Underage Prostitution, Gotcha Journalism, and the Ethics of the Acorn Sting

Harper's Magazine ^ | 9/18/09 | Ken Silverstein

[xcamel]

where’s the ‘barf alert’??

[nickcarraway]

Did you actually read it?

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

“If you want to open up a whorehouse for underage immigrant girls, we will oppose anyone trying to stop ACORN from helping you out.”

It must be terrible to be a ditzy Lib.

[edcoil]

Always somebody wanting to make sure government and its croney offshoots never get held accountable.

[xcamel]

Harpers isn’t exactly the bastion of conservative print media...

[Paperdoll]

Never forget yhat Obama told this nefarious group that they would have a strong voice in his agenda as President!

[nickcarraway]

Yes, but this article is pretty fair, and it actually lauds the sting.

[DDLL]

Ha! Even when they start to understand, they’ve still got to do the name calling thing. Too funny. They just can’t help themselves. ... (seems like a lot of them are stuck in the 5th grade ‘ugly talk’ mentality)

I can only hope that more than a few of his liberal readers can understand that, yes, what these young journalists did IS, indeed, relevant! Every single lib whose eyes are opened, is a good thing.

[maryz]

Borosage, said the newspaper, described the tactics used against Acorn as “McCarthyite,”

Refresh my memory -- what did Borosage have to say about the Food Lion "sting", where the reporter got a job undercover to prove FL was relabeling and selling meat past its sell-by day. Unfortunately, FL wasn't doing that, so the reporter had to do it himself to get the story. I forget which network it was.

And did he condemn the ginned-up "exploding gas tank" story?

[marvlus]

only three out of seven ACORN offices were willing to commit fraud to help people set up a brothel.

I believe the number has gone from three to five, as far as has been reported.

[OneWingedShark]

That’s not the whole sentence, you need to stare with the part BEFORE the colon.

[OneWingedShark]

start, not stare

[God luvs America]

did he only see three vid’s or is he only admitting to three of five vids from around the country???

[SonOfDarkSkies]

By golly, I think its beginning to snow in hell!

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The Church of Morris Dees, By Ken Silverstein -- Harper's Magazine, November 2000. How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance

Mr. Silverstein appears to be a journalist. What's he doing working for the MSM -- now known as the state controlled American media (SCAM)?

[Regulator]

People don't seem to be getting the message.

A liberal who actually thought that his buddies disapproved of such things as smuggling children to be used as sex toys for profit.

Now he knows different and is upset. A possible convert, even. A liberal mugged by reality....

But now he's getting the drift. The truth about his "friends" is that they not only don't care about this, they actually approve of it.

[businessprofessor]

The first words elicit a strong barf alert:

“I’ve always admired the work of ACORN ...”

The rest of the article is somewhat balanced but the first words are a mouthful.

[Cyber Ninja]

Who cares? O’Keefe and Giles got some important things wrong, like the amount of federal money received by ACORN

I couldn't agree more. An Independent Council needs to have an investigation of ACORN and find out the truth. They could be completely innocent.

[xcamel]

That was my take.