CNN investigates ACORN fraud

[gombis666]

Non-partisan? ACORN has NEVER EVER NOT ONCE EVER backed or supported a republican. If that's not "non-partisan" can someone please give me the definition? Thank god this criminal organization is done with.

[lordblazer]

@gombis666 they never backed any political party so yea they're pretty non-partisan civil service group. But civility no longer exist in a country that wants to appeal to extreme conservatism.

[gombis666]

@lordblazer - ACORN solely backs Democrats....you have no idea what you're talking about. Again, thank god they have been dissolved. They were criminal.

[teamster94]

Oh C'mon they are just being good ole Democrats.They dont need your legitimate vote to get elected. And they say that Bush stole the election.

[memama2]

Al Franck=CON got "more" votes than people who live in those countys?........hmmmmmmm......­..sounds like the Dims were pretty INTO = stealing in that state! ............and a few little ACORNS were rolling around working the elections and even said there were BONUSES for "more" registrations sent in! We in our state had DEAD PEOPLE and felons sent ballots and Storage Units showing multiple votes coming from that one address?...not legal! = but Dims don't care about MORALS & SHAME! they wanna WIN

[a5uperman]

Wait, so some people went around wasting time getting phony registrations that nobody will ever use.

This is news how?

It's like CNN covering some guy in his backyard diging holes.

[Craighill9]

"We have no idea what the motive is."

My ass you don't know what the motive is. The motive is fraud, and democrats are the guilty sleaze ball scum bag welfare recipient losers.

[ankjack]

Can't imagine why everyone thinks conservatives are racist.

[UCSanPano]

Wow. Look at all the openly racist comments here.

Why do openly racist comments occur so often in criticism of ACORN?

Will any of you conservatives who say you are not racists denounce these racist statements made so frequently by your allies?

[yosoydame]

Obama won? ;)

[zimbalatti]

LOL not bad...hows about:

Apes

Corrupting

Our

Registration

Numbers

[mom2gwyni]

Why do they deserve federal funding??

[eawhite73]

tmo7759 did you see the videos? The ones where multiple Acorn Locations want to help a pimp set up houses for making little kids have sex with minors. I guess you didnt or you wouldnt be wanted to thank them.

[tmo7759]

Yes and in most case they were thrown and even a police report was filed against the "pimp and the prostitute" by ACORN. This is simple Borat-style video making. If you film enough people you will eventually find enough stupid people to make whaterever point you want to make. I'm thinking of going undercover at golf country clubs and secretly film people while I goad them on about our black President. Do you think I will eventually find enough racist white golfer? see video: "Golf is Racist"

[UCSanPano]

If those videos really show what you claim, why are they not made available unedited? Why do we never see the person asking the leading questions, only the supposed responses?

Also let's not forget, even the costumed video punksters who made these vids admit: there was never any real pimp or prostitutes or children involved. There was no prostitution ring. It was fictional, even the kids who made the videos admit that.

Also what do you mean by: "making little kids have sex with minors." ?!

[tmo7759]

ACORN actually has helped tens of thousands of poor people by educating them about predatory lenders and reducing the number duped into ridiculous ARM financing schemes that contributed to the housing bubble and ecocomic collapse.

We should be thanking ACORN for helping the USA, but instead corporate media is lynching them.

[chrisrei10]

perhaps? but how many of those people got loans and money for housing fraudulently.....the goverment should seize all files and audit them....

[H0VA]

Acorn actually has committed voter fraud countless times, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason Al Franken won.

[tmo7759]

Name one example of voter fraud. There are some example of registration fraud but no known cases of voter fraud. Find one example.

[ScientologyStoners]

Ummm no... ACORN actually helped with the financial collapse. Research Community Reinvestment Act. That act which ACORN basically created punked banks into lending home mortgages to poor people who certainly couldn't pay it off. Lurk Moar on youtube for acorn videos in which they go to Washington Mutual and other banks and pressure , using the race cards, the banks to give out these mortgages.

Do you think its right to give 300k dollar home mortgages to people who make only 10 dollars an hour?

[tmo7759]

I know alot about the CRA because I actually work with banks to develop program and resources to assist low-income communities to access financial resources. Sure, like anything else there a FEW bad examples of CRA being misused but they are rare. That straw man argument doens't work: It is like saying because some US troops rape and murder Iraqi all US troops are bad or because some priest molest kids we should should shut down the Catholic church and have Senate RICO investigations.

[tttar]

tmo7759, what would you say the reason is, for ACORN people going to the trouble of submitting phony registrations?

Who benefits, and how?

And isn't fraudulent registration a crime, in and of itself, even if it doesn't lead to fraudulent voting?

[tmo7759]

The reason was they were poor people getting paid for the number of registrations they submitted. Bad incentive system, no doubt, but give me a choice between money for food /rent and starving/becoming homeless I would do the same for my family. If you wouldn't, you're lying.

[tttar]

Good answer, I didn't know that.

So basically it was ACORN who was being defrauded?

Or was somebody in turn paying ACORN?

I don't know about excusing it, though. We may as well not prosecute shoplifting or looting.

