As mentioned yesterday, on Monday night, wingnut propagandist Andrew Breitbart tweeted to me…
…in reply to The BRAD BLOG’s recent series of articles highlighting, among other things, how he lied, along with his accused federal felon employee James O’Keefe, in order to sell their phony ACORN hit videos to gullible media — and how the New York Times, and so many others, fell for it hook, line, and not-yet-retracted sinker.
But, as it turns out, evidence from Breitbart’s own Sept. 21, 2009 Washington Times column reveals that Breitbart did, in fact, not tell the “truth every step of way.” In fact, he out and out lied while selling O’Keefe’s all together phony misrepresentation (some might call it a lie) that he “dressed as a pimp” while “asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities,” as Breitbart inaccurately reported in his column.
Breitbart’s promotion of those videos, as published on his own BigGovernment.com website, with the spectacular, media-friendly marquee selling point of low-level ACORN workers so stupid that they couldn’t even spot a skinny white kid as a phony “pimp,” kick-started the sting video campaign that was built and sold on an utter lie.
More evidence has been published today at Media Matters highlighting the effectiveness of that lie, and how media outlets from one side of the country to the other — not just the New York Times as we’ve shown — were utterly bamboozled and played for chumps by Breitbart and O’Keefe’s phony scheme.
Furthermore, when confronted with the lies — yes, lies — in his column, while on the air live last night, Breitbart chose to do what he always does…lie about them…
In his column this morning at Media Matters, “James O’Keefe and the myth of the ACORN pimp,” Eric Boehlert picks up on our weeks long coverage of the scam, and of the New York Times embarrassing excuses for (so far) refusing to issue corrections for their repeated misreporting of the story:
The cutaway shots certainly left the impression that that’s how O’Keefe was dressed when he spoke to ACORN workers.
But inside each and every office, according to one independent review that looked at the public videos, O’Keefe entered sans the pimp get-up. In fact, he was dressed rather conservatively. During his visit to the Baltimore ACORN office, he wore a dress shirt and khaki pants. For the Philadelphia sting, he added a tie to the ensemble.
Instead, the ’70s-era, blacksploitation pimp costume was a propaganda tool used to later deceive the public about the undercover operation. It was a prop that was quickly embraced by the mainstream media and turned into a central part of the ACORN story.
It’s true that Giles was seen on the ACORN office tapes scantily clad as she discussed her future prostitution plans with ACORN workers. But it was the pimp costume, or the idea that O’Keefe was sitting there getting ACORN advice while decked out in it, that really hit the laughter button and caused the press — and public — to guffaw at ACORN’s apparent cluelessness. Read: Not only were the ACORN employees morally suspect for doling out tax advice to a would-be prostitute, but the low-income advocates were dumb as stumps to boot!
“I can’t believe ACORN believes this dude is a pimp!” exclaimed a Washington City Paper blogger last year, falsely reporting that O’Keefe arrived inside ACORN offices “looking like he had recently crawled from a frat house basement.”
There’s no doubt the pimp costume story worked. (Raise your hand if you were duped.) My guess is if you polled Americans today, and even ones who followed the story closely last year (including right-wing partisans), at least 90 percent would say O’Keefe sat inside ACORN offices while decked out in his pimp costume.
But it’s not true.
No, it’s not. Not even by Breitbart’s own twisted attempt at back-tracking, since he was called out for what he wrote in his column last night when I appeared on his colleague’s radio show (which Breitbart then called in to, to scream repeatedly that I was, ironically enough, a liar).
More on Breitbart’s preposterous justification for what he wrote in his own column in a moment, but first I want to get on record here just a few of the multiple other media outlets that were scammed and/or gullible enough and/or failed due-diligence enough to report the phony story pushed by Breitbart and O’Keefe. None of them, to my knowledge, have corrected their misreporting to date.
It wasn’t just the New York Times and Amanda Hess at the Washington City Paper, as quoted above in Boehlert’s snippet, from her article “Does This Man Look Like a Pimp to You?” that fell for it, misreported it, and owe their readers a retraction and explanation for all of the above. Here are just a few other examples…
Unbylined Baltimore Sun editorial:
Scott Shane at New York Times:
Jeremy Olshan at New York Post:
David Gabacorta at Philadelphia Daily News:
Pam Fessler on NPR’s Morning Edition:
Ken Rudin on NPR’s “Political Junkie” blog:
Unbylined Dallas Morning News editorial:
All of those news outlets need to issue retractions and explanations. We’ll try to follow up on that point in the near future.
