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Beck claims his former ACORN guests are "in danger" for opposing further ACORN funding

May 08, 2009 6:26 pm ET

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Beck on ACORN "brownshirts" and "their henchmen" at SEIU: "[T]hey break kneecaps... Maybe they do, maybe they don't, I don't know"

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    • Author by big2xrube6146 (May 08, 2009 7:26 pm ET)
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      Same old Beck BS.
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      • Author by FehertyFan (May 09, 2009 1:51 am ET)
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        All that truth is just killing you. I understand how you can't handle the truth!
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        • Author by LuvLuLu (May 10, 2009 1:24 pm ET)
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          Actually, no. We posters here at MMfA object to lies and distortions because it's an unfair way to fight. We don't approve of any lies and distortions from either side. This site fights against the lies and distortions from those on the right, but that doesn't mean we only have a problem with deception from those on the right.

          We like the truth.

          It is you who is looking in the mirror, seeing your own soul, or lack of one, and trying to portray us as being similar to you. We aren't.
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        • Author by LuvLuLu (May 10, 2009 1:26 pm ET)
             
          And by the way, I really like David Feherty as a golf commentator. I like the insights he has, the short subject clips he's done, and his interactions with his golfing commentator colleagues.

          That doesn't change the fact that David Feherty said some unfunny stuff that impugned our servicemen and suggested they, and Feherty, are traitorous to the USA.
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    • Author by Michelle (May 08, 2009 7:55 pm ET)
         
      How this guy still has viewers amazes me. I thought more Americans were smarter than to listen to this idiotic drama king.
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    • Author by fairliberal (May 08, 2009 8:24 pm ET)
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      Wow, actual Acorn employees who finally acknowledge government money to Acorn, I guess all of those accusations were spot on after all.
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      • Author by friedbergboy1422 (May 08, 2009 9:05 pm ET)
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        I guess you believe everything Scott McCllelan claims too, right?
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      • Author by LuvLuLu (May 08, 2009 9:07 pm ET)
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        Actually that's another one of your lies. ACORN has not gotten any money recently from the federal govt. There is no ACORN getting money from the Stimulus bill. It has been the recent Stimulus bill that supposedly was giving money from Obama to ACORN. Did you forget? It was your guy, Bush, who controlled the previous spending bills.

        And the point of this was that Beck baselessly suggested that these former employees were in physical danger for speaking out. That's crazy talk. That's Beck.
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        • Author by fairliberal (May 08, 2009 9:40 pm ET)
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          Oh so now the story is changing, Acorn hasn't gotten any money recently. In the past all I heard from lefties was that Acorn never got any government money. And lets not forget the long list of new felony indictments against the group. And how do you know the suggestions by Beck are baseless, they have a history of harassing bank execs at their homes, who knows what they are capable of when their money supply is threatened.
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          • Author by tman418 (May 09, 2009 2:28 am ET)
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            Lefites had to respond to the lie that Obama and the new Congress were giving ACORN money in the stimulus bill.

            That is a far cry from flat-out claiming that they never got any federal government money whatsoever.
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            • Author by LuvLuLu (May 10, 2009 1:29 pm ET)
                 
              And add that to the fact that when they DID get any federal money before the stimulus bill funding, it came from Bush, not Obama.
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          • Author by solon (May 09, 2009 12:51 pm ET)
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            You just live in your own little world of delusion dont you? Cough up someone saying that ACORN NEVER got any federal money. The claims have been about the stimulus bill. Indictments arent convictions get back to me when they have been convicted of something NO they have NO such history you are brainwashed and delusional and Beck specializes in stupid and baseless accusations. You really ought to leave the cramped confines of Planet Wingnuts some day and visit us on OUR Planet, it is called Earth and has a nice climate. The reality might be a shock to your system though
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            • Author by fairliberal (May 09, 2009 5:43 pm ET)
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              Really? In June, hundreds of ACORN members piled out of their buses and onto the suburban Chicago lawn of Household board member John Nichols. Neighbors watched as ACORN members plastered the property with signs reading, "Foreclosed: Moral Bankruptcy." http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2003/64/gallKambampati.html
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              • Author by solon (May 09, 2009 6:47 pm ET)
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                OK. You didnt really think that made any relevant point did you? They protested at the guys house. That constitutes and attack HOW? Beck said they would be in physical danger and you, to support THAT contention, claimed they had a history of HARASSING bankers at their homes if protests constitute harassment then it is time to shut down EVERY anti abortion protest. At any rate claiming that putting signs on a guys lawn is evidence that someone is in physical danger is just inane
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                • Author by fairliberal (May 09, 2009 6:55 pm ET)
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                  You stated quite emphatically that they had NO history of doing so, I guess you were wrong. Who is brainwashed?
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                  • Author by solon (May 10, 2009 12:28 am ET)
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                    YOU are brainwashed. I was talking about the CONTEXT of your statment. BECK claimed these guys were in PHYSICAL danger. You claimed THEN that they had a history of harassing bankers and came up with ONE example of them protesting and putting signs on their lawn. What kind of HARASSMENT is that? Is it harassment when anti abortion protesters protest abortion clinics? I mean harassment is subjective and I was talking about it in the context of YOU claiming it was reasonable to think they were in PHYSICAL danger becuase of this HARASSMENT. No they have NO SUCH HISTORY of THAT kind of harassment. I guess you could claim heckling a comic is harassment but it wouldnt be an indicationi they might PHYSICALLY ATTACK him so NO they have NO SUCH HISTORY. One example of putting signs on the guys lawn isnt anywhere NEAR that.

