ACORN Co-Founder Defends Group’s Integrity, Blasts ‘Unfair’ Critics
by PubliusFoxNews.com reports:
[ACORN co-founder Wade] Rathke has repeatedly blasted the news media and conservative groups for intentionally targeting ACORN because of its progressive agenda. In a posting on his “Chief Organizer Blog,” Rathke said the Census Bureau’s decision to break ties with ACORN showed “how willing the Obama administration is open to a cave-in to the conservatives on false pretenses on a completely fake ‘issue.’”
“This is all just more reputational McCarthyism as the rightwing and Republicans attack ACORN,” he wrote.
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Wahhhhhhhh
What scum.
The new McCarthyism is calling everyone a RACIST! Can't wait until they investigate this slimy worm.
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.
This guy is a loser, and so is his brother. Between ACORN and SEIU, the thuggery and corruption is at an all time high. Both of these criminal activities need to be shut down.
Hey, Billy Carter has been reincarnated!
Honestly… if he would have said he would get to the bottom of the issue and make sure this never happens again, that they will hold themselves to a higher standard, it would have gone a long way.
Instead, he plays the "Republicans are evil" card.
Lame.
Keep up the good work, BigGovernment.com!!
http://firethomasfriedman.blogspot.com/
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.
Is he doing the Macarena?
Rathke your going down scumbag
What a puke!
Let's just not pay taxes until these scumbags are completely eliminated from government handouts.
Enter text right here!Perhaps ACORN should have paid the employees a living wage!
I hope everyone watched Stewart tonight because he just ripped ACORN and the MSM to shreds. There is no avoiding this story any longer.
He defends ACORN's "integrity"…oh, do tell…
This just gets better by the minute!
Defending an organization like ACORN is like defending…well…infanticide, child-prostitution, voter-fraud…you know, the usual leftist stuff.
So it all fits…it's all a part of the same open rebellion against the founding principles of the nation, a la "Create a Godless Nation? YES! WE! CAN!" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Keep rockin' their world, BigGovernment.com!
And thank you!
Hey Wade, cry harder.
Yeah…. the Media was obviously unfair. I imagine that if the MSM actually carried this story like they should have, he would be in tears right now.
Unfair is what the American People have had to endure with Acorn up the street…
Sid Burgess
National Director
http://newsfifty.com
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.
McCarthy was right. There are communists in the State Department and White House.
As my Vietnamese friend says–Phuc Rathke
It seems likely that Tresa figured out it was a setup and played along.
Ewwwww….Donald Trump hair!
He must buy his helmets the same place "the Donald does"…
Rathke gives weasels a good name.
Racist white albino, keeping the black population down, by exploiting, degrading and keeping them on his personal subservient plantation for money and power.
Yea…that about covers it.
Not Over.
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……..
Ratzky is just a right-wing-bleeding-heart-liberal jackass who's getting all wee weed up … bwAH HAA HAA!!! People, forget about the MSM covering this story because they are in too deep as part of the story itself.
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.
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show ripped them? Wow! Must find that. He might have redeemed himself a tiny fraction.
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?
This guy looks like I imagined Ellsworth Toohey when I read The Fountainhead.
Isn't this the guy who whose brother stole 1M in taxpayer money from ACORN?
Wade Rathke? This Andy Warhol look-alike, cheese eating, Chardoney sippin', slick talkin', slippery sumbitch better crawl in his hidey hole. He needs to take Jesse Jackson and Crazy Al Sharpton with him. Talk about the Plantation System, they are nothing but a bunch of cracker carpetbaggers……………
Aww I feel so sorry that you feel like you are being persecuted …..NOT
ONE UGLY NUTJOB!
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.
One would think after embezzling all that money, he would have a better hairpiece and invest in some top of the line wrinkle cream…doesn't his face look like silly putty?
It seems likely that Tresa was high as a kite and running her mouth like a typical, long term coke-head.
Oh that's funny. I thought the exact same thing when I saw the picture.
She's gonna have to prove that to Sen Boxer et al.
If she can? OK.
If not….? Ruh Roh!
Is this the guy whose brother stole a million bucks from ACORN and they would not charge him?
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?
Hey Wade: You've run a profitable great business for many years, raping the American tax payers of over 53 million. And yes, you have provided jobs to the scum bags that want to cheat, and assist those that are losers, and want to set up illegal organizations. Please get out of my American country. You don't belong here. Go to a communist country where you will fit right in.
But Donald loves this country.
Call the waaaaaaahmublance! It looks like these losers are playing with a two card deck. It's either play the race card or play the McCarthyism card. Or, just for kicks, play them both!!!
I can't wait to see what O'Keefe and Giles have for us next. It's like Christmas!
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Darn. Must be too new yet to have a video up. Will have to wait until tomorrow morning. Will be like waiting for presents on Christmas morning!
I pick No. 3 for the win Earl,
Document shredders…that makes much more since. (Safer too).
Not Over.
