On September 10, James O’Keefe released a two part video via YouTube and BigGovernment.com, a new website by Andrew Breitbart (Breitbart.TV, Breitbart.com). The videos (provided below) depicted two employees at the ACORN office in Baltimore, Maryland giving advice to a supposed law student and his prostitute girlfriend. The ACORN employees coached the couple on setting up a prostitution ring, human trafficking, tax evasion, and tax fraud. In their official response, Scott Levenson, spokesperson for ACORN’s national offices, said “the portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at ‘gotcha journalism.’” He claimed the couple had attempted the same set-up at at least three other offices, and failed to produce the same results. Levenson said, “ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further.” While this has not been made publicly available, the full audio and a transcript were published less than an hour after the videos hit the web.
From the monthly archives:
September 2009
Never Leave Your Agenda to Chance
“Never leave your agenda to chance.” That’s the recurring theme of this administration, which always seems to find someone in the crowd who has the perfect question prepared for the president. A nice slow pitch, right over the center of the plate. As predicted, the President couldn’t resist interjecting his political agenda into an event he claimed was about encouraging students. While I disagree with those who claim “every question was a plant,” the final question – audio provided above – didn’t conform to the style or subject matter of the student’s peers, raising suspicions that the freshman, Sean, could be the next Julia Hall.
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Does New Orleans Really “Need Us?”
On Aug. 30, Errol Louis wrote an article for the New York Daily News titled “Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans still needs us.” In the opening lines of his commentary, Mr. Louis claims “the single most important thing to know is that the city remains vulnerable to another big hurricane strike. Its flood protection system needs to be completely re-engineered, a project that will cost billions.” Louis also points to problems caused by the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a former, man-made commercial shipping channel, and argues “the billions it would cost to fill in the channel permanently would be money well spent.”
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