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Will Breitbart, O'Keefe and Giles come clean about the ACORN pimp hoax?

PostDateIcon March 18th, 2011

James O’Keefe never wore his crazy hustler outfit to meet with community organizers. Instead, the ’70s-style blaxploitation pimp costume O’Keefe helped make famous was a propaganda tool used after the fact to deceive the public about the undercover operation.

Yet in the very infancy of the ACORN scandal, Fox News was peddling a false story about O’Keefe’s pimp costume, a false story that quickly morphed into accepted fact. (Eventually, after an avalanche of repetition, didn’t pretty much everyone believe O’Keefe was decked out as a pimp?)

It quickly morphed into fact because the lead propagandists helped to spread the tall tale. And now they won’t come clean about their role.

For instance, during that September 12 broadcast, Giles said nothing to set the record straight. That night, she sat and listened to Gutfeld tell the phony pimp story, and she became complicit in the lie. Obviously, Giles knew her undercover pal didn’t look like he just came from a costume party when he walked into ACORN outposts with his undercover camera. But on Fox News, when Gutfeld spread that tale, Giles did nothing to correct the record.

Soon, her undercover cohort joined in the misinformation campaign. Two days later, O’Keefe appeared on Fox & Friends decked out as a pimp. Host Steve Doocy announced that O’Keefe was "dressed exactly in the same outfit that he wore to these ACORN offices up and down the Eastern Seaboard."

O’Keefe made no effort to correct Doocy’s falsehood.

And then one week later, writing in The Washington Times, O’Keefe and Giles’ mentor, conservative activist Andrew Breitbart, whose website Big Government first hosted the ACORN clips, added to the misinformation movement. He wrote that O’Keefe had been "dressed as a pimp" while "getting" tax advice inside ACORN offices.

It was all part of a campaign, often fueled by winks and nods, to plant the indelible image of O’Keefe strolling into inner-city ACORN workplaces on summer afternoons decked out in his furry pimp costume and clueless ACORN employees not batting an eye.

BE CAREFUL, cons. You are being lied to.


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Do you think ACORN Could Open Pandora's Box?

PostDateIcon February 9th, 2011

Monday, September 21, 2009

ACORN Could Open Pandora’s Box

by Ken Blackwell

Ken Klukowski co-authored this piece

In the wake of Fox News reporting on the unfolding ACORN scandal, ACORN is now threatening to sue the network. Now that Fox is actually breaking news on this story by showing new videos, ACORN might just do it. Fox News should pray that ACORN does sue, because it would blow the doors off this story, possibly destroying ACORN and erupting into a political scandal in Washington.

As bizarre as it seems, ACORN is threatening to sue Fox for reporting on these incriminating videotapes. Glenn Beck broke news with a new tape on Monday, and Sean Hannity might be doing the same shortly. Evidently, ACORN is accusing Fox of coordinating with the filmmakers, arguing that somehow these reports make Fox legally liable.

ACORN’s unavoidable problem, however, is that suing Fox News would give Fox — or any other media organization — the ultimate Christmas present: a legally enforceable way to compel ACORN to give up all its secrets.

The process by which a party to a lawsuit can force the opposing party to disclose information is called discovery, which can take the form of depositions, written questions, or demands for the production of documents. Under federal rules, a defendant can get court orders for discovery for any information relevant to its defense, except for privileged information such as attorney-client discussions.

If ACORN sues, it would have to sue alleging some variation of defamation or fraud. The problem is that for either allegation, truth is an absolute defense. Nothing could be more relevant to Fox establishing its defense of truth in the lawsuit than having access to ACORN’s office memos, emails, phone records, and bank statements. All of these would have a reasonable chance of providing evidence as to whether ACORN workers had knowledge of any of the topics seen on the videotapes.

In short, it would blow the doors off ACORN’s vault of secrets. Fox would learn which organizations collaborate with ACORN, how they spend taxpayer money and what ACORN’s leaders say to each other behind closed doors. It would be a treasure trove for a media organization.

