Bertha Lewis Spins: Filmmakers Thrown Out of Dozens of Offices
by Publius
“Well, I absolutely agree with you, which is why as the CEO I took swift and immediate action, terminated those employees, because regardless as to what we know or… edited, doctored tapes and where you don’t see everything where finally people were thrown out in dozens of our offices, it is inexcusable, and indefensible, to sort of, have such poor judgment. That’s not our professional standards. That’s why those folks were terminated because all of my other employees, of course they did the right thing. They saw this ridiculous couple, who by the way were very aggressive and refused to leave some of our offices, but our other employees did the right thing. And so I wanted to make sure that people understood this is not who we are, we will not tolerate even two minutes of that kind of conversation, our standards are much higher, and in fact, these folks got thrown out of a lot of offices. So, this handful of employees, it’s unfortunate, but you know what, you can’t work for me if you don’t have common sense.”
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'Great. Let's see the video.
Getting desperate, heh?
Birth! Stop, Drop, & Roll!! Your pants are on fire!!!!
Would someone PLEASE demand you to offer proof of these supposed times they were thrown out of the offices! How come no one in the MSM challenges her on this talking point. Video tape, police records, emails, etc… Nothing offered so far.
Looks like an expensive dress Bertha, What's your yearly salary and what's your net worth???????
Import little girls from Tijuana for sex slave business? Si se puede!
Spin and lie with a little help from our MSM freinds? Yes we can
YOU LIE!!
Just sayin'
You go Bertha!!! Please stay in front of that camera and keep taking interviews. Glad to see we are up to dozens of offices now. It seems to grow every time.
Someone needs to explain to Bertha here that it doesn't matter if they were thrown out of any offices. What matters is that they were not thrown out of at least FIVE offices (probably more) and they were instructed on how to break the law and get away with it.
This BS needs to be called out!
How come ACORN is allowed to be "99% black and brown people" …?
Are they not held to the same standards of diversity as the rest of us? Are there federal funds going to broad national organizations that are 99% white? Does Bertha discriminate when hiring? I'm not seeing how that outcome could be attained given our national demographics.
Good gawdalmighty! Caint someone show that nappy headed hoe how to dress? Every time she shows her fat ass on camera she's wearing a moo-moo or some swaziland looking tunic. This is America now Bertha.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEJfS1v-fU0
http://www.newmajority.com/the-oldest-profession-...
QUESTION: If a pair of liberals 20 somethings and went into Christian Coalition offices or NRA offices (or CEOs offices) all across the fruited plain and got them to, repeatedly, advise on how to set up underage illegal immigrant brothels whereby beatings of the young girls could net more money that (after a being used to pay a fraudulent mortgage and evaded from the IRS) could be funneled into political campaigns, how many days would it be on the front page of the New York Times?
How many days would the MSM snobs spend calling us corrupt, racist, loons?
Now Bettha, black, brown people & pimps, protitutes? Are you claiming somehow these two go together? I've never thought that one time watching these tapes. Or are you trying to play that old song Democrats have been playing lately…Racism? I think it's sorta outrageous you think they are significant to each other. Is that what you think of your people?
As a mother, I'd be PROUD to be able to call James and Hannah my children.
I simply don't understand why anyone believes a thing she says any more. Seriously, this lady is a joke. Why is she even allowed on television programs she's been caught lying blatantly numerous times. She's basically a mob boss. ACORN is organized crime.
There is only one think left to determine about her: http://www.truthaboutdeception.com/confront_a_lia...
they were aggressive and refused to leave ….
WTF DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING !!! Yes I'm screaming for the stupidity !!!! My GOD folks !!!!
hmmmm…..Me thinks that the noose is tightening. I bet that now that ACORN is taking these steps to defend themselves and marginalize the film makers, that there is another shoe to drop. It will be interesting next week.
So they tried this at many different offices and no one ever tried to warn to rest of the ACORN offices about what James and Hannah were trying to do and no one at ACORN tried to trap them or get pictures or file police reports? Yep, I believe you.
