ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY
by James O'KeefeThis recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we’ve all recently seen.
-Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, ACORN
So, we headed up to New York…
 
Alinsky Rule #10, “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential for the success of the campaign.”
Bring it on.
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I knew when I saw both James and Hanna in the Fox interview today that there was at least one more video coming our way! Thanks for all you're doing..you're my heroes!
LMAO. Go Hannah and James.
Like James said, bring it on!!
Good grief. No end to the corruption. Three towns, three strikes, you're out!!!!
Thank you James, Hannah and Breitbart – my new addiction is biggovernment.com! Keep bringing it!
Congrats and thank you again for bringing all of this to light!
This story is amazing in many ways and while I am happy to see BigGovernment.com hit the scene with such a forceful presentation, I cannot help but be saddened by the subject matter. I suspect that many fellow conservatives agree, so I thought I would point out one bit of good news that has come of this whole ACORN mega-story…a silver lining, if you will.
In this series of incredible revelations, we have at least discovered one business that gigantic leftist "community organization" groups can and will support: Child prostitution.
Yes, the entrepreneurial spirit is not dead in leftist America! So see? It's not all bad.
I think that there's a lot to be said for the liberal entrepreneurial spirit, a la "No Child Rapist (or Child Rapist Profiteer) Left Behind – Change for America, ACORN Style" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
Thank you Mr. O’Keefe and BigGovernment.com!
More! Do it again!
Um, please? Pretty please? Pretty please with an ACORN on top?
Start a legal defense fund, I would gladly contribute to it!
Genius.
Oh, count me in, I'd love to contribute to your journalism.
History as it happens folks!
I have never been more proud of two young people, excluding those in my family and the military, than I am of you two, James and Hannah. You might just bring this whole organization down from the inside as the "fired thrown-under-the-bus employees" turn on the organization and start squealing like stuffed pigs (no offense intended to pigs everywhere).
Hanna stated on Beck interview they worked on this for 6 weeks. Gotta to be more I wouldnt be surprised if we see one every other day. OR if after every absurd statement out of ACORN they release another.
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Holy crap, you got New York. Congratulations.
Hanna stated on the Glenn Beck interview they worked on this for 6 weeks. There has to be more, as James poorly indicated/bad acting, more like sarcasm in the Hannity interview. I wouldnt be surprised if we see one every other day. OR if after every absurd statement out of ACORN they release another video. Clearly they have a plan on the releases. This one by the lead paragraph quoting Lewis James states "So, we headed up to New York…", be ready for more. When ACORN says something stupid they release another tape. Also if its edited fraudulent etc as Lewis claims then they better be more concerned with the 4 that were fired over this suing them vs going after James, Hanna and Fox News!
[...] the whole thing at Big Government. This is now the third videotaped sting exposing the ACORN racket’s law-undermining, [...]
YES.
What we need now are complete transcripts of everything we've got to date. Is anyone working on those?
YES.
What we need now are complete transcripts of everything we've got to date. Is anyone working on the New York one yet, or is it still too early?
You two are bold (and beautiful).
I especially like the irony of exposing fraud in ACORN by using their own Alinsky tactics.
Now, how can they hold that against you?
Nice. It's clearly up to the good people of this country to clean up America. Goodness knows we can't rely on the politicians to do the right thing! Conservatives and libertarians – unite and organize!
Cool, Fight fire with fire!! let em (acorn) keep coming oiut with thier statements and make em keep bitting thier tounges. I love it. Fight fire with fire. Except its not the name acorn, the will change the name. Thaey arent going away. Lets not forget the other saying "You can run, but you cant hide" These people still exist.
The Hanna and James juggernaut cruses toward the ultimate undoing of ACORN. … Thanks!!!!!!
I can't believe just how stupid these people are. Hannah and James are dress up like too actors playing in a film as a hooker and pimp. There is nothing street wise skanky about them. Meanwhile this sting has been played in two Acorn offices and now in New York?? This is all over the news, you would think that Acorn would have both their pictures up on the wall to have them thrown out of any office they walk into. This is like taking candy from a baby. This is the best the leftist retards can do? Acorn is the gang that couldn't shoot straight. I can't believe this. You have to in the next time as communist wanting to bring in terrorist to a safe house that you have to buy with acorn tax money.
