ACORN's pattern and practice of lying

American Thinker ^ | October 21, 2009 | J.C. Arenas

[jazusamo]

The conservative journalist team of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles has played ACORN like a concert tour: Baltimore, D.C., New York City, and San Diego. City by city, a scandal unfolded and the nation watched in bewilderment as the duo, posing as a pimp and prostitute, proposed to commit crimes of tax evasion and underage illegal alien sex trafficking while mid-level managers from the organization did everything they could to assist them in their effort.

Despite having a serious lack of credibility, ACORN started spreading a story, shortly after the scandal began, that couldn't be substantiated to discredit the duo. Unsurprisingly, several major left-leaning newspapers and Media Matters believed them.

Fiction, courtesy of the Washington Post:

An ACORN spokesman said they were turned away in Miami, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where workers called police and filed a report. (emphasis added)

Fiction, courtesy of the Philadelphia Daily News:

But when the phony pimp and prostitute tag team visited ACORN's local office, on Broad Street near Parrish, on July 24, they were apparently shown the door.

Philadelphia ACORN president Carol Hemingway said in a statement on Monday that "after causing a major disturbance, they were asked to leave the office, and a police report was filed."

Hemingway e-mailed copies of the incident report to the news media. No charges were filed against O'Keefe or Giles, and their visit to the City of Brotherly Love has not been part of a series of reports aired on the Fox News Channel.

Fiction, courtesy of Media Matters:

The Post ignored that O'Keefe and Breitbart previously claimed they were never turned away. Contrary to the Post's suggestion that O'Keefe only disputed the amount of time the filmmakers spent at the Philadelphia office, both O'Keefe and BigGovernment.com publisher Breitbart have claimed they were never turned away at all. (emphasis not added)

Fact, courtesy of O'Keefe and Giles:

Now that ACORN lied to you, Media Matters, what are you going to do?

Better question: Why we were ever supposed to believe this liberal criminal enterprise, especially without any evidence to support their claim? An organization that was created for the purpose introducing mayhem into the system, now all of a sudden was on the side of order?

This latest exposure of the organization's unethical and dishonest behavior confirms that nothing coming from ACORN can be trusted. Bertha Lewis, Katherine Conway-Russell, Tresa Kaelke have done nothing but perpetrate one life after another to the American public.

Will their cohorts in the mainstream media come to their defense again? Can we trust them either?

No, because they are too busy trying to be good, liberal teammates as opposed to being the umpire, it's time to tell them, they're all out!

[jazusamo]

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[Defiant]

The question is, who is the cop who postdated a phony police report for them?

[Jet Jaguar]

ACORN Ping!

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.

[jazusamo]

Yep, but probably not hard to find one in Philly.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

It continues to amaze me that ACORN is just on the radar for the last couple of years.....

I was aware of their agenda in the mid 80’s.......

[jazusamo]

In 2007 there were five of them sentenced for (I believe) voter registration fraud here in WA and there’s been many nailed before and some after.

ACORN always gave the same old lame excuse that it was just a few bad apples and got away with it all this time.

These two young people that finally nailed them deserve huge thanks, they really did a fantastic job.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Sheesh. Truly, this is worse than the former Soviet Union in the old TASS and Pravda/Izvestiya days. Totally controlled, state sponsored news, blacking out the facts and the truth.

To hell with them. Lets keep building a viable infrastructure TO GO AROUND THEM TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

[jazusamo]

I hear you, it’s a disgrace to our country and the principles it was founded on.

Nothing would please me more than to see Zer0 and the lying enemedia go down together and the residual effect would take down many RATS with them, then start anew.

[YHAOS]

The only issue is the question as to who is the worst liar.

(1. ACORN

(2. Media Matters

(3. The (alleged) journalists who (won’t) cover this story.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

These two deserve and probably need 24/7 armed protection.

If you know what I mean.

[jazusamo]

Yep, all three are pretty polished at it.

[jazusamo]

I agree and haven’t heard anything about precautions they may be taking.

[altair]

(1. The (alleged) journalists who (won’t) cover this story.

The order between 2 and 3 do not matter. If so-called journalists had been doing their jobs, ACORN would have been busted years ago.

[Major Matt Mason]

I'm sure that ACORN's pals in Philadelphia city government gladly put together a phony police report. And even if they were tossed, so what? That does not excuse a taxpayer-funded organization providing tips on tax evasion and child prostitution. I guess we have to assume liberals are now for tax evasion and child prostitution.