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Glenn Beck
ACORN is the latest victim of Fox news personality Glenn Beck's racist smear campaigns. Beck aired a staged video on his program entrapping a couple of low level members of ACORN. ACORN is a non-profit organisation that works to serve low income and working Americans.
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. These are good Americans working for the benefit of those less fortunate.
ACORN has over 400,000 members and more than 850 neighborhood chapters in over 100 cities across the United States. In addition, ACORN has chapters in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, and Peru.
Beck finds two questionable low level members of ACORN who were set up by a couple of right wing operatives and tries to smear the whole organisation. Beck wants to argue that two out of 400,000 makes an entire organisation corrupt? His logic, as always, is ridiculously inadequate. Beck is not interested in truth, he is interested in sensationalism and feeding the right wing fringe.
Beck is no stranger to controversy. Beck recently brought shame to himself and his network by accusing President Obama of being a racist. As a result of his disgraceful behavior Beck's program is the subject of a large and successful boycott.
Beck's racist and demented rantings are humorous to many, and by some estimates at least half of his audience watches not for news, but entertainment. Beck, always the buffoon, is a constant source of rantings and hysterics. He is a clown.
That Fox even allows Beck to broadcast is an indication that the network lacks any journalistic standards or integrity. This should not be a story. Yet irresponsible right wing journalists are propping up Beck's smear campaign, some out of ignorance, and some out of malicious intent.
It all comes back to the fact that some Americans, a frightened and ignorant minority, can not accept Barack Obama as president. Beck seduces these gullible and weak minded folks, telling them all sorts of outrageous tales, feeding their fear and hysteria. If such people were not so dangerous, the whole thing would be comical.
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Comments
Once again Beck has video-tape. You see Mikey, Glenn Beck doesn't engage in smear tactics like you left-wingers he let's the tape do his talking.
Bwah-hahahahahahahahaha, Damn I wish I had that Beck in my unit, he kicks more commie @ss than McCarthy & Reagan put together.
GO-GLEN-GO
Hey everybody The Stoner quips "Beck's program is the subject of a large and successful boycott." Bwah-hahahahahahahaha-heeheehee, yeah right Mikey, Beck be skeered right about now.
You think Mikey has nightmares about Glenn Beck at night?
Hahahahahaha, This s**t gets better every day!!!! Way to go Glenn. Hey Mikey how is your Glenn Beck 1990 smear campaign going? Probably not as successful as Beck exposing the rampant corruption in this administration huh?? You see Mikey, Glenn presents TRUTHFUL FACTS THAT HE BACKS UP WITH VIDEO-TAPE, THAT LEAVE NO DOUBT IN HIS TARGETS GUILT. You on the other hand Mikey like to play little sick twisted childish games saying Beck might have engaged in the disgusting crimes of rape and murder. Since when is MURDER AND RAPE something to JOKE ABOUT?? People this only shows you how demented and sick these left wing wackos are.
Stoner said "That Fox even allows Beck to broadcast is an indication that the network lacks any journalistic standards or integrity."
Hey Mikey, WHAT THE HELL do you know about standards or integrity? Man your brain IS fried!
I live in Baltimore and the two in the vid were just reported fired. They were not low level members. Not at all. We will hear more on that later I am sure. I don't want to spread rumors.
Remember this?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrHZGTdhKw
ACORN unlawfully broke into a home they had no legal interest to and then occupied it. There were arrests and wrist slaps. The property owner should have pressed charges as well civilly.
That was just after the election and many knew the ACORN's and SEIU's and Black Panthers and UAW's would all feel empowered to "change" the way we live.
It ain't working is it?
You have got to be kidding me. This group, Acorn, is full of corruption. Thank you Glenn Beck....you are awesome and so are the young and brave journalists who visited the Baltimore office. Well, the corrupt big wigs just threw these two poor ladies who lack morals....SURPRISE...under the bus. I hope they talk! Mr. Stone...why do you hate America???
What? WHATWHATWHATWHATWHAT?????
'Only TWO out of 400,000?'
And I guess all the THOUSANDS of ACORN employees that are being charged with voter fraud, tax fraud, and God-knows what else... just HAPPENED to slip your mind????