I can't believe just how stupid these people are. Hannah and James are dress up like too actors playing in a film as a hooker and pimp. There is nothing street wise skanky about them. Meanwhile this sting has been played in two Acorn offices and now in New York?? This is all over the news, you would think that Acorn would have both their pictures up on the wall to have them thrown out of any office they walk into. This is like taking candy from a baby. This is the best the leftist retards can do? Acorn is the gang that couldn't shoot straight. I can't believe this. You have go into the next sting as two communist that hate America wanting to bring in terrorist to a safe house that you have to buy with acorn tax money. Get something on Acorn that will stick them all in prison for a long time.
Outstanding. The power of the video. How will Ms. Lewis and ACORN ever spin this? I think the move is called "Checkmate".
I feel bad about that girl in the plaid shirt, its oblious that she is caught in the midle and has no out!! Poor girl
And the White Slave owners of ACORN will fire her, throw her under the bus.
Has anyone noticed how the office location information at ACORN.org has been taken down? There's nothing there now…just big blank pages for each and every state in which they have a presence. Weird, huh?
These ladies and the others in the other films don't even blink when they suggest bringing little girls in from another country to enslave in a world of prostitution. It is as if they do this on a daily basis. This is truly the most disgusting display of corruption I have every witnessed. Our tax dollars at work………………..I am not sure I can stand any more but I am sure there is lots more. Just disgusting.
Probably not the first time ACORN have offered advice about setting up a brothel.
I said it in another thread. I'm going to repeat it here. If the incomparable Ann Coulter calls you magnificent, you have done something amazing, indeed.
These young people know how to take to "the man", just like in the 60s. Only conservatives actually ARE on the right side of everything (no pun intended): history, the law, morality, ethics, compassion–I could go on and on. Way to go, James and Hannah, for using "new media" to uncover rampant corruption, and for remaining silent about it until the "fullness of time"–the perfect moment for unveiling.
reverse tatics work, really good,
one thing alinsky forgot is the fire with fire fact, and the no where to hide, and a whole lot of other proverbs. lmao
New York NOW ? Is this an arcade with James and Hannah "picking off" ACORN at different sights ? These ACORN employees look like they possess the intelligence of a room full of rocks. Thanks to these two innovative and investigative patriots, ACORN is on a bobsled to HELL……with Congressional leaders soon to follow ! You guys deserve a Pulitzer for your efforts ! Keep it up !
Love it!
Drip, drip, drip….and the hits just keep on coming…
ACORN is so used to having their actions either approved by the likes of Obama or just swept under the rug that they are now in total shock…Who in ACORN would have thought that with their main man in the white house something like this could happen? I am laughing myself silly this morning. Of course I am also disgusted watching these videos but the thought of the ACORN powers that be freaking out and scurrying around trying to cover their asses and of Obama banging his head on his desk as his connections with ACORN are laid bare make it so worth it. If only there were more real reporters and less phony biased "journalists" .
Bravo to James, Hannah and BigGovernment.com!
James, Hannah and Breitbart:
Hope and Change I can believe in!
Is it too much to hope that there's a Chicago edition? If so, I hope you save it for last, considering the President (by ACORN's own admission) was "an unpaid guest speaker" at a couple of ACORN training seminars. Nice semantical trick to get out from under the employee umbrella, but the ties are there, and they bind.
The thing that blows me away is Hannah, other than the outfits, can barely pull this off. She is just too much, girl next door, Iowa style to be a 'ho. And James looks my son that works for a Christian college. And they went three for three so far? You gotta love it.
In the racially charged society we live in today, primarily created by the left/right paradigm. I can't help wondering if those ACORN workers would have been so accommodating, if the film makers would have mentioned bringing in children from an African country, such as Somalia or Zambia. While the blacks in this country make so many whites feel guilty for what had occurred during the days of slavery. Here we have ACORN workers condoning the worst kind of degrading slavery. Child prostitution! The fact that they were Latino children and not of African descent, did not seem to sway their scruples or conviction. I don't care what color you may be, or even where your morals may lie, if you assist anyone in forming a child prostitution ring, you deserve to have a heavy stone tied around you neck and be cast into the abyss
Where does this kind of corruption and immorality stem from? We should take a closer look at the top of the food chain at the same people who created and manage this left/right paradigm. Most of us forgot or are not even aware of Cathy O'Brien, again, because of those who control the media, from the top on down. But for me, her story is burned into my memory. A child, damaged for life by those who live above the law, as well as control the outcome of it. Is this the kind of legacy you are going to leave for your children in this country?
