Something seems very suspect about the latest ACORN video. See here >>>>>>

[mzmolly]

*I know we're all a bit burnt-out on ACORN but the director of ACORN claims the tapes were doctored and I feel this video bolsters her case.*

First of all, it sounds like O'Keefe overdubs his voice in the video at times. However what strikes me as the most suspicious happens about 4 minutes into the tape. Hannah Giles implies to the ACORN worker that they're expecting girls who are coming into the US and that they want to get to the girls before the pimp does, to prevent the pimp from bonding with said girls. Tell me, how does this statement fit into the "we're trafficking minor hookers, please help us out" scenario?

After watching the video above, I think it's very likely that O'Keefe and Giles told ACORN employees, (at least in this situation) that they were attempting to help the underage girls vs. use and abuse them?

PLEASE WATCH here ~ http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/17/acorn-video-prostitution-scandal-in-san-diego-ca/

Let me know your thoughts.

:shrug:

[mzmolly]

1. More about the so called filmmaker ~

James O'Keefe is an activist filmmaker. He credits include the "Bailout Prize Patrol" produced for Right.Org in 2009. He also directed, scripted, produced and acted in a series of undercover videos showcasing racism and statutory rape at Planned Parenthood in 2007 and 2008.

...

His most recent project is Veritasvisuals.com, a collection of satirical short films on newsworthy topics, featuring ridiculous situations and demands.

...

His work has been featured on CNN and Fox News.

James got his start producing videos banning "H20" and "Lucky Charms" at his alma mater, Rutgers University, where he founded The Centurion in 2004.

I wonder if O'Keefe was simply making a "satirical short film" and is being treated like a reporter? Seems the satire thing gives him much legal wiggle room?

[blogslut]

7. More like he is a fame addict that found a niche and and organization to back him

His previous effort was with an anti-abortion site called liveaction.org. Live action is an offshoot of Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute. http://mobile.gothamist.com/2009/09/17/acorn_video_sting_guy_also_targeted.php">Blackwell heaps praise on O'Keefe and is referred to as the young man's mentor:

One of his mentors, right-wing activist Morton Blackwell, explains that O'Keefe always "wanted to go out and catch leftists breaking the law." So he went on to enlist a cohort to pose as a 13-year-old girl and visit Planned Parenthood in California, where she told a counselor she was pregnant and the father was 31. The counselor was required by law to report what would have been rape to the police, but the girl was only told how to get an abortion. Now that's gotcha "journalism"!

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Morton_C._Blackwell

My theory is that O'Keefe desires the spotlight and realized that a certain wingnut organization would eat his pap with a spoon, so he joined up.

[mzmolly]

8. He definitely seems to enjoy the spotlight. And, there certainly seems to be more to the story

than he's portraying at present.

[Hannah Bell]

20. Morton Blackwell, founder of Leadership Institute, also:

Morton Blackwell resume includes:

- President, International Policy Forum

"a foundation which promotes educational exchanges between conservatives in the US and pro-freedom leaders in other countries."

IPF trains rightwing conservatives around the world in New Right political techniques. Paul Weyrich chairs IPF.

Blackwell has also trained rightist political forces in Latin America and Africa through IPF, notably:

- supporters of the Pinochet military dictatorship,

- Argentinean rightists

- supporters of Inkatha chief Buthelezi in South Africa.

It was Buthelezi's group that later attempted to create civil war in South Africa to keep apartheid policies in place.
Inkatha worked with pro-apartheid and neo-nazi groups to stop the elections eventually won by Nelson Mandela.
A number of IPF projects, including the Inkatha training, were aided by U.S. government funding through the National Endowment for Democracy"

[mzmolly]

22. Woah!

:scared:

[Turborama]

107. Turd Blossom attended The Leadership Institue in the past, as did O'Keefe and his former cohort

It all points back to that institution: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6577190&mesg_id=6584609

[bobbolink]

122. Pinochet and Buthelezi--he really knows how to pick "the good guys"

DAMN! And yet THIS is what the Snooz is using for "source"????

:wtf:

Thanks so much for uncovering this!

[MrScorpio]

125. Morton Blackwell, now that's an asshole that I haven't heard from in a long time

So that is what he's up to

[KharmaTrain]

91. It Has Blackwell's Sleazy Fingerprints All Over It

Too bad so few out here know who this slime merchant...along with Floyd Brown are. They've built a "farm system" of slimers like this hack who I'm certain played fast and loose with both his editing and his subjects. My hopes are he's subpoened to give up not just his "dry"/unedited video and scripts but also all correspondence relating to the video...find out who is really behind this. The kid's a definite gun for hire...Blackwell's stock & trade.

:hi:

[bobbolink]

124. So, maybe an investigation is the best thing that could happen, if it's done in a

complete way?

I'm so sick about this!

[rbrnmw]

2. the whole ACORN situation

was a Faux News hit. Granted some of it may be true but all in all it was a take down by hypocrites

[mzmolly]

3. Watch the video and let me know if you think I'm crazy

or if they possibly misrepresented what they've been telling people. Start watching at about 3:30 and watch for about a minute to get the gist of my concerns. ;)

[rbrnmw]

5. I feel that something is not quite right with the video

send it to KO and Rachel Maddow

[mzmolly]

6. I may. I'll wait for some input

then decide. Perhaps we're both crazy? ;)

[bobbolink]

123. I'm extremely disapointed, but not surprised, that our "liberal" media isn't raising holy hell

about this!

I'd like to ask DUers to start the hell-raising, but I know poverty isn't a topic that elicits action.

:grr:

[Whisp]

35. until an unedited tape can be examined

I don't believe those assholes for one second.
Its a clear set up, you have to be Blind not to think there's something fishy about this and its objective was to get ACORN in more false trouble.

People who believe that O'Keefe wank and pile on ACORN before you know more about this false story ought to shake their heads a bit

[mzmolly]

4. .

.

[Solomon]

121. If you look at the tape from the point of view that the guy

is baiting them to get information you get a totally different view of what may have occurred.

At one point he clearly tells them he wants specific information because he is working with the District Attorney's office.

This could be a total misrepresentation and due note should be taken of the fact that they waited until after shoving the Baltimore and DC videos out there to make the way to people automatically jumping to conclusions.

[BurtWorm]

9. Thank you fot keeping it alive, mzmolly.

I won't be surprised when a lot of suckers who bought this crap story hook, line and sinker are forced to admit they got seriously played by the right wing.

:applause:

[mzmolly]

10. Thank YOU

BW! :hi: :pals:

[Hannah Bell]

21. agree. the more i learn about the vids & the people behind them, the smellier it is.

i'm astonished at the number of DU-ers ready to roll over & play dead less than a week into this.

Congress as well.

[Hansel]

43. Me too.

It's really astounding.

They might not like this, but I think they need to really examine what biases might play a role in how quickly they fell for this. Maybe if these people had been of a higher class or dressed nicer some of the folks on DU would not be so quick to believe that they couldn't see right through these two clowns. Of course they themselves can see how obvious it was that these two were full of it and acting, but the people right their in the room couldn't?

[blogslut]

11. Not sure that it's overdubbed

O'Keefe's voice is probably stronger sounding because the hidden mike is on his person.

However, I will say the two don't make clear their intentions, meaning that one might assume they're trying to bring girls over the border in order to protect them.

[BurtWorm]

12. They're also about as believable as hooker and pimp as Bush !! was as 'president.'

:eyes:

It almost seems like the guy is playing along with them to amuse himself.

[blogslut]

16. The man is covering his mouth quite a bit

Likely concealing a grin. I think you may be right about him toying with them.

[mzmolly]

14. I think they went in and indicated that they were trying to help, and twisted the truth

in the editing process. To my understanding, they have implied previously that they told ACORN they were trafficking young girls and needed their help. The statement I noted above about getting to the girls before their pimp does, appears to contradict their initial story.

That said, it is possible that they told different stories at different offices? But I strongly suspect that these people are being highly deceitful in their representation of events. ;) I would enjoy seeing the entire video, but I'm sure that will never happen.

I thought his voice sounded dubbed because it became louder in certain parts? But, one never knows...

Thanks for the response blogslut. :hi:

[rufus dog]

13. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!

Sorry for the caps. This is the first one I watched but this is bullshit! Another example is at 6:30, the Acorn employee states he has contact with the the DA, then O'Keefe states "that is not good" then there is a cut. WTF, this is being passed off as proof????

[mzmolly]

15. They're all heavily edited and choppy.

There are definitely incriminating portions at various offices, regardless. But I think if we knew the entire story, it would be far less incriminating.

Thanks for watching rufus. :hi:

[The Magistrate]

17. Indeed, Ma'am

On all of these, we need to see the full tapes, and hear testimony from the people shown in the tapes, before we can rightly assess what went on.

[mzmolly]

18. Most true.

:hi:

[spanone]

127. meanwhile congress is pulling funding because.....???????

[csziggy]

19. Repeat of bit about Tiajuana at 1:15 and at 6:50, roughly

Exact same bit of video both places. Extremely bad editing!

[mzmolly]

23. Agreed, I noticed that as well.

Why the need to edit the videos in this choppy, unprofessional way? They cut off responses at times and they appear (at least to me) to insert additional dialogue.

[drm604]

46. Absolutely!!!

Look at the traffic in the background. It's exactly the same both times. As are the shadows on the window frame from the banner or awning or whatever it is that's outside the window.

THIS WHOLE THING IS BULLSHIT!!! We can't know for sure what questions he was answering when, or if the questions we're hearing are even the ones he's answering.

Presumably this man lost his job over this. There need to be lawsuits, and Congress needs to be mightily ashamed of themselves for pulling funding if this is the kind of evidence they based it on.

[mzmolly]

52. Ugh.

:( I wonder what can be done about this now?

[drm604]

54. You mentioned that the director of ACORN claims that these tapes were doctored.

What is your source for that? Are you in contact with her? If not then we have to publicize this stuff ourselves.

If we can get enough recs for this thread than hopefully it will get noticed. If the wider blogosphere becomes aware of the obvious doctoring of this tape then this should end up on at least some of the media - Keith, Ed, and Rachel if no one else.

