Is ACORN’s Bertha Lewis Even Capable Of Telling The Truth?
by Matthew VadumDid ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis say anything that was true in her recent speech at the National Press Club?
The embattled ACORN CEO deserved an Academy Award nomination for her virtuoso performance in which she not only depicted ACORN as an innocent victim but also as a whistleblower that tried to nip the subprime mortgage crisis in the bud.
She blamed everyone but herself: “We’ve seen this play before, whether it was the civil rights movement or whatever, when you organize poor people to have real power, what you do is often turned against you.”
She blamed Republicans: “The RNC…because we’ve been inflated as the boogeyman, raises almost $2 million a day, every day, and this form of modern-day ACORN McCarthyism has got to stop.”
Lewis’s statement about the Republican National Committee was immediately torpedoed by RNC chairman Michael Steele who defended ACORN.
In a video of Steele from a Sept. 21 speech that surfaced on a left-wing website the day of Lewis’s speech, Steele praised Lewis. “The current head of the organization, she’s done a phenomenal job getting out in front of it,” Steele said. “I applaud her. I take her at her word that she wants to work to make sure that the bad apples are thrown out.”
Steele said he respects ACORN’s history of “working in the community and helping the poor.”
So much for the Republican boogeyman.
Lewis said little about her own role in covering up the nearly $1 million embezzlement perpetrated by founder Wade Rathke’s brother. After news of the theft broke, Lewis forced out honest ACORN national board members who dared to demand accountability.
Lewis, who has high-level contacts within the Marxist governments of Venezuela and Bolivia, also glossed over her ties to the radical Working Families Party in New York state and to President Obama’s political director Patrick Gaspard.
I spotted eight major lies in the Lewis speech.
Here are just two of them:
LIE #1: Lewis claimed no one voted fraudulently in 2008 presidential election “because of an ACORN registration.” She added, “This voter fraud or the allegations of voter fraud was to have hung a shadow over the presidential election. And it proved to be an utter fabrication and a work of fiction that was created by the people who wrote it.”
In fact, vote fraud happened in Ohio in 2008 and ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.
Darnell Nash of Cleveland, Ohio, was registered to vote by ACORN nine times for last year’s election. Nash cast a fraudulent ballot and was convicted of vote fraud and voter registration fraud. He’s currently serving a six-month prison term.
A spokesman for Cleveland’s Democratic prosecutor Bill Mason told me earlier this month that a local investigation of ACORN remains wide open.
The conviction of Nash, a cross-dressing prostitute known by several aliases, is hugely significant for several reasons, not least of which is the fact that ACORN has long maintained that vote fraud, as opposed to the lesser crime of voter registration fraud, essentially never happens.
LIE #7: Following an anti-Karl Rove rant, Lewis deliberately smeared undercover sting video filmmaker James O’Keefe. O’Keefe and Hannah Giles posed as a pimp and prostitute in the videos seeking help from ACORN. ACORN workers across the nation are shown in the videos counseling the pair on how to evade taxes, make fraudulent applications for government aid, and disguise a planned brothel.
Lewis said O’Keefe told the Washington Post, “They’re registering too many minorities that usually vote Democratic. Somebody’s got to stop them.”
In fact after the newspaper ran the Sept. 18 cover story to which Lewis refers, the newspaper ran a correction because O’Keefe said no such thing.
Does anyone believe the CEO of ACORN wouldn’t have known this?
It was an obvious smear and Lewis knows it.
For the full article, go to American Spectator.
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Lying liars and the liars who lie them.
Hmmmmmm
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How do you know when Bertha Lewis is lying?
HER LIPS ARE MOVING !
ACORN and its various tentacles are even more corrupt an entity, than Tammany Hall and the Chicago Daley machine, combined. This has been well known for decades and there's enough incriminating evidence/proof out there, which just screams for a Federal case against all of them. But, with Holder as head of the DOJ, they'll continue to be protected.
You Lie!
