Bertha Lewis Media Blitz: ACORN ‘Chief Organizer’ Says ‘We’re Gonna Go After This Videographer and Fox’
by PubliusACORN CEO Bertha Lewis has taken on the (daunting) task of defending ACORN in the mainstream media. Her Politico bio is here. **UPDATE** MSNBC videos have been removed from the site. They are a couple days old at this point and we aren’t certain the explanation at this time.
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What started as one incredible story has become something far beyond what most would have ever suspected, and we owe it all to your hard work and the launch of this site! Who knew that just by adding a dot com to the end, big government could become such a beautiful thing? It's enough to make Al Gore wish he'd never invented the Internet, I'll bet.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and all of you who’ve put so much into breaking the ACORN story!
The impact made here has been incredible, as in "“Crushed Nuts: How ACORN Got Trampled by the ‘Racist’ Stampede” at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Seeing so many likeminded conservative thinkers brought into one place to gather and share information is truly a wonderful thing. Thank you for that as well!
Keep fighting the good fight!
It is FAUX SNOOZE's fault ACORN's actions make ACORN look bad.
She says she is running an honest orginization.
She is a crook along with the total cesspool.
Keep it coming Bertha, I love it! The longer she tries to hold on and point the finger back at the messenger, the worse ACORN is going to look.
This is not going to drown the story, it is just going to prolong it.
BTW, when are MSNBC and CNN going to praise O'Keefe and Giles for their yoeman's work?
Where do we donate to the defense fund?
Clearly anybody who speaks out against an organization who supports underage Ecuadorian sex trafficking is a racist;)
Someone should ask that fat slag why, if the videos are a fabrication and a distortion, the Baltimore and Washington employees were immediately fired.
A few things to note:
1. McCarthy, though many of his actions were reprehensible and his abuse of power ruined lives, was RIGHT. Why does everyone conveniently forget that little fact? Communists WERE in places of high power.
2. I hope this child prostitution enabling, race-baiting piece of scum gets thrown under the bus, raked over the coals and put in jail where she belongs, along with the Rathke brothers who probably have a longer rap sheet than every hooker that ACORN ever helped get cheap housing.
Let her go after Fox and James and Hannah. Has she ever heard of a thing called discovery? The minute she sues, they go after all of ACORN;s financial records for the last five years. I don't think she wants that to happen.
James and Hannah, stay safe, you are my heroes.
Bring It, ACORN!
PS: Get these two some kevlar vests, some security, and a legal defense fund, stat!
I suppose that Rathke told her to say that.
She's full of it. No way they subject themselves to discovery. After these tapes, there is no telling what would show up.
Of course NBC takes the one out of context quote from Tresa Kaelka; "you can mold this into anything you want", as if to infer mold their story about ACORN… It must pain NBC to report this… Their heads must be exploding about now.
The evolution of Bertha:
James is a Fox operative who pulled this stunt at several hundred kazillion ACORN offices. James is liar! James told the truth but used a secret camera! James found a few bad employs! James exposed some areas that we should look into! James did us a favor! Thank you, James!
Why did ACORN fire the women in Baltimore, but not Tresa? Hmmmmm. Maybe ACORN is racist?!
Bravo Biggovernment!!
You have turned the tide of Obama’s raging race to control everything..,with the aiding & abetting of the criminal enterprise, acorn.
Now WE have HOPE.
What is she waiting for, go ahead and sue.
She is runnning a scam and knows it. When Rathkes brother embezzeled 1 million dollars, the board members that wanted investigation were fired without a meeting of the board. In other words, the board was not allowed an investigation. It won't now either.
These are common thugs and Obama was swimming with them.
Volfie, Volfie, Volfie Blitzah, why are you so late to this party? Were you busy waxing that magnificent beard of yours?
Anyway, thanks for letting poor Bertha set herself up for the next round of embarrassing videos. Breitbart said on Hannity that none of the Acorn offices turned James and Hannah away.
And where's the ding dang San Diego video?
Fact is, she's more worried than anyone else because of loosing her job and the possibility of imprisonment. That's the only reason she could be lashing out as venomously as she has been that I can come to.
Here is all the Acorn videos in one link, makes it a little easier to share. Also I have been posting craigslist ads in the Rants and Raves section and been getting a great response. We need to get the rest of America informed Mainstream media is not informing America so we have to
http://mycityblog.net/tag/acorn/
Hey Bertha… You Lie!
