ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA
by James O'KeefeWith 70 miles of stunning beaches and picture-perfect weather all year round, having fun during the summer in San Diego doesn’t require a lot of money.
The city combines old-fashioned Mexican charm with a modern edge. In a city where the sun is always shining, it’s the perfect place to get away for a bit of relaxation or stimulation.
If you’re looking for trendy boutique hotels, an exploding culinary scene, or visiting the local ACORN to get your underage prostitutes smuggled across the Mexican border, you’re in the right place.
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And they strike again! We will get this up right away. How many more of these do you have up your sleeve?
Peace.
Sid Burgess
National Director
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And they strike again! We will get this up right away. How many more of these do you have up your sleeve?
Peace.
Sid Burgess
National Director
http://newsfifty.com
Get some!!!!
[...] ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA If you’re looking for trendy boutique hotels, an exploding culinary scene, or visiting the local ACORN to get your underage prostitutes smuggled across the Mexican border, you’re in the right place [...]
James, you are genius!!!
James and Hannah, Keep them coming!
I see a lawyer or 2 being disbarred..and maybe some prison time in their future too. Haha Haha
I love Alinsky's rule #8
If this video dosent get Congress in gear, I dont know what will.
James & Hannah, you two deserve a Pulitzer for this work.____I hope you two are being very cautious about your personal safety. These people are sleazy nut jobs and hardcore criminals.____Stay safe & keep up the sunlight.
I can't wait to see more. Is it possible there are more damaging scenarios?
Are you f@?!$%g sh$@!?g me?
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I want ACORN to go down. Such losers. Such a pity Obama backed them up
Yeah! I love it. Keep up the fantastic work, we're behind you all the way.
This set of videos doesn't seem as damning or "explosive" as the other four cities. Does anyone else agree with me? Replies appreciated.
Okay, just because you caught Acorn employees willing to help with an illegal alien child prostitution ring in Baltimore, D.C., New York, San Bernadino, and San Diego, and they are under investigation for voter fraud in over a dozen states doesn't mean that B. Obama's former employer/client is corrupt. Oh, and you guys are racist.
/sarc
This series is like watching a slow motion train wreck.
How to make money during a recession:
1. Import illegal underage immigrants for sex slavery
2. Hide your cash underground in your backyard (no one ever thought to look there…)
3. Don't forget to give a portion of your proceeds to your favorite ACORN presidential nominee OBAMA
4. When the girls grow up (if they don't first die of AIDS), let them work for ACORN so the cycle can continue.
If this isn't the most fabulous thing I've ever heard of! This investigation had better delve into the backyards of all the ACORN employees! They've gotten how many millions of dollars? And is it really only Republicans who are disgusted by this? I hope ALL red blooded Americans are appalled by this apathetic attitude towards prostitution and underage sex slavery.
Forget Kayne West, I'd love to hear the President's comments on this!
I so so so hope y’all went to Chicago.
That would be awesome.
Yet another example of the New Right Media doing the jobs that the Old Leftist Media, for ideological reasons, refuses to do.
I bet the Chicago office would furnish the girls FOR them.
Obama worked for ACORN as a lawyer. He was knee deep in this stuff.
So how many other video teams did James & Hanna deploy?
Disgusting – entering country illegally – and people wonder how terrorists get in the country – he probably helps anyone get in for the right price! He doesn't seem to have any problem with helping to get in and DOZEN underage sex slaves.
Acts like he wants to sleep w/ all those girls!
Extremely good work. It reminds me of Raj Bahkta's "Crossing the Rio Grande Illegally on an elephant while being accompanied by a Mariachi Band" idea – take a premise so fantastically ridiculous and see if it works. And it does.
I don't know what the queue of stories is like, but you're going to want to pick up the pace of the release of stories. "Drip, drip, drip" is an old media concept. Or repackage what you've already released to highlight similarities among offices.
Again, great concept, great execution.
Along those lines, here's an idea: get some male friends, make up some purple SEIU t-shirts and attend SEIU's planning meetings for ObamaCare townhalls. That'd be a hoot.
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The media blitz that Acorn is now engaged in with the aid of NBC and CNN to defend there organization will need allot more work, actually they will need many people with very low ethical values to spin this into anything other then what it is. I look forward to the day CNN and NBC are forced to cover the arrest of the lady they are now interviewing as the injured party on behalf of Acorn. There great Conservative, Racial, Right Wing Conspiracy mantra they are currently spewing will no longer hold the sting it once did. I was laughing as I heard her mention that there quality control would have caught this had any actual paperwork been summited. Acorn and Quality control what an oxymoron. Nice reporting, there ship is sinking, the people that Acorn has been preying on for so long and making slaves of might soon be yelling FREE AT Last.
Oh I do not agree. This guy in the video said he was a lawyer…if that is true, he most likely will not be practicing law much longer. He also said that he works with, i may not have this correct as it may have ben plural, a DA. How dam*ing is that if it is true?
Corruption everywhere you turn!
ohhh, that's going to be a good one.
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I think it is pretty safe to say, Obama has blood on his hands…"Acorn was smack dab in the center" of his career since the beginning. Of course he will never acknowledge this though…
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New Orleans would be great to catch on tape because that's where ACORN headquarters is!
Wal-Mart halter top: $2
Cheap sunglasses: $3
Faux fur cape: $39
Ideologically cornering the MSM so effectively they implode: Priceless
[...] UPDATE from Big Government.com … the full videos of the San Diego ACORN prostitution scandal. [...]
What is shocking is how everyday, “ho-hum”, this matter of underage prostitution, and law avoidance is to these Acorn workers in 5 Acorn offices whether they are on the East or West Coast. You would think if this kind of advise was not normal for Acorn offices that after Hannah and James went to the first or second office, the Acorn phone tree would be abuzz about the two crazily dressed kids that were in the office today trying to get info about starting an underage prostitution house. But no, this was no big deal.
As more and more of these offices are revealed the story goes from mildly amusing , in one sense, to very very, sad and maddening.
That's the biggest crap I ever saw. Juan obviously didn't believe them for a second. His arms are crossed, his hands are going to face, they are contradicting themselves even in the edited version. The girls were still in Mexico with no way to get across the border (asking Juan for help) yet they knew they'd be arriving between 2AM and 5AM Saturday morning. Just garbage. These were players playing with players, that's all.
What is shocking is how everyday, “ho-hum”, this matter of underage prostitution, and law avoidance is to these Acorn workers in 5 Acorn offices whether they are on the East or West Coast. You would think if this kind of advise was not normal for Acorn offices that after Hannah and James went to the first or second office, the Acorn phone tree would be abuzz about the two crazily dressed kids that were in the office today trying to get info about starting an underage prostitution house. But no, this was no big deal.
As more and more of these offices are revealed the story goes from mildly amusing , in one sense, to very, very, sad and maddening.
Disgusting – entering country illegally – and people wonder how terrorists get in the country – he probably helps anyone get in for the right price! He doesn't seem to have any problem with helping to get in and DOZEN underage sex slaves.
NY Times – have the nerve to report on journalistic integrity on ACORN – http://tinyurl.com/m9g6m4
This is crazy beautiful, James and Hannah! Be so careful. Last thing we need to see on youtube is a video of a successful "hit". The Conservative movement is incredibly grateful for your hard work… By the way, Hannah, did Juan Carlos darn near set a "date" with you or was I just reading into it???
I guess I agree with you. Fewer words, more damage? Perhaps. I guess what I meant, though, is that the other videos were more "colorful," more entertaining. (Is that a poor choice of words?)
Man, I am glad I do not see the world through your eyes!
Great work!
Linked at my blog, "The Freedom Fighter's Journal"
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-acor...
NY Times – have the nerve to report on journalistic integrity on ACORN http://tinyurl.com/m9g6m4-
You and Hannah have done the work that the police, FBI, Immigration, and Congress should have been doing for years. Thank you!
[...] Ledbetter · Thursday, September 17. 2009 08:11 Seriously. An organization couldn't possibly look any worse than this. Who knew they were a one-stop service for tax-evading, people-smuggling advice? [...]
NY Times – have the nerve to report on journalistic integrity on ACORN http://tinyurl.com/m9g6m4-
NY Times – have the nerve to report on journalistic integrity on ACORN http://tinyurl.com/m9g6m4-
NY Times – have the nerve to report on journalistic integrity on ACORN http://tinyurl.com/m9g6m4-
Nope – the guy tried to proposition Hannah too.
[...] on the same ol’ song and dance from the same ol’ in-crowd, we have two college students exposing one of the biggest scandals of our time. Silly old Charlie Gibson even said he’d not ever [...]
I think you're becoming desensitized.
A supposed attorney with "connections" agreeing to help smuggle underage girls across the border to work as prostitutes registers pretty high up there on my WTF meter.
What are you, Juan's wife? Open your eyes because you're BLIND. "Trust the Mexicans" lmao
If Hannah and James had been around 2000 years ago, the Roman Empire may not have fallen. Our modern-day Caligulas and Neros will not now have the chance to burn our Nation down to do as THEY see fit. These two have done Svetonius one better: not only have they chronicled the events of the inside, they are using it to effect POSITIVE CHANGE.
Now THAT’S change you CAN believe in!
He's a lawyer like Tresa was a killer – all talk!
These people are just straight up CRIMINALS!
Illegal immigration is deeply tied to these leftist organizations. I would love to see ALL the illegal enablers exposed. Imagine the money our country could save on health care costs if we could just get those who are here illegally to go home? Imagine!
[...] The San Diego video is out, and this one involves a guy talking about why Tijuana is the best place to smuggle underage El [...]
Everyday a new revelation. James & Hannah, you have saved this country billions with a b dollars. You are heros to this country under seige by this deep coruption. Keep them coming!
I love it…keep the hits rolling…I hope you hit Chicago, and I hope you save it for last!!!
Oh, I dunno. Intent to violate border security? INTERPOL (trafficing between El Salvador, Mexico and the US) or the UN human rights folks interested? Then again D.C. doesn't care about borders anymore, and the UN is useless…
I want to know more about the illegals getting over the border because of ACORN employees' "connections". That has to be a major story all by itself. So much to muddle thru, but muddle we must.
[...] ANOTHER ACORN VIDEO: Prostitution Scandal Reaches San Diego. [...]
SO WHEN IS THE NEXT MARCH IN WASHINGTON???
Caps denote me screaming this.
I agree with the comments here and have nothing to add but this…..Hannah, you are worth WAY more than $2500 for the weekend. Your brain alone is worth $25,000 for the afternoon! You and James are awesome and you make me proud to be an American!!
[...] The San Diego video is out, and this one involves a guy talking about why Tijuana is the best place to smuggle underage El [...]
In the words of John Stewart to the main stream media: "where the h*ll are you!?!?" I see they are beginning to cover this scandal now. I think Breitbart hit the nail on the head on Hannity last night. The hesitancy shown by the MSM to cover this is due to the delay caused as they try to figure out how to cover this without damaging/implicating those they are beholden to.
Please – Corruption & the criminal element just runs through this place!!!!
Well damn, it just keeps getting worse and worse. Now ACORN is into bringing illegals across the border! And the American taxpayers are helping them do it!! The lunatics ARE in charge of the asylum.
By the way, kudos to you two young people. Very risky business you were doing. I remember a time when people in our media used to do things like this. Journalism, in the mainstream media, is officially dead. Someone said, at least Pravda propaganda ministers did it with a proverbial gun to their head.
Whomever ACORN now endorses as candidates – ha ha ha ha ha – your nut is cooked!
This is just too good to end. I hope they have enough videos to keep going through October. I am totally amused watching ACORN fall.
Ditto, DG!____"The Rise of The New Media" is another story ignored by the reactionary Leftist Media.
No – the next march should be in front of the MSM! Let's corner Charlie Gibson & the rest in front of their studios – we can educate them.
We can also protest in front of ACORN like they do to everyone else – give 'em a taste of their own medicine!
Perfectly said!
This is great! – I'm waiting for the other NUT to drop. (heh heh – shoe, that is.)
[...] O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Big Government strike again, this time in the sunny clime of San Diego, California. As they note, San Diego [...]
Here's what gets me: it's not that ACORN is as full of sleazebags as it appears to be, it's not the David-and-Goliath nature of this historical takedown. It's that, if this were an organization that our last president were so involved in, there would be wall-to-wall, vein-popping screeching from every last sector of the legacy media. Oh my God, people, our eyes and ears would be bleeding from the relentless headlines shrieking about this, the news cycle would be never-ending, and you KNOW that Bush's name would have been prominently dragged into those headlines. And you KNOW the headlines would read something like "Bush's ACORN Involved in Underage Sex Slave Trafficking." This would have brought his presidency to its knees in a week. No lie.
But Obama? Seriously, what the hell does that guy have to do, what connections does he have to have in order for the legacy media to do its part? It's like John Stewart (of all damn people) said, "where are they?!" The sad thing is that John actually seemed surprised that he (and all the "real" journalists) were scooped by these kids. No one I've talked to is. They're amazed, but not surprised. Keep it up you guys.
Who cares? They are the propaganda arm of the current administration and nobody reads their newspaper except people who believe the same way they do.
He said Acorn was cool with it.
How would he know?
Acorns run deep down in SOCAL.
Hey Sam! Did you notice how much our Congressional Leftist politicians and Leftist Media elites are beginning to look and act like the old Communist ruling class of the Soviet Union? And like the old Commies of Gorby they are trying to ignore a brewing revolution. The only question I have is do they go quietly, or do they wait for us Patriots to give them a well deserved kick out the door?
Not so fast. The Senate only voted to defund the housing dollars. There are literally hundreds of offshoots of ACORN who will still be receiving tax dollars. Plus, the House has done nothing yet. I want to see a bill on Pres. Obama's desk and watch him veto it.
It's getting exciting, isn't it?
Isn't it racist that the WHITE lady in the last one was the ONLY one given any credibility or support in the press?
I guess being WHITE made her above her black colleagues. She wasn't thrown under the bus so quick.
Libs never cease to amaze me.
The future of publishing:
http://www.DarkCastle.com
Thankies!
"Trust the Mexican People"??? Then he invites them to an immigration rally? It's amazing how when saying they where 16 year old girls there was no negative reaction to it.. Then you turn the age down to 12 or 13 and still no outrage about it.. Not even an eye blink. The number of ACORN workers that not only tried to "help" these folks through ACORN activities but also gave them personal contact details to make some more illegal cash on the side is amazing.. And the only thing CNN reports (finally) on the story is ACORNS statement to do an "independent audit" through someone chosen by themselves?
