What scum.

Is this the guy that stole all the money from Acorn? Or was that his brother? I'm sure he is upset that the taxpayer money that he has been stealing is likely to be taken away.

Hey, Billy Carter has been reincarnated!

It needs to be made illegal to be a member of the SEIU and ACORN needs to be known as an outlaw organization. They are not any different than Billy the Kid or Jesse James. Money is just in a different location.

Rathke your going down scumbag

Let's just not pay taxes until these scumbags are completely eliminated from government handouts.

I hope everyone watched Stewart tonight because he just ripped ACORN and the MSM to shreds. There is no avoiding this story any longer.

Hey Wade, cry harder.

Does anyone know if Tresa from California has a deceased husband who was shot? Seems like that would be an important piece of information at this point, and it would be public record.

As my Vietnamese friend says–Phuc Rathke

Ewwwww….Donald Trump hair!

He must buy his helmets the same place "the Donald does"…

So, 38 years of racketeering and questionable business practices with aid and blessing from the US government.
NO MORE!!!!!!!

Plus, government should sue to get some of the funds back……..

So where does this scum bag and his brother turn? To ACLU and National Lawyers Guild…and document shredders!
These thugs or the creeps in the gutters are no different.

Soft hands that have never seen the light of day……… He even looks slimy.

ACORN HAD IT GOOD FOR SO LONG!
And still, the NYT keeps mum…………….. hmmm?

Isn't this the guy who whose brother stole 1M in taxpayer money from ACORN?

Aww I feel so sorry that you feel like you are being persecuted …..NOT

I'm not Stewart's biggest fan, but he's been one of the few liberal commentators to occasionally take on the administration. It's great when he does because he has a very liberal audience and it's pretty unlikely they're watching FOX — or reading any publications that are covering this. Good for him.

It seems likely that Tresa was high as a kite and running her mouth like a typical, long term coke-head.

She's gonna have to prove that to Sen Boxer et al.

If she can? OK.

If not….? Ruh Roh!

Is this the Rathke brother who is so moral that he embezzled 1 M $ from… drum roll please….. ACORN? These guys are really experts on morality and decency eh?

But Donald loves this country.

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I pick No. 3 for the win Earl,
Document shredders…that makes much more since. (Safer too).

Not Over.

LOL, I like it, we have great looking and smart conservatives on our side, they have Bertha and Wade….They are going to be running out of cash soon, maybe they can guest host for the next Beavis and Butthead show.

Giles and Palin…..Smart cookies, get the job done with class.

Rathke: "You say child prostitution like it's a bad thing….."

That was brother Dale. Wade just covered it up.

W Rathke is an old SDS guy, along with Bill Ayres.

Awwwww, this snake Rathke finally bares his ugly head. It's time to go Alinsky on his ass!

From Hannah's piece on the science of the operation:

Key phrase: Organized Corruption.

Precisely. We might also fairly say "Normalized Corruption". Yes, actually, now that I'm thinking of what this is, I'll hammer it out: What has Hannah revealed? There is a system here: there is, we have now seen, a vicious circle, right!–a culture is influencing and establishing a system, that system is protecting, feeding that culture:

Normalized Corruption –> Organized Corruption –> NORMALIZED CORRUPTION –> ORGANIZED CORRUPTION

Similarly, there is an umbrella over it all: a class of, well, the most precise word I can think of is snobs, high-minded snobs who are unwilling to fathom that anything a conservative has believed could be true. Snobs. Snobs too poisoned to be generous in thought, to reconsider. And they too have a culture and a system that reinforces itself. Looking down their noses, Wade Rathke, Charlie Gibson, et. al embody that culture, that system.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant

What makes you say that Jerry?

Sorry…toothless Meth heads like her, are always bragging about their underhanded deeds. It's what they DO.
Makes them feel they actually have a life, like normal people.

Not Over.

Census Bureau’s decision to break ties with ACORN showed “how the Obama administration is willing to throw us under the bus. Hey Wade, isn't that what you meant to say?

Hehehehe I thought you all might like to see Tresa Kaelke's linkedin prof: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tresa-kaelke/14/750/2...

This is who Obama worked for; need I say more. Obama was a Acron trainer, and their Attorney.

What a sad commentary on our society. A pattern of aiding child prostitution (among other crimes) is exposed, and it takes a comedy show to generate intrest in the subject.

Baltimore, Washington, New York and then San Bernadino. At every one of these locations, Hannah and James had no problem getting Acorn managers to "help" them avoid ethics and morels and never once try to get them to stop doing illegal activities. Shame on Acorn!

What a sad commentary on our society. A pattern of aiding child prostitution (among other crimes) is exposed, and it takes a comedy show to generate interest in the subject.

People in the mafia had gone to jail for much lesser crimes and undercover video….

Updated:
Tresa Kaelke:
Via LinkedIn:
Lead Field Organizer at ACORN
Via San Bernardino Court Records:
Had a warrant for her arrest until May 2008 regarding a possession charge from 1997.
Via Democracy for America:
Locally in San Bernardino, ACORN members and organizer Tresa Kaelke drove voters to the polls, many first-time voters.

From http://speakmymindblog.com/2009/09/15/acorn-san-b...

I finally understand how ACORN can do the soulless things they do . . . Co-founder Rathke is a ginger and everyone know that gingers don't have souls.

It's being investigated.

Okay, so he has no problem with promoting sex with minors, prostitution, voter fraud, tax fraud…..

What a scumbag. Hey, when you think about it, he's got the perfect resume for co-founding ACORN.

