Conservative activist James O'Keefe made two videos widely aired on FOX News showing several ACORN employees giving tax advice to O'Keefe and a female accomplice who were posing as a pimp and a prostitute.
In a statement, ACORN's President of Housing Alton Bennett and Executive Director Mike Shea, said they were "appalled and angry" to see the latest video. They said there were no loan documents completed, no bank loans arranged and no new business established. They said the two workers were fired and an internal review of practices will be done. Two other ACORN employees had been fired the day before as a result of these videos.
But Bennett and Shea said the video was "slanted to misinform the public about ACORN Housing." The video fails to mention that the same people who made the tape went to at least five other ACORN Housing offices where they were either turned away or where employees responded by calling police, they said.
"It is part of a long-term plan to smear ACORN Housing for political reasons and provide entertainment in the process," Bennett and Shea said.
Four naive young low-level ACORN employees were fired. They clearly did not represent the approved policies of the ACORN organization. Rather, these four young people were victims and dupes of the latest Conservative FOX News video scam.
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This site is one of the most idiotic and most biased pieces of garbage I've ever come across. Spin away, America's eyes are open and the socialist agenda that you hope for is going to fail under the strength of our freedom granted under the Constitution. The lazy will not be allowed to ride on our backs any longer.
"The lazy will not be allowed to ride on our backs any longer."
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Uh, what are you going to do about it?
Uh, what are you going to do about it?
-Reaper
VOTE!!!
"VOTE!!!"
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And if that doesn't get who you want in office, then what?
"these four young people were victims and dupes of the latest Conservative FOX News video scam."
-CJP
HOW WERE THEY VICTIMS??? They were doing things they shouldnt have been. Open your eyes, there is corruption in ACORN. Dont you want the corruption weeded out so ACORN can be a organization that will do good for this country, instead of helping a pimp dodge taxes?
"The video fails to mention that the same people who made the tape went to at least five other ACORN Housing offices"
-CJP
1 out of 6, that is pretty bad! So can we expect that 17% of ACORD is corrupt?
And if that doesn't get who you want in office, then what?
-Reaper
Keep voting and letting Americans know about the corruption in OUR system. When are you two going to wake up and realize we need to clean up our politics, dems and rep.
Brienb:
You sound like another whining Conservative screaming and mewling as you go down in one election defeat after another.
-CJP
HOW WERE THEY VICTIMS??? They were doing things they shouldnt have been.
Was that a lie you just told?
"...these four young people were victims and dupes of the latest Conservative FOX News video scam."
-CJP
CJP
So are you going to retrack this statement?
Hey idiot, what now? 3 different cities, same results. Even more videos coming out everyday. What is your defense now? Throwing out uneducated statements must be what your all about. Well not many read this I suppose, but I will forward this site to Beck, Limbaugh and the others so they can sue you for slander. Nice work calling them Racist and Liars with no facts to back ya up.
Beck and Limbaugh give us new facts to back up these charges virtually every single day.
"Beck and Limbaugh give us new facts to back up these charges virtually every single day."
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Franken, (isn't he a senator now?), wrote 2 books
Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them)
and
The Truth (with jokes)
and details the goings on of the right wing media.
Brienb:
For example,when these broadcasters declare that a crowd of 70,000 people is 1.7 million people, or that Obama is a "reverse racist" because he nominates a Hispanic woman to the Supreme Court, or Rush saying that he wants Obama (meaning America) to fail, or Palin claiming that Obama's Health Reform Plan will include Death Panels to kill off Grandma, etc., etc.
No facts?
My man, the facts are endless, and they keep on coming.
Al Franken's book "Lies (And The Lying Liars Who Tell Them)" is in dire need of an update.
Liberals just can't write books fast enough to keep up with the never-ending supply of Conservative lies.
The Media Can Legally Lie
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html
Wow, interesting.
"...these four young people were victims and dupes of the latest Conservative FOX News video scam."
-CJP
CJP
So are you going to retrack this statement? STOP DODGING IT!!!
Just exactly what does this really mean? After all just exactly who are Alton Bennett and Mike Shea.
What are their backgrounds are they on the up and up. You don’t say “no loan documents completed” and what’s that “no new business established.” And you say two workers were fired were these WORKERS legal US citizens were they w2 employees, were they 1099 or just workers. Further you mention “Two other ACORN employees had been fired the day before as a result of these videos” were these employees legal US citizens were they w2 employees, were they 1099 or were they also just workers. Really the videos were "slanted to misinform the public about ACORN Housing." It is common knowledge that ACORN does not have a very good reputation, or track record. There really is no need to engage in a long-term plan to smear ACORN. The information and track record of ACORN is evident on the INTERNET. You left wing wankers are hilarious keep up the excellent , outstanding, supurp work SPARKY. What ever you do, Don’t let them get one over on you. HAHAHAHAHA
CJP as Brandon said will you retract the statement that the ACORN employees that were fired were victims. Its simple CJP are you a person who approves of Criminal behavior and defends it or are you a person that is troubled by the criminal use of tax dollars. By the way how much has gone on before this was expossed.
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