MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow continued her series last night, on the “purely political smear campaign” which ACORN has faced since registering nearly 2 million legal voters over the last decade. In the third installment of her continuing series, she focused on the ACORN smears over non-existent “voter fraud,” which were at the heart of the U.S. Attorney scandal.
Before being joined by former Republican U.S. Attorney from New Mexico David Iglesias — fired by the Bush White House because he refused to bring fraudulent voter fraud cases against Democrats, as we covered in exclusive detail in March of 2007 — Maddow notes accurately: “No accusation has ever been substantiated that anyone ever registered by ACORN ever voted fraudulently.”
She added astutely: “The Bush White House viewed voter fraud as the mother of all wedge issues. It’s paying its dividends today, and remarkably, Democrats are playing right along with it.”…
Maddow’s excellent previous reports in this series are here:
Thursday: The truth about the extraordinary GOP lies and media failure concerning ACORN.
Friday: The hypocrisy (and unconstitutionality) of defunding ACORN while groups like Halliburton and Blackwater, which committed actual crimes, like murder and real fraud, still receive more federal funding in a day than ACORN has in its lifetime.
This is all much like watching a broadcast news version replay of the last 5 years here at The BRAD BLOG. And we’re lovin’ it. Thank you again, Rachel! Please keep it up! As “Annie” said in It’s a Wonderful Life: “‘Bout time one of you lunkheads said it!”
Two or three months ago, Sen. Vitter sent out an e-mail to his constituents seeking support to keep U.S. attorney Jim Letten, who had been appointed by Bush, in New Orleans. I wrote to him that I agreed, that Mr. Letten had been very good for New Orleans, and had made the city his home. I added that not replacing him would do much toward de-politicizing the Justice Deparment. His next message used my words. But within weeks Vitter was leading the posse in smearing Acorn, the same organization that was at the center of scandal of the firing of the U.S. attorneys, as Iglesias tells Rachel Maddow. David Vitter’s hypocricy knows no bounds. But he has another problem besides Rep. Charlie Melancon’s challenging for his seat: a libertarian is now running who is sure to rob him of the far-right of Louisiana he’s been pandering to for the past year.
Going Nuts
ACORN: Alien Children Offered Regularly Nationwide
ACORN: Authorities Caught One Registering “Napoleonâ€
ACORN: Assembly of the Complacent: Organized, Registered & Non-productive!
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties
ACORN: Assorted Crazies, Oddballs, Reprobates, and Nincompoops
ACORN: “Audacity†and “Change†that Obama Represents Nationally
ACORN: A Crooked, Offensive, Repulsive Nut
ACORN: Agitators, Cheats, Offenders, and Repugnant Nonentities
ACORN: Association of Crooks O’Keefe Revealed in a Nanosecond
ACORN: Advising Criminals, Organizing Radical Nutjobs
ACORN: Assisting Call-girls, Obama, Reid & Nancy
ACORN: Advancing Collectivism, Obamamania, Reparations Now!
ACORN: After Clinton, Obama Retards a Nation
ACORN: Alike Carter, Obama is Regretful and Negative
ACORN: America, Could Obama Resign Now??
ACORN: Against Conservatives, Order, Republicans, and the Nation
ACORN: American Cash Outflows to Rathke’s “Nonprofitsâ€
ACORN: Apparently “Community Organizing†Really is Nefarious
ACORN: Awarding Capital to Objectionable Rent-seeking Noncontributors
ACORN: Apathetic, Crybaby, Odiferous, Ratlike Nothings
ACORN: Andrew Clearly Outplayed the Resentful NYT
ACORN: Always Cheating, Often Ruining Neighborhoods
ACORN: Addled Crack-heads and Obnoxious Race-baiting Neurotics
ACORN: Appalling Cesspool; Obscene Revolting Nightmare
ACORN: A Clan of Odious, Ridiculed Nitwits
ACORN: Another Corrupt Obama Run Network
Others? Please suggest!
A Corrupt Old Republican’s Nightmare
So where is David Iglesias now ? Out of government and public service ? Re; “Change we can believe in,” and real bipartisanship, surely this is a man who would be truly valuable if this Democratic administration were serious. Brick by brick one could build real change on the back of such integrity. One cannot help but compare with the records of so many of Obama’s appointments. The comparison is truly disturbing.