St.
Petersburg Times reports that none other than
Mickey Mouse tried to register to vote for the 2008 presidential election. Mickey's application was stamped with the logo of embattled nonprofit group
ACORN, the "Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now," a grass roots action group pressing various social and economic issues for low income citizens.
ACORN has come under fire for what Republican watchdogs allege are unscrupulous voter registration drives in key battleground states. The building confrontation has become white hot in Ohio, where yesterday election officials in
Cuyahoga County, Ohio's most populous voting district,
launched an investigation into certain dubious dealings by ACORN canvassers, including an allegation by a 19-year-old registrant
that he fraudulently signed 73 voter registration forms in the span of five months in exchange for $20 worth of cigarettes and cash.
Is the registration of Mickey Mouse really a story? I mean I know you need filler for the 24 hour news cycle. He's a six foot tall talking mouse:
Shouldn't he be easy to spot and pull out of line at the polling place on November 4
th in the unlikely event he attempts to vote?
This is a non-story. Give me something with legs - like Goofy soliciting a transvestite hooker outside the Carousel of Progress in Tomorrowland. That's a scoop. Or Cinderella getting violently gang-raped by Donald Duck and an animatronic William Howard Taft in the basement of the Hall of Presidents - a shocking crime that will forever rob the Liberty Square community of its innocence.
In a related story,
Greta Van Susteren has pledged to burn herself at the stake if Barack Obama wins Ohio from an ACORN boon. Greta has done for her
cause celebre, ACORN, what Nancy Grace has done for poor
Caylee Anthony: Absolutely nothing! - except scowls, sneering eye rolls and pushing an investigatory progress comparable to Ray Charles looking for a five dollar bill in a wad of cash.
"Where's Caylee, dammit????? Where's Caylee?????? Now, look at my precious twins and worship them! Bless you, friends!"
At a McCain event this morning in Defiance, Ohio (aptly named as McCain defies statistics and maps), 6000 of the enthusiastic faithful rallied to hear stories of "Real American patriotism" and the wickedness of Islamosocialism.
