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There simply is no other way to explain the statements of White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew this morning on CNN's State of the Union. Lew was asked by Candy Crawley about a recent statement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicating he would not be bringing a...






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Obama was an attorney for ACORN. Obama is completely in bed with ACORN.
ACORN got billions from the stimulus bill that is our money.
WE THE PEOPLE give billions to ACORN.
I don't really care for Beck most of the time but in this case he's right on the money.
Rick Santelli, Glenn Beck, Joe Wilson, the new founding fathers?
welcome to u.s.s.a=untied socalist states of america
Beck about the media: "Driving your Mercedes…" That's about right.
The leftist media is covering for Obama and his ilk all the way to the bank. Only time will tell how long that will last, however, considering there really is no loyalty among thieves, communists, socialists, or Obots.
It is now our civil duty-our responsibility-to call our elected officials and DEMAND a serious investigation of ACORN. Please do so. I am calling as soon as I am able to. I do not want to see my country-MY country-be eaten from the inside out.
Call Pelosi and demand congress investigate ACORN
This is an outrage. Why isn't Congress investigating this scandal? I was a true democrat for 40 years,
and I am embarrassed to admit to that in this past year that Obama has been in office. Something needs
to be done about Acorn that is spending my taxpayer money in such an unsupervised manner. Obama
better wake up. I will be changing parties in the next election. Thank you Glenn Beck!!!
Where is the FOURTH ESTATE????????????????
Beck about the media: "Driving your Mercedes…" That's about right. Our leftist media is covering for Obama all the way to the bank. Hard to say how long it will last, however, considering there is no loyalty among thieves, fascists, or Obots.
While ACORN claims they fired the two women I would suggest that this is not the end of the story. The career paths of these two women needs to be followed to determined whether another of Radke's organizations has hired them.
Kevin: Here is the ACORN phone number: 410.243.9790. I called it today and told them I needed a house for my girls. They hung up on me. Imagine that……….
ACORN also claims that they tried it at other locations. If they get off easy-and my easy I mean they still exist in 5 years-I will be outraged.
I'm sure she'll get right on that.
I teach at an inner-city high school and I can tell you that the ACORN attitude has spread rampant among the students. Today's youth is even more dangerous than the last. The entitlement mentality has alread infected them and I have no idea how to fix it.
This has got to be the biggest corruption scam in the history of the world! And Glen is right, the media is ok with it!
Rick, focus primarily on your own kids, if you have any. I would even recommend homeschooling. I'm 22, was homeschooled from 4th-12th grades. I was not corrupted by the government's brainwashing through public schools…that's what it is after all. But, that's another debate.
One more thing, everyone. If you are on facebook, myspace, twitter, or any other social networking site, post a link to this page. Expect mockery.
I thank God for Glenn Beck. He seems to be the ONLY person on television who finds the TRUTH and informs us,The American people. Now it is up to us to carry the ball and throw these traitors in jail……..all of them!Call the White House, your representatives, do not relent and do not let up the pressure on these phonies who are the blood suckers of America. They only care about POWER!!!!
WRONG. Obama never worked for ACORN, nor had ACORN as a client. God, the ignorance!
What does ACORN have to do with your students' insubordination?
WAIT…Isn't Glenn Beck part of the media? So the media's not ignoring this story.
The New York Times did do an article on it. I found it online this evening:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/10/us/AP-...
We need more people like the two investigators. Lets keep going by feeding this fire and win our freedon again. Lets start a resource to allow for the uncovering of the corruption. Well said Glen.
Acorn and Acorn Housing get millions of dollars for so called "helping people". The reality is that the money only goes into the pockets of CEO's but not to the people. They claim to help people who fall behind on their mortgage but all they want is to meet their quota to bill for funds to Neighbor Works and HUD funding, I know this because I work there. When I started working there I really believed in the organization, now I'm there because I can't afford to leave.
My manager does this type of work daily!!!! She pre-qualifies people for loans on mortgages when they clearly cannot afford the home, but hey she met her quota!
the rest of the media has to be dragged kicking a screaming to report this…AP…NY times…a we bit late ehh??
WRONG!! Obama worked as an attorney for ACORN. God, the foolishness!! I mean really, don't you even Google it to see if you are correct before you post it Barb?
