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Embattled ACORN Orders Independent Investigation
ACORN Press (aka The Associated Press) ^ | September 16, 2009 | AP "reporters" Ben Feller and Eileen Sullivan in Washingto

Posted on 09/17/2009 7:21:53 AM PDT by an amused spectator

(AP) An advocacy group under fire after employees were caught on camera appearing to advise a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp to lie about the woman's profession to get housing help said Wednesday it is ordering an independent investigation.

**snip**

In the film, O'Keefe and Giles enter an ACORN office in Brooklyn and O'Keefe can be heard stating that "we have a unique life situation" and asking if the pair qualify for housing help.

The ACORN housing coordinator and office administrator apparently urge the couple to lie about the woman's profession, with the housing coordinator suggesting that the woman launder the money.

**the rest of the "article" at link**

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acorn; ap; hannahgiles
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And that's it. Apparently, ACORN Press "reporters" Ben Feller and Eileen Sullivan didn't feel that the child sex slavery advice and tax evasion advice given by their "fellow ACORN workers" was important enough to mention.

Of course, if this had been a Republican organization, we would have seen in screaming 20-point type:

REPUBLICANS IMPLICATED IN CHILD SEX RING AND TAX EVASION!!!


1 posted on 09/17/2009 7:21:53 AM PDT by an amused spectator
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To: an amused spectator

The overwhelming majority of people working in the “news media” are Democrats. They genuinely believe that ACORN is a “good” organization, and that opposition to the Obama Administration is “racist”.


2 posted on 09/17/2009 7:25:25 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
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To: an amused spectator

I’m sure that AG Eric Holder will be happy to “investigate” and dismiss all charges as he did with the Black Panther voter intimidation case. This administration is rotten to the core.


3 posted on 09/17/2009 7:27:18 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: an amused spectator

how do you make it flash?


4 posted on 09/17/2009 7:28:29 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: popdonnelly

ACORN is a “good”, actually, just a “desirous” organization because they help to accomplish the ENDS that the left wants to accomplish, they really don’t care about the means.

According to Hayek, these type of unscrupulous people are inevitably used to implement a collectivist system, because it takes a “whip” to implement such a system, and those unwilling to use that whip will be quickly replaced by those who will.


5 posted on 09/17/2009 7:28:30 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Nathan Zachary
blink
6 posted on 09/17/2009 7:30:08 AM PDT by maggief (He had a dream. We got a nightmare!)
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To: maggief

Ah, TY


7 posted on 09/17/2009 7:30:37 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Nathan Zachary
<blink>
8 posted on 09/17/2009 7:33:09 AM PDT by an amused spectator (The money vampires fear garlands of lead & brass)
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To: kittymyrib

Heck the ‘ independent” panel is more leftist and partisan than Holder,’
Ok maybe not more but as least as partisan..
Anyone care to predict the findings from this “ Independent” panel?


9 posted on 09/17/2009 7:33:36 AM PDT by RWGinger
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To: an amused spectator

Hey, now that ACORN has decided to investigate itself, we can all go back to sleep. Sarc/


10 posted on 09/17/2009 7:33:46 AM PDT by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: an amused spectator

Anything they order is meaningless... An institution of authority, say a state and federal investigation...that should mean something.


11 posted on 09/17/2009 7:34:19 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: an amused spectator

SEIU investigating ACORN is ‘independent’?!


12 posted on 09/17/2009 7:34:24 AM PDT by Company Man
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See also:
Sham Pelosi Investigation Will Absolve ACORN Of Any Wrongdoing

13 posted on 09/17/2009 7:35:12 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: an amused spectator

I find it a little suspicious that yesterday Bertha Lewis said the actions were “indefensible” and on the same day the White House finally came out and said the actions on the tapes were “indefensible”. I think ole Bertha has been talking to someone higher up. Hmmm, who could that be?


14 posted on 09/17/2009 7:36:21 AM PDT by dfc1 (Rush Limbaugh - a man, a legend, a way of life)
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551163,00.html

This Fox page has footage of the video taken close to the Border that I said would happen yesterday. See post 13 below.

Fox wrote...”In the latest video, O’Keefe asked the man if Tijuana is the best place to bring the girls to cross over into the U.S.

The man replied “yes,” because he has a lot of contacts there who can assist in bringing them across the border.”

I posted this yesterday...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341300/posts


15 posted on 09/17/2009 7:37:09 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Patrick Henry and Joe Wilson...Patriots past and present!)
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To: Nathan Zachary

What is Patrick Fitzgerald doing these days?


16 posted on 09/17/2009 7:37:17 AM PDT by hawgwalker
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17 posted on 09/17/2009 7:37:48 AM PDT by The G Man (The NY Times did "great harm to the United States" - President George W. Bush 6/26/06)
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How is the FBI not raiding all Acorn offices this morning?

Why are these thugs allowed the time to remove/shred documents, collaborate/create cover stories, remove incriminating evidence??!!!

I would think that with admissions of human trafficking, the FBI would be duty bound to move on this immediately.

Can anyone explain this to me?
18 posted on 09/17/2009 7:38:19 AM PDT by The Louiswu (I live vicariously, through myself.)
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To: Nathan Zachary
use the blink tag for flashing!!
19 posted on 09/17/2009 7:38:27 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: an amused spectator
ACORN fake probe to call off the slight escalation in heat on their crooked, evil operation.


20 posted on 09/17/2009 7:40:17 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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