To the worthless 7 who voted to keep funding Acorn…what say you now? Do you want your vote back yet?
Naw, he doesn't want to sleep with them… he's procuring something else.
Votes for the Supreme Leader!
This is by far the best reality tv ANYWHERE.
[...] http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/17/acorn-video-prostitution-scandal-in-san-diego-ca/ [...]
I try really hard not to be so jaded and bitter.
It's hard, but I try to drink from a cup half full.
All the hard work and THOUGHT that went into this gives me FAITH that this crap won't come off in the wash.
I disagree.
They're following Alinsky's Rule #11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem.
They're giving the opposition time to respond so they can then slam them with the truth.
Completely disagree Paul… did he not imply that he could get illegals from across the border for whatever needs?
Don't forget the first brick in the wall that came against the GOP was the "Shamnesty" bill… commonly added the other note (the one I missed), that ACORN was 'okay' with his actions?
Heck, that one seems MORE damning than San Bernadino, that one is a case of a single woman trying to help the girl set up as a street walker than anything anti-Acornish…
This one is MUCH MUCH more of a silver bullet, and IMO is the one that needs to be REALLY examined.
ACORN is not averse to pandering – that is, in the original meaning of the word.
Perhaps it would be fair to describe the relationship between the Democrats and ACORN as friends with benefits.
And the Tour…rolls…ON!
With one little dot com slapped on the end, Big Government has become a beautiful thing!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and all of you who’ve put so much into breaking the ACORN story!
The impact made here has been incredible, as in "“Crushed Nuts: How ACORN Got Trampled by the ‘Racist’ Stampede” at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Seeing so many likeminded conservative thinkers brought into one place to gather and share information is truly a wonderful thing. Thank you for that contribution as well!
Keep up the excellent work!!
And the Tour…rolls…ON!
With one little dot com slapped on the end, Big Government has become a beautiful thing!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU to James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles and all of you who’ve put so much into breaking the ACORN story!
The impact made here has been incredible, as in "“Crushed Nuts: How ACORN Got Trampled by the ‘Racist’ Stampede” at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Seeing so many likeminded conservative thinkers brought into one place to gather and share information is truly a wonderful thing. Thank you for that contribution as well!
Keep up the excellent work!!
Yes I sure do. I didn't agree with everything Bush did but at least he beat them back for eight years. Now they are drunk on power and it's showing. Arrogant, pompous, elitist attitudes. They want us under their thumb exactly like Stalin did to his people. They are no different. This time they have their weapon of choice, a black President (well, biracial) that they can use to stomp down dissent by using race card ad nauseum, ad infinitum. We have sunk to the lowest point I have ever witnessed and I lived through the Carter years, bought my first home at nearly 20% interest.
My Revolutionary ancestor's wife was named Hannah. That's how I like to think of this Hannah, too.
– An American Hero
BO is slow on the orders.
He's a lawyer figuring the angles and just can't nail a defense down.
We have to care to shut these rags down!
[...] video #5 The latest ACORN video is from San Diego. In it, the ACORN staffer actually gives advice for how to smuggle underage [...]
[...] ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA [...]
Absolutely – Breitbart was exactly right with his assessment!
Breitbart: “As we go from ACORN office to ACORN office they seem to be experts at facilitating crime. And how to help the underclass work the system as best they can”
This is ORGANIZED CRIME, investigate! It’s a national mafia.
Alinsky Rule #3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
The media is looking for an angle that can exculpate their friends. They don’t want to give a victory to the conservative side. They simply can't fathom that conservatives could be right, so they dig in deeper.
And you know, this was the ACORN office that was working hand-in-hand with Citibank (now mostly government owned) in providing illegal aliens with mortgages, directly contributing to the sub-prime mortgage crisis – as I further pointed out here:
http://jacksonianlawyer.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/...
Somebody should shoot an email over to ole’ Charlie Gibson, or is he still using the telegraph machine…ACORN AGAIN ORGANIZING CHILD SEX SLAVERY STOP TAX AND MORTGAGE FRAUD STOP ABC NEWS SCOOPED BY YOUNG CONSERVATIVES WITH NO BUDGET STOP YOU LOOK LIKE JACKASS STOP
Please o please tell me you have Chicago–Dick Durban and Rolland Burris, the Illinois senators voted against the defunding…this would de-pants them! A Chicago video would implicate them and immediately get people talking about their ties to Obama.
O’Keefe: “I took a 20 year old girl paying for her own plane ticket to break this story…[that]…multi media conglomerates failed to, It’s pathetic. Journalism is dead”
Love this stuff! You guys are the greatest.
Here's a great article on ACORN's biggest outrage — legalized extortion — as aided and abetted by the Federal Reserve and other arms of the government: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo177...
This is something new under the sun…
It is national: Baltimore, DC, NYC, California
It is sensational: Sex, money, murder!
It is political: Ties to political activism, ties Obama & the Democrats, left-right fire storm
It is important: Imagine all the many lesser crimes (or greater) if these are being abetted so casually!
It has a great plot: Young conservatives use liberal/radical tactics, viral internet messaging, and 60-Minutes style undercover reporting to topple a major liberal organization and scoop the MSM dazzlingly (John Stewart “I’m a fake journalist and I’m embarrassed that this kid scooped me”)
O’Keefe: “This is the future of investigative journalism, this is the future of political activism”
What more is needed here? Front Page News. Shit, in a sane world these two would win a Pulitzer.
Word is, Charlie didn't know there was a health care debate going on, either.
South of the border, down mexico way..Tijuana–classy!
Smuggle little girls for sex slave business? Si se puede!
Use prostitution proceeds to contribute to the ACORN, the DNC? Yes we can!
Excellent work James and Hanna. Why won't NYT and CNN do stuff like this? This is better than anything I've seen come out of those two media outlets in months…maybe years.
Call your Congressmen and ask them why they are funding Acorn with our taxdollars.
So what's the over-under on when this guy goes under the bus?
Giving ACORN a chance to either take their collective foot out of their mouth, or ram it in even deeper.
I want to see Tea Party signs outside the Today Show window.
I wrote about this when the Senate vote transpired, and provided the contact information for the seven ACORN-loving, child-prostitution supporting senators that voted to continue funding ACORN. You can read that, and get the contact information, here:
http://jacksonianlawyer.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/...
[...] latest video from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles (do you know who they are yet, Charlie Gibson?) is from [...]
[...] latest video from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles (do you know who they are yet, Charlie Gibson?) is from [...]
[...] the GOP pick up the ACORN issue of big government corruption to use in the 2010 Congressional midterm elections or will they be afraid of the race issue ala [...]
LOL On that, I would have to say I agree, this vid isnt so colorful. It is all sick, but in this last video we have someone that is a lawyer implicating a lawyer or lawyers that are in the DA office, that in itself should make heads roll.
[...] those shoes keep a [...]
Burris is planning to retire at the end of his current term. With any luck, we'll be able to add the words "in disgrace" to that sentence. I doubt we'll be able to do anything about Dick Durbin or the guy who replaces Burris — the Illinois voters are pretty much enslaved to the Democratic Chicago machine.
What a load of doctored CRAPPPP!!!!! You are blaming the whole ACORN group for the rantings of a few loose nuts??? Get a grip!!! The same corrupt crap goes on,on wallstreet,and alot of other places,including police departments! ACORN was a part of Obamas employment history,he's a blackman,and President of the U.S.A. Makes alot of racists very unhappy and you know who you are,(even the closet kind!) I guess anyone who worked for McDonalds,and knew the pie fillings,and coffee were hot,should be in on the plot to scald millions of americans!!! Use your F'n brain(or in most of your cases that would stand for"FOX"…..). If 2012 is"THE END" of our planet,then good! The universe can do without a planet filled with a ignorant and hate filled species.We are the H1N1 virus to the universe!!!
Passerby,
You are so very correct – SEIU and their goon squads are ripe for this kind of attention. The O folks owe SEIU big time and plan to tax the middle class to pay off this political debt.
The mid term elections ( if they are not postponed by a "Reichstag type" incident) will be a defining moment for this Republic….
The MSM wouldn't be able to ignore us then! – Next march on NY!
very poor Paul…this is serios stuff…
So did they follow up the next day?
The next one is October 17, called the Big Media Tea Party. Details at operationcanyouhearusnow.com and at
http://papundits.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/operati...
Tea Parties in front of local leftist media affiliates across the country!
Amen girl
What is wrong? Are you upset when Allinsky's rules are used against you? Tough. By the way, when you scream racism now it's the same thing as calling someone "poopeypants". It means nothing, nada, zip, zilch!
I like your way of thinking sister..I'm in NC
Thanks for the info. Could you post this more prominently?
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Good Lord. Welcome to another edition of "As the Oak Tree Turns." O_o
Great job O'Keefe and Giles! Thank you for putting yourselves on the front lines to expose this organization!
It's obvious you guys are just doing this because you hate blacks and latinos. Stop the racists attacks.
WOW,this gets better and better.Will there be anymore tapes coming out?
Andrew B., James, and & Hannah,
Please force-multiply yourselves by speaking to acceptable groups of young, eager, old-school journalism students who like you, care about the country and truth. We need several more of you each out there…..("They can't stop the signal" Firefly/Serenity ref). You guys are all Patriots. Thank You so very much for your efforts!
Guest
Then by your logic can we assume you are defending ACORN because you support the trafficking of underage girls to be used as sex slaves. At this point anyone who defends ACORN sure seems to.
When asked why he voted against de-funding ACORN Roland Burris (D-IL) "Because I support ACORN. It is as simple as that" Un-freaking-believable
[...] ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA [...]
[...] made the job of the right’s Harold Hill, Andrew Breitbart, way too easy to get [...]
The left has NEVER experienced anything like this expose! ROFL!!!
BRB need more popcorn.
For a small fee of course, or maybe a joint venture partnership and a deal that "he could nut refuse"
LOL too funny!
I did. Robert Casey is a Class-A loser.
http://papundits.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/senator...
I sent him 2 yesterday… I was so mad!!!
LOL@ "poopeypants"
BTW, David Maunu, Troll # 24, would much rahter the entire world come to a disastrous end than see the Right take hold of the USA.
Nice. Always thinking about others, I see.
make that "rather."
Yes, according to you, I hate my uncle, who is black, and my cousins, who are blacker than Obama. I also apparently hate my daughters' good friend Katherine, who is Hispanic (and a very beautiful, polite young lady). I must also hate my grandparents, who were Jews.
I didn't even realize I was such a hateful, bigoted person, to my own FAMILY even!
Thank you for letting me know.
/sarc
"the whole ACORN group for the rantings of a few loose nuts"
Anyone else catch the pun? hehehehe
[...] [...]
[...] Big Government strikes again, this time in San Diego, California where Juan Carlos not only gives advice on how to smuggle 13 year olds across the border for prostitution but offers to get in on the action! Disgusting! Can we please stop funding this corrupt organization with tax money? [...]
This is entertaining enough to grab some popcorn!
Alinsky Rule #6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
You two are perfect examples of what journalists should/used to be.
While the content of the videos is disturbing, what I find even mre disturbing is the fact that very few media outlets consider this "newsworthy" especially considering the Senate/Census Bureau action that has taken place over them.
If you two don't get a pulitzer, I hope there is some other award that recognizes the outstanding work here. I don't know what kind of financial compensation (if any) you have received for the footage, but I'd be willing to bet you could easily find funding for the continuation of your quality investigative reporting…I know I'd contribute if there was a place to do it.
The only people I see talking about race is….well…..black people. so YOU shut up.
My God! I am speechless.
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Ha! Too funny !
Someone should probably escort him the the Retirement Castle, I'm worried about the old fellow, I am sure he'd fall right in with Grandpa Simpson and Jasper
We should start a daily email to him just to make sure he is getting the days stories…
All though the least a journalist could do, if you are not going to actually do any reporting, is, ya know, READ THE NEWS!
Not all of us! But, yes, it's pretty much a lost cause…we've been community organized into a cesspool!
"The same corrupt crap goes on,on wallstreet,and alot of other places,including police departments!"
Seriously? This is your argument? 'Everyone else is doing it what's the big deal?' If Wall Street, and a lot of other places including police departments jumped off a cliff would you?
Any response less than "I'm sorry, we ARE here to assist you, but within the confines of the law" is unacceptable!!
Oh, and I'd vote for you too if you ever decide to run for real.
Thank you, Hannah and James, so very, very much for doing these…we've been in desperate need for far too long for some REAL investigative journalism with regard to this obviously corrupt organization…Please be safe, and God Bless You for uncovering the TRUTH!
No passport needed! Just call ACORN!
Guest
Let's see what groups are obsessed with skin color. Um….skin heads, white supremacists, Nazi's, the KKK and the Left.
How enlightened of them. /snark
hey, I'll give you a telegraph too:
ACORN AGAIN ORGANIZING CHILD SEX SLAVERY STOP SEX SLAVERY IS REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD STOP TAX AND MORTGAGE FRAUD STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION STOP FIVE CITIES FROM COAST TO COAST STOP ON THE HEALS OF HEAVY VOTER FRAUD IN SEVERAL STATES INCLUDING FLORIDA AND NEVADA STOP LIBERALS BEWILDERED BY USE OF THEIR OWN TACTICS AGAINST THEM BY YOUNG CONSERVATIVES WITH NO BUDGET STOP YOU LOOK LIKE JACKASS STOP
Although since you are advocating, um, the end of the world (are you just filled with hate, or what?) I guess this is small potatoes to you…
Plus, you're missing the point…
This is something new under the sun…
It is national: Baltimore, DC, NYC, California
It is sensational: Sex, money, murder!
It is political: Ties to political activism, ties Obama & the Democrats, left-right fire storm
It is important: Imagine all the many lesser crimes (or greater) if these are being abetted so casually!
It has a great plot: Young conservatives use liberal/radical tactics, viral internet messaging, and 60-Minutes style undercover reporting to topple a major liberal organization and scoop the MSM dazzlingly (John Stewart “I’m a fake journalist and I’m embarrassed that this kid scooped me”)
O’Keefe: “This is the future of investigative journalism, this is the future of political activism”
What more is needed here? Front Page News. Shit, in a sane world these two would win a Pulitzer.
sure durma. If all these folks were just playin' with the players, what gives them the right, on my dime, to be screwing around and wasting all of this time. They have important! serious! work to do undermining the country.
