Video: ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis Attacks Conservatives, Promotes Socialism
Morgen on April 20, 2010 at 10:32 pm
I was going to title this post “Bertha Lewis brings the crazy”…and believe me, she does…but given the serious nature of the ideological conflict currently being waged in America, I think it is important to at least show some respect for the perspectives of our political opponents. Even when they seem a little unhinged. Ultimately we need to win the war of ideas, and engaging in hyperbole and character assassination should remain the primary weapon of our opponents. Momentum is on our side in this fight due to the overreach of the current regime, and because a majority of Americans share our core values of personal responsibility and fiscal restraint on the part of the federal government.
But in order for us to achieve a lasting shift in political power starting this November, it is imperative that we continue to differentiate our broader vision for America with that of our opponents. While labeling liberal Democrats and other progressives as “socialists” now invites an instant loss of credibility (even amongst many conservatives), it is a designation easily understood to mean someone who clearly does not believe in the primacy of individual responsibility and limited government. And so when a notable progressive publicly aligns themselves with the socialist cause, it presents a rare opportunity to demonstrate to the broader American public the core philosophy and the long-term agenda which underly so much of the “progressive” political platform.
So on this note, here is Bertha Lewis speaking at the Winter Conference of the Young Democratic Socialists on March 25, 2010:
While she certainly seems sincere, it is almost unimaginable that she truly believes the coming conservative re-alignment will lead to a new era of McCarthyism, segregation – and internment!? More than likely, considering the audience, she was purposefully exaggerating in order to build momentum towards her recruitment pitch. But in case there is any doubt, I think I can safely speak for most conservatives in saying that our only interest is in achieving (overwhelming) victory at the ballot box, and then beginning to get the growth of Big Government and federal spending under control.
Frankly, we want more progressives to openly declare their belief in democratic socialism. Because in an open and honest debate of principles and ideas, there is no doubt we win with the American public. So any talk about renewed McCarthyism, segregation, and internment (!?) is just utterly ridiculous. This seems more like the ravings of someone with a persecution complex to me. (Which is perhaps somewhat understandable, given the past 6-8 months for ACORN and Ms. Lewis.)
Of course it is also important to keep in mind that ACORN was once viewed as a fairly mainstream, non-profit organization. Not only have they received federal funding for years (and a recent court order ensures that they still do), but they have also received millions of dollars in grants from corporate America, including Bank of America, Citibank, and JP Morgan Chase, as well as the Ford Foundation and many other foundations and charitable trusts.
Ms. Lewis has also been granted extensive air time on the major networks over the past several months, which she has invariably used to not only defend ACORN, but to also attack and smear her conservative critics.
While people like Ms. Lewis are fully entitled to believe whatever they wish, and recruit and organize to their heart’s content in order to advance their goals, it is morally (and probably, legally) wrong for them to misrepresent their underlying principles, and long-term organizational objectives, to those who provide funding for their operations. With all the information that has come out about ACORN in the preceding few years, and especially the last, it is pretty clear that they have engaged in this type of deception, along with many other questionable practices.
The fact that Ms. Lewis is apparently an unabashed socialist is probably the least of ACORN’s concerns at this point. But the fact that she has been defended, and in many cases openly embraced, by so many mainstream progressives this past year, combined with her statements highlighted here, provides a rare glimpse into the unspoken belief system which many progressives undoubtably share.
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Democrats/Leftists/Socialists should indeed be concerned with the what is coming at them. What’s coming at them is the end of an era when the could blithely invoke racism as their trump card.
Democrats love racism. They wallow in it. My hometown newspaper has published literally hundreds –by “literally” I mean literally — stories in 1960′s racial crimes while current epidemic crime levels are ignored because the associated skin colors are inconvenient.
Racism has been a cudgel for the democrats for 45 years. Now that we have a black president, they have (absurdly) doubled down. It will not work, and it will almost certainly cause a backlash even among their traditional supporters
April 21, 2010 @ 5:41 amAs my Dad used to say:
“Crazy as a sh*thouse rat”
April 21, 2010 @ 6:21 amIf they keep beating the race war drums, they are going to leave many non-racists no choice but to become racists.