Harlem Policy Bank
How come every office location she mentions they got thrown out of we end up seeing a video showing otherwise?? This woman needs to be investigated outside of the ACORN investigation as well as the rest of the high ups there. Also, those politicians directly connected to this organization need to be investigated as well.
As usual when you have no other defense left either go to the personal attacks or pull the race card. Reminds me a lot of the Billy Madison ending when "billy" speaks and no one gets it then he yells out the school name and the crowd goes wild.
Time is coming to deal with corrupt politicians, bias fringe media and special interest groups to give them a dose of their own medicine… a "lethal" dose through savingtherepublic.com
She is going to look like a total ass when they release videos from LA or Philly or Miami, places she already said they got kicked out of… This is too much fun! You can already tell she is mad as a hornet!
Boehner: Measure to Defund ACORN Shouldn’t Be Held Hostage to Gov’t Takeover of Student Loans
GOP Leader Calls on Speaker Pelosi to Schedule Immediate Vote on the Defund ACORN Act as a Separate, Stand-Alone Bill
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?Doc...
The fact came out yesterday that it was attached to the gov takeover of student loans.
So, if they vote YES to defund ACORN, they vote YES to the takeover of student loans! No? Then they are allowing ACORN to go ahead with their outrageous illegal behaviors!
DISGUSTING!
ACORN and Obama are not out there to help me! I am an educated, employed, taxpaying, white American. They are out there to "help" people who believe their government is not giving them enough and those who believe that what they get from the government is owed to them by the suckers who work and pay taxes!
Bwaaahaa haa haa haa *cough cough* bwahaa aaa haaaaaa!
You are a joke Bertha! I saw that "Philadelphia Police Report" on you website and the girl you had reading a statement – not blinking. It's ridiculous!
Linked from michellemalkin.com :
http://www.acornhousing.org/index.php
I would be interested to find out if anyone has checked out the police records in the cities where the police were called.
Notice how she said that to work for her you need "common sense?" Not that you need good morals and ethics. Common sense, of course, is what you want when you're more concerned with how to keep from getting caught rather than reconsidering your moral standing.
Bwaaahaa haa haa haa *cough cough* bwahaa aaa haaaaaa!
You are a joke Bertha! I saw that "Philadelphia Police Report" on your website and the girl you had reading a statement – not blinking. It's ridiculous!
Linked from michellemalkin.com :
http://www.acornhousing.org/index.php
She needs to just stop talking she is making herself look like an idiot. If you can get that many corrupt people across the entire United State it wouldn't even matter If they were thrown out of some offices!
C'mon now, Bertha…can the spin and stick with that clever new PSA campaign!
Now THAT is a beautiful thing, as in "Prostitution: Do it for the Children. (An ACORN Public Service Announcement)" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Demand she list the offices they got thrown out of. It will be easy to prove disprove that.
Demand that she prove that those 2 went to PP offices and asked for their money to go to black abortions.
I would also like to know just what behavior they did that was bullying their way in.
These are wild inflammatory accusations that she should be called on.
Linked from michellemalkin.com :
http://www.acornhousing.org/index.php
It's ridiculous – the girl doesn't blink when reading the PREPARED statement someone wrote for her!
Linked from michellemalkin.com :
http://www.acornhousing.org/index.php
It's ridiculous – the girl doesn't blink when reading the PREPARED statement someone wrote for her!
Cowboy logic … Great song. Ms. Bertha is not high on my list of favorites either, in truth she her words are revolting. Can anyone believe her? To refer to her the way you did is truly un-American. A great communicator does not need language like you used.
They wouldn't use underage prostitution. They'd go after our guns.
Oh wait, Michael Moore did it. And he did it with much less success and a much larger budget.
Yeah – I don't see any white men at any of her offices. I call reverse discrimination!
also they were white bertha – that should have thrown up a flag according to your own words!!!!
Balding much Bertha? Might want to powder that shine on you head next time.
No no…that's the Walmart Hiawatha Halloween costume. Cmon, dont be mean…
Obama and William Ayers are best friends
http://mycityblog.net/2009/09/18/obama-william-ay...
Common sense to do what Bertha? Lie, cheat, or scheme, but not get caught?
It looks like ol' Bertha has come out from the smoldering ash to try to save her gravy train.
bow! wow!
where are the white plantation owners bertha ??? You know the RATHKE Brothers ???? Huh??? Noooooo, they are letting you take the fall…
Where is the left at now??? How come they are not asking for their heads???? They sure wanted the heads of the evil CEO's !!!! You people are a joke – by you people I mean anyone who can try and condone this crap!!! I dont; want to be considered a racists unless the new racists is "someone who is aganist the idiots of the world"
http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/07/acorns-r...
She's like the next generation of Baghdad Bob, lol
Great link .. is that really the best defense omg lol!!!!!
Why isn't anybody mentioning ACORN International?
Take a look at their link:
http://www.acorninternational.org/
then click on 'Contact us':
ACORN International – U.S. office
Wade Rathke
Chief Organizer
3401 St. Claude Av
New Orleans, LA 70177
Wade Rathke is the only contact.
They have changed their name from Acorn International.
With friendship,
Sergio
Ms. Lewis….YOU LIE!
Such utter absurdity; the penultimate illustration of ACORN's (and the left's) absolute desperation. They have, yet again, been exposed for the filthy, degenerate criminals and thugs that they are and, yet, they still want to cry "foul"…or, rather, "racism."
Yes, sure…ACORN is the victim here. Right.
I guess we had better all "curb our enthusiasm" on this, as well as the other issues the statists are trying to shove down our throats. If not, it could lead to the murder of another homosexual member of the S.F. Board of Supervisors….at least, so sayeth the profound Pelosi.
By the way Madam Pelosi…as I pointed out on my blog…you neglected to mention that the guy who murdered Moscone and Milke (Dan White)…
…WAS A DEMOCRAT!
http://jacksonianlawyer.wordpress.com/2009/09/17/...
PLEASE, BIGGOVERNMENT, HANNAH AND JAMES, GIVE US MORE VIDEOS! I know you have them and I can't stand the suspense any longer. How long are you going to let this second generation Baghdad Bob blow hot air? I can't stand listening to these supposed reporters who question NOTHING she says yet are ready to string you two up for doing their job for them. Sorry for the rant…
So wait, AP ORN discriminates against white poor people?
She received a call from planned parenthood telling her that James called up wanting to fun black abortions because he wants fewer of them in the world? Can we get a fact check?
She stated they went to several offices, were turned away and were extremely pushy. Can we get another fact check?
Chicago politics step 1: We didn't do it.
Chicago politics step 2: We didn't do it the way you said it, so everything is okay.
Chicago politics step 3: It was just an isolated incident.
Chicago politics step 4: You're a racist. (This is where we're at right now.)
Chicago politics step 5: We have no legal bounds to hit you with, but that's never stopped us from threatening you
(Did I miss any?)
I know this is off topic but it was fun! I went to the usurper's http://www.serve.gov/ and volunteered for “removing the usurper form office”.
Guess what? There were no results.
Give it a few tries just for fun and to tweak, at the least, the little IT geeks helping the usurper and maybe shutting down the site.
That is a job worth volunteering for!
They did go into PP offices and make those requests — to prove the point that PP activities are in line with eugenics. They also asked that the donations be made in honor of Margaret Sanger, who advocated the practice.
Remember when the Iraqi propaganda minister proclaimed the US invasion a failure on live television while a split screen showed American tanks entering Baghdad?
I thought that the black community took offense to bring someone's mamma… I mean mother into the conversation.
Hey James and Hannah, I think Bertha made a great suggestion. Talk to your folks! Make sure you have your video camera with you and please post when your folks beam with pride just like the rest of Patriot-America is doing right this second for you!
