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The Saturday Word: Trooper
The Caucus —
... to suspend mandatory withdrawals from 401(k) retirement accounts.” Meanwhile, his campaign and the Republican National Committee keep hammering away at the Obama operation’s links to ACORN. The Times’s Stephanie Strom offers up a “Check Point” on ACORN and its voter registration machine. And the Washington Post examines Mr. McCain’s seeming reluctance to resurrect Mr. Obama’s associations with the ...
Obama Links Himself to ACORN
JammieWearingFool —
Hey, we're using his own words against him, but I'm sure this will be construed as a racist smear . In 1992, Mr. Obama was personally involved in voter registration efforts when he served as director of Project Vote in Chicago, helping to register 150,000 voters on the South Side. His success was widely written about at the time and credited with helping to elect Senator Carol Moseley Braun, the first African-American woman in the Senate. Mr. LaBolt emphasized that Project Vote and Acorn were not as intertwined at that time as they are today, when a significant part of ...
Video: John Fund versus ACORN
Hot Air » Top Picks —
Video: John Fund versus ACORN posted at 12:55 pm on October 11, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly An almost total waste, thanks to Camerota letting Joe Isuzu here shout down Fund every time he opens his mouth. Wash the taste out afterwards by watching the CNN clip Ed posted yesterday. The Times has finally touched this story , but naturally they’re less interested in the details of registration fraud than the horserace angle. Meanwhile, in Ohio, a federal appeals court decides that the current registration verification ...
ACORN spokesman: We’re non-partisan
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... on the media circuit. They’re studiously non-partisan, although not so studiously indifferent to which candidate’s elected: Their PAC endorsed The One during the Democratic primary and they got upwards of $80,000 from the more than $800,000 that Team Obama paid to the consulting firm with which ACORN’s affiliated for GOTV efforts. Two bonus vids below that. The first is Rep. Thad McCotter elaborating on ...
Will Media Report ACORN Voter Registration Fraud and Obama Ties?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... On the print side, the New York Times has run one article in the past month on this subject, a 919-word piece published on page A13 Saturday. ...
Group Answers Charges of Voter Registration Fraud
The Caucus —
... a few who decided they’d pad their hours by duplicating a card and filling out another one or making up a name,” said Kevin Whalen, an Acorn spokesman. “If we discovered this,” Mr. Whalen said, “we not only turned that information over but turned the information we had about that former employee – because they’d been fired by that point – to elections officials and asked for their help in prosecuting that person.” The McCain campaign has been seeking to shine a spotlight on the connections between the group and Senator Barack Obama . Acorn’s political arm has endorsed the ...
FBI: McCain Camp ACORN Statement "Too Political For Us To Be Involved"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... the email, which was blasted out to reporters. Declaring that Obama should "fully disclose the true nature of his association" with the group, Davis went on to cite a familiar trope: the $832,000 paid by Obama's campaign to an ACORN affiliate for "get out the vote" operations during the primary season. Though the Obama campaign originally mis-reported some of its payments to Citizens Services, the ACORN affiliate in question, it already amended its Federal Elections Commission filings in August and September. ...
FBI: McCain Camp ACORN Statement "Too Political For Us To Be Involved"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... the email, which was blasted out to reporters. Declaring that Obama should "fully disclose the true nature of his association" with the group, Davis went on to cite a familiar trope: the $832,000 paid by Obama's campaign to an ACORN affiliate for "get out the vote" operations during the primary season. Though the Obama campaign originally mis-reported some of its payments to Citizens Services, the ACORN affiliate in question, it already amended its Federal Elections Commission filings in August and September. ...
Oops, She Did It Again
News Hounds —
... Heavy sigh. Laura, honey, try to stay with me now: President Obama didn’t work for Acorn. And considering that, on the campaign trail, President Obama pledged to encourage national service in our youth, why is this such a shocker? (Is it perhaps because he’s the first President in eight years to actually do what he says he will do? Or maybe it’s because Americorp’s programs actually help poor people and veterans, anathema to "pro-American" Fox News.) ...
Republican Claims Times Spiked ACORN/Obama Story
Politics Daily —
... and here), but I couldn't find one that would fit the sourcing of Moncrief. Which doesn't prove that the Times did or did not spike the story. ...
Hannity Gives Discredited Birther Corsi A Platform To Sell His Unsubstantiated Conspiracy Theories
News Hounds —
... “This was a strong Democratic initiative that carried through ACORN. In fact, Barack Obama was a lawyer for ACORN, helping ACORN extort banks in the subprime aream,” Corsi said. Count that as Corsi Falsehood #2. As the New York Times reported, Obama was part of a team of lawyers that represented ACORN in a lawsuit to compel Illinois to comply with federal laws intended to enhance access to the polls. The Justice Department and the League of Women Voters were other parties in the lawsuit and were on the same side of ACORN. ...