Still, you don't joke about stuff like that.

http://speakmymindblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/0...

Thats the link to the restraining order her current husband Ronald has against her, from 7-14-08 and it's good until 2011. She was married and divorced once before. It seems like she may have just made up the story about murdering the first husband, but we'll see.

I just pray that I live long enough to see this scumbag and his even scummier brother behind bars. UGH!

Metal……do actually believe that line of crap from this organ….no wait communist organization?

Rather than defending ACORN'S obvious corruption, Rathke should prepare himself for being thrown under Obama's bus……………

NYT finally covers the story, makes "conservatives" the primary focus: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/us/politics/16a...

Ummmmmmm, how about abetting prostitution? Tax fraud? Mortgage fraud? How about permisiveness toward physically assaulting underage illegal immigrant prostitutes?? And murder ("I have no problem with killing people")? How about political connections?

How about, NYT, taking your head out of your old gray lady ass for a change??

Good catch Anon31.

We shall see. I know street drug culture. It struck me, first, that she was high as a kite. Coke-heads/tweakers are usually habitual liars and always paranoid. I think she uses the "I murdered my husband" line often as a defense; to make people think she's just nuts enough to do it so people will leave her alone. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the impression I got watching Beck. One thing I'm certain of, the response on acorn's site is not her own. I'd stake my life on it. And she wasn't 'playing along' with doodle squat. Like we're supposed to trust acorn spin?

In other news, Francisco Franco is still dead.

I don't believe this. We don't know when the original undercover video was shot. Acorn is probably guilty of another crime of falsifying documents. There is a part II to the video.

54 million and counting Jackass… Do you hope to divide the American people by what your saying? Well I have some news for ya… What you and your worthless associates are doing is waking the true Americans up. The people that go to work everyday that just want to make a living and go home and raise their family. I don't think you and your kind have realized this yet. But alot of people will let you talk act and be as stupid as you can be but when you start to affect there lives look out and feel the power of the people. We will not be divided we will not bow to any man we will not live in a socialistic society bank on it you Commie scum.

"ACORN is an institution of integrity that is getting an unfair rap from news outlets unwilling to look at the group's 38-year history of advocacy work," its co-founder says.

Phillip Garrido, accused kidnapper and rapist, "And you're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, the victim — you wait. If you take this a step at a time, you're going to fall over backwards and in the end, you're going to find the most powerful heart-warming story."

There is a certain similarity, no?

I think you mean LEFT wing as in socialist liberal.

I sent this email to the Attorney General and a copy to President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Representative Boehner, Senator Reid, and Senator McConnell. Get the word out to D.C. we will not stand for this!
Keep up the good work Hannah Giles, James O’Keefe and biggovernment.com.

Attorney General of the United States of America

As a U.S. Tax Payer, I request/demand immediate and thorough investigation of the group ACORN. This is based on secretly recorded videotapes of group members offering assistance to two people posing as a pimp and prostitute. Tax payer money (my $$) is and has been going to this group (CCN reports $53million since 1993) that appears to be breaking the law and encouraging their clients to do the same. ACORN has also had issues with voter registration that is being investigation a couple dozen states.

ACORN Housing FAQ:
Q. Is ACORN Housing a Government Agency?
A. No, we're a non-profit organization that was established to help low-to-moderate-income people become and remain homeowners. But our Housing Counselors are trained and certified by the US dept. of Housing and Urban Development.
http://acornhousing.org/TEXT/faq.php

If the counselors were trained by HUD, then there should also be a investigation at HUD. If not then ACORN is just telling another LIE and using the name of HUD to back it up.

As your mission statement says you have the responsibility and obligation to the people of our Country to conduct a investigation into this.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Office of the Attorney General which evolved over the years into the head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government. The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. In matters of exceptional gravity or importance the Attorney General appears in person before the Supreme Court. Since the 1870 Act that established the Department of Justice as an executive department of the government of the United States, the Attorney General has guided the world's largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws

Someone please get off you behind, and find out what the HELL is GOING ON!

***** ******
*****, KY

I will also be sending a copy of this to President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, Representative Boehner, Senator Reid, and Senator McConnell.

acorn's website claims that Ms. Kaelke the Acorn worker in the film totally made up the story to play along with the 2 filmakers…. while it's still going to be bad pub, police investigations seem to find all of Ms. kaelke's husbands alive and well…

Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog http://bit.ly/3Nrvqq Here's Rathke's organizations – How much $ is he taking?
@waderathke – blow up his twitter!

Did you read that animal testing labs are going to replace their rats with the Rathke brothers?… Apparently there are some things a rat simply will not do…

Next thing they'll say is that the guy across the street, who Tresa threatens to kill, was in on it….just playing along. Could hell be worse than this neighborhood?

Lets see….he is blasting unfair critics….well I am a critic, I thought I was being fair, but maybe just maybe these radicals think it is fair to, exploit the poor, exploit women, condone human trafficing and child prostitution among others. Hmmm…I think it is time to be just a little unfair and throw this corrupt orginization in the fire of haties. Oh, I must include any politician that has anything to do with them, let them burn too,

I thought that Glenn Beck's claims that Rathke looks like a James Bond villain were overblown until I saw the picture with this article.

You mean left-wing, don't you?

SERIOUSLY That dude is UUUUUGGGGLY

This guy didn’t get beat up by the ugly stick, he got ran over by the truck that carried all the ugly sticks. Dang, that’s one fug commie!!!

So the Limousine Liberal is now going to scream : " The videos were a vast right wing conspiracy.." Make it stop man, make it stop.