And how can you know the situation of everyone involved in advance?

[jensen1901]

90 percent of new voters registered by Acorn are legit. The do good work and flag the bad registrants themselves.

[Politics4Dummies]

@jensen1901 lol

[txsa55]

i bet this is killing cnn being forced to cover this outrage. they are obama's propagranda machine.

[SchruteDewight]

Notice that the CNN reportor says "you will be pretty surprised" at what the investigator found. Really? Was anyone with common sense really surprised? And CNN actually describes ACORN as nonpartisan... really? What ideeeeots! CNN would make Joseph Goebbels proud. Don'n know your history? Look it up CNN.

[materialclassified]

CNN lags again.

[denarrdo]

cnn belongs to the one world government people, they cant report the truth unless everybody knows already , they are sellouts

[1000000thTUBER]

Yea after FOX made the break , the others took weeks really months to even agree to broadcast a report , Chr1$t whenj will this main steam  oatmeal eaters finnaly realize...

[asphyxiafeeling]

And glenn beck and fox say they're the only good news channel...

[rayzortek]

cnn only investgates acorn after shamed into it covers for them rest of time

[theserf3]

@ MrVenomus - "The name caller" Last I checked they never released the source code to the voting machines. Last I checked Mccain got 58,343,671 while Obama got 66,882,230...

Maybe the majority for electoral votes but NOT with the people.

Good to know that the people who voted him in are WAY smarter... Maybe they can use that intelligence to see Obamas lying and that he lied on every single issue he campaigned for.

Enjoy :) I bow down to your superior intelligence... lol.

[micsc50]

Acorn works hard to register illegals, dead people, minor children, dogs & cats. All democRAT because the only way the dems can win is CHEAT

[rockriver256]

acorn needs a good lawyer, oh shit thats right  hussien was there lawyer, no problumo.

[11beHEADING11]

davipianos is a fuckin dum fuck he doesnt know shit from a crap...

[shegotyagood]

@MrVenomous: Don't you think ANY fraud of any sort by an organization that lies again and again while supporting a presidential candidate is bad enough? By the way, obama did not win by a huge majority...see recent march on Washington.

[davipianos]

ACORN should be shut down. Of course, main stream media will not look harshly on them as they are democrat. Typical. If this group was a repulican group, they would have been crucified!

[chumlee333]

yep lovegun- Senate voted 83-7 (loonies)aginst further acorn funding today

[MrVenomus]

Morons! Voter registration fraud is different than vote fraud. There was no vote fraud because the bogus registrations were caught. Obama was elected by a huge majority of people, any one of which were waaaay smarter than you.

[ACourtRep]

MrVenomus, please don't defend fraud. It's wrong if it happened and we all know it. Let's demand that all our politicians and their organizations get it right. That could be the CHANGE we voted for?!?

[ajack50]

this is where odumba started why we dont trust marxist idiots like odumba,he is a liar and a fraud and hope he is investigated along with the rest of the acorns offices all over the country and the stories are coming out every day,this is how he won!

[jimUkay]

hmmmmm......... so thats how obama was elected.

[mmanningah]

HAhahahah

[somodatmedia]

Every fraudulent vote denies a real vote. It's amazing how easily people allow their vote to be taken away. If this was not protected by Obama, it would be punished. No wonder people are marching on Washington.

[moneytrainer]

Robert Paisola Reports UPDATE:

The Senate voted to cut off ACORN Housing funds following the release of three videotapes that show employees of the activist group advising a "pimp" and "prostitute" on how to break the law.

The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed in a vote of 83 to 7 and prohibits the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from receiving funds from the current Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill.

[whiskers78753]

It sounds like the Chicago Political Machineis in action.

[bohtzsah2002]

This is a start. ACORN must be abolished and the house CLEANED. This corrupt organization was responsible for thousands of fraudulent votes favoring Obama. Stay with it investigators.... there's more to be found out and uncovered.

[rcdcdancer]

Obama = Acorn

[boopster1000]

oh heres that doctored tape that caught these aholes trying to prostitute 13 year olds.check the fukkin signatures there probably all signed by the same thieving spook.

[5DollaPolaroid]

ACORN is an organization that promotes fraud and I can't wait until the numerous investigations being done prove this. If people want to register to vote, why don't they find a way to do it themselves instead of having an organization do it for them? If you want to vote, isn't there a place in most cities where a person can do this on their own? I did! And after seeing the video of ACORN employees finding a way to get a house for a child prostitution ring, I think they should be disbanded.

[MyMap2010]

It's about time CNN reported the facts on ACORN and good job to this reporter for getting it right! ACORN = FRAUD.

[plucknpick]

THis is typical of the Democrats and thier supporting organizations....

Acorn Staff and supporters have no morals,

these people cannot be trusted.

[NHMntnHIGH]

it is time to investigate and jail the criminals in acorn and all of it's branches. not another dime to these sleaze bags from taxpayer money. Jail the criminals and any politicians that are affiliated with these crooks

[TranCendenZ]

ACORN workers were caught on hidden cameras helping to set up child prostitution rings. Sick sick sick!