The following are my observations of suspects, after watching a COPS Marathon:
Always the victim……….Always the one who is injured……..Never involved in any wrong doing……Certainly never involved in any criminal activities…………If they were ever convicted for criminal activity(s), they claim they were setup……..always denying what they were doing for the last 10 minutes after being recorded on film……Always talking the loudest……….Always telling lies……..Always the one who is talking and not making any sense…….
Does any of this apply to Bertha Baghdad Bob Lewis?
This woman has been taught just like Obama has. LIE LIE LIE! Say it enough and the followers will beLIEve!
But all she is trying to do is help out the poor folk…Stay poor that is.
Some day, maybe, poor people will start to understand that the main reason they are still poor is because they continue to vote Democrap. Poor people need educations, not cyclical handouts!
I think the saying goes something like…"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime"
What a concept eh?
as postulated earlier and elsewhere the 'truth' is a maleable affair…
Particularly when your core philosophy doesn't regard truthfulness as anything other than a fool's errand. Sad, but true. Such is Lucifer's domain.
When truth is a casualty then your system is rotten to the core. Think about that…
Lets face a fact, Bertha Lewis is out to protect her position at ACORN. It probably is the only place that will allow her the much desired control she seeks. If ACORN goes bye-bye, Bertha goes bye-bye. She can't have that so she'll dance around facts, ignore the truth and outright lie to save ACORN so that she can save herself.
It makes me sick they can break the law and be protected by the people they got into office. Why won't more peole stand up and investigate them? They are all prob scared of the union thugs.. well I say f'em and fight. Our country is going down the tubes and the Dems love it. Welfare for everyone! Not.
This crazy lady is getting on my last nerve!
How can anyone take the words of this intellectually challanged ghetto spawned fruitcake seriously ? Good Lord.
ACORN exec's should just be rounded up, given a fair trial, then hung. Tired of all this corruption and game playing by the SOB's
How can anyone take the words of this intellectually challenged ghetto spawned fruitcake seriously ? Good Lord.
I just love watching these lying SOB'S. The organization is dying and the thieves are all scrambling to the Feds to get the best deal they can get to cut their time short in prison. I just wish all of the Business owners like myself could get together on one site and tell our story on what Acorn pulled on us. Illegal wire-tapps, Frivoulas Lawsuits, being harassed by Law Enforcement, having local officials refuse to help us when we begged them to and best of all Judical Misconduct on the part of Judges and District Attorney's and especially on the part of the United States Attorney.
They all knew what was going on and all concerned were getting kick backs of some kind
Did you mean "Lying liars and the liars who lie WITH them?
Hmmmmmmmm!!
Conservatives must emply ACORN's tactics of their program "Get Out The Vote". This country is in serious jeopardy of losing its rudder in a sea of totalitarianism. It is up to us. If we fail in 2010 we have NOBODY to blame but ourselves.
Take the day off work….provide rides to the polls….volunteer at the polls….talk to your neighbors….support conservative politicians. Get RID of the Democrats and Republicans who despise and work against the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES !
This is a critical battle between the good(will of honest people) and the evil(actions of liberals). Get moving !
She is very vindictive. She get's caught and she wants to get even,
Does anyone remember the famous line at the Democratic National Convention when ol' Ma Richards Governor of Texas addressed the crowd, regarding George Bush Sr.: "Poor George, he caint help himself, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." The crowd went wild, and it went down in history, and the rest as they say, is history. Slick Willie won the election that year. People need short soundbites to remember.
ACORN? Bertha Lewis?
"Poor Bertha, she caint help herself, she was born with a perpetual lie in her mouth"……………
Does anyone remember the famous line at the Democratic National Convention when ol' Ma Richards Governor of Texas addressed the crowd, regarding George Bush Sr.: "Poor George, he caint help himself, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth." The crowd went wild, and it went down in history, and the rest as they say, is history. Slick Willie won the election that year. People need short soundbites to remember.
ACORN? Bertha Lewis?
"Poor Bertha, she caint help herself, she was born with a rotten Acorn in her mouth"……………
Wow, time for the "angry oppressed black woman" show.
