The Spectacle Blog
ACORN's Conditional Contrition
The news all around this morning is that ACORN is finally taking a different tack on the "pimp and the prostitute" scandal.
The news all around this morning is that ACORN is finally taking a different tack on the "pimp and the prostitute" scandal. They've stopped taking new clients until they get to the bottom of this. They took down their arrogant statement from over the weekend in which they blamed the messenger. They promise to clean up their act. The Washington Times reports:
Bertha Lewis, chief executive officer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), announced that the group would immediately stop accepting new clients, begin in-service training for all front-line staff and hire an independent auditor to "review all of the systems and processes called into question by the videos."
It was a dramatic change in tone from Saturday when Ms. Lewis vowed, "We will not be intimidated," and derided the group's critics for trying "to destroy the largest community organization of black, Latino, poor and working-class people in the country."
The Washington Post also announced the change of heart:
The announcement was a reversal of ACORN's counteroffensive immediately after the videos first aired on a Fox News program last week. In the video, a man, James O'Keefe, 25, and a woman, Hannah Giles, 20, strolled into ACORN offices in Baltimore; Brooklyn; San Bernardino, Calif.; and the District, posing as a pimp with a cane and a scantily clad prostitute and saying they wanted to buy a home and run it as a brothel.
How refreshing when folks realize the error of their ways and vow to change.
Except when they appear on MSNBC (sorry, was unable to embed video).
View all comments (11) | Leave a comment
Leave a Comment
Related Blog Posts
More Blog Posts by Paul Chesser
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/09/17/acorns-conditional-contrition
Follow us:
ADVERTISEMENT
Current Issue
- Who's Really Conservative?
- The Man From La Fortaleza
- Bowling Alone
- Digital Subscription (Save 78%)
- Buy a single issue (Save 50%)
- Send Spectator as a gift
Clip of the Day
ADVERTISEMENT
Tim| 9.17.09 @ 10:01AM
How much does Bertha get paid, and what are her perks?
Pete | 9.17.09 @ 10:49AM
She clearly gets a kick out of exploiting the people she purports to represent. That has to be fulfilling for her. That and embezzling federal funds. And skimming off the top of various criminal entities she helps set up. She also clearly has a passion for acting.
celia| 9.17.09 @ 10:59AM
She actually said you can't tell a lie over and over again and have it become the truth. Was she talking about Obama? And she has been working for ACORN for 20 years and honestly expects us to believe she has never had any inkling about obviously pervasive corruption? She needs a pink slip.
Pete| 9.17.09 @ 11:23AM
You don't get to be the head scammer without having mastered the tricks of the trade. It seems that now she has diverted some money from her personal pedicure fund to buy some PR help. Too little, too late, hopefully. As these "isolated" incidents continue to blossom, one can only hope that all federal funding for these criminals will be pulled. Without this well-oiled voter registration fraud machine, it will be harder to make elections close enough to steal in the courts.
As for this: "you can't tell a lie over and over again and have it become the truth" - This is Democratic strategy #1. #2 is call your opponents racist. See healthcare debate for a temporal example.
Pingback| 9.17.09 @ 6:50PM
Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : ACORN's Conditional Con links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Pingback| 9.17.09 @ 9:55PM
ACORN blinks… « Time for Thorns links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
louis vuitton| 4.26.10 @ 10:18PM
Gov blog proprietor Andrew Breitbart, just now on Fox News' "Hannity," said yet canada goose another ACORN revelation (presumably from the O'Keefe/Giles video duo) is coming tomorrow, and he characterized it as "devastating.