<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: CNN fact-check: &#8216;This is looking like a fraud committed against ACORN.&#8217;</title>
	<atom:link href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/</link>
	<description></description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:12:49 -0500</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5</generator>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<item>
		<title>By: Since2oo6</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5576297</link>
		<dc:creator>Since2oo6</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5576297</guid>
		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bedavapornoizle.us&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Bedava Porno izle&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.liselibakire.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Liseli Bakire&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bedavapornoizle.us" rel="nofollow">Bedava Porno izle</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.liselibakire.com" rel="nofollow">Liseli Bakire</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5576297', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jane E. Schneider</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5296554</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane E. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5296554</guid>
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Tracy__5 Says: 

#142

“…or any of the things that McShame’s campaign people are training their ‘get-out-the-vote’ volunteers to tell possible voters.”

Present some evidence that McCain volunteers are telling potential voters “Obama’s name and Osama’s, or that his middle name is Hussein so he must be a terrorist”.

you have no room to talk with your BS accusations about McCain volunteers.

October 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm &lt;/em&gt;

Here you go, dumbass:  http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849422,00.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Tracy__5 Says: </p>
<p>#142</p>
<p>“…or any of the things that McShame’s campaign people are training their ‘get-out-the-vote’ volunteers to tell possible voters.”</p>
<p>Present some evidence that McCain volunteers are telling potential voters “Obama’s name and Osama’s, or that his middle name is Hussein so he must be a terrorist”.</p>
<p>you have no room to talk with your BS accusations about McCain volunteers.</p>
<p>October 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm </em></p>
<p>Here you go, dumbass:  <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849422,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1849422,00.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5296554', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5295380</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5295380</guid>
		<description>The bottom line is it is an outright lie to call Ayers a murderer and you really dont care as long as it pushes your propaganda. The facts dont make your point so you lie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The bottom line is it is an outright lie to call Ayers a murderer and you really dont care as long as it pushes your propaganda. The facts dont make your point so you lie.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5295380', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5295376</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5295376</guid>
		<description>Tracy__5 Says: 

Of COURSE he wasnt trying to kill people.  If they WANTED to kill people with their bombs all they had to do was NOT tell them the bombs were there. They notified every target so that no one would be killed. You have to make extra effort to assure no one dies when you set bombs or people die. That includes the Pentagon</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tracy__5 Says: </p>
<p>Of COURSE he wasnt trying to kill people.  If they WANTED to kill people with their bombs all they had to do was NOT tell them the bombs were there. They notified every target so that no one would be killed. You have to make extra effort to assure no one dies when you set bombs or people die. That includes the Pentagon<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5295376', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: GOPHater</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294288</link>
		<dc:creator>GOPHater</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294288</guid>
		<description>The real story is the fact that the GOP is employing voter suppression tactics all across the country.  This, of course, the media ignores.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real story is the fact that the GOP is employing voter suppression tactics all across the country.  This, of course, the media ignores.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294288', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: republicanSScareme</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294128</link>
		<dc:creator>republicanSScareme</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294128</guid>
		<description>I expect our new Attorney General to investigate the criminal activities of the Republicans, which are massive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I expect our new Attorney General to investigate the criminal activities of the Republicans, which are massive.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294128', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294122</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294122</guid>
		<description>RFK Jr. and Greg Palast article in Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote/print

&quot;I don&#039;t think the Democrats get it,&quot; says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the ballot. &quot;All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RFK Jr. and Greg Palast article in Rolling Stone:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote/print" rel="nofollow">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23638322/block_the_vote/print</a></p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the Democrats get it,&#8221; says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the ballot. &#8220;All these new rules and games are turning voting into an obstacle course that could flip the vote to the GOP in half a dozen states.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294122', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294120</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294120</guid>
		<description>This arrest goes along with the story from my post # 145:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story

&quot;The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario (California) over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.

State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This arrest goes along with the story from my post # 145:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-fraud20-2008oct20,0,3842357.story</a></p>
<p>&#8220;The owner of a firm that the California Republican Party hired to register tens of thousands of voters this year was arrested in Ontario (California) over the weekend on suspicion of voter registration fraud.</p>
<p>State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294120', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294090</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294090</guid>
		<description>the Lone Voice of Reason Says: 

The fact it is an outright LIE wont stop Tracy the moron from repeating it endlessly. He couldnt care less if its true or not. Its useful for propaganda purposes and a hivemind propaganda parrots gotta do what a propaganda parrots gotta do. Truth, facts, reality these dont come into play in ANY WAY.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the Lone Voice of Reason Says: </p>
<p>The fact it is an outright LIE wont stop Tracy the moron from repeating it endlessly. He couldnt care less if its true or not. Its useful for propaganda purposes and a hivemind propaganda parrots gotta do what a propaganda parrots gotta do. Truth, facts, reality these dont come into play in ANY WAY.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294090', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: the Lone Voice of Reason</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294066</link>
		<dc:creator>the Lone Voice of Reason</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294066</guid>
		<description>Tracy-- Ayers is NOT a murderer.  Look up what he really did and quit it with the mindless droning.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tracy&#8211; Ayers is NOT a murderer.  Look up what he really did and quit it with the mindless droning.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294066', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294010</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294010</guid>
		<description>Three months ago, Stephen Spoonamore, a top Republican data security expert, said there was fraud in the computer tabulation of votes in Ohio in 2004. It never made the MainStreamMedia. Not even as a question. Why not?

