I was on the “O’Reilly Factor” in 2008 talking about MoveOn. Although I disagree with what MoveOn wants to do, the group does it well. Bill O’Reilly did not seem to like my answer. Oh well. Here is the video: Continue reading Matthew Vadum on the O’Reilly Factor (for the second time)
The leaders of the group that spawned ACORN, the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), hated the civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a passion. NWRO activists thought King was not radical enough. More details to come in my soon-to-be published book, Subversion Inc. Continue reading Community organizers hated Martin Luther King Jr.
Despite its claim to be in extremis in the latter part of 2010, ACORN was busy on the campaign trail. A newly rebranded Pennsylvania chapter of ACORN, Pennsylvania Neighborhoods for Social Justice, worked to promote the ultimately failed candidacy of Joe Sestak, a Democrat who sought a seat in the U.S. Senate. ACORN is not dead. Continue reading ACORN aided Sestak campaign in 2010
(originally posted at NewsReal) Finally a movie comes along that sticks it to the ruling class that is deliberately and maliciously driving America into the ground. The message of the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1,200-page opus, Atlas Shrugged, is that the productive should be able to go about their business without being hindered by the nonproductive and the anti-productive mischief makers of government. It is a celebration of the many virtues of capitalism, a topic I editorialized about previously atNewsReal. And it turns out it’s surprisingly good! I saw the movie at a special advance screening kindly provided by the Washington, … Continue reading It’s Time to Go Galt: Atlas Shrugged Movie is a Winner
Twelve years ago many Democrats* and Republicans still thought lowering borrowing standards in order to help poor, uncreditworthy people play Russian roulette with home values was a wonderful idea. In 1999 ACORN even bragged about helping to kill reasonable underwriting standards by strong-arming banks into counting welfare benefits such as food stamps as income. No money? No job? No problem! ACORN Housing Corp. produced a brochure, “To Each Their Home: Success Stories from the ACORN Housing Corporation,” to highlight the group’s antisocial activities. “To each their home.” Hmmm. What does that sound like? Oh yeah, I remember now. From each … Continue reading ACORN Housing bragged about destroying the housing market
How time flies. This is the video clip from my first appearance on the “O’Reilly Factor” back in 2007. I was talking to Bill O’Reilly about Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, and Medea Benjamin. Code Pink is not only an antiwar group, it is firmly in the anti-American camp aligning itself with the relentless brutal Communist dictatorships of North Korea and Cuba. Here is the video: Continue reading Matthew Vadum on the O’Reilly Factor
Two weeks ago I was on Thom Hartmann’s radio show. Hartmann is essentially a communist in ideological terms. He’s a member of the misnamed Democratic Socialists of America (other notable members: Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven) and a proud 9/11 “truther.” Hartmann thinks corporations pick through your garbage late at night or have installed mind control microchips in your dental work, or something. Hartmann read an article of mine and somehow got it in his head that I favor debtors’ prisons. Here’s a video of the interview that Hartmann streamed from his website (hats off to you if you can … Continue reading Radical Thom Hartmann accuses Matthew Vadum of trying to bring back debtors’ prisons — or something
(originally posted at NewsReal) Was the deal Speaker John Boehner made to prevent a federal government shutdown really the best he could get? Who knows, but it’s far from clear if the deal actually involves a net cut in government spending. After promising to slice $100 billion from the federal budget, the GOP capitulated and the final number dropped down to $61 billion… and then down to a mere $39 billion. The fiscal 2011 budget request from President Obama, which was never actually adopted, called for an unprecedented $3.8 trillion in spending. A $39 billion cut, if it really is a cut, … Continue reading Unhinged leftists like Tavis Smiley are howling over the budget deal, but are there any actual cuts?
I put up some photos of people associated with ACORN on the Facebook page for my book Subversion Inc. Among them are ACORN funder George Soros, ACORN funders Herb and Marion Sandler, ACORN founder and destroyer Wade Rathke, ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis, ACORN supporters Bill Ayers and Noam Chomsky, and ACORN supporter and racist traitor Van Jones. Continue reading New photos posted at Subversion Inc. page on Facebook
Ron Radosh, who figures prominently in my upcoming book Subversion Inc., has an eye-opening piece up at Pajamas Media. Here’s the top of it: In an interview with New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, Robert Meeropol, the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, admitted on Wednesday that “his father deserved to have been convicted of the legal charges that led to his parents’ execution. ‘Yes, he was guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage,’”Meeropol told him.After decades of denial, and insistence that his father was framed up and was innocent, Robert Meeropol for the first time has admitted that his father — but not … Continue reading Son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Admits One Parent’s Guilt
(this article by Matthew Vadum was originally published in the October 2010 issue of the American Spectator) Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky By Nicholas von Hoffman(Nation Books, 214 pages, $26.95) “Although Alinsky is described as some kind of liberal left-winger in actuality big government worried him,” writes Saul Alinsky protégé Nicholas von Hoffman in his gossamer memoir,Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky. “He feared the gigantism of government, corporation and even labor union.” Von Hoffman is trying to recast Alinsky as a government-fearing libertarian in order to make his communistic beliefs more marketable. It’s a project doomed to failure. … Continue reading The Smallness of Saul (Alinsky), a book review
I wrote a profile of Planned Parenthood last year that’s worth revisiting now that Congress is fighting over defunding the notorious group. With permission from Townhall magazine, here it is. (PDF) Continue reading Planned Parenthood: Killing Is Big Business
(originally posted at NewsReal) The Democratic Party is officially encouraging supporters to go to Speaker John Boehner’s house and dump garbage on his lawn in order to intimidate him into rubber-stamping President Obama’s destructive spending spree. Such protests can easily turn violent, especially with the tense, hyper-partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill right now. Is it a coincidence that not long after longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard took over as executive director of the Democratic National Committee the DNC is planning destructive ACORN-like protests? Not bloody likely. As chief of the DNC’s day-to-day operations, Gaspard runs Organizing for America, the Saul Alinsky-inspired organization created to wage war on American democracy. … Continue reading DNC-Sponsored Mob Violence Possible: ACORN, Obama Behind Plan To Dump Garbage On Speaker Boehner’s Home?
For the first time ever ACORN has been convicted in a conspiracy to commit massive voter fraud. Voter fraud, sometimes called electoral fraud, is a blanket term encompassing a host of election-related improprieties. In this case the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now pleaded guilty this week in Las Vegas to felony compensation for registration of voters. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 10. ACORN executives conspired to provide cash bonuses to voter registration canvassers. Nevada law forbids such practices because they give canvassers an incentive to file fraudulent registrations. The ACORN executives previously convicted and sentenced in the conspiracy are … Continue reading ACORN convicted of voter fraud in Nevada
Arizona-based blogger Barbara Espinosa (and co-host Vernon Parker) interviewed me on Oct. 25 last year regarding ACORN and other things. Here is the radio interview from KFNX 1100 AM in video form (why the video shows a still photo of me with the “world’s tallest female econoblogger” is a mystery): Continue reading Barbara Espinosa interviews Matthew Vadum
(originally posted at NewsReal) The man who ignited grassroots opposition to the hideously un-American Big Government policies of President Barack Obama when virtually no one else cared will end his highly rated show on Fox News Channel in December. Glenn Beck and Fox News Channel announced Wednesday they had agreed to let their contract run out. “Glenn intends to transition off his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year,” they said in a joint release. America owes a debt of gratitude to Glenn Beck. Whatever his foibles, in the dark days of early … Continue reading American Hero and Badass for Liberty Glenn Beck to End Fox TV Show
I have long maintained that the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate in the House of Representatives, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is a few fries short of a Happy Meal. She’s buddies with racist agitator Al Sharpton and has long been a member of the kooky (and misnamed) Congressional Progressive Caucus, which is tied to America’s largest Marxist group, Democratic Socialists of America. Yet more proof has surfaced. The Hill is reporting Del. Norton is very unhappy about the congressional fight over the budget, which has the effect of holding up the District’s budget. “District residents are being treated as colonists of the … Continue reading Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-Crazytown)
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Community organizers LOVE getting arrested! Really, they do. Both Saul Alinsky and ACORN founder Wade Rathke have said that getting arrested is a great way to advance the cause. In this photo longtime community organizer and ACORN funder Donna Edwards, now a Democratic congresswoman representing Maryland, gets arrested at a Darfur protest somewhere. Read all about the sheer joy Alinskyites derive from getting the handcuffs slapped on them in my book Subversion Inc. Continue reading Community organizers LOVE getting arrested!
I’ve been keeping a running tab of the books that reference my work and/or quote me. Note that authors on the left, such as Arianna Huffington and Center for American Progress visiting fellow Shirley Sagawa, have given my work a vote of confidence by relying on it. And this is just a list of books that reference my work. 🙂 Here is the list as of April 6, 2011: * asterisk indicates New York Times bestseller In reverse chronological order: 28) The New Reagan Revolution: How Ronald Reagan’s Principles Can Restore America’s Greatness Today, by Michael Reagan with Jim Denney, Thomas Dunne Books, 2011, 340n17. 27) Death … Continue reading Books I’m quoted or cited in (as of April 6, 2011)