Love you guys! Best launch of a new website in the history of the internet. Keep on keepin' on!
I searched for keyword "prostitution" in the "92123" area code (San Diego).
8 pages
http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=prostitution&a...
I searched for keyword "prostitution" in the "92123" area code (San Diego).
8 pages
http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=prostitution&a...
Let's see…"aggressive and refused to leave". That's the definition of criminal trespass. So of course, the fine ACORN people in these upstanding offices called the police and had the videographers arrested…? No?
I'll put it this way…
Pictures, or it didn't happen.
Police report or it didn't happen.
Someone credible stepping forward to tell about it, or it didn't happen.
Do you have even ONE cell-phone video from one of your "upstanding people" in one of these dozens of offices who might have covered their ass and recorded the event of throwing out these outrageous persons? No?
Then shut the frak up, we don't believe you.
Awwww, darn. What happened to the smear? What happened to the doctored tapes? Certainly those poor employees were set up, and you need to sue Fox news and Biggovernment.com. Please say you have some integrity and backbone, since so very few of your offices were actually able to be persuaded to perpetuate the illegality.
What? You think the ho ploy was just something he would pick to use due to stereotypical views. Now Big Bertha why would he use deception to get in the door. You're lucky it was the pimp ho thing and not some sinister plot that truly mattered like you know, giving cigarettes to poor black uneducated to vote over and over for your man with the wallet.
If the standards are much higher, how was it possible for so many employees to offer them advice to circumvent the I.R.S. and laws. Employees having connections to Tijuana, underage sex slave industry and trafficking! Pullleeeze! Play your race card again, it means nothing.
Prove your allegations, where are the videos, of all your upstanding employees. You’re a loud mouth CEO Bertha Lewis. Looking forward to your termination in the weeks to come! You should be ashamed of yourself, your defense is absolutely pathetic.!
The link is not working at this time….Hmmmm has it been pulled that quickly?
Yep, just like Bagdad Bob….LOL
I don't remember being handed a copy of a police report whenever I have called them. The cops usually write those in the car or back in the office but don't go back in and hand one to the complainer. If legit, I assume they got it from the PD. Then why didn't they produce it last week when they first made the claims about refusing James and Hannah and calling in the PD. It shouldn't have taken the PD a week to find the report for them, especially with a recent case.
As I said, if it was legit. If the report isn't kosher, well, we know what was the delay. Forgery takes time.
For crying out loud….Why is ANYONE surprised about ACORN??….READ THEIR HISTORY SECTION ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE….For example….during the 80's….
"Turning adversity into opportunity, ACORN launched a campaign to obtain affordable housing. Long before it became fashionable to be concerned about the homeless, ACORN was fighting for homes for low- and moderate-income people. Noting that economic upheaval had forced many people to default on mortgages, ACORN sought to place needy people in the resulting vacant homes. This required the forceful and illegal (though logical and moral) seizing of the properties – squatting.
The squatting campaigns involved personal, community and political dimensions. The personal needs of people without homes attracted many to advertisements ACORN placed in papers asking "Do you need a home?" The squatting campaign required a personal commitment to move into a vacant, usually poorly kept house and refit it for comfortable living. It also involved the risk of arrest if local authorities refused them the legal occupation of the home. Nevertheless, the response was great."
Show me the proof! Until then all I see is another liar.
This woman belongs in a jail cell. I will not rest until she is in one. Period.
Methinks Ms. Lewis duns fergot who she talkin' tu… We is dose racist white educated peeps, Berth ! Not yer avurage urban, non wedlock breeding, America hatin' non-producin' welfare bugs…. We get, Ms. Lewis.. It's about time you did. Normal country loving Americans of ANY color are not racist driven imbeciles as you might portray us as. It is your illicit, illegal, disgusting and perverse behavior that has caused your organization to fold. You are history and we hope lessons have been learned….by you and our illustrious members of Congress. If not…the price will be paid.____2010 The year of Congressional Correction__2012 The year of Presidential Correction
She is soooooo setting herself up for a fall. If she were a witness I was examining, I'd be thinking, "you just dug your own grave, you fool."