(forgot the link before):  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189

Spoonamore:  &quot;There was an enormous number of strange activities in which Triad and the Rapp family were running around the state taking hard drives out of computers, putting in new hard drives, and posting poll results. And the reason all this was going on, I&#039;m quite confident, was that the hard drives they were pulling out had fraudulent coding. Simple as that.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Three months ago, Stephen Spoonamore, a top Republican data security expert, said there was fraud in the computer tabulation of votes in Ohio in 2004. It never made the MainStreamMedia. Not even as a question. Why not?</p>
<p>(forgot the link before):  <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189" rel="nofollow">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6189</a></p>
<p>Spoonamore:  &#8220;There was an enormous number of strange activities in which Triad and the Rapp family were running around the state taking hard drives out of computers, putting in new hard drives, and posting poll results. And the reason all this was going on, I&#8217;m quite confident, was that the hard drives they were pulling out had fraudulent coding. Simple as that.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294010', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5294002</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5294002</guid>
		<description>GOP contractor voter registration fraud that Brad Friedman referred to on Fox News Sunday:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-fraud18-2008oct18,0,3505611.story</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GOP contractor voter registration fraud that Brad Friedman referred to on Fox News Sunday:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-fraud18-2008oct18,0,3505611.story" rel="nofollow">http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-me-fraud18-2008oct18,0,3505611.story</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5294002', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293914</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293914</guid>
		<description>Tracy__5 Says: 

Why do you bother? All your posts just read like BBAAAAAAAAA. You are such an ignorant sheeple. What association with Ayers. The fraud was comitted ON ACORN which was the victim get back to us when there is fraudlent voting. Of course you KNOW these things dumb as you are you are just compelled to regurgitate the things your Limborg masters have TOLD you to believe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tracy__5 Says: </p>
<p>Why do you bother? All your posts just read like BBAAAAAAAAA. You are such an ignorant sheeple. What association with Ayers. The fraud was comitted ON ACORN which was the victim get back to us when there is fraudlent voting. Of course you KNOW these things dumb as you are you are just compelled to regurgitate the things your Limborg masters have TOLD you to believe.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293914', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: casanium</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293880</link>
		<dc:creator>casanium</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293880</guid>
		<description>We must educate people about the difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We must educate people about the difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293880', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jane E. Schneider</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293690</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane E. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293690</guid>
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Tracy__5 Says: 

Obama trained ACORN workers?….perrish the thought.

October 19th, 2008 at 10:59 am &lt;/em&gt;

Yeah, because you know that he won&#039;t train them point out the similarity between Obama&#039;s name and Osama&#039;s, or that his middle name is Hussein so he must be a terrorist, or that he&#039;s pallin&#039; around with a &quot;washed-up domestic terrorist&quot;, or any of the things that McShame&#039;s campaign people are training &lt;em&gt;their&lt;/em&gt; &#039;get-out-the-vote&#039; volunteers to tell possible voters.

Jeez you&#039;re an asswipe, Tracy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Tracy__5 Says: </p>
<p>Obama trained ACORN workers?….perrish the thought.</p>
<p>October 19th, 2008 at 10:59 am </em></p>
<p>Yeah, because you know that he won&#8217;t train them point out the similarity between Obama&#8217;s name and Osama&#8217;s, or that his middle name is Hussein so he must be a terrorist, or that he&#8217;s pallin&#8217; around with a &#8220;washed-up domestic terrorist&#8221;, or any of the things that McShame&#8217;s campaign people are training <em>their</em> &#8216;get-out-the-vote&#8217; volunteers to tell possible voters.</p>
<p>Jeez you&#8217;re an asswipe, Tracy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293690', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Jane E. Schneider</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293636</link>
		<dc:creator>Jane E. Schneider</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293636</guid>
		<description>Jeebus, Tracy5 is just as idiotic as Tracys 1 through 4.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jeebus, Tracy5 is just as idiotic as Tracys 1 through 4.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293636', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Rutabaga</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293620</link>
		<dc:creator>Rutabaga</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293620</guid>
		<description>CNN, along with the rest of the corporate media, went right along with the Republican spin on the ACORN story for while.  It&#039;s about time somebody there finally did some fact-checking and reported that this is a major mountain being made out of a tiny innocent molehill.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CNN, along with the rest of the corporate media, went right along with the Republican spin on the ACORN story for while.  It&#8217;s about time somebody there finally did some fact-checking and reported that this is a major mountain being made out of a tiny innocent molehill.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293620', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: McWars</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293606</link>
		<dc:creator>McWars</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293606</guid>
		<description>&lt;em&gt;Obama “get out the vote” campaign is a fraud is somehow unfair?&lt;/em&gt;

Get out the vote campaigns are not fraudulent. People who whine about such efforts simply don&#039;t understand how necessary the grooming a new generation of voters really is, we don&#039;t live forever and must pass democracy on to the next generation if it is to survive. Fraudulent, or otherwise erroneous applications, span the entire country -- group affiliated or otherwise. Please prove that any fraudulent application by an ACORN staffer/volunteer materialized into a vote. Any intentional wrongdoing would violate not only the law, but ACORN&#039;s mission.