[mzmolly]

56. I'm not in contact, but ...

it was in the news a while back.

http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/aggregator.php?entry=770124

I can't locate the original statement, sorry.

[drm604]

59. In any case,

this particular tape is unequivocally doctored and put together out of order, no question. People may not believe the ACORN director's assertions about them being doctored, but the proof in this tape is hard to deny.

If you add this to the woman who punked them with the fake story about killing her husband, I would think that a lot of doubts would occur in a lot of people's minds.

Congress needs to understand and admit that they've been played and they need to restore funding to an organization that did not deserve to lose it.

There need to be defamation lawsuits brought by anyone who lost their job due to misrepresentation by O'Keefe.

[mzmolly]

73. Start watching the tape about 2 minutes in. This is the beginning of the story

about the girls that are being brought into the country. Right in the middle of the story, about 2:32 into the video, it is spliced and O'Keefe says he wants to bring in a chair. This is obviously an important, yet missing piece of the conversation. O'Keefe later asks if the conversation is confidential and another piece of the video is obviously edited.

I think they would have been better off not posting the latest charade. The first two videos were not quite as apparent.

[Krakowiak]

109. 1:15 is still the "teaser" phase of the video...

the first couple of minutes are just a preview for the whole video.. so it's not a mistake.

[mzmolly]

113. True, but the transcript does differ from the video.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6576332&mesg_id=6590429

[Krakowiak]

126. it's obviously edited - I agree

just wanted to make a minor point...

I agree 100% about the extremely fishy circumstances surrounding this video. Thanks for your tenacity on this matter.

[kctim]

24. So, it's kind of like

walking into a bank that gives a shotgun for opening an account and then editing it to make it look like you walked out of the same bank a few minutes later, with no questions asked or background check, with a loaded shotgun to do as you please?

[mzmolly]

25. I don't know, is it?

:eyes: I think it's more like saying the bank gave you a shotgun when you actually got a toaster oven.

[kctim]

38. Yes, they are the exact same thing

with the only difference being WHO did what and WHO was caught. If acorn was a far right group, everybody here would be shouting in glee and FOX would be crying about editing and other BS.
Results now take a backseat to politics. Sad.

[mzmolly]

40. I disagree. There is a huge difference between claiming to help underage prostitutes

and claiming to send them out on to the street.

[grantcart]

26. It needs to be investigated

But even if the tape is not doctored, so what?


I work with Customs and ICE agents and they know that there are customs and border patrol agents that are working to break the law and they are working all of the time to find them and expose them.

In every organization there are bad apples. If that is true here you make changes but you don't eliminate the organization.

[mzmolly]

28. Exactly.

:hi:

[sonias]

30. Agreed

Glen Greenwald's column yesterday was spot on:

Salon .com 9/17/09
The distracting benefits of ACORN hysteria

(snip)
Apparently, the problem for middle-class and lower-middle-class Americans is not that their taxpayer dollars are going to prop up billionaires, oligarchs and their corrupt industries. It's that America's impoverished -- a group that is growing rapidly -- is getting too much, has too much power and too little accountability. Anonymous Liberal has a superb post on the manipulative inanity of the Fox-generated ACORN "scandal" (h/t D-day):

Let's take a step back and consider just what ACORN is. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower and improve the lives of poor people. As with many other organizations, ACORN has a number of legally distinct parts, each of which has different sources of funding and engages in different kinds of activities (ACORN's conservative enemies routinely conflate these various parts to imply that ACORN is using federal money for improper political purposes). Since its founding the 70s, ACORN and its employees and volunteers have fought successfully to, among other things, increase minimum wages across the country, increase the quality of public education in poor areas, and protect people from predatory lending practices. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, ACORN helped rebuild thousands of homes and assisted victims in relocating and finding housing outside of New Orleans. The ACORN activity that has drawn the most conservative ire is its voter registration efforts which, consistent with ACORN's mission, are primarily aimed at low-income voters (who tend to vote Democratic). . . .

But even if you take these film-makers at face value and assume the worst, the reality is that ACORN has thousands of employees and the vast majority of them spend their days trying to help poor people through perfectly legal means (and receive very little compensation for doing so). Even before yesterday's Senate vote, the amount of federal money that went to ACORN was very small. This is a relatively insignificant organization in the grand scheme of things, but it's an organization that has unquestionably fought over the years to improve the lives of the less fortunate in this country.

Just saying. It's a big shell game for the corporations and extremely rich who are really making off like bandits in the government contract/bailout scheme. Don't look at the real thieves behind the curtain. :grr:


Sonia

[Petrushka]

75. "...the reality is that ACORN has thousands of employees...." ?

Reality? Thousands?!
According to Bertha Lewis,
ACORN has 700 employees. See:


http://i3.democracynow.org/2009/9/17/acorn_head_bertha_lewis_vows_action


==================================================================================================================================
. . . . . . . . . .

JUAN GONZALEZ: But when you started getting these visits from these strange people, did you put out any kind of a memo to the rest of your organization: “Be on the lookout for these folks who are visiting our offices”? What was the sort of internal communications that you had that might have been able—or didn’t have—that might have been able to avoid these four or five people that you say that acted inappropriately?


