Given her own history of documented voter fraud felonies, you’d think Ann Coulter would want to stay away from the whole ACORN issue (particularly since there is no evidence that, unlike her, they’ve ever committed any).
But Coulter just can’t help herself, I guess, as evidenced by her column last week, dutifully reprinted by “Andrew Breitbart Presents…Big Journalism” in the wake of the Brooklyn D.A.’s finding of “no criminality” seen in the Brooklyn ACORN “pimp” hoax videos, and even Rupert Murdoch’s own New York Post reporting the videos as a “‘heavily edited’ splice job” with “seemingly crime-encouraging answers…taken out of context so as to appear more sinister.”
So what did Coulter do to shore up the wingnut hoax that is falling apart faster than Andrew Breitbart himself? She quoted some “seemingly crime-encouraging answers” from the video, “out of context so as to appear more sinister,” naturally. And, even more naturally, those folks who have been played and conned by “Andrew Breitbart Presents…Big Journalism” and “Andrew Breitbart Presents…Big Government,” etc., ate it all up…
Voter fraud felony queen Ann Coulter, who committed voter fraud and voter registration fraud in Florida in 2006 (as The BRAD BLOG has detailed and painstakingly documented in no uncertain terms) and perhaps a number of times in Connecticut as well, shared her expertise in the Rule of Law over Kings County, NY, District Attorney Charles Hynes this way:
Her evidence for those “state law crimes” which Hynes does not see, apparently, is taken from the highly-doctored, heavily-overdubbed videos tapes that James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles and Breitbart produced and published on Breitbart’s “Andrew Breitbart Presents…Big Government” site, alleging to show criminality by ACORN itself. That, even though a full six months after publishing the doctored versions, they still flatly refuse to release the unedited videos which, they argue, show the “criminality.”
Why would they want to withhold evidence showing criminality by ACORN? Particularly as they like to claim that it contains evidence that ACORN is involved in aiding and abetting some sort of child prostitution and/or sex slavery? Do O’Keefe, Giles, and Breitbart now support child prostitution and sex slavery or something? I shouldn’t think so, but then why would they release the tapes purporting to show it? But I digress…
Coulter joined the O’Keefe/Giles/Breitbart Lying Game in her column last week by quoting various, out of context comments from the doctored tapes, and representing them as something other than what they actually are, at least if we are to trust the unauthenticated text transcripts released by O’Keefe and Breitbart themselves.
Coulter describes the “most inspired idea” seen on the Brooklyn video from ACORN tax counselor Volda Albert this way (Albert actually worked for ACORN Housing, an entirely separate organization over which ACORN has no control, but let’s not let facts get in Coulter’s or O’Keefe’s or Breitbart’s’ way here):
Back when I was in Louisiana, we advised people to put their illegal money in the freezer, but that didn’t work out so well. And I guess putting your money in a mattress isn’t advisable if you live in a whorehouse.
Anyway, Albert was particularly detailed on the tin-can-in-the-backyard investment plan: “Keep thinking: ‘I have a yard. I have a house.’ You gotta start coming out with, like, plants and you start doing “” so it won’t be suspicious. You start buying plants for the backyard in pots and what have you, and you mark a spot.”
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If only shady lawyers advised clients to bury money in cans in their backyards, instead of putting it in tax shelters, we wouldn’t have all those attorneys clogging up prison cells!
What Coulter didn’t bother to explain to the chumps and gullibles who read her column and believe it represents something like the truth, is exactly what we detailed in a post here just a few days ago: Albert was advising Giles, who was playing the part of a “prostitute,” how to hide her money from the abusive pimp that she was trying to escape from, with the help of O’Keefe, who was playing the role of her law school boyfriend, not her pimp!