April 21, 2010 @ 6:45 amThis continual idea of Social Justice and political correctness are the small steps to make everyone think/talk alike and reduce the individual. Once the collective has been put into place the only thing that will set up apart will not be what and how we speak but what the color of our skin.
This is not a unifying movement but a method to divide and that is what scares all of the liberals living in their ideal world. If they keep everyone fighting againist each other based of differeneces that are perceived they will win.
I think back to the interview Ms. Lewis gave on “The O’Reilly” program (due to the video of multiple Acorn locations practicing illegal methods and not having a care about the impact it has. And how sincere she seemed but it comes to the fact that she needed to save face & grace to save Acorn.
These leftover 60′s radicals are nothing more than Progressives that want the less than 20% of deviants that don’t want to move society forward but in their direction and have no care for any consequeces of their actions but only what has been done for them lately.
April 21, 2010 @ 6:50 am1. The boy who cried wolf was discredited to his group when the wolf didn’t show up. The same thing is happening to those crying racism and violence in response to conservatism’s resurgence. The analogy isn’t entirely apt, though, because conservatism would benefit the group whereas the wolf wouldn’t.
2. I don’t want to be a member of the same society as Ms. Lewis, which provides a visceral, non-ideological reason why her call to socialism repels me. She seems to believe that I’m a monster based on curious racist theories about white people, capitalism, and America. How could I ever associate with a person like her?
This leads me to wonder whether the greatest obstacle to socialism in America is simply the fact that people define their own affections and choose their own friends while viscerally rejecting those repel them. Therefor, so long as the self-avowed socialists are people like Ms. Lewis, they’ll remain at the fringe of American society and politics.
April 21, 2010 @ 7:47 amSounds like somebody fears her spiggot’s about to be cut off!
Ooooo. Maybe that’s too “violent”. LOL!
April 21, 2010 @ 7:59 amI think it might be time for a short documentary to be made about the REAL Tea Party movement. Videos somehow have a way of revealing truth like no other medium can.
Here’s the idea: put together a group of roughly ten minorities and follow them for the day at an event. As any Tea Party member knows, they would be treated like every other patriot: with respect. However, send a group of all white, middle aged men holding signs that support larger government, less freedom, more taxation and see how they are received…
I believe the results will solidify the Tea Party could not have less to do with race or more to do with rights, freedom and government accountability.
Also included in the documentary, it would be interesting to show a direct relationship between those who oppose the Tea Party movement and the amount of ‘government aid’ each group receives.
April 21, 2010 @ 8:17 amBertha Lewis is nothing but a worthless Black Nationalist. Move her back to “the muffugah land” and let her reside in a dung hut along with the rest of her relatives.
April 21, 2010 @ 8:17 amI know Bertha is batshit crazy, but she’s basically the everyman urban poverty pervert. In Chicago you can go to local Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy meetings – these are hosted by the Chicago Police districts to engage the public in their policing strategies – and you will see a group of 4-5 local residents that think Jim Crowe is still the law of the land.
They think Jim Crowe is still the law of the land because their sons and daughters have built up long rap sheets for various crimes they have committed. Their parents think their children are victims, but nobody forces their children to peddle drugs, discharge firearms and congregate with local gangs. These are choices they make.
What is a greater problem, one that I have attempted to demonstrate to the 4-5 local resident I know that think Jim Crowe is still the law of the land, is to show how their local schools are in fact controlled by the local gangs. The local gangs are enabled by the local elected leadership. The local elected leadership is the group that pressures the police to keep their hands off the local gangs. The local gangs are free to operate their smash and grab schemes, their drug peddling, and defend their turf from rival gangs. As a result, the local gangs now have elders that control the local school council and thereby effectively control the local school.
Social Justice is the curriculum. Any local youth must navigate this environment. It’s almost impossible if you are young and black or latino. If you are, the local gangs start early with the pressure. They block your path, they take away your basketball, they steal your possessions. The message is clear. Give up and join. The longer you hold out, the deeper the bruises you assume become.
