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FIU student star of ACORN video scandal (background story on Hanna Giles)
Sun Sentinel ^ | Mike Clary

Posted on 09/18/2009 4:04:40 AM PDT by lovesdogs

n describing how she spent her summer, Florida International University journalism student Hannah Giles wrote that her cross-country adventure "started off as a silly idea, both absurd and incredible."

Dressed in a skimpy skirt and high heels, the 20-year-old went "undercover" as a prostitute to record a hidden-camera video that has embarrassed the left-leaning advocacy group ACORN and made the fundamentalist preacher's daughter a heroine to the conservative movement.

"I think you're a very courageous person," right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck told her.

Since giving interviews to Fox News last week, Giles has not appeared in public. She is enrolled at FIU's Biscayne Bay campus in the school of journalism and mass communication.

(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: acorn; hannagiles; hannahgiles
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1 posted on 09/18/2009 4:04:41 AM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: lovesdogs

That first word should be “In”. Sorry about that.


2 posted on 09/18/2009 4:06:37 AM PDT by lovesdogs (9/17/09 - 1109 days left until obama is toast/409 until midterms.)
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To: lovesdogs
But reaction was swift. Acorn employees recorded on tape were fired, and officials announced that operations would cease for 48 hours for staff retraining. In Florida, the group's six full-time employees, including one in Miami and one in Margate, are to attend classes Friday, said Porta.

How DO you hustle together a class on how not to abet underage prostitution?

3 posted on 09/18/2009 4:09:37 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: lovesdogs

Why does the author come off like a leashed attack dog?


4 posted on 09/18/2009 4:13:50 AM PDT by Tempest (I believe in the sanctity of life... As long as you can afford it.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I think the class is situational awareness and how not to get caught...
5 posted on 09/18/2009 4:15:28 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Is it too soon for real conservatives to launch a "We Tried to Warn You Tour"?)
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To: Tempest

Lefty on a lefty rag, forced to pay grudging tribute to a brilliant scoop.


6 posted on 09/18/2009 4:17:32 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: lovesdogs
This is the biggest journalistic “get” in decades, but don’t hold your breath that it will even be nominated for, let alone win, a Pulitzer.
7 posted on 09/18/2009 4:19:06 AM PDT by Jagman (They comport, We deride!)
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To: lovesdogs
Asked by Beck how she funded the exercise, Giles said, "I drained my savings."

I believe she will find a good return for her investment...

8 posted on 09/18/2009 4:26:52 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Jagman

The real question is when will the state run media show all of Obama’s links to ACORN?

I’m not holding my breath.


9 posted on 09/18/2009 4:28:36 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: lovesdogs

bump


10 posted on 09/18/2009 4:29:41 AM PDT by VOA
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To: Drango

This may be the thing that allows Sarah Palin to actually get the votes she needs to win in 2012.


11 posted on 09/18/2009 4:31:08 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: lovesdogs

“left-LEANING????? advocacy group ACORN”

As Beck would say....They are leaning so far to the left they are horizontal.


12 posted on 09/18/2009 4:41:38 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: lovesdogs

I’m proud of this duo - Jon Stewart actually “lauded” them? Really? Would love to have heard that one.

I still can’t believe these ACORN clowns bought into this. The duo looks like they are dressed for Halloween! It is so unbelievable, shows a lot about the intelligence level of these ACORN people. Also am surprised word didn’t get around ACORN offices about this prostitute/pimp pair before they got there.

Wonder if the ACORN woman who claims to have killed her husband will be investigated?


13 posted on 09/18/2009 4:44:35 AM PDT by AUJenn
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Wonder if the ACORN woman who claims to have killed her husband will be investigated?

Already has been. Police investigators say ALL of her ex-husbands are alive and well!

14 posted on 09/18/2009 4:56:59 AM PDT by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: TexasRedeye

Bizarre. Why would someone claim to be a murderer? That’s not typically something you brag about!


15 posted on 09/18/2009 5:01:18 AM PDT by AUJenn
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To: AUJenn

Yep. Jon Stewart actually lambasted MSM saying “Where the F where you?” and said that CNN spends $3k to turn on the lights or something to that effect. When the left starts to lose him (even if only for a little while) they are in trouble.


16 posted on 09/18/2009 5:06:00 AM PDT by lovesdogs (9/17/09 - 1109 days left until obama is toast/409 until midterms.)
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To: lovesdogs

Still enrolled in school? She should submit her tapes to the head of the department and be granted a degree immediately.


17 posted on 09/18/2009 5:06:28 AM PDT by brewcrew
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Still enrolled in school? She should submit her tapes to the head of the department and be granted a degree immediately.

No kidding! She did more real journalism this past summer than the alphabet networks have done in the last 10 years!

18 posted on 09/18/2009 5:17:39 AM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: lovesdogs

Wow...I did not now she went to FIU. That school is liberal and Hispano-Fascist.

Hannah should be hired by WND, or, made a full time partner by Breitbart.com. Stay away from the Faux-con Weakly Standard and other Faux-con publications


19 posted on 09/18/2009 5:19:16 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (America is still great....no matter what Globalists, Communists, Anti-Birthers, Terrorists think)
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To: lovesdogs

ACORN is a fruit of Juneteenthism.


20 posted on 09/18/2009 5:21:25 AM PDT by bvw
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