"Just because you repeat a lie over and over again doesn't make it true."
(It does if it's an ACORN lie.)
L-O-friggin'-L! ! ! ! !
This lady is more than a little inconsistent.
first, she says they are going to take fox and hannah and james to court and sue…. then she says they actually did acorn a favor by exposing these people!
soooo….. they did you a favor, but you're going to sue them?
you're going to sue them, even though you fired people as a result of their investigation?
riiiiiight. acorn has proven, time and time again, they aren't deserving of our tax money.
SEE YA, BERTHA.
Hah… another right-wing lie and smear job. They were El Salvadoran hookers, not Ecuadorian. :p
Besides, prostitution, fraud, tax evasion and human trafficking is hardly the issue here. Obviously, as any thinking person will admit, sneaking around with a video camera and telling lies trumps all of that in the Eeeevil behavior department.
Rangle should have gone to ACORN for his taxes and business advice
They don't play the whole video haha, what a bunch of kitty cats
The latest video (San Diego) gave me shivers up my spine. Of all the appalling things in the world – for young women to be put through this. Where are the feminists? *Crickets*
I’m sick and tired of Acorn being given one dime of honest hardworking taxpayers’ money. We honestly report our income and it gets tossed back in our faces. And we dare to complain even a wee bit – and we are called “racists”.
You there, you aiders, abettors, and name-callers on Capitol Hill – we’re coming after you next November. Count on it.
It's true what they say, Pimpin' ain't easy.
Yes, why?
That, right there, is an admission of guilt.
I hope you know the answer to your question, since it seems you were tuned to Hannity.
I'm going to assuming you're being cheerfully sarcastic there.
Pathetic scam artist. Like Obama himself, just a more sophisticated "scam artist". Who do they think they are kidding? Not on my dime!!
Bertha, where are your manners? I think the proper response "thank you!".
These people have helped expose–to date–eight employees willing to abet INTERNATIONAL SEX SLAVE TRAFFICING. I think a good feminist, a good leftist, a good human would say "thank you! thank you! thank you!"
This also forgot to do something else she should have long ago: resign!
How's that HOPE and CHANGE working for ya now biaaatch!?!?!?
Aren't we just having a big 'ole time now? High time for a comprehensive house cleaning. How about some Czars next week?
Ya no shock that Gasbag Ed starting yelling that the Republicans were doing this. If he had half a brain he'd know that wasn't the truth.
Tea Parties in front of our local ACORN offices? Who's down?
Glenn Beck has also done great work in exposing Acorn, but I want to personally thank Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe for their courage to expose this web of deceit. I am totally ashamed to admit that senators Durbin and Burris from my state of Illinois apposed the stoppage of funding to Acorn. What does that tell us when the regular media outlets have not investigated this story. We need to hold anyone accountable if they are doing damage to the country. It is the U.S. taxpayer that is getting hosed and it is about time the public speaks loud and clear that we will not tolerate this disrespect or dismissal any longer.
Oh Bertha, Bertha, Bertha…..I get a tingle up my leg just waiting for your bluff to be called.
Haha Burtha…I can hear the walls of ACORN crumbling way over here.
Lets see…NYS is opening an investigation, so is California, what good news will tomorrow bring?
Haha, Fox News laughs at your stupidity Bertha. You would have a better lawsuit against McDonald's for being out of chicken mcnuggets.
I love how Bertha says ACORN didn't file paperwork for the pimp and prostitute because "of our quality control, not one application, not one document, not one shred of paper was ever filed or put in for these people".
I'm fairly certain it wasn't your "quality control" as much as it was James and Hannah being smart enough NOT to file false paperwork.
"Comprehensive house cleaning"…I like it…a LOT!
Let's roll!
Go for it Acorn. You should be run out of town.
Never, they shall sink with the ship, they have been promised there is gold on the bottom of the sea….
"Who knew that just by adding a dot com to the end, big government could become such a beautiful thing?"
Brilliant.
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and all of you who’ve put so much into breaking the ACORN story!
A thousand times yes. And big props to Breitbart and Beck for recognizing what James and Hannah had done and playing it marvelously. You all rock right out loud.
ACORN and honest organization? LMAO
Hey Bertha, what does your San Diego guy know about smuggling in underage prostitutes? Anything??? Or was he just playing along, too?
She was already not open to that idea when BillO asked her..
Where is the SEIU in all this mess???
