Comments on: Brian on MSNBC Talking ACORN

By: Leopard1996

Leopard1996 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:37:18 +0000

Also for the Pic of the Punchout strawman round , the next round shoud show Mr. Reality knocking Obama out in one punch.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:15:15 +0000

I’ve built up a small photo album for “reruns” ever since I joined RedState a little less than a year ago.

Thanks

By: jupitersuite

jupitersuite — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:37:09 +0000

Going Nuts

ACORN: Alien Children Offered Regularly Nationwide
ACORN: Authorities Caught One Registering “Napoleon”
ACORN: Assembly of the Complacent: Organized, Registered & Non-productive!
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties
ACORN: Assorted Crazies, Oddballs, Reprobates, and Nincompoops
ACORN: “Audacity” and “Change” that Obama Represents Nationally
ACORN: A Crooked, Offensive, Repulsive Nut
ACORN: Agitators, Cheats, Offenders, and Repugnant Nonentities
ACORN: Association of Crooks O’Keefe Revealed in a Nanosecond
ACORN: Advising Criminals, Organizing Radical Nutjobs
ACORN: Assisting Call-girls, Obama, Reid & Nancy
ACORN: Advancing Collectivism, Obamamania, Reparations Now!
ACORN: After Clinton, Obama Retards a Nation
ACORN: Alike Carter, Obama is Regretful and Negative
ACORN: America, Could Obama Resign Now??
ACORN: Against Conservatives, Order, Republicans, and the Nation
ACORN: American Cash Outflows to Rathke’s “Nonprofits”
ACORN: Apparently “Community Organizing” Really is Nefarious
ACORN: Awarding Capital to Objectionable Rent-seeking Noncontributors
ACORN: Apathetic, Crybaby, Odiferous, Rejected Nothings
ACORN: Andrew Clearly Outplayed the Resentful NYT
ACORN: Anyone Can Observe that this is Rank Nonsense
ACORN: Ascent by Creepy Operation / Resented in the Nation
ACORN: Almost as Commendable as an Outflow of Rectal Necrosis
ACORN: Associated Congressmen Ought to be Replaced in November 2010
ACORN: Always Cheating, Often Ruining Neighborhoods
ACORN: Addled Crack-heads and Obnoxious Race-baiting Neurotics
ACORN: Appalling Cesspool; Obscene Revolting Nightmare
ACORN: A Clan of Odious, Ridiculed Nitwits
ACORN: Another Corrupt Obama Run Network

Others? Please suggest!

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:26:39 +0000

Ratigan was pretty good on the CNBC show for traders but his true colors are coming out on PMSBC.

I debate whether conservatives should even give these radical idiots on PMSBC any legitimacy by showing up or whether we take every opportunity to scalp a few converts. The problem is conservatives on those shows do not get a fair shake.

By: Brian Faughnan

Brian Faughnan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:43:17 +0000

Not surprisingly, I was not aware before my appearance that the Obama White House apparently decided not to prosecute Halliburton. I mentioned it over here:

http://theconservatives.com/2009/09/30/theconservativescom-on-msnbc.html

Accountability is a cruel mistress.

By: Leopard1996

Leopard1996 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:50:31 +0000

Where do you find the time to do these pics. these are awesome.

By: AceInTX

AceInTX — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:42:42 +0000

and it’s easy to armchair quarterback…but they kept interrupting Brain and binging up Hiliburtan and the bank and insurance companies…and I’d have liked to have seen Brian respond by asking if they could point to any instances where Hiliburtan or any of the institutions they presented had actual convictions for wrong doing…and could they point to any instance where he or Red State condoned turning a blind eye to any of their corruption…

By: Andy W.

Andy W. — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:38:03 +0000

You want to know the best way to remove corruption in government when it concerns our tax dollars?

Give them less tax dollars.

Duh.

The amounts of money being talked about are mind boggling to anyone that doesn’t see $150k a year.

If it wasn’t there to be handed around, it wouldn’t be handed around.

By: bcmoney82

bcmoney82 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:19:10 +0000

It’s the tired old argument of justifying bad behavior with bad behavior. The reason the left has to point out Halliburton, etc, is because the ACORN problems are an attack on one of their mascots. Sowell gives a great explanation of mascots and targets in Vision of the Anointed.
Not to say that the right is not guilty of this as well. The test of whether you are a corrupt ideologue or not is whether you take your medicine and fess up to the problems, or try to mask them by deflecting attention.

By: blooch

blooch — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:34:32 +0000

Ratigan: Everybody else is just green, have you seen the news?
It’s a helluva start, we could sting Halliburton
if we all pull together as a team.
And did we tell you the name of the game, Brian,
we call it Riding the Gravy Train.

Well I’ve always had a deep respect, and I mean that most sincerely.
The the sting was just fantastic, that is really what I think.
Oh by the way, can you bring Hannah?
I’ve got this pimp costume from last Halloween….

Huffington: Dylan, fronkly that is so sayxist. I could do the hooker part jost as gut as…

Ratigan: Frankly, Arianna, nobody likes an old whore. Brian, call me. Let’s do this.

By: Kenny Solomon

Kenny Solomon — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:02:21 +0000

Yep, they done did it and Senator Vitter went off…..

I can either go with my usual snark, or get incredibly and dangerously inciting, or both.

I’ll choose neither.

Like a certain detective once said, “Just the facts, ma’am.”

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/29/fema-grant-to-acorn-is-offensive

Earlier this month and despite the public scrutiny over the voter fraud and felony criminal activity associated with ACORN, the Department of Homeland Security went ahead and granted $997,402 to ACORN under the FY 2008 Fire Prevention and Safety Program.

To most people, the timing and the amount of the grant would seem off base, but when you take into account the fact that DHS awarded ACORN – an organization with no clear expertise in fire safety and prevention – a fire prevention and safety grant, it’s just plain offensive.

————–

I have two questions and that question is for senator Vitter:

Sir, you are in a position of actual power and influence. Why in God’s name haven’t you been shouting this from the rooftops, or better yet, already brought charges against every single person in FEMA/DHS connected with this ‘transaction’ ?

Also, we’re in latter part of 2009 and monies from 2008 are still being disbursed ?

By: Steph C

Steph C — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:48:04 +0000

First they equated ACORN with Haliburton, a corporation that engaged in criminal activity and political shenanigans. The simple answer to that is vote out the bastages that supported Haliburton and the others named.

ACORN, on the other hand engages in criminal activity and interferes with the voting process that allows us to vote out the bastages. Supporting ACORN is like supporting the death of free and fair elections.

Yet, it’s all the same to people of Huffington’s ilk and then they rationalize it in the same way. Haliburton did this so… Bush did it so why can’t Obama? Same, same?

By: Brian Faughnan

Brian Faughnan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:32:53 +0000

Check out my response to Nessa above.

To my mind, Arianna and Ratigan would have been only too happy for me to use my one minute (or less) of talking time to get into a fight over Halliburton, et al. I had a choice of shouting over them, or not arguing their points and trying to focus back on ACORN. I judged that if I challenged them, then MSNBC’s viewers wouldn’t hear a thing about ACORN.

YMMV

By: Brian Faughnan

Brian Faughnan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:09:42 +0000

This was exactly the problem. For better or worse, most of what Ratigan and Arianna were talking about is legal. You can oppose TARP, and the subsidies to corporations, unions, and others, but in Washington today they are both legal and unsurprising.

But with just a minute or so to speak, you face the choice of peeling the skin off that onion, or trying to focus on ACORN.

I chose the latter.

By: Brian Faughnan

Brian Faughnan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:06:16 +0000

I wish I had thought to bring that up. Next time.

By: nessa

nessa — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:12:45 +0000

By: redpens

redpens — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:44:06 +0000

on MSDNC can’t take it when a far-left criminal organization like ACORN is being exposed for what it is. So then he starts w/the Halliburton thing. If Halliburton committed a crime, OK. But ACORN is well known for their crimes. Halliburton hasn’t been put on trial.

By: MacAoidh

MacAoidh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:43:29 +0000

…if a conservative activist wishes to call attention to the abuses of ACORN, it makes those abuses no less scandalous if in fact some other entity is also guilty of crimes or misuse of public funds.

The MSNBC host’s attempt to change or broaden the subject is nothing more than moral equivalence and obfuscation. One wishes Brian would have drawn the line and declared his only interest in making that appearance was to discuss ACORN’s abuses and that he would refuse to participate in other accusations because they were not of interest to him at this time. He would have been well within his rights to take such a position.

By: MacAoidh

MacAoidh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:47:50 +0000

…it’s not that the politicians are corrupt. Of course they are. The real issue is that government is far too pervasive in our lives, has far too much power, impinges far too much on individual liberty and interferes far too much in our economic life. In any situation such as that you will have corruption.

By: 6eorge Jetson

6eorge Jetson — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:34:32 +0000

Because that’s…