MsUnderestimated (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Wow. What a shocka! Yesterday Beck talked about ACORN’S self-investigation by…ACORN’s ‘advisory board.’ And surprise surprise…they found ACORN did nothing wrong or illegal in the undercover prostitute sting tapes shot by novice filmmakers Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe. I was as surprised as Glenn was. /sarc By the way… that dude who...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles In the wake of the infamous undercover pimp/prostitute videos that got the community outreach group ACORN in such hot water in September, the group hired Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to conduct an internal investigation. The results are now in, and ACORN's CEO Bertha Lewis calls it "part vindication, part constructive criticism...
Media Matters for America (Free subscription) | yesterday
After media outlets and figures have repeatedly claimed that videos released by conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles revealed a pattern of ACORN aiding efforts to evade taxes on a fictitious child-prostitution ring, an investigation by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger (D) found that "there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise,...
Big Government (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Well, ACORN retained a law firm to investigate its operations and, surprise, the law firm found that ACORN hadn’t done anything wrong in the undercover videos filmed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. The review, overseen by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harschbarger, a long-time ally of ACORN, found that any problems within ACORN are, [...]
ProWomanProLife (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... depicted in the nationwide undercover stings conducted by BigGovernment.com/James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles. Well, you know. It was only a few cases of overlooking the sexual exploitation of minors. Nothing major.
The Other McCain (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... . Tarkanian plays basketball , like Michael Jordan . He writes for Big Government , like Hannah Giles . Danny opposes ObamaCare , like a raaaaacist . Tarkanian speaks at Tea Parties , like me . He's got a beautiful wife , like mine . He's supported by Sarah Palin's dad , like . . . This is all we really need to know, except for the fact that the other main GOP candidate, Sue Lowden,...
Rantburg (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart, who is being sued by ACORN along with James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, who played the prostitute and her boyfriend in the videos. Breitbart posted the videos on his Web site.I wanted the BigGovernment.com readers to see that's it's not just the internal investigators who are whitewashing the magnitude of the ACORN scandal, it's the mainstream...
R e p u b l i k i d (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
ACORN Report - Acorn gets a law firm to investigate the allegations of misconduct and wouldn't you know it? They didn't do anything wrong. The undercover videos filmed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles don't show anything wrong with the conduct of ACORN employees. Oh, no it's all Wade Rathke's fault. Who??? Wade Rathke a former ACORN employee was the true root of this whole mess...
The Swamp (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... Wade Rathke of an embezzlement by his brother. The videos of ACORN staffers offering advice to Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe, doing some freelance investigative reporting for a conservative group posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend triggered a congressional criticism and calls for a cutoff of federal funding this fall , with some ACORN employees appearing willing to support...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
... conservative columnist Andrew Breitbart, who is being sued by ACORN along with James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who played the prostitute and her boyfriend in the videos. Breitbart posted the videos on his Web site. I wanted the BigGovernment.com readers to see that’s it’s not just the internal investigators who are whitewashing the magnitude of the ACORN scandal, it’s the mainstream...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
... resulted in 11 registration fraud arrests. In August, conservative activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles dressed up as a pimp and prostitute and visited ACORN offices seeking advice on setting up a brothel, among other scenarios. They secretly recorded their visits on video and posted them on the Web site Big Government, leading to a media firestorm. And the group is still reeling...
Big Government (Free subscription) | yesterday
... rather the blame should rest with its founder Wade Rathke, the intrepid aspiring journalists Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe who revealed ACORN’s most recent corruption, and the low level ACORN employees and members who were featured in the videos. This attempt to whitewash ACORN and its employees’ wrongdoing has been appropriately decried by Representative Darrell Issa, the Republican...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
From the Washington Examiner : "Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Diane Feinstein, D-Cal., offered an amendment to a new press shield law that provides legal protections only to professional journalists employed by established mainstream media -- a blatant attempt to curb independent, often blog-based reporting like that of Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe in their hidden-camera expose of...
Rantburg (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... mainstream media -- a blatant attempt to curb independent, often blog-based reporting like that of Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe in their hidden-camera expose of ACORN. Does that sound honest, open and ethical to you? And this is just what happened in the past week. Many other Democratic scandals remain unresolved. Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., is still head of the House Ways and...
Big Government (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... in the nationwide undercover stings conducted by BigGovernment.com / James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles. In fact, everyone is getting into word games here. ACORN did in fact engage in no criminal wrongdoing by offering advice to a “pimp” and “prostitute” about how to hide assets and their business practices. Simply offering such advice is not illegal. If that’s what Harschbarger was...
