean a thing. Where can I get my one way ticket?

  • Founders_were_Liberal

    You right-wing nuts are laughable. Facts are stubborn things.
    Obama winning the white House so incensed the right-wing nuts, they went after an organization that has helped so many POOR people in the past.

    As happened in many more ACORN offices, these two wack jobs posing as a pimp and prostitute were thrown OUT.
    Juan Carlos Vera tried to be proactive and reported them to the police immediately after they left.

    What part of this don’t you nut jobs unnerstan?

  • yweston

    Poor “Righties”

    Must defend Faux for running their “Edited” tape provided by “right wing” so called film makers. Violating the “civil rights” of ACORN workers. ACORN was vindicated of all charges. Because…….drum roll “The Tape was Edited”. Just as Faux Edits everything to their own personal advantage.
    Now the two alledged “criminals” who unlawfully taped ACORN workers must face charges. Bet the “junta” Fox will pay their “Legal Fees”. Because they’re so “fair and balanced”. If they really were they would pay “ACORNS” legal fees.
    Fox caught in another lie and scandal. But….they did post somewhere buried in the Fox website that ACORN was vindicated. Guess they didn’t have any “high profile” talent available the way the did to “PusH” this bogus mess. Or they were too busy running the Panthers all weekend making sure the haters show up at Glenduh’s latest Pee Party in Washinton to sell books and his new university non credited “hate courses”. And…..whoooooo…the M00siah is going to show up to collect her fee sell her book of “Fiction” and scare Grandma again into voting for the NO ideas Rethugs.
    (Tea Hee) Go ACORN sue those fake filmaker “CRIMINALS”.

  • The Real Royal King

    writer said:
    Royal King, are you aware that it was a jailhouse snitch that broke open the Charles Manson case? So according to you, since this information came from a shady person, it should have been ignored.

    Well I agree with you that O’Keefe is a sleazy little creep, I have to take exception of your comparing him to Manson.

  • notsofast

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    So he called the cops afterwards reporting the situation to um…..get himself in trouble Nutso?

    Planet Wingnuttia…where logic and reality doesn’t mean a thing. Where can I get my one way ticket?

    Yep!

    Sure, whatever ya say, libby boy!

  • Ninja

    How exactly was obamACORN vindicated yweston? Was it after all of their federal funding was taken away? Was is after they had to close all of their offices? Good riddance to a corrupt organization that was a drain on taxpayer money!

  • notsofast

    Yes, RM, “big news” that not one other news outlet felt was important enough to report!

    LOL

  • notsofast

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Where can I get my one way ticket?

    Child, you used your ticket a long time ago.

  • writer

    So why did congress vote against funding Acorn if there was nothing illegal going on? And on those videos where the women went on at length in advising how to skirt the law, we’re to believe it was all edited? And yweston, it’s funny you refer to people who might show up at Beck’s rally as ‘haters’, while not mentioning the panther who said he wants to kill white babies. I guess you think that when he said he wants to kill babies, he meant it in a good way.

  • yweston

    Is the DOJ going to prosecute the “film maker criminals” for violating the “civil rights” of the ACORN workers? Sue Baby Sue.

  • The Real Royal King

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    So he called the cops afterwards reporting the situation to um…..get himself in trouble Nutso?

    Planet Wingnuttia…where logic and reality doesn’t mean a thing. Where can I get my one way ticket?

    I never thought of it in those terms. Maybe, O’Keefe is more confused than I thought.

  • The Real Royal King

    writer said:
    So why did congress vote against funding Acorn if there was nothing illegal going on? And on those videos where the women went on at length in advising how to skirt the law, we’re to believe it was all edited? And yweston, it’s funny you refer to people who might show up at Beck’s rally as ‘haters’, while not mentioning the panther who said he wants to kill white babies. I guess you think that when he said he wants to kill babies, he meant it in a good way.

    You certainly have a higher opinion of Congress than I do.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    notsofast said:
    Child, you used your ticket a long time ago.

    Obviously not Nutso. As you and your ilk have proven here time after time you have a giant flag on that planet pal.

  • writer

    The left still insists it’s mutually exclusive. If O’Keefe illegally taped someone, then what’s on the tape must be false. It doesn’t work that way in real life. As in the Manson case, sometimes even the jailhouse snitch is providing true information.