                    So NO, I was not wrong and YOU are the one who is brainwashed.
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              • Author by creeksneakers2 (May 10, 2009 1:47 am ET)
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                I'm not sure what you mean to prove with that link but it proves another GOP falsehood about ACORN. Limbaugh and those guys say ACORN caused the economic collapse by pressuring bankers to make subprime loans. The fact is, ACORN has always OPPOSED subprime loans. You link is an example of them doing it.

                Looking at the shape our economy is in and the $trillions of tax dollars needed to prop up the banks, it would be hard to find anyone more deserving of a protest than the executives of companies that sponsored the subprime loans.
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          • Author by mjh (May 09, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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            Wow . . . all I can say is, it sure is a good thing John McCain didn't win, then: that would mean we'd have a felony co-conspirator in the Oval Office:


            [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sn8rHLP3qU8/SPX8QWNrPEI/AAAAAAAAAzE/0ZmsgX8Hkn8/s400/mccain+acorn.bmp]


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        • Author by egb (May 08, 2009 9:56 pm ET)
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          What he said was, based on the email he had already received (before the show even ended), they might be in physical danger.
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      • Author by solon (May 09, 2009 12:48 pm ET)
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        You really have reading comprehension problems. The CLAIMS have been that ACORN was getting stimulus package money and nothing here disputes that so NO I guess as usual the accusations were lies and as usual you are gullible enough to be led along by those who do your thinking for you.
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      • Author by fantagor (May 09, 2009 5:01 pm ET)
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        So government funding received in 1998 means ACORN is promised Stim money in 2009? Yes, and a deli I visited in 1998 owes me a pastrami on rye in 2009.

        FL, your logic must be wherever the elusive Iraq WMD are, lost in the Never Never Land of Bushian nonsense.

        Randy
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    • Author by dadre (May 09, 2009 2:33 am ET)
         
      I'm sorry fair Alan Colmes is in more danger if he keeps telling the truth than these people.....just because your crazy doesn't mean everyone is out to get you. O'reily will "rip you to pieces if you come onto his show and tell the truth. How dangerous can they be? You probably think they're all Liberals so in con logic they're not packing because they hate guns.You know what they'll do....they are going to register you under a name that's not yours.(which will get thrown out during the MANDATORY COLLECTION like all the so called fraudulent registrations the faux right is crying about) That will teach you to stop messing with their money.

      Wow I think this will be the next red scare for the right.....ACORN is gonna get you run in terror as they register people to vote and help the less fortunate....GODZILLA.....more people trying to scam a company out of their money.....tickle me Elmo and Big Bird will vote in the next election....and you can be safe from ACORN if you hide under your desks and tuck your head between your knees.

      As a viewer of this circus of hilarious incompetence I say Bravo! ACORN *Beck runs and hides* sorry I meant encore
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    • Author by ewl94232 (May 10, 2009 6:18 pm ET)
         
      Hmmm ... Many of you think you're qualified to comment on Beck's statements without apparently ever having watched or listened to them. Not surprising. After all, it's only the other guys who are wrong, not your guys.

      Beck didn't say "physical danger" he just said "danger". That could include a beating or a firebomb, their pets being killed their jobs being taken away by a boss whose received warnings from someone ACORN will say was not acting on their behalf.

      When the "ACORN is not scheduled to get any money from the TARP" argument was repeated to these dissenting and now former ACORN execs. they both spontaneously broke out in laughter. They then explained that this is the way ACORN works. ACORN the parent organization may not get any money, but ACORN is composed of more than one hundred organizations that may. One of the reasons they lost their jobs was that they were trying to get ACORN to be more accountable about such resources and were denied access to information. (This by the way means that half a dozen or more of MMFA's recent articles on this subject count, by their own standards, as lies because they failed to mention that this refuting information was out there.)

      Typically, MMFA has taken one possibly disputable sentence and used it to try to discredit the entire interview and its host.

      In the State of Washington the Democrat won the governors election in 2004 by about 30 votes after two recounts in which "mislaid" ballots were discovered in Democratic districts on 19 seperate occasions. The Republican conceded. Two years later, after the investigation was completed, we found that there were more than 1,000 votes by dead, non-existent, inelligible and doppleganger-plagued voters. Of course, these are blind ballots and no one can say which fake ballot was cast for which candidate. But this is a state where ACORN was active not only in registrations but in ballot monitoring. This is also a state in which several ACORN workers were prosecuted and confessed or were found guilty of registration fraud. The presence of great numbers of unaccounted for registrations opens the potential for unscrupulous people to get ahold of extra mail-out ballots which can then be filled out and cast to tip the balance in a close election.

      ACORN - If you don't accept that there is a problem you are not paying attention.
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