Obama Paid ACORN $800,000 Via Their “Front Group.” “For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)” (Editorial, “Is ACORN Stealing The Election?” Investor’s Business Daily, 10/8/08)
Obama Was ACORN’s Lawyer. “The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.” (Editorial, “Is ACORN Stealing The Election?” Investor’s Business Daily, 10/8/08)
Obama and ACORN, Fellow Travelers. “ACORN attracted Barack Obama in his youthful community organizing days. Madeline Talbott hired him to train her staff — the very people who would later descend on Chicago’s banks as CRA shakedown artists. The Democratic nominee later funneled money to the group through the Woods Fund, on whose board he sat, and through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, ditto. Obama was not just sympathetic — he was an ACORN fellow traveler.” (Mona Charen, “ACORN, Obama, And The Mortgage Mess,” Real Clear Politics, 9/30/08)
Obama Trained ACORN Staff. “Several community organizers and Altgeld Gardens tenants confirmed Johnson was working on asbestos but said Obama organized residents to act. ‘He got people to vote with their feet’ on the issue, organizer Madeleine Talbot said. At the time, Talbot worked at the social action group ACORN and initially considered Obama a competitor. But she became so impressed with his work that she invited him to help train her staff.” (Letta Tayler and Keith Herbert, “Obama Forged Path As Chicago Community Organizer,” Los Angeles Times, 3/2/08)
ACORN’s Political Action Committee Endorsed Obama. “ACORN’s Political Action Committee, ACORN Votes, announced Feb. 21 that it had endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President.” (ACORN, “ACORN’s Political Action Committee Endorses Obama,” Press Release, 2/21/08)
Obama Praised ACORN For Being A Good Ally. “When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, ‘I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.” (Barack Obama 2008 Website, Accessed 10/8/08)
“Obama Worked As Executive Director Of ACORN’s Voter-Registration Arm, Project Vote.” “What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.” (Editorial, “Is ACORN Stealing The Election?” Investor’s Business Daily, 10/8/08)
These 'journalists' could be liable for taping people in MD without their permission, a criminal offense. Also, what you didn't know is that these reporters tried this trick with numerous ACORN offices in Baltimore before they got these duds. http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200909100057
Try this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-...
Try this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-...
Try this:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-...
Oh give me a break! Is this corruption worse than Madoff, AIG, ABSCAM or Watergate? Grow up!
Why aren't you free? And how getting 2 low level ACORN employees fired going to make you any freer?
These journalists are heroes! Ironic that anyone could be more concerned about them committing a criminal offense than what they uncovered. So much corruption…makes me sick.
These two should have been arrested, not just fired–or were they actually moved to another office to continue their "work". They clearly violated federal law!
Two people fired. That's it? We're supposed to move along now?
The IRS should be all over this, at the VERY least.
Barbara, he was referring to the MSM (main stream media). You know CNN, ABC, CBS….
[...] Dang it, you beat me to it while I was watching the video about this. http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/10/…#idc-container [...]
How much critical news are we not hearing? Thanks Glen Beck for keeping us informed!! I hate to see how many people will be in line at ACORN tomorrow for assistance!!! Maybe they could buy someone a meth lab.
Unbelievable! Congress should investigate ACORN IMMEDIATELY!! Put a hold on all bills going both through the House and Senate! No voting or passing anything through until ACORN has been investigate fully…. EVERYTHING needs to be looked through! This is an OUTRAGE! Why are the Obamatons and the MSM looking the other way? WHY? They are just as corrupt as the people they elected. The United States of America has some serious mental illness going on and the only cure is Glenn Beck! You go buddy…
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by SavageNews, Cyndi Fullen, Marlene Soward, Dale Anne Davidson and others. SavageNews said: Glenn Beck: Media Silent on ACORN Corruption: http://bit.ly/5ilOF #tcot [...]
As far as I am concerned, when there are people like this working for a federally funded organization, every single person in the organization is responsible for it. And, when there is corruption like this, it matters little to me what is done to bring out the TRUTH. If any representative of ACORN is caught on tape for this, the entire company should be investigated. Noone in any type of authority should get off the hook. Nobody. Nada. None. Think about this. What if someone taped a man without his permission confessing that he was planning on robbing a bank? Would it be investigated? Heck yeah. Same principle.
They are heroes, and I fear for them. They are also now targets of the largest community organization in America.
is your last name Walters? you seem to have that same condescending arrogance
Give’em hell Glenn Beck, and Breitbart with his most excellent new Blog.