  • yweston

    Ninja says”

    ObamaAcorn. I’d rather be an “vindicated” ObamaAcorn than a convicted felon like Mamma Grizzley’s Fox “so called” filmakers.

    Zing: O’Keefe was slapped on the wrist for his wire-tapping “crime.”

    (O’Keefe was given a 3 yr probation for entering a government office under false pretenses- a misdemeanor

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    writer said:
    So why did congress vote against funding Acorn if there was nothing illegal going on? And on those videos where the women went on at length in advising how to skirt the law, we’re to believe it was all edited? And yweston, it’s funny you refer to people who might show up at Beck’s rally as ‘haters’, while not mentioning the panther who said he wants to kill white babies. I guess you think that when he said he wants to kill babies, he meant it in a good way.

    Well I’m guessing it was because you right loons pushed and pushed the vote it before any of the facts came out. Now that it’s been investigated it’s been shown that it’s a steaming pile of shit like everything Breitbart does.

  • Ninja

    Exactly which of their civil rights were violated? Someone posting here does not have a legal background I see.

  • yweston

    Here’s another “tidbit” about your so called unpartial hacks: Jerome Corsi author of the “hit job” Obamination and frequent Sean Hannity “guest” was CONVICTED of child pronography in Ohio in 2003.

  • yweston

    Jackie:

    Don’t hit them too hard with facts. Their “Heads” will EXplode.

  • Doughboy

    I get that the state-run media(especially MSDNC) feels they must continue to carry the water for this administration and Congress. But do you really wanna tie yourselves to the likes of ACORN and the New Black Panther Party? Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are sinking and you wanna anchor yourselves to them?

  • yweston

    Wheeee!!! I’m getting all thumbs down. My “feelwings” are hurt.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    writer said:
    The left still insists it’s mutually exclusive. If O’Keefe illegally taped someone, then what’s on the tape must be false. It doesn’t work that way in real life. As in the Manson case, sometimes even the jailhouse snitch is providing true information.

    We’re not saying it’s false because it was an illegal taping. It’s false because it was edited to high hell and it’s turning out all of the claims the weasel made are untrue.

  • writer

    Yeah, yweston. And Ted Kennedy drowned a woman. What’s your point?

  • Ninja

    yweston said:
    Ninja says” ObamaAcorn. I’d rather be an “vindicated” ObamaAcorn than a convicted felon like Mamma Grizzley’s Fox “so called” filmakers. Zing: O’Keefe was slapped on the wrist for his wire-tapping “crime.” (O’Keefe was given a 3 yr probation for entering a government office under false pretenses- a misdemeanor

    Tell me again how that vindicates ObamACORN. The case you reference was in fact due to Okeefs involvement with Mary Landrieu and had nothing to do with obamACORN or wiretapping. Stop reading talking points from others and try to formulate an opinion of your own fi you ever want to be taken seriously.

  • notsofast

    yweston said:
    Jackie:

    Don’t hit them too hard with facts. Their “Heads” will EXplode.

    says the idiot racist.

  • yweston

    Hey Doughboy

    And Fox Entertainment feels they must carry the “CHIT” for the Rethugs.

  • notsofast

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    We’re not saying it’s false because it was an illegal taping. It’s false because it was edited to high hell and it’s turning out all of the claims the weasel made are untrue.

    Prove it, dbag!

  • notsofast

    ACORN and SEIU- the leaders of the Democrat party!

  • writer

    In a couple of the videos, the women went on at length. That was all editing? Since congress dropped Acorn’s funding, that seems to indicate that Acorn wasn’t pure as the driven snow.

  • notsofast

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Obviously not Nutso. As you and your ilk have proven here time after time you have a giant flag on that planet pal.

    Still ya got zero- try harder libby!

  • yweston

    Sorry Phil Specter:

    But that Fox Entertainment turn around B.S. about Blacks being racist don’t mean a thing to me. My neighbors are white folks and I love them and they love me. And they tell me everyday that you guys are Racist and plenty of whit people don’t agree with you racist.

    But a big thumbs down for YOuuuuuui~!! (Tea Hee)

  • Ninja

    notsofast said:
    Prove it, dbag!