April 21, 2010 @ 8:17 amDemocrat=Liberal=Progressive=Socialist
It is safe to assume that since the left has embraced ACORN and Ms Lewis for years that her agenda is their agenda. A D/L/P/S cannot come out and say what he truly thinks, he would never have power in this country again. I keep thinking of the scripture where Satan is called the king of lies. These “community organizers” are willing in the words of Ms. Lewis to “do anything” to get their way. That includes beating up a black man for attending a Tea Party, biting off the finger of another Tea Party member, breaking the leg of a person because she is wearing a Palin button, fraud at the ballot box, Black Panthers intimidating folks at polling places, throwing pies at conservative speakers, throwing bricks and shooting out windows of Republican officers and on and on. The left wants to paint the TP movement and the right as the violent ones but yet again they are using projection. The only violence I see is as usual from the left. Keep shining the light on these kooks, the country needs to know what they are dealing with
April 21, 2010 @ 8:18 amI imagine we ought to encourage Lewis to continue this type of speech and thank her for making crystal clear what she stands for.
She was far better off when the cameras weren’t on her all the time.
Now she only makes the hole deeper.
April 21, 2010 @ 8:36 amIt Is a pity people like Bertha Lewis can find enough downtrodden supporters. It is an insult to national intelligence for her to gain backing. Ignorance is bliss and that is the crowd that gather around her. Socialism is plain and simple laziness, expanded to a government program. Why shouldn’t you have everything anyone else possesses? That is the question socialism thrives on. I am as much human as any human, I should be treated the same, be given the same no matter what I bring to the society. These socialist ideas are fundamentally correct, yet they must be seasoned by what you give to a society. Socialism hides the factor of ability. In nature the smartest strongest fastest excel, why should civilization be any different? Let the brilliance of man shine by promoting those who benefit society the most, allowing those elite to excel. They will provide what the others can not. Without their contributions civilizations would be nothing but herds of animals. Socialism stifles individual achievement and reduces the progress of man.
Liberty, not redistribution, is the solution. It is the way to allow man to advance. All governments are contrived to allow a society to advance yet their very existence is detrimental to individual achievement. We must realize that we are not gods and we must earn our way, no government can survive without a strong people keeping their society free of corruption and greed. Socialism gives up your right to control government and be at liberty in the world. Why would you choose to be a slave to a society? Be the boss, have liberty be the ruling factor of government and prosperity will grow.
April 21, 2010 @ 9:07 amIt seems unwise to forcibly import anyone whom one would not wish to admit, were he to immigrate freely.
April 21, 2010 @ 9:59 amIf by using the partial quotation, “While labeling liberal Democrats and other progressives as ‘socialists’ now invites an instant loss of credibility (even amongst many conservatives)” you mean to say that the person so labeling loses credibility, I strongly disagree.
“Socialism” is a scary concept that continues to make most Americans uneasy, even in the age of Obama. If someone espouses socialist ideas they deserve to be labeled appropriately.
April 21, 2010 @ 12:48 pmIf the perfection itself was offered to the world there would be those who oppose it. People like this exhibit their own kind of greed ; power over minds. Nothing new. These people, who have even convince themselves that they ‘believe’ for the sake of all people only crave something for themselves, power and security. Shes the queen bee, the hive must hum as one. Do not think, that is heresy. Be drone, a worker.
April 21, 2010 @ 2:05 pmRacism? – absurd is too minimal a word. Wake up, “racism” is an abused word – it’s “culturalism”, to include these American subcultures. No one cares about your ethnicity – BUT they do care your behavior, what you do and proclaim. What you teach our progeny. War is waged for less. As true as it is that genetic diversity bears no rational judgment – culture diversity does. Many cultures have been and are indeed, inferior. Promoting multiculturalism as a strength is one of the worst lies this country has ever fallen for. Nikita Khrushchev threatened to “destroy us from within”. Intentional or accidental, socialistic ideology is that method.
There will always be people who would rather “take” than earn. Given the means & latitude, people like Bertha Lewis ooze out of the mire. That is WHY the Constitution was made as it is: the most despised antagonist to collectivism.
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April 21, 2010 @ 4:00 pmMatthew, you read my statement correctly. To clarify, I don’t think anyone should lose credibility for calling a socialist, a socialist…but I do think this term has been overused to the point where, fairly or not, many readers are apt to dismiss whatever broader points a writer/speaker might be trying to make once the “socialist” label has been thrown out there.
