Posted on 09/16/2009 7:18:01 PM PDT by BAW
The journalists at the center of an embarrassing scandal for the grass-roots organization ACORN also paid a visit to the ACORN office in San Diego County.
Grass-roots organizing has gotten a black eye on the national stage after undercover videos involving ACORN, a controversial group with a local office, were released that were shot during a series of visits from a hidden-camera crew.
At 6 p.m. on Wednesday, a video was broadcast on Fox's "Hannity" that purported to show a San Diego ACORN staffer discussing human trafficking with two people who were undercover.
Earlier in the day, local ACORN officials, at an office in National City, said they were upset over the fallout and admitted that the undercover filmmakers paid a visit to them. They say no "paperwork" wound up being filed. At that point, no "gotcha" video had surfaced.
"I think none of our offices are 100 percent perfect. Our office here in San Diego is no different. I think what is important is that every day we are saving people from foreclosure,” said David Lagstein with California ACORN prior to San Diego video's release. “Fighting for access to health care. We're helping families to become new citizens that are eligible for that."
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Lagstein wrote, “San Diego ACORN confirms that the unscrupulous undercover team visited the San Diego office some time last month. The incident will be investigated as part of the work of the Independent Advisory Council announced today. ACORN confirms that no paperwork of any kind was filed by the San Diego office. We are also demanding that Fox news release the full content of the tapes [and all of the undercover tapes].”
The organization is now launching an independent investigation and overhaul.
While ACORN cleans its house amid the hidden-camera scandal, the group is facing a cutoff in federal housing grants and calls for a Justice Department investigation.
An activist filmmaker and a friend, posing as a pimp and a hooker, have exposed deceitful practices involving ACORN offices in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington and San Bernardino
"Honesty is not going to get you the house,” is heard from one of the participants in the undercover video.
That "house" was to be used for prostitution -- a premise ACORN staffers offered help in concealing. The organization has fired or suspended several employees and brought in outside auditors.
ACORN has been active and taken to the streets in San Diego County since 2001 occasionally drawing criticism for its assistance in getting mortgage loans for illegal immigrants.
In last year's local voter registration campaign, 17 percent of the applications were red-flagged as "invalid' or 'deficient."
Meantime, we got this reaction to the ACORN scandal from Michael Rosen, secretary of the San Diego County Republican Party: "What's coming into focus now is that ACORN itself may be at the epicenter of the economic and political crises facing this country," said Rosen.
"I'm a fake journalist and I'm embarrassed these guys scooped me"
is a classic!
Our office here in San Diego is no different. I think what is important is that every day we are saving people from foreclosure,
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This inspired my new tagline...
Last night Breitbart insinuated that there may be tapes of Giles and O’Keefe “attempting” to sell the story to major media.
He would neither confirm or deny that there is tape.
I busted out with a full on belly laugh when Stewart yelled...”ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME!?”
Also probably a candidate for Understatement of the Year.
Wow, the NBC affiliate in San Diego was pretty fair in that report. No holds barred either.
I was drinking Jack Daniels and Pepsi when I caught that bit and got 3rd degree Pepsi burns in my nose!
Funniest bit I have seen in a good while!
Great quote:
“What’s coming into focus now is that ACORN itself may be at the epicenter of the economic and political crises facing this country.”
-Michael Rosen, secretary of the San Diego County Republican Party
He left out "We're helping to smuggle child sex slaves into the country."
“Funny how liberals don’t understand what words mean.”
Oh but they do. They really do understand what the words mean. They just don’t want the words to mean something against them, so they will them to mean something else, or they project their guilt upon those who expose them.
It’s SOP for the Libs.
I know this is a quote in the article from the secretary of the San Diego Republican party, but that it would even appear in this article is AMAZING!
If the collapse of the housing industry and the economic downturn that resulted from it can be tied to ACORN and the "politics of corruption" that Democrats nodded and winked at (Chris Dodd and Barney Frank come instantly to mind), there is going to be hell to pay at the polls come next Novemeber, and most of the "casualties" are going to be incumbent Dims!
Yep, they're obviously well trained.
I'm just waiting to see the headline, "ACORN Promotes/Supports Slavery".
Does that mean they're as inefficient as they are corrupt?
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oh yeah ... the mainstream media DID cover the story tonight...on abc. They had the head of ACORN charging...
guess what she charged the people exposing this with?
Just guess?
Hint: It starts with an “r”.
And then, these people try to defend themselves as champions of "civil rights' when they are in fact stepping all over themselves to help a "pimp and a whore" break all kinds of laws and engage in the "profitable" business of exploiting under-age females?
EXCUSE ME? !:(
The “independent advisory panel” which consists of a bunch of crooks who are hardly “independent.”
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