{"id":4176,"date":"2008-10-17T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2008-10-17T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:39:29","slug":"the-next-to-last-bastion-of-scoundrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-next-to-last-bastion-of-scoundrels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next-to-Last Bastion of Scoundrels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

WHOEVER SAID “Patriotism is the last bastion of scoundrels” never took into account the last bastion’s lead-up men: 1) Saving your political ass in the face of utter defeat by blaming someone else to distract people from your screw ups, and 2) Using that same distraction to steal votes from your opponent.<\/p>\n

\"Alicia<\/a>
Alicia Garcia, left, assists Elana Schwartz with video equipment from the Media Arts equipment cage. Secretary of State Mary Herrera is sponsoring a contest asking students to make a public service announcement encouraging people with disabilities to vote. (Javier Zamora \/ Daily Lobo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here today, after former Weatherman William Ayers and Joe the Plumber, we give you the next in the series of distractions and scapegoats: the dastardly ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), whose horrific crime against American democracy was to promote it by registering new minority and low-income voters.<\/p>\n

New Democratic voter registrants, particularly young voters and minorities, have increased substantially over this last year, not coincidentally in the wake of the Obama candidacy. ACORN, along with unions, local Democratic party chapters and the Obama campaign, have been instrumental in growing the base of registered voters nationwide.<\/p>\n

The attack on ACORN by John McCain during Wednesday night’s final debate with Barack Obama — claiming it “may be destroying the fabric of democracy<\/em>” should give you a clue as to the smoke screens and brush fires the Republican Party are instigating, which also includes an FBI investigation, to delegitimize and prevent a possible Obama victory two weeks before the November 4th election.<\/p>\n

Former US Attorney David Iglesias, fired by the Alberto Gonzales Department of Justice for refusing to comply with administration pressure to try phony voter-fraud cases, says the current ACORN investigation is a “scare tactic” by the Republicans.<\/p>\n

David Iglesias was no partisan. Iglesias is a registered Republican who happened to take his job seriously, and was canned by the Rovian White House for doing so. You can read the full article from Talking Points Memo in the post below.<\/p>\n

As to our sources, I have nothing but the most profound respect for Josh Micah Marshall and Talking Points Memo, which received the coveted George Polk Award<\/a> earlier this year for their coverage of the politically-motivated US Attorney purges conducted through former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ office. If there’s anyone to trust on the validity of these stories, its Josh.<\/p>\n

Stay awake.<\/p>\n

Yours & truly,<\/p>\n

Fe Bongolan<\/strong> from San Francisco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Democratic voter registrants, particularly young voters and minorities, have increased substantially over this last year, not coincidentally in the wake of the Obama candidacy. ACORN, along with unions, local Democratic party chapters and the Obama campaign, have been instrumental in growing the base of registered voters nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[111,1],"tags":[426,122,52,130,35,425],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}