I think this is especially unfortunate in cases where this is a completely accurate characterization, because I’m not sure any other label so clearly defines this particular ideology.
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April 22, 2010 @ 5:27 amBertha isn’t a socialist – she’s just got her hand out.
April 22, 2010 @ 7:10 amInternment camps created by FDR (Progressive Democrat = Socialist)
Resurrection of the Armed Forces by President Wilson (Progressive Democrat= Socialist)
The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress signed into law by PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON on May 16, 1918. It forbade the use of “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the United States Government, which would cause others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt (suspension of the First Amendment for non-Wilson supporters). It was repealed by a Conservatives Government in December of 1920 after Wilson left office. Yep, another progressive/socialist idea.
Jim Crow laws brought to you by Southern Democrats
Now we have a President that is a Progressive and a Democrat, Bertha must be talking about what he plans for the United States. Lets face it the Socialists run the country today they control the House, Senate, and the White House. So is Obama planning on putting Tea Party supporters in camps? We have Progressive Democrats calling the Tea Parties view “Seditious” does that mean they may bring back the Sedition Act? We have the New Black Panthers showing up at polling stations with guns intimidating voters and an US Attorney General not willing to prosecute even with overwhelming evidence (video) to convict. So are we going to have a test to determine your political leanings before you are allowed to vote? Are the Congress and Senate calling CEO’s and business leaders to Capital Hill to route out CAPITALISTS that dare to run a business that is profitable?
I don’t think the people need to fear the Tea Party movement or Conservatives because they adhere to the Constitution which protects us all from an abusive government. Given what Bertha is warning us of, she should fear Obama and his henchmen, ACORN (or whatever the rebranded name is today), SEIU, and the House and Senate Leadership.
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April 22, 2010 @ 10:23 amIf the tea party is a bowel movement, ACORN is the mouth attached to the exit chute. This woman is looney tunes!
April 22, 2010 @ 10:31 amAny time hypocritical morons like Nancy Pee-lousy and Barney Frank-smuggler want to complain about the “hateful Rhetoric” and the “Politics of personal destruction”, someone ought to pull out a photo of this big-mouthed Bertha and shove it down their god-damned treasonous throats!
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April 22, 2010 @ 3:07 pmI just did some investigating and all of the donors that are listed here as STILL donating to ACORN, are NO LONGER donating money. Ford, Bank of America and the rest.
And by the way, I heard someone make a good point earlier.
Bertha in all of her heftiness and accusing the Tea party of being a bowel movement…well, in a round about way, she is right.
A Bowel Movement’s function is to rid the body of stench and poisenous articles that could do harm. And yes, that is what we Tea Party’ers ARE DOING. We are getting rid of the bile and the funk and the parasites that are polluting this body of America!
So, Bertha…you meant it as one of the most disgusting descriptions against your opponents I have ever heard and certifies your lack of class, but it does have a hint of accuracy…once we get past the disgusting thoughts of YOU.
And how dare you even being allowed to speak to our college aged people. I just sent a letter of disgust to Brandies University and told them what I thought about their choice of speakers that they allowed there. But more so I asked if the parents were told of this or was this kept from the parents?
Never in my life could I have ever imagined the slime that has been billowing below the ground, the whole time I have lived here in America. These are not Americans. They would not walk out their front door to defend this country. They are parasites
April 22, 2010 @ 3:20 pmKaren, I said that ACORN had “received” (past tense) money from the organizations listed. But I’m sorry I wasn’t more clear on this.
Not a big fan of discussions on bowel movements, but I saw someone make the same point by saying that if the tea party is a bowel movement, then socialists like Bertha Lewis are the result of that bowel movement. ; )
April 22, 2010 @ 3:25 pmms.bertha lewis, you will never install such haterid in my children and grandchildren. you do not deserve our american taxpayer money for garbage speeches. they belong in a potty with your bowel movements. I will never be silent nor will my children…god have mercy on you…..
April 22, 2010 @ 4:14 pm[...] Bertha Lewis shares her true colors: While she certainly seems sincere, it is almost unimaginable that she truly believes the coming conservative re-alignment will lead to a new era of McCarthyism, segregation – and internment!? More than likely, considering the audience, she was purposefully exaggerating in order to build momentum towards her recruitment pitch. But in case there is any doubt, I think I can safely speak for most conservatives in saying that our only interest is in achieving (overwhelming) victory at the ballot box, and then beginning to get the growth of Big Government and federal spending under control. [...]
