Quote Originally Posted by AirFlacco View Post
Misinformation?

Hey Galen, you just repeated what I said above about Clinton and the Fannies and Freddies.

No one mentioned Acorn which made bad loans to all those minorities.
Acorn didn't make loans. Acorn was a community advocacy group(s) that stood up for low-income families. This is why O'Keefe went after them and why O"Keefe is an activist hero to middle-class white conservative bigots.

I worked a lot along side of ACORN in New Orleans after Katrina when the insurance companies were royaly screwing black families that had lived in the same home sometimes for 7 generations. The lower 9th Ward was literally torn apart and its residents were bussed all over the country tearing apart what was once a very tight knit community. Outside of the federal agency that employed me to go down there and some compassionate National Guard, ACORN was the only group working down there to preserve this community while its residents were spread out all over the eastern half of the country.

According to WIKI:


ACORN members across the country, particularly in the Gulf region, have organized fund-raising and organizing drives to ensure that victims of Hurricane Katrina will receive assistance and will be able to return to affected areas. ACORN's home clean-out demonstration program has gutted and rebuilt over 1,850 homes with the help of volunteers. The ACORN Katrina Survivors Association formed in the aftermath of the storm is the first nationwide organization for Katrina survivors and has been working for equitable treatment for victims. Displaced citizens were bused into the city for the New Orleans primary and general elections. ACORN says its Housing Services have helped more than 2,000 homeowners affected by the storm and is an official planner working with the city on reconstruction.



As far as O'Keefe's antics:

Also from WIKI (since it is midnight but also accurate)

On December 7, 2009, the former Massachusetts Attorney General, after an independent internal investigation of ACORN, found the videos that had been released appeared to have been edited, "in some cases substantially". He found no evidence of criminal conduct by ACORN employees, but concluded that ACORN had poor management practices that contributed to unprofessional actions by a number of its low-level employees.[97][98][99][100] On March 1, 2010, the District Attorney's office for Brooklyn determined that the videos were "heavily edited"[101] and concluded that there was no criminal wrongdoing by the ACORN staff in the videos from the Brooklyn ACORN office.[102][103] On April, 1, 2010, an investigation by the California Attorney General found the videos from Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino to be "heavily edited,"[9] and the investigation did not find evidence of criminal conduct on the part of ACORN employees.[9][89] On June 14, 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its findings which showed that ACORN evidenced no sign that it, or any of its related organizations, mishandled any federal money they had received



Yet the conservative low information crowd love O'Keefe.