Boehlert also goes on to detail, as we have endeavored to get across repeatedly on these pages, a few of the reasons why all of this is of no small import:
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It’s important to understand how Breitbart and O’Keefe were able to so easily plant the ACORN falsehood. That’s especially true in the wake of O’Keefe’s recent arrest in New Orleans, where he was cuffed for entering a federal building under false pretense and tagged with intent to commit a felony. As blogger Marcy Wheeler noted, O’Keefe’s cover story for that failed caper is riddled with holes, which should be a red flag for journalists as Breitbart concocts his contradictory spin.
Wrote blogger Brad Friedman last week, as he highlighted the pimp falsehood against the backdrop of the New Orleans arrest:
More importantly, if news organizations are still making the dressed-like-a-pimp mistake, it’s time that they stop. And yes, that means you, New York Times.
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It’s one thing to be suckered in by Breitbart and O’Keefe’s pimp costume tale, it’s another for the Times to now defend its erroneous reporting. And even worse is the Times’ implication that it’s O’Keefe who gets to decide which version of the pimp story is true, despite all the contrary evidence.
Soon, we’ll be revisiting the process of getting a retraction from the NYTimes which, at the moment, is still standing by its reporting, following its Senior Editor for Standards, Greg Brock’s emailed assertion to a BRAD BLOG reader who had requested a correction:
In his first email, Brock offered a link to a video (embedded at right) to back up his Fox News/O’Keefe “We believe him” justification for standing by the “paper of record’s” reports. In the video the Times editor says they relied on, Fox’s Steve Doocy introduces O’Keefe, who is sitting next to him on the the couch in his now-infamous 70’s pimp regalia, as follows:
Doocy was played for a sucker by O’Keefe and Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com. O’Keefe never appeared in any ACORN office dressed that way, much less “up and down the Eastern Seaboard.”
Yet, O’Keefe just sat there as Doocy offered an entirely fictitious introduction — which O’Keefe knew to be entirely false — and he said not a word to correct him. He even helped underscore the fiction by responding: “I’m one of the whitest guys ever. I just wear ridiculous stuff and put people in ridiculous situations.”
Do you care that you were knowingly played for a sucker, Mr. Doocy?
Even a close examination of O’Keefe’s highly-doctored, heavily-overdubbed video tapes does not show what all of the media quoted above reported, inaccurately, that they supposedly showed.
In addition to former MA Attorney General Scott Harshbarger’s observation in his Dec. 7th, 2009 report [PDF] on the videos:
…simply viewing the actual videos reveals that none of them show what is reported by all of the media outlets above.
Brentin Mock at New Orleans’ investigative outlet The Lens simply bothered to view the edited videos that O’Keefe/Breitbart released, and reported in his January 27, 2010 piece headlined “O’Keefe: Neither pimp nor journalist”, that those descriptions of O’Keefe, as quoted above, are “inarguably wrong.” He goes on to detail exactly what is shown (and isn’t) in each of the videos, none of which show O’Keefe dressed as a pimp in any of the ACORN offices. Instead, where he is shown in the offices, or going in or out, he is, in fact, dressed in conservative slacks and shirt. And when representing himself to the low-level ACORN employees, he claimed to be a law student considering a run for Congress someday (or some variation thereof) hoping to rescue his girlfriend from the house of an abusive pimp.
And yet, when Breitbart wrote in his own Washington Times column about the fake story he continues to sell to this day, he falsely asserted [emphasis added]:
I quoted his own column back to him last night, during our dysfunctionally insane, nearly two-and-half hour, on-air shouting match after he blurted: “I didn’t lie about James O’Keefe. When did I lie about James O’Keefe?”
But, in Andy Breitbart World, what he wrote was not a lie. So how did he justify it as not a lie?
In a syntactical Jedi Mind Trick that even Bill Clinton wouldn’t be disingenuous enough to attempt, Breitbart stands by the statement in his own column as being accurate because, he eventually explained (after an assist from the show’s host, Larry O’Connor, a contributor to Breitbart’s wesbites) he only asserted that O’Keefe was “going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN” when he was “dressed as a pimp” … and the rest of his sentence doesn’t apparently matter. Or some such.
