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Fox News Reports That Former ACORN Officials Are Playing Key Roles In OWS

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On Wednesday’s America Live with Megyn Kelly, Eric Shawn reported a Fox News exclusive that “former ACORN officials are now playing key roles behind the Occupy Wall Street movement, in part planning related demonstrations and strategy.” Kelly added that the former ACORN office in Brooklyn, is now the headquarters for a group called New York Communities for Change and its executive director, John Kest, is a former ACORN official and wrote on the organization’s blog that “the levels of inequity in this country and in New York especially are out of hand, and no one knows that more than the working families that make up the members of New York Communities for Change.”

Shawn further noted that the group received “solicited donations for a teachers’ union project, but some of that money allegedly went to help the protesters.”

“The union, United Federation Of Teachers, says the group did not raise funds for its project, and all repeated requests for a comment from the New York Communities for Change have so far gone unanswered. Well, an Occupy Wall Street spokesman did tell us, quote, ‘he has no understanding if former ACORN officials are involved in their movement,’ and he called such claims, quote, ‘unsubstantiated accusations,’” he reported. Kelly directed viewers to read the article on FoxNews.com, a report written by Jana Winter.

The Nation‘s Greg Mitchell earlier reacted to Fox News’s report by saying, “We’ve joked about this claim arriving some day and now that day has arrived!”

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  • wawoo

    Oh noooooooooooooooo! Conservative hell may be coming to pass!Wait, what was the source?Oh, Fauex News, Fairly Unbalanced.

  • Michelle

    The Nation‘s Greg Mitchell earlier reacted to Fox News’s report by saying, “We’ve joked about this claim arriving some day and now that day has arrived!”

    And yet he couldn’t deny it.  Is anyone really surprised by this?  This leads all the way to the Oval Office.  It aligns nicely with Barry’s class war and the protesters aren’t bright enough to realize he’s part of the problem and the biggest recipient of Wall Street cash in 20 years. 

    Hey Barry, are you ever going to condemn the anti-semitism and violence happening at your rallies?

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     I’m not sure who is surprised by this. With so may people or groups present, and so little organization, literally any group could be present and raising funds, and/or community organizing.

  • Anonymous

    Moved.

  • Anonymous

    Which is why I feel bad for the legitimate people that unknowingly give
    their money (which I assume they don’t have much of) to such causes.

  • wawoo

    ACORN actually worked for the benefit of poor folk. That really makes the prospect of people that were involve with them very, very scary. They had far less legal issues than say the Catholic Church.

  • Concerned Citizen

    This is all the doing of the White House whether directly or indirectly. Obama has been campaigning forever it seems and his class warfare message is the 1% must give their money to the 99%. The 99% OWS movement is directly from their message. This is the liberal and democrats baby and hopefully won’t begin the start of violence all over the country as we’re seeing in Oakland (which the media isnt reporting on).

  • Anonymous

    “You Will Suffer a Wrath More Hellacious Than Satan Himself” http://minx.cc/?post=323056

    Occupier geek threatens to handcuff the police single-handedly. With one pair of handcuffs. Funny stuff.

    http://www.therightscoop.com/glenn-beck-on-creepy-youtube-guy-threatening-to-arrest-oakland-cops-with-one-pair-of-handcuffs/

  • Anonymous

    So now you admit that OWS is an astroturf movement. Good to know.

  • Anonymous

    They’ve done more for the Democrat party than they’ve ever done for poor folk. That’s a fact.

  • SammyC

    IT’S WORKING! IT’S WORKING! Fox is trying to tie Acorn and OWS together! HAHAHA

  • Michelle

    The media has been absolutely shameful, but let’s face it, it’s expected by now.  They spent days on end talking about a sign at a TP rally, but won’t report on the violence, rape, drug dealing, anti-semitism, etc, happening at OWS.  Every Republican in office was pressed to disavow anything questionable that happened at the TP rallies (which let’s face it, was nothing compared to what we are seeing with OWS), yet Barry and Nance, who have embraced OWS haven’t been asked to comment on the vileness going on. 

  • Anonymous

    So once again, the cable news network that gets all the viewers reports the facts about ACORN involvement, the nation laughs at it.

    I wonder what CNN and MSNBC will say, well…and abccbsnbcnytemesetc.

  • http://www.crowdedwayoflife.com A.W. Moll

    So, officials from ACORN ( a community organizing group) are involved in organizing communities. How is this news?

  • Anonymous

    maybe it’s just that many poor folk are democrats?

  • http://www.storminsmorningjava.blogspot.com/ stormin1961

    so ACORN is setting up brothel tents.

  • Anonymous

    It’s no longer a group of concerned citizens, but an astroturf movement. That’s the news.

  • Anonymous

    How does voter fraud help the poor?

  • Anonymous

    Here comes that silly Acorn again,
    Still reeling from the O’Keefe win,
    A name change won’t cut it,
    There’s no doubt about it,
    Advocating child prostitution is surely a sin.

  • Guest

    Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said there was one OWS protester walking around at night in the park with an assault rifle…wow…things must be getting heated up…In Oakland they’ve had to use tear gas…wow…what’s going on?…thought these were supposed to be peaceful protesters…

  • Michelle

    It helps keep the Dems in office and the handouts flowing. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     When you have groups as nasty as the American Nazi Party trying to set up shop, perhaps a bit of “self-policing” is in order. Those people legitimately there to try to work out a change are going to get fleeced. Or fleas. And way too much of those honest donations are going straight into the pocketbooks well financed groups (Acorn as an example) which have set less than a sterling example. Innocence is the first casualty, I suppose.

  • Anonymous

    Wow…I am shocked Faux Noose found a link between a rightwing boogieman and OWS. Shocked…..I tell you!

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Acorn actually worked to benefit itself, and if it could line more pigs up at its trough, the better. Acorn was found lacking in oversight, and its behavior, while working for the supposed benefit of the poor was reprehensible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Acorn actually worked to benefit itself, and if it could line more pigs up at its trough, the better. Acorn was found lacking in oversight, and its behavior, while working for the supposed benefit of the poor was reprehensible.

  • Michelle

    Wow, I am shocked that your only response is to shoot the messenger.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     So there are no, absolutely no connections between Acorn and any OWS movement? And how would you know? There is no organization “there” so how could you know?

  • wawoo

    Actually not, OWS appears to be organic and diffuse, representing metaphorically say, the economic and political dissatisfaction  of 99%. Community organizing is a good thing. Right of assembly, redress of grievances. Seem to recall those being mentioned somewhere besides Seinfeld and Festivus.

  • wawoo

    No, pay to play was made robust by the aptly named Newt and has been perfected by the current Republican Party and too many Dems. Pubs are really Koch suckers. No , really.

  • Anonymous

    Funnily enough, facts are facts. Care to argue the facts aren’t as reported?

  • Michelle

    Organic, HAHA!

    The Obama Media reports Van Jones
    has planned an October revolution calling it an “American Autumn.”
    Comparing his call to arms to the Arab Spring, Jones told Lawrence
    O’Donnell of MSNBC “hold onto your hats. We’re gonna have an October
    offensive to take back the American Dream and to rescue America’s middle
    class.”

    Beginning last June, Jones started ramping up his latest project aimed against the Tea Party and in true modern “professional revolutionary” fashion he organized from his desktop.

    Back
    in the 1990′s Jones was the leader and founder of the radical communist
    organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement
    (STORM). STORM disbanded in 2003, and by 2007 Jones repackaged himself
    when he joined the green movement. Looking more respectable, but still
    Marxist he went on to become Obama’s Green Jobs Czar until he resigned
    because people like Glenn Beck exposed him as a communist.

