Lee Atwater works at CNN

CNN participates in Republican Bigotry. Willingly????

The ACORN crap is an old story, that goes all the way back to 2000.

CNN is broadcasting a report form one of their reporters full half truths and fraudulent facts about ACORN. Example, their reporter picks up a pile of bad registration forms bundled up and sent in by ACORN as bad, as per legal requirement, and infers that it is a typical group of submissions.

It is a simple example of the "Southern Strategy", the Atwater technique to yell N*#&@ without yelling N*#&@. That CNN has it's head so far up its ass that it falls for this is sad, so very sad. CNN you've been conned big time. So very sad. Are you vying for FOX viewers.

Here is the ACORN rebuttal to the Republican propaganda machine.

"For Immediate Release: October 7, 2008
ACORN Statement from Bertha Lewis, Interim Chief Organizer, on Incident in Las Vegas:
"Over the past year, ACORN has worked hard to help over 80,000 people in Clark County register to vote. As part of our nonpartisan voter registration program, we have review all the applications submitted by our canvassers. When we have identified suspicious applications, we have separated them out and flagged them for election officials. We have zero tolerance for fraudulent registrations. We immediately dismiss employees we suspect of submitting fraudulent registrations.
For the past 10 months, any time ACORN has identified a potentially fraudulent application, we turn that application into election officials separately and offer to provide election officials with the information they would need to pursue an investigation or prosecution of the individual.
Election officials routinely ignored this information and failed to act. In early July, ACORN asked to meet with election officials to express our concerns that they were not acting on information ACORN had presented to them. ACORN met with Clark County elections officials and a representative of the Secretary of State on July 17th. ACORN pleaded with them to take our concerns about fraudulent applications seriously. One week later, elections officials asked us to provide them with a second copy of what we had previously provided to them. ACORN responded by giving election officials copies of 46 "problem application packages," which involved 33 former canvassers.
On September 23, ACORN had received a subpoena dated September 19th requesting information on 15 employees, all of whom had been included in the packages we had previously submitted to election officials. ACORN provided our personnel records on these 15 employees on September 29.
Today's raid by the Secretary of State's Office is a stunt that serves no useful purpose other than discredit our work registering Nevadans and distracting us from the important work ahead of getting every eligible voter to the polls."
And in regard to Indiana, from an ACORN spokesperson earlier today...
The Republican Party is trying to use this attack to stop early voting from happening and disenfranchise tens of thousands of Lake County residents.
ACORN has submitted 1.3 million applications nationally and over 23,000 in Indiana.
ACORN engages in comprehensive quality control procedures, every card is called through three times.
ACORN flags and turns in three kinds of cards, those that it can verify, those that are incomplete, and those that it flags as problematic. It turns those in labeled in a special way and are very conservative in terms of what it flags as problematic. It has stacks of problematic cover sheets.
The Lake County Board of Elections refused to acknowledge the categories of cards when ACORN turned them in, or sign its paperwork. The Lake County Board knew about the questionable registrations today because ACORN flagged them for the board. For example, the Jimmy John's card is one that a caller had flagged and labeled as problematic. ACORN can get that caller to talk to the press.
ACORN did Voter Registration from in July and some parts of August. As it was doing quality control ACORN noticed a large number of problematic cards and because of this it eased doing registration until late September when it could clear its quality control backlog.
ACORN's recent cards from September and early October are not problematic at the same levels."

Listen carefully. Listen to the talking points. The same talking points come from every Republican spokesman. Look at their eyes. Hear that sound in the background? Nigger-Nigger-Nigger: Lee Atwater is alive and well and has conned CNN.

1.http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/08/opinion/edowd.php

2.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/09/MNB313DUTE.DTL