Rachel Maddow, whose special on Timothy McVeigh airs on MSNBC tonight, is quite the investigative reporter. Not long ago, she obtained explosive evidence of James O’Keefe’s wardrobe fraud, and she has unleashed it on both of her viewers. Thanks to
On Wednesday, I testified before the Congress about the biggest Rip-Off of the century. And I can’t say that anyone really cared. I was arguing that the deceptive accounting techniques used by the federal government–techniques that would send anyone to
On March 6, former George H. W. Bush speechwriter Michael Johns was speaking before a tea party gathering in Philadelphia when someone from the audience took exception to the fact that during his address he did not say “President Obama”
It was common knowledge that SEIU and ACORN were of the same tree prior to the James O’Keefe/Hannah Giles coast-to-coast video sting. At ACORNcracked.com, I chronicled nearly two dozen SEIU contributions to ACORN in just a few years. In 2009,
Left-wingers recently unveiled a new website, CrashTheTeaParty.org, aimed at sabotaging the Tea Party movement and inflicting harm on Tea Party supporters by doing Lord-knows-what with their Social Security numbers. Michelle Malkin has identified the creator of the website as one
Earlier last year, ACORN founder Wade Rathke glowingly blogged that Patrick Gaspard, political director of the White House, was a former ACORN organizer. When that claim started receiving a bit of attention, Rathke offered a retraction, saying his memory was
From the April 2010 issue of Townhall magazine: Brandon Darby learned something from Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Once a hard-core radical who sided with progressive revolutionaries, Darby prevented a left-wing terrorist attack on the 2008 GOP convention. Now, this America-loving patriot
The ACORN story is not difficult to understand. It is about a simple sting operation designed to reveal that a prominent organization routinely aids illegal activity. When James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles walked into ACORN offices posing as a pimp
Rachel Maddow had a story to tell. The story was that Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe’s ACORN videos were “severely edited” to make an innocent man who did the right thing look as though he was doing something nefarious, immoral
It seems the lovely and talented Rachel Maddow – whose chief claim to fame, besides her sneer, is …what, exactly? – has got her Rhodes Scholar knickers in a twist over the famous O’Keefe/Giles ACORN tapes. She’s seized upon a
Apparently Rachel Maddow has jumped on the pimp hoax bandwagon. Here is the beginning of Raw Story’s wildly misleading summary of Maddow’s wildly pointless diatribe: When conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles released tapes last fall purporting to show
While ACORN has earned much of the scorn of the press and public in recent months, its voter registration arm, Project Vote, is actually the entity that has been conducting the questionable voter registration drives. Project Vote has been accused
Did you hear that the scandal-plagued Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is schedule to dissolve today? ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis and her allies in the mainstream media said so and everything. April Fool’s! Ha ha ha.
Over the past two days, BigGovernment.com has been exposing the identities of members of IBEW Local 357 who taunted, harassed, intimidated and threw eggs at peaceful Tea Party protestors in Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nevada last weekend. This could
When thousands of peaceful, Tea Party protestors came to Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight, Nev. last Saturday, you would have thought that the favorite son of this hardscrabble, mining town would garner tons of local support. Not so. Members of
Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) has announced their annual awards for investigative journalism. I’m sure you’ve already guessed the winner in the “On-line” category. Of course, it was a tough call for them. The competition was stiff: Big Hollywood’s expose
ObamaCare and ACORN dominated the subject this past week with guests Mike Flynn, Adam Baldwin, Andrew Breitbart, Kurt Schlichter, Jeremy Boering and Patrick (Patterico) Frey chiming in. This week’s highlight show also features my repeal strategy for the Republicans, Patterico’s
News is all over the country that the often criminal group the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is dead, folding its tent, kaput. All this is because, as Politico puts it, of a “conservative assault that never
You’ve got to give Enforcement Czar and SEIU boss Andy Stern credit: he’s got a major set of cojones. Fresh off his health care reform victory, he’s renewing his attack on Bank of America, one of the banks SEIU and