    On STORM’s manifesto:

    “We
    agreed with Lenin’s analysis of the state and the party,” read STORM’s
    manifesto. “And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies
    developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Zedong and Amilcar
    Cabral.”

  • wawoo

    The Boys and Girls Clubs where I live have had financial malfeasance as has the National United Way. And then there is the afore mentioned Catholic Church. All in theri own way far more serious than any allegation about ACORN, another primarily volunteer organization. 

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget, the 1% includes:

    -nearly ALL major league sports players and team owners
    -every hollywood degenerate tv or movie “star” – or even second and third-rate pathetic excuses for actors
    -fat-a$$ michael moore
    -all bundlers for the OBOZO campaigns
    -the majority of the current US Senate (more d-cRAT socialists than repubs)
    -every head of every union
    -every silicon valley ceo that supports d-cRAT socialism
    -most “talking heads” on the lamestream socialist fake-news broadcast media
    -every crony capitalist to the OBOZO-regime, with ge’s immelt at the top of this very long list
    -nearly all PEU members in the peoples republic of california, when all lifetime benefits and pensions are included
    -nearly everyone who has ever been a member of congress, when all lifetime benefits and pensions are included

    and many, many others with absolutely no connection to wall street or banking.

  • Anonymous

    The source is the “New York Communities for Change”, They endorse OWS on their website. You don’t have to be thaaat afraid of FOX News. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     If MSNBC had covered this, what would your opinion have been? Why should it matter what organization reports it..are you that biased that you must automatically resort to irrational labels to hide your discomfort? Analyze the data. If the data seems legit, what is your beef if its Fox News or CNN?

  • Anonymous

    the jealously and hate of the loony left comes out every time FOX reports on something that no other network will….The other networks are a lap dog of this administration and because FOX NEWS questions authority it must mean they are the bad guys….  The liberal left here are like the followers of the north Korean leader…”Whatever he says it must be true” …”dont question anything!” attack any opposition like Fox News!

  • SouthernYankee

    Well here is the thing.  So who cares if ACORN is behind the organizing communities.  That is the kind of community work they do.  Why do so many on the right get so pissed at the left when the legally organize themselves.  Just like your corporate run tea party with the Fox news arm of the republican party.  Why is the right soooooo afraid of the lefts organizing?  Get over it if it is true that ACORN is out there.

  • http://pbjlounge.tumblr.com Shane Michael Coffey

    Oh good lord…Fox News will eventually tie Acorn to the crucification of Jesus eventually. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Well DUH ! You thought they went away didn’t you ?  Within a week they reopened under many new names, covers and in all cities. You were so busy attacking the gotcha ambushing Britebart messenger few knew, fewer reported, and no one cared for the aftershock.  And you thought they simply went back in to their hole. How silly of you. Here’s Johnny !
    Now that Obama has it straight up it’s time to appoint an Occupy Czar.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s Obama talking about his extremely close ties to ACORN:
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/4028980/new-obama-acorn-tape-surfaces

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     One could call it modern day “tribalism” of a sort, where one group denigrates another based on nothing more than being “red” or “blue” while forgetting truth doesn’t care what source it uses.

  • Chucker

    How about this headline, just once; “Something is actually happening that makes liberals look bad and no other media outlet is reporting on it except Fox.”  Any headline on this site that starts with “Fox News Reports” is 95% likely to contain truth that no other major (CNN) or minor (MSNBC) media outlet will cover

  • Rufus Danegro

    Bwwhahaaahahhahahah-Why are you shocked? You do it all the time honeybunch!

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Only in the bubble of Fox News and low-IQ Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers the ACORN guys are seen as bad people.
     

  • Rufus Danegro

    Possibly one of the dumbest things this insipid Michelle has ever wrote. Good work, no really. 

  • Rufus Danegro

    Big words confuse WCinWI.

  • Rufus Danegro

    OWS people raped Newt Gingrich yesterday.

  • Anonymous

    Either it’s another O’Keefe speculation that gets blown out of proportion or this babe should go back to Legally Blonde. ;) 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    “Conservatives” making the claim that OWS is astroturf. Now, that’s rich.

  • Michelle

    Then why did the DEM Congress vote to defund them?

  • Anonymous

    Arrests at peaceful Occupy Wall Street events: 2,400 people

    Arrests at violent tea party events:   Zero

  • TruDat

    Misogynist.

  • TruDat

    Dang you with your facts and logic.

  • proud2tbagu

    Yes. It’s really just idiotic bull shit.

  • Anonymous

    I am shocked, just shocked that there is gambling going on here ! oops I mean x Acorn people are involved.
    Took Fox long enough to figure out that OWS is 100% genuine astroturf. OWS was always about providing a distraction from the Obama disaster and acting as a protest movement of, by and for the disenchanted far, far left and other members of the Obama crowd. 
    Think the 99% -1% came out of thin air ? It was focus group tested and packaged. But it still failed.
    OWS is dying…even the MSM will get bored with it – nothing new to report. 
    All you libs need to find the next protest movement, cause the 99% could care less.

  • TruDat

    Misogynist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Am I defending those organizations? They need to be punished. The Catholic Church has faced a series of massive fines and had to sell quite  a bit of property. 
     I don’t care if was the YMCA or the SPCA. So long as the perpetrators are behind bars; which is not what we see with Acorn. They simply changed names and went quietly back to work lining their pockets.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Since you asked…

    ACORN was shut down in the wake of the September 2009 release of selectively edited videos by two conservative activists using a hidden camera to elicit damaging responses from low-level ACORN employees that appeared to advise them how to hide prostitution activities and avoid taxes. A nationwide controversy immediately ensued resulting in a loss of funding from government and private donors.

    Following the publication of the videos, four different independent investigations by various state and city Attorneys General and the GAO released in 2009 and 2010 cleared ACORN, finding its employees had not engaged in criminal activities and that the organization had managed its federal funding appropriately, and calling the videos deceptively and selectively edited to present the workers in the worst possible light.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

    I have my doubts, that was done by some sandal wearing Italians with a penchant for loutish behavior. So is your assessment is that Fox is inaccurate? If you have reached this conclusion, why?

  • Rufus Danegro

    Sex card played! AWESOME JOB CONSERVATARD!

  • Rufus Danegro

     WELL DONE!

    LOL

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

    Where is your argument? You hurl an ad hominem attack, then offer no shred of evidence that Acorn is (a) good, or that
    (b) Fox news is wrong.
    Acorn was seen a s a”bad” organization by Reid and Pelosi, who cut ties with them, correct? Are either of those aforementioned politicians Republicans? So, at least we know you should be watching Fox and voting Republican, right? Acorn was found to have been involved with gathering over 1400 fraudulent voter registrations.
    http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2010/mar/obama-justice-department-shut-down-federal-acorn-investigation-according-documents-obt
    The link is to the justice department, not a video editing website.

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Wipe the froth off your face and read my response to Michelle. Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    Ah not at all!  “Au contraire [my dear Watson]!” ;)

  • TruDat

    I’ve learned well from you liberal loons.

  • wawoo

    There is no evidence of “lining of pockets’ by ACORN activists in general. I do not beleve any alumni of ACORN is a current member of Congress.

  • wawoo

    Did you make it to the bathroom in time?

  • NDanielson

    Liberals with no sense of reality. Now that’s typical.

  • Anonymous

    Truth be known, ows was first fabricated by the radical Obama admin!!! Via Van Jones and William Ayers!!

  • Rufus Danegro

     Not well enough untruscat!

  • PrezOworst

    well you bloathing idiots claim the Occupy filth are grass roots and not organized.  Another Lib lie.  Second money is being collected for one group and given to another.  Another Lib lie.  You people base everything on smok and mirrors and lies…filth.   Trying again to fool the American people (the masses) with your lies about your LIB agenda.  scum all of you.

