ACORN–The LA Story, Part II: ‘We knew we were gonna put in Obama.’
by Gary HewsonI was driving to my local OSH hardware store in West L.A. yesterday to buy some tools for the house where I spotted an ACORN rally across the street at some FOX studio. After buying some supplies, I went into my car to get the brand new hand-held HD video camera I had purchased just the night before for an upcoming vacation. With camera in hand, I walked towards the protesters to gather some pictures and video footage of the rally. I also called my friend Andrew Breitbart and suggested he come down. I had a feeling he’d be interested.
But before he could make it to the rally, an ACORN organizer had crossed the street and approached me with an ACORN flyer in her hand. As she started to talk, I clicked the record button of the new camera I had bought on a whim, not knowing what it would capture or how it even worked, for that matter. I heard the same things you will now hear on this recording. Three minutes later I walked away in shock. I started to tremble from what she admitted to me with utter nonchalance. I walked inside a nearby store and found a quiet place to play the tape for myself and realized that I had wintessed something maybe no one was ever supposed to hear:
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Have you seen this organizer?
[Ed: Be sure to read Andrew Breitbart's account of yesterday's rally. Remember, the point of the rally was 'ask me why I am ACORN'. Andrew and Gary tried to ask, but were met largely with silence.]
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it just keeps coming ………..
That second picture of the ACORN organizer almost made me ruin my keyboard when I laughed with a mouthful of coffee. LOL
Maybe I should be shocked, but I'm not. It's no surprise to me that they would do all this. They're a ruthless group with bad intentions preying on people who are hurt. It's like pimps and prostitutes. Get the people who are vulnerable and hurting, convince them you love 'em, then turn 'em out for your own benefit. Sickening.
Is anyone surprised? I'm only surprised that this woman would openly admit these things to a stranger, but she is not the first and from what I'm hearing at BG–not the last. Stay tuned.
Got millions for voting for Obama? From who? We're supposed to be non-partisan but we intended to get Obama elected all along?That's why all the ACORN votes went to Obama? And she wants to blame FOX for ruining their organization? yeesh!
Where's the movie?
So how do we have a recount and declare McCain the winner? not that I would want that long term, but at least it would undo all the PBO has done so far.
Maybe it's just me, but it appears that the people still supporting ACORN are slaves to an agenda?
Thank you for your honesty maam! Now maybe congress and the states can put a nail in ACORN's coffin? They need to be paying some back taxes since–surprise–they are not non-partisan!
but to sink this organization, we need to prove this obama support (wink wink) went up to the top. i'm sure it does, but in court you need more than the word of your everyday thug street organizer. we need a elected organizer in chief, it's on the tip of my tongue, it sounds like osama?
Just the same old Plantation Mentality.
Although they do know that LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, the Poll Tax was abolished and they now have the right to vote, and they may have heard that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, they still do not know that they are Free.
Freedom is a concept not easily grasped by those who refuse to abandon the slave mentality.
RICO prosecution. Call your representatives and senators. Call your local newpaper. All of you.
WAKE UP America, these people do not understand the constitution and do not intend to defend freedom, they aim to take it from YOU.
This is the 50% who do not pay taxes revolting against the rest of us.
This has to be stopped.
I wonder.
Has anyone called Charlie Gibson?
Or maybe just a new election. Obama versus Bobby Jindal or someone like that.
Heard Mason Weaver give a talk about "it's OK to leave the plantation". When you throw a rope (freedom) over the wall, some may see freedom for what it is, but most will see it as a noose!
Did Dan Rather need proof?
Did Cindy Sheehan need proof?
Does Mike Moore need proof? Need I go on?
What we need is popular support. People need to speak up, demonstrate their support of conservative representatives and support for prosecuting and stopping this "activism". When that happens then the proof will be found when the investigations start.
Harry,
You just nailed it.
It is the have not's, reaching with their hands outstretched, trying to take from those that have. They have nothing better to do with their time all day long, but to stand on a street corner and protest.
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Mike,
This is just amazing.
Harry,
Watch how they play the game though. This woman is a "volunteer". They like volunteers, and community organizers. That way, they can keep it all at arms length. When trouble brews, they (Acorn) can say: "that is not our official policy, they were volunteers acting alone". It is the ACORN Kabuki dance.
We CAN NOT just sit around and wait for the election in 2012 to boot Obama out. Something MUST be done NOW to get him out of office.
