New York Times repeats (emphatically) its Big Lie about ACORN.

[JackRiddler]

So it appears these demented frauds O'Keefe, Breitbart and Giles are about to succeed in forcing national ACORN into bankruptcy, although many of the state groups (New York and California the largest) have re-chartered and will continue.

In reporting on the bankruptcy discussion, an NY Times story by Ian Urbina once again failed to correct their earlier false reporting about the O'Keefe videos - starting with the fact, confessed by Giles (the "hooker"), that O'Keefe never wore the ridiculous pimp outfit during his attempted stings against ACORN, as the NY Times and most other corporate media reported. It's also probable that O'Keefe did not pose as a pimp, but found his way into ACORN offices at first by claiming to be a college student who wanted to help his friend the "hooker" get away from her pimp.

The deceptive editing practices are plainly obvious in the released videos, including suspicious cutaways, the insertion of misleading b-roll from outside the ACORN offices, voice-overs replacing what O'Keefe really said, and the ambush of the Spanish-speaking employee in San Diego, who could barely understand English. ACORN hired a third party firm to investigate what happened in each of the various visits by O'Keefe and Giles to ACORN sites across the country, and it's eye-opening: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:sN-lAFuZ8a0J:www.proskauer.com/files/uploads/report2.pdf+acorn+report+on+o'keefe+brief&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShBQR-LJrYo-YeN78172ghorvaxjgN3ysjoGmUXymBchIwIFgftHXpcSsL75Kuoth6iTVSiYRXrmuZXUJwkKDyRq6iGtIDUsSIVZJi-IZiCvRntBxo7WBMIuOl-EqMJVjCY05l9&sig=AHIEtbSlsgUDOZRvE4etV2t9A0JQACFnNA

This was a long report on ACORN's current state, the detailed exposition on O'Keefe's operations is in Appendix D (p. 42). It establishes that in several cases, the O'Keefe video's claim that ACORN workers were trying to help him commit criminal activity was fabricated.

O'Keefe/Breitbart refuse to release the unedited videos and, of course, O'Keefe and three accomplices from the campus conservative dirty-tricks milieu (including a CIA on-campus recruitment intern, Stan Dai!) were arrested posing as phone company workers and screwing around with the phone lines at the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu in Lousiana, an ongoing felony case reminiscent of Watergate.

Given the discrediting and pending criminal trial of O'Keefe on that caper, has the NY Times reported what is now known about the O'Keefe videos? No, their ombudsman has made light of requests even for a correction at least of the falsehood about O'Keefe showing up at the offices in the pimp outfit.

In fact, the NYT in its story today on the prospective ACORN bankruptcy repeats without revision or reservation O'Keefe's Big Lie about ACORN, underlining its disregard for the truth in this matter:

This week, the Maryland chapter announced that it would not reopen its offices, which were shuttered in September in the wake of a widely publicized series of video recordings made by two conservative activists, posing as a prostitute and a pimp, who secretly filmed Acorn workers providing them tax advice. In the videos, Acorn workers told one of the activists, James E. O’Keefe III, how to hide prostitution activities from the authorities and avoid taxes, raising no objections to his proposed criminal activities.

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Earlier story about Giles's admission on BradBlog:

Giles Admits O'Keefe, Breitbart ACORN 'Pimp' Story was a Lie: 'That Was B-Roll, Purely B-Roll'
Woman who posed as prostitute confirms repeated misreporting by NYTimes, many others
Why does 'paper of record' still refuse to retract, apologize?...

Speaking to Washington Independent reporter David Weigel today at CPAC, Hannah Giles, who posed as a prostitute in James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart's infamous, highly-doctored, heavily-overdubbed, secretly-taped, ACORN hit videos, confirms what we've been reporting for several weeks here: O'Keefe never dressed as a pimp in the offices of ACORN.

Reports Weigel today:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7708

[JackRiddler]

1. Reference: Earlier thread with treasure trove on Landrieu job, O'Keefe, Dai, Breitbart etc.

Stan Dai apparently a CIA Junior Commissar & Recruitment Officer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7578398

[JackRiddler]

2. hmmmmm

[jmowreader]

3. The first question I want little Jimmy to address is...

"How come you sound like you're in a different room from the ACORN people?"

Go to YouTube and listen to the audio on the ACORN sting videos. The ACORN people sound like they're in a room with very sound-reflective walls, which is actually the case--look at all the drywall! O'Keefe sounds like he's in a room with sound-absorbent walls.

Forget A-roll and B-roll, him walking down the street dressed in his mom's fur coat, all that...ACORN needs to subpoena O'Keefe's computer so we can see the ORIGINAL camera video. The RW wants to see the president's original birth certificate, and I want to see O'Keefe's original video files.

[JackRiddler]

4. Unfortunately as far as I know the ACORN suit has been dropped...

possibly related to their pending bankruptcy filing.

[JackRiddler]

5. 14 recs, but no kicks? Come on, if you like it, help it get read.

[EFerrari]

6. What slime the NYTs have turned out to be.

:kick:

[gratuitous]

7. I'm so old, I remember when the Times used to corroborate shit

But those days are long gone. One of the newspapers that bravely published the Pentagon Papers is now a wholly-owned functionary of the very reactionaries it once sought to bring down.

[JackRiddler]

9. They were always establishment, but they took the "paper of record" slogan seriously.

No more, as you say. Not in the budget.

[Political Heretic]

8. This well orchestrated takedown of ACORN (read: assault on poor people) is just heartbreaking.

:cry:

Sigh....

This country is so fucking over. We just don't know it yet.

[JackRiddler]

10. I don't know that it's over...

Hey 1/3 of the people now have positive associations with the word "socialist."

[JackRiddler]

11. kick