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Who do you think will win the ACORN fake video lawsuit?

April 3rd, 2011

One of the many victims of Andrew Breitbart’s ACORN video hoax has filed suit against pseudo-pimp James O’Keefe and pseudo-ho Hannah Giles. Former San Diego ACORN office employee Juan Carlos Vera, who was falsely portrayed in a heavily edited videotape as conspiring with O’Keefe and Giles to traffic underage girls across the Mexican border, is suing both of the right-wing filmmakers, seeking ,000 in damages under California’s privacy statutes.

Filed last week in the U.S. District Court in San Diego, Vera’s complaint claims that O’Keefe, Giles and up to 20 unnamed parties violated his "reasonable expectation of privacy" by conspiring to secretly videotape him and then posting the tapes on the Internet without his consent, causing him to lose his job and other damages.

The notorious tape featuring Vera — with his friendly smile and hesitant English — was aired repeatedly on Fox News and cited as proof of the most incendiary charge against ACORN by conservative Web impresario Breitbart: namely, that the anti-poverty organization was in fact a criminal conspiracy to promote teenage prostitution.

But as California Attorney General Jerry Brown discovered when he investigated the ACORN matter last spring, the actual meaning of the Vera tape was severely distorted by dishonest editing to suggest that he had agreed to help smuggle young girls for O’Keefe’s mythical brothel. To obtain unedited versions of the tapes from O’Keefe, Brown gave him and Giles immunity from any criminal prosecution under the state privacy statutes.

What really happened in the San Diego ACORN office, as Fox News and many other outlets neglected to report, was that immediately after O’Keefe and Giles departed, Vera called a cousin who is a detective in the National City Police Department to report the planned crime. Police detectives later confirmed Vera’s effort to local news outlets and to the California attorney general’s office. When Vera learned that O’Keefe and Giles were hoaxing him, he again called the police, who terminated their investigation.

"The evidence illustrates," said Brown when he released his report last April, "that things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. Sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting-room floor." And soon that fuller truth may be weighed in the halls of justice.

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

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

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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What do you think will happen if ACORN files a lawsuit against Fox News?

May 27th, 2010

Let’s say this sting operation in which ACORN employees are caught advising how to falsify tax forms and set up a child prostitution ring was illegal….and that the video can’t be considered evidence.

Well, doesn’t the fact that we KNOW it happened mean ACORN should be fully investigated just to be sure they aren’t doing more crap like this?? Didn’t they get BILLIONS of dollars from the stimulus?? And weren’t they slated to be involved with Census 2010 (until 3 days ago)??

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/us/politics/12acorn.html

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27139.html

ACORN is alleging that the filmmakers committed a felony by shooting the footage of ACORN employees in the act of providing advice on how to falsify tax forms and set-up a child prostitution business—to a man and a woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

A lawyer for ACORN said Monday that statutes in Maryland and the District of Columbia made the undercover filming illegal and that the same laws should prohibit the rebroadcast of the tapes by the Web site BigGovernment.com, where they were first posted last week, and on Fox News, which aired clips of the videos.

BigGovernment.com, which launched last Wednesday, is a project of Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart.com. The videos show James O’Keefe, a conservative activist, and Hannah Giles, who is listed as a contributor on the right-leaning website, TownHall.com, visiting ACORN offices in Baltimore and Brooklyn and an ACORN Housing Corporation branch in Washington, D.C.

“It is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist ‘filmmaker’ O’Keefe and his partner in crime,’ ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis said in a statement over the weekend. “And, in fact, Wire Transfer Wisconsin Community Bank a crime it was—our lawyers believe a felony—and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.”

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