ACORN is doing this right before our eyes and most of the media is concerned about the TEA Party movement which is filed with law abiding tax payers that work for a living.
Man oh man. So where can this go from here?
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The really sad thing is that this dim bulb didn't even know she was digging a hole. Way to use people who don't know any better, ACORN.
Definition: Community shiite disturber.
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Where is the transcript????? I'm on an iPhone. No flash player
This women really believes what she is doing is for the good of her people. Until there is a mindset change nothing can be done for them. Who will stand up, that they will listen to, and help them see what is really happening to them?
You can hear this very same sort of stuff about a lot of government programs and not-so-secret agendas on any Sunday morning in Black Liberation Theology churches. And you could have heard it for years and years, like Obama did. And politicians can visit such churches to raise funds for their campaigns, and yet the churches can remain tax-exempt. They are a religious front for a political movement. I'd love to see some camera work in these churches. Wouldn't that just be an eye-opener for all the hand-wringing Leftists who think they're loved by their minority voters?
The unions are also merely a front for a political agenda. It's not about the workers and their lot, it's about a few corrupt leaders getting their graft while the getting is good. Might be too late to infiltrate their ranks and learn where the bodies are buried.
And our government agencies do pretty much the same thing now, too. They are a front for a political agenda and will soon be able to openly deny public benefits to non-Party citizens.
Can't you just feel the pace of our fall speeding up?
Hehe. Don't think you'd get him. I think he's probably off boating in Maine again until Anita Dunn releases the official party line response.
"Not one vote went for the Republican"…..but yet, they claim to be non-partisan. HA!
Who is she foolin?
I almost died laughing the other day-BO SAYING “HE was the commander in chief of the American people and he deserves respect!” Respect is earned, and the way I see it-he’s a “bag full of lies!”
Obviously, this is an organization filled with people who truly believe that the end justifies the means.
Sadly, when the Obama and ACORN era of corruption ends, it will, I haven't given up on our grand democracy's commonsense being completely dead, blacks will have done irrepairable damage to themselves. They are re-ghettoizing themselves collectively. Thanks to just Rev. Wright and ACORN alone the non-black public is forming a perception of blacks versus us.
To hear that foolish woman prattle on would be humorous if she and her ilk weren't undermining my kid's freedoms. There are only two outcomes to this period of corruption, we devolve into a Third World country or the corruption all gets swept away and I'm betting that in a few years that foolish woman won't have a clue how blacks erased all of the goodwill and respect non-whites accorded them over the decades.
I thought we had secret ballot in this country. How would anyone know who these people voted for?
What in the world have we as a civilization and nation come to? Hmmm!!!!
How deep is the corruption? How far does this go? This is just insanity.
That doesn't matter. This woman can be located and interrogated. Her superiors can be identified and the source of this charter that they have can be tracked down. You know there is paper evidence out there and that there is a financial trail. It just has to be followed. Those in authority with the will to do so would find this easy.
ACORN is using our public funds to install Marxist leaders in positions of the highest power to rule over us.
While we the working people have our constitutional rights stolen from us, and our jobs taken from us.
Call. DEMAND action from our representatives. Turn out to protest. WAKE THE F UP.
I think this is a first – ACORN just threw ACORN under the bus !!!! Sorry to say it but you see exaclty what this organization attracts… and you woder why the education system if failing….
The gift that keeps on giving! The crooks are so stupid they volunteer the info that they are crooked. Unbelievable!
I hear that congress will re-instate their funding in mid December. Contact your Congress critter now!
I guess I'm another "I know I should be shocked…" person. The fact that we are no longer shocked by the depths of corruption within the ACORN organization, paid or volunteer, says more about the Culture of Corruption surrounding Obama and his ilk than we are comfortable with.
And my attempt at translation: "Wow, everything we've suspected about these people is really showing itself to be true down the line."
Your upside down flag …. it is dead on.
Harry,
although I hear what you are saying, I disagree. Not with you, but with the fact the governemnt will do anything. The DOJ and the FBI are too busy giving rights to Muslim terrorists.
Yep.
That flag says more than words.
Where is 20/20, 60 minutes and Frontline? Hello?
How deep?
How far?
An age old riddle, how deep is down, and how high is up?
Probably in Japan, letting Obama pat them on the heads, or kissing his ass.