Oh, and besides that, he claims, though he refused to publicly release the unedited videos on the Internet to prove it, O’Keefe represented himself as a pimp, no matter what he was seen wearing or not wearing.
But even if we ignore the fact that Breitbart wrote that O’Keefe was “dressed as a pimp … asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities,” and only focus on the first part of Breitbart’s sentence wherein he writes that O’Keefe was “going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN … dressed as a pimp,” it still fails to hold up to scrutiny.
At the very beginning of the video in question, just before the eye-popping shots of O’Keefe dressed in his pimped-out costume, there is a quick shot of O’Keefe actually going into the Baltimore offices of ACORN!
And what’s he wearing? A blue oxford shirt and khaki pants, as he says in the voice-over, “Scenario: A young woman pretending to be a prostitute, and a man pretending to run for Congress one day, walk into ACORN’s Baltimore headquarters and speak with two of the employees…”
Here are two screen shots of him walking into those offices…
Yet, here’s how he’s shown in the bulk of all of the videos, deceptively edited and publicly sold, by Breitbart, O’Keefe, Fox and the gullible media, to suggest this is what he wore in those ACORN offices…
And here is how he was dressed on Fox “News,” as Doocy incorrectly asserted that O’Keefe was “dressed exactly in the same outfit that he wore in these ACORN offices up and down the Eastern Seaboard,” and as O’Keefe didn’t lift a finger to disabuse him of the complete fabrication…
So, Breitbart is simply wrong. On every account. No matter how one slices it. And no matter what pathetic Clintonian parsing he’s now clinging to in hopes of saving credibility, rather than copping to his inaccurate column and issuing a retraction. That is exactly what he would (appropriately) insist that any non-wingnut media outlet do in a similar circumstance — as long as the complete inaccuracy didn’t help to promote one of his spectacular blockbuster stories, of course, as this false reporting clearly does.
Lying is what Andrew Breitbart does for a living, and he’s got plenty who will justify and support his doing so, sadly, in both the wingnut and non-wingnut media worlds.
Of course, by now regular readers of The BRAD BLOG should know when Breitbart’s lying, because either his lips are moving or his fingers are tweeting things such as:
We will, of course, “keep repeating the lies” as he recommends, since they are, in fact, his lies, and ones that are undercutting the entirety of both our media system, and our democracy.
By now, we expect Breitbart to lie in order to push his political agenda, and then to accuse others of doing precisely what he is doing. But the real tragedy here is that the the mainstream media, even the New York Times, the “paper of record,” are still falling for it.
[Be sure to check out Boehlert’s full column here…]UPDATE 2/19/10: “Giles Admits O’Keefe, Breitbart ACORN ‘Pimp’ Story was a Lie”. Full Details…
UPDATE 2/21/10: “In CPAC Meltdown, Breitbart Forced to ‘Apologize’ for ‘Apparently’ Lying About ACORN ‘Pimp’ Story”. Full details…
UPDATE 2/23/10: “Exclusive: NYTimes Public Editor Declines to Recommend Retraction for Multiple Erroneous Reports on False ACORN ‘Pimp’ Story” Full story, Hoyt’s emails…
UPDATE 2/24/10: Hoyt responds to our on his emails and accuses The BRAD BLOG of having a “political agenda” on par with O’Keefe and Breitbart. Also, blogosphere issues blistering response, petition, call for Hoyt to step down. Full details, Hoyt’s email response, right here…
The more I think on this story, the more I can’t help realizing that O’Keefe is the phoniest looking goddamn pimp I’ve ever seen. How could even the dumbest person at Acorn have taken him seriously in the ludicrous clown getup? Has anyone noted this before? I mean, I would have laughed him out into the street. How could you NOT think you would be on camera when someone like that walks through your door?
Be careful, Soul Rebel, there will be wingnuts reading this one. They are decidely irony-deficient, and likely won’t get your comment above.
At least, I’ll presume you’re being ironic! 🙂
The irony being that he … um … didn’t actually make it through the … front door – oh. (For the irony deficient, an assistance)
It’s too bad there isn’t a punctuation mark that symbolizes deflated dejection. A sad last gasp. I’m thinking an explanation point drooping to the right would be about right. Picture it just after the ‘oh’ in the previous remark.
