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Blogger Foe Confronts ACORN
Protesters

Breitbart says video of 'thugs' will be up soon

Nov 13, 09 1:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Andrew Breitbart—whose conservative BigGovernment.com website aired the ACORN sting videos—decided to mosey down to an ACORN protest in Los Angeles this week, and he's not happy with the rough treatment he got. He blogs that he was harassed and threatened by the "dregs of society" so... More »

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conservative • Los Angeles • website • undercover video • political protest • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

 Stingers Release Philly 
 ACORN Video 

Says it proves ACORN lied about incident

Oct 22, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The ACORN stingers have released another video, this time of their visit to the Philadelphia location—where, ACORN has until now insisted, they were kicked out. In the new, edited video, James O’Keefe says they weren’t kicked out, but instead sat for more than half an hour with... More »

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Philadelphia • prostitute • hidden camera • pimp • Acorn • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

OPINION

 ACORN Chief 
 Blames 
 Everyone 
 But ACORN 

Bertha Lewis not contrite enough for Dana Milbank

Oct 7, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN chief Bertha Lewis wasn’t in the mood to apologize at the National Press Club yesterday. For anything. Not for the internal ACORN review showing that $5 million had been embezzled from the group, rather than the previously alleged $1 million (“This is speculation, completely false”), not... More »

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voter fraud • hidden camera • undercover video • Acorn • Dana Milbank • Bertha Lewis

 BofA Severs Ties With ACORN 

ACORN Housing advocated for homeowners facing foreclosure

Sep 28, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bank of America has cut off ties with ACORN’s housing assistance arm following revelations that employees of the community organizing group gave ill-advised assistance to videographers posing as a pimp and prostitute. ACORN Housing has worked with BofA—among other banks—since the '90s to help homeowners in danger... More »

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prostitution • Bank of America • foreclosure • mortgage • homeowners • Acorn • Scott Harshbarger • Michael Shea • Acorn Housing

opinion

ACORN Video Sting a Lesson in New Journalism


Sep 24, 09 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Andrew Breitbart may have an ideological ax to grind, but so what? The undercover ACORN videos he's posted illustrate a significant strength of 21st-century American journalism, writes Jack Shafer: "It will accept contributions from everybody from amateurs to entertainers (I'm looking at you, Jon Stewart) to gadflies to billionaires... More »

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Matt Drudge • conservative • sting operations • hidden camera • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

ACORN Sues Creators of
Sting Video

Recordings made without two-party consent, group says

Sep 23, 09 6:21 PM CDT
(AP) - ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute. The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to... More »

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lawsuit • Baltimore • sting operations • hidden camera • Acorn • Andrew Breitbart

ACORN's
Founder Blasts GOP Attacks

Dismisses them as
'poppycock,' part of anti-Obama vendetta

Sep 23, 09 3:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The founder of ACORN says the conservative portrayal of the group as a "criminal enterprise" is a “complete fabrication." Claims that the group systematically misuses federal funds for political purposes are being circulated as fact on TV talk shows and blogs, Wade Rathke tells the Washington Post.... More »

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Republican • House Republicans • scandal • conservatives • Acorn • President Obama • Wade Rathke

OPINION

 ACORN Sting 
 Raises Media 
 Ethics Questions 

Hidden video subterfuge made news, but where was the reality check?

Sep 23, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - “You've got to give James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles credit for abundant chutzpah and guile,” writes James Rainey in the Los Angeles Times. The pair’s hidden camera ACORN takedown “likely will do for guerrilla video what Ashton Kutcher did for Twitter—popularize and expand the... More »

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prostitution • video • sting operations • hidden camera • scandal • undercover video • Acorn • mainstream media • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

OPINION

ACORN Takedown Campaign Overblown, Misguided

The actions of a half-dozen employees doesn't represent the huge organization

Sep 18, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - The conservative campaign against ACORN—which has now, thanks to a few video “sting” operations, lost its federal funding—is built on an outrageous set of exaggerations and falsehoods, writes Joe Conason for Salon. “No doubt it was fun to dupe a few morons into providing tax advice... More »

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prostitution • voter fraud • DC Madam • video • David Vitter • hidden camera • activists • Acorn • Ken Calvert

ACORN Sting Duo Says Nobody Put Them Up to It

Call themselves 'concerned citizens'

Sep 18, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles say there's no conservative conspiracy behind their decision to dress up as a pimp and prostitute and walk into ACORN offices with a hidden camera. They’re just a pair of concerned citizens, who’ve managed to wound the mighty activist group on a... More »

