Fox News did it again!

[Lori Mick]

We're winning....a little at a time....

The Census Beaureau just sent a letter to release ACORN from being a part of the Census for 2010!

YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[glocknut]

Oh no... there goes my excuse for not talking to the census takers.

mike
gn

[Bobitis]

Originally Posted by glocknut

Oh no... there goes my excuse for not talking to the census takers.

mike
gn

[2nd amend forever]

Originally Posted by Lori Mick

We're winning....a little at a time....

The Census Beaureau just sent a letter to release ACORN from being a part of the Census for 2010!

YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Don't start the party yet:

http://wbal.com/apps/news/templates/...35357&zoneid=2

State's Attorney Considers Prosecuting ACORN Video Posters

Friday, September 11, 2009
Anne Kramer, Robert Lang and Associated Press


The activist group ACORN has fired two employees of its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.

Fox News broadcast excerpts Thursday from the video. The man and woman ask about buying a house and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. An ACORN employee advises the woman to list her occupation as "performance artist."

Maryland ACORN board member Margaret Williams says in a statement that the employees "did not meet ACORN's standards of professionalism."

ACORN spokeswoman Sonja Merchant-Jones told WBAL-TV that she believes the video may have been altered to make the organization look bad.

The statement also says the video was an "attempt to smear ACORN" and that undercover teams attempted similar stunts in at least three other ACORN offices.

Williams said no tax returns were filed and no assistance was provided.

The Baltimore city state's attorney is considering prosecuting those responsible for taping the ACORN employees on charges that they violated Maryland's wiretap laws.

STATEMENT OF STATE’S ATTORNEYS OFFICE FOR BALTIMORE CITY RELATIVE TO THE ALLEGED BALTIMORE ACORN INCIDENT

Baltimore, MD – September 11, 2009 – We have received inquiries from citizens and the media asking whether the Baltimore City State’s Attorneys Office would initiate a criminal investigation for acts allegedly committed at ACORN offices located in Baltimore. The only information received in reference to this alleged criminal behavior was a YouTube video. Upon review by this office, the video appears to be incomplete. In addition, the audio portion could possibly have been obtained in violation of Maryland Law, Annotated Code of Maryland Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article §10-402, which requires two party consent.



If it is determined that the audio portion now being heard on YouTube was illegally obtained, it is also illegal under Maryland Law to willfully use or willfully disclose the content of said audio. The penalty for the unlawful interception, disclosure or use of it is a felony punishable up to 5 years.

The Maryland state prosecutor's office went after Linda Tripp in the 1990s on two wiretap charges. Tripp was accused of illegally taping a phone conversation with Monica Lewinsky about her relationship with then-President Bill Clinton and disclosing the conversation to Newsweek. Prosecutors decided to drop the case when Lewinsky's testimony was suppressed.

The video was shot by film maker James O'Keefe, who posed as a pimp who said he was going to run for Congress. The video also featured a 20 year old woman who posed as a woman named "Kenya."

The video appears both on You Tube and on the Web site of Andrew Breitbart, a columnist for the Washington Times and Drudge Report.

In the video, O'Keefe and the woman tell the ACORN staff that they are smuggling teenage girls from El Salvador to work as prostitutes. The ACORN staff tells them to list the girls as dependents, on tax returns.

The ACORN staff member tells the pair to train the girls to "keep their mouths shut" about what was taking place.

Republicans have criticized ACORN for campaigning for Barack Obama. The group has also been accused of committing voter registration fraud.

ACORN conducted a massive voter registration effort last year and became a target of conservatives when some employees were accused of submitting false registration forms with names such as "Mickey Mouse."

ACORN has said only a handful of employees submitted false registration forms and did so in a bid to boost their pay.

Today, on WBAL's Shari Elliker Show, Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King called for a congressional investigation into the group, which he says received federal money to support its efforts to help the poor.

Also today, ACORN has fired two workers in their Washington office who were seen on hidden-camera footage giving loan advice to a man posing as a law school student and a woman pretending to be his prostitute girlfriend.

Fox News Channel aired parts of the video and posted it online Friday. It shows a man and woman at the group's Washington office, asking for help in buying a house for her prostitution business. The employees advise her to tell banks that she's a consultant with her own company. They also tell the supposed law student he could buy the house, but to avoid going there because of his political ambitions.