What? This article is pathetic. IT's a SHAM. Mikey, this is awful... and sad. Is that HONESTLY the best arguement you can make?!
Not only is ACORN rife with fraud and scandal, they now HAVE employees that are trying to support prostitution, tax evasion, and child sex trade. If ANY... ANY GOP group did a FRACTION of that, they'd be butchered by the media. I'm a democrat, and even I am disgusted. With ACORN, the liberal media, the president I unfortunately voted for, and especially you mikey... for spreading lies and bull.
Michael = Acorn card carrying Kool-Aid drinker
Thank you for that tremendous display of brain power. You should save yourself the embarrassment and keep your mouth shut.
Also, you look like an extra from 'Over The Top.'
The crime is that he's the only one reporting this stuff. Face it, most of what he puts up is their words out of their mouths.
You actually defend these people Michael? WOW.....
I'm sorry, but I must have missed something, what was racist, in specific, that Glenn Beck said today? You claim that ACORN is a "victim of a racist smear campaign". I never heard anything promoting exclusively a single, specific race, or specifically targeting a specific race.
Mr. Stone, if you're going to hurl these labels then you need to back them up, lest you be labeled intellectually dishonest.
If this was staged, why were the ACORN employees fired?
Mikey... Good God, did you crap your pants after watching Beck tonight, and then type up this article by describing the load in your underwear?
I just re-read your article, and started laughing. I mean, it MUST be a joke. Beck... "always the buffoon" is raking in millions of dollars from his show. Millions. His gig there... makes BIG MONEY. And Mikey, despite your liberal self-righteousness, you would jump ship and take Beck's place in a NANOsecond if some other-worldy force offered you the chance. So, please cry yourself to sleep in mommy's basement.
I read this dilusional twisted article just because the title, I knewthe author would get spanked in the comments!!! Now this is real entertainment! The dis-information this author is pushing is truely worthy of the Iraq information minister!
Drink the COOLAID already. What are you holding out for a haircut.
I'll give Stoner this much at least he wrote about this albeit with a LIBTARDED BIAS. Look at other LIBTARD/PROGROSSOID BLOGS or the MSM, no mention of this story at all.
Dirty Harry:
More like Mikey has erotic fantasies every night.
Mike is no better than Olberman trying to ride on Glenns wave of success.
Large and successful boycott? His ratings are astronomical!
shouldn't you get back to your World of Warcraft game?
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST HEH HEH , ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST HEH HEH!!! GLENN BECK OWNS COMMIES, DOES GLENN SCARE YOU MIKEY???
wow they actually let you type up this ridiculous article. How about you do some research before you go spouting off ridiculous claims at how Beck is a clown. ACORN has been accused of fraud in almost every state they are in. This is not an isolated incident and will continue to occur as long as this group is given millions of dollars of government money. Please GET OFF MY COMPUTER!!!
You look like a World of War Craft player.. are you?
NOBAMA!
Dude, what planet are you from?
Wow, if you were any dumber you would have to be watered twice a week.
What a total fvcking idiot you are!!! LOL. I can't believe there are people as stupid and ignorant as this.
I bet you think he was also picking on Van Jones.
When did your own words turn into racism!!!!!
Keep drinking the Hussien OBAMA cool aid
Your Bio says you are a Secular Humanist... One of the Tenets of that Life Stance are as follows...
A conviction that dogmas, ideologies and traditions, whether religious, political or social, must be weighed and tested by each individual and not simply accepted on faith.
How can you espouse this when you follow Liberal Dogma so blindly? Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
WOW, sure is getting crowded under Obamas bus.
It is what it is.
Michael, talking to you would be like talking to a kitchen table, I have neither the time or inclination to do so.
Although Fox has obvious slant, at least its anchors don't accuse all Democrats of being "ignorant," "gullible" or hateful (like you and MSNBC say of more traditional Americans).
Self-righteous whiners like you, too lazy to do solid research, are making other liberals look worse than Beck ever made conservatives look. Before you start caring so much about politics, try LEARNING about it.
Heh. Are you kidding me? Seriously? Your view is so pathetically biased that I don't even know how to respond to it, other than to say it really scares me that you are allowed to vote.
