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Indeed, the next day, Vadum was invited to appear on Eric Bolling's Fox Business show to rail against President Obama's voter outreach plan.

Chris Kromm: Should the Poor Be Allowed to Vote? Chris Kromm 2011

But Matthew Vadum, a Fox News favorite and part of the paranoid right's brain trust, isn't being remotely funny when he says "registering the poor to vote is un-American."

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But not everyone was turned off by Vadum's missive.

Chris Kromm: Should the Poor Be Allowed to Vote? Chris Kromm 2011

Author of a 2011 book "exposing" ACORN -- praised by Rep. Michele Bachmann R-MN -- and writer for popular conservative websites like BigGovernment, Vadum works at the Capital Research Foundation, which has received millions of dollars from foundations run by the Koch brothers and other top conservative benefactors.

Chris Kromm: Should the Poor Be Allowed to Vote? Chris Kromm 2011

Last week, right-wing pundit Matthew Vadum created a stir when he argued that -- as his piece at American Thinker is titled -- "Registering the Poor to Vote is Un-American."

Chris Kromm: Should the Poor Be Allowed to Vote? Chris Kromm 2011

Little of it will surprise observers -- talk to a liberal pundit and hear a sigh about how OFA has let the energy of the Obama campaign deflate -- but Vadum includes quite a denunciation of the group from Republican National Lawyers Association Chair David Norcross.

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"Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor," Vadum writes.

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"It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote," Vadum, the author of a book published by World Net Daily that attacks the now-defunct community organizing group ACORN, writes in a column for the American Thinker.

Crooks and Liars Heather 2011

Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum is just going to come right out and

Crooks and Liars Heather 2011