In a statement, ACORN's president of housing and executive director say there will be an internal review.

[bcj1755]

Well of course the Maryland State's Attorney Office is saying that the people in the video were wrong. You don't think any part of the gov't will actually prosecute ACORN do you? The feds most certainly won't, Barry will see to that. And if any state gets up the jimmies to file charges against ACORN, why then Barry will have the feds threaten to cut off that state's federal funding. ACORN will let the two women in the video take the fall, just like all the other ACORN employees that have been caught red handed committing illegal activites. ACORN always says that the people committing the crimes or fraud or whatever acted on their own and ACORN had nothing to do with it. I think maybe ACORN needs to check up on the people they hire since they all seem to be committing crimes without the knowlege of ACORN itself

[artabr]

Originally Posted by Lori Mick

We're winning....a little at a time....

The Census Beaureau just sent a letter to release ACORN from being a part of the Census for 2010!

YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

+1



Hey, GlockNut.
How's this for an excuse? Invasion of privacy.
That's been my excuse for years. All I give them is name and number in household.
They need no more than that to satisfy the original intent of the census as seen fit by the founding fathers of the country.
If they want any more than that, they can pucker up and kiss my rather large pimply posterior.


Art

[ponycar17]

Give 'em hell!!... I'm loving this. Fox News has so much power for the 'correct' side it's insane. Perhaps the rest of the media will follow?... Hmmm, probably not...

[artabr]

Originally Posted by ponycar17

Give 'em hell!!... I'm loving this. Fox News has so much power for the 'correct' side it's insane. Perhaps the rest of the media will follow?... Hmmm, probably not...

I don't think they have the smarts to follow Fox.
I checked the cable ratings and had to laugh. The closest CNN show to Fox didn't even break a million viewers.

CABLE NEWS RACE
THURSDAY NITE, SEPT 10

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,609,000
FOXNEWS BECK 3,340,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,986,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,522,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,362,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,040,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,573,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,164,000
CNN KING 965,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 882,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 734,000
CNN COOPER 691,000



Art

[bcj1755]

Originally Posted by artabr

I don't think they have the smarts to follow Fox.
I checked the cable ratings and had to laugh. The closest CNN show to Fox didn't even break a million viewers.

CABLE NEWS RACE
THURSDAY NITE, SEPT 10

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,609,000
FOXNEWS BECK 3,340,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,986,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,522,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,362,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,040,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,573,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,164,000
CNN KING 965,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 882,000
MSNBC SCHULTZ 734,000
CNN COOPER 691,000



Art

Wow, that's a LOT of right-wing extremists and terrorists

[ponycar17]

That's the problem Art. There are so few interested and engaged 'so-called' liberals. The dumbarses vote for the idiot and then are disengaged until they're asked to vote again. They demonstrate unequivicolly that they are uneducated voters in this fashion; they just don't know the issues...

[Blackhawk Dave]

Diane Sawyer's gonna take over ABC Evening News that Charlie Gibson now hosts. He at least SOMETIMES tried to be even-handed. She's just a propogandist for the left.

[kingchip]

Originally Posted by Blackhawk Dave

Diane Sawyer's gonna take over ABC Evening News that Charlie Gibson now hosts. He at least SOMETIMES tried to be even-handed. She's just a propogandist for the left.

I'll bet that the ratings will tell the tale.

[Trouble 45-70]

The women fired by ACORN will probably be reassigned to another division of the ACORN conglomerate. Then another division will probably get the census contract. Remember, ACORN works like an ablative heat shield used in the early days of the space program to protect reentry vehicles by burning away layers to protect the payload from the heat of reentry. Same for ACORN, as soon as one program gets burnt, another takes its place with mostly the same people in place. Glad they got nailed. Hope the Reporters don't go to jail. They only reported the TRUTH which most people already knew. You saw how much trouble Congressman Wilson got into for telling the truth. Speaking the truth on Capital Hill is a crime almost as great as being a Conservative Republican.

[45nut]

Originally Posted by Blackhawk Dave

Diane Sawyer's gonna take over ABC Evening News that Charlie Gibson now hosts. He at least SOMETIMES tried to be even-handed. She's just a propogandist for the left.

They way he treated Sarah Palin was disgusting and I will never watch that whore mongering liberal ever again. He can kiss Art's posterior too! LOL