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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Debra J. Saunders :: Townhall.com Columnist
Inside the Glorious Nation of ACORN
by Debra J. Saunders
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I would not go see the film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" because I found more cruelty than humor in deliberately exposing unwitting civilians to the easy ridicule of smug sophomores.

Now the right has its own Borat-style entertainment. Equipped with a video camera, conservative activists James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, sought the answer to this question: "What if a 'prostitute' and her alleged law school boyfriend walk into ACORN seeking housing for an underage brothel to fund his future congressional campaign?"

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The answer, they discovered, was that some of the folks who work at ACORN (the left-leaning Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) were overly adept at looking the other way -- even after O'Keefe and Giles told them that Salvadoran girls as young as 12 would be working as prostitutes in their brothel.

One ACORN worker told the couple they could list the under-aged prostitutes as dependents "because they live in your house, especially if they're under 16." Some organizers emphasized that it was not their job to judge others. A Baltimore worker tried to sign up the couple as dues-paying ACORN members.

ACORN has reacted by charging that the videotapes were "doctored" and charged O'Keefe and Giles with trolling for damning material. ACORN also claims the couple is not airing tape from offices where they were shown the door. The Philadelphia Daily News, for example, reported that the local ACORN office kicked out O'Keefe and Giles and filed a police report.

On Saturday, ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis said in a statement that she would not defend actions of the now-fired workers. She also charged that O'Keefe and Giles broke the law -- "and we will be taking legal action against Fox (News) and their co-conspirators."

But what of CNN and other new organizations that have reported on this story? The prank is paying off. On Friday, U.S. census director Robert M. Groves terminated the bureau's (nonpaying) partnership agreement with ACORN. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Sep 20, 2009 - 2:43 PM EST
Saunders spins
For Saunders to take this questionable approach to these stingers, one can only conclude she is currying favor to her publishing masters. The print media is in a state of free fall collapse while careers hang in the balance. This was a conscious, and intellectually dishonest, SF Chronicle appeal to lib/leftist 'neighborhood organizers' in order to hang onto their market while maintaining a broad political perception.

IOW, while ACORN is being hammered, the politically expedient approach is to accuse the accusers. This ranks right there with ACORN's response that they knew these stingers were phony - they were simply playing with them, going along with the con. Uh, huh.

There really should be felony criminal prosecutions of ACORN - they were aiding, abetting and conspiring to commit felonies, all the while being sustained with federal funding.

RICO prosecutions are definitely in order.
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Date: Sep 20, 2009 - 10:23 AM EST
But Ms. Saunders...
when the dope head woman said in the video that Glenn Beck aired on television, that she "killed her husband" are we just to ignore the type of a human-being that would want that kind of a reputation to begin with...whether she did tell the truth is somewhat byside the point...she tried to contray it, which is totally wrong and further adds to credibility at ACORN. It's obvious, when viewing the video, that his woman has had very serious drug/alcohol problems in the past and should not have been in a position to offer advice to even mice!! I doubt that they could understand her english!!
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