James has already said what I expected- that they have all their travel records and can easily prove where they were on a given day. So bring on your 'statements', Bertha!
Meanwhile, one of Bertha's handpicked "investigation" panel, Andy Stern of the SEIU, has just let loose an unhinged rant against the " racist teabaggers:"
As has always happened when progressive change is in the air, the backlash gets fierce, ugly and anti-American. This time is no different. Right now, there is an insidious and coordinated effort on the part of the extreme right to target individuals and grassroots community groups as a way to silence the voices of women and men who have suffered the most"
. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/b...
Her advice is soft and gentle and cultural…"Somebody go tell Jimmy's momma that he is playin tricks on the black and brown people…"____"Mrs. Okeefe, your son has caused some of my employees to become fired by pretending to be an outlandish inposter of an illicit profession, an tricked them into giving him advice how to cheat pimp steal lie and promote child abuse!"____I can hear Mrs. Okeefe now…____"Shame on you Jimmy for tricking people into giving you bad advice on camera, by pretending to be bad."____Hey, it's almost Halloween and we all got a costume…Ms. Bertha, Jimmy's costume is better than yours.__
Personaly I think O'Kief is a dweeb & opportunist, but Hanna is obliviously the brains behind this operation!! Good operation. Hannah for Congress!!! Until 2024 when she can run for President!!
I have a question. This is not supposed to be a political organization…But she references O'keefe as a conservative, and hopes that the republicans and Fox give him money. So is she making reference that ACORN is a Liberal Democrat organization, and thats why the republicans and the Conservative O'keefe targeted them? Somebody help me on this!
What I dislike is the constant reference to their color, as if any criticism should be racism. Just like Carter, this is meant to stop debate. It’s like you have to be while middle age mail to be criticized. Awaiting next video.
Yawns…. Bertha is that really your best defense? And… can you imagine these two young kids (great Americans also) "bullying" there way in your offices? It doesn't even surprise me anymore when they play the race card. I've come to expect it. Statements like "99% black and brown"????? For the people who can actually think these types of statements just make you look like a big fat raciest in a moo moo. The gravy train is coming to an end for you Bertha……..
ILLEGAL is OKAY WITH THEM….Get it?….The ends justify the means….Get it?….FYI….this snippet is from the 80's….but in fact this has ALWAYS been a political org….READ IT ALL HERE….
http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12445 …
Also, ….if you want to know what they stand for & want….read their "People's Platform"….IT IS ALL SPELLED OUT HERE…
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=50
Behind every Man there is a Better Women!!
Now this is a real nappy headed hoe
So, this handful of employees, it’s unfortunate, but you know what, you can’t work for me if you don’t have common sense.” – Bertha…..
And common sense is directing you to keep giving interviews, right?
Thinking about it now…I really hope that James & his crew splice parts of this video and other quotes into the new videos they release…imagine…
Bertha Lewis "they got thrown out of our offices in…" … "all of our other employees did the right thing" …
Spliced over a the new footage!
This is reminscent of the Left's defense of that infamous fool we all met last year – Reverend Wright. "So what if he says America invented AIDS to kill black people or gd America, look at all the good things he's done." That's like saying "So what if my neighbor killed his wife, look at all the people in the neighborhood he didn't kill." Even if only 5 of 20 ACORN offices acted inappropriately, it's still a problem. (I know for a fact that there are more tapes and that Big Bertha is a liar, but, even if she weren't, isn't this still a problem for ACORN rather than for Hannah and James?
Agreed, because they all been so truthful. I know that none of her other employees would lie to Bertha. I sure that she asked for reports from the other offices and to cover their butts, they told Bertha, sure we threw them out. Breitbart is playing this so well, just let all the excuses come and then BAM! Another video.
I smell a moby. Go somewhere else and spread your troll manure. Pig.
Hey Bertha……….your Mohawk is beginning to reverse itself………..how about getting a transplant and a job?