Everytime ACON begins to spin and lie like a bunch of drunk high school cheerleaders at their first high school party, we see or hear some more evidence that further proves that ACON and their affiliates are nothing more than a corupt organizations.
I know how you feel brother and I wasn't directing that comment to you but generally.
Regardless, do not give in to defeatism, this is not over.
Remember Bluto: "Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!"
Is it speeding up?….I'd say yes….With all things in nature the more you speed it up….the harder it is to stop….I'm afraid the forces necessary to stop this now will be a bitter sacrifice for all americans…Freedom is Never Free!
It is like an old Coyote/Roadrunner Cartoon. Just wait for the "splat" when we hit the wall………..
Im not suprised at what she said, I am surprised she talked to you with a camera in your hand, these people really are not that bright.
I can already hear the counter claims, oh that was just one woman, oh she doesnt speak for us etc. etc.
They know what they are, we know what they are, but the MSM and the Dem's will always spin and twist and try and talk their way out of it unless the evidence is massive, similar to what J & H did.
I think it's going to take some pretty deep infiltration of SEIU and ACORN to overwhelm the general public with evidence that can't be brushed off as they are attempting to even do with J &H's stuff, of course that might just have already begun, it may have begun years ago, I wonder how Andy is going to look in Orange?
I'm only sorry you didn't ask this woman more questions like 'why do you have to claim to be non-partisan'? Honestly, just open the door a wee bit and these people will babble on. ACORN worker/volunteer opens their mouth and it's the gift that keeps on giving.
You are correct.
That is the point nobody is willing to address. Rather than US all being Americans, and working together to build a better country, and living in harmony, the race baiters; the Jessie Jacksons, Al Sharptons, Jimmah Carters and Barrack Obamas want to keep the races seperated. Without the seperation, they loose their power base.
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Sadly these groups are unified and they are coming after our Constitution and tax dollars. The rest of us better get organized unless you want your kids working for these guys.
It does, and it will probably continue, but what about all of us helping out?
Might I suggest that every conservative and liberatarian wire themselves up for sound and talk to as many ACORN/SEIU people as possible in public places where they have no right to privacy, you will have to swallow hard and pretend to be one of them.
It's going to take evidence that they have NO chance of spinning becasue as far as ACORN and the media because you know they will just ignore it if they can, or at best brush this off as one non-official womens spin on things, etc, etc
As my Scottish-American grandpa used to say “give em enough rope to hang themselves with”. Other things come to mine “reap what you sow”, “Karma”, “goes around, comes around” etc…What is troubling me so much about all of these ACORN videos coming out is the complete lack of any moral judgement from ACORN reps. Is there no outrage in this community? Are they so lacking in decency that they would willingly overlook the plight of underage prostitutes and the importance of an honest election process? I guess you would have to say yes. When a segment of the population decides to vote for a candidate “because he looks like them” then I guess I’m not surprised that they would be willing to do ANYTHING to achieve their ends. They’re too ignorant to notice that the very person they put into office will bring about their downfall.
Not are going to be, already ARE.
Pretty scary…
Do you think they understand the meaning of what they are saying?
So, where is the transcript?
A reader at the American Spectator ( http://spectator.org/archives/2009/11/13/tea-part... ) left this comment, which is relevant to this (and Andrews Part 1) article. Connecting the dots, which I supect Andrew, Alex and Gary are doing:
1Freeman| 11.13.09 @ 9:50AM
Folks,
In my experience ( combat related, Ph.D. in academics and science, active duty military) when a man or organization so blatantly ignores what appears to be a significant threat to it's existence there is a reason. Obama and the Dems are refusing to listen or respond to the Conservative Right and we are acting like we don't get it.
LISTEN CLOSELY: They have an edge and are not afraid at all. The money we can't account for has been set aside to rig the next election. Unions, ACORN, the Black Panthers, Muslims and every other liberal "thug" in an organization will be used to continue to attack this country. There will be no recovery in the next election unless something is done now. Mickey Mouse will somehow vote thousands of times all over this nation. The ballot box will be stuffed with the votes of the dead and their numbers will be exclusively Democrat. If we wait until the election returns are reported on CNN it will be too late. The liberal courts can’t even agree on the election fraud from the last election. We must take a stand NOW!