“how willing the Obama administration is open to a cave-in to the conservatives on false pretenses on a completely fake ‘issue.’”
First of all, that sentence makes no grammatical sense whatsoever.
Secondly, translation – "we got caught with our pants around our ankles and a jar of vaseline nearby. Oh F***."
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.
ACORNS roasting on an open fire…
Rathke: "You say child prostitution like it's a bad thing….."
ACORN is a parasyte slowly killing its host… it purports to help those in need, but perpetuates need. Instead of teaching people how to make BETTER choices with LIMITED resources, it gives away the resources entrusted to it, through money it has stolen from unwitting Americans with the assistance of the government!
That was brother Dale. Wade just covered it up.
W Rathke is an old SDS guy, along with Bill Ayres.
Acorn is one of the biggest contributors to the coruption in Washington. They think the Constitution doesn't apply to them. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u9V_C1UNIQ
Awwwww, this snake Rathke finally bares his ugly head. It's time to go Alinsky on his ass!
I love the smell of left-wing panic in the morning. It smells like….. victory.
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
Dale Rathke was the embezzler!
What makes you say that Jerry?
MSM is not just so far in. They are a accomplise.
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.
So he would not mind to let Fox News go in their hq and look at any records? Or make them open to the public, savvy?
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?
intentionally targeting ACORN because of its progressive agenda. I
Um. Yeah. Gonna hafta ask you for that red stapler. . . see, "progressive" agenda includes whatever it takes for the poor man to get a head on a pike . . . er, em, ahead. . . in this unjust capitalistic country. So, you see, morality is relative and you're no relation to me, so, um, yeah. Gonna need you to give it up for the greater good of ACORN, okay?
That man is smoking something good and is NOT sharing. Bad form! And so is that hair color. LOL!
Hehehehe I thought you all might like to see Tresa Kaelke's linkedin prof: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tresa-kaelke/14/750/2...
If you are so far left that you're actually criticizing OBAMA for his "conservativism" you have to be in Marxist territory. What else is there left of the Whitehouse these days?
This is who Obama worked for; need I say more. Obama was a Acron trainer, and their Attorney.
Oh cry me a river Rathead! I've had it with these two dudes. Can't wait to see all their assets at the auction block. Time to pay the reaper!
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.
Wow the Old Media really is on it's death bed, is it not? Amazing how obviously in the tank for this administration they are. Why would any company waste advertising dollar on any of the OldMedia outlets any longer? I know I would not do it…
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!
He looks like death warmed over. I would not trust this guy to push a broom.
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.
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_tt...
People in the mafia had gone to jail for much lesser crimes and undercover video….
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12439&tx_tt...
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...
so the POS rathke thinks this will mysteriously go away by invoking mccarthy? Integrity ?? How about greed – this is the ugly face of our tax dollars lining this POS pockets. The scam of a lifetime. I want this to go beyond hm to the top and who is at the top ??? I think its george soros. He has wanted to destroy the US for a very long time and he infects systems using the likes of idiots like rathke. RICO
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.
For those that want a refresher on brother Dale Rathke here is a good primer. They are all slimebags.
http://theeprovocateur.blogspot.com/2009/05/embez...
It's being investigated.
It seems that we have all the earmark of a seminal moment in american history. This last week is just the opening salvo that could ultimately give Obama his legacy. Carter had his, Nixon had one, and of course who could forget that lovable hunk Clinton. Frightening days ahead for the left, fear in my heart what a cornered animal can do. Dangerous days ahead, played out all the faster by the virtue of insant 24/7 mass, one to many communications. It won't take 18 months like it took hillary to find her billing statements. This is gonna be more exciting than the super-bowl and world series and the world cup rolled into one
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.
Apealling to Obama. It's over for this loser, unless he has considerable dirt on Obama. Rathke better stay away from the aspirin bottles. Obama has a very involved history with ACORN.
Still, you don't joke about stuff like that.
I wonder if he sees his empire crumbling down? I almost cannot wait untill tomorrow mornings Glenn Beck radio program.
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.
Hmmm… do you figure ACORN might take this down now? :
http://www.thankyoujonstewart.com/
I just pray that I live long enough to see this scumbag and his even scummier brother behind bars. UGH!
I agree, that is the stuff the left will use to make us look bad. We need to keep this civil, well at least try to.
Metal……do actually believe that line of crap from this organ….no wait communist organization?
I may have to steal that one Jim68. Hilarious!
Rather than defending ACORN'S obvious corruption, Rathke should prepare himself for being thrown under Obama's bus……………
On Glenn Beck today he was standing at the chalk board with the pictures of Wade and Dale up, and I swear I saw him punch one of them… I just know that it felt good vicariously….
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??
In acorn.org her defense is, I played along?!? This bubblehead is really insane! What respecting citizen would say, "I shot my (ex)husband…" to ANYONE. Jeez! How pathetic! I hope she's packed her bags – it's time to go…
Good catch Anon31.
wee wee'd up — I like that. Yeah the R word is coming.
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?
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