I wonder if I can copyright that. The first addded punctuation since the email @.
not to be alarmingly repetitive or anything but, the juice in this story, the daddy-long-legs if u will, is who’s not too Brightbarts handlers.
Clearly he is just a low level bagman.
Against my better judgement I clicked on the WTimes article from 9/09. One earnest commenter asked breathlessly, “do we now have ACORNGATE on our hands?”
Yes. The scandal being how Congress let this 2 bit pimp joke railroad them into defunding ACORN in a New York minute. That is seriously F’d up.
Well if Brad is lying, he should wash his mouth out with this….. http://www.wacky-packages.net/l...ivory2soap.jpg
Be forewarned Brad’s reputation is not built upon lying.
If Brietbart is lying he should wash his mouth out with this, http://www.drillspot.com/pimage...159585_300.jpg
Brietbart’s reputation is that of being a habitual, compulsive, and prevaricating liar. He needs to buy two truck loads of his lye soap, and then scrub his mouth with a wire brush. Lye, scrub, gargle – repeat. Lye, scrub, gargle – repeat.
The NY Times fell for the story that WE needed to invade Iraq too.
After the one fool incident with Acorn, the call for No more funding from republicans in DC was strident.Yet Blackwater can murder innocent brown people….Halliburton employees can gang rape women…DynCorp can engage in trafficking…and there is an eerie silence from these same individuals.They should be funded?
Maybe we are a fascist nation now. Like Nazi Germany.Brutality is ok because of our long history of racism….among other things.KKK was a vialble political movement in the early 1900s.
It all goes back to the Salon article “My Right Wing Degree” for the folks who haven’t peeked behind the curtain yet.
An “explanation point”??? New punctuation indeed!
Brad, I can’t tell you just how pleased I am that you are pursuing this with the same dogged determination you applied when you kept after Congressman Tom “build-me-a-vote-stealing-prototype” Feeney by unraveling every component of his web of deceit.
There are a couple of points we should not loose sight of, however:
1. Breitbart and his accused federal felon phony pimp employee not only deceived the corporate media but Congress.
2. As we previously reported, on Dec. 11, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon granted ACORN’s motion for a preliminary injunction, ruling that that it was likely ACORN would prevail on the merits of its claim that the House and Senate Appropriations Resolutions were unconstitutional Bills of Attainder.
3. The corporate-sponsored hard-right has never established a single case in which a fraudulent vote was cast as a result of ACORN’s voter registration activities. They have shown that ACORN itself was the victim of fraud when some of the people they paid to register voters turned in bogus registration forms, and, in those cases, it was ACORN who turned these people over to authorities.
4. As we also previously reported a settlement of a suit brought by ACORN which challenged a number of the voter-suppression tactics of former OH SoS J. Kenneth Blackwell may serve to enfranchise an estimated hundreds of thousands of lawful voters.
5. Breitbart/O’Keefe not only distorted what took place inside the few ACORN offices O’Keefe did visit, but neglected to mention either that ACORN operates some 1,200 offices nation-wide or that in some cases, ACORN employees not only demanded that O’Keefe leave but called the police.
6. That what really upsets the right is not merely that ACORN registers working class and minority voters whose votes the Right would just as soon see never cast, but that ACORN as been at the forefront of both political and legal actions that “living wage laws in 15 cities” and legal challenges to predatory lending and foreclosure rescue scams, which includes a 2002 class action settlement against HSBC Finance Corp., one of the nation’s largest sub-prime lenders, which produced “a $72 million foreclosure avoidance program to provide relief to household borrowers who are at risk of losing their homes.”
Has anyone researched possible links between Breitbart and Rick Berman?
Berman ,PR “hitman” also known as Dr. Evil,has attained a degree of notoriety over the years-and is quite proud of it,in fact.
Berman was found to be the force behind the Rotten Acorn ads run in the NYT last year. He started out as a labor lawyer for the Food and Beverage Industry many years ago.
Now Breitbart’s dad was a restauarater in California, according to a WSJ article dated 10/16/09.
(And coincidentally enough, one of the Pelican Institute’s directors,down in New Orleans, is an exec with a large beverage distributor.)