If they were proper employees, they would throw the bums out, call the cops, get back to work. 10 minutes actually doing their job properly. End of story.
But NO! they just waste time screwing around with people. I'd fire them for slackin' on the job.
Fail.
Next you'll be shouting "Liar Liar pants on fire! This is about a corrupt organization not the President. You are right about one thing there certainly is an ignorant species on this planet and it looks like some of them work for ACORN.
Man..I am so gratful for this website.Thank you Andy, Hannah and James. Hannah, I am so sorry you were put thru that with the thug in San Diego..my God girl, PLEASE be careful. Remember, you are 20 years old and as much as I hate to say it, age and experience with those you may deal with could work to your disadvantage.( their age, etc) Please, always keep a buddy with you in your future work if it involves this kind of in-depth investigation. Rome wasn't built in a day. You and James have sky rocketed to super stars in a very short time. As we need time to digest your material ( As Andrew said)..you too, need time to digest. Always have a back-up plan. Good work and good luck to you ll.
James and Hannah – you are the REAL hope for change. Ever visit an ACLU office?
So Jan said Acorn/Quality Control is an oxymoron…I think MORONS would have suficed. Gerard, I think your analogy was priceless. And durma5…am I reading that right? I think is says dumas5. Anyone else else read it like that?
I pity the fool who is connected with acorn…..but wait…. Obama aint no fool…he KNOWS what he's doing, DOESN'T HE.
Is this the way the new sleeper terrorist got into the US? They hired people that they know in ACORN to get in along with the under age girl for sex slave trade?
Oh, I so hope the Chicago office is on the list of offices hit.
Exactly. If Charlie can't spin it so Obama looks good then it doesn't get reported. I sent Charlie Gibson TWO emails on the 16th because I was just so mad and disgusted. So this race card shit ain't cutting it with me either. Charlie Gibson ain't black that I know of and he's just as guilty as the acorn workers in my opinion. Black people are not wrong because they are black. They are wrong because they are WWWWWRONG. And old Charlie is WWWWRONG.
Don't you have a busy highway to play in?
Hey Sam…I agree…the LUNATICS ARE IN CHARGE OF THE ASYLUM…it's like the Tower of Babel….They are all talking but they can't understand each other. I think we HEAR THEM LOUD AND CLEAR!!!
Hello Poopeypants…(you know who you are) how you doin this mornin? The world treating you ok today?
I just want to say that I agree with you. There is coruption everywhere. However, 'everywhere' ain't been caught
on tape. YET. Shut up.
Have a nice day.
We despise the fact that this disgusting agency is ok with importing
EL SALVADORAN [aka HISPANIC]
into the sexual slave trade.
A racist would be happy to see the ruination of a few darker skinned CHILDREN.
These community "organizers" should never be given tax payer funds in the first place. What did you think was going to happen with money that you give them, other than for crime??!! It's all about scamming the system. That's what Obama and the democrats are really all about, scamming the system. In short, stealing.
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Hannah and James, the two of you are my new heroes!
Keep up the good work.
Okay, one more then I got to go.
HEY, KANYE WEST…OBAMA DON'T LIKE NO WHITE PEOPLE!!!
Now…See how stupid YOU sounded? And son, I KNOW you didn't say that cause you was black, now did ya?
Admit it, it was cause you was STUPID.
This is for you, Taylor.
How ya'll like us now?
In the first clip, I thought the man might have been fishing for information so he could turn them into the police. The second clip blew that thought away. Obviously ACORN is more corrupt than we ever imagined, and needs to go into the garbage bin of history.
This is the craziest one yet. I can't believe it!!1 Did you see Jon Stewart ripping on the media for this the other day? http://freedomlibertyshow.com/2009/09/even-jon-st...
This is MY kind of reality TV!
I bet this guy, Carlos, hasn't had a nights sleep all week.
It's simple, Dave: if you think there's corruption in other places, conduct your own investigation. Like Hannah and James did. Put up or shut up. And since it's pretty obvious you aren't going to put up, just shut up.
You know, I never even thought of that..but I bet you are right. I bet there are tons of Acorn workers who haven't slept in days.
It really is the best reality show on earth, isn't it?
Great job. This guy seemed a little less talkative than the others. Although he gave you his cell phone number did you ever wonder if he was just playing along?
Pulitzer time. Thank you, James and Hannah. Your journalism stars are rising high.
I agree. As a matter of fact, it sounds as if this employee may be setting them up. He is asking them for more information perhaps not to help but to stop this 'shipment'.
They really should talk less and have let him talk more.
Running a 2-for-1 special on underage, illegal, Salvadorian, immigrant prostitutes at all ACORN offices located on or near the US border. Just bring in 50 fraudulent voter registrations! Hurry as this special just runs through the 2012 election.
Keep up the good work, ACORNITES! – Wade R.
Seriously, I cant hardly focus on anything with videos of Hannah in them. The other famous women of our day are so empty headed and loud mouthed. Never has a courageous or original thought ever crossed their minds.
That Hannah is attractive, dressed to kill, and a conservative lioness is like sexy overload. Circuits overloaded… can not compute… error 10110001 error 10110001
only wish they would have asked him if he or acorn has helped anyone come across the border illegally…
Hey, thought I recognized Juan also. I picked him up at my local Home Depot a couple weeks ago. Did a mighty fine job of digging up my broken sewer line…… and cheap too($6.00/hr). Heck, if I'd of known he was a lawyer, I would have asked him for advice on how to get my neighbor shipped back to Mexico.
Hey Wade,
Chicago office here – near south side. Just wanted you to know we are fighting the good fight here as well. Just talked two black boys into dropping out of the school system and a 15 yr old pregnant girl just signed up for public assistance. She is already out of school so we put her on the payroll for the next Obamacare rally! These are sure to be liberal victims for life!! HAHA! This is too easy.
Dude, we couldn't handle her. Girl has seriously got some big ones to do this stuff. She's no joke.
If the pimp and ho ever get any pushback we need to go to bat for them, though!
I had the Popcorn Ready for last night! I was excited all day waiting for the next video! Is there another one tonight~ I hope so. just give me a heads up that way I can have another batch of popcorn ready~ I am just in shock and awe over these tapes~ Its CRAZY! As I watched the first tape I was like this is sooo not good, Second tape okay this is bad, third tape this is really really bad, 4th tape OMG! are you for real, 5th tape, jaw drops WTF! this is F-in insane~ 6th tape (i hope) to be continued…..Thanks James and Hannah!
Passerby, here is my idea for a new sting: call MSNBCABCCBSCNN and pretend that James O'Keefe is your friend from the college years and that you have some “interesting” pictures of him taken during wild springbreak party.
You two are my heroes!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE that you're releasing these videos one-by-one. Smart cookies! Makes ACORN look even more asinine when they continue their denials.
Awsome work James, Hannah and Brietbart. It doesn't get more grass roots than this. Hows that for ya Nancy and the rest of you Goddles Liberals.
Passerby, here is my idea for a new sting: call MSNBCABCCBSCNN and pretend that James O'Keefe is your friend from college years and that you have some “interesting” pictures of him taken during wild springbreak party.
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James and Hannah are brilliant!!
They paced out these videos to keep ACORN spinning in circles and keep the American public on the edge of their seats.
I am praying for the safety of our President and Vice President. Can you imagine PELOSI in the oavl office?
O…M…G…!!!! Katy bar the door.
Just adding one more to the long list of folks who want to thank James and Hannah for their investigative reporting. Thank you thank you thank you and God bless the both of you!
That's OVAL.. had a senior dislexic moment there.
ACORN isn't even the only organization that's doing stuff like this. There are all sorts of organizations even much worse than this one……it's just that this is the one they(the media) are letting you see.
He didn't take the bar in California. He's a lawyer in Mexico —not here.
Amen bro.
I have never seen anything like this in my life and have been a news & political junkie since about age 8.
On so many levels, this is the biggest piece of investigative journalism in decades. Given what we have seen so far I do not believe Obama won his office legitimately. No how, no way.
The implications of all this corruption of the attack arm of the Democrat party / Big Government may well bring down party and president. They have been exposed.
ACORN isn't going anywhere. They will seem to close shop, and then will appear under a different name. There are already hundreds of organizations even worse than this one……..and you don't and never will know about them, until it's too late and they have taken control of your country.
I bet there are many in the Chicago office that were trained by The Obamamessiah himself.
Can't wait to see what that cesspool looks like.
This is great stuff, I live in Europe, and they would never been able to do it. Here we are riddle "aid organizations" locally and internationally, and they are all scams, and left wing. All aid organizations for the third world are such scams. Where western governments conspire with third world thugs/ “governments.” Worse the main stream media give them cover.
Hasn't MSM used 'undercover' video to catch internet pervs and put them on their newscasts?
What's good for the goose…is good for the gander. I don't remember hearing anyone yelling 'racist' when
they were doing their thing.
So, I'm a lawyer… and uhm I have friends that can help.. and so, HOW MUCH? *nudge nudge*
It is obvious, that left wing in America want to flood the country with immigrants, to build a new base, here in Scandinavia they give away our countries. One party protested in Norway, and they have been called racists for decades, they have now reached 24% of the vote (election last Monday), and it is because people see they are right. The left wing government import people, to expand their political base. It’s obvious that this ACORN employee is involved in this.
ya they got this posted on here.. funny as hell.. even jon is embarrassed
this is totally unbelievable. I can't believe these employees actually fell for this because though I applaud the two young people, they clearly can't get their story together and they are hesitant with some of their answers.
Is this for REAL? And if it is these ACORN workers are pretty dumb!!!!!!
Great work guys! If 60mins or Prime Time were to have done this (they never would have), the 'sting' would be perfectly legit to the liberals – case in point being "To catch a predator". Even the liberals knew about that. Since this touches ACORN, we have the usal response from the libs – acorn…scandal…what…I don't know anything about it? Same with the media, no coverage, claim ignorance (Gibson), how convenient, hypocrites all of them! And these fools from Acorn get federal funding??? Gosh, they all need to be locked up under RICO.
Behold the Left in all their naked pro-chaos glory. Their "concern" for the poor is incidental and merely a front for their anti-Establishment, anti-Status quo, anti-civilizational agenda. They are driven to "burn it all down" — "it" being the "system" — in order to remake it in their own marxist, alien, entirely un-American image. This is how rampant corruption and lawlessness of this type is perfectly justified and acceptable in their minds. They are sticking it to whitey, The Man, and the "intolerant" Right. You'll never get a better look into the deepest recesses of a Leftwingers soul than in these video clips. Bravo to Giles and O'keefe for the invaluable work they're doing.
James, you crack me up.
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David you need to get a grip. Obama is only 1/2 black his mother was white. Where is the doctored video I have not seen any? Don't play the race card because it does not fly in this case. Unless you are the racist and hate white folk if that is the case than you hate half of Barack Obama. So get off your knees and open your eyes to the truth.
I agree that the ACORN employees behaved outrageously in advising how to disguise criminal activity. Surely in this economy, or any other for that matter,there is no room for the public funding of tax cheating techniques. Acorn's practices in this matter should be investigated, and appropriate measures taken. Job well done in exposing this.
Is this proof that Acorn is"criminal enterprise", or that Acorn is a "corrupt" organization? Of course not. Is it? I have no idea. At the very least they have some human resources issues in at least three of their offices that need immediate addressing.
The fact that the vast majority of your readers here condemn it with such passion, when at this point all we know for certain is that a few intake workers are in the wrong line of work..and almost certainly their supervisors also…tells me that you guys are so desperate for a WIN that you will turn a Spring Training victory into a World Series Championship. Some workers at Acorn doing a horrible job..is indicative only of some workers at Acorn doing a horrible job.
Off topic but wtf…….IF YOU ARE REALLY FOR SMALL GOVERNMENT AND NO DEFICITS….IT IS HYPOCRITICAL TO SUPPORT UNFUNDED WARS…WARS INCREASE THE POWER OF THE GOVERNMENT…NOT FUNDING THEM INCREASES THE DEFICIT.
To all you teapartiers…WHY WERENT YOU TRY TO SAVE THE COUNTRY ..for the 8 years your party was in office. Clearly you can make more change from within the party when that party is in power. You are the base of the Republican party and you STOOD BY AND DID NOTHING as this country spiralled into the mess that it is today,,,,NOTHING.
Even though Dick Cheney likes to remind us that we havn't been attacked since 9/11, the WTC in New York was attacked for the 2nd time by the same group who did it the first time. Clearly a breach in National Security. ……NOTHING. Katrina….NOTHING Bailouts…NOTHING. Federal government involvement in the Schiavo family medical decisions…NOTHING. And now that the American people have spoken out for a desired change you are going to save us from ourselves. Kind of like those activist judges you hate so much..you think that the results of this election cant stand,same as with Clinton You are going to take back the same government you despise. Your choice to lead us Sara Palin. Awesome.
If you stalwarts were around in the 1700s we would still be drinking tea three times a day .You want to save us ..how about getting out of the way .
A brief example is the so-called War on Terror. The first shot of this war came in the form of a truck bomb in the WTC when Clinton was President. Did our protectors rally round the Commander in Chief, no they impeached him. That was more important to these small government folks..a massive impeachment trial..taking our President's attention away from the task at hand. A suspect election and then our stalwart protectors are here to save us..but alas they fail miserably..worse than those Acorn workers I'm sure..and even after being warned that attacks in the US were imminent..we were caught flat footed..and you know the rest. TEAPARTIERS….NOTHING. I don't know the foriegn policy intricacies surrounding the facilitation of bin Laden family members being allowed to flee the country while the rest of us were unable to fly…but that is alot more troubling to me than the behavior of a few louts at Acorn. But not to the TEAPARTIERS,..they were fine with it I guess. Either deceitfully or ineptly make a case for war with Iraq….AND DON"T TAKE ONE STEP TO FUND IT..and then turn the mess over to your elected replacement. Now you have figured out a way to take the country back. Well lucky for us that's already been figured out. It's called an election, and you lost. Your party is uniquely qualified to save the country the same way I am to run the Kentucky Derby.
PS TEAPARTIERS..how come it seems that your ideas appeal almost exclusively to whites .You call the President a Nazi..but it is your gatherings that ring of white supremacy.
But the hell with all of that…did you see the latest video about this typist at Acorn…
Thank you for posting the videos on acorn. I so appreciate what the 2 did. It is a shame that others have not had the courage they showed. Our country woud be better if they did.
