Lyin' John Fund just can't help himself, makes up tale of current NJ 'voter fraud' taken from 1993 incident
By David Neiwert Tuesday Nov 03, 2009 3:00pm
John Fund went on Glenn Beck's show last night to help Beck with his characterization of the Obama White House as a nest of fist-bumping terrorist radicals, mostly by underscoring its supposed connection to ACORN and the SEIU. (According to Beck, SEIU's Andy Stern is "really controlling our country.")
At the end of the segment, Fund began describing the ways ACORN's nefarious activists are supposedly engaged in voter fraud in the New Jersey election:
Fund: People are going door to door in parts of Camden with Hispanics that don't have very much knowledge of English, and they're saying, "We have a new way for you to vote, la nueva forma de votar; just fill out these papers."
But as Media Matters noticed, he's actually describing something that happened in 1993 in Philadelphia. Indeed, he accurately described it in his Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he tried to claim that fraud was occurring in New Jersey:
There are additional reports from Camden that Hispanic voters have been misled into voting absentee ballots. So-called bearers who are allowed to collect and carry absentee ballots are said to have encouraged voters to fill out applications for absentee ballots. A few days later, the bearers reportedly return with the actual ballots, which they offer "assistance" in filling out.
Authorities in nearby Philadelphia know about such scams. In one infamous case, a key 1993 race that determined which party would control the Pennsylvania state senate was thrown out by a federal judge after massive evidence that hundreds of voters had been pressured into casting improper absentee ballots. Voters were told by "bearers" that it was all part of "la nueva forma de votar" -- the new way to vote. Local politicos tell me Philly operatives associated in the past with Acorn may now be advising their Jersey cousins on how to perform such vote harvesting.
Notice that in this version of events, there's no mention of the "la nueva forma de votar" ruse being used in Camden -- just the use of absentee ballots. And despite Fund's claims, there is no evidence of actual fraud yet even in this absentee-ballot operation -- just the potential for it.
Conservatives like Fund have long pinned their electoral hopes on reducing voter turnout, because encouraging large numbers of voters is a certain recipe to right-wing defeat. The Right succeeds most when voter turnout is suppressed -- and absentee-ballot efforts are part of reversing that trend.
They also like having handy excuses when they lose. It's clear that Fund, Beck, and the rest of the Right is setting themselves up with a way to claim that an electoral loss in New Jersey was illegitimate. Because that's what they're best at -- tearing down liberals after they beat them at the polls.
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So, assuming the "bearers" don't pressure people to vote a certain way, which part of this "nueva forma de votar" is illegal or even unethical?
Or is it just scary because its enabling hispanics access to the levers of power?
Hello? Those people have darker skin that Beck so of course they are up to something nefarious. Didn't you get the memo?
in Beck's world. No wonder he is so frightened.
The republicans can so and say ANYTHING they wish , even when it is criminal and the democrats will set them free...
Obama even censored all of the criminal information about Bush / Cheney and the republicans to make sure they are not investigated and prosecuted...
Are we electing democrats or are they really republicans which could not make it on the right wing republican extremist ticket..
Did Holder Go Easy on Republican Phone Jammer?
The criminal case against Republican organizer James Tobin, famed for his role in the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming caper, came to an end last week.
It appears that Tobin, like former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), caught a break from the Obama Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder. And it should be noted that Tobin, like Stevens, was represented by the Washington, D.C., firm Williams & Connolly, which produced Obama White House Counsel Greg Craig.
The democrats are starting to look so much like the republican party , you would have to believe this is an inside Rove plot to fill the democrat representatives by republicans.
There need not be an answer to your queries, for it's merely the accusation that counts. It need not be logical, sensible or in any way connected to reality for it to resonate. Beckerhead, Limbo, O'Really? or whichever wingnut du jour is on the airwaves can just make any ludicrous defamatory statement (e.g. "Barack Obama was never actually born. His mother shit him out into the toilet."), and the rest of their blather could literally be "watermelon watermelon watermelon . . . " It will be taken as proven truth by the unthinking citizens of Know Knothing Knation.
With that in mind, we're at a frightening historical juncture:
What they also have now is a nationwide, perpetual noise machine that enables them to continue their nonsensical conversation. They've never quite had that before.
Previously, when one of the two-party system's parties had lost its collective mind and its credibility with the vast, vast majority of the electorate, the other would absorb its more sane members, and in turn, split into two parties to continue business as usual. FUX News wasn't around to pretend the Federalists were still viable as anything but a remnant in the form of life-tenured judges, nor was the noise machine at the Whigs' disposal for the Orwellian demagoguery that would have convinced slaves to demand compromises between their masters and the abolitionists.