The unauthenticated O’Keefe/Breitbart text transcript [PDF] spells that out rather clearly, if one bothers to read it, as we demonstrated last week. Here’s the discussion, once again, directly from the transcripts, about burying money in a tin can to keep it away from the abusive pimp who had supposedly tried to kill Giles:
Hannah (Eden): which I have been
Volda (loan counselor): you have to start thinking faster than even the person who put you over there. Quick, quick, quick, you know that
Hannah (Eden): I mean I do think fast but this whole thing
Volda (loan counselor): when you buy, let me tell you something when you buy the house with a back yard. You get a tin if Jo [* see ed note below -BF] is going to come beat you and want money you get a tin and bury it down in there and you put the money right in and you put grass over it and you don’t tell a single soul but yourself where it is
Hannah (Eden): so a tin I put the money in a tin
Volda (loan counselor): in a tin and put it in there
Milagros (counselor) and put the grass
Volda (loan counselor): and put the grass over it
Hannah (Eden): I saw a movie one time where he put all the money underneath the dog house
Volda (loan counselor): you don’t put it under no dog house
Hannah (Eden): but I don’t have a dog
Volda (loan counselor): good so you put it where you can get it and he cant get it from you if he wants to come and rip up the place and all the like
Hannah (Eden): okay
The moment seen in the transcript above is the same moment that Giles herself lied about when she told Sean Hannity on Fox “News” on September 14th last year, the same day the tape was released, that “they’re telling me to bury funds in the back yard so that the government or my pimp can’t come steal the money.”
As we showed last week, there was no discussion about burying the money “so that the government” couldn’t “come steal the money.” That was a complete and bald-faced lie by Giles to Hannity on the same day that O’Keefe was busy misrepresenting himself as having appeared as his infamous 70’s-era “pimp” character on another Fox “News” show (see that video here).
The only discussion of a “pimp” in the Brooklyn transcript, was of Giles’ supposedly abusive pimp “Sonny” who she was trying to escape from with O’Keefe’s help. As O’Keefe describes in the unauthenticated text transcripts, Sonny “was very abusive” towards her and was the reason they “were in a rush” to get her away from him.
ACORN has been targeted, for years, by the GOP’s phony “voter fraud” smear campaign simply because the community organization had the temerity to help legally register millions of legal low- and middle-income voters who tend to lean Democratic as they legally exercise their right to vote. The Republicans have lied about the group having committed voter fraud over and over again. But the group hasn’t done so — ever. At least there is not one known shred of evidence to suggest as much.
Wish we could say the same for Coulter, who not only knowingly committed voter fraud, but then lied about it, repeatedly, to Florida authorities.
You’ll note Coulter mentions nothing about ACORN having committed any kind of “voter fraud” in her column, as most of the wingnuts do when discussing the group.
When Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes announced the end of his five-month probe into the tapes last week finding “no criminality,” a law enforcement source told the New York Daily News “they edited the tape to meet their agenda.”
Apparently, Coulter — like Giles and O’Keefe and Breitbart before her — has done the same. Though perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Coulter “edited the truth to meet her agenda.”
Sadly, the wingnut poodles are still uncritically lapping it up, and — most disturbingly of all — the New York Times is still doing so as well.
While I know you provided the links, I thought, Brad, it appropriate to highlight several points made in your March 30, 2006 piece:
In “February the Palm Beach Post reported that “conservative” extremist Ann Coulter may have committed a vote fraud felony by signing someone else’s address to her registration form in Florida and then voting in the wrong precinct.”
Coulter then “claimed publicly she didn’t even live in Palm Beach where she reportedly committed the crime.”
The “Palm Beach Property Appraisers Public Access system which shows an “Ann H Coulter” who purchased a $1.8 million dollar property on Seabreeze Ave. in Palm Beach in March of 2005.”
I guess it pays to be a deceptive mouthpiece for the billionaire funded hard-right.
She’s hurtin’ if that’s a recent picture of her.
Here is what I find hypocritical. All these right wingers are so offended that Acorn would “break the law” by advising people to hide their taxes from the government. They are so outraged over this supposed crime. After all, people should respect the government and pay their taxes!
Expect the right wing hates the IRS and the government. Just look at the tea baggers. Look at how much they praised that wackjob who flew a plane into the IRS building. That guy was treated like a hero by the right-wing for sticking it to the man and for attacking an organization they see as oppressive and illegitimate.
