News Flash: Pink Slips to the White House have now surged past 2 million.
Also not reported.

A couple of clarifications:
- The story the NYT spiked on ACORN was in October 2008, right before the election. It was a discussion of the link between the Obama campaign and ACORN’s voter fraud. The story that they had spiked the story didn’t come out until March, and that was broken by Michelle Malkin I believe, which I linked.
- I mention millions of Bank of America bonuses – it’s billions of course, including 3.6B promised to Merrill Lynch that wasn’t disclosed to shareholders during the merger.
- ACORN has been around longer than fifteen years. I used that specific time frame because that’s about how long Obama has worked with ACORN.
- I forgot to include a link to the Mercantile Bank CRA action by ACORN. It’s educational, and ACORN says it was the first time that a community group like theirs had a big impact on a bank.

http://www.occ.treas.gov/interp/jul97/cd97-51.pdf

So no corrections, just a couple of missed opportunities in the article. I’m glad I wrote it – I was surprised myself to find out they were a subprime lender. I knew liberals usually preyed on the people they claimed to help, but didn’t think it was quite that blatant.

Looking forward to watching the rest of the Megyn Kelly Truth About Acorn special on Fox – saw the first 20 minutes but had to DVR the rest for tomorrow. And the Juan-Rove faceoff just ahead of that was outstanding.

Heh. Heheh. No, it’s not.

At least out of your entire, nonsensical, blithering screed you managed to write one sentence that is actually true.

You can return to your slack-jawed incomprehension now, BC, since the facts are opaque to you: without ACORN to commit widespread vote fraud and fawning The Left Wing Media to jack BHO’s numbers up by 10-15%, you’d be whining about McCain’s ineptitude today.

The SEIU was/is shaking down B of A w/ lawsuits. Trying to blackmail them into unionizing tellers.

The LA Times (of all media) reported this about 6 weeks ago.

Ken Lewis was reportedly (CNBC I believe) more scared of SEIU than anything else.

The key bit in the quote is the word “alongside* in the “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN” bit. So what does “alongside” mean here? It means that Obama had been actually working for Project Vote. What does Project Vote has to do with ACORN? One of things that ACORN has been involved with for some time is voter registration drives, which is also obviously a big part of Project Vote, so they often combined their efforts.

The bottom line is that Obama’s connection to ACORN *is* tenuous, and trying to make ACORN into some sort of ENRON of poor people is both malicious and idiotic: ACORN is basically a large umbrella organization of community groups involved in all sorts of things mostly to do with people in poor and high crime areas. And as I keep trying to explain to slack-jawed incomprehension, they also tend to hire from those neighborhoods, which does ramp up the risk and probability for misbehavior, but you have to think first of the hard-working people grateful for the opportunity. It isn’t the equivalent of friggin’ rocket science to figure out what’s really going on here.

Stuff like this has been going on for some time now. It starts with stuff like “I.D. / Debit” Cards. Follow the links for additional references to banks coming “under intense pressure from community groups, some of which had accused the bank of a poor record of lending in the city of New Haven.”

Obviously, if banks were working WITH these community groups, then the intense pressure wouldn’t have been required, eh Steve?