Didn't Heidi Fleiss get busted for prostitution? Bertha is the head honcho at ACRON; bust her black a$$ for pandering and prostitution. She was running a national, and perhaps international prostitution ring. This keeps getting better………..
John Stewart did have the BEST take on the whole sordid affair, he was hilarious!
Repeat a lie, over and over again…hmmm…maybe you should have thought of that when you said the films were "doctored" and it "never happened in LA, NY, Chicago, etc. etc. – "
Oops, NY happened didn't it? And San Bernadino so close to LA, we can call that one too. You'd better be ready to put your proverbial butt where your mouth is – bend over and kiss!
Ok, this is just now Breaking News for the No-Brain-Channel this morning….I'm amazed..not. And now Bertha is the new CEO OF ACORN. So who fired Rat-khe? For Bertha bring it….so there is no backing down from an investigation…
Ms. Lewis doesn't seem to be very good at sticking to the script, does she?
Whatever PR firm was hired to bail ACORN out of this mess (or die trying) clearly wants the message to be about taking responsibility, and cleaning house. But Bertha can't resist accusing O'Keefe, Fox, et. al. of "doctoring" the videos, and continues to threaten legal action. Bertha, honey, if you FIRED your own employees for "indefensible" actions, filing lawsuits against those who brought those actions to light is NOT a great PR move.
Look for Ms. Lewis to be tossed under the bus in a matter of days, perhaps as early as this Friday night. Like Van Jones, she's becoming a liability.
ACORN will probably undergo a name-change, put up an "under new management" sign, and expect us to forget all about these little improprieties.
And she's still trying to prop up the health care bill!
Terminated? What about NY, San Bern, and now San Deigo?
What an idiot – she makes it worse for her case the more she opens her mouth!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QV7kNMrsvI I found the latest broadcast about the San Diego Expose at You Tube
LOL this was the funniest set of videos ive watched this week…. she hates answering a question head on… personally i think she helps destroy her own case. she def doesnt seem to happy about all the other states demanding investigations… if these kids get charged or sued for this i think thats a BIG statement about our goverment how justice is works to hide and cover up instead of applauding these TRUE AMERICANS for their work in making a better america.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QV7kNMrsvI I found the latest Fox News broadcast about the San Diego Expose at You Tube
Now it's dozens of offices – police reports? Show us the proof!
She goes on cnn, and msnbc and yet fox gets more viewers for the orielly factor than both those stations combined for the whole day lol.
Hope and Change Bertha, Hope and Change! I sure hope you changed your drawers after the feces hit the fan!
Yes she is evil. she wants "this incident " investigate. Not ACORN practices. She is not cooperative at all. This has Obama's finger prints on it.
so how long do we have to listen to them cry that it was a fabrication of tape?
Halarious! Cnn removed the video!!
PS: Bertha- "YOU LIE!" ~Joe Wilson~
Alinsky Rule #4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules:
What did she know, and when did she know it? That’s what they would ask of a right wing organization so what did ACORN know about the things their employees were helping people do, when did they know it?
Also, we would call this sexist right, importing kiddie sex slaves? Where are the feminists denouncing ACORN?
Alinsky Rule #6 A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. Yeah, baby, how much fun has this past week been?
You want to use facts and logic? With an ACORN WORKER????
The truly insane thing is that Ms. Lewis still thinks that she/ACORN have a leg to stand on. In every sense, ACORN have painted themselves up a flight of stairs (something I actually witnessed once, long, long ago in my younger years – with an old landlord of mine…came home to find him standing at the top of a stairway…having painted each stair one at a time as he made his ascent).
Once again, you've been invited to bring it on Ms. Lewis. Please quit announcing your intentions and go ahead and do it already….there are far more supporters than you might imagine who are ready to donate profusely to any necessary legal defense fund for these fine journalists and media outlets.
For now, you're goose is cooked Ms. Lewis. It will only get worse for you, not better.
Wow – she did a 1/2 Ginsberg – 3 interviews.
Anyone else mad that Acorn is going to use our money (tax money) to defend themselves from the investigations, and to for attorneys to try and sue fox, hannah and james?
Alinsky Rule #6 A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
Bertha, we be enjoying the hell outta this………Stay tuned Berthie……..
I think this ACORN scandal is going to go big. Very big. When asked about it today, White House press secretary Gibbs was for the first time ever, contrite. Not somewhat rueful but downcast-eyes, shamefaced, tail-between-the-legs, unequivocally contrite. I bet cash money he's rewriting his resume, (downplaying his White House gig.)