This hilarious moment of defiant bravado from the Undead brought to you by taxpayer-funded National Public Radio and the Black Knight: ACORN CEO Reflects On The Group’s Hard Times ALLISON KEYES, host: I’m Allison Keyes and this is TELL ME
If all goes as planned, on April 1, America will wave farewell to a very large and overtly corrupt organization. News came out yesterday that ACORN – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now – is shutting down on
So ACORN, everyone’s favorite nuthouse, finally closed its doors. I quietly mourned, just as I had when “Just Nuts” at the local mall shut down. It had 60 kinds of nuts, including the Ogbono – which isn’t really a nut,
Yeah, yeah, I know: you’re all broke up about it: [youtube VJ8xf4hBn6I&feature nolink] Well, try to control yourselves. After all, there are hordes of bloggers — OK, a couple — who staked their reputations on the idiotic “gotcha” of whether
For once, the liars aren’t winning. For months now, Brad Friedman has engaged in a fundamentally dishonest campaign to save ACORN, by claiming that an inconsequential detail about James O’Keefe’s costume somehow erased the fact that ACORN employees sought to
Politico’s Ben Smith has the bombshell: The national group ACORN is folding, an official there, Kevin Whelan, said in an emailed statement: The ACORN Association Board met on Sunday March 21 and approved a set of steps to responsibly manage
ACORN, the ultra-secret, keep-the-books-from-the-leadership community organizing group, called the New York Times to say it’s preparing to file for bankruptcy? The corrupt outfit is choosing now to be transparent? Or did it seek that opportunity to call an allied newspaper
Census 2010: overreaching and out of bounds. Intrusive. Harassing. I have now received two Census forms and thirteen or fourteen notices from the Census Bureau, and they are still coming. For the past month I have been called, harassed and
A pretty stunning late-Friday news dump in the New York Times: The community organizing group Acorn, battered politically from the right and suffering from mismanagement along with a severe loss of government and other funds, is on the verge of
While America is distracted by Democrats’ attempts to unconstitutionally ram government-run healthcare down the throats of the American people, the Obama administration began preparing to resume funding to President Obama’s favorite community organizing group. The fiscal floodgates are opening for
I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather on the Capitol steps on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon. We must come by the thousands. Speaker Pelosi will stop at nothing
I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather at upper Senate Park, across from the Capitol on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon. We must come by the thousands. Speaker Pelosi
I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather on the Capitol steps on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon. We must come by the thousands. Speaker Pelosi will stop at nothing
Group is undone in national scandal sparked by videos showing illegal activity From today’s Baltimore Sun: A former leader of Maryland’s ACORN chapter said Monday the group will no longer operate in the state, doomed by an embarrassing national scandal
A post entitled “Can Alinsky’s Tactics Work on the Right? Should They?” by Christian Hartsock in Big Journalism, along with local battles between ultra- conservatives and other conservatives over using Alinsky’s tactics to further the cause, brings to light that
The wounded ACORN snake continues writhing. This time, the group has been barred from the entire state of Ohio, a swing state where the organization was very active in the last presidential election. So active, in fact, it received an
Fox News: U.S. District Judge Nina Gerson said Wednesday that Congress acted unconstitutionally when it tried to stop federal funding of the troubled group last fall. In her ruling, she said it was “unmistakable that Congress determined ACORN’s guilt before
By Tom Fitton Documents released today by Judicial Watch reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform (ACORN), as well as the Obama administration’s decision to shut down a criminal investigation
Ben Sheffner, at Copyrights and Campaigns Blog, has the breaking story: A state court in Baltimore has dismissed ACORN’s lawsuit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com LLC after the plaintiffs failed to serve the complaint on the defendants within
Credit where credit is due: Wired Magazine’s Noah Shachtman and Conde Nast have a scoop on their hands. In the course of researching his new and largely fair piece on Andrew Breitbart and the “Big” websites, during which he was
From Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee police officers sat on their hands for months last year instead of investigating possible voter fraud cases from the 2008 general election. It’s an incredible claim, but it’s coming from a credible source: