Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Scott Levenson: ACORN Fights Back

ACORN isn't taking the James O'Keefe videos lying down. The band of community organizers is fighting back, claiming it was a Right-wing set-up.

Video, from CNN.




ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson claims it's an orchestrated sham. He says they, meaning James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, are "attemtpting to create news, rather than report the news, and are doing so in a deceiving, not genuine way, and trying to trick people who are trying to help people."

That's ridiculous.

It's an exposé, in the tradition of 60 Minutes, and To Catch a Predator.

ACORN workers should not be trying to "help people" break the law. Period.

If the workers are victims, as Levenson claims, then why have they been fired?

Levenson says they've been demanding the "raw footage, the unedited tape, the undoctored tape to really try and figure out what was really going on."

OK, then way have the workers been fired? Why doesn't ACORN stand by its employees if they suspect that they're being victimized?

It doesn't make sense.

It's just a pathetic attempt to turn the damning video into evidence of a vast Right-wing conspiracy.

ACORN is on its heels.

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