BERTHA LEWIS: Well, first of all, Juan, that’s a very—you know, that’s a very good observation, because these visits were spread out throughout the summer, and they were random all over. And so, we probably could have done a better job saying, “Did you see these crazy-dressed people in your office?” I think a lot of folks took it as a joke. And we didn’t—you know, again, we have 700 employees and over sixty-some offices. So there was a little breakdown to say that maybe people ought to watch out for it. That’s why we’re doing this review, so that anything that’s out of the ordinary, we’ll now have a system to say, “Whoa, wait a minute!”


We know that the right is doing a relentless campaign against us. We have to step up our procedures to make sure that we protect ourselves, because we don’t even know what the right wing can think of next. We never would have thought that they could have thought this up, but they did.

. . . . . . . . . .

[mzmolly]

78. Well there goes the whole point then.

:sarcasm:

[druidity33]

84. 700 paid employees i bet

When you count the volunteers, it probably numbers in the thousands.

:shrug:

[redqueen]

27. I can't wait till this gets a serious investigation... and not the RW M$M kind

that so many here seem more than satisfied with.

[mzmolly]

29. Right now, it appears to be a ratings grab.

If there is an investigation, I hope that the computer and video equipment used in the so called sting is confiscated.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

31. That thing has been HEAVILY edited --

so there is no real way to truly understand what was going on without seeing the entire tape, start to finish.

[mzmolly]

33. All of the tapes are like that and I don't recall one "journalist" saying what you just

did.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

34. Well, those "journalists" are dumbfucks ---

who need to go back to school.

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have long shown us what a "good" editing job can do to an interview. :)

[mzmolly]

32. BTW ~ Here is the verbatim statement in question "the girls are coming this weekend,

that's why we're in an emergency situation, that's why we like ran in here for help, because I wanna get them before the pimp has time to bond with them and you know, herd them away. So, I don't know how to deal with that."

The questions are quite racist as well ... the question that preceded the statement above was Q - "As a latino man, do you have any recommendations in terms of the El Salvadorian girls comin' over and making sure they don't get caught by people in the community?"

As a latino man? :eyes:

Caught doing what? Being saved from their pimp? This story simply does not fit into the box provided by Faux News.

[Festivito]

37. Caught being illegal aliens. Community unaware of hiding from pimps.

That's how it can be taken. Makes perfect sense to help save young girls from an angry dangerous pimp.

[mzmolly]

39. My take

as well.

[Festivito]

36. You're right! To pimp is nowhere. Breaks: 2:33, 3:18, 3:43, 4:45

Taking away from a pimp might well be the intention behind each of these statements.

The breaks might have been needed to hide that that's what he was thinking.

In any case, that video was at least edited, taking some parts out, maybe inserting parts at four times that I could see.

[mzmolly]

41. That was the feeling I got as well. And given O'Keefe calls himself a

comedian of sorts, there is likely much he can legally get away with. Thanks for the detailed analysis BTW.

[ieoeja]

42. In the DC video, the "college kid" also claims to be helping the prostitute get away from her pimp.

The ACORN employee interpreted this to mean he was trying to help her go straight. She said something along the lines of "I want to help you since you're trying to help her go straight".

So we're supposed to hate on ACORN for trying to help women get out of prostitution?

I understand why this would appeal to the conservative crowd who believe "once a criminal, always a criminal so let's just off the bitch". But how the fuck did they get so many DUers agreeing with this shit?

[mzmolly]

45. This I did not know!

Thank you! :hi:

[drm604]

44. I just watched the first video on that page.

The impression I get from the ACORN guy is that he's playing along trying to get information from them. He kept asking them for the location. At one point he even mentions working with district attorneys. It sounds like he wanted to help the girls.

The two actors seemed to me to be very ambiguous in what they were saying. Were they planning to prostitute the girls? Were they trying to save them from prostitution? They mentioned preventing them from bonding with the pimp, that could be taken two ways.

The whole thing is quite ambiguous. Add to that the fact that we don't know what kind of editing was done to it. One thing that was very noticeable to me was the fact that the actors voices sounded much different than the ACORN employee's. They were louder and clearer. Maybe the explanation for that is that they were wearing hidden mikes, but it leaves open the possibility that entirely new dialog was dubbed in after the fact.

IANAL, but this doesn't strike me as something that would hold up in a court of law and, as such, not something that justifies pulling their funding.

[mzmolly]

47. Nice summary,

thank you for taking the time to watch and analyze. I agree fully with your assessment.

[drm604]

50. Please look at post 19 and my response to it at 46.

This tape was absolutely - no question - edited disingenuously. They need to be called to the carpet for this shit. People lost their jobs and an important progressive organization that has done a lot of good has lost its funding.

I have been angry about the bullshit that has been thrown at ACORN from the beginning (the voter registration lies) but this is over the top and cannot be tolerated.

[drm604]

48. Please people, rec this thread.

This needs to be on the front page.

Olberman and Maddow need to know about this. The tape is very clearly edited in a disingenuous manner. At least one segment is repeated, possibly more! We clearly cannot know which questions the gentleman from ACORN was actually answering at any point in that video. We can't even know for sure that all of the questions we hear were even asked in that office.