April 22, 2010 @ 7:57 pmWell, here’s the woman who runs Acorn, an organization which helps prostitution rings and voter fraud and who knows what else.
Maybe we should title her: Bertha Lewis, Pimp
I hope there is none of the violence that she’s obviously trying to gin up, but if there is, the let the blood rest solely on her hands and those of her demented followers.
April 23, 2010 @ 12:33 amClearly, this woman is a black supremacist and a far left wing loon. The idea that the Tea Partiers will put millions of her fellow Socialists in Interment Camps is ridiculous. Our current government is Socialist, Bertha! Let’s make sure that ACORN stays dead.
April 23, 2010 @ 7:36 amAcorn is alive and well under different names in different states.
April 23, 2010 @ 5:46 pmThese “interment camps”–could they be the FEMA camps everyone was talking about?
Some states have already put in place the Martial Law programs that can be enacted at the signing of a paper.
Ck. out Massachusetts, for instance.
WHY? WHO is expecting to use such means to control people? The FEDS?
Question everything.
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April 23, 2010 @ 11:01 pmomg-a socialist is a socialist. Why are they so afraid to admit that is what they believe in?
If socialism is so great why not just admit that is what you believe in?
I am not afraid to say, I am a true conservative? That is what I believe to be true.
I believe in the Constitution
I believe in persoanl responsibility
I believe that God is a part of our success as a nation.
I believe that Americans are the hardest working biggest hearted people there is.
I beleive we do more to help the world than any other country.
I believe it is wrong of Berthat Lewsi, to use the foul terms that grandmothers in the tea party movement are a bowel movement.
These people have a right to a voice.
Decent is in the Constittuiton because this country is going in the wrong direction,
Socialism is just a step between, capitalism and Communism.
So why not just be proud of what you believe if it is so good, however don’t take my word ask people who came from Communist Russia
April 24, 2010 @ 5:53 amThe tea party people do not leave their trash behind on the sidewalk or park grounds wherever they go. They are peaceful, they are friendly and they are people who work hard to pay taxes for those who don’t.
So what makes them a bowel movement according to Bertha Lewis?
It cost us 15 million dollars to clean up Washington after the inaguration.
The millions of dollars in flags thrown in bags in the corner. The trashed grounds. Why do these people not have to do their part in picking up after themselves?
And Bertha Lewis wants to call them a bowel movement. That is because there is no substance in what she is preaching. It is all about social justice, name calling and hate mongering.
It amazes me how these people are in charge of anything when they cannot even control their own behaviour. Respect? If nothing else she should keep her dignity.
So when Bertha Lewis preaches her hate speech, what are we to think? I think this is hate speech.
I have news for Ms. Lewis, if not for most of these tea party people there would be no free money for ACORN.
April 24, 2010 @ 6:08 amI don’t know how you can quantify hardest working or biggest hearted, but, in terms of hardest work at least, there are many developing nations where a visit to a sweat shop would give you a wake up call. Biggest hearted – maybe. Americans are a very big hearted, gregarious and generally affable bunch. Maybe some nations run you close, but you might well be right there.
As for doing more to help the world than any other country – that’s very much a matter of perspective, and I would respectfully suggest that as an American, your perspective is somewhat skewed. Many people around the world, whose opinions are no less valid than yours, would strongly disagree with you there. You’re probably thinking of things like the war on terror, whereas not everyone views that as a help.
April 26, 2010 @ 3:39 amWow, well, okay, now what we’ve known is now unwittingly voiced by Bertha, the leftists are indeed Socialists, which, of coarse is Marxism/Communism, which, of coarse is THE lethal enemy of true Americans who love their freedoms that the life blood of the dear and precious sons and daughters of America have shed to purchase for us all.
Yes, we must rid ourselves of the parasites and TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.
The opposition seems to forget that we are our forefathers children with the same determination for right and Truth to win and that we do not give up. The principle is “overcome evil with good,” which always wins with persistence.
April 28, 2010 @ 11:31 am