The mainstream media has been pretty shitty on this. Jon Stewart called them out for not discovering this story themselves, and I saw Huckabee spin that as Jon Stewart calling out the mainstream media for not parroting Fox quickly enough. The mainstream media’s coverage was bad enough that even Bill O’Reilly has gone so far as to say that Fox and talk radio are the only good sources of news. Talk FUCKING radio.

Of course, Fox didn’t do its own diligent fact-checking in this. As a graduating college student hoping to go into private investigation, I know there are laws in every state about when you can legally record conversations, and that these young ideologues would be raked over hot coals for it.

Fox could certainly have looked for police reports documenting that ACORN employees called the law on O’Keefe and Giles. Fox could also have spoken honestly about how ACORN rooted out its own voter registration fraud. Fox could also have discussed how no fraudulent voter registration ever led to a fucking fraudulent vote. Fox could do a lot of balanced reporting that it simply chooses not to do.

Either way, I’m pretty sure I’m going to volunteer as a community organizer in the future. That ACORN might not be around to register disaffected brown and black people to vote is scary enough. But the idea of a sudden purge from the system of 400,000 people who make it their business to inform poor colored folk what the system does for them is just shocking.

Back off. For everyone’s benefit – your own included.

- Liz

You wrote that was that the “sting” consisted of “the scenario of a pimp and prostitute seeking advice on how to buy a house to house a underage prostitution ring of El Salvadorean girls”. However that is not actually what the transcripts reveal. “James” and “Kenya” never ask for advice on how to run a prostitution ring. “James” asks if prostitution is illegal in Maryland and the ACORN folks reply that it is. “Kenya” asks about buying a house and the advise they get is to file a federal tax return. When the issue of the presence of 13 Guatemalan girls is raised, the two are advised to send them to school. (0,o) That sounds really criminal.

It was disappointing seeing Barney Frank almost talked into commending O’Keefe on Feaux News for his pseudo-gotcha-journalism (not that i watch Fox; it was a clip on Huff Post)

But yes, you are indeed right here.

Only in America, can people like Bill O’Really and Glen Blech (and O’Keefe? -sigh-) actually propose what become legitimized parameters for debate that then enter into the national ‘dialogue’. They lead their pod-people followers to the tune of hatred for everything they fear (dark skin, non-sexually oppressed, women who don’t take shit from macho men, and the poor) while their jobs are shipped overseas, their health unsurance bankrupts their family and their children are sent to be blown apart in a forgein desert in the name of $100 billion dollar no-bid contracts for Haliburton, et al.

Over time, the effect on our society of tolerance and engagement of these Corporate Sponsored Hate Mongering Hypocrite Artist A-Holes is a country where parents have their children taken away and put on sex offender registry for taking pictures of their kids playing in the tub?!?! The Public option is watered down and rendered meaningless because of dimwit rightwing mouthpiece liars inventing terms like ‘Death Panels’?!?! And now calls for “more troops” in Afghanistan because the ‘longterm safety of Americans’ is hinging on our further occupation of a land that Alex the Great, Gengis Khan and the USSR could never conquer?!?!

It’s enough to make one sick; i’m just glad to hear from people like you who stand up against the bullshit and call it like it is.

We have not seen the full, uneditted video. We do know they lied. When asked if any Acorn employees turned them away they said No. That was a lie. There is a police report to prove it.

The only thing their video shows is how low to the depths of depravity the extreme right wing pundits will go to destroy Liberals, the left, minorities, and our President.

I’ve been writing about this story as well. Maybe if more of us continue to write about it, people will listen to the truth. We Need to see all of the uneditted video!!

Dee Perez Scott
Immigration Talk with a Mexican American
http://immigrationmexicanamerican.blogspot.com/

So true, Laurie. This ‘journalism’ would have made for a great Candid Camera prank, and that’s about it. It’s really disturbing to see it put on a pedestal as great investigative reporting.