In the first two of what will inevitably be a multitude of ACORN Baltimore lawsuit related media hits, Andrew Breitbart spoke with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News Channel last night while Hannah Giles (and her attorney Kelly Shackelford) spoke with
Hitting the wires in a few minutes: ACORN Favorable 15% Unfavorable 67% No opinion 19% By 3-1 margin (51% to 17%), voters favor cutting off all federal funds By 6-1 margin (64% to 10%) voters agree with census bureau decision
On Monday the 21st, Big Hollywood reported on a May 12 meeting of 60 artists with the NEA and the White House to help “promote the administration’s agenda” — the one where The Department of Alternative Thinking was proposed… Today,
Statement from the NEA: Following is a statement from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please let me know if you have further questions. This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation
~ Here’s the school district’s response to the “unauthorized video”: (more…)
From Center for American Progress: …Hysterical Fox News commentators have blown this story up like a hot air balloon, and much of the rest of the media appear to believe that what Fox says goes. Andrew Alexander complains that “traditional
Press Release COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNMENT REFORM http://republicans.oversight.house.gov News Release Treasury IG Agrees to Request by Issa and Collins to Conduct a Review of ACORN September 24, 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. –Treasury Department Inspector General, J. Russell George agreed to
From The Washington Independent: On September 10, Andrew Breitbart launched his new site, BigGovernment, with hidden-video camera footage of two young conservative activists who’d gotten Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) employees to advise them on hiding prostitution
Sometimes it takes an outsider to show the press corps the way. By Jack Shafer Among the many glorious things about American journalism is that no credentialing organization or regulatory body stands between an individual who wants to break a
Press release from U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee: Enzi Leads GOP HELP Committee Inquiry Into Alleged NEA Political Activity WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member
From the Associated Press: LOS ANGELES (AP) – Much of America discovered James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers. But as
From the Associated Press: BALTIMORE (AP) – Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing
“[Breitbart] is a very powerful person, in a lot of ways he might be more powerful than ACORN.” Columbia Journalism Review Q and A with Liberal Historian Rick Perlstein on ACORN: As the recent scandals surrounding the green-jobs advocate Van
From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) – The IRS says it is severing ties with ACORN, the community activist group involved in a scandal after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and
From the New York Times: NATIONAL An article on Saturday about James E. O’Keefe III, the conservative activist who caught on videotape compromising statements by workers at the community organizing group Acorn, included incorrect information from Liz Farkas, an acquaintance
From the Washington Post: — A Sept. 18 Page One article about the community organizing group ACORN incorrectly said that a conservative journalist targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos partly because its voter-registration drives bring Latinos and African Americans to
From the Associated Press: Correction: ACORN’s Troubles By The Associated Press (AP) – 20 hours ago WASHINGTON — In a Sept. 19 story about the community organizing group ACORN, The Associated Press, based on an account in The Washington Post,
From New York Times today: Sarah Palin, in what was billed as her first speech overseas, spoke on Wednesday to Asian bankers, investors and fund managers. A number of people who heard the speech in a packed hotel ballroom, which
From the New York Post: Despite a string of scandals that recently led Congress to cut off its federal funding, ACORN still stands to make millions of dollars off its support for Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards project, The Post has
‘This is about the election,’ where you’d get into violations of the Hatch Act, it’s not illegal. But it doesn’t look good — it looks terrible. It’s inappropriate.” Jake Tapper of ABC News: White House officials say they are enacting
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From El Rushbo: Do you remember that NEA phone call? I think it was back in August, the 21st or the 25th, and it featured basically a coordination from the White House to the National Endowment for the Arts to
Kerry Picket at the Washington Times reports today: The Obama administration apparently met with 60 artists and creative organizers as early as May 12 according to an online document (downloadable)by the Pratt Center for Community Development, State Voices, Arlene Goldbard,
From National Right to Work: Most readers are already aware of a growing scandal involving the pro-forced unionism Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) in New York, Baltimore, Washington, and now, California. For those who missed it, ACORN
If rightwing operatives succeed in bringing down the community group, Democrats and minorities will have lost a valuable ally By Brad Friedman Communism is dead. Al-Qaida isn’t as scary as it used to be. But an American rightwing without a
***Full interview below*** Today Chris Wallace interviewed ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis and noted ACORN critic Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). Politico reports on the interview here: Issa to ACORN: Will you come before Congress? Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) challenged ACORN chief
Today, the New York Post rolls out an almost 2,000 words on the history, and troubles, of ACORN. It is a great place to start cracking open the ACORN nut: Just how nutty is ACORN? Very, say longtime watchers of
From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama says there should be an investigation into the hidden-camera video involving employees at the activist group ACORN and a couple posing as a prostitute and her pimp. The two ACORN
In a front page story today, the Washington Post digs into many of the troubles and scandals that have plagued ACORN in recent years. Here’s a key graph on the last ‘independent review’ ACORN conducted: In a June 2008 report
From an article that will appear in tomorrow’s Chicago Tribune: ACORN is in very deep, very public trouble, and the U.S. attorney general should appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate. What we know so far is due entirely to two
From Fox News: The House and Senate each passed bills this week that would strip ACORN of taxpayer money, but it may not be so easy to halt federal funding for the scandal-plagued community organizing group. The measures to de-fund
Interesting press coverage from San Diego. ACORN holds a press conference to announce they are standing behind their employee, who was captured in undercover footage from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles offering to help smuggle into the country underage prostitutes
[youtube jzCzKaxDxWk nolink] “Well, I absolutely agree with you, which is why as the CEO I took swift and immediate action, terminated those employees, because regardless as to what we know or… edited, doctored tapes and where you don’t see
From today’s Washington Examiner. I posted my analysis of the 345-75 vote in the House to defund ACORN yesterday, and Byron York provides an excellent analysis of the issue today. But I have to say that I am still stunned
“The behavior of Jonathan Klein, the president of CNN, has been despicable during this.” MEGYN KELLY (co-host): Joining me now is Andrew Breitbart. He’s the founder of the website the video first appeared on. It’s called BigGovernment.com, and the videos
To be released by Rasmussen Reports… ACORN Favorable 15% Unfavorable 67% No opinion 19% By 3-1 margin (51% to 17%), voters favor cutting off all federal funds By 6-1 margin (64% to 10%) voters agree with census bureau decision to
Rep. George Miller (D-CA) is Chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Noone would ever mistake him for a member of the Blue Dog Caucus–the organization of relatively ‘moderate’ democrats in Congress. Not to put to fine a point
Anti-ACORN Guerilla Art goes viral in Los Angeles. Obama “Hope” poster artist Shepard Fairey’s studio targeted (below). “ACORN Funded Prostitution Zone” tagged on the wall of the Shepard Fairey-owned Studio Number One. Fairey became a household name after designing the
From the Telegraph in UK, journalists across the pond continue to follow the ACORN scandal here: If there’s one story that’s had it all in the past week it’s the series of undercover reporting stings that have uncovered the true
Last week, the United States Senate delivered a very public rebuke of ACORN. 83 Senators went on record to say that ACORN should be prohibited from receiving any more federal housing grants. But, the outrage over ACORN’s activities didn’t end