Hey folks, back off of Mikey, he doesn't say this crap because he believes it, he does it to get reactions.
If you had acted like a journalist, you would have found out that Beck did not create this story. He just acted like a reporter, something i think you never learned.
The story came from biggovernment.com. And since all they did was a 20/20 style sting, I don't know why you have a problem.
I once worked in the industry. Now I am glad that i left it when journalist still did a fact check before writing a column.
Video is pretty powerful, I have watched it two times and still can't believe it. Maybe it is CGI, hopefully it is CGI. I find it hard to believe that a ACORN workers would act this way. It's a shame that ACORN fired those two nice ladies. Boo Glen Beck.
Beck "smeared" communist Van Jones by playing video and audio of Van Jones incriminating himself. According to the writer, that makes Beck a racist. Later the writer points to the boycott launched by Van Jones' organization as proof that Beck was crazy to call Obama racist. The writer is so biased he can't see his own hypocrisy .
Possibly the worst article I have seen. You are the racist by bringing race into the story. This is a story of corruption not race. What do you know of ACORN to say 'these are good Americans...?' This organization has been shown to be corrupt time and time again. These are facts. 'these are good Americans'???? Your writing is lazy. You look lazy. You are clearly uneducated and have nothing to offer to the journalistic world. The funny thing is that you are going to read these comments and think that these are just angry republicans spouting off. This is not the case. This is the world telling you to stop sharing your opinions. You have nothing intelligent to offer. Please. Someone may read your article and think that you know what you are talking about. That would be tragic. Now get off your booty, find a job....yes a j.o.b and see if you can contribute something positive to this world. good luck.
I read every comment on here. Not one agreed with you. Don't get your hopes up though. This stuff is important. My tax money goes to this group and they are corrupt and under investigation in multiple states.
So being that this it the first time I have read any of your articles, I decided to read some more. You really think Van Jones is a patriot? After this article and the glenn beck stuff alone, the number one thing that stands out is you think everything is about race. Or do you? I think this is the only cry you have to push your far left agenda through. You are a hack and I pray for anyone who reads your crap and actually thinks its good or has any journalistic merrit.
So is it the left-wing radical position that this journalist video just happened to catch the two bad apples at ACORN? Those two seemed very confident and comfortable with their actions. But I guess the video team just got lucky huh? Perhaps ACORN just needs to train their employees to not set up sex slave rings with immigrant children on taxpayer money. Oh, and this isn't news? Imagine if this was an organization Republicans supported!
I bet you're not really a liberal. You just spout this leftist bull hoping it'll get you laid with hippie chicks.
Ain't gonna happen. But hey, it worked for Bill Clinton.
ACORN a victim? Please! What kind of person could possibly defend exploitation of underage girls? Is this the "Social Justice" and "Strong Communities" of your world?
What do you have to gain giving ACORN props?? There has got to be something that this uneducated journalist is getting out of this.
Do you get paid to write this drival? What a gig.
Every time Michael Stone says something nice about ACORN, they ship him a crate of eleven year old Vietnamese prostitutes.
I can't believe that any numb skull would state this on a blog. Show us why it is Glen Beck's lies that have done this. You can't. You are destroying your liberal party. Only low level employees..............., so that makes it ok? You are an idiot.
Joe
Although I love the NW I truly have come to despise how left wing liberal minded it has become. To say that Glenn Beck is making a racial smear tactic is completely absurd. Because someone went undercover and caught ACORN red handed, give me a break. That is equivalent to saying an undercover sting operation for drugs or anything else is the same thing. I have been in the Marine Corps now for 13 years, and I am thankful the fact that I have a job. But I will be damned if I get out now with the socialist government take over in the making.
What is going on with the whole glen beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990?
Why doesn't Beck make some comment? Why is he silent? The girls family deseves some answers.
The author is obviously right here. The numerous allegations of voter fraud, voter intimidation, questionable fund raising etc etc are obviously racist. Just because there is now irrefutable video evidence, not to mention Acorn turning it's own employees for voter fraud in Florida is no reason to stop drinking the Coolaid. Keep believing in hope and change folks, it will keep you in a job and a house even if you don't deserve or afford them. The Obama administration loves you. Why so serious? It's only political corruption at it's finest.
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