Popdose: Political Culture: In Defense of … ACORN?
StandingDamaged
· 2 months ago
There are allegations of the videos in question being EDITED to appear that these people gave this advice.Whether that is true or NOT it's a diostinct possibility that ranks up there with the last few Dead Osama bin Laden released videos....A good computer forensicxs examiner could find out, but I bet since the wannabes that did the taping are now ducking from interviews with nonFAUXSNOOZE journalists the original tapes are no longer available either. Let's wait and see what comes from more digging into this mess before we take televisions word that these people at Acorn were actually guilty of anything.
mojo
· 2 months ago
thank you for pointing out how much tax $$$$$$ the Bush administration poured into this group. Glenn Beck and his buddies/peers/competitors conveniently forget that.
I wish they'd pick an actual bogeyman to flog.
Ted
· 1 month ago
There used to be a term that accurately described what you illustrate here: institutional racism. However, since ACORN is an organization that helps people based on class, the term doesn't entirely fit. But in the context of what the Right is trying to do to in this country, the pattern of using institutions like the GOP, Fox News Channel, and AM talk radio to stoke individual prejudices against blacks through many of the things mentioned here (including the ever popular use of code words to substitute calling any black person or organization with power that helps the poor a nigger -- while claiming said black person or organization is racist) is just the latest twist in a pattern Jimmy Carter was talking about. That fact that our mainstream media (who, in the collective mind of the Right, are supposed to be liberal) doesn't highlight any of this just goes to show how broke (both financially and intellectually) they are.
Tony S
· 1 month ago
I was going to mentioned the massive editing done on these videos, but StandingDamage beat me to it.
When I first heard of this, I though "bravo!" The indie media beat the boring old media at its own game. I had heard stories of Acorn's corruption. And being a Ron Paul supporter, I felt no allegiance to them, and their ties to the current administration meant little.
And then I looked at the videos. These videos are so chopped up and sliced and diced that they strain credibility. It also begs the question of what was left out? Now I'm on their side.
Now I wonder if the Acorn workers on tape were even answering the "questions," that were edited in. And I wonder what was left out. The total cynic in me says this whole hack job was done by the young right wing duo to achieve Paris Hilton fame at the expense of Acorn.
Show the uncut footage and I might change my mind.
Shawn
· 1 month ago
ACORN should be put out of business for being stupid above anything else. I mean, did you see that costume O'Keefe was wearing? Where did he pick that up; a halloween store?! That was the most over the top, caricature of what a pimp should look like, and those morons fell for it!
Spiffarino
· 1 month ago
Thanks for this well-written and thoughtful piece. ACORN has indeed been in the crosshairs of the wealthy Right for a long time, primarily because of its success in enforcing minimum wage laws and empowering the disenfranchised.
You are absolutely reasonable to worry about who they will target next. My guess is Kevin Jennings, the Asst. Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-free Schools or, as Beck would red-facedly refer to him, a CZAR! There are three things that favor his being a prime target: He's gay, he is highly effective, and he's gay.
Van Jones needs to be the last sacrifice made by Obama. The GOP was trounced in the last election precisely because people saw how they worked and they'd had enough, yet the Dems behave as if this were still 1994 when the Republican Party was run by somewhat credible adults rather than talk radio fringe lunatics, Alaskan quitters and Fox News. Obama and all the Democrats need to stop trying to placate the Rabid Right - which will never happen - and stomp them into submission at every opportunity.
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Let's wait and see what comes from more digging into this mess before we take televisions word that these people at Acorn were actually guilty of anything.
I wish they'd pick an actual bogeyman to flog.
When I first heard of this, I though "bravo!" The indie media beat the boring old media at its own game. I had heard stories of Acorn's corruption. And being a Ron Paul supporter, I felt no allegiance to them, and their ties to the current administration meant little.
And then I looked at the videos. These videos are so chopped up and sliced and diced that they strain credibility. It also begs the question of what was left out? Now I'm on their side.
Now I wonder if the Acorn workers on tape were even answering the "questions," that were edited in. And I wonder what was left out. The total cynic in me says this whole hack job was done by the young right wing duo to achieve Paris Hilton fame at the expense of Acorn.
Show the uncut footage and I might change my mind.
You are absolutely reasonable to worry about who they will target next. My guess is Kevin Jennings, the Asst. Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-free Schools or, as Beck would red-facedly refer to him, a CZAR! There are three things that favor his being a prime target: He's gay, he is highly effective, and he's gay.
Van Jones needs to be the last sacrifice made by Obama. The GOP was trounced in the last election precisely because people saw how they worked and they'd had enough, yet the Dems behave as if this were still 1994 when the Republican Party was run by somewhat credible adults rather than talk radio fringe lunatics, Alaskan quitters and Fox News. Obama and all the Democrats need to stop trying to placate the Rabid Right - which will never happen - and stomp them into submission at every opportunity.