Here is my stand against racism, and sexism as well. I don't care who or what you are, you lie, you obstruct justice, you are at least complicit in violations of the law, so you should go to jail.
Let's see how well this act sells from the inside.
Problem is that corruption is rampant…those getting into office are little (if any) better than those corruptly putting them in office. Our politicians practice "Don't do what I do, do what I say" politics. It won't end until we "Vote the Bums Out"! Every one of them… and get back to Governance as the founding Fathers intended it to be. Do you really think this could have started if things like the "Community Reinvestment Act" and a zillion other wrong headed ideas weren't dreamed up back in the late '70s? Check out who had their fingers in that? Bertha deserves whetever she gets, but she didn't invent this crap either! Complaining does no good…and it doesn't look like we have a lot of time left! Politicians will keep spending until they run out of someone else's money. They've already run out of ours and are hocking our futures! How do you like the term:….Ba-Na-Na Re-Pub-Lic ?
james okeefe tweeted a new ACORN video due out tomorrow from Philly – hope Burtha is watching ….I don't see the tweet but I did yesterday….
It is interesting to read that after all the conservative blah blah blah about Acorn stealing elections, there is only ONE , count em one , case of voter fraud that can be pointed to. As in ONE vote found , after many investigations. But I know I know , child brothels etc.
yea bertha we all know who caused the subprime mortgage melt down it was you and obama and all of your scum buddies and corrupt orginization’s we know who is at faule so Quit lieing and tell the truth for once in your life why cant you and obama tell the truth oh i for got you all cant tell the truth from a lie
Fraudulent voters are like cockroaches–if you see one, you KNOW that there are hundreds more behind the walls.
"Admit nothing; deny everything; make counter accusations."
Oh I see , you just KNOW there are hundreds more. Well ,that is not a very compelling argument.
Good Lord Almight man!
Don't you dare use the words ACORN and hung in the same sentence. You'll have Crazy Al Sharpton and the Right Reverend Jessee Jackson out front with a bullhorn, screeching and bellowing "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!"
Zipperhead,
Stand by for newz…………….
You'd be surprised at what gets blocked. Anyway, you are wrong, there have been a bunch of absentee ballots in New York that were filed FOR people instead of BY them – I think they've discovered over 30 so far. And guess who was behind it?
That's right, Bertha Lewis's "Working Family Party" (ACORN).
Of course, I'll assume you are a complete moron and think that the only voter fraud that gets committed gets caught, when, in reality, people commit crime because they know they can get away with it – there is far more of this shit out there that people get away with.
By the way, you'll be happy to know that the Obama administration thinks blacks aren't smart enough to vote unless there is a "D" or "R" after the names on ballots.
Is that racist of the Obama admin?
I sure hope it will as exciting as the news about Ayers writing Obamas book , or that news producer who wrote that anti-semitic email , or the news about Obamas "secret army" , and how he was born in Kenya.
Speaking of Kenya, do ya reckon Barry Obongo will take some of those bingo winnings from the Noble Piece Prize, and buy his poor brudda George in Kenya a new mud hut? He could probably buy used double wides for the whole village……………
You and I both know Obama will never see that money. Once Acorn , Ayers and Soros are done splitting it up there won't be 5 bucks left.
Michael Steele is disappointing.
Now the Working Families Party is involved in voter fraud in NY, Bertha's political arm.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/20/tried-...
And they must be in other states too. I just received 2 letters from the "Working Families Party" in the mail today and I live in NJ. Plus, this year they started "mail-in" ballots in NJ. Our hopes for a fair election are slim.
It's not just my opinion that there is only one case of voter fraud , that is what the article above states.
ACORN LIES!!!
You know its weird…i was driving today in my car and an ACORN fell out of a tree and hit my car. Seriously.
Just goes to show you how evil acorns are
Why is ACORN, the only one’s under an investigation?? SEIU, needs to be held under the same scrutiny. They can try to “divorce” themselves from this but they are just a “tentacle” of ACORN. ALL UNION dues collected, should be required to be put in escrow as well.
