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Philly ACORN Vid Exposes 'Kicked Out' Lies
2009-10-23
Just when you thought that activist filmmaker James O'Keefe, partner Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart at BigGovernment.com had run out of ammo to direct at ACORN, they have outdone themselves.

In September, BigGov aired videos showing O'Keefe and Giles, posing as a pimp and prostitute, asking for and getting cordial help in setting up their enterprise as a deliberately income-underrporting cash enterprise from ACORN representatives in Baltimore, Washington, New York City, San Bernardino, and San Diego. This help was provided even after Giles revealed her purported plans to import underage girls as part of the enterprise.

For a month, it has supposedly been the settled truth that a similar attempt by O'Keefe and Giles in Philadelphia had failed miserably, and that the pair were "thrown out" of ACORN's office there. ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis said so on CNN. The Philadelphia Daily News's David Gambacorta reported that "they were apparently shown the door." Others playing or parroting ACORN's assertions included the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Post, NPR, and the New York Times.

The press should have suspected that another shoe might drop in Philly, as ACORN made similar assertions about the pair's visits in New York and San Diego after the Baltimore and Washington vids premiered that were quickly proven utterly false. But if there was any skepticism, it was well-hidden.

Now O'Keefe's and Giles latest video (direct YouTube here) blows ACORN's Philadelphia story to smithereens.
Posted by:Fred

#2  In 8 more days ACORN gets at least some of it's funding back.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-10-23 15:12  

#1  Well, I suspect Congress will do its best to ignore those smithereens and give ACORN five or six more chances to come up with a story that, although obviously hokey, does have some plausible deniability.
Posted by: gorb   2009-10-23 02:02  

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