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This is the first video I've seen the actual age of the girls stated. Everywhere else it was just "young girls", which could mean 18-21. That's pretty damning.
He wasn't a "real" lawyer. He was a Mexican lawyer. He stated he hasn't passed the California bar. He did state he has district attorney contacts though…which is also pretty damning.
That's a very good point SamiJo cuz I used to watch those "To catch a predator" shows all the time and the majority of those pervs were middle eastern and hispanic. There were several white guys to though and very few blacks.
Old Man Reeks,
Sounds like you're just another brain-dead lefty to me. You are all over the place on this one. Let's keep it simple for you, we are discussing ACORN. ACORN is a completely corrupt organization from top to bottom but because they are lefties, like you, the MSM gives them a free pass. Now they are being exposed for who ALL of them really are and your response is; "Katrina!, Cheney! Unfunded Wars!". This is typical of liberals when caught red-handed, try to divert the subject at hand. Face it, ACORN is loaded with corruption. You need to do a little homework and read what's out there about them since you cannot count on Charlie Gibson to give you a 30 second sound bite about how this doesn't really matter.
This one nails it. Great job, Hannah, James, and Andrew!
Videos #1,2,3, and 5 make your case. I'd downplay #4.
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This is like waiting for a centipede to drop the next shoe. Somehow I don't think your legacy media reception will be as warm as Woodward and Bernstein's, but please don't let that stop you.
Just in fairness, I hope you plan to release a list or videos of those ACORN offices where you were shown the door. If indeed there were any.
I'm often amazed and how people just go along with it all like there is nothing wrong with it. Or worse yet, fight tooth and nail for them! Reading these blogs the majority of the people commenting are solidly on one side or the other.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm not the crazy one, maybe I'm the one being brainwashed? How can I really be sure! But then I see people coming up with the most ridiculous excuses for the behavior on these tapes and I think there is NO WAY I'm the brainwashed one, it just can't be.
The only reason Obama won at all is because they (the left and their media mouthpiece) spent 6+ years completely trashing Bush and the Republicans to the point that so much of the country was against them. Not to mention a little help from ACORN and friends. And because, again with help from the left, we were stuck with a candidate that many conservatives didn't like because he might as well be a Democrat himself. I have a ton of respect and admiration for John McCain-the man, but don't care so much for John McCain-the politician. We can do better! We need true conservatives that are not afraid to FIGHT for the constitution!
I would soooo love for the Republican party to get it's shit together and find a real, solid, conservative minority as our Presidential Candidate. Oh how I'd love to see Obama debating with a black conservative American that's proud to be American! One that can speak without a teleprompter even. How's that racist card working for you now? lol
Ok, so I've gone totally off topic here. These tapes are great and I believe without them this ACORN scandal would have never been brought to light. They have to deal with it now, no hiding it anymore. Too many people are onto them thanks to the truth of the New Media and the courage of a couple of kids with a video camera muwahahaha love you two! Be safe
James & Hannah, DO NOT wait too long to provide the entire ACORN expose material you have. If you wait too long, and ACORN goes through their sham of a review/audit, they'll point to the results of that review, fraudulent as they will be, to discredit everything else you have. We'll hear from ACORN, "oh these tapes don't count or matter now because we've fixed all our problems…". So let them fly!!! Godspeed and you two are American Heroes!
Pulitzer – hell no – nothing less than the Medal of Honor: These two kids have as much fortitude than our SEALS – both are committed to defending the Constitution against foreign or DOMESTIC.
To:Andrew, Hannah and James,
I can't remember who aired the stories but kudos to whomever…but the stories were about the conditions of the military barracks and bathroom facilities state side that our soldiers were returning home to. There was video
of those facilities and the conditions were atrocious. Wouldn't it be nice if our government would take all this acorn money and either restore or rebuild those buildings? After all, they are the men and women who have put THEIR lives in harms way so the likes of POLOSI can take these $100,000+ + + vacations….on the tax payers dime, yea,POLOSI..we're
watching you, too.
I think we can safely rule out The Presidential Medal of Freedom….
James and Hannah are true American Heroes. Hannah what an Awesome Idea! James what great filmaking! All the research and Prep wow you two are the brightest young stars in the U.S. right now.
James, what is the name of that song in the video. I want to download it to my IPOD so I can get motivated by it. Song should be play a tea parties.
I fervently disagree with you, it wants to be complicit in this travesty of justice. He is seeing dollar signs. Totally disgusting!!!!!!!
If you ask me, what is happening is that they went from the East Coast to the West Coast and they are going to go inch by inch drip, drip, drip (that's the sweat on Obama's forehead) towards the Second City, which in this case is the first city — Chicago.
Hannah, James, Andrew, you are my HEROES!!!
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Where to start! First of all, this is one of *many* examples of corruption within ACORN. Of course, you won't hear of much of it in the media, you have to have a brain of your own and find the info yourself. ACORN is being investigated for voter registration fraud in more than a dozen states as I type this. Eleven people were just arrested for same in Florida. Tens of thousands (at least, not sure there is a nationwide total anywhere, but there were over 5,000 in ONE county so it's a LOT) of voter registrations submitted by ACORN all across the country were found to be fraudulent. Obama's campaign contributed $800,000 to ACORN's voter registration efforts.
Ever heard of a group called "The ACORN 8"? Well these are ousted ACORN members (many of whom were on the board of directors for ACORN) who tried to expose systematic embezzlement practices within ACORN. When these members (there are more than 8 now btw) tried to take steps to investigate the embezzlement, they were swiftly removed from the board. Of course, this all started when the co-founder and former Chief Organizer of ACORN Wade Rathke's brother, Dale Rathke, was caught with $950,000 he managed to embezzle from ACORN.
And for the record, the tea party movement STARTED against Bush over the bailouts and spending. Once Obama got in and more than tripled our national debt in record time (btw did you know he's already spent more in 8 months than Bush did in 8 years, wars, bailouts, katrina and all!), the tea party movement grew very quickly.
The next round of tea party protests won't be able to be ignored so easily. I hear they are planning to protest at all the media locations across the country, like during the live morning shows. Should make for some Must See TV that's for sure
Don't just listen to what the media talking heads tell you or you'll never know the whole truth. I read a dozen or more blogs both conservative and liberal. Each side puts their own spin on a topic, so if you don't read both you're never getting the full story. The internet will force the "media" to start reporting the real news at some point, more and more people are getting their news online and learning the truth and speaking out against all the corruption … on BOTH sides. For many of us who support the tea party movement, this has nothing to do with left or right, conservative or republican. We want ALL corruption erased on both sides. Somehow it must be possible before our country is ruined forever. Somehow we must all come together as Americans and figure this thing out before it's too late. Don't let them divide you against your own, we are all Americans FIRST!
Including those print pundits whose lame defense- I'm not making this up- was claiming that since ACORN hires from poor minorities you can't expect anything better than this.
NOBODY harbours as much contempt for blacks as a white liberal.
Um, the Roman Empire survived Caligula and Nero- in fact its best days still lay in the future.
What really brought down the Roman Empire was the unchecked immigration of hordes of barbarians into Roman territory……..
"Your choice to lead us Sara Palin. Awesome."
Everyone loves to hate Sarah, but did you know there are STILL corrupt politicians in PRISON because she had the balls to uncover their corruption? Did you also know that these politicians are *gasp* Republicans? Why do you think there is so much hate for this woman … corrupt politicians on BOTH sides are afraid of her. President Palin is their worst nightmare and must be stopped at all costs.
Can a single politician you voted for say they have done one single thing to stop corruption in our goverment?
It's not just Republicans who are disgusted by this. I am a Democrat and I have been glued to my computer and biggovernment.com since thursday
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"Pimpin' is a black man's game, and if you gonna be a white pimp boy, you need to be the Eminem of pimpin'. And son you are a far cry from that. Now get your narrow asses out of here." That's what I wanted old girl in Brooklyn to say. I was born in Brooklyn and live about 10 blocks from Acorn. Nevins Street,in close proximity to the Fulton Mall, various courthouses,jails,parole offices,human resources offices, has more than it's share of rough and tumble individuals passing thru. I would have hoped that workers there would be a whole lot more streetwise than these two seemed to be.
Why do you believe they acted the way they did?
The general consensus here seems to be here is that they are part of some massive left wing criminal conspiracy?
To do what exactly? Integrate pimping? Bring brothels to residential neighborhoods?Replenish/Upgrade the community ho stock? Where is the payoff?
At odds here for me is the fact that they seemed neither shocked or criminally adept. In other words they acted as if they are asked to help facilitate an illegal endeavor routinely and that they have never been asked this before.
They seemed baffled and trying to play catchup the whole time. Maybe they are new to this whole free tax advice crime thing. Baffled probably by the fact that they have never encountered a person blatantly and nonchalantly admitting to a crime as you guys did, and maybe even how you got past Schemerhorn in those outfits you were wearing? It was like seeing an alien..I dont know how it is by you but here in Brooklyn we deny doing crimes.
That they entertained your foolishness at all is cause for termination, and their immediate supervisors need to go also. Not only for allowing this type of behavior, but also for the office being such a mess.
But after that I dont see evidence of a criminal conspiracy any more than I do when a couple of cops get caught on the take.
Thats not to say that it doesnt exist. It very well might. And if you guys weren't so eager to move attention away from Obama's healthcare speech by releasing your videos when you did you might have unearthed something more than Acorn has some fools working for it.
You are playing small ball and you think you are swinging for the fences.
I think he may be up to his eyeballs!
Keep safe Hannah and James. You are doing a great job. I think that this story is bigger then Watergate. Maybe some one in Hollywood will make a movie of this story….no wait this scandal involves a Democrat..
What are you anti-capitalist! The poor guys just trying to make an honest buck.
Just incredible work and courage!
Please don't stop now. I was very discouraged by the corruption of the Main stream media, (now the Fringe Media) and after your work I feel better about the chances to Clean Up this Country.
Any sane person would call the police, but they keep finding these dirtbags EVERYWHERE. Keep up the good work, Hannah and James! You're helping save the country!
Old-fashioned Mexican charm? You mean like Barrio Logan? There is nothing "charming " about Mexico (or Mexicans for that matter), that's why they are fleeing that dung hole country…and ruining this one!
racism is no joke. ACORN is a bottomless pit that lures minorities into a huge system that keeps them dependent, rather than truly help them achieve better lives. I'm white, I'm conservative, and I can't stand watching minorities get duped by "progressives" who only want more for themselves.
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Why does the first video end without showing the dude's reaction to the news that the girls were underage?
It seems rather suspicious that the video is cut at that point.
Thanks, Hannah you are my hero. I hope you have even worse tapes in your vault. Bring these suckers down.
[...] ACORN was bad. We knew that. But this bad? No, that we didn’t know: With 70 miles of stunning beaches and picture-perfect weather all year [...]
Culture of Corruption. This is HUGE. But no heads may roll. Dems are just holding on, til the next news cycle. Hoping for a big earthquake out West, or a new Republican infidelity scandal to help occupy the State-run media's news headlines so they can "ignore" this vast horrible open sore of a patronage system that typifies WHY the average citizen is fed up with the abuse of the system and tax revenues. If this were Pres. Bush he'd be called before Congress. The Nov. election results would be questioned. The GOP's campaign finances would be investigated. Numerous resignations would be demanded. Children's & women's rights groups would up in arms and marching in the streets of Washington.
I agree completely. There is too much dis-continuous video, the conversation is all over the place, and there is not a single clear shot where the detectives say "were bringing in girls" and he says anything about helping them. The tijuana clip is completely cut apart from the conversation that led up to it. The other videos are clear. This one is very suspicious of being edited for impact. Overall, it appears that the guy was not offering to help them at all, but was nevertheless very curious. He may have wanted to turn them in.
I suggest Congress vote James and Hannah ten million dollars scholarship grants. How many BILLIONS of dollars have these two saved us? They have done the ground-work for the FBI, Attorney General and "Congress".
James, I think you and Hannah have done a terrifice (if potentially dangerous) job. How about making a full length documentary on the deceit of the left to counteract Michael Moore? If he can do it, so can you in spades. Keep the faith.
Hannah, I would propose right now, but then my wife woudl kill me!
Fantastic work, absolutely fabulous you guys rock!
James and Hannah you rock. You’ve exposed the Democrat parasite party and ACORN for the den of thieves that they are, well done.
Saw this on our local San Diego news last night – good for you! Now the media can't ignore what you have exposed. May the defunding of Acorn vote be successful!
If Acorn wants to sue I hope they do! This will only bring Acorns deviant behavior closer to the light. If you need any funding to support you, I am sure many law abiding American citizens will help out. Count me in and keep up the good work!!
By the way, didn't 60 minutes show make a habit out of hidden camera investigations?? Where was the outrage bythe left then??
all I have to say to this is… really? Are you really so stupid that as the race card is being thrown around, you are making racial jokes about Mexicans? Way to help the cause, Ronko.
Excellent work James and Hannah! It would appear that it is now IMPOSSIBLE for the left wing 'mainstream' media, the Dems, and Obama's corruption team to ignore this disgusting pattern of systemic corruption within ACORN any longer! Keep fighting the good fight – keep the pressure on and never let up! We all support your efforts!
At this point the only thing I can think to ask for would be some footage on your next exposé of some adorable kittens and puppies to refresh the mental palate. Seriously, this is the best muckraking I've seen since Watergate!
I agree Barbara. Now everyone… don't get me wrong… I believe ACORN is facilitating class/economic slavery, and I don't know about "damning" or "explosive", but as I watched I had the feeling that the man was stalling them and digging for information. He mentioned his cousins in law enforcement which could have been a way to get "Eden" comfortable with meeting them. He was rather animated at the end when inviting them to an immigration rally which could have been used for law enforcement to apprehend them. He didn't strike me as being as soul-less as the others. Remember, it's not as much about the expendable pawns on the front line as it is the organization itself. Just my gut impression.
James and Hannah—–> American Patriots!!!! Good work… dont let off the pressure.
FOX News should consider hiring Hannah as co-host of the Glenn Beck show, at the least. Do we need to petition FOX News? What do you say Glenn?
James needs to replace the nitwit Shepard Smith.
I have had enough of that little twit and his impromtu editorials. Give Hannah Bill "The Tool" O'Really?'s spot.
These guys are gold.
On second thought, Fox is lame aside from Beck, so just stay where you are and continue to make a difference.
Thanks again.
HURRAY!!!!
Is it ok to twist the knife that has been planted in the heart of ACORN?