In addition the the anti-ACORN ads, Berman is a rep for big anti-union,anti EFCA corporations.One of the goals if I remember correctly was to tie ACORN to unions,but I am a little unclear on that one.
Brad, it would be worth some effort to decipher if there is a link here,imho.
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Correction, that should read,aka Mr. Evil.
I like that Brad is staying with the story. For the obvious reason: the liars wait for truth-tellers to give up.
And, re the NYTimes, in addition to the comment re Iraq lies, I have watched the NYTimes deny the severe illness that makes me disabled, ME/CFS. For twenty years or so. They finally posted an op ed by Hillary Johnson on Oct. 21, 2009, “A Case of Chronic Denial” but continued in other parts of the paper to “diss” the illness, in the face of a study showing a virus in patients. It’s about money. Isn’t it so often?
Breitbart BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep the story alive!
Comment #1: Exactly! I immediately questioned how ACORN could have possibly fallen for it, because of how outrageous O’Keefe was dressed. My question was answered: it’s because he wasn’t dressed like that. I wonder in those highly edited videos, if he cut out pleading on his hands and knees begging for help from ACORN. Maybe he edited what he said, too, as well as how he was dressed.
Okay, am I correct in saying that the only part of the “fabricated” story was that this guy wasn’t dressed in this outlandish “pimp” costume? REALLY?! That’s your big story? Who the hell cares? Now, if you were saying that ACORN workers were not, in fact, doling out tax advice to supposed criminals, then you’d have a story. Can’t believe that’s what this is all about. I couldn’t read this entire post, but I read about half and skimmed the rest, so I could be off-base.
i listened to about 45 minuetes of the radio show,was all i could stomach,thank you brad for going into the lions den,,,,,,,as i listened and they repeatedly said “andy” didnt lie because he wrote that okeefe was dressed as a pimp GOING to the acorn offices,they just omit that he stopped and changed along the way? my folks taught me a lie of omission was really worse than a straight out lie because you have doubled your sin,first with the untruth and second with the sneakiness……what i think we should be asking is…even if okeefe made himself a sympathetic figure and got a FEW acorn peops to give bad advise about illegal activities,how does that wipe out all the good that acorn has done? and why do they target acorn in the first place?
If memory serves me correctly, Jon Stewart skewered ACORN at the time based on these edited videos, I think we need a retraction from him as well.
Comment 16 LIS: NO…that’s not the only big part of the story. How about the part where ACORN was exonerated? And the part that congress rushed through a bill defunding ACORN based on these edited misleading videos? And who cares if O’Keefe lead everyone to believe he was dressed outlandishly like a pimp in his ACORN sting? How about EVERYONE cares, because ACORN would’ve been complete fools not to think they were on candid camera if he was dressed like that. Come on!!!
Does anyone else think O’Keefe looks like Steve Martin in The Jerk?
– Tom
While the monniker fits aptly enough, I like Steve Martin too much to make any kind of comparison to that douche who is O’Keefe.
#20: NO, he looks like Tim McVeigh:
http://www.mass-murderers.com/m...veigh_time.gif
Let’s also not forget that NYT Standards Editor Greg Brock apparently MADE STUFF UP (i.e. LIED) to cover his lame full-of-holes support of a NYT piece of fiction they call a story.
Hey NYT,(to borrow a phrase from Al Franken that’s growing in popularity (Joe Biden used it recently too)) YOU’RE NOT ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN FACTS!
#9 Czaragorn…I did mean an exclamation point…drooping sadly to the right.
Congratulations Brad. This story is even more misleading than the last one you posted. Cherry picking media stories which you claim “drove” the ACORN video saga and coincidentally support your after the fact concocted narrative of attacking the messenger and not the substance of the message does not do much for your journalistic integrity. It also doesn’t fit the timeline very well given the media’s desire to avoid the story or merely parrot the ACORN propaganda for as long as possible.
Is it seriously your claim that the majority of stories covering the tapes claimed O’Keefe wore his pimp outfit into the ACORN offices? Do you have any support for that? If not, exactly what is your point?
#25 – Wha..? Seriously? SCROLL UP. There are exactly nine (9) examples of media claims that O’Keefe wore his pimp outfit into the ACORN offices in the very article that you are commenting on.
