I'm so glad that ACORN has finally been vindicated. I'm sick about hearing of those videos that O'Keefe made and distributed. They were highly edited and doctored. There never should've been any news stations covering those videos as if they were accurate.For those of you who don't know, The ACORN undercover videos controversy started in September 2009 when Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe published selectively edited hidden-camera recordings in which Giles posed as a prostitute and O'Keefe claimed to be her boyfriend in order to elicit damaging responses from employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).*
You can make anything sound or look like anything that you want it to if you edit it enough.
I'm glad that ACORN's federal funding has been restored and that the judge ruled it unconstitutional for it to be taken away.
Maybe, now this nonsense will stop or at least move on to a new topic. Its not okay to make up your own evidence that something is going on just because you can't find any real evidence to support your theory.
This O'Keefe guy is a real snake and he deserves every disciplinary legal action that comes his way. Probably more than that. He can't find evidence to support his theories about certain politicians and organizations, so he just makes it up instead.
Either way, this should be a lesson to everybody. Be careful what you watch. Its entirely possible that whoever put it out there has an ulterior motive that is anything but pure.
Of course, this information won't be good for everybody. There are always going to be people who refuse to believe that ACORN is dirty no matter what kind of evidence to the contrary comes their way. But, I'm more inclined to believe the actual evidence, not the made-up evidence.
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*This sentence was copy and pasted from the Wikipedia page on James O'Keefe, because I think they did a phenomenal job of telling what happened.
According to neo-America, everyone is trouble and has problems other than Protestant Christian "white" middle class folks. Many of whom are also very conservative--- which is not a bad thing, but can be when you have a Republican party as virulently hateful and petty as the one we have now.
ReplyDeleteACORN is "dirty" because some people want to distract from real political issues (like that our abortion rights are being eroded, affirmative action is facing more resistance than ever before, Antisemitism is rising, immigrant hatred is rising, corporations are gaining more corporate control, and our environment is suffering along with our access to health-care. And don't get me started on animal rights :P!
Neo-cons like splashing mud around to distract from their own dirt, and the ACORN scandal isn't any different.
You're quite right. Except for one thing. Corporations have gotten the ultimate control. The US Supreme Court gave them unlimited access to pour money into the coffers of any candidate they want. Unless something is done to fix that very soon, people might as well not bother voting, because the votes will be fixed before anyone even gets to the voting booths.
ReplyDeleteBut, you're definitely right. And I certainly agree with what you said about the neo-cons. Even if they have to totally fabricate something, they will turn the attention away from themselves. ...And then there's Glenn Beck, whom I'm sure the majority of people who still actually tune in to his show are just doing it for comedic relief from a stressful day.