Completely in the pocket of the liberals.
Are you being serious? Your seriously blaming these journalists getting to the bottom of a serious crime? Do you have any idea how many times this "trick" hasn't been a trick and ACORN employees have "helped" these people commit criminal offenses? Your link is laughable.
Yea! Glenn Beck! My hero!
This gets my blood boiling!!! ITS MY TAX MONEY and they are totally corrupt with their hands on it. BIllions are getting wasted on it. YIKES! Horrible. IT makes me angry and sad that this happens. And angrier that we seem so helpless to get rid of this kind of abuse. Power corrupts absolutely.
Glenn Beck is not a journalist he is a commentator, however, he is right about this. The main stream media was more concerned about JOE WILSON' S comments regarding (Dear Leaders) CHAIRMAN MAOBAMAS speech last night than they were about his criminal organization he was involved in when he was only a community organizer for this corrupt entity
Glenn Beck should name names at CBS, NBC, ABC, NYT, WaPo, etc. Who are the editors and the producers who are spiking the stories about this? Call them out.
who cares…. You must take a stand. We can no longer be silent! NEVER AGAIN WILL I BE SILENT!
Barbara- maybe you don't understand that encouraging criminal behavior is against the law ! Freedom is the ability to live within a society that is subject to the laws of that society.
Obama administration has slated ~8.4 Billion of BORROWED stimulus money for ACORN and its affiliates. Before Obama stimulus ACORN operated on a private and tax funded budget of ~25M year. Either we tax payers are being forced to borrow enough to totally fund ACORN for the next three-hundred and thirty-six years (8.4B / 25M) based on today’s budget, or Obama has BIG plans for ACORN!
get out while you have your soul!
Talk about your deaf ears. Pelosi? She'd probably call you un-American for not supporting such a noble organization as ACORN.
Barbara – Organizations with criminal intent don't care about being role models for children. Children who are exposed to this type behavior are not looking at the right or wrong, only the reward. Pavlogs dog comes to mind.
God Bless john okeiff and brightbart and sonya the great hidden journalist and Glenn Chill BRO GOD is on our side they are hear. Obama and the media and all those bastards are idiots all their power is gone, like cinderella it ain't 666 anymore baby it's 999. Now it's, power To THE PEOPLE ALL OF US AMERICA WHy do you think it's called US, peace out all black white red yellow ALL AMericans everyone. Peace out. ps ROCK N ROLL!
ps last night CBS edited the comments of republican response to obama's lies about health care. Glenn beck get someone who tivoed it, i know noboby watches that channel chanel but someone hass to have it and it'stime they investigate4 thanks
That article was pathetic. Talk about printing half of the truth.
Barbara- YOU have got to stop drinking the jim jones grape juice. You want to excuse criminal behavior because mediamatters is unwilling to be truthful about anything. Barbara tell the truth are you a 9-11 "TRUTHER"?
Will anything good come from all the work these fine young people have done? Glenn called for fasting and prayer on his radio show this morning. Are we willing to sacrifice a day for our country? for our government's cleansing?
i mean altered the voice and picture to be off it should be in sinc
After the Fox exposure
YOU'RE AN IDIOT WITH THAT REMARK!
God will take care of this corruption in his own way and his own time. We should not sit by and let it all happen now that we know about it! Thank you Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart.
SO BARB, ARE YOU EMPLOYED BY ACORN? SOUNDS LIKE THAT'S WHERE YOUR PATRIOTISM LIES!
[...] Glenn Beck: Media Silent on ACORN Corruption [...]
THE GOVERNMENT AND FREEDOM WE HOLD SO DEAR IS WHAT GAVE THESE VILLIANS IN WASHINGTON THE GOOD LIFE THEY HAVE LEAD AND STILL LEAD. IF THEY WERE SUPPRESSED THEY WOULDN'T BE WHERE THEY ARE TODAY, ENJOYING THAT GOOD LIFE! SO NOW THEY WANT TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM US? THE GOOD AMERICAN PEOPLE? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU, AND IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME AND AMERICANS WILL FIGHT TO KEEP IT, MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THAT! WE WILL FIGHT BACK, IT'S OUR NATUARE. AND WE WON'T STOP UNTIL WE WIN. CHEERS FOR THE TEA PARTIES AND STANDING OVATION FOR MR. GLENN BECK, MY HERO. WE'VE DEFEATED NATIONS, WE'LL DEFEAT YOU! THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL IN THE END. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
It made CNN news:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/acorn.pros...