Yet they don’t seem to see that discrepancy.
Cue Patrick Frey to defend Coulter’s voter fraud
Hmmm… there is documented evidence of ACORN volunteers turning in registration forms with Disney character names. How far do we want to stretch the legal definition of fraud?
So Brook, what would you have ACORN do with those forms when volunteers turn them in? When ACORN receives questionable registrations my understanding is that they have actually flagged them as such when they sent them in. What other option do they have? Do you seriously think that no other voter registration effort produces similar issues? Are they just supposed to throw out the registrations that they think are non legitimate? Wouldn’t that be illegal?
Oh, no.
Close, Bob @ (#4). No Hornblowin’ Hoopy D.A. (yet)… but Brook’s back.
Yippee.
I’ll field this one…
Brook, only one rebuke to put your idiotic comment to bed: the (handful of) ACORN workers who wrote “Micky Mouse” et al on those registrations were turned in BY ACORN, as required by law, and fired. No laws were broken.
Thank you for playing. Try again never.
(Or, after you’ve caught up on your reading here re: the years and years of PHONY, BOGUS voter fraud FRAUD you’ve been lied to about by your pals at Fox, while the REAL voter fraud perpetrated by the nasty-tranny Ann Coulter isn’t anywhere on your radar.)
This kind of veers off topic…
McConnell blasts RNC fundraising document
An excerpt…
Ah! ~ Steve had already adressed Brook’s shameful willful ignorance while I was typing. Apologies for feeding Brook twice.
Sorry Brooky but as required by law ACORN has to turn in registrations even if they know them to be fake. It is up to the state to sort out the bad ones from the good. Now this is as opposed to a group in Las Vegas who was being investigated for throwing out legal voter registrations because they only wanted to register republicans.
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Glob....asp?S=2421595
God I hat that guy.
Brook @ 5 continued his/her clueless streak with:
No stretching required. Those registration forms were fraudulent and turned over, as required by law, to officials, with a notice that they appeared to be fraudulent, and a request that officials prosecute those employees who had defrauded ACORN by turning them in in the first place!
The thanks they get is clueless folks like you charging ACORN with fraud, when they were the ones to uncover it in the first place.
Contrast that, of course with Coulter’s very real voter fraud and voter registration fraud as described above, and the very real voter registration fraud by the head of the CA GOP’s own voter registration firm, Mark Anthony Jacoby of Young Political Majors. His fraud, on behalf of the entire company (unlike the case with ACORN, which had nothing to do with the fraud, other than uncovering it), likely denied thousands of legal voters from being able to cast their legal vote.
Here’s Jacoby’s guilty plea. Here’s me on Fox “News” reporting it all, amidst Fox ignoring it all even as they reported endlessly, at the very same time, on the bogus, unfounded charges of ACORN “voter fraud”.
You now have a clue. You’re welcome. Please take that back to your next Tea Bagger party.
How often are you going to lie about ACORN’s documented history of vote fraud? Two employees were JUST TODAY indicted in Wisconsin for vote fraud. But I guess there wasn’t any “known shred of evidence” to actually support that indictment, or any of the other charges, guilty pleas and convictions.
Stop the lies, Brad.
Brian:
Wow! Two whole people that worked at Acorn! What a huge scandal! They were accused of registering people multiple times to vote multiple times, but are not accused of actually voting multiple times. I think the Kentucky election fraud is much more relevant. They actually changed the results of elections, unlike the two Wisconsin Acorn workers who apparently were just trying to meet registration quotas imposed by Acorn.
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Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today.
Two of those charged, Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy, are workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community group.
“The complaint alleges that Miles and Clancy submitted multiple voter registration applications for the same individuals, and also were part of a scheme in which they and other (special registration deputies) registered each other to vote multiple times in order to meet voter registration quotas imposed by ACORN,” Van Hollen states in the release.
Also charged were a couple accused of double voting – once absentee and once at the polls – and a felon who cast a ballot even though he was still on probation for a felony offense.
