NBC/MSNBC & YouTube teamed with progressive orgs with financial ties to ACORN in 2008


Well folks, looks like I could be “peeling off” a few more here. Not only do conservatives have to contend with Obama’s OFA (Organizing for America), progressive orgs like MoveOn, SEIU, et al in massive Get Out the Vote (GOTV) efforts but now I’ve discovered to my chagrin that NBC, MSNBC and YouTube are in the mix.

How did I get here? I’m not going to divulge all of my “Mrs. James Bond” tactics but it’s easier to just put it up on the screen in pictures.

I started out by wanting to delve further into the ultra-progressive cell phone company CREDO which has donated over $65 million to progressive causes but got side-tracked when I discovered what I’m about to show you. CREDO had its beginnings from Working Assets:

Working Assets is a for-profit business that markets services, including phone services and credit cards, to a liberal demographic, and provides a small percentage of its annual profit to non-profit liberal and activist organizations.

And if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you will see that Drummond Pike was the co-founder.

Working Assests and Credo fund ACORN and it’s voter registration arm Project Vote. As the screen shots from 2007 and 2008 illustrate. Click to enlarge.

Here is Working Assets web page. Since a lot of these web pages tend to go to “URL heaven” I’m going to give you a screen shot of their “Activism Center.” Highlighting is mine:

Redone CREDO Election Protection

Note the above highlighted paragraph:

To further strengthen our democracy in the run-up to the 2008 election, we helped 2.5 million Americans register to vote and organized our landmark Election Protection program [emphasis mine] of volunteers, who fanned out across the U.S. to monitor polls and guarantee free and fair elections.

What many on the Right may not realize is that Election Protection and Election Administration are code words used by the Left to stop legitimate solutions to problems within our electoral system. Groups like ACORN and Project Vote have routinely sued Secretaries of State across the country to stop voter ID bills and prevent states from removing dead and inactive voters from the rolls. The term Election Protection is thrown around on the left as a way to convey what they like to portray as targeted attacks on minorities.
So I googled Election Protection and came up with this. Header is below:

Election Protection header

We get a list of all their member organizations. ACLU, Alliance for Justice et al. The Alliance for Justice members are mostly legal orgs but also contains Planned Parenthood and others protecting women’s abortion rights. SEIU as no surprise is on the member list but I didn’t screen shot it.

Now on to another screen shot of members:

CREDO as election partner - Copy

We see NAACP, Deepak Bhargava’s Center for Community Change, Color of Change and CREDO mobile. However, if one scrolls down further we find these other “members.” And the mega-surprise for me here folks was, as you guessed it:

CREDO partners NBC - Copy

NBC News, MSNBC, and YouTube. Partners in a massive GOTV effort in 2008. Now if one scrolls way down to the bottom of the page you will see at the bottom left hand corner “follow us on twitter.” Their twitter handle is 866OURVOTE, AKA Election Protection. And if one spells that out in numbers, it is the contact phone number at the top of the Election Protection page. 866OURVOTE’s web page is Election Protection and here is a quote:

If you experience problems at the polls on Election Day(such as long lines, voter intimidation, suspicious behavior, machine malfunctions, registration errors, etc.) you can report it to us via text message or the web by using your Twitter account! (Don’t have one? Click here to sign-up.)

Now if you look at a tweet they put out on Nov. 5, 2008, one day after the election: (screen shot in case they pull the account…):

866Ourvote tweet - Copy

The URL leads you to this web page and I’ll give you a screen shot and a quote. Highlighting is mine:

Redone election protection

Washington, DC — Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan [emphasis mine] voter rights coalition, has fielded over 200,000 calls to its 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline, including over 80,000 calls on Election Day alone. Questions and concerns from voters across the country – from the hotline, website and social networking sites like Twitter – were answered and acted upon by a network of over 10,000 trained volunteers across the country.

Nonpartisan? With members like ACLU, CREDO Mobile, SEIU, Color of Change, Center for Community Change? Come on guys, give me a break. For some reason this writer highly doubts with all these ultra-liberal progressive organizations involved in this massive GOTV effort their campaign slogan was “Vote McCain/Palin.”

Even though we all know Maddow, Olbermann and Matthews are full of drivel, it is still disturbing to this writer to find the names of NBC, MSNBC and YouTube as members of this “GOTV Coalition.”

Allegations of media bias have swirled around since before Obama was elected. Media outlets have been accused of ignoring stories and refusing to properly vet Obama and now with NBC, MSNBC and YouTube partners with OTHER leftist organizations to “protect elections” it’s easy to determine what side they are working for. Yes, this may have helped place a Man in the Oval Office in November of 2008.