Oh…terrific. When it's not 'racism', it's 'McCarthyism'. Whatever dude. Yep a "Fake Issue" – in opposite land. Embezzle much? The delusion is staggering.

That was awesome! Thanks for the link.

Those people,those Saul Alinskites never knew this:
"It is better to fail with honor, than succeed by fraud." ~Sophocles~

I think this guys mother is also his sister! In-breeding is also against the law man!

That's right kbstreet – there were many communists in the white house; history has proven this conclusively – yet, liberals think if they repeat lies ad nauseam, it will magically come true. Here's a name you all may recall – Alger Hiss, Communist spy. More fun things to Google – The Venona Project and The Pumpkin Papers. Weee…Commies!

Of course a police report was filed! That wacko Kaelke women said she killed her husband and threatened to kill someone else! I don't believe for a moment Kaelke was acting. Kaelke showing off she was a bigger scumbag yes. Acting NO!

I thought that, too. — well, I was thinking crack.

Nope. Acorn simply making yet more excuses for their employees reprehensible behavior.

Nice – You even got in a subtle reference to the movei "Office Space" with the "red stapler" bit!

Very Nice!

It is bad form, isn't it? =D

"But Rathke, who left the group in June 2008, defended the group's objectives and touted its role in raising the minimum wage and passing the Community Reinvestment Act — a federal law enacted in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against those living in low-income communities. He also cited the group's work on local living wage laws in 15 cities, including Chicago, Oakland, Denver and New York."

I'm sorry isn't the Community Reinvestment Act, the very same Federal law (championed by the likes of Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd) that started the ball rolling on the present financial crisis which was perpetrated by the housing crash that was the result of bad lending practices that were guaranteed by the Government after ever more lobbying by ACORN to further lower lending standards?

Geez Wade, we want our money back.

Correct!!!

Wade and Dale-I am ashamed of you. I feel so sorry for your mother. She doesn't deserve this. I am just glad Ed isn't here to see the rest of the story.

Right. Is that the best argument he can make? What a loser.

Massive Corruption surrounding Obama. This is taking down this country. Obama was an ACORN leader in Chicago. He learned from them and taught them. Obama loves ACORN because they got him elected and this scum bag and his brother are part of the Obama administration. America is now rulled by thug mobsters. It is an attack on our Freedom and Liberty.

Careful Jim68, they'll be accusing you of wanting to lynch people next. You know how us crazed right winger, defenders of truth and justice are!

absolutely

Dirt bag is to good for this scum

Denial

I know this is off topic, but Rathke really needs to reconsider his hair color.

With all the money he stole from the taxpayers, you think he would fix the villian looking appearance!!!!! He needs more than a face lift to get out of this mess. Rathke, you day is near, we are coming to get you….

Yanno, Beck was right about one thing: He and his brother DO look like the evil villains in a James Bond movie!

ACORN and Al Capone
September 16, 2009

James and Hannah, the two youngsters who scooped all of the media in the United States, have elevated ACORN to the status of Al Capone.

Al Capone was never convicted of a crime until late in life, when Elliot Ness finally hung tax evasion on him. Retired co-founder Wade Rathke supports ACORN. Although dozens of employees have been jailed, and offices in numerous States are under investigation for a range of crimes, the Radical agency itself, “has never been convicted of a crime.“

That is quite a defense.

Rathke went on to blame the President of the United States, complaining about, “how willing the Obama administration is open to a cave-in to the conservatives on false pretenses on a completely fake ‘issue.’“

Uh, wait a minute… The President has not spoken about ACORN recently. Neither has Gibbs. At least, the absent network propaganda machine has remained silent if he said anything at all.

“Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!” – George Patton

If you know anything about the Rules for Radicals, you have already figured this out: Blaming Obama as personally responsible for something he never did is a tactic. In the whacked out world of Radicals, accusing him of abandoning the organization means that he must be protected. In fact, the President is so far from any current stance on ACORN that blaming him indicates more than his complicity. It says that President Obama is the top of the Radical food chain, holding all the strings.

If you don’t warp your mind to understand Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, you’ll think that’s all nuts.

It is nuts. It’s ACORN, and that means Obama’s nuts.

My 5 year old kid said to me that this guy looks like Squidward from Sponge Bob Square Pants…

LOL I didn't catch that one, nice!

Its been a while since I did my digging on this (during runup to first bailout) Comm Reinvestment act was started by Peanut (Carter) but limited. Towards end of Clinton years, Republicans were Passing Deregulation. Billy Bob Threatened Veto, and to avert the Veto Republicans cut a deal expanding CRA. In a nutshell Banks were Deregulated, yet mandated to make a larger percentage of "extremely high risk loans". To facilitate the lenders making such loans the risk was ultimately transferred to Fannie & Freddie. Risk overload finally financial meltdown. Following the money, a large number of the Fannie & Freddie Sr Execs and Bonus receivers were Clinton loyalists and Barney Franks Boyfriend. condensed version… from memory…

I love how ACORN keeps patting themselves on the back for this:
But Rathke, who left the group in June 2008, defended the group's objectives and touted its role in raising the minimum wage… He also cited the group's work on local living wage laws in 15 cities, including Chicago, Oakland, Denver and New York.

And yet:
ACORN sued the state of California seeking an exemption from the law that requires that it pay its own employees a minimum wage. The group treated its workers as if they were mendicant friars, arguing that keeping its employees in poverty helps to boost their zeal to help the poor. (ACORN lost.)

LOL! Squidward Rathke! Love it!