It could also become a massive political scandal in Washington. Two of the individuals on ACORN’s eight-member advisory board include John Podesta (the chairman of President Obama’s transition team after the election) and Andrew Stern, the president of SEIU who is intimately involved with the White House on numerous issues, including the health care plan. Some Democratic elected and appointed officials also have close ties with ACORN.

While it’s certainly possible that none of these public officials have any knowledge of criminal activities by ACORN workers, it would be embarrassing to have their names associated with the investigation. Does ACORN really want to open Pandora’s box by suing a media company when these things would be at stake?

It’s not surprising that ACORN is considering lawsuits out of desperation, including suits against the intrepid reporters who filmed these tapes, and against Big Government, the new political website by online media guru Andrew Breitbart that first broke this story and has been the leading source for continuing developments.

(Not that any of them should be overly concerned, either. They would have no trouble collecting vast sums for a legal defense team and would have a good chance at winning on the merits in any such lawsuit. And again, their discovery efforts would give Big Government reams of material for new stories. In short, they would become heroes to the national conservative movement for helping bring down ACORN.)

So ACORN’s legal actions would be its undoing. The resulting exposure would explode into a national story that even sympathetic media outlets could no longer ignore, bedeviling ACORN’s allies at SEIU and even dragging top advisers to President Barack Obama into humiliating legal proceedings.

And once top ACORN officials were put on the witness stand under oath, who knows what the American taxpayer would learn?

It would be one huge, ongoing scoop for Fox. And their ratings would soar, as ACORN sinks beneath the waves.

Ken Blackwell is a former undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and current senior fellow at the Family Research Council and a visiting professor at Liberty University School of Law. Ken Klukowski is a fellow and senior legal analyst with the American Civil Rights Union and frequently contributes to FoxNews.com.

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Capitolist system is broken and needs to be changed so bankrupting I believe is the best idea?

PostDateIcon September 12th, 2010

Cloward-Piven is a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.
The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. Sometimes known as the "crisis strategy" or the the "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities strategy," the Cloward-Piven approach called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants – more than the system could bear. It was hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism.
The National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), founded by African-American militant George Alvin Wiley, put the Cloward-Piven strategy to work in the streets. Its activities led directly to the welfare crisis that bankrupted New York City in 1975.
Veterans of NWRO went on to found the Living Wage Movement and the Voting Rights Movement, both of which rely on the Cloward-Piven strategy and both of which are spear-headed by the radical cult ACORN.
Both the Living Wage and Voting Rights movements depend heavily on financial support from George Soros’s Open Society Institute.

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The Right "Refudiates" any racists are amongst them yet they hold Andrew Brightbart up high,are they blind?

PostDateIcon September 3rd, 2010

Brightbart is called a racist by most people with his recent attempt to divide the nation with his Sherrod edited video. Does this show us just how desperate that he, that he has to once again make up stories and pad them with lies? Yet the Right takes him seriously. They believed him when he made up the prostitute and pimp tapes fro Acorn, all of which were found to be edited lies. Fox News ran with that too. Is is fairly easy to see that those on the Right either want to believe him or are themselves racists and agree with this type of sleazy false reporting?


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Is Andrew Breitbart is a media genius?

PostDateIcon August 24th, 2010

Andrew Breitbart is a media genius.

He proved it originally with his brilliant handling of the ACORN ‘hooker’ scandal which
he skillfully manipulated so that the corrupt media was forced, against its will, to
broadcast corruption in one of Obama’s most powerful political support groups. But
Breitbart’s handing of that affair is nothing compared to his brilliant manipulation of
the Shirley Sherrod ‘white farmer’ scandal.