Another version of that:
Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for an evening;
Light a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
The article is wrong – I know, it is a shocker, but people can write things and make mistakes.
If Lewis said the sun was shining, I’d go outside with an umbrella.
You know what they say…..the NUT doesnt fall far from the tree.
DO IT!! I think if you could get enough Business owners and play the "victim card" that ACORN and libs play so well, it could really help in revealing what ACORN is all about — thuggery, corruption, SEIU, etc.
How about a full list of her lies?
That would be enlightening.
Yes, I agree. Where's the duct tape?
Where there's smoke, there is fire and this smoke reeks of rotting corpses.
there you go again einy,for christ sakes …for 50 years we have been teaching them how to fish,and the welfare still be's rollin. there comes a time when we call it the way it is….FUCK POLITICAL CORRECTNESS,(cap lock just for you)
I watch every Sat night with my kids to show them how NOT to be STUPID ….
A documentary about ACORN…..”The Lies of Lewis”
In Bertha's warped liberal democrat mind she is the most honest person on the face of the earth.
When you own the (So-called) Judges, none of these revelations matter, she's just a loving gal, standing up for the poor!!!! You can't blame her if she gets rich doing it!!!! She'll defend her actions until her court date, if it ever comes (In this country, it's doubtful), to convict her, would be racist!!!!!
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For all the carping and petty victories won by conservatives recently (ACORN, Jones, NEA,etal,,,) Obama is getting everything he wanted and the way things are going he will achieve his goals like no other president. When he said he wanted to make a fundemental change BO was not BS'n. NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE
He knows his stimulus plan will never create jobs. If the economy and the job market continue to deteriorate, he will have transformed us from primarily employer based health care to the public option BY DEFAULT. With his foreign policy of engagement with our adversaries and changing our approach to the world stage as 'just another player, he has effectively dissed our allies and kissed the ass of our enemies. Call this Pre-emptive appeasement. Taking the strongest military in the world and enacting unilateral disarmament. Destroying the dollar and its status in the world along with global redistribution of wealth will seal the deal here at home by converting the greatest middle class in the world to what Detroit is today. Despite our vocal discontent, his plan continues to unfold and there ain't nothing we can do about it. Talk about change, we are just seeing the opening acts.
You forgot "These aren't my pants".
Dis beyotch be whacked.
OMG!!! This has become like a daily comic strip! Right in between "Garfield" and "Marmaduke" lies the daily comic strip "ACORN Derangement Syndrome". To the left is "Peanuts". Didn't this speech happen like a month ago? Did you all used to work for a dairy farm? "Cause you sure are milking this derangement syndrome. lol
Nothing new under the sun a lie told often enough is believed. I'm sure she has a book of Mao rules as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oslPwm5OY5s
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SYNTAX GAME………..the lieing buffoon is back! How do you live with yourself? Oh wait, you ACORN people justify your means to an end with TAXPAYERS money. Between ACORN&SEIU, the “little piggies” won’t have any money soon. Maybe you can get a job, in the healthcare field! Making an exsistance for this horrible public healthcare option. You’ll be up to your eyeballs in educational debt as well. Be ready to work weekends&holidays. Be ready to work sick as well-you see you go to work “sick,” because too many absentism’s you get fired. Be ready not to get your breaks because the residents comes first and “everyone” has to have humility! Be ready for aching back-be told it’s all in your “head.”
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The National Press Club is a joke. Remember when the Reverend WRONG spoke there after his anti-white, anti-American rant? Now we have Bertha. The leader of the most scandalous organization in American history. I saw her interviewed on O 'Reilly a few months ago and was appaled by her lying and avoidance of questions that needed to be answered. Especially the one about opening the acorn books to outside auditors. This woman is incapable of admitting the lies, voter fraud, and deceit her organization is GUILTY of. Stop the circus, and start prosecuting these CLOWNS! Oh wait, we can't the justice department is too busy trying to prosecute our true heroes. You know, the ones that kept and continue to keep us safe everyday!
to quote George Costanza: "It's not a lie if you believe it."
what an ironic dichotomy(?).
