VIDEO: Vadum's update on the Brett Kimberlin saga from Sun News Network

I was on "The Source" with Ezra Levant on Sun News Network (TV) earlier today providing an update on the Brett Kimberlin saga.

Here's the video clip:



(Thanks for posting the video, SDAMatt2a!)

TV: Vadum on The Source - Sun News Network 5 pm ET today

I'll be on "The Source" on Canada's Sun News Network (TV) at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time providing an update on the Brett Kimberlin saga.

American Prospect's Gabriel Arana joins the ACORN 'Useful Idiot' Club

The list of ACORN's defenders in the media continues to grow.

Gabriel Arana is the latest useful idiot to join the club. Here's what this dishonest leftist wrote in a piece concerning Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.):

The entire story has all the trappings of a contrived scandal; one cannot but draw a parallel to the James O’Keefe ACORN hullabaloo, in which O’Keefe posed as a pimp seeking advice about his prostitution business and then edited the tape to smear the organization. To be sure, all journalism—on the right as well as the left—tends toward sensationalism, and no doubt part of the interest in Bachmann coincides with her presidential run.

There’s a crucial difference between the ACORN smear campaign and that against the Bachmann clinic, however. [emphasis added]

As anyone who followed the undercover ACORN video saga knows, the videos were not dishonestly edited. James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles were welcomed with open arms by almost everyone they dealt with at ACORN when they pitched their make-believe brothel for pedophiles proposal.

The Left is trying to rewrite the narrative on ACORN to make it seem like the organized crime syndicate was somehow victimized by O'Keefe, Giles, Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, and God knows who else.

It's hogwash. ACORN is evil, corrupt, subversive, and criminal and it got what it deserved (besides, it's not quite dead, either).

ACORN still exists, as I have documented in my acclaimed new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, and ACORN sources have confirmed that it is gearing up to resurface under a new name in time to help re-elect President Obama, a former ACORN employee.

(Buy the book at Amazon. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.)

The ACORN 'Useful Idiot' Club welcomes Aunty Em of News Hounds

Let's have a big round of applause for blogger Aunty Em of the anti-Fox News hate site News Hounds. She's the newest member of the ACORN 'Useful Idiot' Club.

In a new post trashing Andrew Breitbart she makes the demonstrably false claim that the undercover ACORN videos that showed the group's criminal inclinations were somehow "thoroughly discredited." No facts, just a smear.

Aunty Em, whoever you are, wherever you are, you're an idiot in the service of error.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, Machiavellian pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy the book at Amazon. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

The ACORN Useful Idiot Club welcomes Peter Hart of "FAIR"

So many ACORN crime deniers, so little time.

The latest to join the ACORN Useful Idiot Club is Peter Hart, the "activism director" at FAIR, which stands for Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.

Hart bitches about Andrew Breitbart, who publicized the undercover ACORN videos, calling him a "right-wing scam artist" and an "[i]nk [b]lot."

He whines about a New York Times profile on Breitbart which described the videos as depicting, in the words of the newspaper, "ACORN workers offering advice on how to evade taxes and conceal child prostitution."

This shameless liar states

That wasn't the lesson of the ACORN videos at all. After  a long battle, the Times admitted that much of its coverage of the Breitbart/James O'Keefe videos was misleading. The paper told readers that O'Keefe actually went into ACORN offices dressed in a ridiculous "pimp" get-up. He did not.

Whether O'Keefe was dressed up as a stereotypical pimp (the videos show him entering ACORN offices in regular clothes) is a tedious red herring. The videos clearly show ACORN employees going out of their way to provide advice on how to break the law. Period.

Not surprisingly, Hart's fake media watchdog employer is bought and paid for by the Left.

FAIR is funded by a mixture of left-of-center and extreme left grant makers. Since 2000 the Tides Foundation has given  FAIR $81,844. Tides founder Drummond Pike is the gentleman who paid around $700,000 in hush money to try to keep the million dollar embezzlement scandal at ACORN under wraps. Pike is also treasurer of George Soros's Democracy Alliance, a group of radical billionaires who want to turn America into Greece.

Other donors to FAIR include the Ford Foundation ($400,000 since 2001), Glaser Progress Foundation ($20,000 in 2001), Schumann Center for Media and Democracy Inc. ($815,000 since 2003), Funding Exchange Inc. ($30,000 since 2003), and the Ithaca, N.Y.-based Park Foundation Inc. ($50,000 since 2005). 

Needless to say, FAIR isn't fair.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, Machiavellian pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy the book at Amazon. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Andrew Breitbart endorses Matthew Vadum's book Subversion Inc.

Conservative Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart has endorsed my book Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books).

Here is his endorsement:

For too long the institutional left has been allowed to operate under cover of darkness because the Democrat-media complex refuses to hold them accountable. But these radicals who have been sticking it to Americans for decades scatter like cockroaches under the harsh spotlight of Matthew Vadum’s great new book, Subversion Inc.

