Breitbart's BigGovernment attacks AARP, others, as part of "organizing tool for the American Left"
October 12, 2009 2:32 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From an October 10 post on BigGovernment.com:
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There was never a time when ACORN or AARP or any other Census Bureau partner was ever going to "be out collecting sensitive information on Americans."
That's a strawman argument. They were there, as partners, to help encourage full participation with the census.
2010 Census Partners are government, non-profit, corporate or community organizations that have formally pledged their commitment to share the 2010 Census message and mobilize their constituents in support of the Census Bureau's goal of achieving a complete count.
So what would stop them from "zapping off a copy of personal information"? Well, the fact that they won't have that info to COPY would be the main way to stop them from copying it!
I like how they single out 22 organizations out of the hundreds, if not thousands, of organization and businesses that are partnering with them.
Not to mention that have packets to help the "partners" spread the word.
That includes packets designed for "faith based" organizations.
So, another false strawman thrown out again. We really don't expect anything else, do we?
Here are more partners:
American Baptist Churches of the South
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A
Ancestry.com / The Generations Network
American Family Life Assurance Company (AFLAC)
Applied Materials, Inc.
Atmos Energy
Avon Products, Inc.
Blinded Veterans Association
Boat People SOS
Boys and Girls Club of America
Boy Scouts of America
Boise Cascade Holdings Corporation
Catholic Charities USA
Center for Business and Economic Research
Church Of God In Christ, Inc.
Coin Laundry Association
Carmax
Carmike Cinemas
Central City Productions, Inc.
Choctaw Manufacturing and Development Corporation
Coca-Cola Company
Consolidated Edison
Cox Enterprises, Inc.
CVS Corporation (CVS Caremark)
That's just a few selected from A-C. The right will be well represented in the census efforts. Can we trust them not to misuse the data?
But if you read the comments on the BigGovernment site, you'll see that this posting led people to think that these partners were going to be helping collect the data. They aren't.
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A
If they are Russian, they must be communist/socialis/fascist.
The problem was, during the McCarthy Era, the rabid right thought that all Eastern European Americans were closet commies, when, in fact, most of them are just the opposite!
I wonder what percentage of BigGovernment fans were skeptical enough to look into it? I'd guess most of them don't have the same sort of impuilses that critical thinking causes.
They're probably way too busy breathing their collective sighs of relief over ACORN being eliminated. Suckers.
What is this world coming to?