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prostitution • prostitute • hidden camera • scandal • Acorn • James O'Keefe • Hannah Giles

 House Votes to Cut Off ACORN 

Republicans lead charge against scandal-ridden community organizers

Sep 17, 09 10:12 PM CDT
(AP) - The House voted tonight to deny all federal funds for ACORN in a Republican-led strike against the scandal-tainted community organizing group that comes just three days after the Senate took similar action. "ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and today the House voted to ensure that taxpayer dollars would... More »

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House of Representatives • House Republicans • scandal • Acorn • community organizers

Schwarzenegger Wants ACORN Investigation

Activist sting catches woman boasting of shooting husband

Sep 17, 09 10:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger today urged California AG Jerry Brown to launch an investigation of ACORN, the Los Angeles Times reports. The governor acted after a video sting operation that's targeted ACORN offices around the country hit the group’s San Bernardino office. In the video released Tuesday, as in previous videos... More »

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prostitution • Arnold Schwarzenegger • San Bernadino • Jerry Brown • prostitute • Acorn

ACORN Orders Investigation Into Programs

Group promises
reform after 'sting' videos surface

Sep 16, 09 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN is ordering an independent investigation into its community service programs after undercover videos exposed questionable behavior by its employees, the AP reports. The group also said it would put its programs on hold while it conducts staff training. A series of videos show ACORN employees instructing a fake prostitute... More »

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corruption • sting operations • undercover video • Acorn • advocacy

OPINION

ACORN Is Rotten, And Mainstream Media Ignores It

Network news has no coverage of hooker-pimp sting video scandal

Sep 15, 09 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The scandal enveloping community-organizing group ACORN “has everything you could ever want,” Dan Gainor writes for Fox News: “corruption, sleazy actions at tax-funded organizations, firings, government ties, sex, hookers. It is a network news director’s dream.” Curiously, ABC, CBS, and NBC aren't covering the brouhaha... More »

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prostitution • corruption • Fox News • US Census • brothel • hooker • Acorn • community organizers • federal funding • mainstream media

ACORN May
Sue After New Tape Emerges

Second film shows staffers advising fake hooker, pimp

Sep 14, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - ACORN is weighing legal action after another undercover sting tape emerged, this time in Brooklyn, the New York Post reports. Like a tape made in Baltimore, the new footage shows a man and a woman dressed as a pimp and a prostitute getting advice on housing loans. “Honesty is... More »

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mortgage • lawsuit • sting operations • undercover video • Acorn

US Census Bureau Axes Community Group ACORN

Group called 'distraction' after sting catches employees advising prostitute

Sep 11, 09 9:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Census Bureau will not allow community-organizing group ACORN to participate in next year’s national census, the Wall Street Journal reports tonight. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a “distraction,” Census director Robert Groves writes, after members of its Baltimore and Washington offices... More »

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prostitution • Census Bureau • Baltimore • sting operations • hidden camera • Washington, DC • Acorn • community organizers • 2010 census

ACORN Fires Staffers Over Prostitute Sting Video

Hidden camera catches employees advising phony pimp

Sep 11, 09 12:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Baltimore office of ACORN has fired two staff members who were caught on tape giving advice to a man and a woman posing as a prostitute and a pimp, the Baltimore Sun reports. The video shows the staffers explaining how to evade tax laws, set up a brothel,... More »

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fraud • Baltimore • hidden camera • Acorn

ACORN Inflated New Voter
Count by 850K

Almost a third of its registrations
have been rejected

Oct 24, 08 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The community organizing group ACORN and Project Vote's boast of having signed up 1.3 million new voters was off by 850,000, reports the New York Times. Just 450,000 of the registrations represent genuine new voters. Another 450,000 were already-registered voters who changed their address, and 400,... More »

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voter fraud • Election 2008 • voter registration • Project Vote • Acorn

Justices Won't Force Ohio to Check Voter Registrations

Ruling is blow to state Republican party

Oct 17, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court ruled today that Ohio does not have to verify hundreds of thousands of new voter registrations, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The court did not assess the Ohio Republic Party’s claim that registration needs cross-checks to prevent fraud, but rather ruled that the party did not... More »

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voter fraud • Ohio • US Supreme Court • Election 2008 • voter registration • Acorn

FBI Opens Preliminary ACORN Probe

Fake voter registrations from 'Mickey Mouse,' others raise concern

Oct 16, 08 8:30 PM CDT
(AP) - The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation. A senior law enforcement official says the agency is looking at results of recent raids on ACORN offices in several states for any evidence of a coordinated national scam. The group denies... More »

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FBI • Election 2008 • Acorn

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