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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (73210)	10/6/2009 9:17:01 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224744

ACORN's Lewis suggests opponents are racist Tuesday, October 6, 2009 By Joseph Curl washingtontimes.com ACORN's Bertha Lewis charged Tuesday that accusations about the embattled community organizing group are racist, alleging that a coordinated political effort started by former Bush adviser Karl Rove sought to stop the group from registering minority voters. "For many years, there've been folks who've disagreed with our ideology or methodology that [have] gone after us," Mrs. Lewis, ACORN's chief executive officer, said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington. "I mean we, [going back] to 2004, we now see through e-mails from Karl Rove from the previous administration that ACORN itself was targeted, targeted to go after us so that we would stop doing voter registration because it was said that we were moving too many minorities to vote, changing the power dynamics on the local election and that we needed to be stopped." She also labeled as racist the infamous videos that show ACORN workers advising a man and young woman posing as pimp and prostitute how to circumvent the law. "These new filmmakers, [James] O'Keefe himself, told The Washington Post, 'They're registering too many minorities; they usually vote Democratic; somebody's got to stop them,'" Mrs. Lewis said.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (73210)	10/7/2009 2:53:39 PM
From: SGJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Let us know what you think. Is the sign offensive, or is it freedom of speech? Most all of the media has now caught on to the successful model of making everything a sports match. Someone or something against someone or something else, then posing the question as to who the masses think will win. Its omnipresent from American Idol to polls at Fox to AOL. Vote who you want to win. Pay attention and you will see this everywhere. Its useless, divisive and stupid imo, but it gets viewers, readers, listeners and eyeballs.