  • Anonymous

    Dang you with your facts and logic.

  • Anonymous

    When ACORN was exposed as fraudulent , Obama was asked about it since he got his start as an agitator in Chicago with them . He ducked the question and would not comment . SEIU/Project Vote /ACORN are all crooked Democrat groups , stealing votes and dues from union members . This Occupy stuff goes right to Obama Campaign Headquarters ( formerly The White House).

  • PrezOworst

    NYCC is headquartered in the old Acorn office using their old letter head paper.  This isn’t hard to figure out but the trash LIBS scream about Fox instead of facing reality.  Typical.  Filth.

  • Levi

    Yea, it’s all a giant conspiracy to keep the poor poor conservatives down.

  • Bob

    Birtherism yesterday and ACORN today – sounds like FAUX is revisiting all their greatest hit, as far as overhyped nontroversies go.
    What’s next? Screaming about the Burlington Coat Factory Community Center/”Ground Zero Mosque” again?

  • PrezOworst

    except one tribe tends to wear the uniform and pay for everything.

  • Darladoon

    you mean the same ACORN that was:

    a) hastily and wrongly de-funded by congresson on false accusations

    b) hastily accused of wrongdoing by authoritarian, james o’keefe?

    oh no!

  • Michelle

    FACT:  The DEM Congress voted to defund them. 

  • Darladoon

    they weren’t exposed of anything!

    congress acted hastily…..and once the facts came in, well, you know the rest

  • PrezOworst

    Oh he is knee deep up to azz in this.  His stolen money trickles everywhere….everywhere it can do harm to the USA.

  • Bob

    There was no voter fraud – another rightwing myth.

  • Anonymous

    All of Obamas connects are rallying OWS protests to deflect and blame others for Obama’s horrible economy. Jones, ACORN buddies, NY Times reporter

  • Bob

    Wait a minute – I thought they were all Nazis. I haven’t had a chance to read this week’s nutty rightwing meme yet.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Read the link. Do not be such a knee-jerk defender of people who act fraudulently. Thanks. And, please, refrain from idiotic arguments. It saves us both time. If you want to claim the Acorn is manned by nothing but sainted individuals, that is your right. Do not expect everyone else to bow to your logic.

  • Michelle

    Occupy Oakland Sign: All My Heroes Kill Cops

  • Levi

    Once again you FOX clowns, the more you try to smear the movement the worse you make it for yourselves. This isn’t the Obama administration, just because you randomly tie ACORN to OWS doesn’t mean anybody is getting fired. There’s nobody to fire, FOX doesn’t understand that this is a GENUINE people movement and you can’t use the old tactics of smearing lies in hopes of scaring the opposition.

    Idiots, keep trying though, you’re just giving us more gasoline for the flame.

  • PrezOworst

    sadly all wrong. The shift money from charity to politics, employ street thugs to bully and worse fill the barely literate with a head full of trash. Catholic charities feed more people in a week then acorn did in a year.

  • Anonymous

    HAHA. The organizations OWN WEBSITE endorsed OWS. You really should stop obsessing over FOX News.

  • PrezOworst

    Rufus go sell your food coupons for 50% on the dollar.

  • Anonymous

    What is scary is we also have a president that feels more connected to these people then any other group. He praises Acorn and the Protesters as they crap on cop cars or rape and steal from others.

     He thinks this is the America we should be… I think all real democracts should run from him!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    So you concede that the Tea Party is astroturf. Right on!

  • NORBIT

    ACORN = MARXISTS = STEAL ELECTIONS = COUP ATTEMPT = COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS = UNION VIOLENCE = 2012 DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

    Send in the Clowns? – Don’t bother …THEY’RE HERE!

  • Anonymous

    When you have a massive protest movement with no real organization or organizers,only vague ideas of what they are protesting and large crowds,it opens the door for all sorts of “interests” to try to appropriate the movement for their own agendas.The left started doing that 3 seconds after the first protest.
     
    Acorn is sketchy as hell,lets face it,and it doesn’t surprise me that some version of it is trying to take advantage of OWS.Lets just hope the people of OWS see through it as they have with other “interests”.

  • NORBIT

    And they WILL try to STEAL the election next year – particularly with a RACE-BASED Department of “Justice”.

    Remember to send a Christmas card to the NRA; that’s the only thing between US & The Democratic Oppressors! 

  • Anonymous

    They can sell there laptops, cell phones and Ipads that I saw they all have!
     I bet that money could help buy them more toilet paper and rape whistles.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    Mrs. Angle, your “2nd Amendment remedies” have arrived. I’ll alert the staff…

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     There actually is evidence that “pocket lining” has been going on for fraudulent voter registration. Do you actually want the link, or just go to Justice Department investigates St Louis Acorn.
    As far as the second sentence, I don’t care if they are current members of the Salvation Army or the Senate. If they are defrauding people (and as such, voter fraud is defrauding) they need to be in jail.

  • NORBIT

    It’s a fight between evolution and devolution, Michelle.

    The barbarians are at the gate…and we can sum up all of their pernicious incarnations under the umbrella of one monicker - DEMOCRATS!

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

    All? No, probably no more than 5%. Still, the weasels need to be weeded out before they embaress the entire group though, correct?

  • NORBIT

    LMAO!
    (catch my breath)
    LMAO again!

    Yes, Darladoon…that’s what we mean!

    LMAO!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    Tea Party sign: Keep GOV’T out of my Medicare!

  • wawoo

    There was zero voter fraud associated with ACORN Actually, the St Louis issue was that ACORN turned voter registration into a throughly capitalist affair, piece work. Happens that paying to register voters is illegal in Missouri and several other states. Here in Florida, the Young Republicans were registering folks and then culling through them and tossing the Democratic Party choice registrations. Republicans have made voter suppression into an art form and ALEC has provided the legislative template to criminalize voter registration period.   

  • Anonymous

    Oh…you mean like you did YESTERDAY when I linked to SPLC showing the extent of rightwing hate groups in America? Do you even think before you respond? Guffaw.

  • Anonymous

    Oh good grief. This is turning into the prefect make the wing nuts wet their pants story. Before this is all done, they’ll find that the Smoot–Hawley Tariff was behind this.This isn’t hard people. Left led protest like this: Full of people from the left. Right led protest like the tea party: Full of people from the right. Draw your stupid lines based on your team all day. In the mean time, nothing gets done.

  • SouthernYankee

    My my there you go again projecting yourselves on liberals.  Must of hit a nerve.  What whiners you are.  Like I said who cares who gives to your organization or even the liberal organizations?  I think EVERYBODY has a right to say SHOW US THE MONEY TRAIL.

  • Texan

    Notice how the ows “movement” has been wiped from the headlines, here?

    Even san fran freako has had enough of the feces, urine and tampons being strewn about. Oakland had to resort to using teargas. Nice folks!

  • Michelle

    Not the same, what FOX reported wasn’t disputed, the SPLC is a liberal organization that has no interest in truth.  Nice try though,. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Big deal.

  • SouthernYankee

    You forgot the Rev Wright.  Wait til it gets closer to election.  Everything will be reintroduced.  They got to whip up the baggers.

  • Anonymous

    This is fallacious. You presume I think Fox News has been fair to OWS or is a balanced network. They are very biased against them, so I’m likely not to take any of their reportage seriously. It’s like the chronic Obama bashers. Even when they are actually correct in their criticism, it’s not taken seriously because their bias has eroded any credibility they may have had. 

    BTW…MSNBC is similarly biased. I don’t take everything they say as gospel like the Fox drones take FNC..no equivalency there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Can hardly sell whats being stolen, can they?

  • Michelle

    Several influential New York state lawmakers have received
    threatening mails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t
    renew the state’s tax surcharge on millionaires, according to reports.