Wrong – they backed Obama…Heh heh heh! – they're BUSTED!
THAT IDIOT BERTHA LEWIS RUNNING AROUND SAYING SHE'S GONNA "SUE" – HOT AIR! POP THAT BALLOON! I HOPE THEY HAVE SOMETHING ON HER – CATCHING HER! THAT WOULD BE THE ICING ON THE CAKE!
[...] this one ACORN offers to help smuggle the minor girls into the US to be used as prostitutes….. Big Government Blog Archive ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA __________________ "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue [...]
Apparently, the Democratic party hasn't veered too far from it's 1860's roots. Back then, they were condoning and endorsing human slavery. Today, through their ACORN tentacles, they are also condoning and happily facilitating human slavery – sex slavery of CHILDREN!
Remember how Obama expressed his rage over the AIG executives bonus mess? He was "infuriated". Where's the fury now Mr. Obama?
Okay, Rich Sanchez with CNN is questioning why O'Keefe isn't answering his call to be on his show. I really think he need to go on his show, provide the unedited videos to CNN, with a trail proving that you have in fact provided the information. This way he has to stop saying that he has asked but not been answered.
FOX got the full advantage of this coverage, but if you want everyone, everywhere, to know the full story, gotta go to other agencies now too. But make sure you have proof that it has been offered to the OTHER MEDIA.
HANNAH…JAMES….ANDREW !!! Do you see what you have done?? OMG !!! 20 states are investigating these folks, the FBI is investigating…the Dept. of Justice is investigating them. CONGRESS has cut their funding totally if I heard that last report right. My hubby said last night that this could be Mr. Obama's Watergate. I just hope it doesn't leave the door open to POLOSI. I know I spell her name wrong. I do it on purpose. I'm a 55 year old semi-retired white woman who has been sitting at home watching all this on the news and these tapes, as Beck would say, peeled the hide right off my face!! Thank you all for a place for me to vent, I am just so angry.
Maybe theFBI can help you with any security issues you may have…wouldn't that just be the icing on the cake.
Hey, old man meeks…shut up.
It was brilliant for James and Hannah to incorporate the sex angle. Democrats are so hung up on sex. It's all that matters to most of them (that, and power). If James and Hannah had just concentrated on tax fraud alone I bet NONE of this defunding of Acorn would have taken place.
Hey! You should watch Bret Baier. He is good too. And Mike Huckabee is a fantasticly level headed and fair minded man.
And then of couse, there is RedEye, my favorite show ever… lol… sick twisted minds all…
u r the man,,a real reporter,,i love it,,keep it going,,theres many more agencies that need undercover work done
[...] UPDATE 1: “New ACORN Video: The San Diego Sting.” UPDATE 1A, Sept. 17: The long version. [...]
Here's the website of the USDOJ. I recommend that we call and demand an investigation. http://www.usdoj.gov/contact-us.html The phone number is 202-353-1555. I called & emailed already. It takes only a couple of minutes!
These are fantastic, but I hope you are saving the best for last. For example, enough of a tie to Obama that we can start smelling impeachment!!
Great job guys!
They somehow just keep getting worse, as if the first wasn't bad enough!
I'm so glad someone was able to get real pictures of some things going on inside ACORN and put pressure on "the powers that be" regarding this organization.
How can ANY American still actually support Obama?? He's a disgrace!!!
How come our president does not speak up against them like he did in Profesor Gates arrest? Or maybe ABC will throw that question to him Sunday morning!?…
[...] in Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and San Bernardino, CA. And yes, they were at it again – this time they found their way to sunny San Diego. Suffice it to say, they worked their magic once [...]
LOL! This is stuff you cannot make up.
Here is another good read that helps put things in perspective.
<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/what_would…” target=”_blank”>http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/what_would…
I should say, Dam* Glenn Beck is right!! I am so thankful that all these people woke us up !!
[...] This is what real citizen activists can do. Way to go James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles! There are still more videos coming out, including some from San Diego that shows how ACORN was going to assist a pimp and a prostitute in human sex slave trafficking. [...]
Blargsmash — YOU are the racist — and you know it. What would you do — just let ACORN get away with this?? You fool. Everyone is on to you and others like you who want to let phony "organizations" like this get away with ripping all of us off. Scam the system– isn't that their real motto? You know it is. You have been FOUND OUT and it's over! ACORN is done! And so is AFFIRMATIVE ACTION! It's about time…
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How do we get this going, these two young journalists are clear winners and they should be recognized.
ACORN… the gift that keeps on giving
Not only was Obama a lawyer for ACORN, in Chicago, he helped TRAIN them in how to intimidate bankers, at their own homes, as well as protest outside of the banks; specifically, Northern Trust, from which he also got a " special deal" on his mortgage, for the mansion he bought BELOW THE PRICE, with Tony Rezko and Rezko's wife's help.
Add to that, when he was first in Chicago, he worked for one of their sister/affiliate groups, who also , later, worked to get him elected to ALL of the three elected positions he's held.
Then, in 2008, he paid them $800,000+ to get him elected president. And once he was elected, but prior to taking the oath, he had a meeting with ACORN and SEIU and told them that THEY would be making policy; which they did!
Nice to see I started a positive trend with this thinking )
Everyone who cares about America, regardless of race or party affiliation, should recognize the scope of what these two budding young journalists have done.
Thanks for the link Ron.
[...] on the same ol’ song and dance from the same ol’ in-crowd, we have two college students exposing one of the biggest scandals of our time. Silly old Charlie Gibson even said he’d not ever [...]
You are absolutely right, I am a racist pig but I wish to make amends. How about you come over here and bang my under age sister in place of 40 acres and a mule. Will that make you happy you moronic piece of shit!
The only racists in this story are you and your race baiting shitbag buddys with ACORN, SEIU and Maxine I'm a racist moron Waters. Eat shit and die!
It takes a lot of courage to expose this kind of corruption and blatant disregard for good social order. Hats off to James and Hannah. We need lots more people like you.
ACORN = Another Collection Of Racist Neanderthals
Contact Nancy: http://speaker.house.gov/contact//
Contact Chuckles Gibson: http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3271346&ca...
Keep up the pressure, never let up.
[...] Ignore ACORN Giving Business Advice to Pimp and Prostitute James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of [...]
ALINSKY RULE #8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
Get your local news to go after the Seven and the Seventy-Five: "Why do you want to keep funding that helps import child sex slaves?" , "How do you benefit from ACORN politically?"
ALINSKY RULE #13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.
After studying the vote fixing issue since 2000 it is my belief that ACORN and its subsidiaries are responsible for first contaminating our voter rolls with hundreds of thousands if not millions of fraudulently registered illegal alien, dead, under aged, fictitious, relocated and pet voters. Once the election arrives these crooks then vote these fraudulently registered voters' ballots absentee so that theAVA mandated data management firm like Saber Corp can then move around the totals to ensure that the liberal Democrats win despite the actual vote of actual living legitimately registered adult voters. I hope you have uncovered some as yet to be exposed video on how they are fixing our elections. ACORN, NAACP, ACT and SEIU were the only ones I found that actually were convicted of fixing the vote in the 2004 Ohio election. They justify their payments to these vote fixers by calling them "get out the vote" workers. This house of corrupt cards comes crashing down if big leftist government doesn't fix the Census and supply funding to pay these crooks for their re-election results. Good JOB!!!
Ha – It's Jerry Springer with government funding!!!
Yeah – that's because him being "a lawyer" really hasn't paid off for him. This guy's as much a lawyer as Tresa was a killer.
*wipes away a tear*
you two rock. You rock so much that I, in fact, have finally signed up for Twitter. Just to keep current w/James.
One might say I'm…Twitterpated :):)
Good one–LOL!
Clintong mouthpiece "Snakehead" Carville:
"Keep it simple 'cause people have short attention spans. Keep it repetitive 'cause repitition becomes fact in the public mind. Appeal to self interest and tailor your message to that."
Still need to read Rules for Radicals.
Funny how the more intelligent objective commentors are losing points.
The Obamcorn Brown Shirts are out in force spamming the net.
They must have time on their hands after the publicity forced them to stop recruiting illegal aliens and tax evaders to help assist The Obamamessiah ruin the nation for it's tax paying citizens in pursuit of power and lucre for his party.
How many offices and employees did they have to go through until they found the bad apples in the bunch? I have an idea, let's do a sting in Washington and see how many corrupt politicians there are. I wonder what kind of illegal activities are going on there like; extortion, blackmail, adultery, prostitution, kickbacks, "gifts", drugs. Let's do the American people some real justice, get down to work, and get our great nation back.
again with the racist garbage U R the only one who mentioned the race card. Its clear who the racist is
not 1 clear and convincing though in ur head we all see.
Jealous it wasn't u? James and Hannah rock, and their not the only ones we are all watching and waiting for.
U are neive to think dictator Obama is not the core of this.
Every video released gets more clear and convincing of the big picture.
Uhh NOT thats garbageliberal unAmerican Bull***, most importantly no0one believes it. Who should I believe u or my lying eyes.
Yea, Private Security!
Hannah and James–doing the jobs American "journalists" and law enforcement refuses to do!
Thanks dude, or dudess…
Well, when you do you'll find that your last comment sounds a lot like rule 11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside….
Obama was a trainer for Acorn long before he was a lawyer for them.
We are seeing the fruits of his labor.
Well, I'd rather have them knocking points off some people's posts rather than knocking up a young girl forced into prostitution.
I think we are rolling Ron…funny how two words can say so much.
So, any ideas on what comments Obama is going to have about this?
I think the biggest difference in this one is helping in illegal immigration. If this is true then can they also get the SSN illegally?
Me, too. See my comments later.
Amen Brother
There is no way to thank you, James and Hannah, enough for exposing what would have ended up being very costly to the hard working taxpaying American citizen. That is, the funding for such a corrupt organization with our tax dollars.
When you realize what you have saved the US in dollars, the amount is staggering.
I hope this forces both sides to clean up thier acts, take care of business in an ethical and professional manner from now on and be square with the public they deal with. I believe this country needed a shake up like this.
Once again….My family sincerley thanks you.
I'm sure they get a union mandated lunch…
Hey there ya'll, We need to all send Beck emails and tell that boy to relax. He's gonna stroke out on us.
LisaMichaels…Obama gave Acorn $800,000 to go out and register voters….tell you anything?
recon…I too am going to get twitterfied…just haven't figured it out yet. But I figured this blame thing out, I think I can do it. It's about time I got off my lazy, no good for nothing ass and get rolling. I gotta go watch my hubby watch Charlie…it's so funny, a comedy show right in my own living room. I thot he was over it yesterday, but I was wrong. Oh well, it keeps him off the streets and out of the bars. My honey….
We both know where this grand design originated.
I should not have wasted so much time with The Iliad, War & Peace & Siddartha etc….
I missed a true classic
#8 Keep rockin'!
This is fantastic work but it really only scratches the surface in terms of ACORN. This exposure has to continue and delve deeper and reveal far more in all of ACORN's subsidiary "shell game" corporations and ACORN's ties to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). What we have seen thus far thru this investigation and Glenn Becks work clearly shows that ACORN is a criminal enterprise constituted to engratiate those at the very top and the democratic party.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-1...
James & Hanna,
Great job on the sting. Acorn had to go and you finally showed how useless and biased the main stream media has become. They should all come together and rename themselves Pravda. Once again, we have to keep up the heat and take our country back.
Thanks again
Well, doesn't hesitate to be a little looney toons either…this is from his dedication:
Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.
ROFL, LOL, what else can I say oh I almost forgot . The democrats in Washington now have a decision to make. Either they insist on an investigation into ACORN's activities or they simply do what they've been doing and pulling funding. If the democrats don't push for an investigation, then we'll see the conservatives in next year.
On another note, I thought I would check out ACORN's website and interestingly enough, their last press release was June 12, 2009. If they're so convinced that the video's release by James & Hannah were doctored, wouldn't you think they would be quick to send out a press release to defend their position. Could it be they don't believe it themselves? They know what kind of people are working for them…if they wanted honest hardworking people with moral standards, they should have made it mandatory that they hire conservatives rather than liberals. Cheap shot, but some truth to it. James & Hannah, if you need help with legal fees, just let me know.
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Sanchez is a johnny-come-lately as is all the MSM. This has been going on for a week. If Sanchez had been doing his job, he would have been calling O'Keefe long before yesterday. Not up to James to make Sanchez's job easier. CNN's ratings suck and Sanchez's attitude and work ethic are a couple of the reasons why.
I'm sorry, at the end, the ACORN worker doesn't strike me as someone who just had a chat about smuggling a dozen underage girls into the country for prostitution.
In fact, when I ignore the "context" that was setup and injected by the "film maker" and just focus on what the employee says and does, I don't get the same result AT ALL. I also noticed there are some very creative edits… reorganizing the apparent order of the conversation, and making his answers seem much more implicative. I think this "expose" is quite possibly a fraud, actually…
When does he implicitly and specifically say "I'll help you smuggle 12 girls into the country"?
When does he ask for money? No-one does that for free!
Half the time, his answers tell me he doesn't even know what's being asked… he says, "uh huh" in all the wrong places. A sign he isn't getting it…
I am suspending my belief on this one. Show the full, unedited video. No cuts, no overdubs, no voice-overs. Otherwise, I'm calling BS on this one.
See, I've seen "mockumentaries" before. Very convincing "documentary style" films that could convince you of pretty much anything! Comments taken out of order or context, one half of a conversation 'fleshed out" with a second half completely out of context with the original… creative editing.
As far as I'm concerned, this is pure BS invention, until otherwise proven…
Problem is, I"m seeing the same pattern in all the videos. Creative editing, partial or missing context when the employee speaks, overdubs, "suggested" context unsupported by the conversation…
I know, I'll get flamed for this. But I smell a rotten fish here. Just saying… be objective before you accuse someone of anything…
By the way, I edit video and cut advertisements… I know how to make things look different than they are. In my opinion, these highly adulterated videos are doing just that…
Look again! Ask questions!
Peace.
Try this on for size.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6BlbNWQYU
Of course, it's not "One size fits all." But I think this shoe fits.
He won't provide the complete undedited tapes, because they will show the whole ting to be a setup and a sham.
Conversations out of context, creative editing, overdubs, "suggested" context setting up perspective…
Look at it without his "narrative", listen to what the ACORN people say without the 'suggested context'… suddenly, it's all pretty innocuous.
What the narrator is suggesting sure isn't, but I'm not sure anyone actually on camera is actually talking about the same thing.