But what if it had been? I mean, it's not like it's the demagogues that are new. It's the well organized, Murdoch-inspired "media" that's new.
The way the Republicans are behaving, they should go the way of the Whigs, leaving the Democrats to split into the Corporocrats and Progressives that they already are. But no matter what happens, the media will continue report everything not only as though the Republican Party is in great shape. And anyone with an (R) behind his name will be taken seriously, even as he spouts inanities about Muslim Commies taking over the country with an army of genetically enhanced monkeys.
Do the Republicans really need to worry about their electoral prospects in such a world? Or will they always be the other major party no matter how crazy they act?
I guess we'll see with the results of the reliably Republican NY-23. ES&S not withstanding, parties still need to turn out voters. Even with Murdoch's megaphone, there still need to exist enough products of failed educational systems to believe that commie monkeys are the real threat, and "healthcare reform" is a euphemism for "glorious cultural revolution".
We'll see how many idiots vote for the transplanted teabagger in NY23 tonight.
If you took a drink every time Beck mentions ACORN or SEIU, you would be shit faced before the first commercial. Tonight he just kept on with the idea that the head of SEIU is going to take over the country. Beck is one lame trick pony.
If he mentions ACORN, SEIU or Obama's fascist/muslim/whathaveyou past : sip
If he misspells a word : chug
If he starts crying : down a whole bottle
Maybe his audience numbers are severely inflated by large numbers of college kids tuning in to get their parties started?
You could be on to something. That's the only way most sane people can make it through his how.
I do indeed need a stiff cocktail in order to stomach a few minutes of GB.
Shit, I have to be snot slinging drunk to get through 2 minutes.
From dailykos:
Dick Armey needs a new metaphor
by Jed Lewison
Tue Nov 03, 2009 at 02:34:02 PM PST
Dick Armey on the network of teabaggers supporting Doug Hoffman in NY-23:
I would say it’s the tip of the spear.
Actually, Dick, you've got it all backwards. Really, you do.
If Andy Stern is "really controlling our country," you'd think that janitors and maids would make a living wage.
Who's surprised? Faux Noise is always proven habitual lies.
Beck is shocked to discover that the president of the Service Employees International Union wants to reach out internationally to other workers and unite them together into some kind of... what's the word... group, in order to get a distribution of wealth that is more favorable to service employees.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200911030041
This union organizer wants the country to be more socialist! Why it's almost crazy that nobody has discovered this secretive plot before!
The question needs to be asked, is our Becks learning?
on the trusty Latino community to scapegoat and try to use to find an opening to make trouble for this election.
progressives calling right wingers what they are, "REGRESSIVES/"
Really, these folks should stop going on Beck's show. When he blows up like Lonesome Rhodes it's going to be hard to explain why you were there. Oh, wait, the 'liberal media' will forget that anyone they speak to ever gave Beck the time of day. Sigh.
After a bs accusation against - well I guess it must have been the current bogeyman - Acorn, that someone slashed the tires on a Hoffman goose-stepper's car - turns out it was a bottle. The "update" at redstate says:
I like the spin WE know it was a dirty trick but those damn local police are probably in with Obama or something...
either that or glassware is/are commies? I confused now.
Wow. I just hope they don't hurt any squirrels.
Just to be on the safe side, I'm not drinking anything out of a bottle that could be communist. Just like the whole water fluorination thing, THEY're probably trying to contaminate our bodily fluids again.
is a liar or a moron?
"...Conservatives like Fund have long pinned their electoral hopes on reducing voter turnout, because encouraging large numbers of voters is a certain recipe to right-wing defeat. The Right succeeds most when voter turnout is suppressed --"
This is a very important point that cant be stressed enough, when they are only starting with what,...20% ? to begin with, they have to narrow the margins every way possible ...
Their equation is not to get MORE votes, just get less people TO vote ...
East Orange is just outside of Camden? Not only did Beck fail English he's a failure at geography.
and it is clear to see that Beck is not crazy, he was just trying really really hard to go for that trifecta.
Beck and Fund...two turds in the toilet waiting to be flushed.
This Fund guy is nothing but slush.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
If we on the Left would vote in large numbers in every elections, the right would be almost nonexistent. We just don't do it, so we have to deal with their madness. Virgin now has a right-wing governor, who thinks that women should be kept in "there place."
Beck and his posse think sick people, pimps and prostitutes don't have the right to vote? What's the point?
check out this website here:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/electionscoverups
Fund was always a big stupid joke, but now going on Beck's show he's proven it being just another liar and lunatic teabagger and birther.
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