They included CNN, Baltimore Sun, and the New York Times to name three (3) major media outlets out of the nine (9) listed above.
If I were you, I’d try to make it less obvious that you don’t read the articles you’re trashing. One way to do that?
READ them.
You know, just to cover your ass.
LOL. Well said, Jeannie.
I think, however, you are just talking to another lazy, right-wing trust-fund baby and while you are pointing out the obvious, his talking points come from that relatively famous entertainment program posing as “news”, you know, Fox Cable “News” and you are actually asking that the poster do actual “work”.
Hey Lora, I think we all should write to Greg about it: wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for an answer though. Don’t understand the notion that the pimp suit is irrelevant : it was the hook that got the otherwise weak story nationalized.
Jeannie – When did those articles come out relative to the Census Bureau and Congress cutting off funding for ACORN and the actual release of the individual videos. The New York Times has articles which mention O’Keefe dressed as a pimp, but the majority do not claim he did. The articles you see mentioned above are cherry picked and do not fit the time line.
This is a completely fabricated meme to attack the messengers, a classic Media Matters strategy which Brad just lifted. Get some facts and open your eyes woman.
“…a classic Media Matters strategy”?
Heeeyyy – Congratulations, Media Matters! You’ve made it into the (Wrong Right’s) false memes within a meme! Getting Double Memed, Triple-Switched, and Targeted for Empty Headed, HeavyHammerin’, empty Yammerin’ means you’ve hit the BIG TIME. It’s like ‘being made.
(Brad, that means you can’t be far behind!)
What I find interesting from the transcripts is the incessant request that they not be discriminated against. No one wants to get sued for discrimination so that would certainly have the effect of making someone who was not otherwise agreeable to at least act agreeable to avoid a lawsuit. It’s not like Acorn employees actually helped them do anything. They just talked.
Jeff @ 28,
Heh, I think I’ll save my breath and my typing fingers. Oh-so-polite and oh-so-full-of-Baloney Greg can look here if he wants to.
I’m surprised that Daleyrocksinhishead didn’t bring up Alinsky, Wright, Soros, Clinton, Chappaquddick, Ayres, (Henry) Wallace, etc. yet.
Probably won’t now tho.
Daleyrocks made a dope of him/herself @ 29 by writing:
You night want to check you timelines as to who was covering this news item first (the BRAD BLOG or Media matters) or the entirety of the GOP’s partisan assaults on ACORN for that matter. In other words, get some facts and open your eyes, woman. Or continue to be duped as you have been so far by Patterico, Breitbart and the others who are playing you for a fool.
Other than that, on your silly “attack the messenger Media Matters meme” nonsense, does the name Dan Rather ring a bell? And did the Bush Whitehouse or you wingnuts ever disprove or even deny his “message”?
Didn’t think so.
Best of luck to you, Daley. When you figure out how you’ve been played and get sick of it, feel free to come on back here. We won’t hold it against you. We gladly welcome all of those interested in participating in reality.
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Here’s an addendum to the info on Rick Berman-he’s out to smear the Humane Society,now.
Rick Berman Attacks the Humane Society‎ – 2 days ago
Front group man extraordinaire Rick Berman and his attack group, … which industries or companies are funding Berman’s attack on the Humane Society. …
Center for Media and Democracy (blog) – 60 related articles »
BTW Larry O’Connor cleaned your leftist, lying, clock on his podcast the other day.
Saying O’Keefe “posed” as a pimp does not necessarily mean he dressed as one. Idiot. This is just an attempt to distract form the basic fact that ACORN is a corrupt organization. For a roundup of the cases of voter registration fraud against them (as of 2008) go here:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/th...inglepage=true
Waynester –
Apparently you made the same mistake Patterico did, and failed to actually *read* the record, like the one above which shows the Times, and tons of other media outlets, over and over again, report that O’Keefe “dressed” as a pimp in those offices.
In short, you’ve been played.
Secondly, you’ve been played again, because what apparently your partisan friends forgot to tell you (and everyone else) is that those employees found to have committed voter registration fraud, were turned in by ACORN themselves to authorities.
Calling them a “corrupt organization” because of that would the equivalent of calling Wal-Mart corrupt because they turn in a handful of employees to the police for stealing merchandise off the shelves.
Did I mention lately that you’ve been played by your peops?