The Daily Show Examines The Acorn Seed
I've been waiting for an angle to cover the ACORN scandal, and Jon Stewart provides the vehicle. Yeah, these are serious issues, but how can you deny the humor. From the insanely white protagonists posing as pimp and prostitute, yet not even remotely trying to disguise their educated elocution, to the sheer ridiculousness of their plan:
- We will have 13 under-age El Salvadoran girls smuggled illegally into the country who will then work as prostitutes from our home (we need a lot of bedrooms). Then I want to launder the illegal profits from said operation into a future run for Congress, but not right away because I'm still in law school. And yes of course, I'm a pimp.
The comedy ratchets up a notch with each successive release. In San Bernardino, an ACORN employee confesses to shooting her husband. In San Diego, the employee plots to help the down-on-their luck duo achieve child-smuggling logisitcal success, while also requesting the fee of the posing prostitute. He's just curious.
And all the way along we've been treated to the beautiful mess that is Bertha Lewis, the corrupt-CEO of embattled ACORN as she spews nonsense to anyone who will listen. Jon Stewart took a look at the sordid nut that is also the ACORN seed.
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Sep 23, 2009 at 6:07 AM
Reader Comments (17)
Rick Perlstein: "The job of a newspaper is to tell the truth without fear or favor, whether that truth ends up advantaging conservatives, or liberals, or Zoroastrians or Masons."
I started to write "I have no idea what this has to do with the bailouts, but it's a great line." But (duh) it has everything to do with the bailouts. Nice find, SP.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/17/acorn_hysteria/index.html
"I would say that journalists’ job is not to see the world through the same prism as the conservative movement, or a different prism than the conservative movement. It is to tell the truth without fear of favor. And if the truth makes conservatives look bad, devil take the hindmost. And if it makes liberals look bad, devil take the hindmost."
Agree completely with this...it's exactly what we try to do here at the Bail...tell the truth about both sides...
I see ACORN as a small-time corrupt organization that has little overall effect...it is so blatantly political, that I consider it useless in any debate...how can you trust anything they say?...so i don't...
They don't have much influence on anything...they are impotent...it's why we haven't really covered the story outside of comedy...would be a waste of resources and time...
Thanks for the Greenwald piece...that's pretty much how we feel here...small potatoes compared to the real looting...and as Gompers would say the battle over ACORN is jsut a another distraction from the real theft hapening right under our noses....
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/22/beck/index.html
But all that said, there are some identifiable -- and plainly valid -- underlying causes to these protests that are neither Republican nor Democratic, or even left or right. That's when conventional political language ceases to be useful.
Is opposition to the Wall Street bailout (supported by both parties' establishments) left or right? How about the view that Washington is inherently corrupt and beholden to the richest corporate interests and banks which, through lobbyist influence and vast financial contributions, own and control our political system? Is hostility towards Beltway elites liberal or conservative? Is opposition to the Surveillance State and endless expansions of federal police powers a view of liberals (who vehemently opposed such measures during the Bush era but now sometimes support or at least tolerate them) or conservatives (some of whom -- the Ron Paul faction -- objected just as vigorously, and naturally oppose such things regardless of who is in power as transgressions of the proper limits of government)? Liberals during the Bush era continuously complained about the doubling of the national debt, a central concern of many of these "tea party" protesters. Is the belief that Washington politicians are destroying the economic security of the middle class, while the rich grow richer, a liberal or conservative view? Opposition to endless wars and bankruptcy-inducing imperial policy generally finds as much expression among certain quarters on the Right as it does on the Left.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/22/beck/index.html
Are the views expressed in that paragraph liberal or conservative ones? They're neither. Instead, they're the by-product of a completely different dichotomy that is growing in importance: between system insiders and their admirers (those who believe our national political establishment and its elites are basically sound and good) and system outsiders (those whose anger is confined not to one of the two political parties but who instead believe that the political culture itself is fundamentally corrupted and destructive). There are people typically identified as members of either the conventional Right or Left who are, in fact, more accurately described as being in this latter group: those disenchanted with the political culture itself. Anger over the Wall Street bailout and corporate excesses was one example where that trans-partisan disenchantment was evident. The railing by Beck quoted in Rich's paragraph reflects the same thing. And that trans-partisan rage is clearly playing an important role in driving these protest movements.
Michael Connelly,
Ret. Constitutional Attorney
> 08.24.09
> Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill
> 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with
> particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was
> frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed
> might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had
> heard or expected.
>
> To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its
> implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are
> saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly
> where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free
> health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably
> forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
>
> The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of
> business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions
> about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats
> and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital
> admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical
> devices will be strictly controlled.
>
> However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In
> fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of
> providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover
> for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of
> government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law
> or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the
> United States will effectively have been destroyed.
What many people dont know yeat is that "The Wizzered of O Bama-Oz" has put in place ACORN to handle the "Exchanges".... We the people go to ACORN to sign up for "Bama-Care" !
Exchanges have to contract with "navigators" -- nonprofit organizations that know health care and know how to enroll hard to reach people. Enter Nets2Ladders, "a powerful, automated benefits enrollment platform" designed to "increase the efficiency and effectiveness of enrolling low-income families in federal and state benefits programs" such as Medicaid and SCHIP. By January 2010, all 50 states will be covered by this platform. And nearly 26 states have contracts with the group that administers the program already.
The organization? ACORN of course. ( Are You With Me Here...? "ACORN" Will be incharge of seeing over our Health Care. Thats like putting the "Fox & Wolf" in the Chickin Coop ) No organization is better suited to be a health exchange "navigator." Which tells you everything you need to know about the real intent and impact of health exchanges. AMERICA Better start reading about this shit. Thinking whats about to happen in just 3 Mo.................................?
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/acorns-public-option?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_content=707597594&utm_campaign=Newsletter+_+khiyyh&utm_term=ACORN's+Public+Option
Wow. It was a tall order, but Glenn Greenwald just surpised to the upside. Those quotes are f***ing un-believable. As in unbelievably good analysis. I've always been an admirer, but knowing his sympathies are left-liberal I didn't think he'd be able to get past the Glenn Beck as Red-State fascist meme.
Repeated for emphasis.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/group_can_core_on_atl_yards_0LO3hZzLrmivrSJ9kV1kRJ
It's still small time stuff...meanwhile on Wall Street, the heist continues.