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Read more at the Washington Examiner:
Washington Examiner
P.s. Vote fraud involves people actually voting fraudulently, not just registering people fraudulently. Who is the liar?
Brad Freidman gets caught lying yet again. Quelle surprise!
Ahhh…
the Trolls
They’re as dependable as belches after beer…
It’s heartwarming to know that those who despise ACORN and the poor in America are receiving your updates Brad. It improves the chances that they will, at least, maybe, learn a fact or two.
Well, the old standby Republican smear tactic of voter fraud allegations-immediately before elections- was part and parcel why nine DOJ attorneys were fired by the Bush administration.
The DOJ attorneys refused to go along with the ruse. It cost them their jobs-but it cost a host of folks like Alberto Gonzales,Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling their jobs,too…in addition to public hearings with lots of amnesia from Gonzales and pleading thye fifth from Goodling.
Here’s an excerpt from Wiki:
Dismissed attorneys and elections
The controversy surrounding the U.S. Attorneys dismissals was often linked to elections or voter-fraud issues. Allegations were that some of the U.S. Attorneys were dismissed for failing to instigate investigations damaging to Democratic politicians, or for failing to more aggressively pursue voter-fraud cases.[3] The background to the allegations is the recent tendency for elections in parts of the United States to be very close; an election outcome can be affected by a mere announced investigation of a politician. Indeed, it is explicit policy of the Department of Justice to avoid bringing voter-related cases during an election for this reason.[54] The pursuit of voter fraud cases was an acknowledged political strategy of the Republican Party by 2006.[55] The use of U.S. Attorneys for partisan purposes is highly improper, particularly given the strong non-partisan traditions of the U.S. Attorneys. In September 2008, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice concluded that some of the dismissals were motivated by the refusal of some of the U.S. Attorneys to prosecute voter fraud cases during the 2006 election cycle.[24]
You thinkan attitude of audacity that would go after DOJ lawyers, would show ACORN any mercy?
Funny how it is always noobs that call Brad a liar. If you hang around enough, you will realize he, in fact, is not lying, and has copious amounts of proof. Fact check and ye shall be blessed.
Chris Hooten @20
You’re kidding right ?
Tools/Trolls for Right wing propagandists don’t fact check…They’re just aimed and fired.
Re Brook @5 & Brian Garst @13.
Thought I’d give you “tea-baggers” a little tickler from the piece I will soon be posting:
According to yet another official report on the matter from the Congressional Research Service [PDF] released late last year, as commissioned by U.S. House Judiciary Committee, as of October 2009, there have been 46 reported federal, state, and local investigations concerning ACORN; 11 still pending. None have established a single instance in which an individual, improperly registered by ACORN or its employees, has then attempted “to vote at the polls.” The study reveals that ACORN themselves is often the initiator of official complaints against employees who defraud them, when they turn in fraudulent registrations.
Oh, and John @16 — If Patterico wants to play the “Brad is a liar” tune, tell him to come bring his own guitar rather than encourage his wing-nut followers to come over and hit his atonal notes for him.
By the way, Brook, did you ever stop to consider the fact that it is one thing for some fool to fill out a registration form for Mickey Mouse, quite another for that individual to get Mr. Mouse down to the polls to cast a vote.
Again veering off topic…(but related to the ACORN hit job)
Calling All Rebels
by Chris Hedges
An excerpt…
Actually, Blue Hawk, the Hedges piece is very much “on topic” — a point which will be reinforced when you read my next ACORN article — coming soon, I promise.
Brad, Almost amusing to go back and watch your appearance on Fox News. It’s obvious that when you made the distinction between “registration fraud” and “voter fraud” it sailed right over John Fund’s head. He didn’t have a clue what you were talking about.
Ernest @ 26:
Well…in truth, I think Fund knows the topic well enough to have known damned well what I was talking about. (He wrote a bullshit book on it, after all).
You may be confusing that look on his face that appeared to be not knowing what I was talking about with, in reality, his confusion upon being on Fox “News” and someone, anyone, was making the CORRECT distinction, and calling him out on it!
