Glenn Beck interviewed Scott Levenson yesterday. Mr. Levenson is the national spokesman for ACORN and I don’t know if he thought that trying to mimic Obama’s ridiculous performance on the Leno show was the way to go or if he’s really that big a hairball, but the point is if Levenson is the best that ACORN can do, then the dumbing down of America is surely real. ACORN is currently up on charges of voter fraud in 14 states, and Levenson actually kept a straight face as he said it was only “employees” being charged. Which is, of course, a bald-faced lie. The organization itself is named in the Nevada lawsuit, for example, and that lawsuits continue to be filed speaks loudly of a pattern of criminal behavior that can be blamed only on those running it, for corporate culture is something imaged and then reinforced from the top down.
This win at all costs criminal mentality is, of course, the environment in which President Obama thrived early in his career. Though he’s tried to distant himself from them ever since their criminal tactics began to surface, he’s not yet managed to shut down free speech and this part of his history cannot be rewritten to put him in a more favorable light. Quite telling is that ACORN continues to reap the benefits of its association with the President, including his representing them in a 1995 lawsuit, standing to receive some $2 billion in TARP funds as well as assist with the 2010 census.
Surely it isn’t a far stretch to imagine that an organization capable of drumming up voter registrations for some 30,000 people in Marion County, Indiana in 2008 – all of whom were NOT eligible to even register – is also capable of making sure that the census count that determines things like government representation comes out just the way their community organizer in chief wants it to come out.
Equally frightening to think Obama could say “I won” with a straight face, isn’t it?