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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Doug Giles :: Townhall.com Columnist
No, It Wasn’t My Idea for Hannah Giles to Dress Like a Hooker and Infiltrate ACORN
by Doug Giles
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It’s been quite interesting watching and reading the statements coming from ACORN and various “news” organizations about the “facts” of the Giles/O’Keefe ACORN caper. Here’s a little sample of what they have been saying about the two evil citizen journalists, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, the ones who picked on poor, poor, poor, old ACORN.

Check it out, the truth according to nutty ACORN (and what really happened):

1. Giles’ and O’Keefe’s timeframe for filming. Bertha Lewis and others have stated that Hannah and James spent many months visiting scores of ACORN centers to get these few videos. One wizard said Hannah and James had been doing this since 2005, which would have made Hannah, oh, let’s see, about 14 or 15. Hello! I’m a cool dad—but not that cool.

I guess Bertha could be right about the time Giles and O’Keefe invested in the ACORN sting op if she counts her days in dog years. If that’s how she rolls then she’s spot-on with the “many months” statement. By the way, if that’s true, this November I’ll be 329 years old. Happy birthday to me! I think I’ll get another gun! I’m diggin’ on the S&W .500 magnum. She’s purty.

The truth of the matter, from a timeline standpoint, is that they hatched their plan in May of ’09, fine-tuned it from May 20th – July 23rd, and then launched July 24th, fully accomplishing their mission by the end of August. And that’s a fact to all those for whom facts still matter.

2. Giles’ and O’Keefe’s mission failed in many locations. Bertha and her buddies say with vigor and Reverend Wright unction that Giles and O’Keefe tried this trick in hundreds of locations without success. Marc Lamont Hill was on O’Reilly’s show this past week parroting the same smack. I heard one lunatic say they visited thousands of centers nationwide (there are under 200. Oops). Hey, guys: Why stop at hundreds and thousands? Why not say gazillions or quadrillions of ACORN centers?! Go Dr. Evil with the numbers. The truth of the matter happens to be that Hannah and James visited just a few locations—I won’t say how many—and struck gold, or sewage, everywhere they went.

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3. Giles and O’Keefe had FOX News bankroll this escapade. I believe that, according to the ACORN spinmeisters, they had the amount of drachmas FOX had given Hannah and James in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The oh-so-sexy reality regarding this little nugget is that it cost these two acorn-crackers $1,300 of their own money. It’s amazing what one can do with a little cash, grandma’s chinchilla coat, a miniskirt and a whole lot of vision, eh? The only cash they received from FOX was for their hotel stay and their airfare while they did Beck’s and Hannity’s shows. That’s the truth. Oh, and as far as me giving her any pesos, for this epoch her papasito gave her nada. Not a penny. No FOX funds. No crazy Christian dad dollars.

4. Giles’ radical, ultra-conservative Christian dad put her up to it. I believe that’s how someone on one of those unwatched news shows has been bending it. Well, I can tell you as her dad that I did not. As much as me no likey the nefarious underpinnings and corrupt acts of ACORN, having my kid dress like a hooker and infiltrate such a place is not in my repertoire. That was Hannah’s baby from start to finish. I simply told her to be careful because we all know how dangerous sweet community organizers can be. Oh, FYI . . . if confessing I’m a sinner, believing orthodox Christian doctrine, saluting our flag and that for which it stands, loving the Constitution, hating terrorists, being fond of guns, hunting, country and rock music while adoring freedom makes me a crazy ultra-conservative Christian lunatic then I guess I am one of those. I will put that name right next to the other name Obama’s former green czar called such a person back in March (I believe he called us “a**holes”).

5. Giles and O’Keefe doctored the tapes. This is silly. James is a talented post-production editor, but he didn’t put the words in the ACORN workers’ mouths. He’s sharp . . . but not that sharp. Anyway, if he did you and I both would know it because it would have looked and sounded like one of those old Bruce Lee flicks. Unfortunately for Bertha, Andrew Breitbart has the vids and the transcripts in their entirety on his new site biggovernment.com for anyone to behold. Grab some popcorn and watch ‘em. It’s a teachable moment. Oh, speaking of the tapes: You might wanna go back to the San Bernadino one and listen to the list of politicians the ACORN lady rattled off as elected officials who would possibly be ready and willing to assist with the House for Hookers program.

Well, my children, that’s the inside poop on how it happened. That’s reality. I, personally, am stunned by what my kid and her cohort did in ratting out tawdry corruption on the highest (or lowest) level. As far as I am concerned, Giles and O’Keefe are American heroes par excellence. They accomplished something in a few short weeks, on a wing and a prayer, that other agencies and people have been trying to expose for many, many moons.

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Doug Giles’ new book “If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going!" is now available. Ann Coulter says "Doug Giles is a substantive and funny tour de force for traditional values.” Doug’s talk show and video blog can be seen and heard at www.ClashRadio.com.
 
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Hannah Giles & the ACORN Sting
First of all I have to say how impressed I am with the poise and maturity of a couple of young 20 somethings to take this challenge on.

As an older 50 something living in Texas I got very weary of 60 minutes' weekly smears of President Bush and all things Texas leading up to the 2008 election. How delicious it is to see the same side when the finger of accusation is pointed at them.

There is nothing more convincing than to let the corrupt tell their story in their own words, it is on the record, indisputable for all to see, except for the blindly ideological (or racist?). These two courageous young people did the job that 60 minutes used to do, shame on CBS.

The entire episode as well as the orchestrated propaganda effort on the part of the liberal media establishment to condemn critics of all things Obama as racist. NY Times columnist (communist?) Maureen Dowd has gone so far now as to infer thoughts into the minds of those she wants to fit within the frame of the picture she intends to paint of Obama's critics. Absolutely appalling the state of journalism in this country.

It does expose the squaid, bankrupt ideology of liberalism by unleashing the thoughts from corners of their mind that sho where their hearts really are on the subject of race.

Martin Luther King said that all he wanted was for black Americans to be judged on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin. Yet, when that character is found to be lacking, liberals want to spin it around to where it is always about the color of their skin. Liberal journalist and opinion leaders need to go back and re-read Martin Luther King's speech on the mall, as well as to do a fearless moral inventory of their own dark closets.

Hannah's got big problems evidently
“Hannah Giles was on FOX NEWS CHANNEL giving an interview, and she said it was her idea to do this hidden camera thing on ACORN. She said she was jogging and got a little lost and jogged into a bad part of Baltimore. She said she saw the ACORN office there and got the idea for this after seeing the type of people hanging around there. She said she got out of there as fast as she could after that.

What she meant was that she went into a part of Baltimore that wasnt a posh, white, suburban area, and she saw a bunch of people with dark skin who werent upper middle class neo-yuppie Republicans, so she got scared because she wasnt used to being around people like that unless they're cleaning her home or valet parking her car for her. And then she got this idea that since they arent rich, white, and Republican and they're in a bad area, they must all automatically be bad people and they're probably pimps or drug dealers who are doing illegal things, and they work for or hang around near this organization that helps poor black and brown people, so this organization must be the same, so lets entrap them in really idiotic and abitrary way, even if we have to make things up and be deceptive.

Sad. But certainly not surprising.”

From a comment accompanying the LA Times expose on Giles and O’Keefe’s deceptive “undercover” operation.
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