    “It’s time to tax the millionaires!” reads the email, according to WTEN in Albany. “If
    you don’t, I’m going to pay a visit with my carbine to one of those
    tech companies you are so proud of and shoot every spoiled Ivy League
    [expletive] I can find.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

    Er, I meant “redistributed”.

  • mac691

    so says the clown who wrote “has ever wrote.”

  • mac691

    tell that to Minnesota during Franken. 

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for proving exactly what I posited. You equate liberalism with untruthfulness. Illogical not to mention a non-sequitur. 

  • Texan

    Thanks patsy!

  • NORBIT

    The movement, while obama is STILL taking more money from Wall Street Banks and hedge funds than the total GOP contingent combined – and his administration repays those donations in the form of continued interest-free, taxpayer-funded bailouts!

    What “movement” are you talking about? – Banana-Republic Marxism?

    btw, has the “Divide-and-Conquer” community-organizer tried to villify any other Americans today?

    The good thing is more and more people are seeing through his deceptive veneer, and that you just can’t TRUST this guy!

  • mac691

    Not ALL Nazis, just a warm home for Nazis.  Remember that there are also communists, anti-semites, professional activists, Islamists, and Democrats, all hugging each other.

  • NDanielson

    Isn’t it amazing, Benny? Liberals cannot see what is right before their faces, and at the same time, they can make things up out of whole cloth that aren’t? 

    You really get this:

    Ben Hernandez 22 minutes ago in reply to NDanielson
    So you concede that the Tea Party is astroturf. Right on!

    From this:

    NDanielson 36 minutes ago in reply to Ben Hernandez Liberals with no sense of reality. Now that’s typical.

    Really? What reality do you live in? Willful ignorance is the only thing to describe clowns like you.

  • Texan

    nary an original thought

  • mac691

    SPLC is joke to everyone but extreme liberals.  They put people on that list who merely disagree with them.

  • mac691

    I live in one of the states doing the “investigations,”  California, under Jerry Brown.  The Atty general’s office along with the Dem Party admitted that the “fix was in” on the investigation and that nothing would come of it.  This revelation came about at the BEGINNING of the investigation.

  • Chucker

    “Only in the bubble of Fox News and low-IQ Conservatives/Republicans/Tea Baggers the ACORN guys are seen as bad people.”So, in the world of MSNBS and high-IQ Liberals/Democrats/OWS the ACORN guys are embraced? 

  • Guest

    Has Mediaite done a story on Orlando Jones of MADtv tweeting that Sarah Palin should be killed?…just wondering…

  • Guest

    Has Mediaite done a story on Orlando Jones of MADtv tweeting that Sarah Palin should be killed?…just wondering…

  • http://twitter.com/southeastpost southeastpost

    Yes, it is all ACORN when regular people are coming out of injustice and inequality. If it would be TEA PARTY then there would be FOX NEWS to promote it. Who is better? Fox news or ACORN??? ACORN was dedicated to community service, which was vilified and destroyed by a pimp called keefe… Fox news is a propaganda news channel. 90% of the news coming out from fox news is based on assumptions. Everybody knows it. Even the fox news anchors knows about it. Fox news is Republican news channel. It promotes, suggests and makes candidate for Republican party. Tea party is the company owned by News Corp. When Tea party started protest second day (what for?) after Obama inaugurated as the President, their policy was just one thing…… make him one term president…….nothing more or less than that. Why? Cos they didn’t like his black face. Not true? Then why they were protesting starting second day? Where are the rage for Health care reform ? They were just so opposed to giving health care to poor people and fox news was making it main agenda. Birther, Racist, Hips, family guy (lol)… these are the names given by Tea Party to Obama originated from Fox news. If the Fox news, which already destroyed the whole country can support the modern KKK (tea party), why not a ACORN which helps people to register vote can support OWS??? Whats wrong with that??? Oh I know, its because OWS are not holding a sign that reads “Go back to Kenya, Obama”, “Death Panel” to old people. Right? There should be a rage among OWS to vilify blacks, hispanics, Obama, Nancy P.,  Harry Reid, then Fox news would support it. Its just a regular poor people in OWS who don’t have health insurance, can’t pay student loan cos cant find a job, and have same agenda like Tea Party (corporation controlled govt.) but Fox news blaming Acorn on it. Every time I watch Fox news I feel like, “do we really have people in this world in this modern age who watch fox news and absorb their vilification of society and people??? All the time???? Amazing…… America is Free but not liberated yet. Republican still thinks people still live in 1950 where they would see KKK marching in the street shouting white power. Amazing. More people get educated, knowledge about world, more threat to Republicans. That is why they want to cut dept. of education and impose Christian theology in schools BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT MORE PEOPLE GET RELIGIOUS AND EXTREME, ITS EASIER TO CONTROL THEM. just like Osama Bin Laden did it to Muslims. Make people religious, make them extreme and rule on them. republicans got exactly the same philosophy…. F**k them all….

  • http://twitter.com/southeastpost southeastpost

    Yes, it is all ACORN when regular people are coming out of injustice and inequality. If it would be TEA PARTY then there would be FOX NEWS to promote it. Who is better? Fox news or ACORN??? ACORN was dedicated to community service, which was vilified and destroyed by a pimp called keefe… Fox news is a propaganda news channel. 90% of the news coming out from fox news is based on assumptions. Everybody knows it. Even the fox news anchors knows about it. Fox news is Republican news channel. It promotes, suggests and makes candidate for Republican party. Tea party is the company owned by News Corp. When Tea party started protest second day (what for?) after Obama inaugurated as the President, their policy was just one thing…… make him one term president…….nothing more or less than that. Why? Cos they didn’t like his black face. Not true? Then why they were protesting starting second day? Where are the rage for Health care reform ? They were just so opposed to giving health care to poor people and fox news was making it main agenda. Birther, Racist, Hips, family guy (lol)… these are the names given by Tea Party to Obama originated from Fox news. If the Fox news, which already destroyed the whole country can support the modern KKK (tea party), why not a ACORN which helps people to register vote can support OWS??? Whats wrong with that??? Oh I know, its because OWS are not holding a sign that reads “Go back to Kenya, Obama”, “Death Panel” to old people. Right? There should be a rage among OWS to vilify blacks, hispanics, Obama, Nancy P.,  Harry Reid, then Fox news would support it. Its just a regular poor people in OWS who don’t have health insurance, can’t pay student loan cos cant find a job, and have same agenda like Tea Party (corporation controlled govt.) but Fox news blaming Acorn on it. Every time I watch Fox news I feel like, “do we really have people in this world in this modern age who watch fox news and absorb their vilification of society and people??? All the time???? Amazing…… America is Free but not liberated yet. Republican still thinks people still live in 1950 where they would see KKK marching in the street shouting white power. Amazing. More people get educated, knowledge about world, more threat to Republicans. That is why they want to cut dept. of education and impose Christian theology in schools BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT MORE PEOPLE GET RELIGIOUS AND EXTREME, ITS EASIER TO CONTROL THEM. just like Osama Bin Laden did it to Muslims. Make people religious, make them extreme and rule on them. republicans got exactly the same philosophy…. F**k them all….

  • Rio

    Like you said “who cares who gives to your organization or even the liberal organizations.”  But, you think “EVERYBODY has a right to sa SHOW US THE MONEY TRAIL?

    Care to square that? 

    Is it “legal” to solicit funds for a project  meant for one group and then funnel those funds to an entirely different entity?  The teacher’s union is asking questions about THEIR money, and newly renamed ACORNites aren’t answering.

