According to
The Washington Independent "Big Government’s Andrew Breitbart brought ACORN videographers James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles to the National Press Club yesterday morning for the release of a video documenting the two young conservatives’ visit to the community organizing group’s office in Philadelphia."
Mike Stark at Huffington Post asks some interesting questions:
All You Need to Know About the ACORN Scandal and Who Is Behind It
Andrew Breitbart says he cares a lot about the truth, but it appears that's only true when he isn't the one being questioned.
~snip~~
Let's review their story:
O'Keefe, dressed as a pimp, and Giles, disguised as a prostitute, visited ACORN offices where they asked for assistance purchasing a home. They claimed to have difficulty documenting income derived from the streets. But they had so much money! In fact, it wasn't just the two of them -- they had a whole crew of underage girls from El Salvador turning tricks for them. Hell, they had so much money, they needed help laundering it for the pimp's run for Congress.
Now let's tell the truth.
The truth is that O'Keefe never wore the pimp outfit into an ACORN office. Instead, he posed as a candidate for Congress that wanted to help a young woman caught in the trappings of prostitution. Supposedly, he wanted to help her, and her fellow prostitutes, escape the clutches of a brutal pimp by finding a place for them to live.
Look, the ACORN personnel aren't blameless. Some did and said some pretty stupid things and deserved to be fired. But the world in which they work is vastly different from the world most readers of this blog post recognize. CNN, Desperate Housewives, even The Wire aren't going to begin to convey the social chaos that defines the neighborhoods ACORN often serves.
Breitbart and his crew would have you believe that the ACORN staffers should have called the police when confronted with a prostitute.
I hope the staffers, at first, were celebrating. It's not often you see a prostitute assert control over her life and try to break free from a pimp. The idea that this one was trying to take a whole crew of vulnerable underage women with her must have been amazing!
In the first video below, Breitbart asks me if I'm disturbed by what I saw in the videos.
If he had let me answer, I would have told him that I perceive ACORN's mission to be helping the underserved. That I don't understand how helping women out of sexual slavery is something that deserves to be condemned. That what I'm disturbed by is the behavior being demonstrated by those up on the stage that would demonize people trying to make a real difference in people's lives.
In the end, I think I ruined their little press conference...
Cont'd, with second video clip at link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/all-you-need-to-know-abou_b_330643.htmlI think this is a really interesting tidbit, too, per the Washington Independent link. I had been wondering if Norquist's little meetings aka
The Republican Noise Machine were still happening:
... After the meeting, Giles and Breitbart quickly headed out to Grover Norquist’s off-the-record Wednesday meeting of conservatives. Kelly Shackelford, one of the attorneys helping out Giles, stuck around to answer questions, and said that the video muting was O’Keefe’s idea. It was understandable, he said, that the two twenty-something activists would limit their liability now that ACORN was targeting them in a lawsuit.
http://washingtonindependent.com/64668/breitbart-acorn-foes-release-strange-video-of-philadelphia-stingEdited for more appropriate title.
Mods, this YouTube video is titled 'Acorn 1,' so I added clarifying info
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