Yes, O'Keefe… release the full, uncut, original video. Let's see what really happened……
Yes…look again, ask questions…take your own advice kid.
Go watch the other videos…there is full audio and video and transcripts of all 4 of them, so they have quite a bit of credibility at this point even though they are all, at first, as unbelievable as this one.
Further, if he was just playing along or something, where is the police report?
If you're still having trouble, this is all I can suggest to help you: http://www.livestrong.com/article/14731-dealing-w...
The reason the MSM is taking a wait and see on this, is because they are investigating the 'investigators"…. they want to see the unedited video. They are doing due-diligence before promoting what could be a sham, doctored set of tapes.
It's easy to make a "mockumentary" that could convince you of almost anything. Documentary-style and totally believable, and yet.. a complete satire, and a hoax…
I've worked in video editing, cutting advertisements… I know how to make things look different than they are. It isn't hard. "suggested context" plus creative editing, a little reordering of events…
Look again. When you remove the "film makers" suggested context, and watch carefully for the edits, then listen to the people talking? They don't say much of anything very suspicious!
I wonder who's paying this couple to go around the country on an ACORN hunt?
You need to put up full transcripts… and your edits are rather bad…
Sorry, but some of the film production and the way these things are released without prior explanation is really shady…
LOL! Dudess, I guess. My pleasure! : )
~Carie~
What if Juan was just giving them enough rope to hang themselves? This one seems different from the other films. He gets the info from them as to when and where. It should be easy to find out if he informed his district attorney friends.
On the gripping hand, I don't believe he's a member of any U.S. bar. And he seems just a little too interested in how much she charges, as well as hemming and hawing around trying to get a bribe thrown his way. So, I could go either way on this one.
Thank You! You are the heart and soul of this country. Please continue to bring forth the truth
Yeah, the other videos have shown that in part, the editing is INTENDED to draw out reactions such as yours (though it was obviously more aimed at ACORN officialdom (note the ACORN Press Releases for the first few videos basically claiming "DOCTORED VIDEO!"… and note that they've gotten a clue and aren't really pushing that claim any more). After the "Doctored" response, they release the unedited video and the Full Transcript making the response look even MORE lame if that were possible.
you two are doing a great service. keep up the good work!
love it!
Any chance the final episode of this gawd awful mess might feature the Chicago office where our Dear Leader made his bones? I hope so. Chicago is where you go for a PhD in Corruption and where BHO constantly points to show where he gained his alleged savvy.
This is more exciting than the Saturday morning matinees I used to go to as a child. I couldn't wait for the next episode. Keep up the good work and watch your back. You're dealing with dangerous people who are about to lose millions of dollars because you outed them.
Sorry Mr. O'Keefe–Michael Moore you ain't. This whole conversation sounds so dumb and contrived. A man as dumb as the Acorn employee you solicited is no reflection on that organization–it's a reflection, at best, on the employee (ex-exployee), i.e., idiot. And your cheering section needs to get real too; President Obama has too much class and intelligence to have involved himself in such dirt and stupidity. I really do question the authenticity of this whole tape; this man gave way too much information in exchange for a bunch of sketchy facts from O'Keefe and his sidekick, Hannah. For example, sidekick states: "They're coming from Guatemala in a container or something–I hope they all make it–that some of them don't die." Frankly, there isn't an ounce of intelligence in this award-winning video.
Sorry, I'm not buying this one at all…. At no time did he offer to help them. He didn't ask for money. Seemed like there was a serious language gap, that limited his understanding. All he did was listen and ask questions! And it also seemed like he was trying to pump them for info to report to authorities.
The first 3 videos seemed pretty clear cut. Rotten nuts. This one is sketchy at best, and maybe just flat wrong. I'll go so far as to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was trying to get info to report them to the authorities.
I hope they have some facts that they aren't sharing, or they may have bit off a libel suit.
Right. It's all concocted. Not. The ease and seamlessness with which these alleged ACORN facilitators slip into discussing criminal activities ought to give you a hint about the context.
I have no bias about ACORN one way or the other…but I guess I don't really get it. What does child prostitution have to do with what ACORN does? Just because this hilariously white pimp found some idiots at ACORN offices willing to talk about child prostitution with him, what does that prove? Are you really trying to say that the organization as a whole has a secret by-law or initiative to increase child prostitution in the US? If you've got evidence of voter fraud in the last election on a broad scale, now that would be something. But it seems to me that you could walk into any type of establishment in different cities (Wal Mart, etc.) and find some dumb employee who would entertain a conversation about random criminal acts like prostitution or drug use. But I doubt you'd then come to the conclusion that those attitudes are shared by Wal Mart corporate. I'm not pro-ACORN by any means, I just think this is more about a guy trying to make a name for himself than anything that's really even that interesting. If he'd gotten them to admit they'd helped register dead people to vote for Obama it would have actually been something.
I'm so grateful for people like Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, for doing the work that our tired, biased old media choose not to do. If you want to let Hannah and James know of your support, visit this facebook page, become a fan, and let your friends know about it.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hannah-Giles/134395...
Hmmm. What happens between the several edits? These should be shown uncut.
Obama said he is going to pay for his heathcare program by cleaning up medicare and medicaid waste and yet he cannot acknowledge the governments waste with ALCORN.
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He also mentioned that he has a few family members that are cops. But I didn't catch if they were San Diego or Mexican.
No, in every video they did mention 12-13 year old girls.
Well, the only bad thing about all this is the fact that NO MONEY has really been cut off…if it ever does. There is so much rigamarole in congress, if it EVER does get defunded, it will be months and months, if not years. Please do not let this stop you two, James and Hannah, from continuing on your journey for the truth, no matter where it takes you. The one thing we all can do to help is not let this story get bogged down in congress and swept under the rug. Don't forget, we did impeach a president (Clinton..tho he did not resign) and we did oust one crook, Nixon, who did resighn. So don't get discouraged if things go slow after the fire dies down a bit. Everyone, including myself, is hotter than hell right now and madder than two wet hens, but cooler heads will prevail in the end. But I'm seeing too many areas where the gov. is sticking their noses where it doesn't belong. Like our wallets…if anyone thinks for a moment all this spending isn't going to cost us, I have this bridge in Brooklyn…..
He gave them his contact in Tijuana's cell phone number for crying out loud! Did you miss that?
The two of you are amazing. I wonder if it has really sunk in what you have both accomplished.
Simply amazing.
That's right, we need warrants to go search all ACORN employee's back yards! That's where we'll find a lot of OUR money!
What?
Yea, you gotta trust them Mexicans baby!
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"Hmmm. What happens between the several edits? These should be shown uncut."
I think we have to wait for the DVD when it comes out in time for Xmas. Maybe we'll have a lot to celebrate by then….could be a 2 box set! I wonder if PBS will offer it during one of their pledge drive broadcasts? Just a thought.
What about ACORN's claim that the conversation in the National City office was reported to the police at the time? That is the absolutely crucial question in this case and one that had better be clarified before this video is used further.
Nice job idiot.. OBAMA IS ACORN.. You think he does not know what's going on in the offices around the country? He use to work in one. Was the only job he has ever had.
Go hug a tree or help abort a baby you liberal nut. "President Obama has too much class and intelligence to have involved himself in such dirt and stupidity"
Got news for you stupid; Obama has no and will never have any class. He hates the country because he was not born here and it was founded by "a bunch of white slave owners". OoOOoOOoo badd!! Too bad slavery is still going on in parts of the world but that does not seem to be a problem to you dumb fuck libs does it? Na, because it does not meet your agenda of Socialism.
Way to make youreself look even more stupid you lib trash. "random criminal acts" are you serious??? I don't recall anyone EVER going into H&R Block or something and getting advice on trafficing humans.
But that seems to be ok to you eh?
My husband and I have been following this story on the FNC and we are shocked!! Not at what has been uncovered, but that it was done by two twentysomethings. While the main stream media pay homage to their new king, you are out there proving the corruption that begins at the base of his throne. Hannah and James, you have renewed our hope for the future of this country. Thank you for a job well done. We look forward to watching your careers soar.
I agree, Paul. I got the impression that he was milking these kids for more info, getting location details, timing, etc. I sure hope he did not get fired, as he did not buy into their scheme.
For the life of me, I can't access the Acorn home page, http://www.acorn.org/ Comes up blank….curious, curious, curious. Probably tripled their web traffic the last couple of days and crashed their servers…darn shame. Would love to see what's happenin' in their corner of the world. Maybe when they said they were "suspending operations pending an independent investigation" that included the website…….Rock on Hannah and James, you guys are the best!
Never mind, the website just came up…must have been very busy.
Nope. He gave a cell no. and didn't ask for theirs. You know nothing of the Mexican Mafia. For the right price, you'd be surprised…… also, Obama puede lamer pelotas.
You should watch it again. The reporters gave him their phone number in the first video. (Not that that really means anything). But like I said, this looks like it could go either way. Juan never said he would help. All he said was he had contacts in Tijuana. Their \”act\” on this video was ridiculous. No street smart mafia type would have bought it. It was WAY too obvious. In fact, if he really was \”Mexican mafia\”, they might have got themselves killed. And it looks like Juan might have been recording them with his cell phone. Jim and Hannah might have pushed their luck too far with this. Damn sure no jury would convict of anything from this video.
This from CNN
"The videos were secretly taped by two individuals posing as a prostitute and a pimp. They show ACORN employees in four of the agency's offices suggesting or condoning a series of illicit actions as the couple sought advice on setting up a brothel with underage women from El Salvador. "
UNDERAGE WOMEN??? CNN needs a copy editor. Since when are 13 year olds women?
Excellent work James. You are in inspiration to all of us. Woodward & Bernstein are gone! The old liberal media is dead! They are all robots and drones for Obama. It's like watching "Invastion of the Body Snatchers" and you are the lone voice attempting to tell the few that are not hypnotized (Fox, Breitbart, Rush, Hannity, Beck, Ingraham, Levin, etc.) that the entire old media has been "absorbed".
Why don't we hear from OBAMA on this issue? He immediately attacked after his Harvard friend was arrested. Is Mr. Emanuel perplexed how to SPIN this one?
Thank you from all the frustrated citizens of this great country. JOB WELL DONE!!!!
I used the word "random" to describe the point I'm trying to make about child prostitution and ACORN – that it is a random idea with no connection. He could have just as easily walked in and asked about drug use or murder or some other crime. My point is that these videos certainly illuminate the fact that some stupid people work at these places, I just don't understand what they say about ACORN. Everyone else on these postings seem so excited, as if this has made some statement about ACORN having to do with child prostitution. But I just find the connection random. If you did go into H&R Block and find someone there who would talk to you about trafficking humans, would you then demand all H&R Blocks in the country be shut down? Calling someone trash for posing these questions (and I'm not defending ACORN since I really know nothing about it) I think belies the bigger point here – that most of you people just like playing the journalistic game George W. Bush so wisely termed "gotcha journalism."
Thank you James and Hannah, you've done a great thing! Manya Helman
Thank you for great reporting James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. ACORN should be shut down but our government is so corrupt even criminal activity like child sex slavery is ok. Our only hope is that some of our friends that voted for Obama will finally realize what a low-life he is.
Also, can you believe 75 democrates voted to continue funding for ACORN.
God Bless you both for the work you are doing! Please stay safe in your journey and as an American citizen that truly appreciates your efforts in taking this Organization down is unbelievable journalism! Trust me…there isn’t a major Network that has anyone with your abilities! The two of you ROCK! You both are the best of “American Patriots” that are serving for the good of all Americans by stopping this wasteful spending and truly disgusting practices of ACORN! Here is to your continued success in all you do and know that your journey may just have started the biggest turnaround this country has seen since the Civil War!
I respect you for taking the time to reply. I was harsh in calling you trash, sorry. This was not random. Yes they were turned down (from what I read) from a few other locations. That says there are some out there running with morals. But so far we have seen 4 and even more people working there who were not. That's a LOT.
What if I went into 4 H&R Block locations and found illegal business practices at each? Would it be ok to then demand the police or DA or someone have a look? Seeing as how they are not getting tax money I don't think they would need to get in on it, that's what the FBI is for as far as I know.
I am encouraged about America's future because of you guys. My prayers are with you. Thank you so much!
This "lawyer" was probably figuring he could collect some of his "professional fees" in trade.
Thanks for the sensible reply and I actually agree with you – this organization should stop getting government money because they are clearly lax in hiring and training their employees. I just think it's strange that most people in these comments are connecting this to Obama and/or Democrats, which I just don't understand. I respect it as a point of view, but I just don't get it. Again, if what you posit regarding H&R Block employees really happened it would certainly be serious – but I wouldn't blame it on you if I found out you'd been in an H&R Block before or you thought it was a good idea to have places that help people with their taxes.
You and Hannah are couragous and patriotic Americans, James. Great work!
The ACORN has fell off the tree….now we need to smash it with the hammer of justice before the liberal squirrels pick it up and try to shelter it again in their tree top houses (Ivory Towers) looking down on the American people who they claim to be sticking up for.
This group should be investigated by the Justice Department THOROUGHLY!
There are reports in San Diego tonight that the target of this sting in National City — Juan Carlos Vera — actually reported these undercover flim makers to police two days after this video was recorded. The assistant chief of National City Police — Manual Rodriguez — confirms that Carlos approached a cousin who works as a detective with NCP and told this sworn officer that a pimp and a prostitute had come into his office. Furthermore, Carlos asked this detective if he knew anybody who could investigate the claims of human trafficking. The detective then reported the incident to a Federal task force on human smuggling in San Diego. About a week later, Carlos informed the detective this entire episode was a scam (as indeed it was). And, no crimes were committed.
James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, you guys ROCK!!! Journalism is alive and well on its way to recovery with courageous young patriotic journalists like you. No one had stepped up to the plate to expose the outright corruption that pervades the ACORN Agency until you two. Thanks for starting the Avalanche of support from the FOX viewers and EVEN CONGRESS and all the Spineless DEMS are now having to get on board the ANTI-ACORN TRAIN. Hopefully we will prevail and ALL FUNDING FOR ACORN WILL STOP.
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COUNTERPOINT! Laurie Essig darling, ready to admit you-a, ya were a weeeeee bit off on this one cutie pie? lessig@middlebury.edu
I am beginning to wonder if Acorn is actively involved with sex-trafficking and underage prostitution. Why hasn't the FBI been called in to investigate them? What is the hold up?
