Tag: "ACORN"
Panel Says ACORN A-OK. Also, Panel of Foxes Exonerate Fox from Charges of Henhouse-Raiding.
I’m so glad that’s settled. An internal investigation of the community-organizing group ACORN found no pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staffers on undercover videos shot by conservative critics of the group. In a 47-page assessment that former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger was commissioned by the organization to do, he criticized ACORN’s management [...]
How I Wish For an ACORN-Free Christmas
Wouldn’t it be a good Christmas if ACORN had to close up shop? As its financial resources dwindle, radical advocacy group and organized crime syndicate ACORN may have to file for bankruptcy protection before Christmas, ACORN insiders say. “They may have to file for bankruptcy if they don’t have several big pending grants approved or [...]
Look, Another Steaming Pile of MSM Journalism on the Sparkman Murder
Here is a tale of two journalists. First, Eve Conant sat in her office (or perhaps her living room, or maybe a table at a local Stabucks) and filed this story for Newsweek that used the death of Bill Sparkman in Kentucky as a springboard to conjecture about anti-Census violence. Second, Stacy McCain sat in [...]
Vadum’s Dropping Bombs like the Gap Band
Matthew Vadum just dropped a bomb on ACORN that would make even a 70s supergroup say OWW! He published a memorandum, several months old, from a law firm that had conducted an inspection of the activist web’s operations and recommended a number of urgently-needed reforms. It is the Holy Grail for those of us who [...]
Let the Games Begin: ACORN Sues Breitbart, College Kids.
Bertha Lewis, you magnificent idiot, you’ve gone and done it now (via memeorandum). ACORN, the community organizing group embarrassed recently in a video sting, said Wednesday that it needs to determine whether it has major internal problems, but it also struck back, filing a lawsuit against the people who conducted the secret investigation. This Story [...]
Who’s Bertha Calling These Days?
Who’s in ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis’ rolodex? I’ll give you a hint. He has a really good government job and you’ve probably seen his boss on television a couple times recently. RedState has seen a list of Bertha Lewis’s contacts. We did not seek it out. It just showed up one day unsolicited. We did [...]
The ACORN Pimp-Slap of the Week
In all the blog posts that have been written about the ACORN scandal that is growing faster than a population of Tribbles on an Everest of triticale, no one has written a pair of lines better than the ones Smitty wrote in his Weekly Rule 2 Mega-Roundup. This, folks, is your ACORN Pimp-Slap of the [...]
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