O'Keefe said he went after ACORN because it registers minorities likely to vote against Republicans

[ccharles000]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/20/784620/-OKeefe-said-he-went-after-ACORN-because-it-registers-minorities-likely-to-vote-against-Republicans

by Emit

James O’Keefe, one of the two filmmakers, said he went after ACORN because it registers minorities likely to vote against Republicans: "Politicians are getting elected single-handedly due to this organization," O’Keefe told The Washington Post. "No one was holding this organization accountable."

That statement alone should be enough to prompt curious progressive minds to dig a bit deeper into this young Rove-in-the-Making, James E. O'Keefe III.

In the court of public opinion, thrust at us via Fox News and Breitbart, these videos that O'Keefe and Hannah Giles created seem to have offered up immediate 'proof' of ACORN's corruption, on the whole.

Verdict? Guilty until proven innocent!

[Name removed]

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[Hannah Bell]

2. 2% public funding. you're misinformed. not surprising.

[blogslut]

4. Welcome to DU!

So you think provocateurs trained and funded by Morton Blackwell are brave? And can you explain to me why you think registering minorities is a bad thing? Also, exactly how were Giles and O'Keefe risking their lives? Are you implying that brown people are dangerous?

[Skidmore]

5. Well, jeez, I hope you are that concerned about Blackwater

and the insurance companies and some of these other sectors of the "private" and "free market" who have been sucking the life out of the economy and lying and cheating for years.

[MrScorpio]

6. Were you born this stupid, or did you work your way up to where you are?

You really don't have a lot of time on this site, so let me tell you this:

Turn off Fox News and Glenn Beck, because they rot your brain.

And if you're brave enough, find a poor community and see the truth for your self.

I doubt that you will, because so far, all that you've shown us is that you're nothing but a idiotic, trollish coward.

Thanks you for your time.

[HillbillyBob]

7. I guess you would agree that the Rs are more than guilty of

ELECTION FRAUD in 2000 when R officials dumped 360,000 dem voters from the rolls because they were black or shredded a couple thousand ballots in Ft Lauderdale right in the parking area of the polling place..I was and eyewitness to that.
Then there was the vote flipping by ES&S and Diebold also in Fl in 04 and Ohio in 2000 and 2004. Then there was the Governors race in Alabama where the initial vote and second vote count solidly went to Don Seigalman then the next morning Bob Rileys henchmen had 'recounted' the votes by throwing away a shitload of ballots then karl rove and the persecutor ag brought a false case that the judge threw out and then they shopped a judge on their side who took campaign donations from rilet et al coached a 'witness' to lie on the stand, falsely convicted Don S of corruption?
I know all the parties involved there and Dawn Jill Simpson was telling the truth.
You see I used to live across the street from the Governors Mansion and have met all of those involved, even did some work for Alice Martin and over heard a lot of slimy shit out of her and the Canaries, it was quite awhile back, but even then they were plotting a 'permanent' rpuke aristocracy that even George Wallace thought was heinous.

[armyowalgreens]

8. There is so much wrong in that post. I don't even know where to begin.

:shrug:

Either way, it doesn't matter. I think the pizza will be delivered fairly soon anyway.

[Skittles]

9. OMG! Going after voters in GHETTOS!

HOW FUCKING UNAMERICAN :rofl:

[HillbillyBob]

10. By those standards most of the R party leadershit should have been

jailed for treason long ago, because a few corrupt idiots which every organization has compared to the crap that has been pulled by the Rs is far and away a lot worse. The stolen elections, the lies that led to war, the lack of respones PRIOR to 9/11 when they knew because the cia and fbi told them and even the Clinton admin left them warnings and they did NOTHING, Katrina no response for days then they send in Blackwater to murder people instead of help..I guess it is ok to murder brown people because they are poor. YOU are a delusional nutjob and are only here to stir up shit, the only other explanation is that you are a plant paid to be here or you have sucked up too much of the poison koolaid.

Ya'll think you are the only ones 'fed' up ha the left will try to be polite, up to a point then you would be surprised at the kind backlash we can dish out after 30 years of your fascist bs I for one am seriously fed up.

[gaspee]

11. Are you joking

Or ignorant?

[WCGreen]

12. Excuse me but the right wing Churches blatantly skirt the laws governing no-profit

organizations constantly and yet nary a peep from anyone.

Why? Because the religious right is nothing more than a gang of thugs and hoodlums lightly disguised as a religion.

[chknltl]

14. Welcome to the DU Birdman 68, a moment of your time please.

It is obvious that we have our differences. I'll not call you any names if you'll try to be equally civil. If you do indeed feel this outraged by fraud and corruption, we DO have something in common. Maybe we can work from this commonality?

If you can convince me that ACORN is as corrupt as you think they are, I will fully support you in demanding that ACORN gets investigated. That's what you want isn't it? Don't you want what you feel are ACORN's frauds and corruptions exposed for all to plainly see? Well if they are what you think they are then I want that very thing too.

I feel that there is a great deal more fraud and corruption within our government. If I can convince you of this, will you help us get that fraud and corruption exposed too? Don't you think it would be for the good of our nation, if we who differ so much, could come together to ferret out all this fraud and corruption?

Did you know that those who partake in much of this fraud and corruption do not want you and I to come together, to work together to expose their lawless ways? We actually have a common enemy who would keep us apart.

Come together to fight as citizens against government fraud and corruption for the good of the nation....or... watch in horror as our divided citizenry is pitted against one another while Rome burns. I think the answer is easy. At some point we will have to work on how we perceive each other and how we perceive other people but for now, our nation's problem with fraud and corruption is pretty damned important.

[babylonsister]

15. ACORN is a government organization? Do provide a link for

that, because I have read it's a collection of community-based organizations. And you don't think trying to get every American to vote, even poor people, is noble? Has your party tried to do this?

You've messed up your talking points! :wow:

[Skidmore]

3. So. We knew that. Now we step into the breach as volunteers.

Get out. When one falls, we step up.

[LatteLibertine]

13. Of course

folks that are corrupt with in Acorn should be dealt with properly. On the other hand, I don't believe there are no good people in the organization or that they are all corrupt.

This is just more of some of the most wealthy trying to keep poor and middle class folks squabbling across racial lines.

Most of the time I do not believe in throwing the baby out with the bath water. Are all people in the Catholic church corrupt because some among them protected and enabled priests who were molesting children?

[mzmolly]

16. K and R - great discussion over at KOS. Thanks again Emit.

:kick:

[eppur_se_muova]

17. DUH. Like bank robbers admitting they were after the money. nt

[eppur_se_muova]

18. dupe, caused by cat -- delete

[myrna minx]

19. My kitty is responsible for a few duplicate posts too.

:D He's always trying to "help" me.