The whole thing is ambiguous. I get the impression that the ACORN gentleman thought that he was trying to protect the young girls rather than prostitute them.

[redqueen]

49. +1

:kick:

[drm604]

51. Come on people. Is 10 recs the best we can do on this?

:shrug:

[redqueen]

60. It's being unrec'd...

pathetic, isn't it?

:kick:

[drm604]

61. That says a lot doesn't it.

Who the hell would want to hide the truth about this? I wish it showed a tally of recs and unrecs so we could get some idea just how many idiot operatives we have on here.

I won't state my opinion of the unrec idea.

[redqueen]

63. Yep, it sure does. I wish we could see both sides as well. (nt)

[gratuitous]

53. Wait, are you implying . . . ?

Are you implying that Mr. O'Keefe would take some liberties with the sequence of events and the soundtrack of the video in order to make it look like something was happening that wasn't actually happening? That would be almost like lying or something, and we all know that only black presidents do that! Addison Graves Wilson, Sr. said so.

Why do you hate the troops so much?

[mzmolly]

57. LOL

I may just be implying such a thing. ;)

[redqueen]

74. lol

:kick:

[drm604]

55. Another thought.

People have lost their jobs because of these bullshit tapes. It appears that the tapes may have totally misrepresented the situations and portrayed these individuals as being something they are not.

Could they sue O'Keefe and company for defamation? Their reputation and their livelihood have been harmed by what are apparently misrepresentations on his part.

[mzmolly]

58. I wondered as much

myself. :hi:

[EFerrari]

62. Great job opening up the story, mzmolly.

:)

[mzmolly]

64. Thanks E. I think many too readily accepted the smarmy faux version of events?

:shrug:

[drm604]

66. Yes indeed.

She deserves great credit for posting this.

[TheBigotBasher]

65. A brilliant post.

Congress was tricked in to this by right wing Rethugs and those who see this as lynching by proxy. Where was Congress when Bush was giving $billions to War Criminal contractors?

We should all be proud of those Democratic members of Congress that voted against this racism.

[EFerrari]

67. That would be the white supremacist, dominionist war criminals at Black Water.

[The Magistrate]

68. Indeed It Would, Ma'am

[TheBigotBasher]

70. And more

The "crimes" of Acorn are no where near as bad as the crimes of the GOP.

[mzmolly]

72. Exactly.

The motives for targeting ACORN are both racially and politically driven.

[Warren Stupidity]

69. What a load of edited crap those videos are.

Too bad we do not have a real 5th estate.

[redqueen]

71. ...

:kick:

[havocmom]

76. .

[BREMPRO]

77. this first video is heavily edited and sounds more like they are trying save the girls

from pimps and becoming prostitutes. The second one is more damning though because it's clear the Acorn emp. Juan knows that the girl with the filmmaker is a prostitute, because of how she's dressed and he asks her how much she charges etc... So even though he says he'd help them smuggle the el salvador girls into the country it's not clear whether or not THEY will be used as prostitutes- just because the woman with the filmmaker claimed to be. This was clearly a setup- they probably heard this guy Juan was a rogue employee and targeted him. In any case- even if he was trying to save them from pimps in El Salvador, what he suggested they do was illegal and this should be thoroughly investigated and Acorn needs to do better training and screening of their employees. "trust the mexicans" not good.

[mzmolly]

80. He may have asked what she earns in order to determine her

eligibility for various programs. It's actually a legit question in many circumstances. Some of the offices have reportedly said that Giles and O'Keefe claimed the so called prostitute was trying to get out of the business with the help of O'Keefe. :shrug:

[myrna minx]

79. Very interesting Molly.

Send Rachel Maddow your thoughts - her team are superb investigators. We need the raw video. :hi:

[mzmolly]

81. Will do Myrna.

:hi:

[drm604]

82. Kick.

Very important stuff here.

[drm604]

83. And now the poor man has lost his job.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x374068

ACORN needs to stand up for it's employees. If they fire their framed employees it just makes them look guilty.

[redqueen]

85. Saturday kick.

:kick:

[bertman]

86. To conclude that the ACORN representative was complying with this scam is INSANE.

The fact that this video, with its cuts, voiceovers, and obviously selective editing, is even considered worthy of national media attention FOR ITS STATED PURPOSE is unbelievable. It SHOULD BE USED for exposing these right-wing conspirators for trying to set up a man who was just doing his job AND who apparently did absolutely nothing to help these imbeciles. With no followup to this video and the actions or inaction of the ACORN rep, we have no way of knowing if he was just bored so he listened to this crazy story; or if he was trying to get more information so he could turn these human traffickers over to the authorities; or if he was really going to help them.

Our Democratic leadership has once again caved to an outlandish smear campaign against ACORN. Folks, we are in DEEP TROUBLE in this country.

Recommend.

[redqueen]

87. It is unbelievable... unless you take M$M bias into account.

If it helps the right, anything goes! Swift boaters! Birthers! Now this utter freaking bullshit that even DUers are falling for!