  • Anonymous

    Like? They have an enumerated criteria of people who get on hate lists and why they do. Plus, the FBI and DHS regularly use their data to apprehend and monitor hate groups. You know…like that Michigan militia group and people like the “oathkeepers” who regularly appear on Fox News as “concerned citizens.” Guffaw.
    http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/10/25/oath-keeper-convicted-on-weapons-charge-tried-to-make-citizens-arrest/ (convicted)
    Now..you can just go and sit in the corner after me exposing your confirmation bias and sophistry Michelle.

  • wawoo

    Franken’s win during the Minnesota recount comported exactly to Minnesota law. There was no voter fraud involved at all.

  • Michelle

    Liberals thrive on chaos.  They are hoping it causes people to beg gov’t to take over. 

  • Michelle

    That disgrace was swept way under the rug. 

  • Michelle

    That disgrace was swept way under the rug. 

  • Levi

    Didn’t I JUST say that this ISN’T the Obama administration. Jesus fucking Christ you’re stupid. 

  • Michelle

    Well, to them, if you don’t agree with liberals, you are a racist terrorist. 

  • Texan

    apology-fail

    I haven’t seen the words “big deal” and “who cares” banged out by “progressives” so much in the last 2 weeks yrs than I have in the last 10 yrs, combined. Kaboooom!

  • Levi

    Sarah who?

  • Michelle

    No and they won’t.  They ignore death threats from liberals.

  • Anonymous

    Good!  this is hysterical as it will really piss off the righties!

    Now let’s look at who paid for all the promotions of teabaggers. You know, the buses, the signs, the stages, the permits,,  hmmmm…

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Study what I said. There is no presumption, only a question. Why should it matter what outlet the truth uses to get to your brain? I wouldn’t care if my daily truth was written on toilet tissue, if it were true, that’s what matters. You seem eager to dismiss a news outlet based on perceived bias on that organizations part against “your” team. That is hardly objective. Look at the data. What does it say?
     And MSNBC is actually far more biased, as most Americans self identify as conservatives, which explains quite a bit of the difference in audience size. Personally, I find both outlets misleading, and prefer, whenever possible, to dig into my own sources. That said, I prefer Fox over MSNBC, as I cannot long stand Rachel Maddow.
     Again, this is no personal attack, nor am I trying to condescend. I am simply asking you..if this information was coming from CNN would it make you more likely to listen..if so, why? If you think Fox has had unfair coverage of OWS, why? What is OWS that it needs to be portrayed in a certain way?

  • Anonymous

    Fake pictures of people defecating on cop cars; ACORN I see OWS – has FOX’s full attention.  Guess What FOX this wont go away till 99% get our money back from Wall Street.

  • Texan

    I’ve seen “rev wright” mentioned at least a dozen times here since yesterday. By you far left loons! ROFL!

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Brevity is the soul of wit. As I see it, you are half-way towards yours.

  • Anonymous

    Just to remind everyone, Fox is not news.

  • http://twitter.com/criticaljane Jane

    Be afraid, be very afraid, ’cause Fox told you so!    :)

  • Anonymous

    Why did the Teabagger cross the road?    Because Fox News told him to.

  • SouthernYankee

    Rio, please you act like republicans don’t do anything wrong.  Get into the real world.  Bush who stold the election of 2000 gave us the Bush  Supreme court which gave us the new ruling corporations are people.  You kidding me.  The pond is dirty and it isn’t working for any of us in either party.  Please don’t act like republicans are such do gooders.  They lie, cheat and talk about stealing elections look at across this country where republican governors are disenfranchising democrats.  Please get your head out of your ass.  We are all being screwed by corporations who bought and paid for the congress/senate and yes the presidency.  It doesn’t matter who in holding office we are all screwed.  You get that.  Until we get money out of elections nothing changes.  Its picking the one who screws you the lest.  That is all Rio.

  • Anonymous

    Come again? This time in English, please.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     So you do admit that voters were defrauded in St Louis? That the organization, at least in part, was corrupt?

  • Texan

    sez the nutjob who gets his “news” from the comedy channel. TDF!!!!

  • Texan

    Fake? Prove it.

  • Anonymous

    Are you a conservative? Also, what has the demographics of conservatives (or any other ideological group) in the USA have to do with the veracity of a news story? Are you implying “truth” has a conservative bent…therefore FNC is “closer” to the truth than say…MSNBC? What metrics do you use to judge the extent of bias between FNC and MSNBC? Have you watched Bill O’Reilly’s coverage of OWS in the past two weeks and compared it with his coverage of the Tea Party in 2009? Respond to those questions…honestly, and I will give you a serious listen.

  • Michelle

    Just to remind the liberals, FOX is the #1 name in news. 

  • Anonymous

    For all the ignorant people commenting here you may want to know that Congress investigated ACORN and they were cleared of any wrong doing.  Those of you still believing ACORN did anything wrong might want to ask yourselves why you believe lies from FOX. 

    Congress investigated and cleared ACORN of any wrong doing.  Coming from a body that impeached the POS for lying about a BJ I would have expected if there had been any wrong doing it would have been a real drama show if ACORN had so much as had a member double park.

    ACORN was cleared by Congress http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/15-7

    So once again the FOX ‘News’ blows the dog whistle to all the lazy intellects in the USA – thanks for that FOX.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Because, you know, that’s the rough moral equivalent of murdering police officers. Thanks for that casual insight, Crusoe.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it’s dying. That’s why it’s been on the news for the past 2-3wks.

  • Anonymous

    I guess DHS and the FBI are extreme liberals too! Carry on…

  • Rio

    Las Vegas:

    Criminal Charges Filed Against Acorn, two employees
    http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/may/04/criminal-charges-filed-against-acorn-two-employees/

    That’s ACORN and it’s two employees.

    Seattle:

    Felony charges filed against 7 in the state’s biggest case of voter fraud

    Guess who?
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003806904_webvotefraud26m.html

    They were charged, tried and convicted of vote fraud all over the US.

    Here’s another informative article that encapsulates the broad span of ACORN corruption.   The House Oversite and Government Reform Committee investigation revealed embezzlement, investment fraud, obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting a coverup of almost a million dollar embezzelment by Dale Rathke and more:

    The case for ACORN as a criminal enterprise:

    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2009/09/21/the-case-for-acorn-as-a-criminal-enterprise

    Justice Department investigations began back in 2009 after the House committee released the charges but, things appear to be now stalled in the Eric Holder Justice Department, funny that.

  • Anonymous

    Bingo. Name in news only. Thank you.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    So what if they are? (It’s Fox News, who very often does not care if they are, so I don’t mean to concede that they are accurate; I’m just saying, let’s assume they’re true and go to the next step.). There was never anything in the least evil, criminal or wrong with the ACORN plan or operation; the sole basis for it being attacked was the supposition that it helped get Obama and other Dems elected because it was so effective at getting poor people registered to vote. The only criminality even remotely connected to ACORN was with some incidents of ACORN being ripped off by some of its employees handing in fake registrations of people who never existed in the first place and never even could let alone would vote, one incident of serious embezzlement in a regional office some related involvement by a relative of the founder and possibly some condonation by the founder himself, none of which went to the values of the cause or its success in registration drives, but which in combination created enough smoke for many in Congress, particularly Republicans, to get their partisan freak on and delegitimize both ACORN and its values.

    The simple facts are that ACORN had many thousands of workers, volunteers and supporters, and there are many more thousands involved in OWS, so the coincidence of some people being involved in both is totally unsurprising and meaningless. But the fact also is that about a quarter of this country’s adult population is hell bent on taking the democracy part out of this republican democracy, and you appear to be one of them, so: get your wing nut freak on.

  • Rio

    The Justice department is investigating several serious charges brought against ACORN by the House Oversite and Government Reform Committee’s  investigation that revealed, embezzlement of nearly $1 million by Dale Rathke that was aided and abetted and covered up by ACORN.  Also charges of fraud, obstructing justice, tax evasion, violating US Labor Act, ETC.

