ACORN? What’s ACORN? Huh? Wha?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.
“I don’t even know what they passed,” Pelosi told The Post yesterday. “What did they do? They defunded it?”
The amendment to suspend housing grants was a stunning blow to the community-activist group — and came as some Democrats and the White House have been backing away from the group.
News anchor Charles Gibson (the man who knew what Sarah Palin said even though she didn’t say it) was completely clueless about the recently surfaced videos of ACORN employees giving advice about how to set up a brothel:
But Gibson told a radio show Tuesday morning that he wasn’t familiar with the story — and it might be “just one you leave to the cables.”
ABC reporter Jake Tapper has filed some reports on the scandal, and Gibson was asked on WLS Radio’s “Don & Roma Show” what he thought of the story.
“I don’t even know about it,” Gibson said, laughing. “So you’ve got me at a loss. … But my goodness, if it’s got everything, including sleaziness in it, we should talk about it in the morning.”
Gibson and Pelosi can be forgiven their stupefying ignorance, of course. The New York Times only bothered to touch on the story of ACORN’s appalling corruption yesterday, and even then framed it in partisan terms.
While campaigning, President Obamessiah had nice things to say about ACORN:
“I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”
In the 1960’s, NWRO launched a campaign of sit-ins and disruptions at welfare offices. The goal was to remove eligibility restrictions, and thus effectively flood welfare rolls with so many clients that the system would burst. The theory, explains Stern, was that an impossibly overburdened welfare system would force “a radical reconstruction of America’s unjust capitalist economy.” Instead of a socialist utopia, however, we got the culture of dependency and family breakdown that ate away at America’s inner cities — until welfare reform began to turn the tide.
Clearly, there is rot at the center of ACORN, just as there’s rot in the Obamedia that has refused to cover the story. Imagine what would happen if that sort of corruption was uncovered in Focus on the Family? Full-court press, 24-hour coverage, “culture of corruption”, etc. etc. As usual, the American Butthash Media has fallen down on the job.
Alternatively, you can just call everyone racist and write it off.
Themocracy