(But then... a very few DUers said the birthers had a good point, too! :o )

:kick:

[mzmolly]

97. I agree. I hope this man is given a chance to tell his side of the story

somewhere. *sigh* It's disturbing that he lost his job based upon evidence in THAT video.

[suffragette]

88. mzmolly, Thank you for staying on this and providing us with more

info on what really went on.

You have a good ear,dear!

K&R

[bridgit]

89. Click the 'home' tab, that site is all about ACORN entrapment...

If I were those people, I'd want to make very sure that all my little PI ducks were in a row so as to not violate someone else's civil rights to *not* be entrapped so and in particular by means of digital manipulation

We've worn digital assets into boardrooms and onto operational platforms. But these are internal services where entities have an interest in understanding the levels of compliance their operation is engaging with insofar as any interface with the public or other operations beyond. With respect to digital capture and where the matter is bona fide; these processes often require being bonded beneath an over-arching PI status able to be writ for the duration of the sample or on a basis able to cross state lines as required

So it is clear that even at that rate people have a right not to be taped, probed, fucked with or be entrapped by means of uncivil misrepresentation ='ing fraud - a lot of people go to work and come back home maybe pickup some cat food have a drink, they have little interest in having their civil rights violated in the course of being inducted/kidnapped by way of entrapment into an episode of the same-ole-much-less-improved law breaking neocon gong show

So I hope these shit-heads ---> http://biggovernment.com/contributors have their shit together cause it seems that whereby California law has applied they've violated the personal, civil rights of ACORN employees

[Name removed]

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[Beaverhausen]

92. kick for the great work done on this thread

we need to get this info to Keith, Rachel or SOMEONE!!!

[masuki bance]

93. Sad. The film makers will release the whole unedited tapes

including complete audio and transcripts, they already have of many of the instances- see Big Government dot com. They are waiting again for people to make fools of themselves defending this. Their MO is to wait for supporters to twist themselves up trying to come up with some goofy defense then they release more info that makes them look like complete tools.

Do you seriously think that both houses of congress, 14 state attorney generals (so far), governors across the country, and most importantly ACORN itself would be taking action if these tapes were an edited attempt to distort what they really meant to do (to save the girl from an evil pimp)? LOL! Don't be an idiot, what these people have done is disgusting and the behavior that shows up so often in ACORN offices is very, very serious. for people to justify this sick behavior is really quite vile.

[Eric J in MN]

95. Congress is always right.

They decided to vote against ACORN after slow, careful research and extensive hearings.

(sarcasm)

[mzmolly]

96. How do you know what the filmmakers are going to do?

And, why the claim that they're getting the girls away from their pimp? These two vile people are destroying families with their so called satire and it's wrong.

Tell me, do the "filmmakers" take pride as they watch this grown man cry after destroying his reputation with their cherry picked evidence?

I suggest that many people, including yourself apparently, have been duped by edited tapes and misleading statements about what happened at ACORN.

[mzmolly]

100. Given you have inside info, when will the full, unedited tapes be released?

:hi:

[masuki bance]

108. Here is the full transcript of San Diego

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/19/full-transcript-acorn-prostitution-scandal-san-diego-part-i/

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/19/full-transcript-acorn-prostitution-scandal-san-diego-part-ii/

After people read it and defenders say- "this is all made up!", they will release the full audio in mp3 format. When the inevitable cries go out that "..anyone could do that in their garage!", they will release the video. It is their strategy this time, it's quite obvious that in addition to attacking ACORN they are aiming at hitting hard at attacking credibility. They waited until the one of the first statemnets came out from ACORN that "..nothing happened in NY or CA" to release first Brooklyn then San Bernadino then San Diego tapes.

This has been the pattern.

[mzmolly]

111. Thanks! You've assisted me greatly. Take a look at page 4 of the first transcript

for starters. Note how the conversation on the transcript differs from the video starting at about 2 minutes into the tape? NO WHERE does THIS video, posted on biggovernment.com show Ms. Giles or Mr. O'Keefe saying the girls are going to be used for prostitution!!!

For example, start watching the video at 2:20 (page 4 of the transcript) search for the word "chair". Note how a crucial portion of the conversation is missing after O'Keefe says "can I pull up a chair?"

The transcript GREATLY differs with the content of the video. The transcript includes statements that are CLEARLY missing from the video. So tell me, why are you so quick to believe that the transcript is accurate? Why the need for O'Keefe to edit out the MOST damning portions of the conversation?

I've barely read the transcripts, and the "pattern" shows not only that much is considered "unintelligible" but much of the so called conversation is MISSING. There are CLEAR AND COMPELLING differences between the transcript and the conversation posted online.

Speaking of "patterns" ... I'll judge Mr. Vera when I have ALL of the information at my disposal. I do not trust Giles and O'keefe (who are shown lying on video tape) to be honest with anyone. You are free to differ.

[masuki bance]

114. I would bet that the transcript posted will match the audio mp3 when posted

and the complete video when that is posted. He is a film maker, he edits for impact. Walking around in costume, the music, that's his schtick.

The full transcript for San Bernadino is here- http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/17/full-transcript-acorn-prostitution-scandal-san-bernardino/

The complete video is here- http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/15/fox-news-posts-full-unedited-video-of-sting-on-acorn-san-bernardino/

there are 7 videos, the last 4 are the unedited portions, about an hour long. Have fun.