FYI anyone interested in using CREDO Mobile they use Sprint service.

Crossposted at Emerging Corruption

Crossposted at Conservative Outlooks


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If I were to say "Boycott YouTube"...

stephaniet Thursday, August 26th at 1:53PM EST (link)

…my sister would inform me that I’m “going too far.” *snort* I knew something was up with YouTube in ’08 when everything on there was about Teh Won…

“*They* say the best weapon is one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I *prefer* the weapon you only have to fire *once*. That’s how Dad did it; that’s how America does it… and it’s worked out pretty well so far.”

 

Lady, you've got twice the talent of Woodward & Bernstein...

LaborUnionReport (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 2:02PM EST (link)

…at getting to the corruption. You should be on staff at some investigative journal somewhere.

Great job!

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine December 23, 1776

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.-Ayn Rand

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Agree, LUR. Ladyimpactohio, outstanding work.

penguin2 (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 2:18PM EST (link)

I hope you’ll be the one that will pull a thread that will unravel all the way to the White House.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills

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Ditto, LIO

Vassar Bushmills (Diary) Sunday, August 29th at 9:57AM EST (link)

VB

 
 
 

Like I said on another post,

Steph C (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 2:06PM EST (link)

we’re going to be fighting in the shadows for a long time after Obama.

Perhaps, after 2012, we should reset the calendar for year one, A.O. (just kidding).

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Wow.

itrytobenice (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 2:34PM EST (link)

Good work!!!

You absolutely put to shame all those media sorts who fancy themselves investigative reporters. Very impressive.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.


Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

 

Sprint? Sprint Who?

havasu Thursday, August 26th at 2:53PM EST (link)

Fortunately, I have Verizon, so easy for me to say—BUT:
Perhaps we should as conservatives express our opinion with the
universal language of money.
Dump Sprint. Send them a note explaining why.
Pick up another provider. Send Sprint a copy of your new contract.
They may have no soul, but they can most certainly count.

Which is best?

eschultz Friday, August 27th at 2:21PM EST (link)

Is Sprint really that much worse than Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.?

I’m asking, not arguing…

eschultz. Believe Verizon has the best coverage..

ladyimpactohio (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 4:37PM EST (link)

and they are non-union. Ironically CREDO (Sprint) was holding a rally in believe it was PA or NY against some miners or drilling companies complaining THEY were non-union. However, CREDO is also non-union. H/t to Labor Union Report. But can’t find the article now.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

 
 
 

Awesome Lady I !!

fpete13527 (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 4:08PM EST (link)

This time, their spin responses will truly just spin them farther into the ground…..even when Soros bails them out and props them up again.

Great work!!!

 

If WE only have a REAL media whose job it was to keep the government in check....

JadedByPolitics (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 5:01PM EST (link)

this Country might actually run a little better! oh well, there is NO SUCH thing.

GREAT JOB!

 

Excellent---now let's expose NBC in public

gwalt Thursday, August 26th at 5:31PM EST (link)

We need to start questioning the media out in the public eye. Start calling them liars in news ads, paper and TV, and billboards or even e-mail campaigns with their pictures and Liars or Biased on them and circulate.
We need to call them out in public with their faces on billboards on highways. Look at the Miss Me Yet? billboards—-huge success—-one billboard in Minnesota. Come on RS—let’s play some offense!
We’ll contribute!!

“A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered”. –Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries (January 27, 1982)

Email NBC and MSNBC (dying in ratings)

renny (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 10:05AM EST (link)

and tell them you will never watch their drivel again and why. Tell them a dozen times.

 
 

Ok.

Veronica (Diary) Thursday, August 26th at 5:35PM EST (link)

What are our Republicans doing about this??

When we go about our RedState Mission, we would do well to remember to ask these guys what are they doing to preserve the integrity of the voting process??

Congressman, what are you doing about Election Protection Intitiative?

Haven’t seen it?

What about the Our Vote Live website? Seen that?

No?

Have you seen Project Vote?

What about RedState? Are you keyed into that?

Do you even have INTERNET ACCESS?!

Do you know what the internet is?

/end rant

Dumb questions, right? But they act so clueless!

Fantastic work, Pretty Lady.

Go, go, go!!

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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Veronica, I've given the same rant to my Congressman..

ladyimpactohio (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 9:52AM EST (link)

and other Rs calling the house asking for money. I’ve sent mail solicitations back with the URL of my posts on OFA written on them in black marker.

They do have a new site:
http://volunteer.gop.com/

It starts out well with Pence yapping about the site, however I’ve tested it and it has a lot of bugs. Plus roaming around leads you to some of their “circus-type” inane, IMO very unprofessional stuff. If they keep up with it, it will take several years to make an impact.

GOP isn’t doing a massive GOTV effort this election. However, OFA is. And I was told by one twitter friend who ran for rep in WY he lost because OFA was out there heavily and there wasn’t an R in site.

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

I remember

Veronica (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 4:02PM EST (link)

All the socialmedia’s involved in some capacity — Facebook, omg– Craigslist (love craigslist, it’s huge here in Austin).

Blast and condemn, but use the hell out of them.

Lady, think of Vloggin’?

:)

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Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine

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To be fair . . .

wormyguy Friday, August 27th at 12:50AM EST (link)

Just a benefit of the doubt/devil’s advocate thing, but couldn’t it just be a link to their YouTube channel?

Wormguy I'm not sure if you actually opened the link to the "partner page" ..

ladyimpactohio (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 10:00AM EST (link)

When I opened the YouTube link now it took me to a woman from “Voto Latino” talking about their GOTV effort. And Voto Latino is also on the “partner list.” To me, being a “partner” means you help, aid and abet and/or support the coalition you are a “partner of.” In this case the leftist “Election Protection.”

A couple of weeks ago I didn’t cut any slack when I discovered Gun Owners of America was a charter member of McChesney’s Marxist think tank Free Press/SavetheInternet. And as I said to GOA “when you hitch your cart to a Marxist, what does that make YOU?”

And I’m not going to cut any slack with NBC, MSNBC or YouTube on this one either. When you hitch your cart to all these ultra progressive leftist organizations, what does that make YOU?

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

 
 

Egg on the face of those liberals moaning about News Corp's donation to Republican Governors Association

americanmale Friday, August 27th at 1:34AM EST (link)

Wow, this puts egg on the face of all those liberal yap centers

Huffington Post
Politico

And all the rest…

 

Next step... the hour before Beck on Fox News!

lennyvasbinder Friday, August 27th at 5:38AM EST (link)

It will be a one-two punch of exposing the left!

Lenny Vasbinder
http://LennyVasbinder.blogspot.com

 

Excellent work!

pbp68 Friday, August 27th at 7:45AM EST (link)

This touches on a nerve on something I wish our side would take more seriously…voting with our wallets.

I’ve been meaning to put together a list of good guys and bad guys in the corporate world, and I guess we can add those documented above to the “bad guys.”

 

Carry a big stick!

oldmarine Friday, August 27th at 9:58AM EST (link)

You tube and MSNBC,huffpo and all the socialist are part of the Democratic party of idiots that hate America.We need politicians to get in the face of these democRATs and talk straight,how they ruined health care and bankrupt the country.More money was spent on the stimulus- job buster than was spent on the Iraq war.Republicans needs to remind the socialist of this fact every time they open their pie hole!

 

No real surprises, but well done !

johnt Friday, August 27th at 10:42AM EST (link)

Though if I may, can we cease calling these creatures “progressives”?
There are other & more appropriate names & why make the mistake of using their self congratulatory designation.
One, ironically, that is well over 100 years old.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

Johnt..any "suggestions" for new names other than "progressives"?

ladyimpactohio (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 11:37AM EST (link)

If I used the ones that come to mind Erick would ban me. :D

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

I am rather partial to Von Mises, "the destructionists"

johnt Friday, August 27th at 1:38PM EST (link)

I think that caught the spirit rather nicely. And it’s almost as old as “progressive”, but now, far more accurate.
That and leftist or statist, but prefaced by all the hysterical prefaces these nuts have attributed to normal people,e.g., extreme, extremist, radical, fringe, lunatic, crazed, that sort of thing. Far more applicable to them & we would still be polite in comparison.
It’s also time to send “liberal” to the boneyard.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

Cannibals [nt]

qixlqatl (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 5:32PM EST (link)

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”

George Gordon Noel Byron

If we could use "cannibals" that means they eat their own.. hopeful, yes...-nt-

ladyimpactohio (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 7:15PM EST (link)

We the people tell government what to do, it does not tell us.–Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech

They sometimes do, LIO,

qixlqatl (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 8:39PM EST (link)

if sufficient weakness is shown, but they **do** prefer to eat anyone and everyone else first………..

“Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.”

George Gordon Noel Byron

 
 
 
 
 

How about...

sccrenny (Diary) Friday, August 27th at 12:44PM EST (link)

nonconstitutionalists? neomaoists? Stalinistas? NWO is them? United Nationalists? Sustainabillies? Obamafiles?

I’ll keep thinking on this one…

When I look at Barack Obama I don’t see black. I don’t see white. I do, however see RED! It’s the same color I see when I look at Pelosi, Reid, ACORN, SEIU…

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