The Rights Worst Nightmare - LMAO (conspiracy, Indiana, Barack Obama, March)

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By Alex Koppelman

Monday, March 23, 2009 14:45 EDT

On the right, ACORN paranoia never dies


Think of the edges of the political spectrum as being something like Purgatory: Once an idea ends up there, it might eventually go mainstream, it might eventually die, but first it hangs out at those edges for a good long while. This is the story of the seemingly eternal fascination the right has with ACORN.


As you might recall, the liberal group was the subject of a series of wildly overblown stories during last fall’s campaign. Republicans spent a fair amount of time attacking the organization, claiming, essentially, that Democrats were sneaking bailout money to ACORN in return for its yeoman work in rigging the election for Barack Obama.Despite the fact that none of this turned out to be true, some imaginary monsters are apparently too good to let die. (ACORN is a kind of higher-end version of the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theory, in this sense.) The community organizing group showed up in the news yet again last week, when President Obama nominated Indiana District Court Judge David Hamilton to the federal appellate court bench.


The right threw a fit over Hamilton after discovering that he’d once worked as a “fundraiser for ACORN,” as Wendy Long put it at National Review Online. Much of the conservative commentariat followed Long’s lead, and pretty soon people like Long and the American Spectator’s Matthew Vadum were calling Hamilton Obama’s “payback” to ACORN, and saying he was “ACORN’s judge.” (Hat-tip to Steve Benen.)


War Room - Salon.com

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Originally Posted by Dukester

By Alex Koppelman

Monday, March 23, 2009 14:45 EDT

On the right, ACORN paranoia never dies


Think of the edges of the political spectrum as being something like Purgatory: Once an idea ends up there, it might eventually go mainstream, it might eventually die, but first it hangs out at those edges for a good long while. This is the story of the seemingly eternal fascination the right has with ACORN.


As you might recall, the liberal group was the subject of a series of wildly overblown stories during last fall’s campaign. Republicans spent a fair amount of time attacking the organization, claiming, essentially, that Democrats were sneaking bailout money to ACORN in return for its yeoman work in rigging the election for Barack Obama.Despite the fact that none of this turned out to be true, some imaginary monsters are apparently too good to let die. (ACORN is a kind of higher-end version of the Obama birth certificate conspiracy theory, in this sense.) The community organizing group showed up in the news yet again last week, when President Obama nominated Indiana District Court Judge David Hamilton to the federal appellate court bench.


The right threw a fit over Hamilton after discovering that he’d once worked as a “fundraiser for ACORN,” as Wendy Long put it at National Review Online. Much of the conservative commentariat followed Long’s lead, and pretty soon people like Long and the American Spectator’s Matthew Vadum were calling Hamilton Obama’s “payback” to ACORN, and saying he was “ACORN’s judge.” (Hat-tip to Steve Benen.)


War Room - Salon.com

Former ACORN Employee: More Than Half Voter Registrations Invalid (http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/acorn_voters/2009/03/19/193797.html - broken link)

"More than half the voter registrations turned in by ACORN canvassers during the last election were not valid, according to testimony to be presented before a House Judiciary subcommittee."

Yeah ACORN is a great organization (if your a Dem) letting them handle the census will be transparent and honest.

As much as you LYAO, it should be gone by now.