[mzmolly]

116. An MP3? Sorry, I want to see the unedited VIDEO tapes.

Especially those involving Juan Vera. I want O'Keefe to testify under oath that he has not altered the contents, and I want him to answer to someone besides Faux News. His "schtick" is not very convincing when the MOST damning evidence is supposedly left out of the video tapes.

Nice try. Let me know when you come across the unedited Vera tapes.

[masuki bance]

119. The unedited video will come out.

I showed you the San Bernadino video so you could see that that's what they will do.

[mzmolly]

120. I will not hold my breath. Regardless the incident was reported to police.

Correct transcript or not, that's all I need to know.

[mzmolly]

118. Juan Carlos: "let me um understand what did you what did you wanna what do you want?"

Juan Carlos, page 9 of the first transcript, after the crime of saying "yeah and uhuh" STILL does not know what these people are asking of him. I'm even more disgusted after reading the transcript. Vera is guilty of taking information and saying yeah on several occasions.

Juan Vera, at one point, takes a phone number, again, seemingly not knowing what they want from him. And as others have pointed out, on page 25 of the first transcript, O'keefe and Giles claim to be afraid because Juan Vera wanted information and then said he works with the D.A.!

What things do you need from me in terms of like the shipment information. What can I give you, what information would you further need would help you in, in advice you would give me?
Juan Carlos: The location.
James: The location?
Juan Carlos: Yeah.
James: Where, whereabouts like what type like the city? State? What do you need?
Juan Carlos: Ahhh the location, they gonna, they ga afternoon.
James: That’s fine. Any time after five works actually.
Juan Carlos: Ok, James: So what information do you need from me the location where the girls are being shipped? Juan Carlos: Yeah.
James: What else?
Juan Carlos: And I need that its possible to maybe I like dis is you say private.
James: Yes
Juan Carlos: I ah because we work before with the lawyers
James: Ok
Juan Carlos: Ah, ah, you say um, district lawyers.
James: What are they called?
Juan Carlos: District lawyers.
James: District attorneys?
Juan Carlos: District attorneys.
James: The prosecutors?
Juan Carlos: Yes. James: You’re working with the prosecutors?
Juan Carlos: Yeah. San Diego

Continued on page 26

James: Well then that’s, that’s not good.
Juan Carlos: Yeah, that’s not good but le me, le me see. I think I want to send an email to you.
James: Okay. Juan Carlos: I’m gonna send email what you’re looking for.
Eden/Hannah: You know but how do we know like, honestly like I don’t feel very comfortable right now.
Like, I just like gave you a bunch of info and I don’t know if we trust you like.
James: Oh, that, that they said, they said that ACORN was a. they’re different then the banks.
Eden/Hannah: I know but like I’m still scared. I don’t know

On page 4 of the second transcript, Giles and O'Keefe continue to express feigned concern?

Alright. And, I’m trusting you but, you’re, you’re not going to go and tell you’re DA Friends right? Cause…
Your police friends you just told me about.
JC - No, ah, I have, have two polices is my, is my family.
Oh, it’s your family? It’s not through…
JC- No, it’s my cousins. I, I never, I never see my cousins…I see them only at parties.
Yeah.
But this ah, this conversation is never, never, never go on.
JC - (trying to brush them off) Thank you. Trust the Mexican people, Man!
HG - (batting her eyelashes, and playing the victim) I mean it’s hard to trust a man.
I mean, I trust him nut for me it’s really hard.
JC - Yeah?
Yeah,
JC - (further demonstrating his language barrier) Yeah but trust me. I, I, I don’t have a uh how do you say for affect (?) somebody.
You don't have what?
JC - I don't, I don't, I don't have how do you say like out to get somebody? I, I, I don't why I talk to somebody for this you know
Okay.

Giles and O'Keefe weren't the only people trying to ascertain information that may be incriminating, as Mr. Vera tried to get information on the girls who were supposedly coming in so called containers, and HE REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO POLICE! No where, in any of these transcripts did he offer to help smuggle anyone into the country! He may have suggested a location so that he knew what to tell the D.A. He took names, numbers and emails and he played along saying something about having contacts in Mexico. And again, the BOTTOM LINE is, he contacted police.

[mzmolly]

130. Update, as some DUers have speculated, Juan Vera reported the incident to his cousin.

The AP reports tonight > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/21/state/n190928D71.DTL&tsp=1

[Beaverhausen]

102. what about the tape of the incident at the philadelphia office, where the ACORN workers called polic

will that be put up at BIgGOVERNMENT.com? Of course it won't.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/142735/police_report_filed_by_acorn_exposes_false_claims_in_gotcha_vids/

And this website is owned or run by Breitbart who is constantly posting doctored and edited videos in order to make liberals look bad.

[Cass]

94. The way I interpret the first video is the Acorn guy, Juan, is getting information from these two

and intends to turn it over to authorities. He told them point blank he works with the District Attorney. When he told them that, O'Keefe said that's not good and Juan said no, it's not. I'm not real sure what Juan said or did that got everyone all riled up in that video...he listened to an outlandish story from 2 people who looked like high schoolers playing dress up and asked for information, then told them he works with the District Attorney. It seemed pretty clear to me that he intended to give the information to authorities.

