Here’s a hat tip to Hat-Tip on this, because I saw it at his place before finding it in my daily research this morning.
Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing after a four-month probe that began when undercover conservative activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide money.
While the video by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles seemed to show three ACORN workers advising a prostitute how to hide ill-gotten gains, the unedited version was not as clear, according to a law enforcement source.
"They edited the tape to meet their agenda," said the source.
O’Keefe and Giles – who visited ACORN offices in several cities, including its Brooklyn headquarters – stirred controversy when they posted the videos on their Web site.
They were hailed as heroes by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and their footage led several government agencies to temporarily cut funding for ACORN as the prosecutors opened an investigation.
"On Sept. 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a one-paragraph statement issued Monday afternoon.
"That investigation is now concluded and no criminality has been found."… [emphasis added]
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I hope that the idiots in Congress who put their tail between their legs and passed the Defund ACORN Act, a bill of attainder, are properly chagrined that they participating in smearing this fine organization on the word of a GOP criminal.
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They won’t because they are narcissistic assholes.
“…are properly chagrined…”
What a laugh. The only people “properly chagrined” are those with integrity. The republicans have proven they have none with their health care plan,
Don’t get sick. If you do, die quickly.
and their unemployment plan,
Get off your fat ass and get a job.
and too numerous lies to even count.
Lisa, I agree. They don’t care.
Jerry, the majority of Democrats voted for the Defund ACORN Act too.
Another blogger has tried and tried and tried, without success, to get the NY Times to print a correction of its reports that O’Keefe and his dumb friend appeared in ACORN offices dressed as pimp and hooker. It’s a black eye for the Times’ reputation.
You just had to love the “New York Daily News” headline covering this story (which was obviously not cleared by R. Murdoch who onws the Daily News):
“ACORN Was Setup by Vidiots”
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what a huge ass surprise that their ‘undercover investigation’ edited the tape to fit their needs… sigh.
Stimpson, I’m not holding my breath. I don’t blame them for making a mistake. I’ve been wrong on several occasions, but when I’m wrong, I say so.
Nameless, you could be right. On the other hand, it is now so obvious that reporting it provides him deniability that the whole scam was a GOP/Fox joint effort.
Betmo, when ACORN stated that the tapes had been edited at the time, I believd them. Too bad Congress did not.
Take into consideration the interview video of Breitbart and Mike Stark from The Brad Blog, and I would have to say that the legislators who decided to attack ACORN off of a heavily edited video (that Breitbart now claims he had no idea what it was about despite promoting it relentlessly) are probably hiding their face, although I am sure that no mention will be made of those senators and most of their constituents have probably forgotten. Was any mention of this ever made by the conservative media?
I still find it unbelievable that people reacted to such shoddy journalism. When I first saw the video, my first thoughts were that these were low level employees and that the organization was not to blame. In my opinion, every time an attack against ACORN is made, Democrats need to fight back by pointing to examples of conservative community organizations that have actually been found guilty of something instead of saying “See! I told you so!”
Kevin,that’s an excellent suggestion. I try to point out such instances as often as possible.