The election will be rigged. Period. Free Americans who blindly trust that their election ballots will be fairly counted also believe wrestling is real! There must be accountability and watchdog groups tracking this process. ACORN must be hounded and followed. The Republican Party needs to appoint poll watchers and participants and train them NOW in spotting, reporting and tracking fraud. THIS CAN NOT BE IGNORED!!! I have said this many times and here it is again: GET VIDEO of ACORN and the rest of the union thugs breaking the law and post it. Our freedom and our way of life is at war. We must fight back or it will be lost forever in 2010!
No.
They don't have a clue.
All they know, is that someone told them to go out on the corner, make noise and make fools out of themselves. The entire mindset is beyond my comprehension.
People need to get off this racist crap.This isn't about black on white or white on black.This is about the welfare non taxpaying lazy sludge riding around inside the wagon being pulled by Hardworking taxpayers.Hardworking taxpaying people make up the majority of this country.If you don't like what's going on vote out the incumbants in your states.
Acorn is deeply embedded not only in the country but deep in the US Congress as well.Obama and the democrats are up to their necks in Acorn and the only way to effect the change to get rid of all this scum is by a major change in congress.
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
~ Joseph Stalin ~
It sounds like this ACORN fruit has been into OBAMA'S STASH.
Hey RadioPatriot it’s already happened. Look at NY-23. It may well turn out that Hoffman won but the damange is already done by Owens. Hoffman, by conceding the election too soon gave Owens the go-ahead to take the seat and then vote for Obamacare. If Hoffman had held his concession (like Al Gore in 2000) then the seat would have been held up and thus the vote in the house for the HC bill would have been held up. When will our side stop playing by the Marquis of Queensbury Rules? We need to realize that this is a street fight and stop being so gentlemanly about everything. The shenanigans we are finding out about NY-23 are infuriating. Several precincts that have gone for the right in the past were showing 0 votes? 10,000 absentee ballots again which have historically gone for the right have yet to be counted? I mean WTF? Let this be a lesson to the right. If it means a delay in some elections next year our side needs to make sure that all votes have been counted and in the cases of shenanigans court cases filed before conceding defeat. This has been the Dem playbook since 2000 and will continue until/unless we get as many of them thrown out as possible.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
Yes this worries me very much.
Just when you think that maybe you're overthinking, hyperventilating and getting all wound around the axle. . . just when you start to wonder if you're maybe just a bit too paranoid. . .
He goes there.
Unfortunately, this woman covered her tracks good enough, and what she said could never be used to bring any legal action against ACORN, even tho it is on tape. She said she's not a paid employee, just a volunteer/organizer. So ACORN can simply say "she doesn't speak for us and we didn't do the things she accuses us of".
OK, all this is nice but what is going to be done about it?
For some reason this lady is under the assumption that it is ok to game the system. Did she get that from her democrat financial backers?
since this is a democrat organization, you need double and tripple proof, only republicans are decried in the media on phony documents or madeup accuasations. do you really think without a smoking 21 guns, eric holder will do anything, just today they decided a bullet wasn't good enough for ksm, they want to bring the circus to nyc, never mind the feelings for victims families. ksm might be found not guilty, and then file for all the government handout money he can get. once on our shores our constitution will apply to this waste of human matter.
Saltydog53: ".Hardworking taxpaying people make up the majority of this country."
Unfortunately, you are wrong. The bottom 50% of income earners in 2007 paid 3% of the collected income taxes. The top 10% paid 70% of the collected income taxes. The top 1% paid more taxes than the bottom 95%. The population is being taxed disproportionately. Those who have and achieve are carrying those who don't. Eventually, the top earners will quit working and our economy will shut down. A work of fiction will have been made into reality, and Ayn Rand will become the posthumous prophet who foretold the future.
Sorry, but there's nothing new here. I'm still hoping the pimp and ho saved their best video for the 2010 and 2012 election seasons.
Nothing to see here, move along….
That's why she looks so familiar.
So what should Conservatives have learned here? Never, ever, ever concede a race until all ballots are counted or our % difference is greater than the % of ballots left to count. On the latter, I might still not concede unless it was a blowout.
Neither shocked not surprised. I know they're breaking the law but I knew that before and I also know Eric Holder's DOJ will do nothing about it. They didn't go after armed Black Panthers intimidating voters on video. They won't go after SEIU thugs beating people up at town hall meetings. And they won't go after ACORN. The best you can hope for is they die a slow death as al their funding sources dry up from bad publicity.
Thanks for doing transcripts. My internet link is too slow for video….