  • Rio

    Because they used teacher’s union funds meant for a teacher’s union project to hand over to the OWS group and the union wants to know where their money went.

  • Anonymous

    Why did the Teabagger cross the road?

  • Anonymous

    Because Fox News told him to.

  • Texan

    Another “so what?” ROFLMFAO!

  • wawoo

    You appear to have difficulty with understanding. Repeat slowly, no voter fraud was ever associated with ACORN. All issues revolved around piecework incentives/payment for voter registration which was and is against the law in some jurisdictions. A very small number of individuals were involved. As many Qualification Statements I have reviewd say,”This orgainization is involved in various legal actions associated with the normal activities of our business. We are defending ourselves against allegations thusly” and then a list. Some of the best firms I have dealt with were legal mf’s though in point of fact I did my damndest to not do business with them. Volunteer organizations , just like others, say big time college athletic programs, have some that stretch the rules, play to the echo of the whistle, whatever. If it is chronic and comes from the top, corrupt. If it is isolated to a few, human nature and cause to consider appropiate controls.

  • Anonymous
  • Texan

    Gonna be 30 degrees next week in ny. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Look at all of the racist Republicans, jumping on the Fox bandwagon.  Republicans are truly the scum of the earth.

    The ONLY reason Fox is covering this is because they know ALL Republicans are racists and ALL Republicans are easily manipulated.

    If OWS has ties to unions, no big deal, but if they have ties to black people…

    Watch for racist Megyn Kelly to work the New Black Panthers into this.

  • Anonymous

    HILARIOUS!!!!

    The Righties are circling the toilet!

    It’s almost over! 

    The Right is going down in Flames!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fox News Reports That Former ACORN Officials Are Playing Key Roles In OWS

    Of course they do.

  • Rio

    ACORN was in the cross hairs of Congress long before James O’Keefe and, for much more serious charges:

    http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2009/09/21/the-case-for-acorn-as-a-criminal-enterprise

  • Texan

    apology-fail

    I haven’t seen the words “big deal” and “who cares”
    banged out by “progressives” so much in the last 2 weeks than I have
    in the last 10 yrs, combined. Kaboooom!

    Good enough, bug eyes?

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     (1) You are questioning me as opposed to the story..see how that works? You are wanting to find out my “angle” as opposed to finding out if the story is true. And that is downright intellectually indefensible.
     (2) People want news that reflect their own views, not given a “slant” they find offensive. Therefore, more people watch Fox, as it offends them “less” than MSNBC. And with less Ed Schultz, I can see why.
     (3) The metric is in the aforementioned data. If MSNBC were more “representative” it would have more viewership. Instead, it has waged a non-stop war (like Coke and Pepsi, except less fun) and has been driven to ever more ideological combativeness. This does not judge its “truth”, merely the comfort level of the people watching it.
     (4) I don’t watch Bill O’Reilly at all. As I said, I find both news organizations misleading. The question is why you should care what anyone’s opinion is. If a “fact” shows up, shouldn’t it be examined without party ideology warping ideas? 
     (5) The Tea Party is not the same as OWS, as the Tea Party was gone in less than a day from whatever meetings they had. Were there crimes or arrests at the Tea Party rallies? Were organizations generally detrimental to the republic unwavering in their support for the Tea-Party? (Communists and even other, more extreme groups have endorsed the OWS..shouldn’t you be asking why?)
     My own political belief is simple. I am an “essentialist”, meaning that as soon as a government does anything other than what is an absolute necessity, it begins to waste its mandate and its money.

  • Anonymous

    So what? The teabaggers seemed to be fine with guns at their protests.

  • Texan

    This is what happens when you snort your bipolar meds…

  • Rio

    They are probably holding sidewalk seminars on how to organize and steal elections as we speak. lol

  • Anonymous

    as the saying goes, a fool and there money will soon be parted.  If you gave your money to an unknown cause run by unknown people, you should learn a lesson.  

  • Anonymous

    The Righties will be chewing their medication by the handful for the foreseeable future!

    Get used to it Righties!

    COMEDY!

  • Anonymous

    Good god because some people at oWS used to be in ACORN that makes the whole movement astroturf?  You truly are a moron.

  • Anonymous

    ALCORN doesn’t exist.  As you said “John Kest, is a former ACORN official,”  he is  not part of ALCORN.  Kest just has a job.  This is the kind of work he does.  No news here! 

  • Anonymous

    Please remember the rule IOIYAR.

  • Anonymous

    That is what they want us to think!

  • freestyler999

    you better should be freestylin’ it’s better for your internet image.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     And black panthers seem fine with truncheons at voting booths. Your point? 

  • Anonymous

    Just thought I’d throw this link out there. Despite what Rush Limbaugh would have you believe Matt Taibbi has been doing good and honest reporting on the Wall St. debacle for years.

    Hopefully some of you will enjoy this piece more than the usual blather.

    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/owss-beef-wall-street-isnt-winning-its-cheating-20111025

  • Texan

    acorn is organizing, dummy

  • Texan

    15th “so what!” LOL!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    ACORN? Is that all?  Wheww!!! Thank God it’s not the anti-American Kochbot Brownshirts. 

  • Rio

    Real world, eh?  All you have is some very stale talking points.  Now, care to answer my questions?

  • Anonymous

    The Wisconsin protests happened during the cold of winter dude. ;)

  • Anonymous

    Taibbi is the bomb.  Love his books, his articles. 

    Too bad his RS page requires a FB login (which I just don’t do).

  • Anonymous

    1. I questioned the story because of the source and it’s well established prejudice against the subject it’s covering. There’s no intellectual impropriety there. It’s actually indefensible NOT to question their objectivity. It’s the fruit of the poisoned apple trope. I asked you a simple question because you are being duplicitous in your analysis. I am not surprised with your eloquent evasiveness in response.
    2. People also watch news that reinforces their already existing beliefs (regardless of it’s accuracy or veracity) NOT because they have already made an independent and objective pre-assessment and just want the news source to corroborate their findings. In America, people “trust” the news source that maligns the other (ideological) side. That is a fact. You are being disingenuous with that analysis. 

    3. MSNBC caters to a liberal audience. FOX caters to a conservative audience. These are truisms. Using the conservative’s own meme, CNN, HLN and all the other non-FOX channels are liberal outlets. Fine….let’s use that premise. Using Gallup’s own polling that finds approximately 40% of the A

  • Anonymous

    Wow, two people with batons have the entire republican party scared.

    No wonder you couldn’t get Osama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson

    What money did you lose at wall street?? I am far from rich so I am not in the 1% but I don’t feel WS owes me anything. What does it owe you and why? Just wondering.

    In fact what does WS owe most of the OWSers? They seem to young to own a house. Is it college loans?? Be angry at the high prices set by the schools for selling you an education that is worth next to nothing.

    My God. “Get our money back from Wall St.” Do you hear yourself?

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     Not the whole movement, nor even a large part. But these are not “spontaneous” either. Money and organization is flowing from somewhere to keep food and water (and medical supplies) available. Local restaurants’ are getting orders from all over the world in support for a group that at best has only splintered support here at home. Various organizations within the OWS will vie for domination, the most organized will rise to the top (see Libya and Egypt for excellent examples of hijacked popular uprisings).Who better to do this than those with organizing experience?

  • Indigo710

    BECAUSE, this is being passed off as a spontaneous   “protest” It’s anything but.

  • Anonymous

    The only racist I see in this story is perhaps you, who consistently spews hatred  with every post.

  • Anonymous

    hon, doubt you could find Oakland on a map.  or describe the city accurately. 

    now, why don’t you just continue to “work” from home with that awesome work ethic you have.  k?