    The left refuses to accept the fact that the full tape was available the same day the editited piece was. The only editing done was for time constraints not for content. Bottom line is this ACORN is no more and the taxpayers should all rejoice!

  • yweston

    Sorry Ninja:

    Did I misquote you. O’Keefe’s criminal charges weren’t for breaking the law against ACORN. His criminal charges were for breaking another LAW.

    Sorrr – Weeee!!

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    notsofast said:
    Prove it, dbag!

    http://ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/release.php?id=1888&

    Wow that took all of 2 seconds nutso….

  • notsofast

    yweston said:
    Sorry Phil Specter:

    But that Fox Entertainment turn around B.S. about Blacks being racist don’t mean a thing to me. My neighbors are white folks and I love them and they love me. And they tell me everyday that you guys are Racist and plenty of whit people don’t agree with you racist.

    But a big thumbs down for YOuuuuuui~!! (Tea Hee)

    Yes, I’m sure you love your “cracker” neighbors.

    man, you sure must of had a bowl of stupid for breakfast, girl.

  • writer

    Yes, yweston. We can tell from the tone of your posts just how much you love white people.

  • notsofast

    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Wow that took all of 2 seconds nutso…

    Stop quoting your wife!

  • yweston

    Yo Ninja!!

    Oooooh! the taxpayers should all rejoice because “criminals” violated the LAW to bring down ACORN. Was that a “GOTCHA” comment?

  • Ninja

    yweston said:
    Sorry Ninja: Did I misquote you. O’Keefe’s criminal charges weren’t for breaking the law against ACORN. His criminal charges were for breaking another LAW. Sorrr – Weeee!!

    I will ask you again, please explain to me how that “vindicates” acorn.

  • yweston

    Writer says:

    “Yes, yweston. We can tell from the tone of your posts just how much you love white people.”

    And they love me. Just NOT the hateful racist.

  • notsofast

    Sorry libs- ACORN was cracked- Get over it!

  • yweston

    Ninja:

    Please explain to me how an “edited” tape proved they were guilty. They were “vindicated”. That’s a fact. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t change a thing. If they’re sooooo…guilty and Fox wasn’t hyping this crap why isn’t someone in jail.

    Oooohhhh!! I know because the Obama “junta” DOJ biased “lamestream” media will not prosecute then.

    This is the NPR story. So you can’t say it’s from a biased site.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122275494

  • notsofast

    yweston said:
    This is the NPR story. So you can’t say it’s from a biased site.

    LMFAO!

    You are joking , right? That was indeed funny! NPR an unbiased site!

  • yweston

    Sorry Phil:

    Rachel BUSTED YOUR a$$e$ and your Faux trumped up story. They were vindicated. But we all knew it was some more “Faux crap”. Too Bad. Maybe the Panther B.S. will work out for ya though!! And Glenduh will be holding his Aug 28. whatever B.S. he’s calling it ‘Hatefest’ to rile you up to vote for the No ideas Rethugs. So don’t worry you get to continue to be and Angry man.

    Here’s the story again.

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122275494

    BTW don’t they have barbers in the Hoose Gow!! You need a TRIM!!

  • MichelleF

    notsofast says:
    July 13, 2010 at 2:03 pm notsofast(Quote)
    1 0
    Jackie_Treehorn said:
    Wow that took all of 2 seconds nutso…

    Stop quoting your wife!

    To quote Larry the Cable Guy, “I don’t care who you are, that’s funny!”

  • Bunny

    If the creator of the videos broke the law, he should pay accordingly. Still, that pales in comparison to the corruption within that rotten ACORN organization.

    I’d far rather be remembered as one who made an illegal recording to expose corruption than the actual corrupt person/organization exposed. Not sure how Rachel figures ACORN could get the last laugh here. They’re still corrupt as hell, regardless (and going waaaaaay back, too…not just in the recent videos).

  • notsofast

    notsofast said:
    Rachel BUSTED YOUR a$$e$ and your Faux trumped up story.

    She has busted zero, girl.

    Try again!

    yweston said:
    So don’t worry you get to continue to be and Angry man.

    You are projecting again!

  • writer

    So Fox shows a black panther ranting that he wants to kill white babies, and yweston considers it ‘Fox B.S.’ No problem with the guy doing the ranting. Just Fox showing it.