When you have immoral, corrupt workers at this level of government, and make no distinctions, ACORN was made part of the government by Mr. Obama. You have to wonder what goes on at the top level of the government.
I applaud the work of Mr. O'Keefe and Hannah, for bringing this matter to our attention. But, I'm still of the strong opinion, that crap flows down stream, and would feel more appreciative if they focused their efforts and attention at the beginning of the stream. Common sense prevails, if you plan to clean up a waterway, you start at the source of it, and not at the mouth of it.
This is RICH! I LOVE these vids.I hope there are more – AND MORE! Will we see anyone posing as drug dealers needing help? Crack dealers perhaps? Time will tell. GREAT JOB!
LOL. Poor ACORN. It just keeps on coming.
I think what enrages the ACORN and Lefties the most is the fcat Hannah & James are doing this as Americans. It must be KILLING the libs not to be able to play the race card.
When you release the videos from LA/SFO/SD (I'm praying to GOD that you made videos from there); all I ask is that you open the video with the beginning of Tupac's "California Love". That would be so cool.
That and you need to come back on Red Eye. I haven't had as much fun at 3am (legally, and clothed) as I did when Hanna was on this past week.
Fantastic! I can't wait to hear the spin on this one. Keep 'em coming!
BINGO! The NY tape is especially disturbing because the woman in the video is giving criminal advice right off the top of her head.
Wow! James and Hannah, you guys are great! Cover of the New York Post, can the MSM ignore it now?
[...] Links WordPress.com WordPress.org ACORN maintains its high standards September 14, 2009, 10:07 am Filed under: Politics A third major city’s ACORN office is implicated in assisting a would-be pimp and slaver. Nice going, people. This time, it’s ACORN’s New York office. [...]
Saul Alinsky, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!!
This is simply a grand comedy. Awesome work you two as well. Is this bordering on a criminal conspiracy? Should we look at this in the possible light of RICO? Anyway, it will be sad to see ACORN recieve more tax payers money which I am sure they will recieve no matter the clamor about them. Keep up the Good fight!
Hannah and James, you two ROCK! I'm so proud of you two, and I hope that you achieve all of your wildest dreams!
Good work. . .um, I hope you guys have body guards. . .I'd hate to read about you overdosing on aspirin while visiting Chicago!
Fr. Philip
If you guys get 12 ACORN sites on tape will Hannah do a calendar?
Great work, BTW.
Alinsky's method is a two edge sword and now cuts with it's other edge ….. just as deadly.
YES! YES! YES! This website is now the first one I check every morning and I was hoping there would be another one. Thanks for getting the week off on a high note and keep 'em coming!
James and Hanna…..well done!!! These are the best films I've seen in years. I just have to wonder how many actual 'real' pimps and prostitutes have received housing loans through ACORN. Obama, the great community organizer, has ties to ACORN. For some interesting information about Obama, ACORN and Alinskyian Organizing read this Oct. 7, 2008 article at http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=153... And, ACORN is going to receive billions of dollars in stimulus money…that's YOUR hard-earned money folks. Isn't there something wrong with this picture????
Isn't this wonderful?! Buh-BYE Obama!!! From the White House to the Big House! Maybe you can bunk with Bernie Madoff!!!
Yeah, it's sort of like "Risky Business" on steroids.
So what's next Lewis? You actually fire yourself?
Please, please, please tell me y’all went to Chicago.
[I'm assuming that will be the last of the batch you release... so so sweet]
ACORN is a criminal enterprise. Thanks for the visual proof.
If Congress weren't also a criminal enterprise, they would freeze ACORN's funding. If.
It may be true that this undercover op was tried in cities where it didn't "work" in the sense that it did in the three videos we've seen, but that doesn't change the facts. One incident you can dismiss as a fluke. Two is suspicious. But with three, there's no doubt that there's a systemic ethical problem in ACORN, not just a few rogue employees. There may not be anything written down in an ACORN employee manual that says "teach hookers how to lie in order to cheat the tax system and get housing," but clearly they prioritize finding housing for anyone who walks in off the street over basic moral distinctions like, oh say, UPHOLDING THE LAW and PROTECTING CHILDREN. When such basic principles are ignored for the sake of a mission statement, you have turned the corner to fanaticism. ACORN should receive NO more money from taxpayers and be given no government contracts of any kind.
Great post ! Obama is currently banging his head on his desk and dropping to his knees PRAYING for the fact there are NO TAPES from Chicago ! Every day is Christmas with Hannah and James. What new gift can we expect TOMORROW MORNING ?