Nice job' hadtocomment' – the bigotry of low expectations strikes again. Hey, he is "just Mexican" so he couldn't have understood the repeated references to UNDERAGE SEX SLAVES. Sure thing.
"Sketchy at best"!! R U Fuck*** kidding?! He was willing to help smuggle the kids across the border.
Wake the F*** up.
prob boring crap. You ever watched any type of uncut video of people taking? Boring as hell, this is a slimmed down ver for your entertainment.
Yea, that's why he invited them to the upcoming immagration 'party'. Put down the kool-aid and watch the video again genius
David,
Take another bong hit, take off off your filthy Che shirt and turn off your freakin' computer…
I think it's really sad that Clinton was inpeached yet nothing really came of it nor will you hear anyone really talk about it. Pathetic. He and his family for that matter. Ol Kankles and OMG she had a lot of plastic syrgery Chelsea. Guess she would do anything to look good and what the family said so there "empire" could somehow extend. They knew she was too ugly to do anything so well there ya go!
You think he knows what "stuff" was the norm? That if someone came into an ACORN office asking about child prostitution that the workers there would cooperate in helping them? And Obama would be all for that because for some bizarre reason he is in favor of child prostitution? Come on, you seem more intelligent than that. If you disagree with Obama's policies there's plenty to talk about, but connecting these people to him is ludicrous – just like if you used to work at an H&R Block 20 years ago and then some people who work there now turn out to be idiots and then I blame you for it. I think everyone on here knows how silly this is, you all just really want to "catch" Obama at something a bit too desperately. Why can't he just be a guy who has some policies you don't agree with?
Ok take it easy there. I do not want to "catch" anyone. If someone does wrong you call it out, that's it. I do belive Obama knows how ACORN opperates at the street level yes; he use to work in one of those offices, how could he not? That's all I was tryin to say.
And like you said yes, he is a guy who's politics I do not agree with. Actually quite well put there~
Ok take it easy there. I do not want to "catch" anyone. If someone does wrong you call it out, that's it. I do belive Obama knows how ACORN opperates at the street level yes; he use to work in one of those offices, how could he not? That's all I was tryin to say.
And like you said yes, he is a guy who's politics I do not agree with. Actually quite well put there~ that's it, nothing more.
So when is the San Diego office of the FBI going to pay a call on Juan Carlos and turn that ACORN office upside down? What a great job of investigative journalism by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR et al are as Nancy Pelosi – totally clueless. No wonder no one listens or watches them any longer.
Not only H&R Block, but I think if you went into almost ANY business in the inner-city, you would be able to find unsavory characters. Even at a church or school I imagine. It's sad, but it's their culture and lifestyle. How many times have we seen blatant criminals elected by overwhelming margins by black voters? Obviously tax dollars shouldn't be going to ACORN or any other organization with such low standards. But it's not just ACORN that's the problem. ACORN is symptom of a much larger problem. If ACORN and all it's sub-entities vanished off the face of the earth tomorrow, nothing would change.
Once the dust settles, and level heads prevail, I think we will all realize this is not so much an expose' of ACORN, as it is a window into what this class of people is all about. And it ain't pretty. If they're willing to talk about child prostitution with a straight face, then clearly voter fraud isn't even on their radar as immoral or unethical.
I can understand how you might feel that way, but as a lawyer in training I have to tell you that this is almost more damning from a legal standpoint to ACORN.
This guy represented himself as a lawyer. If he does not have a license to practice in the U.S. he gave legal advice without a license, a serious crime. Since it happened in an ACORN office, they could be on the hook if they knew this guy represented himself as a lawyer.
If he does have a license, he is on the hook for advising a client on how to break the law. He is on the hook for conspiracy liability for smuggling illegals and everything else. He is also on the hook for implying that he had ties to a district attorney, as that is a violation of Model Code of Professional Conduct. This is by far the biggest gaff, because it goes beyond the trailer trash ACORN reps from the previous videos and shows a clean cut white collar and obviously bilingual ACORN worker, and the criminal advice he gives is equally more sophisticated.
The President is ACORN. Wake up and drink a bit of Monster, Are you blind?
right, im afraid this employee just sat and listened politely and his only crime was not pointing out the foolishness the reporters were committing. he pointed out his involvment with the d.a. for crying out loud.
ive watched the baltimore and dc ones as well. in the dc tape, the acorn employee says "but let's get real here" and tries to change the topic anytime the underage girls are brought up. in the baltimore tape, the first time james mention underage girls the acorn employee says "i'm not hearing this".
admittedly, the conversation about tax fraud continued (*not evasion mind you, they were looking for creative ways to report money to the government). we can argue about which of the employees' approaches here are classier, baltimore is clearly the most willing to engage the reporters in detailed conversation, but everyone seems to treat the underage prostitutes as the fairy tales that they were.
JAMES AND HANNAH ARE THE CHUCK NORRIS OF GOING UNDERCOVER TO CATCH A PREDATOR OF THE USA!! AND ROLLING OUT THE FOOTAGE SLOWLY EVERYDAY IS A RONDHOUSE KICK TO THE FACE OF THE PLASTIC MEDIA IN THIS COUNTRY!!
Just can't wait for another episode of "as the acorn spins"
ACORN corrupt? The only organization out there in the wilderness trying to help the little people? Shock! Outrage!
How could this be? Undermining the Constitution, holding sit ins in banks until they change lending policies in order for people to get home loans that they will never be able to repay. Do they even try to repay them? The Organization that almost single handedly (with the help of Barney Franks, Christopher Dodd and others)caused the housing crash and the financial market crash? Corrupt?
YOU KNOW IT BROTHER! LOL
You are missing the whole point. The fact of the matter is that ACORN has recieved millions of yours and my dollars and is in line to recieve Billions (with a B) more in the near future. They must be accountable for what they do with our money. H&R Block, using your example is a private enterprise and would be treated differntly mainly by media and word of mouth would deteriorate their income and force them into bankruptcy. Everyone must be accountable for thier actions and ACORN has lost the trust of the tax payers by either poor hiring practices at a minimum or poor policy, they must and will pay the price for thier inability to function as a responsible organization recieving tax payer money.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of the acorn?
HANNA AND JAMES AND BIGGOVERNMENT.COM YOU ARE AMERICAN HEROS – WHAT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM USED TO BE UNTIL THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAVE SOLD THEIR SOLE TO THE DEVIL TO BE A OBAMA PROPAGANDA MACHINE.
THANK GOD FOR YOU BOTH TO EXPOSE ACORN – WE HAVE TO KEEP A WATCH OUT IF ACORN CHANGES THEIR NAME AND STILL GETS FUNDING FROM THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. OBAMA WILL HAVE TO SIGN THE BILL TO DEFUND ALL MONEY FROM ACORN.
I WISH FOX NEWS WILL HIRE YOU BOTH.
NOW ONLY IF WE CAN GET CORRUPTED LEFT WING COMMIE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER AND THE ACLU DEFUNDED.
James, Hannah, God bless you both not only for exposing ACORN for what it really is but for doing the dangerous line of work you do; please be careful & thank you so much. What you've done has taken a lot of courage; I'm from CA & are no longer there having tax dollars spent on the corrupt organization like ACORN; God bless you & may God bless the United States of America. Good on ya, guys! Keep hammering away & saving one more child from being exploited & abused by these thugs for self-gratification; what a disgusting display of the underbelly that ravages this country like a cancer, festering & oozing with no regard for the people.
Guest – If you pay taxes and are not FURIOUS about this then there is no hope for you.
"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.” – Ronald Reagan
O'Keefe should sent you his most sincere thanks for saying that he's no Michael Moore.
Acorn had 400,000 voter registrations that where demed fraudulent. That was out of 1,300,000! Obama worked with ACORN in Chicago pushing to get mortgages to people who could not afford them as banks viewed them as risky. His ties are deep with ACORN. It is not because he is black man (he is also half Irish, so am I). Why does everyone pull the race card when some disagrees with the president. If my brother had the same social views as Obama I would not support him either.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." – Thomas Jefferson
If you know so much about editing video, I think you could supply some examples of exactly where and how the tapes were edited. It seems the little counter running on the screen goes a long way to show that you're full of beans.
Anybody have a copy of that police report????
[...] James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles have more videos and this time it’s from San Diego, Ca. But don’t worry, ACORN is going to conduct an internal audit! But don’t worry, this is all nothing more than rightwing Republicans harassing ACORN. [...]
I would like to see with not stops : )
People link this to Obama b/c he worked for ACORN (from what I have read). AFAIK it's the only "job" he has ever had. I honestly thinks he knows all this stuff was the "norm" and that pretty much makes his word, character, dignity. everything all worth a sack less than a sack full of crap.
James & Hannah……I am so proud of what you have accomplished. Thank-you for being so brave, so smart and for giving Americans real hope and change for our country. Keep up the good work and stay safe. Our thoughts and prayers are with you!
What blows my mind is the readiness of these ACORN "people" to believe your story!!!! I wonder what they would have said if you told them you were cyborgs intent on taking over the planet? It truly shows the warped nature of ACORN. This nut is rotten to the core.
I am very impressed with you and Hannah and want to thank you for your work………keep it up!
Ok take it easy there. I do not want to "catch" anyone. If someone does wrong you call it out, that's it. I do belive Obama knows how ACORN opperates at the street level yes; he use to work in one of those offices, how could he not? That's all I was tryin to say.
And like you said yes, he is a guy who's politics I do not agree with ~ that's it, nothing more.
Harry, if I was sitting in that chair, I'd have given them the bum's rush in thirty seconds. Exactly how much of that crap do you have to listen to in order to make a man's judgement? I'd have been dialing 911 on that cell phone not scrolling through it trying to find the best Mexican criminal I knew. GFG.
Horse manure. "Expendable pawns"? Are you joking? The entire organization is directed at supporting deadbeats, parasites, and criminals and always has been…you just never had any contact with them. I'll bet fifty bucks that there is not one Acorn office manager you'd let date your daughter…or son.
James & Hannah, if you have another juicy video, you might think about contacting Jay Leno for debuting it on his show. From his bit the other night, he clearly 'gets it'.
Has anyone noticed that the "community" that needs "organizing" is composed largely of lowlifes? And don't argue the reality of that – every one of the Acorn people in every video was a dirtball – and these are their leaders. If you doubt that the rest of the offices present the same cultural demographic, drop by one in your neighborhood. Drop by any "community organizing" group and tell me if you'd invite any of them over for dinner…I'll bet folding money that even if you were stupid enough to do so, you'd hide the good silver.
My parents used to tell me that I'd be known by the people I associated with. I learned that you get what you settle for.
OK, dude, playing the absolute brain-dead idiot amateur pimp has run its course. You're going to have to get a little more sophisticated and stop doing these stings like a high school video club project. It's time to step up to "Miichael Moore" status.
Being "explosive and damning" should not be the point. Being real and finding the true level of criminality and corruption should be the point. The goal should not be ratings, it should be truth.
Your video was made on 8/17 and released one month later. When did you notify the police and or INS about the child smuggling ring you uncovered? I hope right away, since so many lives were in danger. Could you release a copy of the police report please. What was the police response?
My guess is that you never did or we would have heard about this before we did. Which means either you are as non-caring as those you are “investigating”, or like me you know that this is bs.
But clearly you cannot fairly accuse someone of turning a blind eye to something that you yourself do.
Your future in journalism looks very bright. You are to me, two american heros. Thank you guys for saving some of my tax dollars from going to Acorn.(down the toilet)
You have yet to address the police incident report that ACORN Philadelphia has released. Despite the success, the lack of a response to this is hurting the complete legitimacy of the story since it appears to contradict your claims of have success everywhere you tried and validates ACORN's story that you indeed failed in places, were turned away, and the police were contacted. You really should respond to it.
Fish killing a valley.
What happen to Fish and loafs, feeding the multitudes.
Wake up Government.
God help America.
James and Hannah are heroes, they are going to save the tax payers lots of money. ( The money that use to go to Acorn).
Waiting for the unedited video/audio and the transcript.
Still not convinced by this one.
about time someone let the people know whats going on well done guys be saf and keep up the good work
My question exactly.
Boggles the mind, doesn' it?
I like your analogy…funny. Always keep your sense of humor, I say.
Fox news is reporting that 20 states are investigating acorn…and the FBI… but I don't know which states the FBI is involved.
ummm then why was he FIRED
And a well oiled machine it is.
In the Sixties, a Democratic AG, and white man, Bobby Kennedy, waged war on the Mob, La Cosa Notstra, of Sicilian origin. Today, a black AG, Eric Holder, sits on his hands while a Black/Latino Mob, ACORN, works to destroy the Nation. How pitiful. Oh, another big difference: taxpayer money wasn't officially given to the Mafia!
John, you got a wallet to back that up? Just asking.
that's what i want to know.
hey old man, the police report is posted on this website. once again, shut up
I'd have to disagree. By "conventional" definition used today, racism IS a joke. There are millions of people of color who think disagreeing with a black man = racism, yet those very same people often think something like a dozen black kids cheering and celebrating while 2 other black kids beat the crap out of a white kid on a bus is NOT racism.
ACORN IS SUBSIDIZED WITH U.S. TAXPAYER MONIES, RIGHT? MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, RIGHT?
IT APPEARS THEREFORE THAT OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE SUBSIDIZING ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES, RIGHT?
WASN'T OBAMA THE FORMER CHIEF LEGAL COUNSEL TO ACORN?
WILL OBAMA SIGN LEGISLATION CUTTING OFF FUNDING TO ACORN IF SUCH A BILL CAME TO HIS DESK?
DOES THIS NOT BEG THE QUESTION: WHY SHOULD US CITIZENS PAY FEDERAL TAXES ANYMORE WHEN SUCH TAXES FUND THESE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES PROMOTED BY ACORN?
EVERY STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATOR SHOULD VIEW THESE VIDEOS FOR THEMSELVES AND ATTEMPT TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.
Where at samijo. I searched police report and could not find it
[...] Ignore ACORN Giving Business Advice to Pimp and Prostitute James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of [...]
That's because nowhere in America except Limbaughland would anybody believe that someone would walk into an office of any kind and start admitting to a string of heinous crimes like this and be taken seriously. I bet at least one of these gals thought they were getting on the next Borat.
This is such a stupid setup. One stupid man and his shady buddies does not make an whole organization bad. I'm sure that the catholic church does a lot of good even though they have had bad priest.
