Rep. Steve King Falsely Claimed ACORN Helped Cause The Mortgage Crisis

[Joanne98]

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[Turbineguy]

1. He speaks the truth!

I saw a horse with two bodies, two heads, two tails and eight legs! And Acorn put it there!

[ck4829]

2. You know this is false, I know this is false, we all know this is false

But will that stop the conservative rank and file from believing this as fact and treating it like it's the newest talking point next week?

That's what really matters to guys like King.

[AlbertCat]

3. ACORNOPHOBIA!!!!

What the FUCK is this obsession with ACORN? It's completely neurotic and paranoid. I hope ACORN sues everyone involved. Right or milquetoast left. And it funds them for decades to come.

This is just... nuts. (pun intended!)

[Jack Rabbit]

4. I'm waiting for him to accuse ACORN of . . .

. . . sending Hinckley out to shoot President Reagan.

[Chakab]

5. This ACORN hysteria is absurd..

As Rachel Maddow pointed out, Blackwater and some of the other major defense contractors are accused of stealing several times the sum total of what ACORN has received in government funding over the years. They have also been involved in the actual murder of civilians in Iraq and real instances of child prostitution not just entrapped into talking about hypothetical situations on heavily edited video tapes, yet no one is willing to do a damn thing about the BILLIONS that they are still receiving from the government.


The so-called Liberals on sites like this and in Congress who turned on ACORN so quickly after such a blatant set-up by those two punk RW junior operatives SICKEN me. Will "Liberals" stand up for anything?

[sabrina 1]

7. I agree, the left is so worried about what names the Right might

call them they rush every time to let the rabid rightwing fringe know what good little boys and girls they are, not 'partisan' and definetely not 'liberal'. It's pathetic because if the left would just stand up and fight, these morons are so ridiculous and such obvious liars they could easily be put out to pasture.

But the real reason for the right's hysteria over ACORN is they dared to force banks, using the CRA (Community Re-investment Act, a law long hated by financial interests) to stop discriminating against minorities and the poor.

For decades now, ACORN proved wrong the theory that the working poor and minorities are a bad risk by helping get mortgages that were affordable and by insisting that minorities who work and pay their bills can and should be allowed to buy a house wherever they want to.

This shattered two of their hateful beliefs, one that the working poor and minorities are worthless garbage and never pay their bills, but prefer to live on welfare, and secondly, it prevented their deep-seated racism, which was acted out by refusing to sell homes to blacks and other minorities in 'white' neighborhoods.

Acorn fought them hard and won most of the time for decases now. Democrats are a disgrace for going along with this latest petty, racist vendetta against the poor. Because that's who they defunded.

[Wizard777]

10. Everyone already knows that was Bush Sr.

[hmorehead]

6. HAD to be ACORN, wasn't the deregulationd this ass voted for.

[shcrane71]

8. Can King be anymore of an embarrassment... sigh

[TxVietVet]

11. I'm glad the douche bag is still around.

It lets the rest of the world know just how goofy the KKKonservanazi republiKlans are. :puke:

[shcrane71]

14. The guy's inexplicably mean

He believes his greatest accomplishment is voting against aid to for Hurricane Katrina: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/22/king-katrina/

Kind people don't need to have a backwards, mean-spirited person "representing" them to know that backwards, mean-spritied people are cruel.

[democracy1st]

9. and the problem remains there's no democrats willing to call him out and defend the truth

I'm serious both of these partys suck

[TxVietVet]

12. Someone please go to WalMart and buy the Dems some balls.

[democracy1st]

13. welcome to DU always great to see a vet online

[daggahead]

15. Is it legal to lie on the Senate floor? n/t