Whoops! I did it again! – to quote Brittany Spears.
Ha ha ha ha ha – I love the quote from ACORN as the video setups – however, they may consider New York being separate from Brooklyn – you know, burroughs and all!
I knew it was coming. Should have checked earlier!
But, wasn't this just "an isolated incident?"
I wrote to my Senator who is one of the gang of 6 this mornning. When they keep spouting how America's healthcare is broken they are part right. The health of Washington is broken. On page 52 line 1 of the Senate HELP bill it talks about community organizations receiving funds. I want to know if this is the likes of ACORN which I am sure it is. I asked him if he was going to be part of the cure by exposing the corruption.It is not only ACORN but those who are stopping our energy development,refusing to close our borders,taking over of private enterprise,and allowing only big money to have a voice. I hope their offices are flooded with people wanting to know the same thing.
"This is all over the news"
No its not, it is all over the internet. he new msm.
Ya'll ever think that the WH just does not get the news, I mean after all the MSM are'nt running this… just like Gibbs said they did'nt know about the march of DC this Sat. What a joke. Hey they cant help it, they just did'nt know…..
Great job James and Hanna. Keep it up! ACORN needs to go down! No more money for those dirty dogs!
One great thing about ACORN filing a lawsuit is discovery. Just think what Congress has failed to do will be done by a guy and a gal with a little play acting and a camera!
As someone with a master's in Journalism, I'm proud that these two are keeping it alive. I thought Journalism had died last year but it looks like it has risen from the ashes once again like a Phoenix.
I really admire what James and Hannah have done, wish more people were like this. Keep Up The Good Work!
I got up an 4:30am and the first thing I did was to check this website. I wasn't disappointed. There are 2 things in this video that really stand out. 1. ACORN employees are instructing how to actually launder money (i.e. give the money to a friend and then have the friend give the money back to you). 2. I am quoting one of the office workers and it sums up ACORN housing office's philosophy — "Honesty is not going to get you the house".
If this wasn't so sad for America it would be hilarious – I've changed my browser homepage to Big Government (from Google) as you are now my news source. The criminal conspiracy is rampant through Congress, the Administration, and of course the Partisan Media. It's a sad day in America when you realize that the NEWS on TV is not real, but contrived stories to mold public opinion – it is now obvious for all to see that mainstream media is complicit in the degragation of America through the erosion of the values that made us great. I for one will never rely on a word that comes from the charlitans in the TV NEWS.
Thank you for your selfishness, bravery and American spirit – I pray that your work now and in the future is blessed by all that is good.
[...] Now ACORN New York City: [...]
Apparently, Alinsky didn't think to put something on the final page of Rules for Radicals that went like this.
WARNING: THE SAME TACTICS YOU HAVE JUST READ ABOUT CAN ALSO BE USED AGAINST YOU. THINK TWICE BEFORE UTILIZING THEM.
God bless James, Hannah and Andrew!
Be safe!
We don't want you to ingest an overdose of aspirin and wander into an obscure lumber yard.
Seriously- be careful!
ACORN needs to have their funding STOPPED IMMEDIATELY.
RICO ACT prosecution.
And "follow the money!"
Hey Congress- you listening?
We also want the radical czars removed as well!
We must capitalized on Big Government’s work. We must bust the MSM’s Orwellian memory hole. Now is the time to strike. Send these reports to every media you can. I concentrate on my local media as I believe the big MSM is beyond reach.
We are much in need of courageous leadership from the GOP. We are in the mess we are in today because the party that left Reagan lack the guts to take a stand against the American hating Left. Remember, Bush increased funding to ACORN.
There must be investigations of ACORN but thanks to Big Government there is enough for the GOP to nationalize the 2010 now. Nationalize the election calling for the ending of all taxpayer funding of ACORN. Let the Obamobots defend taxpayer subsidization of illegal immigrant child sex rings. All the GOP needs is the backbone to stand and fight for Freedom.
Imagine what would happen if it were a brokerage house encouraging illegal immoral acts including the importation of underage workers!
One time in one office is a crime……
Three times in three offices is corporate policy and a scandal!
(At least in the business world!)
David
I agree! The WH has to be seriously stressing right now. The best part is, you know BO wants to jump in and defend ACORN like he always does. I wish he would – right before a video of the Chicago office is released.
And they never had offices in ND or ME to begin with? Racist!
Me too. LMAO. My 5 favorite words, "So, we headed up to…" What a hoot.