  • yweston

    notsofast

    Why are you calling “white people crackers”? Are you “racist” against you own RACE. I love them. You’re calling them names. And…trying to put a racist tag on me. I repeat I LOVE my white neighbors. You on the other hand are calling them “Crackers”. What kind of crap is that?

  • Ninja

    First of all, NPR is a highly partisan organization. Second, do you understand that no one has implicated an any way that a criminal or civil offense has occurred so I’m not sure how you would expect that to be prosecuted. The jest of this entire episode is that a corrupt organization was exposed and is no longer leaching off of the taxpayer dollars. It is a wonderful day that the organization once known as acorn is no longer in existence stealing my money!

    If you really are dense enough to believe that the uneditied tapes have been released….here are plenty of examples.

    http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=unedited+acorn+video&aq=f&aqi=g1g-sx1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=CBQ-ynq08TIPqGIKyNre1-K4JAAAAqgQFT9DQXTo&fp=cce64345c6bae16e

  • notsofast

    yweston said:
    And Glenduh will be holding his Aug 28. whatever B.S. he’s calling it ‘Hatefest’

    LOL

    If ya disagree with libs, it’s hate, it’s racism!

    Do ya love this country or not?

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • yweston

    notsofast
    She Busted your “Media God” Faux a$$e$. But you still have those (3) pathetic Panthers from H#LL.

  • MichelleF

    Yweston, you are one of the most angry people I have ever come across. You should seek help for that before it destroys your life.

  • Ninja

    yweston said:
    notsofast Why are you calling “white people crackers”? Are you “racist” against you own RACE. I love them. You’re calling them names. And…trying to put a racist tag on me. I repeat I LOVE my white neighbors. You on the other hand are calling them “Crackers”. What kind of crap is that?

    Really ashame you can’t see all of your neighbors as just people. Instead angry libs like you make the distinction between white, black or hispanic neighbors. Tsk Tsk.

  • yweston

    notsofast

    Look a few quotes up you called me a “racist”. And you’re the one calling my “white neighbors” whom I love CRACKERS.

    I don’t have problem with you guys or your Pee Party, Glenduh, Faux or whooooo…..the Big Bad hiding behind conservative media, FB and Twitter Moosiah.

    You on the other hand thinks my neighbors are ‘Crackers’. I’m offended by your racist rant against your OWN race. Shame, shame, shame on you.

  • notsofast
  • notsofast

    yweston said:
    Look a few quotes up you called me a “racist”. And you’re the one calling my “white neighbors” whom I love CRACKERS.

    I don’t have problem with you guys or your Pee Party, Glenduh, Faux or whooooo…..the Big Bad hiding behind conservative media, FB and Twitter Moosiah.

    You on the other hand thinks my neighbors are ‘Crackers’.

    No, no, no- I’m quoting what your friends call whites, child.

  • Ination

    notsofast said:
    LOL
    If ya disagree with libs, it’s hate, it’s racism!
    Do ya love this country or not?
    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    How old are you?

  • yweston

    (Tea Hee), I’m outta here.

    Thank you RACHEL.

  • notsofast

    Ination said:
    How old are you?

    A hell of a lot older than you, dbag.

  • notsofast

    yweston said:
    (Tea Hee), I’m outta here.

    Thank you RACHEL.

    Her face or yours, yweston?

  • Ination

    notsofast said:
    A hell of a lot older than you, dbag.

    How old is that?

  • writer

    Jackie, since we have a Democrat controlled congress, just how was it that the right pushed through the decision to stop funding Acorn?

  • Bunny

    Hi, yweston, don’t you recognize that hair? You might be a lot younger than some of us. It’s Phil Spector from his murder trial.

    I guess I’m either a conservative liberal or a liberal conservative, depending on the issue. I’m not entrenched in the ideology of either party and have no problem calling corruption wherever I see it. Plenty in both parties. Believe it or not, someone can believe something is wrong because it just IS…not everyone has a party-line agenda in condemning wrong.

    ACORN is just plain rotten, more so within the upper levels than with the workaday folks who are probably doing what they’ve been told or shown to do. I don’t know why you would claim ACORN was vindicated. Not prosecuted is not the same thing as being declared “innocent” of corruption or wrongdoing — never has been. You should keep in mind there are examples that you probably wouldn’t care to embrace (but would have to) if the assertion is not prosecuted = vindicated.