GLEN BECK IS A TRUE AMERICAN AND PATRIOT. WITH OUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT, BOTH PARTIES ARE INVOLVED IN THIS, GLEN NEEDS OUR BACKING, SUPPORT AND YES, PRAYS. I FAIL TO SEE GOD IN THIS CORRUPTION, ONLY HATE, POWER, MONEY AND ANGRY. DON'T BE MEEK!!!! SPEAK OUT AND BE HEARD!!!!
NO, NO VIOLENCE!!! WE WILL BEAT THEM AT THEIR OWN GAME LIKE "BIG GOVERNMENT.COM" DID. SUPER JOB!!! USE YOUR BRAINS AND IMAGINATION AND DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. MOST OF AMERICA IS ANGRY, SO NOW SPEAK OUT AND TALK TO ALL THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU AND CALL YOUR CONGRESS,
AND WHITE HOUSE. 1-202-456-1111. GOD BLESS YOU ALL,
"Obama Signs Tens of Thousands of Questionable Pardons Submitted by Community Group ACORN" http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-signs-t...
Mr. Beck, you are wrong. CBS new featured the ACORN story TODAY, when it has only been out there for less than a day. Of course, we all realize that you know ALL and NOBODY but you knows that the mainstream television news broadcasts won't say a word (add lots of sarcasm), but that is not true. The ACORN story is vile and disgusting, but, Glenn, you (a/k/a Almighty One) continue to act as though you are the only one who will report this story. Stop all of the sarcasm and finger pointing(and phony choking between phrases) and REPORT, just like the major television news studios have done. Tomorrow, I expect that you will apologize for your confrontational remarks — Nah, no, you never beck down from a good accusation, do ya?
I don't know why Glenn Beck is surprise that the media is not on top of this issue. By now he should understand that there are some rich and power forces that are both inside and outside the U.S. orchestrating this massive plot to turn the country communist. The liberal media is just another arm of this movement and Acorn is it's hand. Glenn Beck and all those who are loyal to the constitution need to focus on cutting off the head of this serpent and not it's appendages. There is a silent revolution going on right now in front of our eyes and we need to stay focus on defeating it from it's main roots. Like Glenn said himself, there are hundreds of organizations just like Acorn. Just because we destroy Acorn doesn't mean the Communist movement has stopped.
Hey Maria, just want to let you know that you should register as an independent. The new Democrat party is now the new Socialist Communist party. The Republicans are just gutless cowards who are bench warming until the Democrats fumble the ball. These 2 parties no longer represents the saying "that government of the people, by the people, for the people"
what's it like being an ineffective troll?
you are all idiots for believing this garbage, Becks a white supremacist in disguise all who follow him
Troll. You don't believe the video tapes?
You call six sentences, one explaining the acronym ACORN, "coverage?"
You see that's what you get when you show the TRUTH…..
PLEASE, try to document as much of this information as you can, and get it out to this site or others like it. If your manager is qualifying loans that she shouldn't be, that is part of the problem that caused the collapse of the economy, and will bring it even lower soon! Help us stop this!
I found an edited version of the AP article on CBS News. Notice how it's edited? I don't see a link to Biggovernment.com, but I do see a link to ACORN! I think we should all leave a comment at CBS News asking them why they did that:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/10/ap/nati...
The media controlled by members of The Bilderburg Group, Trilateral Commission, or Council on Foreign Relations will not be commenting on any of their plots that are uncovered. They do, however, have damage control trolls who surf sites such as this and post opposing viewpoints in very rude and demeaning ways, meant to shut up those who would dare to speak freely. FREEDOM OF SPEECH, use it or lose it!!! Note the Guest comment calling us idiots, subject matter garbage, and Glenn Beck a white supremacist in disguise. Isn't it nice that he has the same freedom as we do? At least we have discernment on our side.
Guest: You're evidently a little troll who sits up in the middle of the night making internet postings, eh? Call me a white supremacist also huh? This is not about race; it is not about the fact Obama is a mulatto half breed, it is not about the fact that ACORN is staffed with black ghetto dwellers. It is about the FACT that ACORN is a criminal enterprise and should be investigated. So if you think I am a racist, so be it, but people better stand up and fight before YOU PEOPLE turn US into Rhodesia……………..
