Limbaugh: "Fraudsters" at ACORN, SEIU, New Black Panthers going to try to affect elections on Tuesday
November 02, 2009 2:15 pm ET
From the November 2 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
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ACORN has been operating for decades all over the country. In all that time, in all of those places, not one single fraudulent vote has ever been shown to have been cast as a result of ACORN's activities. Not one. Ever.
Here is a simple fact. ACORN derived no benefit at all from those fraudulent registrations. They lost money and drew criticism for being a victim, even though they handled the situations as straight-forward and above-board as they could.
Please tell us how ACORN benefited from those registrations. They didn't. You have no evidence that ACORN has ever tried to produce a single fraudulent vote.
"Though it had basically won the case, the [Civil Rights Division] took the unusual move of voluntarily dismissing the charges , " the letter said. "The division's public rationale would send the wrong message entirely — that attempts at voter suppression will be tolerated and will not be vigorously prosecuted so long as the groups or individuals who engage in them fail to respond to the charges leveled against them."
Who was the "black civil rights leader" you're referring to?
The video doesn't show either man actually "physically threatening" or "verbally harassing" anyone. I will agree that their approach was inappropriate and shouldn't be allowed, but it fell far short of criminal which is why they weren't prosecuted. The man with the nightstick left quickly and peacefully when told to. He had an injunction issued against him that will prevent him from doing anything similar again. The other man was a credentialed member of the local Democratic Committee and engaged in no actions that could be rationally called intimidating.
If there was an actual intention to intimidate, that precinct would have been an incredibly stupid place to do it. Obama received about 600 votes to McCain's 13. Before you decide that the reason for that was intimidation, WPE Bush received 8 and 24 votes in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Intimidation at that precinct would have zero electoral effect.
You are wrong. The USCCR was playing politics and is in no position to judge the quality of the legal case against the two men. The Justice Department acted on the evidence, not the politics.
Sure sounds like intimidation to me. Again, this account comes from a black man. But I guess he's just a tool of the Republican party, right?
There has to be evidence of intimidation. That's what was lacking. The Justice Department didn't have evidence of individuals who were prevented or discouraged from voting by those men. The judgments issued against them were the result of them not responding to the lawsuit against them. It was a simple pro forma action by the court had zero relevance to any kind of evidence.
I agree that the guy with the nightstick shouldn't have been there, even for the few minutes he was, but my point stands. There was nothing on which a criminal conviction could have been produced. Your wishing it was otherwise will never make it so.
Question: When you allow a man to get away with lies and deception what do you think he is going to do in the future? Answer: Come up with greater [b]lies. He is certainly not going to change his lying ways. Only a white man can get away with openly lying nationally. Anyone else would be challenged and ridiculed and exposed as a liar (not Beck, Rush, Hannity and the likes).
Now this out of control monster (Rush) will say anything, and that's exactly what is going on here. Rush is not responsible or held accountable for the stupidity and hate he espouses; and he is angry everyday Obama, a black man, sits in the Oval Office. Is it any secret why Rush is angry?
Republicans are loving this guy because he is saying all the things they want to say, but are afraid too. Rush Limbaugh represent the Real Republican Party. You notice none of them denounced Rush, even though he is hurting the Party. What does that tell you? It tells me Rush does speak for the Republican Party, and the Party is so blinded by hate for Obama they can't even acknowledge the fact that Rush IS hurting them.