    By the way, NPR is definitely a liberal bastion. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is, and unbiased it isn’t.

  • murphy0071

    Fox News is desperate for news to put Obama and the Democrats in a bad light. This ACORN attack was vile and obviously part of illegal activity supported by FOX. Listen to Hannity’s lack of honesty by using selected parts of the tape. A typical FOX news reporting tactic. I hope that Vera also sues ACORN for employment discrimination and that ACORN, if found guilty, sues FOX to recoup any money they loose. Conservatives are dogs. Don’t sleep with them you will get fleas.

  • writer

    And since the other networks refused to even cover the story for weeks, you consider that responsible journalism?

  • newzmaker

    Native Americans have been mistreated more than any ethnicity, in these United States, and still are. Besides, we are all parked on their land, uninvited, I might add. No one has the right to complain, more than Native Americans. Everyone else needs to go to the back of the line, with all the whining and constant complaining. Need a reminder?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUuG1Ge8MTU

  • notsofast

    murphy0071 said:
    Fox News is desperate for news to put Obama and the Democrats in a bad light.

    Barry has done that quite well on his own.

  • CosmosDan

    Right wing or left wing aside, Don’t we have some concern for the truth? What Maddow showed was that OKeefe edited the videos purposely to present those people in dishonest way. Do we reward that kind of dishonesty and eat it up because it agrees with our preconcieved notion of who the bad guys are?
    Whether someone leans left or right we ought to have some concern or respect for honesty.

  • Ninja

    A very good point Dan, which is why I posted the google results page for the unedited version of the tapes. They have always been available and easily accesible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    ACORN was exposed. The socialist Obama has been exposed. The results are coming soon.

    California Democratic senator Barbara boxer is trailing Republican challenger Carly Fiorina by 2 points–47% to 45%–in a new SurveyUSA poll of likely voters released this evening. Fiorina has been closing in on Boxer–cutting the Democrat’s lead from six, to five, to four, to three points in the last four polls–but this is the first public poll showing Fiorina in the lead.
    The same SurveyUSA poll shows Republican Meg Whitman leading Democrat Jerry Brown 46% to 39% in the California gubernatorial race.

  • felixw

    Yawn, Rachel returns to her tired James O’Keefe rant. Remember when she promised that O’Keefe was behind the new Watergate. Certainly you must remember — the big bugging scandal. Except that there was no bugging, no bugging equipment, no phone tampering, and no one that knew anything about bugging on the premises.

    I haven’t heard Maddow, or her fellow travelers at MSNBC, give much coverage to that story lately. Yet at the time they gave it wall-to-wall coverage every night of the week. Maybe a retraction would be in order, Rachel, before you launch more smears against O’Keefe.

  • shootfromthehip

    “Except that there was no bugging, no bugging equipment, no phone tampering, and no one that knew anything about bugging on the premises. ”

    We don’t know if that is true or not.

    We have no idea what deals were cut with the Federal Prosecutors.

  • shootfromthehip

    The original indictment hints that there was indeed something akin to bugging or at the very least filming and acting under false pretenses.

    Keep in mind, O’Keefe had the best lawyer right wing billionaires could buy, and family connects to get him off the biggest charges.

  • felixw

    Shootfromthehip, you are totally wrong on this. All bugging charges were dropped long ago. Of course, if you watch MSNBC, you can be forgiven for not knowing that. They only cover stories that fit their pre-determined agenda.

  • http://www.heartland.org/environmentandclimate-news.org/ClimateConference4 Just Tex

    Poor Rachel. She’s confusing the chickens with the eggs. Again.

  • Latin2

    Mr. Vera’s ACORN office wanted to be a partner with O’Keefe in his “pimp service”.

    Bring it on and expose more of ACORN and Mr. Vera.

  • RTB

    Idk what’s more commical, maddow or the fox haters dreaming up all these conspiracies/scandals on this thread…
    If fox is such a corrupt/ racist news organization why do they continue to kick everyones ass in ratings every week? I know, i know all the fox viewers are racists and are kool aid drinkers consuming the fox rheterioc and dont know wtf is going on so instead should just start watching rachael maddow instead right haters? Circle the wagons..

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