[...] In the latest videos released by Big Government, an ACORN immigration specialist in San Diego offers to help smuggle underage prostitutes across the … [...]
Really Olga, the future of journalism is wearing disguises and asking a bunch of foolish questions. The only real story here is how these particular people behaved when confronted by James and Hannah. So the story basically is James and Hannah. All else is conjecture based on personal biases.
Wouldn't some important elements of this story be how the public with legitimate issues are treated?
Who do they serve and what services they provide?
That's a story. This is partisan film making, which is cool. I love Michael Moore. I wouldn't call him a journalist though.
Wow Acorn does all that. Do you really believe that's what caused the financial crash?Attempting to place people in affordable housing.
Also if Acorn is such a criminal enterprise why didn't Bush do something about them?One more punt. One more mess you guys left for Obama to clean up after 8 years of horrendous management.Couldn't get Osama,couldn't get out of Iraq,couldn't cleanup Afghanistan,deadwood on Katrina, and left us with a crippled economy. Never before has doing so little cost so much. And you guys don't even have the decency not to have him clean it up in a room full of screaming children.
Good word, and I guess that's what I don't understand – why you are so furious. People on here are acting as if a crime was actually committed – as if ACORN got caught actually trafficking child prostitutes. Remember, this "filmmaker" just made that up – the child prostitutes are make believe. All that happened is he got some people to talk to him about it. Should they lose their jobs for doing just that? I think so, yes. But does this demand that we are all this "furious" – I guess I think you people should have been more furious about things like Iraq where our country's heroes died because they were mislead rather than these couple of dumb people who chose to talk about the wrong thing. I choose to think there is hope for all of us which is why I'm still commenting here, trying to find someone else who is more logical than "furious."
It is not just one man. Keep living in your own bubble. There are 4 other tapes before this. Your small liberal brain must have overloaded when having to sputter out some stupid vapor like defense of acorn. 'DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! ' (move arms like frantic robot, as sparks and wisps of black smoke come from ears). You liberals are so brainwashed you have a blind spot a mile wide which makes you blind to intrinsic corruption in your groups (white mia culpa guilters, blacks, mexican immigrants, and liberal jews). NO IT CANNOT BE! Yells the liberal as truth and reality pounds away at his fantasies like the ocean washing away sand castles. But that is okay, the liberal will build another one and call anyone who says it is a sandcastle a hater.
[...] similar O’Keefe/Giles vids out of San Diego (teased on Wednesday evening; fully released very early Thursday). ACORN’s contention crumbled further, and Abram’s failure to report it Thursday [...]
I'm still waiting for the line by line expense list James the Pimp said he would post online. The one he said on Fox he would produce that showed he spend only $1300 of his own money. There are so many holes and lies in these two idiots' stories it is laughable. They aren't smart enough to get away with it. And….wait for the big surprise that is in store for you guys. It's coming.
[...] similar O’Keefe/Giles vids out of San Diego (teased on Wednesday evening; fully released very early Thursday). ACORN’s contention crumbled further, and Abram’s failure to report it Thursday [...]
[...] Check out biggovernment.com for more information on this story. [...]
[...] similar O’Keefe/Giles vids out of San Diego (teased on Wednesday evening; fully released very early Thursday). ACORN’s contention crumbled further, and Abram’s failure to report it Thursday [...]
[...] past week’s hullabaloo over videos that expose the liberal nonprofit ACORN agreeing to aid and abet underage prostitution, illegal immigration and more reminded me of another [...]
[...] the latest video of a San Diego ACORN employee offering assistance with smuggling child prostitutes into the country hasn’t derailed that narrative. Because the ACORN sting was the brainchild [...]
James & Hanna, good job! Thanks for exposing ACORN.
Bertha Lewis was taped as saying she owed a big thanks to James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles for bringing the problems within ACORN's housing unit to her attention so that she and her "independent" team can correct the problems and regain trust.
I hope on one of the interviews of Jim or Hannah that they are asked whether they have received a note or call yet from Ms Lewis expressing her thanks.
It would also be interesting to know what inquiries for interviews Jim and Hannah have received from MSM and whether they intend to oblige any of them. Both CNN and MSNBC owe Jim and Hannah huge apologies for the way they initially treated the story (doctored films unfairly show ACORN in a bad light – ACORN to fight back with suits against them and their sponsor Fox News. You go Bertha; give those racists what for).
[...] News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of [...]
[...] continues to provide secret ACORN footage, this time from San [...]
Any of those Priests that are found guilty of molesting children should have a meeting with GOD set up.
”All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson
[...] Was it Wednesday that BigGovernment.com came out with the San Diego installments of the Great Acorn [...]
[...] similar O’Keefe/Giles vids out of San Diego (teased on Wednesday evening; fully released very early Thursday). ACORN’s contention crumbled further, and Abram’s failure to report it Thursday [...]
Where your moth hangs open and you never blink.
This just keeps getting better and better. Brilliant.
[...] similar O’Keefe/Giles vids out of San Diego (teased on Wednesday evening; fully released very early Thursday). ACORN’s contention crumbled further, and Abram’s failure to report it Thursday [...]
James and Hannah….YOU ARE AWESOME!! KEEP IT UP! And please do make yourselves a personal safety-net of escape from harm thoughout the country. I have no doubt 'your victims' will go to extremes when they think they can get away with it.
[...] News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of [...]
This is the true, corrupt face of ACORN. This is who ACORN is. This is what they do. Simply rogue employees? I dont think so.
Great work you guys!
Thank God for you guys remembering what real reporting is all about. You absolutely did it and you made it look so easy!!!!! Journalism schools everywhere are re-writing their curriculum, HIGH FIVE and long live Breitbart everything!
What do you mean such a pity Obama backed them? He is one of them!!!
Thanks to Hanna,James Good Job! Obama will veto all action towards Acorn, This country is screwed! We put radicals in the White House! And they are being led by a chicago ganster! Acorn has already changed its name,and will keep operating on our tax dollares, Makes you proud to be American doesnt it,
You guys are heros! Stay safe! We can't wait for more stuff from you! You are absolutely brilliant!
If this was one time occurrence at one ACORN office I could pass it off to some knucklehead. Five sites so far, So we are talking about something as heinous as child prostitution. I for one do not need for that crime to be committed before I get FURIOUS. I am a parent who believes children are our best natural resource. The simple fact that a organization, that receives taxpayer money, even suggests how to hide money, smuggle in underage girls and scam the IRS tends to piss me off. Blame my parents for my upbringing. My only hope is that my children would share my disgust if they should witness the same when they mature. Good Day!
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." – Benjamin Franklin
And yet there is still no transcript or unedited audio/video.
Whilst the first three videos uncovered indefensible behaviour, at the present I would conclude that O'Keefe has performed a hatchet job on this guy. The entire video is O'Keefe and Giles talking whilst the guy is adding the odd "uh huh" "ok", or otherwise repeating back things that O'Keefe had said. Who brought up Tijuana? O'Keefe did.
What I see happening here is that this story is running out of steam, and this behaviour is not as institutional as O'Keefe would like you to believe. ACORN already used their "the tapes have been doctored" excuse, so noone is going to buy that one anymore, leaving O'Keefe to make a video such as thing one which, at the present point, appears to be little more than propaghanda.
Furthermore, we have the news that this guy did indeed report O'Keefe to the authorities, just as we have seen the police report filed from the Philadelphia office.
Any good reporter knows what "full disclosure" means. O'Keefe isn't a reporter, and until the unedited audio/video and transcript appear, I'm going to conclude that he is a partisan hack.
We also now know that O'Keefe taped the San Bernadino video almost one month prior to it being aired on the Glenn Beck program as the "most shocking tape yet" with allegations of potential homicide.____O'Keefe, Breitbart and Beck had one entire month to investigate whether or not her claims were true, and have an arsenal of tools such as LexisNexis VitalChek, amonst the many resources available to news corporations, that could have confirmed her story (marriage certificiates, divorce certificates, death certificates), but they chose not to and instead ran the story with the disclaimer "we're still trying to find that out!"____Even Sean Hannity didn't buy it.
Finally, from the way O’Keefe framed these encounters, we are to believe that he uncovered a potential homicide in San Bernadino and a people smuggling ring in Tijuana.
Which of these did you report to the police, O’Keefe?
And if you did, when?
[...] Wednesday, O’Keefe and Giles published the fifth in a series of BigGovernment.com sting videos. ACORN official Juan Carlos Vera coached the [...]
Bush had 9/11 to deal with. Bush spent his time focusing on AMERICAN interests. Obama has focused primarily on the interests of other countries and payback to those who helped him get elected to a position for which he is woefully underqualified to hold. Unlike when Bush WON the 2000 Election, ACORN committed voter fraud on a national scale which may have given Obama the "extra votes" he needed to STEAL a win. The fact that Obama had to work for ACORN should tell you how incapable he is at landing and keeping a REAL job for which there are several other competitors. Obama, when compared to anyone else, is not good enough…unless someone pulls strings on his behalf. An election with NO ACORN will prove I am right and you are very very wrong.
I quite agree. You both deserve a Pulitzer. Remember the false story of the young ( supposedly 8 year-old) heroin addict that Janet Cooke wrote about?. There is now doubt here.
Incredible work, James & Hannah! If the state-run media sycophants were'nt in a death-spiral already, this will hasten their demise. Congratulations, and Stay Safe…Acorn thugs are everywhere
You guys rock. Thank you for what you have done, and please be careful. You have stirred a pot full of corruption and danger. God Bless.
Finally, ACORN is exposed for who they are and what they do. Why did it take two people in their 20's to open this can of worms? I applaud them – - – Why didn't the Congress, Senate, any one in Washington see this was going on. We knew it why didn't they? They looked the other way, and they can no longer do that. Where are the Professional Journalist? Gibson, Couric, etc. Gibson thought it was funny when asked about it, some Jounalist he is. It was completely obvious during the campaign, if this were exposed prior, and they weren't permitted to FIX the election, we would be calling John McCain Mr. President, seriously could he have been any worse than Obama and his Chicago MOB? I don't think so – - -
And Mr. Carter – - – you should be ashamed of yourself. This has nothing to do with RACE, it has to do with an unexperienced person in the most powerful position, in the World, not knowing what he's doing. And elected by means of voter Fraud. This is the direct result of the brainwashed idiots who voted for a Radical Community Organizer to be President. and surround himself with other Radicals. The American people are sick of this crap, and the money to them should stop TODAY, not wait another day to stop the insanity of giving these crooks and criminals our tax dollars. It curruption at it's worst – - -
Obviously doctored footage. Please post the raw footage without the random cuts.
Gee, I wonder how they would have doctored what came out of the ACORN employees mouths, they used the word prostitution, gave them the advice on how to cheat on taxes, etc. etc. Those words came out of their mouths. They are finally exposed for what they really are- – - theives, crooks, and criminals, FACT
George Bush,Bill Clinton ,and Barak Obama are' The Three Amigos'.Acorn is a strategic part of the New World Order to eliminate our borders.
It is simply amazing to me, after all that has been uncovered about ACORN, that some people still defend them.
Amazing.
“When you have eliminated all possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth”–Sherlock Holmes
[...] News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of [...]
James,
Are you suprised that Juan called the police? Also, did he ever ask Hannah if he could call the police? Were there any other offices that the police did get involved other than Philly and San Diego?
[...] Exclusive story here. [...]
Why not print the full transcript? What did you cut out? Is it possible he's taking pictures because he's collecting evidence on you?
[...] More at the link! [...]
[...] News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come! Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of [...]
[...] News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of Hos’: ‘Daily Show Skewers ACORN Ken Blackwell and [...]
[...] that announcement (which also drew very little attention from anyone in the mainstream media), the fifth video from San Diego was released and the U.S. House voted to cut all funds to [...]
NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — Police say a worker with the activist group ACORN who was caught on video giving advice about human smuggling to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute had reported the incident to authorities.
National City police said Monday that Juan Carlos Vera contacted his cousin, a police detective, to get advice on what to with information on possible human smuggling.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,553423,00.htm...
DearJames:
I would love to buy you and Hanna dinner. You have done what I have tried to do for 12 years and nearly cost me my life. I am very serious and please know that you cannot back down. There are a lot of us Adults here who admire the hell out of you.
If you will please read my comments I have posted elsewhere here. The Attorneys at Acorn in New Orleans set me up on phony rape charges in 1998. I lost everything and endure years of threats from the Local Police department who also knew what was really going on. I was also put in a cell of 4 months until my business was shut down by my family.
Email me at coxepropertymgmt@yahoo.com.
[...] News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of Hos’: ‘Daily Show Skewers ACORN Ken Blackwell and [...]
this dude is really stupid,call the cops on them jack ass
Hopefully, they are "vetting" any remaining tapes they say they have, before releasing them. The Juan Carlos Vera tape disturbs me a bit. Newsmax has the same AP release as the Fox link above, shouldn't biggovernment.com and Fox News be checking for police reports before releasing the vids? BG & Fox might be leaving themselves open to individual civil lawsuits if the fired Acorn worker[s] filed police reports immediately after the visits.
Truth above politics. According to Newsmax, Juan Carlos Vera had contacted police about the incident. He may have played along to act as an informant. Putting myself in that same situation, this may have been something I would have done in order that the human trafficker ringleaders would be caught and convicted. If this is the case then Juan has been falsely labelled and as a conservaticve I would hope that "biggovernment" would issue a statement clearing him of wrong-doing.
Police: ACORN Worker in Video Reported Couple
Monday, September 21, 2009 10:40 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/us_acorn_hidde...
[...] referring to the pair’s Brooklyn work, not naming Baltimore, Washington, San Bernardino, or San Diego. Finally, she allowed ACORN to dispute the veracity of the Brooklyn video when it has presented no [...]
See, SEE,
ACORN is proven to be honest and upright !!!!
One man in National City proves that the organization should recieve the
$ 8+ billion it is assigned in the stimulus bill, and run the US Census.
Ignore the ALLEGED corruption in 99.99999999% of ACORN, Juan Carlos Vera is an honest man.
~Seriously, kudos to him, the rest of the thing needs to be cut off from all tax dollars and govt. access.
[...] referring to the pair’s Brooklyn work, not naming Baltimore, Washington, San Bernardino, or San Diego. Finally, she allowed ACORN to dispute the veracity of the Brooklyn video when it has presented no [...]
[...] bonus: Just how many nuts in ACORN? Sheesh! San Bernardino and San Diego too? This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 at 7:35 am and is filed under Tips. [...]
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