READER COMMENTS ON
"Newt Gingrich Committed Massive Voter Fraud! (According to GOP/Fox 'News' ACORN Standards)"
(14 Responses so far...)
COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 12/28/2011 @ 6:39 pm PT...
FTA:
Of course, there is no evidence that any vote has ever been fraudulently cast in any election in any state at any time via an improper registration by an ACORN worker.
Yes, and the gutless Dems, knowing there was no evidence, caved to the right-wing noise machine, by voting to defund ACORN.
With ACORN out of the way, the GOP, in FL, targeted all non-partisan registration organizations, including the League of Women Voters, and the GOP in state-after-state launched their broad-scale legislative efforts to suppress the vote by polling place photo ID, registration restrictions and reductions on early voting.
"When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
"When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
"When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
"When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
"When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out."
- Martin_Niemöller
COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
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Joyce McCloy
said on 12/28/2011 @ 7:56 pm PT...
Note to Gingrich:
Learn the 4 P's
Proper Planning Prevents Problems.
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Mark E. Smith
said on 12/28/2011 @ 8:28 pm PT...
Good one, Brad. A shame that there's a double standard and poor people are treated differently from the oligarchs of the 1%. But then again, if oligarchs were treated like ordinary people, they wouldn't be oligarchs.
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kenneth
said on 12/28/2011 @ 8:59 pm PT...
What? You can't do a quick Google search to fact check your accusation that no ACORN person has ever fraudulently voted?
Matthew Vadum reports in "Subversion Inc.," at least 54 ACORN employees and individuals associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud... and those were just the ones caught and prosecuted.
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Ralph
said on 12/28/2011 @ 9:02 pm PT...
Yeah, nice one Brad. In reference to your last paragraph---I won't hold my breath.
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
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Ralph
said on 12/28/2011 @ 9:14 pm PT...
Kenneth, read the article again. Brad says there were no 'voter fraud' convictions. The convictions were for voter 'registration' fraud. The article just demands equal 'justice' for Gingrich. Judged by the same standards
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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Brad Friedman
said on 12/28/2011 @ 9:47 pm PT...
Kenneth @ 4:
Matthew Vadum is a notoriously skilled and deceptive liar who has played you for a sucker. Here's just one example of the way he lies about ACORN.
Don't feel bad. You're not the first one to fall for Vadum's scam. The voter registration fraud committed by a handful of ACORN's tens of thousands of workers was exactly the same as that committed by Gingrich's campaign worker (or workers), except that ACORN detected the fraud and turned it into authorities, whereas Gingrich did not.
ACORN itself was never charged with nor found guilty of voter fraud. And, as I noted in the article, there has never been a single fraudulent vote cast in any election via a fraudulent registration by an ACORN worker. Vadum knows that very well, which is why he needs to lie about the entire thing.
Feel free to demonstrate otherwise. (Though be careful when citing the charlatan Vadum as your "evidence". He lies about all of this and gets paid well to do so. Check his facts. When you look at what he calls "voter fraud", you'll discover his hoax very quickly and realize that he's played you for a chump.)
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Karen
said on 12/28/2011 @ 9:49 pm PT...
Thanks Brad, this same act, someone you hired filed false registration signatures is exactly what Fox news went its about...obviously Newt didn't want this anymore than acorn wanted bad hires either, but some signature canvassers will cheat, no one is suggesting this is a major stain on gringich, nor should it have been on Acorn. Gringich had it happen for one small signature gathering, in one election, Acorn worked years before many elections nationwide so of course out of thousands of hires over many years they would have more incidences of people committing signature fraud.
@ Ernest - that was what I said when NPR failed to accurately report on Acorn videos, then they got Breibarted
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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Ska-T
said on 12/29/2011 @ 9:49 am PT...
Mr Friedman,
We are immune to your vicious attacks of logic and pitiful pleas for fairness.
Sincerely,
Faux News
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/29/2011 @ 2:44 pm PT...
I wouldn't forget the nytimes's part in all the misdirection and deflection of election fraud for voting fraud, which has now led to voter suppression! On an issue as important as clean elections is, nytimes doesn't really do its homework or admit when it's completely wrong for several months on a back page.
COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
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Dan-In-PA
said on 12/29/2011 @ 2:45 pm PT...
@Kenneth,
That should read 54 ACORN contractors who were, subsequently, ratted to the authorities by ACORN themselves.
Damn the facts, full scream ahead....
COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 12/30/2011 @ 9:16 am PT...
GOP seeking emergency legislation to change VA ballot qualification requirements and Perry filed a federal lawsuit challenging VA ballot qualification statute.
COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
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Ernest A. Canning
said on 12/30/2011 @ 9:30 am PT...
COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
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Dan Mortenson
said on 1/13/2012 @ 2:15 pm PT...
Well, Golly Gee Gosh! It looks like (finally!) we are getting to where we can interactively LOOK at WHO is telling us WHAT, and can then judge their current "information" on the basis of how their other "information" proved out...
...who woulda thought we'd start using such an old tool as, um ACCOUNTABILITY again...