&lt;em&gt;Pointing out Obama poor lack of judgement when associating with Ayers is unfair?&lt;/em&gt;

Obama and Ayers were professors. One duty of a professor is civic engagement. If Obama can be singled out for poor judgment, what about the former Reagan affiliate who funded the organization and vetted Ayers for the job? Ayers didn&#039;t serve on the post because he was an unconvicted terrorist, he served because he is an expert on education.   

&lt;em&gt;BTW it has nothing to do with Ayers being a terrorist who was responsible for murdering Americans and got off on a BS technicality&lt;/em&gt;

Illegal wiretapping is not a mere technicality. I don&#039;t know of Ayers murdering Americans, post a credible link, please. 

&lt;em&gt;it has to do with the fact the that Obama loves to dis people like Wright when it’s political advantageous.&lt;/em&gt;

That is pure speculation on your part. Why would Obama rely on a random education professor and a pastor to launch his political campaign? Mr. Wright cared for Lyndon Johnson when he underwent surgery, but that&#039;s hardly political capital Obama would love to raise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Obama “get out the vote” campaign is a fraud is somehow unfair?</em></p>
<p>Get out the vote campaigns are not fraudulent. People who whine about such efforts simply don&#8217;t understand how necessary the grooming a new generation of voters really is, we don&#8217;t live forever and must pass democracy on to the next generation if it is to survive. Fraudulent, or otherwise erroneous applications, span the entire country &#8212; group affiliated or otherwise. Please prove that any fraudulent application by an ACORN staffer/volunteer materialized into a vote. Any intentional wrongdoing would violate not only the law, but ACORN&#8217;s mission.</p>
<p><em>Pointing out Obama poor lack of judgement when associating with Ayers is unfair?</em></p>
<p>Obama and Ayers were professors. One duty of a professor is civic engagement. If Obama can be singled out for poor judgment, what about the former Reagan affiliate who funded the organization and vetted Ayers for the job? Ayers didn&#8217;t serve on the post because he was an unconvicted terrorist, he served because he is an expert on education.   </p>
<p><em>BTW it has nothing to do with Ayers being a terrorist who was responsible for murdering Americans and got off on a BS technicality</em></p>
<p>Illegal wiretapping is not a mere technicality. I don&#8217;t know of Ayers murdering Americans, post a credible link, please. </p>
<p><em>it has to do with the fact the that Obama loves to dis people like Wright when it’s political advantageous.</em></p>
<p>That is pure speculation on your part. Why would Obama rely on a random education professor and a pastor to launch his political campaign? Mr. Wright cared for Lyndon Johnson when he underwent surgery, but that&#8217;s hardly political capital Obama would love to raise.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293606', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: panthercat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293586</link>
		<dc:creator>panthercat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293586</guid>
		<description>You may want to check your voter registration, as I had mine fall away after registering as declined to state.  I sent a WTF note to the report a problem link at the bottom of the page and when I looked the next day, my registration was there, like it had always been.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Voter Registration Info&lt;/a&gt;
If the submit button doesn’t highlight when it should, click anywhere on the page.  It’s an odd bug, but at least it works.
Anchors aweigh!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may want to check your voter registration, as I had mine fall away after registering as declined to state.  I sent a WTF note to the report a problem link at the bottom of the page and when I looked the next day, my registration was there, like it had always been.<br />
<a href="http://www.voteforchange.com/index_obama.php" rel="nofollow">Voter Registration Info</a><br />
If the submit button doesn’t highlight when it should, click anywhere on the page.  It’s an odd bug, but at least it works.<br />
Anchors aweigh!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293586', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Mugsy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/comment-page-4/#comment-5293554</link>
		<dc:creator>Mugsy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/18/cnn-acorn-fact-check/#comment-5293554</guid>
		<description>The Right made the SAME claim against ACORN in 2004 in the last weeks of the campaign.

&lt;strong&gt;It had no staying power back then either. (But I &lt;em&gt;DO&lt;/em&gt; remember it as a cover to distract of rampant voter disenfranchisement taking place in other states.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Right made the SAME claim against ACORN in 2004 in the last weeks of the campaign.</p>
<p><strong>It had no staying power back then either. (But I <em>DO</em> remember it as a cover to distract of rampant voter disenfranchisement taking place in other states.</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5293554', 400, 400)"></a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