Forget smoking gun, you are going to need high-speed video of the lead coming out of the barrel, into the target and back to the shooter without a frame drop. What this lady is saying, plausibly, is that these are accusations… EMPTY accusations against ACORN brought by Fox and others. Except the admission of being, at root and in fact, a partisan organization by legal definition but that is a thin reed to say the least. There might be an angle to bring their non-profit status under question but there is no standing for anyone disposed to do such a thing so far and from a PR standpoint I think you will find the response to be “Duh”. So, back to the line. ACORN has taken some good shots and Barry was expecting to use them as his phalangists and THAT has come acropper but that ain’t all. Not by a long country mile.
"who needs an army when you've got 'Fontaine's Home for the Poor'" – Bioshock
I read the transcript. My reaction is: so? Everyone knows ACORN is front for Obama, and he has allocated hundreds of millions to “stimulate” them. In other words: nothing we haven’t already known, no smoking gun, not even a smoking match.
I’m, however, looking forward to see how unfunding them with taxpayers’ money is single them out for punishment.
And so now we know that we have an ACORN community organizer thug in the White House acting as President of the United States of America. F sad!
Are you waking up yet America? Acorn got millions for delivering votes to Obama. Ofcourse this is just some organizer talking not any representaive of Acorn. But it sure seems strange that most Acorn offices havd still or had Obama campaign signs in the window. Wake up america! This election was fixed by the far left and George Sorros. They created how many fictional voters and had how many people lie and claim to be the fictional voter in order to fix the vote. How many absentee ballots did they steal and vote with, like what just happened in New Jersey! Wake Up america! Obama is a crook like Nixon, only worse because he doesn't defend America! How do you like Obama letting the 9/11 terrorists have public trials in New York? Talk about crapping on the country! Thsi guy is a traitor in the worst way. He hides his real agenda while lying to the public. How about his refusal to say the atom on japan was nessecary? Do you want soemone who is agaibnst you as your president? Wake Up America! Take your country and kick this thief and his cronies out of office before they completely destory the country and we can never get it back.
Bundy? Is it Political Correct yet to inject some reference to Ron And Nicole? I'm reaching I know.
Conservatives should learn not to run liberal democrats for elected office.
Agreed. The middle class and entrepreneurial hardworking are evaporating by political design. Needy people are easier to herd. 50% of Americans essentially paid no taxes and have no skin in the game. That's hardly good for a democracy. Chavez and Putin remain in power because of that kind of an underclass.
I understood her to say “…we got X amount of millions [of people] voting for him.” Not money they received (although they received 800 grand for get out the vote), but people they got to vote for Obama.
Other than the fact that she said that everyone knew in the organization that they're campaigning for Obama when they were supposed to be non partisan (and everyone knows that they were an arm of the campaign), there isn't anything new here. Most if it is her explaining what's going on from the ACORN perspective/spin (effectively admitting that what's on the tapes are what happened and that they damaged the reputation of the group).
As others have said, this is a dog bites man story. Unless there is something else here in the recordings such as threats and such, not much to see here in comparison to the more exceptional and great coverage that Breitbart has already covered with the sting videos. The Moonbeam angle is far far more important than a bunch of trained protesters-for-rent.
Isn't that Tina Turner?..lol
Yeah, I'm not surprised either, in fact, it's exactly what I would have expected.
That's because the throw away the Republican registrations. Nice, huh?
RadioPatriot, you are absolutly right, BUT You seem to not get it eather when you say "The Republican Party needs to appoint poll watchers and participants and train them NOW in spotting, reporting and tracking fraud" because half of the republican party leaders are on the same aggenda as the democrates – thats why its so easy for them to change parties when ever they want, it doesn't make any differance.
WAKE UP AMERICA!! WAKE UP SLEEPING GIANT!!! WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! LETS GET THIS HOUSE IN ORDER!!!
What really needs to happen is for "We the People" to start a new party – And bring the Constitution back to its rightful place in our courts. Courts don't acknowledge the Constitution anymore.
great comedy here …
WTF? This seems much ado about nothing. Her only possibly incriminating comments are at the bottom of page 2 and top of page 3 saying that they knew they were going to "put Obama in" but never "declared it." Well, duh.
This doesn't seem newsworthy. All of her other comments are the Fox news is saying that Acorn did the fraud etc.
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! WAKE UP SLEEPING GIANT!!! WAKE UP AMERICA!! START READING THE CONSTITUTION!!!
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