I'd like to whoop this guys @ss!!

Rathke is being shaken loose from the tree like a rotten fruit…..The sickness that is Hussein's life is being exposed, layer by stinking layer….

I have felt the same way, but think Rush should get a pass since without him, talk radio may not even be on the air, today. Hannity has always been about Hannity, so don't hold your breath on that, either. They all are on the same team. Rush has even offered to appear on Beck's show in person (imagine the ratings for that). Beck's ratings will speak for themselves in both short and long-run.

What we don't know is if/how Hannity and Greta feel threatened by Beck's numbers. With Beck getting 3M in the 5pm time slot, it has to be tempting to bump one or both of them to make BOR/SH/Beck/Greta or BOR/Beck/SH/Greta to possibly compete regularly with one or more of the big-3 networks as their relevancy continues to decline.

Beck's fame/fortune is relatively new. If he demonstrates consistency, he will automatically generate the gravitas that BOR has. Personally, I don't think he cares – which is why he is doing so well. The 5pm Demo, in the end, is his true credit.

p.s. Keep the videos coming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxaHw3gYi2s&fe...

My post has disappeared twice. Maybe I have too many links. I'll remove several of them.

Pardon the long post, but this is relevant to Wade Rathke's history & character.

While working with Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, etc, on the Student's For A Democratic Society (SDS), Rathke was a draft resistance organizer, back in the '60's.

From TampBay:
Chief Organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) since he founded the organization in 1970. ACORN is a national membership organization of 150,000 low and moderate income families organized in communities in 60 major cities. He also serves as Chief Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which he founded in New Orleans in 1980 and which now has 7000 members in Texas, LA, and Arkansas.

More of Rathke's organizations are listed on TampaBay.

Here's some light reading about Rathke:
http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/gen/executive.htm...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_rathke

Bleach is needed to kill the mold, or else it comes back….

Prairie Fire is the reading of the day, Hussein is doing his handlers work.

He is attacking from the inside.

They just need to shut everything that Wade Rathke operates completely down. The FBI needs to make a sweep.

This just goes to show how arrogant and shameless this organization really is. Everyday more corruption regarding ACORN is being exposed and yet they try to play the victim in all this saying they were illegally taped or pull the race card or something.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT POLITICAL PARTY YOU PEOPLE ARE AFFILIATED WITH!!! If you have any sense of decency in you, then you ought to be doing a full-fledged investigation on all this nonsense to see what else is going on with you guys…unless of course you're afraid to because you're a part of the problem.

I'll tell you one thing, if there is corruption going on in amongst republicans and other people that consider themselves conservatives, then I want to know about that too. These people after all are supposed to be representing me and them being up to no good discredits my point of view if they get exposed and remain in power.

Let's start figuring out just who stands beside ACORN. Maybe this post will help?
http://www.acorn.org/fileadmin/Press_Releases/USC...

The way the tapes are being released is masterful. The next video, or segment of it, comes out… ACORN reacts and says something stupid… another video comes out showing their response to be idiotic… they again react… JO and HG release the next tape, nailing ACORN again.

Funny how Charlie Gibson didn't know this was going on yet the Senate managed to find out and vote overwhelmingly to pull funding. What planet is he on these days?

Wade Rathke looks like a cross between the monster Jimmy Carter and a child molester.

Thanks for the links. Everyone needs to search around for more info before it's gone.
Organizations like this have a habit of "shredding" evidence before it can be found.

People need to find info on SEIU also.
Find all the corruption, wherever it is, and whoever it is, and expose it.
I'm sick of being lied to. Especially by the same people I thought I trusted to look out for my families safety.

Freeze all of the Rathke's bank accounts NOW.

This may be a bit off topic, but I am curious if ACORN workers are "mandated reporters"? Educators, hospital workers, etc. are required by law to report any suspected abuse. In California, the law is very clear for teachers. If a teacher does not report abuse and something happens to a child, the teacher can lose his/her teaching credential and be subject to other litigation. I would assume that ACORN working in a system supported by government funding, the workers are mandated to report criminal or abusive behavior. In the four videos that has not happen. In the fourth, the ACORN worker is now apparently claiming that she knew Hannah and James were a fraud and just went along and played the two. Even if she thought the two were frauds, their proposal of child prostitution should have caused her to notify authorities. Did that happen? I doubt it.

He and his brother should be locked up for a long time!

The racist behind the criminal enterprise ACORN speaks …

Why are white Democrat racists always the ones manipulating the black people?

ACORN is a criminal organization, we the people of the United States of America must demand that ACORN not receive any state, or federal money… Also, we must demand that all monies paid to ACORN be repaid with interest, a federal investigation be started, and all members and officers of this criminal organization be investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

You wrote that so perfectly and I hope that they do look into it and find out how horrid this nonprofit is, but if Obama has his normal way with things it will work out to the negative in justice and the positive for him and his White House cronies and we will continue to give both Acorn and SEIU. Heck even when Acorn finally admitted to just 400,000 bad registered votes, nothing was done about it. And if I remember right, isn't Project Vote Obama's main line to $$$$$ ????

