Colbert:on ACORN (VIDEO)

Hilarious!

November the 5th the revolution begins one way or another.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, closed its office in Columbia,SC after a probe into its Richland County registration drive.Authorities say the activist group accused of voter registration fraud hasn't been a problem in South Carolina since it left the state two years ago amid the investigation here.

The Post and Courier of Charleston reported the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigation continues.

I just watched this. It shows McCain speaking to Acorn in 2006.

I think John McCain should come forward and tell everyone about his close association with ACORN. If he is associating with terrorist we need to know. They have indoctrinated over a million people with their register to vote propaganda. This could prove to be dangerous to the status quo.

wow that was brilliant :D

colbert is my hero. i so wish he was still running for president

I love Colbert. =]

Brilliant.

it's pretty clear the real problem as far as a true democracy in america is not these cartoon invalid registrations that would never have been counted as a vote.. but rather the voter suppression instigated by the GOP in both 2000 and 2004
http://stealbackyourvote.org/

Dropping that cartoon anvil selectively shows considerable right-thinking creativity.

But why be so wussy? Notwithstanding law, fundamental justice, ethics, and other words on damned pieces of paper, what's so wrong about on site witch-testing, trial by ordeal, mandatory fire-walking, and so forth?

Not ready to be challenged as evil incarnate?

Republicans are on to your left-leaning, neo-Hitlerian\socialist\geothermal Muslim\transit riding\ultra whatzit conspiracy thingies.

Every possible hindrance to vote Democratic should be allowed so that True Democracy [TM] can continue to do whatever it does whenever it pleases.

Sub-prime lending has been hitting for so long. Thanks to ACORN, the Community Reinvestment Act and its sister organization, the Self Help, Inc. What ACORN wants could hardly be called Self Help – government help at the expense of taxpayers Inc, would be more like it. However, the numerous times that the glaring contradiction in giving everyone a cash advance that wants one by the Federal Government doesn't do anything to slow Bertha Lewis, head of ACORN down. She is indefatigable in pursuing the establishment of a welfare state, and isn't interested in getting people to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, the way it used to be done. A day's pay for a day's work isn't what they have in mind, ACORN wants free lunches for everyone but those who have already earned theirs. http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/03/27/acorn-self-help-obama-4/

Hailey_M,

Hilarious. ACORN is public enemy number 1?

Acorn "and its connections in politics, big money and abuse of the taxpayer’s trust " somehow surpasses that of the GOP, Wall Street, the just self-terminated corporate oligarchy, and oh yes, no-bid contract war profiteers and trillions of debt for mergers and acquisitions and takeovers?

Acorn's "connections" significantly helped bring down the entire economy?

The article you reference states -- “It can be argued that no one entity has brought the American economy to its knees without a cash advance, but ACORN and organizations close to them like Self-Help, Inc (which includes Martin Eakes‘ Self-Help Credit Union and the Center For Responsible Lending) have contributed mightily.“

“Mightily?”

How nicely vague. Meaning - deliberately? Inadvertently? And the proof of this is what? Where?

What completely abusive nonsense.

With or without the likes of Acorn we live in a corporate Nanny State. We cannot bend over backwards far enough to please our narcissistic baby elite.

Are there taxes? They are wrong\wrong\wrong for corporations – they need more loopholes and offshore places to hide revenue!

Laws? They mustn't impact commerce! That not OK!

Regulations? Evil doers cause laws! It's um, UnAmerican. Look at what happened to that pillar of virtue, poor, hapless, innocent ENRON!

Compared to wicked Acorn ENRON was blameless. And so the wingnuts looked elsewhere while America was turned into a deregulated ENRONica – the Never Never Land of perpetual scams

Now, needing a scapegoat to pin the meltdown's blame upon who surfaces on the wingnut dart board but Acorn.

Not deregulated Citibank, or Bank of America, whose shareholders are fighting to be rid of the board and the CEO. The big player who did the dirt to investors, isn't Bernie Madoff with a mere 60-plus billion theft, or a string of other yet-to be indicted major felons. It's dinky little Acorn.

Yew betcha.

You might benefit from reading the actual financial press with a more discriminating eye.

All those free lunches you resent? They didn't go to Acorn, or any organization like it.

Thus far Hailey_M, you are the only person on this thread who didn't understand what Colbert was ridiculing or why.