    BTW, Occupy Oakland protester (and Iraq War Vet) in critical condition following clash with police.  Alleged to have been hit by a blunt object from police:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/26/BAE71LMH3C.DTL
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/26/occupy-oakland-veteran-critical-condition?newsfeed=true

  • Anonymous

    Um, that would be the Dem controlled congress.  No surprise there.  Acorn brought the Dems many of their fraudulent votes.

  • Anonymous

    how violent can a TP event be when most people weigh well over 250lbs and ride motorized vehicles or use canes?  /s/

  • Rio

    wawoo, what you don’t seem to understand is that ACORN was not just into voter fraud and they were not found innocent of voter fraud charges, the powers that be,  Eric Holder and Obama,  stopped the investigations and the House democrats swept it under the rug. 

    http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/obama-justice-department-shut-down-federal-acorn-investigation-according-to-documents-obtained-by-judicial-watch-87360767.html

    The House Oversite and Government Reform Committee investigated ACORN for much more serious charges and as of 2009 and the charges were in the hands of the Justice Department.

    But I suppose the “powers that be” may have stopped that investigation too:
    http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/09/justice-department-inspector-general-to-look-into-acorn-funds/

  • Anonymous

    I hate racism. The reason you don’t see that as a good thing is because you are a racist.

  • Michelle

    And what a waste of time that was. 

  • Michelle

    Did you see the infrared photos from the rally in Europe?  They showed about 95% of the tents were empty at night.  It’s all for show.  A disgrace to the hippie generation!!

  • Michelle

    Did you see the infrared photos from the rally in Europe?  They showed about 95% of the tents were empty at night.  It’s all for show.  A disgrace to the hippie generation!!

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha what a non-story. A former Acorn employee supports the OWS-movement. Yeah, right homeless people getting ten bucks per hour to protest on top of it.Miraculously that totally fits into the narrative of the lazy, homeless and jobless hippies. I call BS before I see some hard evidence here. Meanwhile FixedNews could maybe investigate who paid for the Astroturf Tea Party.

    On second thought, never mind, they are more into the story inventing business than serious journalism. 

  • proud2tbagu

    Go upstairs your mom has your peanut butter sandwich ready. Low life.

  • Rio

    No, not the Republican party, voters in that district were “scared.”  Per reports of the events of that day.

  • Moosenuts99

    Don’t play stupid. The investigation was not run by Democrats.

    Oh wait…you’re not playing, are you?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah…waste of time indeed. 2 GOP state senators recalled and Walker will get it next year. Tune back in. Tootles.

  • Anonymous

    Faking pictures is something the left does, and has done for decades.  Stop projecting.

  • Anonymous

    Not yet.  Tommy Christopher is grappling with how to excuse it or explain it away, but facts are tricky things so it may take a while.

  • Rio

    The Democrats controlled the House at the time of the investigations and per John Conyers, the powers that be squelched it.  Those powers that be turned out to be Obama and Eric Holder.
    http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/obama-justice-department-shut-down-federal-acorn-investigation-according-to-documents-obtained-by-judicial-watch-87360767.html

  • Anonymous

    Nope. Still just babble.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    Well Danny thhe reality is that you are a teabagger who won’t no, can’t understand what is being said to you. No worries, O’Loofa will be along soon enough to tell how exactly how outraged your supposed to be at this! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1443801920 Ben Hernandez

    Oh my bad I thought we were comparing outrageous signs. You teabaggers have the OWS crowd beat HANDS DOWN! Carry on.

  • wawoo

    There was no voter fraud promulgated by ACORN. None.

  • proud2tbagu

    Astroturf Tea party got you guys voted out. You think these filthy bums could accomplish anything?

  • Anonymous

    One more hour left and then it’s bedtime. You can play on the weekends.

  • Lenny

    Even if true, whats the big deal? ACORN is no longer an entity (thanks to Fox), why cant these people show they are Americans by protesting? Thats the beauty of being an American-being allowed to peacefully protest.

  • JT

    So all Liberals are scum,huh? This is why people lose the middle..When you are so extreme as to think everyone who is a “liberal” is scum and evil, how do you expect people to view your side?
    Just such a myopic, dim witted view point. You dont have to agree with them, but that doesnt make them scum and evil.
    Just plain stupid!

  • mac691
  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    How true!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I’m not sure what Megyn Kelly obsesses more on?? Her obsession with ACORN or her obsession with plastic surgery!! Though, it could be considered a tie!!

  • NDanielson

    He saw your kneepads.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.albin1 Eric Albin

     You have merely explained your dislike for Fox, without adequately examining the evidence. Does the evidence indicate that Acorn (and other groups) are active inside OWS. If they are, does it matter who reports it?

  • Anonymous

    Jon has already covered this kind of thinking.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-discovers-the-villains-conservatives-are-taking-back-america-from-americans/

    ACORN did a lot of work helping the poor, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find some people who are or were associated with ACORN also involved with OWS. It also wouldn’t surprise me to see Fox try to fabricate some grand conspiracy out of this. It’s what they do.

  • NDanielson

    He saw those big dimples on your chin.

  • Anonymous

    Sure thing they can since they are human beings, not filthy bums, and human beings are capable of a lot of things.

  • Anonymous

    @059c0e239654b4a25ddfa100b648015f:disqus

    They were charged, tried and convicted of vote fraud all over the US.

    I call BS on this. There is a large and significant difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. The errors they made that got them in trouble for voter registration was paying for a specific number of registrations and bonuses for more than that, without giving the employees proper training and guidelines. Then the employees took shortcuts in order to make a few bucks. The false registrations were caught and in some cases noted by ACORN themselves.

    There was no attempt to undermine American elections , although Fox and the GOP dishonestly painted it that way. What this has done is provide cover for a bunch of new election laws designed to hinder the poor from voting, because they traditionally tend to vote more for Democrats.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    And the Tea Party Downgrade continues — 11 months into their Tea Party terms congress’ approval is at 9%.  Heckuva job.

  • Anonymous

    Why did the Teabagger cross the road?

  • Anonymous

    Because Fox News told him to.

  • Rio

    ACORN is still in operation, same people, same offices.  They’ve just changed the name all across the country but are still operating under the ACORN Tax ID number.  In New York, ACORN operates under the name…New York Community for Change.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    These idiots would say something like that.  Leave it to Fox fake news to misrepresent the facts as usual.  Everything is a left wing conspiracty to these idiots on Fox.

  • Anonymous

    Can someone please tell me who the official candidate for president next year for Fox News is?  Who has kissed the ring and can be the Fox News Annointed One??

  • http://www.facebook.com/marla.louise Marla Louise

    Fox’s ‘logic’ reminds me of an old joke from when I was a kid…   Q:  Why are fire engines red?  A: Cause there’s eight wheels on them and four people, and four plus eight is twelve, and twelve is a foot and a foot is a ruler, and Queen Elizabeth was a ruler, and Queen Elizabeth was also a ship, and the ship sails the sea and in the sea is fish and fish have fins, and the Finns fought the Russians and the Russians were red and that’s why firetrucks are red. 

  • Anonymous

    You with the racism again? Is that all they teach you in North Korean schools? Or did you learn that from your Media Matters trainer?

    Why did you ever leave Kim’s side? After all, he is your most exalted leader. You must feel lost here.
    The rest of us wish you would just get lost.

  • Anonymous

    You revel in your own racism.

  • Anonymous

    Liberal crapspeak from a liberal source, not very convincing. You need to find another source to back up your assertions for credibility sake. There is a reason Congress defunded ACORN, and you seem to have conveniently overlooked that. Why do you suppose ACORN has been broken up and renamed?

    Your hatred of Fox is very touching but it doesn’t do a lot for the image of being touched in the head that you have cultivated with this comment.

