Will there be a Miami ACORN sting video after all?
by George Bennett | October 21st, 2009Florida International University student Hannah Giles and guerrilla videographer James O’Keefe created a national uproar last month when they released a series of undercover videos showing ACORN workers in Baltimore, Washington, New York, San Diego and San Bernardino, Cal., offering advice on setting up a brothel and concealing the income.
Congress yanked federal money from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, some ACORN workers lost their jobs and the left-leaning group pledged reforms.
Through it all, though, ACORN officials said the faux pimp and prostitute were kicked out of a Philadelphia office and said Giles was turned down when she made a solo visit to a Miami ACORN office.
Now O’Keefe and conservative Web host Andrew Breitbart are pushing back, posting an edited video on Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com site that disputes ACORN’s Philadelphia story.
Will there be a Miami video as well? Breitbart says there are more videos, but won’t reveal where they were shot.
Tags: ACORN, Florida International University, Hannah GIles, inevitable South Florida scandal connections
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October 21st, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Those are nicely edited video clips, but you can still see the cuts; and when he says certain words, they are clearly edited in. Unfortunately, without a raid on the right-wing organization that’s helping him do this, you’ll never find the original full videos. This is 100% bogus video. I hope they get sued big time. But why doesn’t the media demand the same investigation as it did the Dan Rather incident?
October 21st, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Isn’t there a two-party consent law in Florida? How can they have a tape from the Miami office without being in violation of the law?
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Thank you for covering this story. Too many media outlets are ignoring the implications of this organization being as cozy as they are with the current administration of this country. How many more tapes/stings do we need to see before a full-blown investigation is launched?