Tag: Acorn

From New York Times Public Editor Clary Hoyt: ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had severed its ties to Acorn, the community organizing group. Robert Groves, the census director, was quoted

On September 22, the Congressional Research Service issued a report that asserted that a bill voted on by the House of Representatives on September 17 to defund ACORN was possibly unconstitutional as a prohibited “bill of attainder.” However, as the

Word on the street is that the Left, the “equal pay, pro-women” left is desperately searching for lewd photos of Hannah Giles. Savor that bit of irony for a moment. The Left is seeking to employ sexism as a way

**UPDATE** Politico: NBC Vehemently Denies Allegations Over Anti-Semitic Email **UPDATE 2** ALG Statement in Response to Alleged NBC Email **UPDATE 3** NBC News Statement **UPDATE 4**Group Stands Ground Over Claims That NBC Employee Issued Anti-Semitic Email Apparently NBC “Dateline” producer

About the Breitbart Defense and Discovery Fund The Breitbart Defense and Discovery Fund was formed to help defray the legal costs of Breitbart.com and its affiliates in connection with and/or arising from the ACORN and any related litigation (and, if

United States Senator Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich) went on Chicago’s popular Don and Roma show yesterday to defend his vote to maintain taxpayer subsidies to ACORN. Yes, this is a real interview and not a comedy sketch… [audio: http://biggovernment.com/files/2009/09/roland-burris-acorn-9-24-joined.mp3]

In the first two of what will inevitably be a multitude of ACORN Baltimore lawsuit related media hits, Andrew Breitbart spoke with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News Channel last night while Hannah Giles (and her attorney Kelly Shackelford) spoke with

The activities of the radical, corrupt to the core, left-wing Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has tangled itself up in an infinitely complex web of deceit, thuggery, and questionable financial dealings, are long overdue for a RICO

As soon as James O’Keefe’s explosive video footage was unveiled two weeks ago — shaking ACORN to its core — various leftists and their allies in the mainstream media have fixated on a singular mission: smearing the messenger. O’Keefe was

FINAL UPDATE 9/24/2009 6:50 PM Eastern time The senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), asked the IRS to probe ACORN – and asked that ACORN be dropped from the Combined Federal Campaign, a charitable program

ACORN’s CEO, Bertha Lewis announced last week that the group will seek an independent review of its operations. ACORN also announced that former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger would oversee the review. Although it seems difficult to imagine that the

From Center for American Progress: …Hysterical Fox News commentators have blown this story up like a hot air balloon, and much of the rest of the media appear to believe that what Fox says goes. Andrew Alexander complains that “traditional

Press Release COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM http://republicans.oversight.house.gov News Release Treasury IG Agrees to Request by Issa and Collins to Conduct a Review of ACORN September 24, 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. –Treasury Department Inspector General, J. Russell George agreed to

From The Washington Independent: On September 10, Andrew Breitbart launched his new site, BigGovernment, with hidden-video camera footage of two young conservative activists who’d gotten Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) employees to advise them on hiding prostitution

Even before U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was sworn in, Big Labor insiders like AFL-CIO lawyer and Obama appointee Deborah Greenfield were busily dismantling useful union financial disclosures produced by former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. It’s another Big Government –

Sometimes it takes an outsider to show the press corps the way. By Jack Shafer Among the many glorious things about American journalism is that no credentialing organization or regulatory body stands between an individual who wants to break a

From the Associated Press: LOS ANGELES (AP) – Much of America discovered James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers. But as

From the Associated Press: BALTIMORE (AP) – Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing

“[Breitbart] is a very powerful person, in a lot of ways he might be more powerful than ACORN.” Columbia Journalism Review Q and A with Liberal Historian Rick Perlstein on ACORN: As the recent scandals surrounding the green-jobs advocate Van

Citizens Consulting Inc. (CCI), the shadowy financial nerve center of the embattled radical activist group ACORN, has filed false lobbying disclosure reports with Congress, according to Ron Sykes, a former ACORN employee. This revelation is important because, as former ACORN

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) – The IRS says it is severing ties with ACORN, the community activist group involved in a scandal after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and

Way back in March–long before the James and Hannah “pimp and ho’ road show”– the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing where serious fraud allegations were raised against ACORN. Rep. John Conyers pressed