Out looking to purchase their fifth estate…great housing market for buyers, dontcha know…
These people are heros and exposed just how corrupt this administration is. If this stuff was going on under Geroge W. Bush, every media outlet would have wanted Bush out. This administration is soooo corrupt, it's sick. And all you crazy radicals, and liberals, I can't wait untill the you guys are kicking yourselves in the ass saying, "Why the F*** did we vote for this guy, that we NEVER really knew anything about?" If it takes two renegade journalists to expose such a deep corruption on tape, then finally the media is doing their job. And these people don't even work for any media outlet, they investigated a story that should be the top headline in every news paper and EVERY TV network, ie: NBC, CNN, ABC; all they reported is the two workers got fired. COME ON people. These two journalist are heros in my book.
right on ,that why they try to shut Rick Santelli too.
he is right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's the #1 story at CNN.com right now:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/acorn.pros...
Just think….if this was a sting and just came to the surface….how many other disgraceful have these two women done in the past…..how many are being done by ACORN throughout the country. As of this minute, I am no longer a democrap. I have had it up to my eyebrows with them. Its time we abandon the democrap party and elect congressmen/women and senators who will do the will of the people and treat our country with respect and honor. The old joke…"IF YOU HAD A HUNDRED DEAD DEMOCRAPS LAYING ON THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE?……Answer, NOT ENOUGH OF THEM!" That was a joke, but unfortunately it serious now. Got to go now and start writing to my Congressman and Senators to DEMAND and investigation into ACORN and demand that until the investigation if concluded, ALL FUNDS TO ACORN MUST BE FROZEN!!!
Oh sure I wait every day to base my opinions on what media matters says.
Voters like Juries have the last word! Remember to VOTE!!!!
Wrong, he is only a very small part of the media. Where's the rest of them? The media is suppose to be watching over the government. I live in Illinois, which is probably the most corrupt state in the Union. I nver hear local news going after these crooks. It's time people stand together, Democrat and Republican alike and fight the corruption. The corruption is destroyingthis country. Wake up people!!
It is time we take a stand, as Glenn has put together the In or Out: 2010 questions, and vote out R's and D's, alike.
Help gather the information. We need you. There just too many representatives for one person to monitor.
http://www.EvolutionOfChange.com
Hold them accountable:
http://crosssection.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/from...
Is this going to part of the 9/11 service?This is way too much.I can only try to imagine if Pres.Bush had this happen on his watch
Obama is at least as in bed with ACORN as Bill Clinton is…well…[insert any obvious punch-line here].
The BigGovernment.com breaking of the ACORN story has been simply amazing in its power and encouraging in its revelation that the nearly lost art of American journalism still has a pulse after all. I have been particularly impressed in an up-close manner through the post "Advance the Cause of Child Prostitution? YES! WE! CAN!" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/... and am more grateful with each passing day that eyes do seem to be opened by work such as this.
I see great opportunity not only for BigGovernment.com, Glenn Beck and the conservative powerhouses, but also for each and every one of us to take our part, seize our opportunities and do some damage to the forces that have waged war on our once-great American culture. Keep fighting the good fight!
The MSM blackout on the story must be the first recorded instance in TV history when a TV channel or network has ever refused to run a hidden video expose about teen prostitution. Maybe they're waiting for Sweeps Month.
The ugly truth about the MSM and the 08 campaign is that the only reason Ayers and Rev. Wright were discussed by the MSM was besause half the media were for Hillary. After the convention the flanks closed and it been cover Obama's patootie with a media blackout ever since.
Wake up!!He's not part of the State Run Media,a-hole
I have always believed in that old say' Birds of a feather, flock together'. No surprise about this incident from
Acorn. Acorn has been used to getting their money from the government and doing nothing for it. So how
can their employees do any different. Telling people that's what is done, cheat, lie, do anything for free money.
Isn't Obama's plans for America the same. Wasn't he one of the best 'community organizers'. He raised
himself to be one of Acorn's lawyers. His close friends, pastor, associates, have all been cut from the same
cloth and you want me to believe, it hasn't rubbed off on to Obama. I bet he finds this Acorn episode, funny.
The money he is going through, which we 'all' will pay dearly for, will ruin America. I think that's the dem's plan.
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