Hmmm. Well Brad, I supposed right-wing guests on the Fox “News” network are accustomed to one-way propaganda and dumbfounded when the network breaks with that format because Fund looked like a thunderstruck idiot when he appeared opposite you.
Speaking of propaganda,propaganda is exactly what Harvard’s Institute of Politics guest speakers will be discussing ,according to their 2010 announcement :
Harvard’s Spring 2010 Study Group is entitled
“Propaganda in Today’s American Politics”.
The roster of upcoming speakers they posted include:
March 11th – Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler, National Coordinators of Tea Party Patriots, the core of the Tea Party movement that is founded on a distrust of what many in government do and say.
April 1st – John Fund of The Wall Street Journal, one of America’s most prominent journalists and columnists. Also author of Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy.
April 8th – Andrew Breitbart, one of America’s most successful developers of new media. An editor of The Drudge Report and a primary developer for The Huffington Post, and publisher of multiple major websites that include Breitbart.com, BigHollywood.com, BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com.
John Fund introduces new falsehoods in 2008 version of Stealing …6 posts – 3 authors – Last post: Oct 1, 2008
Some background information on the scumbag known as John Fund: … calls Reid’s linking of unemployment to domestic abuse a “scare tactic” …
mediamatters.org/research/200809300024 – Cached – Similar
The Rightwing Witch Hunt Against ACORN”Ž – 1 day ago
… ACORN–attacks reminiscent of a New McCarthyism that threatened the group’s very existence–it’s clear now that this was a right-wing witch-hunt which, …
The Nation. »
Well, I got a really good idea of who qualifies as the “witch” in the hunt.
Hows about a pointy black hat for La Coultergeist?
T.R.O. @29 references Breitbart’s appearance at the Harvard as a developer of “new media.”
George Orwell referred to Breitbart’s brand of media as “Newsspeak.”
It’s amazing.
The “right wing media” actually edited footage of Ann Coulter to make it look like she wished death on John Edwards:
As seen here,
Coulter was quoted as saying she wished Edwards would
be “killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”
Thing is, however, that what she REALLY said was, “But about the same
time “” you know “” Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished
Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned
my lesson. If I’m going to say anything about John Edwards in the
future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist
assassination plot.”
(Watch: http://youtube.com/watch?v=VbSy5W6xm3k)
Gosh, bradblog readers, isn’t it strange that a “right wing” media would do such a thing within their own ranks???
Oh wait a minute.
I think this pretty much clears up the confusion:
64% of respondents in a poll by the The Institute for Politics, Democracy, and the Internet (based at George Washington University
in Washington D.C.) said the “media leans left”:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1262
Two-thirds of independents–who it’s safe to guess are probably
moderates–concurred that there is liberal media bias.
Even liberals see liberal bias at the NY Times:
http://www.timeswatch.org/artic...717144258.aspx
Here’s a great quote from a Newsweek propagandist, I mean journalist,
“Our job is to bash the president”
Newsweek’s Evan Thomas, on the role of the media.
And then there’s the Valerie Plame fiasco, which the Washington post admitted
resulted in the false persecution of the Bush administration throughout the media. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460.html
And probably my favorite, the BBC–you know, the one shown on PBS all the time with our tax dollars–just came right out and
said, “Yes, we’re biased”:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/page...news/news.html?
in_article_id=411846&in_page_id=1770
I really hope this helps readers with any confusion about the media.
Unless of course they think some bias is more equal than others 🙂
Wow Raven I didn’t know Ann Coulter’s main profession was that of a comedian. Maher is a comedian and made a joke for which he apologized for after. Ann is known for making outrageous statements. Was she taken out of context here?
LINDA VESTER (host): You say you’d rather not talk to liberals at all?
COULTER: I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days.
“My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.”
“I have to say I’m all for public flogging.”
“My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that’s because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.”
“In this recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about whether he [Clinton] ‘did it,’ even though all sentient people know he did. Otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate.”