O'Reilly interviews Giles over caption highlighting her defense fund's website
October 14, 2009 8:57 pm ET
From the October 14 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:


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This is pretty offensive. How dare he publicize her defense fund?
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And your suggestion that being concerned about this is too distracting for you to be concerned about something more important isn't a good thing for you.
And your suggestion that we're not more concerned about other more important things is a strawman argument. See, we can be really concerned about the really important stuff and still point out these things too.
FoxNews promoting a defense fund is really offensive.
Facts are that ACORN was founded in 1970 and has since dedicated itself to better housing and wages for the poor, more community development investment from banks and governments and better public schools. ACORN pursues these goals through demonstration, negotiation, lobbying for legislation, and voter participation. And why did beck target them? They also champion liberal and labor oriented causes- so clearly no political motivation involved.
ACORN champions such noble causes as seeking out and removing predatory lending and foreclosure scams. After katrina, ACORN built 2000 homes and have directly found housing for at least 2000 homeowners who found themselves homeless in the aftermath. They provide assistance to the poor and fight for better wages for those who can't afford basic necessities. They have been a strong proponent of education by hiring more teachers and building more schools as well as promoting increased funding for education.
And because of two bad apples, you succeeded in getting government to pull all their federal funding. Im sure mommy and daddy are so proud of their little girl and Im sure sachs and bank of america and citi and merrill and morgan stanley dont have ANY bad apples at all so we have to make sure everyone who gets government money or any political influence uses it correctly except for CEO bonuses- that we just ignore. But this conglomerate of corruption, this octopus with tentacles shooting venom into every crevice of american society, this giant beast of twisted ideological terror must be taken down at all costs. i MEAN WE cant very well have organization with some political power, lobbying, government funding, infrastructure and influence be representing the poor or minorities. We must keep them powerless and allow the giant corporations run be millionaire CEOs who know how to handle such power to guide us.
Whats next up for beck in terms of nonprofit community service initiatives? A few ideas may involve something genuinely evil like habitat for humanity or Amnesty International. Clearly affordable housing and human rights groups should not be overly represente and pervasive in a country that likes to deny housing and abuse human rights on occasion whenever we feel like redefining international law and asserting American national sovereignty.
Maybe something even bigger like the World health organization - they really have everyone fooled with their whole eradicating disease around the world front when it is so transparent that the vaccines are really controlled by Hamas to eliminate the American and israeli threats. What about that sleazy Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or the pediatric AIDS foundation or the world wildlife fund. Of course, FOX viewers are all too aware that Bill Gates is a robot and AIDS is just another fabrication by the left like global warming and evolution and gravity. Everyone knows all these groups are just controlled by Obama and run by SEIU out of some basement in Mongolia as a bottomless pit of power and money.
Seriously though, I bet if someone brought a video tape into goldman sachs and taped them doctoring the books, media may not even notice it or care and certainly not FOX. Madoff was basically called out as a fraud long before his collapse and no one gave a hoot. FOX's double standards are incredible.
Because they are crooks.
"Madoff was basically called out as a fraud long before his collapse and no one gave a hoot. FOX's double standards are incredible"
So Fox was also responsible for the Madoff crimes? You are delusional.
Seriously?
The RNC remains under a court ordered consent decree to avoid voter supression. Yet they continue to this day to supress voters rights, through puring of voter rolls through "caging" and other methods.
32 people were convicted from the Reagan administration and if we had a less corrupt system many from the Dubya adm will be in jail.
Of course, Dubya and Rove purged the DoJ of disloyal attorneys
ACORN will be not able to maintain voter registration as it had in the past because of this loss of funding.
How will Democrats respond?
So, ACORN will not be affected one bit by this loss of funding as it pertains to their voter registration actions.
The democrats will not need to respond at all. Why do you guys have such heartburn with a group that promotes the poor as having a say in their world, and getting them to vote?
Other notable examples of this. Savage. Palin. Libby. And so on.