The Right is often too namby-pamby for its own good in domestic political matters. We'd rather lose an election honorably than win dishonestly and when we actually get in office… man, the Republicans can be a bunch of wusses! And yet when it comes to the use of military force, harsh interrogation techniques, etc., we're who the world calls when somebody's ass needs kicked.
The Left, on the other hand
, has absolutely no compunction whatsoever using the most dishonest, down-n-dirty, thug tactics to gain, hold and exercise political power…. and then turn into swooning pacifist pussies at the mere mention of applying force in any conflict from a minor police matter to an international nuclear standoff.
Go figure, huh?
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Smearing and misdirection, gotta hand it to the libs they've turned it into an art form.
Their mothers must be proud.
ACORN = A Corrupt Organization Right under our Noses
You can't say that about her! She's BLACK! You racists!
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CUNY…likes Bertha
http://www.cuny.tv/schedule/guest_detail.lasso?-D...
EXCELLENT point and analogy…. Smacks one in the face….
This woman has got to go… just as ACORN must go.
She's the puppet, not the puppeteer…
Congress has time to investigate steroid use in MLB but they can't seem to be interested in this criminal organization.
Go figure.
TIme for Steele to leave. His defense of Bertha Lewis and his supporting Dede Scozzafava (NY 23rd Cong Dist) is two strikes. Go now, Mr Steele, before we are counting a third. Bye.
Hey Syntax_game, it's me Jethro with my robe and burning cross (I have to admit that was funny). C'mon man, you honestly believe this community organization group does anything to benefit anyone but themselves. This isn't going to go away.
Glad you liked that. Problem is turn right is the Right are angry over the mass registering of low to mid income minority voters who traditionally, don't vote Republican. Poor black folks voting Republican? Not a snowballs chance in hell that's gonna happen. So the Right are viewing ACORN and ProjectVote as an obvious threat since they have become a thousand times more effective in the past few years. Understandable. It's not racism, it's politics. But why then, target the housing? Why not go after the voting registration part of ACORN? The Right have tried for almost 2 years to target the voter registration part of ACORN and have failed time and time again miserably so the housing part of ACORN is all they have left. It's an act of desperation and that's all it is. And this edited video that was released today is proof positive of it. Desperation! If the truth is on anybody's side, then let the truth set you free…release all the unedited tapes!!!
Whaaaa?!?!?!? I worked for a mainstream insurance company and trust me…reform is definitely necessary. I welcome it over the greedy elites you obediently defend.
I'm glad you admit that the "little piggies" are still getting their money because the Repubs have stalled the Defund ACORN Acts in committees. You have way too much faith in people who are in bed with the same organization you protest.
Nancy B…I live with myself just fine because people like you can accuse ACORN of everything under the sun but have not produced one single piece of evidence to prove anything at all. You've been indoctrinated into believing an organization is guilty without needing proof of it because you are a failure when it comes to thinking for yourself. Presumption of innocence until proven guilty is something above you because 3 or 4 edited, concocted videos are your security blanket to provide you warmth and security over the majority of the country rejecting you. Because the majority of the country would rather have a negro as a leader than you. I suppose ACORN is all you have left and the remaining dismal few can care about. Have fun with it.
Syntax_game, OK you make a good point there. You are also right about this not being about race and should be about politics and understanding the platform of each candidate and what they bring to the table and not simply voting for someone because of race. I know I made the "from the hood" comment and that was out of line on my part. Personally, I don't care what race a person is. The thing that concerns me is how many people are now voting because of race only and have no idea what the candidate stands for or is going to do once in office. You are right though, the truth will be known sooner of later. We can just agree to disagree on the ACORN thing, shake hands and go about our day.
TurnRight — I got your reply in my e-mail but there may be a glitch here as it doesn't seem to be posted here but yes, agree to disagree and shake hands my friend.
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