. what should we invest in? maybe new buildings? what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows. . nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let s build a strong foundation. let s invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let s solve this. and in the big finish tonight, some scary new poll numbers from public policy polling show republicans are living, basically, on another planet. 49% of republican voters say the community organizing group a.c.o.r.n. stole the 2012 election from president obama. the number is down only three points from the 2008 election. the problem is, folks, a.c.o.r.n., they shut their doors back in 2010.
we have them. mexican soldiers patrolling the rural border near texas have killed 10 suspected drug gang gunmen. five others were taken into custody. the soldiers came under attack and returned fire after finding the gang s training camp. the mexican military was able to seize the stash of weapons including rifles, grenade launchers and armored vehicle in the aftermath. he s the new man in charge of getting the president re-elected and has controversial ties. a long time activist for the community organizing group acorn is about to become the new executive director of the democratic national committee. he currently serves as white house political affairs director. he used to be political director for acorn s new york branch and an executive with the sciu and it s a pants protest in forest grove, oregon. 45 middle school girls wearing stretch pants to school one day after their principal banned those types of pants from the dress code. told us that it s too revealing and sometimes the
to impose sharil law on our nation. nevada candidate sharron angle pronounced she wants to go to washington because she wants to be part of the problem. there is a lot to get to this hour but we begin with something we frankly knew was coming, something we knew was inevitable after right wing activists and fox news destroyed the community organizing group a.c.o.r.n. last year with supposedly incriminating videotapes that really weren t all that incriminating at all, that really weren t incriminating at all. this is not meant to excuse what a.c.o.r.n. has done wrong in the past but the huge tide of negative publicity that followed these videotapes and the coverage they got on fox wall to wall for months was bull pucky. it was a dishonest, political stunt that bears no resemblance to journalism and no resemblance to the actual facts of what happened in those offices. but it worked. this organization has been shut
supposed pimp and prostitute in his office and he immediately reported it to the police. for that, he ended up getting fired fan taskal fantastical interpretations of his actions like these aired on fox news. he told us it would be best if they were shipped into tijuana because he had contacts there that could help us. it was extremely unusual. and he said, oh, yeah, my people had experience bringing people across the border. remember when he said, my people have experience, that was you that said that. the fact that the a.c.o.r.n. employee collected all that information, including phone numbers and dates the supposed crime was planned for and passed that information to the police, that never made that into that fobs news report on this outrage at the san diego office. that never did make it into the fox news report, but what did make it in shows them taping that man without his knowledge or approval, which is illegal in california. for the first time since this ginned up manipul
down the community organizing group a.c.o.r.n.. it turns out there may have been a scandal after all. just not the bogus one that fox news and conservative activists promoted. last september a conservative website posted seemingly incriminating undercover videos taken at a.c.o.r.n. offices around the country. two young conservative activists, james o keefe and hanna giles appeared to be dressed up as a pimp and prostitute in a.c.o.r.n. offices, pretending to seek legal advice. the heavily and selectively edited videos were aired around the clock ad nauseam on fox news. what those tapes seem to show, a.c.o.r.n. employees seeming to give advice about illegal activity, caused a giant anti-a.c.o.r.n. freak-out defund a.c.o.r.n. in march, a.c.o.r.n. was forced to shut down, never mind no actual wrongdoing was ever proved. it does turn out that there that might have been actual wrongdoing on those tapes. actual legal activity caught and revealed in this undercover fake pimp and prostitute