It all began last Monday, July 22, 2010. As the country watched in horror, Breitbart
released a snippet of a tape on his "Big Government" site which showed an
obscure black female official of the Dept. of Agriculture laughing to a roomful of NAACP
members about how she’d discriminated against a destitute white farmer and refused to
give him the financial aid he desperately needed. As she smirked to the room, she’d sent
him instead to a white lawyer – ‘one of his own kind’ – for help. The black woman was
Shirley Sherrod – and almost immediately she became the center of a firestorm of
controversy which exploded throughout the country. Within a day of the release of that
infamous tape, the head of the Dept. of Agriculture, spurred on by Obama, demanded – and
received – Sherrod’s resignation. Breitbart had won.

But then seemingly Breitbart’s actions began to explode in his face. As Sherrod screamed
in protest, FOX News released the entire text of her speech last March to the NAACP. And
there on tape Sherrod was shown supposedly repenting of her racism against a white farmer
and instead championing his fight to win funds to keep his farm afloat. Within hours of
that entire tape being revealed, the entire world turned against Andrew Breitbart.
Conservatives throughout the country were enraged that he’d endangered their reputations
by releasing a ‘doctored’ tape. Breitbart, they thundered, had dealt a fatal blow to the
conservative media. I confess that I also was horrified at what I saw as the clumsiness
and stupidity of Breitbart in ‘doctoring’ a tape to make a supposedly innocent woman look
guilty. But now I discover I have been as guilty of haste to judgment of Breitbart as
the Dept. of Agriculture was of Ms. Sherrod.

Only now am I realizing the real purpose for Breitbart’s release of that tape snippet.
It was to allow him to cunningly trick the media into exposing one of the most shocking
examples of corruption in the federal government – a little known legal case called
"Pigford v. Glickman".

http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/07/27/pigford-v-glickman-86000-claims-from-39697-total

-farmers/?singlepage=true

"In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of
Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial
discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997." The case was entitled "Pigford
v. Glickman" and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed
to pay each of them as much as ,000 to settle their claims.

But then on February 23 of this year, something shocking happened in relation to that
original judgment. In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to
"Pigford". The amount was a staggering .25 billion. This was because the
original number of plaintiffs – 400 black farmers – had now swollen in a class action
suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America.

There was only one teensy problem. The United States of America doesn’t have 86,000
black farmers. According to accurate and totally verified census data, the total number
of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Oops.

Well, gosh – how on earth did 39,697 explode into 86,000 claims? And how did ,000
explode into .25 billion? Well, folks, you’ll just have to ask the woman who not only
spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the "Rural Development
Leadership Network" but whose family received the highest single payout
(approximately million) from that action – Shirley Sherrod. Oops again.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/110/024/Is_There_More_to_Sherrods_Dismissal.html

Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the
perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the United States – a fraud enabled
solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission. And
it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and
abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of "Pigford
v. Glickman" in 1999 only applied to a total of 16,000 black farmers. But in 2008,
a junior Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allo


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Why are Conservatives defending Andrew Brietbart?

PostDateIcon July 27th, 2010

1.He lied and edited the Shirley Sherrod video.
2.He lied and edited the Acorn video.
3.He lied and edited the Van Jones video.

Fox News uses Andrew Breitbart as a Secret Weapon against the black community.


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Should Acorn be put back in Business after we now know Andrew Brietbart edited the videos?

PostDateIcon July 25th, 2010

Andrew Brietbart worked with Fox News to Edit the Acorn videos just like they did with the Sherrod videos but this time it didn’t work.It’s been proved the Fake Pimp and prostitute was set up by Andrew Brietbart and James O’Keefe and Fox News together.


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How Come Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart Keep Scooping the New York Times?

PostDateIcon May 20th, 2010

•BEST OF THE WEB TODAY
•SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
‘Call Fox’ – How Come Glenn Beck and Andrew Breitbart
Keep Scooping the New York Times?

