Sep 23, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Politico": ACORN filed suit today in Maryland against conservative filmmakers James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles and conservative Web site Breitbart.com for secretly taping the organization’s employees at its Baltimore office. In the complaint, ACORN alleges that the filmmakers entered into the organization’s offices in July with a “hidden camera and microphone†and taped employees Tonja Thompson and ...
Continue ReadingSep 21, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: The Justice Department's inspector general has agreed to investigate whether ACORN has applied for or received any DOJ grant money, in the wake of bipartisan criticism of the community activist group's operation. And seven other inspectors general are being asked by two congressional members to take a look at their funding mechanisms. Rep. Lamar Smith, ...
Continue ReadingSep 21, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
North Star National: Imagine this headline and lead appearing in any newspaper, save for the Washington Post, in 1972: Post Reporters Deny Using Questionable Tactics to Entrap Nixon The proposition seemed outlandish. Two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would accept information from a secret source who would only be known as “Deep Throat.†This information ...
Continue ReadingSep 20, 2009 24 Comments ›› Erik Wong
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two ACORN workers are seen apparently advising the couple to lie about her profession and launder her earnings to get housing aid. The video ...
Continue ReadingSep 18, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Boston Herald: State Republicans are howling mad over yet another tax hike being slipped through the Legislature that would slap an annual $3 state surcharge on municipal licensing fees canine owners pay for their pet pooches. Annual license fees range from $6 a year in Boston for neutered or spayed canines (and $17 for unfixed dogs) ...
Continue ReadingSep 18, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: Americans who slap $1 pricetags on their used possessions at garage sales or bazaar events risk being slapped with fines of up to $15 million, thanks to a new government campaign. The "Resale Round-up," launched by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, enforces new limits on lead in children's products and makes it illegal to sell ...
Continue ReadingSep 17, 2009 9 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: House Republicans succeeded Thursday in eliminating federal funding to ACORN, the community organizing group that has come under heavy fire in the wake of damaging undercover videos that purport to show counselors giving advice on tax fraud to a "pimp" and "prostitute." The House voted 345-75 to strike ACORN funding from a student aid bill ...
Continue ReadingSep 16, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Hot Air: She finally decided to crawl out of the bunker and hit some cable shows this afternoon. Not surprisingly, Blitzer’s segment is the more informative of the two: Watch her thank O’Keefe and Giles for helping weed out the very few bad apples in the ACORN system before (a) threatening to sue them, (b) accusing ...
Continue ReadingSep 16, 2009 13 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: We're about to show you some absolutely stunning video, but here's what I hope you'll keep in mind on this story: Everybody has this story wrong. While it obviously involves ACORN, it's not about, ACORN. We have been telling you for months now, that, as citizens, we need to be focused on the bigger picture. The ...
Continue ReadingSep 16, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
Stupid kids and their popularity stunts. "Rebellion" at it's worst. Emotional issues my a**, maybe if she was disciplined growing up she would have had the "issues" knocked out of her. And they don't even want to punish her legally. They want to "help her." What a crock. She knew exactly what she was doing ...
Continue ReadingSep 16, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: ACORN said Wednesday it will stop any "new intakes" — essentially closing its doors to new clients — until it completes an internal investigation prompted by the release of four hidden-camera videos that show workers advising a fake pimp and prostitute to lie to get loans for a brothel. "As a result of the indefensible ...
Continue ReadingSep 16, 2009 2 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: A fourth video by an independent filmmaker posing as a pimp along with a purported prostitute has surfaced depicting an ACORN staffer in California assisting the couple in their quest to obtain housing for their illegal sex business. Much like in their previous undercover stings at the group's offices in Baltimore, Washington and Brooklyn, N.Y., ...
Continue ReadingSep 15, 2009 41 Comments ›› Erik Wong
RushLimbaugh: BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Hey, look, folks, the white kid on that bus in Belleville, Illinois, he deserved to be beat up. You don't know about this story? Oh, there's video of this. The school bus filled with mostly black students beat up a white student a couple of times with all the ...
Continue ReadingSep 15, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Valdosta Daily Times: VALDOSTA — The Rev. Floyd Rose called for Valdosta City School Superintendent Dr. Bill Cason’s resignation Monday night. During the regular Board of Education meeting Rose, president of the Valdosta/Lowndes County Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, spoke to the board about the superintendent’s decision not to air President Barack Obama’s speech on ...
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2009 17 Comments ›› Erik Wong
CNN: AMMAN, Jordan -- A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday. Fawziya Ammodi struggled for three days in labor, before dying of severe bleeding at a hospital on Friday, said the Seyaj Organization for the Protection of Children. "Although the ...
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2009 55 Comments ›› Erik Wong
We f-ing did it Patriots! We crushed nuts! ACORN goes down! Hot Air: Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE) introduced an amendment to the HUD and Transportation appropriation bill to strip ACORN of all federal funding. A week ago, Johanns wouldn’t have gotten the amendment to the floor. Today, however, after three straight days of BigGovernment.com’s video ...
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2009 15 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: A growing number of Republican lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings and IRS audits of ACORN following the release of three videotapes that show the group's employees offering advice to a "pimp" and a "prostitute" on how to skirt the law. Rep. Steve King, R-IA, said a video released Monday that shows filmmaker James O'Keefe, ...
Continue ReadingSep 14, 2009 10 Comments ›› Erik Wong
New York Post: The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute. Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their ...
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