"There is nothing street wise skanky about them. "
Interesting indictment of our culture right there–you really can't tell a difference between a coed and a hooker anymore, can you?
Next sting should be about signing up Alzheimers patients to vote Democrat. Hannah and James can probably make convincing nursing home aides…
My e-mail to my local meda.
Big Government. com has released it’s third tape showing the depth of the rot at ACORN. Sen. Mikulski is not only a major supporter of ACORN she has defied calls for congressional investigations of this racist, criminal enterprise . Why are you of the media not challenging Sen. Mikulski for providing protection to this racist, criminal enterprise?
We the peons are over taxed and over regulated to maintain the unconstitutional and collapsing welfare state. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs since ACORN’s most famous member became president. Why are you in the media not challenging our rulers for transferring one penny of our hard-earned wealth to ACORN? Why are you not pounding on our rulers doors demanding that ACORN’s leadership is prosecuted to the full extent of the law? For be under no misapprehensions, if we the people cannot compel our rulers to shut down the racist, criminal enterprise that is ACORN we are not Free men in a Free land. We are peons under the jackboot of the unconstitutional and collapsing welfare state.
The press has condemned for-profit organizations for much, much less than what we've seen from ACORN.
Awesome! I’m deaf – do you have a transcript in the works?
I had a feeling you had more on the way James! Now, it's clear that ACORN is going down, but did you actually take the mainstream media down as well with how you played them on this story? We can certainly hope so!
Thank God for the American people who are willing to stand up to the corruption…this trail will lead straight to the White House…of course Obama's answer will be the usual "I wasn't aware"!!! KEEP IT UP! We are in great need of brave and honest people to out the evil!!!
I see it. I'm a dumbass, had my browser window cutting off the bottom of the vid
EXCELLENT comment ! The timing would be impeccable ! Don't ya just love the conservative mindset ?
Acorn must be stopped!!
Call the Office of the Inspector General's Office and DEMAND and investigation – 800-347-3735
Sign the petition sponsored by Michelle Bachman to stop Acorn from receiving taxpayer monies –
http://www.michelebachmann.com/takeaction.php
I'd like to know what the success rate for this project. By success, I mean exposing ACORN's true intentions. If James and Hannah worked on this for six weeks and assuming only one attempt per day (and I doubt that they were doing this every single day) then are we looking at almost a 10% success rate? Could that mean that almost 10% of ACORN offices are doing this kind of stuff?
thank god 4 james, an hanna will u please be my wife i think i love u
[...] BUSTED in NY as well! Big Government Blog Archive ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to [...]
If you google "san diego acorn" you get the san diego site and then if you click "offices" from there, you get a nationwide office list that still works.
this is the url I got from google
http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=7879
Well done, James & Hannah! Way to set an example for the biased media on how to do investigative journalism! You guys ROCK!
Both of you are FANTASTIC! Tell us where to send our checks to support your next project!
James, I can't tell you how proud I am of what you and Hannah have done. You are saving this country with this expose. These people would have been involved with the Census which would have effected the voting districts. Now get them out of the voter registration business…
You guys rock!
Where is Congress????? HELLO???????????? Just as corrupt as ACORN. Is this in tax cheat Charlie rangel's district. When they told you to claim you didn't know prostitution was going on in your house I thought of Barney Frank and the prositution ring in his house.
Throw the bums out.
Hanna is hottttt!! She looks so fine in that leather thing.
I wish we had girls that hot back in Kenya, where I was born "Barry Soetoro" and learned the ways of Islam.
Sincerely,
President B. Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro)
BTW, This is some of what ACORN wants out of the health care bill.
Everything short of limosine service.
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[...] latest article, “ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY“, has an interesting quote at the bottom of the exposing article. Alinsky Rule #10, “The [...]
Alinsky Tactic #2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people. When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat…. [and] THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNICATION."————————————————<Well, that explains why when you go to Acorn.org and click on OFFICES they are BLANK! They have no problem accepting donations, but try to find a location…No dice!
I kept checking Biggovernment all night last night and early this morning, just hoping, just waiting for another video. Your tactic of using Salinsky’s rule for radicals on these people is going to go down in our conservative history as an ingenious tool against the leftist agenda. James and Hannah you are our heros. Way to make this woman put her foot in her mouth. Made my morning. My hope is that they are investigated right up to the core and exposed entirely. That anyone, ANYONE tied to their criminal activity is dealt with.
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