By JAMES TARANTO

Last week we noted that Jill Abramson, managing editor of the New York Times, had acknowledged her paper was "a beat behind" on the story of Van Jones, the Obama administration’s so-called green-jobs czar, who among other things once signed a 9/11 "truther" conspiracy petition. Times readers did not learn about Jones until he had already become the Obama administration’s former so-called green-jobs czar. Abramson pointed out that long before the Times reported the story, "it had been discussed on talk radio, Fox News and other venues."

Our conclusion: "If you want to get the news ahead of the Times, watch Fox News Channel."

On Friday, Fox delivered on Abramson’s promise by scooping the Times again. Early that evening, the network sent an email alert: "Census Bureau severs all ties with ACORN after hidden-camera videos expose 4 of group’s workers advising ‘pimp,’ ‘prostitute’ on subverting the law." (Here’s the full story.) The Obama administration had invited Acorn (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) to "partner" with the bureau as "advocates for census cooperation and participation," as the bureau described it in its Dear John letter.

Readers of Saturday’s Times got only a short (225-word) report from the Associated Press, which began: "The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with Acorn, a community organization that Republicans have accused of voter-registration fraud." It made no mention of the hidden-camera sting–although that was because of the Times’s editing. The original AP dispatch, filed contemporaneously with the Fox alert, was twice as long. Among the material the Times cut was this:

ACORN fired two employees who were seen on hidden-camera video giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman who pretended to be a prostitute. Fox News Channel broadcast excerpts from the video on Thursday. On the video, a man and woman visiting ACORN’s Baltimore office asked about buying a house and how to account on tax forms for the woman’s income. An ACORN employee advised the woman to list her occupation as "performance artist."

Those two employees had worked in Baltimore (the other two were in Washington), and a story in Friday’s Baltimore Sun reported that the investigators purportedly planned to traffic in child sex slaves:

The video depicts a man and a scantily dressed female partner visiting the Charles Village office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, where they appear to ask two employees about how to shield their work from state and federal tax requirements. The supposed pimp also appears to ask the employees how to conceal underage girls from El Salvador brought into the country illegally to work for him.

"If they don’t have Social Security numbers, you don’t have to worry about them," the employee says.

The Sun noted that the exposé, by 20-year-old Hannah Giles and 25-year-old James O’Keefe, was published on BigGovernment.com, a conservative Web site run by Andrew Breitbart, before being aired on Glenn Beck’s Fox program.

It was a busy week for Beck and Breitbart. On Friday they claimed another victory when, as FoxNews.com reported, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that it was "reassigning" Yosi Sergant, its communications director. On his Sept. 1 program, Beck had aired portions of a tape from an August conference call with artists, in which Sergant exhorted them to push the administration’s agenda. The call was first reported on Big Hollywood, another Breitbart site, by a participant, Patrick Courrielche, who provided Beck the tape on which Sergant said this:

I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment. There’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service. Then my task would be to apply your artistic, creativity community’s utilities and bring them to the table.

Sergant also told the artists: "We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government, what that looks like legally. . . . We are participating in history as it’s being made. So bear with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely and we can really work together [to] move the needle and to get stuff done."

Here is a reprint in full of the Times’s coverage of the Sergant story: .

It’s difficult to imagine that a Republican administration could employ an exponent of a crackpot conspiracy theory, "partner" with an apparently corrupt organization, or attempt to politicize an agency like the NEA without the mainstream media treating it as a major scandal. But with Obama in the White House? A quote attributed to the fired Washington Acorn employees sums things up nicely. The AP reported that they had advised Giles and O’Keef


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Is ACORN's nemesis Andrew Breitbart the new Don Hewitt (60 Minutes)?

PostDateIcon May 10th, 2010

As the once super potent major news shows and newspapers become Dodos, new sources arise.

Fox uses citizen investigative journalism, and the main source of FOXNEWS for the recent street prostitute underage sex-slave sponsoring pervasive criminality expose of ACORN (Obama’s favorite community organizing organization with whom he has many ties) has been Andrew Brietbart.

Is ACORN’s nemesis Andrew Breitbart the new Don Hewitt (60 Minutes)?


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