Just saying……………
Despite their claims to the contrary, Acorn is still "intaking" new applications. See http://www.acorn.org/ and click on "Click here for help with your mortgage!" in the lower right corner.
If you want to send Acorn a little message, you can use these form fields. The form is a dumb as Acorn employees, it doesn't check for syntax in number fields, etc. Nice way to share your thoughts with the wonderful people at Acorn…you know, the ones who are not supposed to be processing new clients.
her comments are so way off…what a pity?
acorn —–good bye
Expensive but, hideous.
Not to mention James' RIDICULOUS "pimp cape!!!!" LMAO!
Was that necessary? I'm guessing you are a Liberal troll.
No doubt if she felt that this was all a set up why would she fire some of her most outstanding and honorable Obama mama's
Hi, Moby!
Careful everyone! There is a misdirection strategy going down here…we all get mad and pre-occupied with taking down ACORN. That mission is in the cleanup stage…not done, but no longer the priority. ____In the military planning of any assault, a smaller unit is left behind to do a mop-up of an engagement, while the assault team moves on…(oh…sorry, "move on" is not ours is it?) ____But in fact, the strategy is to now bring this offensive to higher ground. Lets focus next, on the real enemy…the higher ups in the graft and corruption system.____Leave behind a contingent to continue to keep this expose alive…and move the main assault forward. But lets not get caught in the defenseless and non-worthy argument of whether we are racists…We know who we are, we are not racists, and the people we defend that position against will never believe us anyway. Next battle!
Why doesn't ACORN compensate Mr. Giles for his work in cleaning out their offices.
This is one nappy headed hoe
Well put!
Heh, heh, heh, heh.
I agree. She's demonstrating her Un-American-ness with that get-up.
RyanPaul made a fantastic point, and it got me thinking… someone could set up a glorious direct sting of the MSM in the wake of this.
1) Create a short series of videos of actors playing NRA officials advising people how to buy, sell and transport guns illegally.
2) Find a convincing frontman to leak those videos through some left-wing organizations like MoveOn, ACORN themselves, or directly to old media (less accurately known as "MSM") outlets. With luck, you could get a real liberal frontman with street cred to do this on a bet*.
3) Wait for the old media to pick it up. Do nothing to deny the story; do everything to make them think we're afraid of it. Let NRA folks in on the act. Get them to temporarily issue only the fuzzy, guilty-sounding kind of denials that get the opposition salivating.
4) Measure the duration and prominence of the coverage by each outlet. As the story gains steam, release a couple more damning videos. Lather, rinse, repeat.
5) Have the NRA exec initially act publicity-shy & evade contact with the big media outlets. When they think he's at his weakest, have him offer an interview to the first big outlet who will agree to show it live or unredacted.
6) Reveal the scam during his interview. Publish the rest of the footage, complete with actors' admissions.
7) Publish charts & graphs with quantifiable comparisons of the coverage. Demand that this be rectified with a set of sweeping amendments to proposed Fairness Doctrine regulations, and that Karl Rove be appointed to the Fairness Czar position, with broad regulatory powers under the FCC.
Go have a field day on left-leaning message boards.
kthxbye!
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* You bet that the coverage will be astoundingly lopsided, provided he vouches for the videos when the old media comes looking for one of their own to back them up. If you're wrong, you will buy him or her beers for a year or a ticket to Cuba if the per-video coverage amount & prominence averages anywhere from -100% to +10% of ACORN's scandals across a predefined list of TV and print outlets.
We know Ms Lewis is lying because her lips are moving. Does anyone actually trust this woman to tell the truth? Oops . . is that racist?
Whoa! None of that. No creating screencaps for Lefty sites to scream RAAAAY-CIST! about.
Wouldn't the Democrats want to offer money to these fine youfs who exposed such corruption? I mean ACORN is non partisan right?
She's a failure of a human being….as low on the totem pole as you can get. Sub-human. I'd rather hang with a murderer, at least they're honest.
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