Olbermann on ACORN: MSNBC 10/21/08

Keith Olbermann on ACORN
"Countdown with Keith Olbermann" 10:38pm
Commentary

TRANSCRIPT: KEITH OLBERMAN: It was less than one week ago when senator John McCain on national television warned the nation about a grave threat to democracy maybe even destroying the fabric of democracy. Why have McCain and Sarah Palin stopped sounding the trumpet on this grave threat over the last few days? And, no, he didn't just forget. McCain's charge was the national grassroots group ACORN was committing widespread voter fraud, disenfranchising voters by registering fictional voters and that Barack Obama helped to fund ACORN. And, as we explained previously, some part-time workers have been accused of ripping off ACORN, because fictional voters do not vote, but there may be other reasons he dropped the voting fraud rhetoric.
Namely new reports that McCain himself has funded not one but two Republican owners of voter registration firms both of whom are embroiled in very real charges, very real and concerted efforts to disenfranchise real voters. First meet Mark Jacoby, yes that would be a mugshot, he was arrested saturday night in california on two counts of perjury and two counts of vote fraud. the charge that jacoby registered a fake address in california so he would be legally eligible to register other voters in the state. Mr. Jacoby's company is YPM, Young Political Majors. and YPM was no stranger to vote fraud claims, even before Jacoby's arrest. Prosecutors in LA, Ventura and San Bernadino counties are investigating Jacoby's company after dozens of voters accused YPMof slamming, which is registering them as Republicans without their knowledge. "Los Angeles Times" finding YPM registered more than 80% of its new republicans either without their knowledge or by misleading them. So why does or what does YPM have to do with McCain? YPM makes money by registering not voters but Republican voters specifically, working not only as a subcontractor for the California Republican Party but also, according to the "Ventura County Star", for the voter registration bounties offered by another man, Steve Poisener, a multimillionaire who offered YPM $5 for every new republican registered, like a bounty.
He also happens to be the California co-chairman of the McCain Campaign. McCain cannot claim ignorance of YPM's track record. Jacoby is based in Arizona, where a number of ballot initiatives may not be on the ballot this year, after YPM gathered signatures for them, and some of those signatures failed to pass muster with local election officials, and YPM was publicly accused of vote slamming before in 2004, in both Florida and Massachusetts. And then there is Nathan Sprewell, former head of the Arizona Republican Party. He, too, now in the vote registering business and a serial denier of whistle blowers who not only accuse him of slamming voters into the republican party but also claim he has torn up Democratic registrations in Oregon, Nevada, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Real registrations of real voters, real Americans who thought they were registered and may very well have been denied their right to vote in the real elections of 2004. McCain's connection? This year Huffington Post reports a joint committee including GOP and the McCain campaign paid $175,000, for, quote, registering voters to the Lincoln Strategy Group, the voter registration group headed by Nathan Sprewell. Why isn't anybody investigating Nathan Sprewell? Since the days of John Ashcroft democratic members of congress have asked the justice department to investigate real voter suppression. Congressman John Conyers is specifically including Sprewell in one of the follow-ups last year. The stonewalling in stark contrast to the justice response time on Republican Claims about voter fraud last week leaking word of the ACORN investigation the day after McCain pointed his finger at ACORN, previously pressuring prosecutors to pursue Republican claims about voter registration fraud, -- firing some of the prosecutors who refused to do so including most famously New Mexico's David Iglesias who later revealed justice department knew those claims in 2004 were bogus. Talking Points Memo reporting that some of the same republican operatives pushing voter fraud claims this year were at the heart of those bogus claims. according to one party operative's 2004 e-mail -- I believe the Voter ID issue should be used at all levels. You are not going to find a better wedge issue.


TOPIC: Voter Fraud/ Voter Suppression

LABEL: KO KO MSNBC 10-21-08 22.38 (LAD#45)

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Olbermann
• ACORN
• Voter
• Fraud
• Suppression

[TranCendenZ]

ACORN workers are a bunch of sickos who were recently busted for helping to set up child prostitution rings.

[DDDD04]

Suck it Olberlerman! Suck it! Yeah let's give all our money to the government so they can spend it for us.

[karmakritter]

Mark Jacoby registered to vote as his mother's address. I don't like the guy, but that doesn't seem to constitute a felony. How many students do this, every year?

[scajowy]

Olbermann is full of shit.

[davisracquet]

Olbermann would say something like the two film makers went to 500,000 offices until they found one bad apple. Olbermann STILL is pushing for ACORN and furthermore, he's never met a terrorist he didn't like.

[News4usall]

keith - how does it feel to be so wrong?

[TheSkootertrash]

He always DID look WRONG. But don't expect any coverage (much less a retraction) about this from Olbermann. The dude couldn't think his way out of a wet paper bag.

[uzijohn]

ACORN is now exposed as one of the most vile and corrupt organizations in the country

Makes you wonder how many other stories Olbermann and MSNBC have TANKED?

The left has orchestrated a movement to discredit FOX News; but I doubt those pompous guardians of truth will weigh in on these new revelations

[prverde]

So Pres Obama has taken money from Acorn to fund his candidancy. He is involved with this corrupted organization who promotes child prostitution, purchase of brothels, cheating on taxes and has an employee who says she killed her husband and what she did beforehand to cover the crime..these words came right out of her mouth...WOW. It's scary and mind-bogling...wake up MSNBC and be the journalists you are suppose to be...help the little children I am sure you have children.

[karpod10]

Where are you on the ACORN abetting child prostitution and the Senate pulling funding from ACORN you phony fake journalist ????????

[kenetoken]

Funny how WRONG Olbermann is looking at this a year later. I wonder if he'll retract his statements.

[jeffmagic32]

Olbermann loves Acorn. He can't get enough of the underage El Salvadorian services they provide.