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For an innocent group, why did ACORN disband almost immediately after O'Keefe outed them?
What a strange world we live in where someone can be forced to pay money for exposing criminal activity.
There was no criminal activity
O'Keefe lied
Sorry, but when people are on tape trying to tell someone how to legally traffic human beings, they have committed a crime.
The fact that one of these people get's $100,000 for doing so merely because he was being recorded without his consent is absolutely criminal.
There was no criminal activity
O'Keefe lied
Sorry, but when people are on tape trying to tell someone how to legally traffic human beings, they have committed a crime.
The fact that one of these people get's $100,000 for doing so merely because he was being recorded without his consent is absolutely criminal.
Falling for the ACORN Hoax ? FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Last fall, OKeefe was widely lauded for a string of undercover videos he and colleague Hannah Giles produced that allegedly exposed lax ethical standards at the community-organizing group ACORN. You guys ought to be getting, you know, a journalism award for this, Fox News Sean Hannity (9/20/09) told the duo.
The ACORN videos promoted the false premise that he and Giles had entered those offices posing as a pimp and prostitute and gotten advice on how to conceal their illegal activities. OKeefe appeared on Fox & Friends (9/7/09; Media Matters, 2/17/10) in what the host described as exactly in the same outfit that he wore to these ACORN officesa ridiculous costume reminiscent of 70s blaxploitation films
Yet the videos OKeefe and Giles released never actually show him dressed as a pimp inside ACORN offices, and ACORN employees contended he entered in business casual attire. Despite repeated claims to the contrary by both OKeefe and Andrew Breitbart, the conservative media producer whose Big Government website featured the videos (Stage Right Show, 2/16/10; Washington Times, 9/21/09), Giles herself admitted (Washington Independent, 2/19/10) that footage of OKeefe in pimp costume was purely B-roll, and disingenuously asserted that we never claimed that he went in with a pimp costume.
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger (Independent Governance Assessment of ACORN, 12/7/09) had much earlier found that not only did OKeefe enter ACORN offices dressed as a college student, but actually introduced himself as a student trying to help Giles escape an abusive pimp.
In his report, Harshbarger, who was himself denied full viewing of the tapes, concluded:
The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. OKeefes and Ms. Giless comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.
According to court documents obtained by Wonkette, conservative activist James O'Keefe has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed against him by Juan Carlos Vera, a former employee of ACORN. Vera filed the suit against O'Keefe in 2010, alleging O'Keefe had illegally taped their conversation at an ACORN office in California as part of his fraudulent "exposé" of the community activist group.
More: Report: James O'Keefe To Pay $100K Settlement To Former ACORN Employee
Wonket Sexclusive: Totally Blameless Crime-Stopper James O'Keefe To Pay $100,000 To ACORN Criminal
O'Keefe admitted to lying. Will the wingnuts, who ran with the story, admit it was a lie?
What illegal act was that?The expose wasn't fraudulent. ACORN was obviously engaged in an iillegal act. Even though the media does it all the time the taping was determined to be illegal.
The expose wasn't fraudulent. ACORN was obviously engaged in an iillegal act. Even though the media does it all the time the taping was determined to be illegal.
No. That was the one who appeared to be giving advice to a hooker and a pimp, due to clever and dishonest editing.Was that the one who gave advise to the hooker and the pimp?
Who is shocked that the cultist got it completely wrong? Raise your hands.!According to court documents obtained by Wonkette, conservative activist James O'Keefe has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed against him by Juan Carlos Vera, a former employee of ACORN. Vera filed the suit against O'Keefe in 2010, alleging O'Keefe had illegally taped their conversation at an ACORN office in California as part of his fraudulent "exposé" of the community activist group.
More: Report: James O'Keefe To Pay $100K Settlement To Former ACORN Employee
Wonket Sexclusive: Totally Blameless Crime-Stopper James O'Keefe To Pay $100,000 To ACORN Criminal
What a strange world we live in where someone can be forced to pay money for exposing criminal activity.
None.How many laws did that ACORN employee break? James taped the conversation? OMG!!! How terrible!!!
