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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.
Maybe not the epicenter but no doubt played a major roll in the Fanny/Freddie housing meltdown. They educated the poor on how to get a home loan by lying and providing false information on the loan application.
O'Keefe's video might just be the seismic political event that could turn into a devastating tsunami for the Democrats next fall. At the very lest, they sure have made some AWESOME waves!
LOL, you’re welcome.
Put together well.
Thank you Piasa.
**Oddly, it was the ACORN people who were unscrupulous. Funny how liberals don’t understand what words mean.**
Spin, pure spin, from the fringe media!
thanks
I do have an idea. Of course, hundreds of people have ideas for them these days, but THIS one is REALLY good, guaranteed. I would like to Freepmail them with it if I could.
Don’t forget, it’s not NBC...it’s an affiliate and probably has nothing to do with NBC or GE.
I don’t see anyone that definitely fits the description on that list of January pardons, at least not women from NM; wonder if they were pardoned before then, or if they weren’t from NM. I did notice Clinton’s HUD guy Henry Cisneros’ pardon on that list and he is going to be one of the wonder boys on the “independent committee” looking into ACORN.
I think you heard that wrong. On Beck’s show he said he thought it would be a hoot to film themselves shopping it around, but they didn’t do it.
That's like Gorelick being on the 9/11 Commission or Hamilton Lee being on Sandy Burglar's "Board of Reference."
Dem Dems iz Dense.
Hi, we’re from the media! Are you guys doing anything illegal? No?
That’s good enough for us.
The key is, and always will be, tying ACORN to Obama. Tying Van Jones to Obama. This ACORN story is important, but don’t forget that while this story dominates the national news (even without the Lunatic Fringe media), Obama’s czars are still slaving away to make this a socialist nation.
It is all about tying the corruption and radical communism to Obama to hamstring his agenda until we can toss him in 2012. 2010 is VITAL.
What the hell!!!!! Thats RACIST!!!
That is an understatement! I wonder why they refuse to open their books if they are doing nothing wrong. /s
Ok.
What a delightful thought !!! That would be a wonderful control to show the contrast between ACORN and a real outreach organization. It would be nice to think that they thought of it, but that’s awfully sophisticated (Machiavellian) for such young kids. Tho, they at some point apparently were getting some advice, so maybe said advisor did suggest an alternative mission.
I can’t say I would EVER in my life have had the idea much less the nerve to do what they did. Every time I think of them and what they did, I just have to smile.
I understand that its just a local station. But thats better than we have been getting in the last few years.
I can!
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