So, Andrew Breitbart’s new website Big Government wanted to start off with a splash – and they’ve certainly done so, thanks to the post Chaos to Glory. In it, James O’Keefe with an associate to ACORN’s Baltimore office, with the story that the associate is a prostitute who needs to set up her income – and the income of a baker’s dozen of underage El Salvadoran illegal immigrant prostitutes – to fund O’Keefe’s political campaigns. ACORN of course immediately informs them that they are depraved abusive monsters, throws them out, and calls the cops…
Yeah, right. What actually happens is that they get a crash course in Tax Fraud and How To Set Up A Brothel 101: links are to videos, in case the above doesn’t load (their servers must be getting hammered, for some reason). Transcript here: you will find that your jaw steadily drops more and more as this goes on. They didn’t blink at the prostitute bit (just reclassified it as entertainer, and walked through useful deductions): they didn’t blink at the underaged El Salvadoran prostitutes thing (just worked out how many could be claimed as dependents without things getting flagged); and they didn’t blink on the request for advice on avoiding a former pimp (they just gave some, which didn’t include “Call the cops” and “Stop being a prostitute”).
After a certain point, you will ask yourself if this can possibly be for real. Breitbart did, himself. This, in fact, pushes the very limit of the Too Good to Be True envelope – but the videos are simply too good to miss. Plus, ACORN’s screams of outrage are diagnostic: they’re essentially claiming that when asked, other offices didn’t give out tax advice on running illegal underage brothels.
So there.
After all of that, the news (via Instapundit) that a ring of eleven ACORN operatives in Miami-Dade have been busted for here election fraud is somehow… reassuring*.
Moe Lane
*Although I must admit, ACORN has a great scam there. Use a set of rules that encourages election fraud, let low-level operatives commit election fraud, pick random individuals to report in areas where they can afford it, then take credit. Brilliant. Not as brilliant as figuring out tax dodges for illegal underage brothels, but brilliant.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Steph C (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 12:10PM EST (link)It’s a play on the “one bad apple…” hominem. At this point, I’m wondering how many bad apples it takes to know the whole bad.
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RICO?
cwilson (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 12:20PM EST (link)With all the widespread lawlessness of ACORN, can’t some enterprising DA bring a RICO case against the whole organization?
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Now, that would be partisan and mean-spirited, maybe racist.
Achance (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 12:34PM EST (link)Wouldn’t do for some nice Republican AG to do something like that, his friends across the aisle wouldn’t like it.
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Which means it is probably the right thing to do. (nt)
larueladue (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 2:00PM EST (link)Yes We Can!
void Friday, September 11th at 11:12PM EST (link)I’ve been blogging, tweeting, emailing and otherwise vocalizing the above idea for a few months now … time to get louder and turn their tactics against them … counter their actions by any legal means possible.
ACORN is the bane of liberty.
Breitbart is the bane of ACORN.
biggovernment.com on RICO
cwilson (Diary) Tuesday, September 15th at 10:37AM EST (link)here
O’Keefe and Giles deserve a Pulitzer.
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Moe, I hope you give a h/t to The_Gadfly
Richard Mullins (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 12:29PM EST (link)He posted a diary on this first and while you make more widely read, he did have it first.
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Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Thanks Richard. Moe has a better post.
The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 1:19PM EST (link)And in this case, as The Gipper said, I don’t care who gets the credit. I just want the firestorm over this one to be even bigger than the one over Van Jones.
Yeah, that is where I also first saw it. (nt)
larueladue (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 1:59PM EST (link)Just an isolated incident
RedBeard Thursday, September 10th at 12:46PM EST (link)All of the ACORN incidents are just isolated incidents.
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Lets take ACORN at their word ...
gensec (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 4:29PM EST (link)… at least long enough to ask the obvious follow up that is.
In the linked article, ACORN claims that their office exposed offering to help underage prostitution was atypical (what they say every time ACORN is caught in criminality), and that other ACORN offices refused the same offer:
What’s that you say, there are more ACORN offices that were asked to help child prostitution??
Well of course we believe you. And of course you can point us to the police reports, where those ACORN offices called the cops to tell them about traficking in underage girls for the sex industry.
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What, there are no police reports? So you’re saying that multiple ACORN offices were told about illegal sexual exploitation of children, but not one of them told the police about it?
So even if ACORN’s spin was true, it means that if you walk into an ACORN office with a proposal for underage prostitution, they’re more likely to offer to help you than to report you to the police!
ya gotta love when people with no scruples try to get you to take them at their word.
randy streu (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 4:32PM EST (link)it’s always good for a laugh.
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Robert A. Hahn (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 3:08PM EST (link)Wow, this is as big a news story as Van Jones. It’s been on the Fox News site for five hours, and so far only John Fund at the WSJ thinks it’s newsworthy.
You’d think the Democratic Party Media wouldn’t be so anxious to get caught spiking inconvenient news so soon after having to eat crow on Jones, but here they go anyway.
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Shocking...
Tom Anderson (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 3:28PM EST (link)Who would ever have imagined a well-mannered, good-intentioned group of community organizers doing something so underhanded. This MUST BE a setup by the vast right-wing conspiracy! #tonguefirmlyplantedincheek
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Glen Beck had O'Keefe's associate on his program tonight
The_Gadfly (Diary) Thursday, September 10th at 6:34PM EST (link)Her name is Hannah and she is a 20 year old journalism student. According to her statements during the program, it was her idea for the script. She called O’Keefe and they worked for 6 weeks planning how they were going to do it. When Glen Beck asked her who funded her (one his current schticks mocking astroturfing charges) she said “I drained my saving account to do the project.” She clarified that her account only covered her costs and O’Keefe covered his costs from his own funding.
Fired ACORN Workers Start A Tax Biz
minncon (Diary) Friday, September 11th at 1:28AM EST (link)“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” -Steven Wright
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minncon (Diary) Friday, September 11th at 1:39AM EST (link)The ACORN Employees tax advice is here:
http://files.me.com/drcody/dhii0a
“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?” -Steven Wright
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Lynda Friday, September 11th at 2:18PM EST (link)that after ACORN”s initial response to the airing of the video made by Hannah and O’Keefe on national telly, they would then toss their workers to the media just as they had done with the eleven workers in south FL. Tossing their workers into a pit as a blood sacrifice is nothing new to Wade & Dale Rathke. BTW, Wade’s book “Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families” is a great promotion for Marxism. As one reader said, “The United States is “the land of the free,” not “the land where everything is free”. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that if you get enough votes, you can take what is mine and make it yours.”
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