America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, Machiavellian pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy the book at Amazon. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Matthew Vadum's adventure on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"

Back on Oct. 30, 2008, I appeared on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" to talk about ACORN and community organizers.

Here is a link to the video (the show's website won't allow embeds).

About a month or more before the air date, I traveled to New York City to tape a segment with John Oliver. Being in hostile territory (ideologically) I thought of the nastiest things I could say about ACORN and community organizers and I said them. There is no point, after all, in going on a left-wing show and playing along with the puppet masters. (Some conservatives criticized me for doing the show. Alas, it's impossible to please everyone.)

Everything I said had a basis in truth except for a few comments that were obviously satirical in nature. It is in fact true that mainstream media outlets have reported that ACORN and other so-called community organizations such as the NAACP Voter Fund have used crack cocaine and cigarettes as payoffs in the voter registration process, so I wasn't saying anything new.

Little did I know the show planned to juxtapose my statements with reaction shots from Bertha Lewis, ACORN's chief organizer at the time. (When the segment was shot, the producer said he wasn't sure who else was going to be interviewed for the package.) Because Lewis is a black woman, this led to some of the more idiotic leftists accusing me of racism in the absence of any evidence. The cry of "racist" is the last refuge of a desperate left-winger and tends to suggest that a conservative is doing his or her job properly. If they're not attacking you, that's likely because you're missing the target.

Just as when Andrew Breitbart summoned the courage a few months later to go into the lions' den when he appeared on Bill Maher's show on HBO (facing off against pseudo-intellectual race-baiting demagogue Michael Eric Dyson) conservatives have to be willing to take some heat in order to be effective. Go deep into liberal territory and do some damage. Don't be worried about getting sprayed with slime. You might even win some converts.

As Epictetus taught, "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."

That really says it all.

Endorsements of Subversion Inc.

Below are the endorsements as of today, March 30, 2011, of my upcoming book Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts Are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

Further endorsements are, of course, welcome!

Here is the list:

"Knowing what I know about the 'zombie armies' of youth brainwashed by Team Obama, it's chilling to read Subversion Inc. Eye-opening and shocking, Matthew Vadum warns us of the danger still posed by ACORN." --Jason Mattera, New York Times bestselling author of Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation

"Thanks to Matthew Vadum's extensive research there is no way liberals will be able to whitewash the evils of ACORN. History will not be kind to America's most notorious pressure group. I dare anyone to defend ACORN, and its radicals, after reading this book." --Hannah Giles, investigative journalist

"It's dynamite with a short fuse." -- G. Gordon Liddy, nationally syndicated radio talk show host

"Matthew Vadum has created a well-researched, irresistibly written book that every American should read. The criminal enterprise called 'ACORN' is the largest, most elusive, and most dangerous radical organization in America. If you are wondering about the operations and influence of a vast left-wing conspiracy, this is it, with tentacles that reach right into the heart of the Obama White House.” -- David Horowitz, author of The Shadow Party

"Matthew Vadum’s book, Subversion Inc., rips the cover off the cover-up and tells how much of America’s Ruling Class (Barack Obama, George Soros, the Catholic church, Hollywood, the media, unions, etc., etc.)  collaborated to bring socialism to America. P.S. Be forewarned – you’ll be so outraged you’re likely to buy more copies for friends and insist they read it." -- Richard Viguerie [Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (Nation magazine), one of the “conservatives of the century” (Washington Times), and one of 2008’s “top 25 influencers” among Republicans (NewsMax magazine).] 

"Subversion Inc. is a riveting journey through the tangled web of ACORN. Vadum exposes the depth of this corrupt criminal enterprise with the clarity and precision of an invested author. This is one of the most comprehensive compilations of evidence against ACORN available. ACORN's continued existence, under any guise, puts the integrity of our electoral system and the sanctity of America's ballot box are at risk." --Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa)

"In his expose of the nefarious history of ACORN, Matthew Vadum has definitively revealed how socialist and ideological  partisanship was manipulated, twisted and ultimately destroyed by the evil of unscrupulous 'community organizers,' whose driven ambitions knew no bounds of restraint and whose compatriots involved some of the most powerful names in American politics, up to and including the president himself." --John J. Tierney Jr., Walter Kohler Professor of International Relations at Institute of World Politics; Faculty Chairman; Former Special Assistant and Foreign Affairs Officer, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

"For too long the institutional left has been allowed to operate under cover of darkness because the Democrat-media complex refuses to hold them accountable. But these radicals who have been sticking it to Americans for decades scatter like cockroaches under the harsh spotlight of Matthew Vadum’s great new book, Subversion Inc." --Andrew Breitbart, Internet news entrepreneur

"Through his careful research, Matthew Vadum shined a light that exposed ACORN’s corruption. For months I fought to cut off the flow of tax dollars to ACORN. In Subversion Inc. Vadum warns that despite the defunding of ACORN, the group has only feigned death." --Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota)