The E. F. Hutton of Prostitution: When ACORN Talks, Pimps and Hookers Listen.

National Review ^ | September 15, 2009

[Steelfish]

September 15, 2009

The E. F. Hutton of Prostitution When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen.

Rich Lowry

The radical activist group ACORN is the E. F. Hutton of prostitution. It stands ready to provide discreet advice on setting up a brothel and engaging in other, associated acts of criminality. When ACORN talks, pimps and hookers listen.

This has been established by an audacious video sting operation undertaken by guerrilla conservative documentarian James O’Keefe, 25, and his sidekick Hannah Giles, 20. O’Keefe posed as a pimp and Giles as a prostitute seeking help getting a mortgage for a brothel. In cities around the country, workers for ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — happily obliged.

The videos are 60 Minutes for the YouTube age. Posted at the new website BigGovernment.com and aired on Fox News, they are yet another indication of the loosening grip of the legacy media. A couple of 20-somethings crafted a devastating exposé with just a hidden camera and some gumption. The Census Bureau immediately severed its ties with ACORN.

In Baltimore, ACORN staff assured O’Keefe and Giles that the group doesn’t “discriminate” — i.e., has no standards whatsoever. Giles is told if she makes $96,000 a year selling sex, she should tell the government she only makes $9,600. Her occupation, meanwhile, should be reported as “performing artist.” If the conversation had gone longer, surely she would have been advised how to apply for a National Endowment for the Arts grant.

O’Keefe notes that they want a house for 13 underage girls who will be imported from El Salvador to work as prostitutes. Only three — not all 13 — of the girls can be listed as dependents, ACORN prudently advises. And so long as they are under 16, they will make....

[Secret Agent Man]

[ETL]

Obama, ACORN, the (Marxist) New Party and the Working Family Party (an Acorn front group)
numerous sources

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 11:08:18 AM EDT by ETL:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337249/posts

[JLS]

Actually it seemed to be the other way around. When the pretend pimp and hooker talked ACORN listened and were prepared to help.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Squirrel time

[Dallas59]

Mo Ho Money!

[Kartographer]

[Dallas59]

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[HiTech RedNeck]

This must stop. It’s as if the government contracted with a right-wing militia to conduct gun-safety courses.

That wouldn't be such a bad idea

[ETL]

Rapper 'Ludacris'

Lyrics to Ludacris' Obama rap song, "Obama Is Here":

"Hey... I'm back on it

like I just signed my record deal, yeah the best is here

The Bentley Coupe paint is drippin wet, it got sex appeal

Never shoulda hated, you never shoulda doubted him

With a slot in the President's iPod, Obama shouted him

Said I handled my biz and I'm one of his favorite rappers

Well give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer

Better yet put me in office, make me a Vice President

Hillary hated on you so that bitch is irrelevant

Now Jesse talkin slick and apologizin for WHAT~?!

If you said it then you MEANT it how you want it, head or gut

And all you other politicians tryin to hate on my man

Watch us win majority vote in every STATE on my man

You cain't stop what's 'bout to happen, we 'bout to make history

The first black President it's destined and it's meant to be

The threats ain't fazin us, the nooses or the jokes

Get off your ass black people it's time to get out and vote

Paint the White House black and I'm sure that's got 'em terrified

McCain don't belong in ANY chair unless he's paralyzed

Yeah I said it cause Bush is mentally handicapped

Ball up all of his speeches and just throw 'em like candy wraps

Cause what you talkin I hear nothin even relevant

And you the worst of all 43 Presidents

Get out and vote, or the end'll be near

And the world is ready for change cause Obama is here

YEAHHH! Cause Obama is here

The world is ready for change cause Obama is here

Yeahhhh, cause Obama is here

Say world is ready for change cause Obama is here

Hey!

http://lyrics.rapbasement.com/Ludacris_Politics%20(Obama%20Is%20Here)_lyrics_2129.html

YouTube video: Ludacris - "Obama Is Here":
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ludacris+obama+is+here&aq=0&oq=ludacris+obama

[bobby.223]

can you believe those 2 kids?! just incredible. I could have no more pulled that sort of thing off at that age as flying to the moon. my hat is off to ‘em ‘heavy’ as we used to say.

[ETL]

[Diogenesis]

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"ACORN Prostitution Scandal:San Bernardino VIDEO This Time W/Politicians and Murder
When we last saw our fake pimp and hooker, they were in Brooklyn, with the usual scenario,
trying to find out how ACORN would deal with people looking for a home mortgage
so they can open open up a brothel using under-aged girls.

Today's stop is San Bernardino, California. In this Acorn office we find out the woman who runs the office is also a poll dancer
who may turn tricks on the side. ACORN's is supposedly non political but acording to Teresa,
the woman on the tape helping the pair, she speaks with Congressman and Senators every day because
she is lobbying for the Obamacare bill. She names Barbara "Call Me Senator "Boxer and Senator McCleod,
and 62nd district Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter as people with whom she deals.
Theresa says that “Eden’s” prostitution money would be an asset to James in his quest to become a Senator or Representative.
Also the person who was helping the alter egos of James O' Keefe and Hannah Giles with the prostitution scam
also talks about how she first planned the cover-up then shot and killed her husband."

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James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles visited one of ACORN’s New York offices in August,
where they picked up handy tips on how to lie on housing forms to cover up a prostitution business
(”Honesty is not going to get you the house,” one ACORN official advises) and how to hide cash
from their illicit business (”When you buy the house with the backyard, you get a tin…
and you bury it down in there…cover it…and put the grass over it…”).

In 1994 the ACORN Housing Corporation (AHC) was awarded a $1.1 million grant
by AmeriCorps, a program of the Corporation for National Service (CNS). The money was intended
to fund the training of 42 AmeriCorps members in 13 cities. The workers were expected to identify
low-income families hoping to purchase a first home, to assist them in finding suitable housing, and to
advise them in securing the necessary financing.

AHC’s initial subterfuge pales in comparison to the illegal fundraising scheme it subsequently operated,
using its AmeriCorps grant to increase ACORN’s membership.
According to Jordan, one ACORN member in the Dallas regional office stated that “the only reason
for having the AmeriCorps program was to gain new ACORN members, and that if AmeriCorps loan
counseling clients did not start becoming ACORN members, she could and would halt the AmeriCorps project.”
Jordan found that this understanding was not limited to the Dallas office.
Using government funds to solicit membership in an organization that— like ACORN—participates in
direct political advocacy is a violation of federal guidelines."

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"ACORN: Big Apple, Big Pimping (another shoe drops)
It was just a fluke, ACORN insisted the first time that James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles
published their undercover video showing their office in Baltimore helping a pimp evade taxes
and get a mortgage by deceit for a brothel. They fired a couple of “bad apples” in that office,
and a couple of more bad apples in Washington DC when that office got caught on hidden camera
doing the same thing. In fact. ACORN went so far as to brag that the pair had tried the same thing
and failed in “San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places.”""

[GonzoGOP]

Has anyone else noticed that the date on the latest ACORN tape is from 2005? Is this tape (the one from California) actually 4 years old, or was the camcorder set to the wrong date? Either way I can see the DU crew latching onto this with a vengeance. Has this already come up?

[Lorianne]

Oh for God’s sake Rich, don’t call it a sting or you’ll have the wrath of FReepeers on you.

[Bullish]

This must stop. It’s as if the government contracted with a right-wing militia to conduct gun-safety courses. After the voter-registration scandals of last year, Republicans agitated for a congressional investigation of the group. Democratic Rep. John Conyers initially agreed, then relented. “The powers that be” in the House wanted him to back off, he explained. Time for the powers that be to reconsider.

It's time for the "powers that be" to be exposed, tried and imprisoned.

[Uncle Miltie]

Now THAT’s funny!

[RepublitarianRoger2]

As for the "loosening grip of the legacy media," the legacy media is so far gone that it now takes a couple of amateur kids with a video camera to do what the media is supposed to be doing.

[Elsiejay]

At the technical level, can someone tell me how the audio/video footge was gotten? What kind of “cameras” were used; where were they situated? At different times, in each of those three situations, either Hannah or Giles is shown, and from different angles.
?????????????????

[NeoCaveman]

After watching the raw video I suspect there is one camera and it is in James’ bag or brief case. That’s why it moves every once in a while.