they re under federal investigation? i am so pleased to be honored by acorn. they represent birth control. would you be willing to call for acorn to open the books, air it out, let s see everything to put it behind us? i would not. as a matter of fact, you said it s already in the criminal justice system and they re being investigated. let the investigation go forward as it should. not my business to interject myself in it. what is there? the organizing equivalent of an oscar. glenn: one of the radicals you saw in the last clip was john pedesta, the one that acorn gave an award to. you remember him. the head of the center for american progress. what kind of influence would center for american progress have when it s full of revolutionaries like van jones. does he have any effect on the president?
they are running the ground game of the administration and coordinating the effort to support healthcare legislation and support the president s budget. to support financial reform. heather booth, the founder of the midwest academy, is head of americans for financial reform. the key lobbying organization backing the financial reform bill. glenn: heather booth of the midwest academy. didn t her husband help found s.d.s.? we actually caught up with her outside the acorn anniversary party way back in 2009. griff jenkins went on assignment for us and asked the former 1960s radical what she thought about the group whose aim is to collapse america. what is your name? heather booth. are you with acorn? i m for building a better society and a better world. the folks in that room are
part of the people who help build a better world. does it concern you at all that the folks in there are under investigation for voter fraud issues? no, they re all sorts of charges. i m familiar with the work. i think that they are i m pleased about the work that they re doing. of course. acorn is just wonderful. who else thought so? senators and congress women like maxine waters who now face ethics charges in the house. senator, this is griff jenkins with fox news. can i ask you a question? hi, congressman. griff jenkins with fox news. how are you? how are you doing? griff jenkins. are you on an moped? did i see you drive up on an moped? no, you didn t. why are you in a tuxedo?
cloward and frances fox piven met with a civil rights activist named george wiley and created the national welfare rights organization. the idea was to flood welfare office with so many recipients asking for payments they d effectively break the bank of state and local welfare systems. they wanted to have as many riotists and violent protests as they could. you scare politicians into thinking m we have to do something to placate these people. in fact, wade rathkey who went on to head acorn was an organizer for the national welfare rights organization and he was involved in some of their most violent protests. cloward and piven created their strategy on a careful study they did of american communist party organizing strategy and tactic in the 1930s. communist organizers were
it s a revolution. here is the website. still in operation and still going after our kids. the amazing thing is, we have stood silently on the sideline as they directly target our children. back to weather ground manifesto. here it is. we will reach the high school kids who are in motion. by being in the schoolyard. the hang-out and on the streets. on an everyday basis. why do you think, why do you think that where is he this guy is a professor that writes school books. this is indoctrination in the purest sense. they have to get you why you re young or you ll reject the nonsense because you know better! coming up next what is your name? heather. are you with acorn? i m for building a better society and a better world. she looks and sounds like a nice woman. right? so what does it matter what