Fully support Breitbart, James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and especially Glenn Beck. After reading all the comments I am still hopeful that all the tentacles of these beasts ACORN AND SEIU are found because those tentacles reach to the very TOP OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT INCLUDING THE OVAL OFFICE! If they did not why would Obama's records still be under ILLEGAL lock and key. There are many people in the Democratic party who are totally and deeply involved (they know where all the bodies are buried). You know those people, they are they ones who will have you killed if the need arises or they are threatened by you. Look at the recent death of a man who was to testify against the former governor of Illinois….he died of aspirin overdose. Uh-huh, yeah right, say on… America this entire Obama REGIME is straight out of Alinsky's playbook for Communists. What to do? THE FEAR OF GOD NEEDS TO BE PUT IN EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS BECAUSE THAT IS WHO THEY WILL ANSWER TO IN THE LONG RUN. There is a group of wealthy and well placed Communists in this country who have patiently waited for just the right circumstances to put forth a candidate who has been groomed for years to do exactly what Obama is doing….destroying this country's infrastructure, spending us into oblivion, taking over banks, vital industries, attempting to have every citizen's complete health records. This is done in order for him to become the first dictator of the United States. His closest advisor, Valorie Jarrett is one of those highly placed, wealthy people who is CONSTANTLY with him including vacation. He does nothing without her and Michelle. When all this completely unravels and I pray it does, Americans are going to be absolutely blown away by the scope of what these criminals have done and what their plans for this country are.

He looks very strange. He might even have one of those full-sized inflatable dolls stashed away in his bedroom

Yes, we ALL should withhold any income taxes due until ACORN is banned from receiving any taxDeb payer money.

I would agree with you if it weren't for the many busloads of ACORN people that were sent in to destroy the message that the Tea Party Movement was trying so hard to accomplish.

These people new what they were doing and for that, they can go down also as far as I care!

Unless I'm mistaken, this is the one that is an Obama adviser.

Isn't that just wonderful?

I just hope nothing happens to Glenn Beck. I believe he just said either today or yesterday that he had 3 groups itching at him. I belive everything you just said and possibly more. As he said, it's not just Democrats, its Republicans too. Why aren't the Republicans spouting out louder?? Only one who accidently said at the wrong time "you lie" and then his peers don't seem to stand for him. It's horrid how money can change people. And I do fear what the their "plans" are for the U.S.

ACORN started in Little Rock, AR in 1970. Got it's first federal handout in 1994 by guess who? President Bill Clinton! Outside of corrupt Chicago, you have the Dixie Mafia in Little Rock. Do you think it is a coincidence, Obama and Clinton?

What a snake. The guy asks California courts to grant ACORN an exemption to pay its employees LESS than minimum wage, then has the gall to stand up and defend them like a protective father. Beck has it right — this organization is corrupt top to bottom.

These two brothers look like Child mosesters to me.
Most of the Black caucas was elected due to the criminal activities of these two groups.

In case you didnt know, "worm" is now a conservative racial slur….. watch your language!! of course im kidding but the left isnt!

I wouldn't worry. As someone else pointed out, the issue is not over whether or not she actually killed her husband. The issue is that she gave advice, as an ACORN employ, on how to open and disguise an underage brothel. The excuse that she knew the clients were making it up doesn't make sense. First of all, her initial reaction to the crew's confession that they were engaged in the sex trade was nothing short of enthusiastic. This was BEFORE they disclosed the more outlandish aspects of their business — young girls, sadomasochism, an abusive pimp, etc. This is like Blaggy claiming he tried to sell Obama's senate seat as a prank on the FBI. This self-contradictory defense will not hold up under journalistic scrutiny, at least not on Fox.

Where the hell are the Police in these towns and what about the Pros. Attys. Ohhhhhh thats right they are in the game with payoff money.

I don't buy that. Her FIRST reaction to the word prostitution was a cheerful "Okay!" Are you telling me that she had already unraveled the whole scheme at that point? Seriously doubt it. But ACORN will peddle this story, and mark my word, CNN and the rest who have been cowering since the 2nd video was released — they'll run it. But this is not going to convince serious people. This is called desperation.

Um they will just go into your bank account and take it…

OMG – page 79 – #271 – ACORN Canada – is there no end? Are we now funding Canada too? The country on socialist medicine that it can't fund? http://tinyurl.com/n6krcd

The snowball has grown. It is now out of control. The mainstream media MUST cover it or else they stand to lose ALL credibility with viewers. ACORN is appallingly corrupt. We're mad as hell and we're NOT gonna take it!! We want our country back. $53,000,000.00 to ACORN is $1.00 too much!! So THAT'S where our hard-earned tax dollars are going? To fund illegal activities and cover up ACORN employees from "in their own words" committed crimes including murder? What is going on here?? We want answers. And a full independent investigation is called for NOW. We the people demand it.

i wonder how many packs of cigs he'll go for in prison?

ACORN you have to get out of town before sundown LOL

At some point we should really give up waiting for the New York Times to cover the story? I mean.. George Stephenopolous is considered a serious journalist, which is a joke. The whole media is just a wing of the democratic party. If you can't picture a democratic strategist saying it, Pinchy's rag won't say it.

I think if we stop mentioning the Times so much they might transition into irrelevance better. Meanwhile Big Government should be taking their place. Where is the print version? I'll subscribe!

We've all fallen through the rabbit hole. The administration, our representatives, their appointees and friends have been part of this corruption for decades. Soon it will be "Off with their heads! Off with their heads!" Meaning ours, of course.

Joe Wilson, congratulations on your congressional "disapproval"! We need more in our Senate and Congress who, like you, will stand up and point out falsehoods and talking points that masquerade as facts.

Joe Wilson, Sarah Palin, Vice President Cheney and John Boehner are doing their duty as our servants and spokesmen. WHERE ARE THE REST OF YOU?

This whole organization should be hung by their acorns in the public square. Every last one of them and the enablers

Mr. Pants…Your comment is VERY funny!!! I will be laughing all day…Thanks!!

I think when the truth is finally known we will find that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars have been laundered using the cover of ACORN. It is the perfect cover for this type of criminal enterprise. It has the advantage of political cover and also racial cover as well. It is the perfect scam. Liberals would automatically line up to support such a worthy program. I am not saying that ANY POLITICIAN has any direct knowledge. It is just imagine you want to create a money laundreing operation and someone comes to you with this idea. It is perfect. You have automatic Protection and the Government provide you cover and acctually pay you to do it. These guys didn't even have to buy anyone off.

Ewwwww….Donald Trump hair!

He must buy his helmets the same place "the Donald" does…

This response is just indicative of a pathological liar. I know from personal experience. The reality of this organization is not even fathomable to this type of personality because as long as it provided him and his brother the large income that they desired, anything was justifiable. We need to revisit 501(c) laws regarding compensation at the executive levels. This type is NO different than the greedy corporate types, that these often attack. It's corruption. No other word for it. It is the definition of the very word. Thomas Jefferson must be turning in his grave.

Morning Right! If the AMA names a disease after Rathke, don't ya agree it should be named after a venereal disease? It would be interesting to see what treatments Obamacaid would cover for that

Looks and sounds like Andrew and "Crew" have hit a nerve…or two. NOW maybe Congress will WAKE UP and follow the money…our money…as far as it MUST go. The American people are awake and percolating…Beware of 2010 ' cuz your jobs in Congress are in serious jeopardy!!!!

Leave it to GIRLFRIEND to out smart me….dammit… Morning, Chic ! As to treatment I suspect it might be named Marxicillin….. And if that did not work…..then the electric chair might do the job…crimes against humanity !

You are too funny, my fellow mobster! But, be careful now, you just might be a racist if you talk like that…
I am astounded at the audacity of these crooks at Acorn and their continual attempts to divert the obvious! They must truly believe, in their liberal derangement syndrome, that We The People are stupid. Hannah & James have already proven the stupidity of the feds. Wonder what's next??

Don't know if it's been mentioned in these many posts but let's not forget this Rathke scumbag was critical of contributor Brandon Darby for his part in helping the FBI "in preventing innocent Americans, local police and federal agents from being burned, maimed and/or possibly killed by firebombs."

Hey, let's give him $8.5 Billion

This is what you call "Modern Day Slavery"- here you have this white dirtbag employing (?) poor black men and women and then throwing them under the bus when things get dicey. He's using these poor people and all it is is a modern form of slavery. Are today's black population ok with this? How is this different from 150 years ago? I live in the Deep South and I am so tired of hearing about slavery (yes-still!!!) and racism. How can minorities justify this behavoir at ACORN?

Have to run to a meeting in Naples, Chic…. But (if you have not already read it) read Maura's NPR piece…veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy well stated ! She very succintly bears out what we conservatives have known forever…that it's NOT racism we observe and comment on BUT pure unadulterated ignorance, imbecilic behavior and attitudes that are the product of the education system controlled by the NEA !
To wit: acedemic influence (non starter), out of wedlock breeding like animals, generations of welfare and lifetimes of poor decisions and self-inflicted victimology prepetrated by leaders like Jackson, Obama, Shapton to mention a few !

See you in a couple of hours…. I know you will miss me ! (chuckle)….

All this in the "The Error of Obama".

I suppose that he now feels he is the Poster child for Ethics. Come to think of it did not the Democrats pass a bill a year or so ago that forced the insurance companies to included insurance coverage for mental health? I think this group's members need to go in for an evaluation. I certainly hope they are providing health insurance for there employees. Perhaps we should let them know on all the blogs that there are med's for the delusions they are having. It is just awful to watch them suffer so when a few pills could help there condition. And just think of all the lost revenue that the government is suffering because of this preventable medical condition.

Yay for Glenn Beck, riding the Acorn stories to show the world the scum Acorn is

Let Congress know you want answers…

http://www.petition2congress.com/2/2462/investiga...

It's unprofessional either way you look at it. I can't believe ACORN is backing up her up. Nobody would back up this type of behavior even if they were pretending. It's unethical. Something seems very wrong.

Oh no! Is the evil, little plantation owner getting scawred of all the exposure his organization is getting? Aww..poor evil, little plantation owner…

I am still waiting for the corrupt attorney general to do some work prosecuting Acorn and all its members under the RICO statutes. Hard to
believe this many Ameican’s have gone bad and voted this Marxist stain into
the presidency. Then gave him almost a trillion to pay his marxists to
consolidate his power

The Republicans only wish they had this kind of courage. Rathke is a scum bag extraordinaire.

Drugs. Lots of drugs. Oh, and alcohol too.

Scanned the news channels this AM – No ACORN (except FOX) but Joe Wilson !! Joe Wilson !!!

Slight mention on MSNBC but they still did not condone it but said it was right wing conservatives …..

How do women just sit there… how dose anyone with kids not be outraged by this ?

Post your stories you see on your local news casts and local papers ….. See what the media is covering…..

Good point. A lot of times the Drummond Pike aspect is overlooked. Acorn is rotten to the core.

LIAR! I love how all his answers are deflections. No, hint that there may be an issue. And of course the one of the 2 Progressive/Communist trump cards…McCarthyism can you guess what the other one is…Former President Carter is presently making use of that one. And we the American people are supposed to continue as if there are no connections between all these Acorn facilities, their actions, and the belief system of Progressives? Please, those like Rathke have counted on people not caring for too long…hmm sounds like Congress. Now that the Giant(ordinary Americans) are paying close attention you don't have your typical audiance….down down down she goes where she stops everybody knows but, won't say…????

Jason

Yes, how dare people on the right use the tactics that ACORN perfected against the organization. Can't the right just stick to its civil, we just all want to get along, ways?

this guy needs to cut back on the "kool-aid"

Gingers have no souls.

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Now I know why they invented the expression "low life".

More americans need to see what groups like ACORN are about. The albino brothers are using race to fill their wallets. To help low income families find homes is a nobel cause to be sure, but you got to wonder how much of the tens of millions of tax payers money actualy made it to help the intended, how much went to the albino wallets and HOW MUCH WENT TO GET DEMOCRATS ELECTED.

When you all have a little reading time check this out AMERICA'S BAD SEED from The Employment Policies Institute. This was back in 2006, but it has an excellent break down of information on the Rat-hkes practices of ACORN and SEIU. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/2036048/Rotten-ACORN-...

So driving in this morning and again I'm a racists if I talk about anything aganist the president…. this si NUTS !!!!

We have on TAPE 4 and soon to be 5 people wanting to pimp 13 yr old girls for sex and ACORN workers are ok with this? So I'm aganist this and NOW I'm a racists? really?

How can any women be for this? How? How can any parent with children be ok with this? How? Why isn't every woman in America screaming at the top of their lungs on this matter? I know it was fake but the ACORN workers didn't – How is anyone ok with this ? Is this where your tax dollars need to go?

I figured it out that most people will not talk bad about this because they too are afraid of being called a racists ….

Such class ladies, such class that you care more about being called a name then staing up for the rights of children….

People like this make me sick….

Just flipping through the NY Daily News today, they actually did an ACORN story! 25 lines, buried in the bottom corner of page 10, I couldn't believe what I was seeing!

One could imagine why this Anglo-White person is the head of a fundamentally Black Organization. He's the pimp here!.

Congratulations to 'Big Government'–You have accomplished the biggest Terence Trent D'ebut
in web history.

He looks like he might be related to Bill Maher or Danny Bonaduce. Yeech!

He is such an ugly man..inside and out!

Rathke's brother, Dale, embezzeled almost $1 million from ACORN years ago, and no charges were laid:
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/05/embez...

Beck was on this, O'Reilly was on it, but it was already "taken care of" by ACORN.

Still, I think Wade Rathke's opinion on the "good work" that ACORN has done has been discredited by the way he handled the embezzlement his brother committed. Seems like a, "Hey, thanks for not sending my bro to jail, so I'll stand by you!"

I guess "integrity" means something different to Rathke than it does to say, the DICTIONARY.

My gut tells me, that the final blow to this criminal enterprise will be a visit by my two heroes to Chicago/ILL, our boy/king presidents back yard. How sweet!

Sorry Mr. Rathke, your radical Saul Alinsky antics don't work any more. We're on to them.

You know the liberals are pissin in their shoes right now. We all know that our tax dollars have been going to ACORN and then distributed to SCIU, AFL-CIO, ACLU and other liberal groups and than the contributions are going right into the liberal campaign funds. It's been a sweet deal for all of them in the loop for years and it's all about to come crumbling down. We're behind you Big Government, Fox News, Glenn Beck, James O'keefe, Hanna Giles. They can't stop you! Keep pounding away at the foundations of this machine. It's starting to come apart! This is the lefts Waterloo!

IL Sen. Roland Burris, who all but ran away from Fox Reporter Griff Jenkins when being questioned about his (Burris') vote to continue funding ACORN, himself has a long and colorful past…

http://jacksonianlawyer.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/...

i called msnbc…….212-664-4444 this morning……i asked the receptionist why they were not covering the acorn scandal, she said, one moment, transfered me to another woman, i asked the same question, she said, "we have covered acorn extensively" and hung up. extensively? the scandal? really? oh, i understand….they covered the scandal up!

Remember he fired board members when they wanted to know why his brothers embezzlement was covered for years. His brother still has 800 thousand to pay back and they need funding so he can do it.

Right on all accounts as I watch faithfully to the FNC network. And to Rush when possible.

Personally I think they should award him a two hr. show.

An official federal investigation (FBI) with congressional backing should be initiated against Acorn and the thugs who lead it. I applaud Glenn Beck and other conservative commentators for covering and reporting this mess. The MSM can go fly a kite.

all you need to do is look at these two Louisana racist rednecks and ask yourself "would you do business with these scumbags"

Oh Nancy that is funny, you made this old guy smile and call in his wife in for a look, funny stuff.

Oh, and Rathke needs to find a new colorist. Brassy blond is not flattering on anyone.

Odd, no one has pointed out for Mr. Rathke that – after decades of maligning his name – Americans are finally waking up to realize that "Senator Joseph McCarthy" WAS RIGHT!

(((The Commie's! aren't coming)))! The commies ARE HERE – they've been (growing) here, inside us, since kerosene was popular

What a pathetic loser this guy is. He exists by stealing

Vance, you wrote ' throw out the scumbags'? I take that to mean that you're including [our] so-called Elected reps. & senators, (DemoRats & Repubs)

Yes, some Americans will be blown away, but too many Americans have now become aware of much of what's being perpetrated against us. The government controlled media has tried to cover up, but there are too many people who love America, who are systematically uncovering and sharing pertinent information with the others of us who are rightly concerned. He has threatened to shut down the internet whenever it should suit his purposes, using some conveniently contrived emergency whenever he decides he needs to cut us all off from each other so that we won't be able to assimilate and share information. His buddy, Ahmadenijad, pulled that mess on the people of Iran soon after that crooked election a few months ago.