    I suggest you go back and find a neutral source for supporting your claims.

  • Anonymous

    You are incorrect.

  • Anonymous

    Your meds need adjustment – you are talking to yourself again.

  • Anonymous

    That defecating on cop car picture was in a London newspaper, not originated by Fox.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046586/Occupy-Wall-Street-Shocking-photos-protester-defecating-POLICE-CAR.html

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnnnnnnnhk! Sorry, you lose, but thank you for playing…

  • Anonymous

    The tea party is self funded. Everyone who went to any tea party function paid for it themselves.

    Got any evidence you can back up to support your claims? Of course you don’t – you’re a liberal.

    You have to try a lot harder to tick me off.

  • Anonymous

    Can we guess which half?

  • Anonymous

    I think you have been smoking more than you have been juggling. You do know that it takes more than on e catfish for you to call it juggling don’t you?

    Or did you mean jug-lining?

  • Anonymous

    While I can empathize with the man being injured, he should have not taken the risk of being in a crowd that has displayed a tendency to get physical with the police. You guys all want to cry police brutality after taking a swipe at the cops with your fists. You initiate and instigate the violence, you reap the results.

    If this was a truly non violent group they would avoid being confrontational with the police. Too bad for your friends, but they started a fight they don’t have the capability of finishing. 

    Perhaps the media should take a close look at this veteran’s military service before making him a martyr. His behavior is inconsistent with a true military hero – you know, obeys orders, complies with rules and regulations, and the like. I have a suspicion that this man is not the guy he is being made out to be by you liberals. Normally you would have no respect for him, so something is definitely rotten in Denmark.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    dood, there’s no proof that his injuries were caused by the Police. It doesn’t say that his injury was caused by the Police, it only says that he was hit in the head with something. It could have been from all the crap the protesters were throwing at the police.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    James O’Keefe, authoritarian? What do you mean?

    Noun1.authoritarian – a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner; “my boss is a dictator who makes everyone work overtime”dictatorBig Brother – an authoritarian leader and invader of privacydisciplinarian, martinet, moralist – someone who demands exact conformity to rules and formsoppressor – a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressuresAdj.1.authoritarian
    – characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute
    sovereignty; “an authoritarian regime”; “autocratic government”;
    “despotic rulers”; “a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of
    the war”; “a tyrannical government”tyrannic, tyrannical, autocratic, despotic, dictatorial2.authoritarian – expecting
    unquestioning obedience; “the timid child of authoritarian parents”;
    “insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter”overbearing, dictatorialdomineering – tending to domineerAs usual, I don’t think you know what the word means or how to use it. Please explain in what way you think O’Keefe is authoritarian.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R3MUJEJ2PA7HRH6FRUSLPZVUCY Cmm912

    Is that ALL you can talk about – RACE??????  Race this, racist that, it’s getting old and tired!!  You people are desensitizing your fellow citizens to the word “RACIST,” and when a REAL incident happens involving “race” or “racists” NO ONE WILL BELIEVE IT.  You are turning into the “people who cried wolf” – you say “wolf” over and over and over again, and there is NO “wolf” – then when a REAL wolf appears, no one believes you and you get eaten.  Same thing with the race card.

    And an FYI, there is a scientific theory that claims that the people who CONSTANTLY play the race card against other people, are THEMSELVES the ones who are the REAL racists!

  • Anonymous

    Yes, they were exposed, indicted in several states and found guilty of voter registration fraud in several. That is why ACORN was defunded. It is also why  ACORN scattered like roaches and reformed in several sub groups, which reapplied for government funding – and got it.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    The reason that ACORN was defunded:

    indicted for a violation under any Federal or State law governing the financing of a campaign for election for public office or any law governing the administration of an election for public office, including a law relating to voter registration…that had its State corporate charter terminated due to its failure to comply with Federal or State lobbying disclosure requirements…that has filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency.

    http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/09/Defunding-ACORN-Necessary-and-Proper-and-Certainly-Constitutional

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Racism and other bigotry are the foundations of Republican politics.

    If you’re not hating, blacks, Muslims, poor people, gays, immigrants, or somebody else, you literally cease to exist as a party.

    We know what you are. Don’t even try to pretend.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly, but to these loony toons it has to be the cops.

  • Anonymous

    There they go again! The FOX-hole nearest to septic system and the outdoor outhouse are getting seepage into their lair. I’ll bet it smell to high heaven in that pit! Everyone with common sense knows the extremes this group of wet dreams has strayed off the insane asylum too many times. Any normal thinking human can see the extremes are scared stiff as the Congress’ numbers are now in the single digits. Every effort they can muster to side issue reality and knock off track the effectiveness of the OWS movement! The real issue is the gross incompetence and ineptness of Boehner’s “leading from behind” of the non-jobs production, “Do Nothing” House!

  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    Heh… adding to the conspiracy, there are also disgruntled former faux newz employes participating in the protests…  I heard there were even 27 communists in their ranks. Maybe the House Unamerican Activities Committee can investigate. Peter King should fit right into that chairmanship.

  • Jerry Baustian

    Eric Shawn is an extremely competent and reliable reporter. 

    ACORN = the Working Families Party, and it is only a short step to the OWS movement. Did anyone really think this was spontaneous?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anna-Devane/1408638993 Anna Devane

    In 1986, 12 members of Acorn were convicted of voter fraud in Missouri.  Please stop saying otherwise.  Anything else is a lie.  They have other tampering convictions.

  • Anonymous

    You do know what the plural of catfish is, right? Catfish

    English is a magical thing.

  • http://www.whatnowtoons.com what0now0toons

    Once again Fox lies to their audience in their constant fear based news reporting, I couldn’t resist drawing a cartoon about this for Halloween.  It’s up on my site now,
    http://www.whatnowtoons.com
    Left of center Political Cartoons

  • Anonymous

    Just goes to show how many incredibly stupid people there are in this country.

  • Anonymous

    NO, brevity is the soul of a twit. So, you’re all the way.

  • Anonymous

    And you know they operate under the same Tax ID because?

  • Anonymous

    On the same letterhead, eh?  You know this how?

  • Anonymous

    When Fox reports *actual* news and not just GOP propaganda, then we can talk.

  • Anonymous

    You’ve clearly not been paying attention if you think any of your Fox talking points have any truth to them.

  • Anonymous

    You fail at logic.

  • Heartland25

    BRAVO! to ACORN for being smart enough to use the old corporate ploy.  Close your doors as “______”, Reopen tomorrow as “________”.  Just fill in the blanks with whatever you choose.  All you have to do is look back to World Com who bankrupted as one corp and then immediately re-opened as another.  The only ones who suffered were the stupid stockholders, all middle Americans because the WS insiders already knew they had to dump their stock on the poor suckers supporting a family of 4 on $50K per year. The answer is to keep deregulating so that they can screw the middle even more.  What a great idea….. “We’ll call it removing barriers to creating jobs, everyone wants jobs so they should fall for it perfectly, let’s get to work on it.”

  • Brucesjunque

    MSNBC and the other fallen-left propaganda machines would have us believe that they’re “balanced”, but “balanced” should not mean mixing a tiny bit of truth with a whole lot of lies.

  • Brucesjunque

    Why does it seem that when liberals want to argue a point, they end up calling the other side names like “whiners”, “whatever-phobes”, etc?  Maybe it’s because the liberals have nothing substantial or real to back their stance.  In their defense, I must say that the liberals do have some ideas which might be good in a perfect world……however, the reality of life is that this is NOT a perfect world.  Therefore, we all need to take a more realistic approach to it.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/TRXWFX4QAWEVF2IF24DHIRV37U VET03

    No, that pretty much makes them scum!

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