Just saw the one in San Diego _ Hey bertha now you ahve to expalin taht one nd how you can bring children in though mexico !!!!
See ya tomorrow on the All Barack Channel (ABC)
I was tuned in, but went to switch laundry. So where is the San Diego video? Please humor me?
Been there, said that! Also in front of the media – Alphabet Soup – NBC CBS ABC (for sure because Charlie still doesn't know about this) NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Sun Times. We need to keep the pressure on! Saul Alinsky rule #8.
Did they happen to even ask about operating in Maryland illegally?
how long do we have to listen to these idiots cry over their own mess. i think the guy that founded this bunch of dope smokers needs to be nailed to the wall!!!
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Ya know, I went to listen to these 3 and decided against it.
Those people are beneath my attention.
I've heard all I need to previous to this.
Be gone, already….
Can't wait for the "police reports" to show up of them throwing Hannah and James out! Check Mate Bertha! – You don't have any evidence and are speaking out of you a$$!
AND in front of our local MSM affiliates.
Someone has started that movement reported here: http://papundits.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/operati...
NYS – yeah, but we still got good 'ole Rangel here…no investigation there yet.
Given the current climate I recommend against using the word "race"……how about "raging desire" or "raging campaign" or "raging obsession" or "raging fixation"….Gee this is starting to be fun.
She's clueless. When Wolf told her about Mueller looking into ACORN's activities she pretty much thought it would be limited in scope. What she doesn't understand is the books are going to be opened and a forensic accounting is going to be done. It's going to happen w/ or w/o a lawsuit. Congress, including some weenie D's have to cover their ass and pretend like they weren't aware of this corrupt organization and their activities. And damn, who could blame the R's for going after these scoundrels?
Hey Big Bertha….can you spell F.B.I.?
This woman doesn't realise how stupid her points sound!! Talking about Acorn works, because no papers were never filed!!! Well no poopy-doo sherlock!! BECAUSE EDEN AND KENYA THE PROSTITUES DON'T EXISIT!! Hannah and James were smart enough NOT to commit TAX EVASION even as a sting opperation!!! Man this woman is retarded!!! Does she really think people with a brain doesn't recognise it's not Acorn's prevention of illegal paperwork filing, but that James & Hannah KNEW not to fill it out!! What a nit-whit!!
Why has it taken so long for the media to run with this?
It is national: Baltimore, DC, NYC, California
It is sensational: Sex, money, murder!
It is political: Ties to political activism, ties Obama & the Democrats, left-right fire storm
It is important: Imagine all the many lesser crimes (or greater) if these are being abetted so casually!
It has a great plot: Young conservatives use liberal methods, viral internet messaging, and 60-Minutes style undercover reporting to topple a major liberal organization and scoop the MSM dazzlingly
What more is needed here? Front Page News.
Shit. These kids should win a Pulitzer.
Some available here atm: http://ace.mu.nu/
The portion that was on Hannity tonight.
Bertha Lewis is AWESOME!!! Wolf was throwing soft balls and people can see it. Keep this lady in front of a camera. She won't be the CEO of ACORN much longer with those types of interviews.
FWIW, I guarantee the meaculpa press release from ACORN today was not written by any ACORN employee. It was written by 1st class damage control specialists. A "cleaner" if you will. My money is the White House called Bertha Lewis and told her someone would be stopping by to draft all future communications.
By all means, let's keep Ms. Lewis in front of the camera!!!
She does seem to keep opening her mouth right before more footage is released – rookie mistake.
Hannah, James, and Andrew B. are being smart about this – letting them step in it with their own words.
Get in line, I wanna write the first check…
True –
Wanted: Need two college kids to go to NOW (National Orginization for Women) and ask them how they feel about child prostitution !!!!!!!
Come on college kids!!! That would be awsome !!!
Busy turning on their paper shredders?
Wanted: Need two college kids to go to NOW (National Orginization for Women) and ask them how they feel about child prostitution !!!!!!!
Come on college kids!!! That would be awsome !!!
Here's all the affiliates of ACORN – http://tinyurl.com/n6krcd
Check out how many times SEIU shows up. Also, Wal-mart on page 78 & 79, and ACORN CANADA too – yes, we're funding another country!
OK, then, that sounded like a threat, a real threat.
Who do these people think they are? The mob?
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