ACORN video: Lies from coast to coast

[deminks]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/04/07/acorn

Just as in California, the Brooklyn D.A. found no wrongdoing on the tape. It's time to release the footage

Just over a month ago, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes announced that his office had found no criminal wrongdoing by ACORN -- despite that infamous videotape produced by James O'Keefe III, showing staffers in the local office supposedly advising "prostitute" Hannah Giles how to avoid taxes. The prosecutor's findings predictably drew little attention from the mainstream and right-wing media that blared O'Keefe's videotapes so relentlessly last year, as if he had uncovered a massive scandal.

But with California Attorney General Jerry Brown's release of unedited videotapes of the ACORN "stings" in San Diego and Los Angeles -- which demonstrate clearly how editing distorted those events -- the Brooklyn probe takes on added significance. Just like Brown, Hynes said he had concluded that "no criminality has been found," and just like Brown, Hynes got access to the unedited tapes that O'Keefe's producer, Andrew Breitbart, has refused to release more generally.

What did Hynes learn from the unedited tapes? His spokesman says the district attorney cannot discuss the case beyond the two-sentence press release sent out by his office. But a "law enforcement source" told the Daily News that the unedited tapes left a very different impression than the chopped segments that Fox News Channel aired so many times. "They edited the tape to meet their agenda," said the source, referring to O'Keefe and Giles.

[sabrina 1]

1. They are totally discredited now, so where is the media?

[tom_paine]

4. On their knees giving BJs to their Corporate Owners.

Where else?

[NYC_SKP]

2. Oh, there was wrongdoing, all right.

It just wasn't ACORN doing the wrong.

:donut:

[unblock]

3. i believe there was clear evidence of criminality

isn't it illegal to record without consent?

[sabrina 1]

5. Yes, it is.

In two of the states the were in, CA and MD. The MD DA was looking into it last I heard.