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Acorn Ready to File Bankruptcy

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:29:05 CDT

When James O'Keefe can convince your workers that he's a pimp and elicit all sorts of ill-advised advice, it's probably not an indicator that business is booming. And indeed, insiders tell the New York Times that Acorn will announce its pending bankruptcy this weekend. At least half of the group's...

Fox Speaks Up for Busted ACORN Pimp

Rob Quinn — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:44:20 CST

Fox News has warned against jumping to conclusions after the man it would like to make a folk hero was busted for allegedly tampering with the phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's offices. The arrest of James O'Keefe "probably needs a lot of context and a lot of looking into,...

ACORN 'Pimp' Arrested at Landrieu Office

John Johnson — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:44:29 CST

The man who dressed up like a pimp and filmed a series of undercover videos that brought scorn upon ACORN has been arrested and accused of trying to wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu's office. James O'Keefe and three other men face felony charges. Police say two of the men dressed up...

Blogger Foe Confronts ACORN Protesters

John Johnson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:10:36 CST

Andrew Breitbart—whose conservative BigGovernment.com website aired the ACORN sting videos—decided to mosey down to an ACORN protest in Los Angeles this week, and he's not happy with the rough treatment he got. He blogs that he was harassed and threatened by the "dregs of society" so badly...

Stingers Release Philly ACORN Video

Kevin Spak — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:00:14 CDT

The ACORN stingers have released another video, this time of their visit to the Philadelphia location—where, ACORN has until now insisted, they were kicked out. In the new, edited video, James O’Keefe says they weren’t kicked out, but instead sat for more than half an hour with an office...

ACORN Chief Blames Everyone But ACORN

Kevin Spak — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:00:00 CDT

ACORN chief Bertha Lewis wasn’t in the mood to apologize at the National Press Club yesterday. For anything. Not for the internal ACORN review showing that $5 million had been embezzled from the group, rather than the previously alleged $1 million (“This is speculation, completely false”), not the voter registrations...

BofA Severs Ties With ACORN

Harry Kimball — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:08:52 CDT

Bank of America has cut off ties with ACORN’s housing assistance arm following revelations that employees of the community organizing group gave ill-advised assistance to videographers posing as a pimp and prostitute. ACORN Housing has worked with BofA—among other banks—since the '90s to help homeowners in danger of...

ACORN Video Sting a Lesson in New Journalism

John Johnson — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:50:42 CDT

Andrew Breitbart may have an ideological ax to grind, but so what? The undercover ACORN videos he's posted illustrate a significant strength of 21st-century American journalism, writes Jack Shafer: "It will accept contributions from everybody from amateurs to entertainers (I'm looking at you, Jon Stewart) to gadflies to billionaires to...

ACORN Sues Creators of Sting Video

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:21:16 CDT

ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute. The liberal group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland requires two-party consent to...