Whatever happened at other ACORN offices, it’s clear that James O’Keefe, the right wing poster boy for this “scandal” had an agenda and went looking to tape footage of ACORN workers that would support that agenda. That doesn’t make him a journalist, unless you consider that lying about your purpose for visiting ACORN offices, secretly taping people without their knowledge or consent, and not revealing the other instances where ACORN officials threw you out of their offices constitutes acceptable and ethical journalistic behavior. Any organization will have employees that violate its rules and policies, or make mistakes in response to what they clearly perceived as a prank. Major multinational corporations with government contracts such as KBR, Blackwater, Boeing and others have a long history of illegal and fraudulent activity. Yet the government still doles out massive contracts to them worth far more than any funding provided to ACORN. Funny how no one in the media is mentioning that right now.
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Hey, where was this guy when all that cash was going out of the US offices in Baghdad in gym gags in 2003?
Probably watching war porn videos.
Ms. Conway does an excellent job of calmly explaining the situation.
What a little twerp this guy was. How can anyone take his preposterous stunts at face value?
She also did an excellent job of handling this obnoxious stunt in the first place. She wet above and beyond what a similar employee would have done . . . whether in the private sector or nonprofit sector. She should be proud of her work.
How frustrating this all must be for her!
Give me Ten Thousand Acorns over 1 blackwater, s KBR, or any of the other reich wing corporate crime syndicates.
I would back you any day over any of the reich wingers, at least with a liberal/progressive, I am pretty certain that I am being told the truth, and the playing field is level.
Bravo Zulu Katherine! You have my trust and my good wishes.
Just this old chief’s 2 cents