In the 2nd video, he said he wouldn't tell the police after they ask him if he will, but I didn't believe that and thought he said that so those 2 would continue to stay in contact with him. It was my feeling that Juan was going to turn this over to authorities so they could look into it. He also said he had friends or family members in the police department who worked with prostitution, and I think his question about what she charged was to see if she was full of shit.

Honestly, O'Keefe and his girlfriend looked like a couple of kids play acting and the story they concocted, especially coming from 2 fresh-faced preppy type kids in costume, just didn't seem believable. And then telling Juan they were told to go to Acorn to get help with 12 underage prostitutes coming across the border illegally...just not believable imo.

[TexasObserver]

98. It seems almost certain the film maker has lied, fabricated & contrived the video.

[mzmolly]

99. That's my constitutionally protected opinon

as well. Sadly, a seemingly good person has lost his job based upon this bologna.

[sabrina 1]

101. MzMolly, I just watched the video

I'll have to watch it again, don't have time right now. But I noticed that the ACORN worker told them he works with District Attorneys. It is very likely that they told him they wanted to save the girls from the pimp, and he was letting them know that he could help with that. Just as likely as what they are claiming.

The tape is edited, so it's impossible to know what transpired before they got to this part of it.

They should be required to hand over all tapes because there is no way this should be allowed to stand alone, with just their interpretation of it. They were no interested, eg, when he said he worked with DAs.

[mzmolly]

104. I agree. Hand over ALL UNEDITED tapes before assuming

anything they say is truthful.

[mzmolly]

103. PLEASE SEE MY NEW THREAD ON THIS HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6587421&mesg_id=6587421

[Turborama]

105. K&R Thanks mzmolly, I've been pissed at all the knee jerking that's been going on here too

It's good to see that there's some of us who are looking at this objectively, this thread is proving that point. Sometimes I just can't believe that DU has so many people who get so easily sucked in by Breitbart & Faux's agenda without thinking about it critically 1st.

BTW have you seen this? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x373378">Police Report Filed By ACORN Exposes False Claims By Nefarious Individuals Behind "Sting" Videos

[mzmolly]

106. I did see that and gave it a rec when it was posted. I hope that more scrutiny

into Giles and O'Keefe will follow some of the info that's coming out. Turns out Mr. Vera contacted police. He was told he did not have enough information for them to help. The police have confirmed this according to various reports. :(

[subcomhd]

110. CNN just had the woman wgho says she killed her husband in one vid.

hubby is alive and well. She was fucking with them.

[mzmolly]

112. Interesting.

Wish I'd seen that.

[dmr]

115. The only damning thing I see in these 2 videos is highly suspect editing

The ACORN worker spoke very little. He listened. He sat there pensively and listened -- a lot.

What I heard: there would be a shipment of under-aged girls coming in from El Salvador that needed help before a pimp was able to get his grubby hands on them.

The ACORN worker couldn't stop the shipment, but he could, and did gather as much information as possible.

If this 'sting' really bore fruit, then why isn't there information on the follow-up phone call the ACORN worker was going to make to them?

I agree with the others in this thread about the editing of this video, clearly at one point one splice was replayed later in the video.

I've been angry about this all week. The knee-jerk reaction in Congress pissed me off. The Democrats know full-well the VRWC has had a hard-on for ACORN. The Democrats also know the Right-Wing lies through their teeth. But I suppose it's easier to take political cover. I tried to convince myself the Democrats didn't want the distraction away from the Health Care issue. Who knows, at this point.

I don't trust that the Right Wing won't go back time and again until ACORN is finally killed off. My fear has been that the Right would 'plant' workers into ACORN to sabotage the group's efforts.

I would like to see a full scale investigation. I want to see all the tapes - all unedited. I want to see the filmmaker and his 'prostitute' friend under oath.

[mzmolly]

117. Yep.

Under oath or bust! ;) Thanks drm. I fully agree with you.

[Cass]

128. Juan contacted police after O'Keefe left.

http://www.10news.com/news/20975217/detail.html

Vera said he was told the woman needed to escape her controlling pimp, who wouldn't let her start a new life.

Immediately, Vera said he offered to call the police but the filmmaker quickly stopped him.

"Don't call the police because I'm gonna be a lawyer," O'Keefe said in the video.

After the pair left the building, Vera said he called the National City Police Department.

National City police confirmed that Vera contacted them, but said there was not enough information about the couple to file a formal report.

Vera was also seen in the video asking the woman posing as a prostitute how much she charges.

Thanks to EricJ in MN for finding this and posting it in another thread, here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6598365&mesg_id=6598365

[TroglodyteScholar]

129. Kickaroo n/t

[mzmolly]

131. Thankfully the AP is reporting on this tonight!

:hi:

[defendandprotect]

132. What I see is O'Keefe taking advantage of language barrier . . .

[BreweryYardRat]

133. Kick.

So I don't have to fiddle with the HTML to read the replies.