How can we tax payers allow our $$ to go to a ***** GROUP like ACORN and the ***** ****** Wade Rathke? When the U.S.A. has much BIGGER PROBLEMS!!!

As of 09/14/2009 – Total Public (U.S. National) Debt Outstanding – 11,792,615,473,271.79
THAT'S 11.8 TRILLION DOLLARS

Check for yourself (changes daily):
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?applica...

As of August 2009 – Monthly Interest on the Public (U.S. National) Debt – $27,374,808,039.95
THAT'S 27.4 BILLION DOLLARS

Check for yourself:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_...

TOTAL INTEREST EXPENSE ON THE PUBLIC (U.S. National) DEBT YR TO DATE – $367,837,472,521.29
THAT'S 367.8 BILLION DOLLARS

Check for yourself:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/opd...

Hey Thorien!

Your acorn Haiku got ate up at the other post so I am responding here *winks*

rotten to the core
seeds of country's destruction
time to start weeding

If your nose had been in all the places his has it would look the same way !
I bet its got obama DNA all over it !!!

LOL a communist crying "McCarthyism!" That's about as effective as calling us all racists.

nice one!

See this man? We simply MUST see that he end up behind bars. A message has to be sent to the far left that there are consequences for attempting to use the TAXPAYERS of the United States to fund their Orwellian agenda. PRISON for BOTH Rathke brothers! NOTHING LESS!!!

Rathke Chief Organizer?

More like Chief Whoreganizer – facistfunnies dot wordpress dot com for a nice visual image of this piece of scum

Not just ACORN, SEIU too. And while we are at it how about until the Stimulus money has been given back to the people of this country. I could go on here….

He looks like a pervert . Perhaps his group is so good at setting up anderage ho' houses because he takes frequent trips to Thailand for Yum-Yum and Boom-Boom.

Once he's in prison, I'm sure some conscientious convict will fix him a la Dahmer – hopefully not before they enjoy his last few hours.

It occurs to me now, oddly, that even convicts appear upstanding next to this form of evil collectivist scum.

I thought the same thing. TWEAKER!

This guy looks like a strung-out Eddie Haskell, but with a Louie De Palma personality transplant!

RACIST! RACIST RACIST! RACIST!

Call us anything you want. It doesn't matter. Like everything else you scream, your words are not TRUE. The only RACISTS here are the those that claim an entitlement to break the law because of the color of their skin.

When the TRUTH doesn't suit you all you have left is to call us RACISTS! When you ignore the FACTS and TRUTH as it's placed right in front of your face then YOU are just as GUILTY as they are!

Why is this guy not in a jail cell? Why isn't his brother in there with him?

In the United States no one is forced to accept a wage that they deem too low. They have the choice to not work at a job that under pays. Your comment has no merit.

It's definitely unprofessional. A few years back, they closed down a local post office for the day and sent a bomb squad in. I couldn't believe it. I found out the next day that a customer was mailing a package and a postal worker asked what was in there. The man said, "A bomb," and walked out of the building. He was just joking, of course, but due to procedure the postal employees alerted the police. The news made it into the local papers as well as on every single local news network such as ABC, NBC & CBS. They brought the man in for questioning and he even said he was just joking, but I believe it's against the law to do it. I never followed up on the case. I also recall it being a crime to walk into a bank and pretend to rob it as well. It's incredibly sick that she would joke around like that. What makes it even sicker is that ACORN is backing her up and posting propaganda on their site.

Ohhh snap! And yeah, you don't see many fat Japanese blog post munchers.

Your middle line has 8 syllables… how about "democrats and MSM"? Unless you think the MSM reference is a little too predictable?

LOL yup, I missed that on the syllables. Serves me right for multitasking.
MSM works well in there so do a word switch with mass media.

Deepthroat said it all; "Follow the money". It went to the White House in 1972, and it brought down Nixon, so I'm sure it's happening again. How soon we forget our own history.

All these things; the corruption, the disinformation, the astronomical deficit, ACORN, SEIU etc. all have one common denominator: BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!

FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!

Here is a time lapsed footage of the 9/12/09 march on Washington, you decide if America is concerned or not

http://mycityblog.net/2009/09/16/time-lapse-foota...

Obamacorn…. man, that's smooth… I must use that !!! Thanks!

Another good source for all this is Malkin's "Culture of Corruption."

He can take his foot out of his mouth anytime now that his own people are calling for an investigation.

Ha America its time we stop funding every group like Acorn and the Arts who depict Jesus Christ in a bottle of piss and call it art. When will we as true americans send the brittish Ideals back to the british, we defeted them once, Is it time we take America back again.?

Good call Ralph Mouth, keep blaming the folks hat caught you. When I was a teenager, and my mom found porn in my room, my only defense was "why are you going through my room" but it didn't change the fact that there was porn there. So it kind of falls on deaf ears when you attack the methods by which you were caught committing crimes. Good Luck howdy doody.

Whether she felt she was set up or not, she had a moral responsibility to call the FBI when two people claim to be smuggling underage children into the country. Her comments, whether she believed it was a set up or not, were unprofessional and rediculous. This is appears to be a completely corrupt organization.

I think its funny tha ACORN say's its for the people. Yet there for a big project in NY city that will kick out almost 100 people form there home's For a basket ball court and some hi price richy condos. By they way the head guy behind the project gave ACORN like 1.5 Million $$$$$. Mhhhh How much did the people liveing there now give Acorn.