Yesterday, ACORN spokesman, Scott Levenson said:
“The portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at gotcha journalism. This film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed. ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further.”
“Attempt”? I’d say that was an unqualified success at “gotcha journalism”. But he was right that it was tried at other offices.
Next, the pair drove down to DC…
Ace crows:
It is delicious that O’Keefe and Hannah held this video back and induced Scott Levenson, willing and able to lie about anything at a moment’s notice, to claim they’d tried this at other offices and were met with a more appropriate, lawful, human response.
Care to try again, Scott?
What fraction of ACORN’s employers are “improperly trained” and “a few bad apples” engaging in criminal activity all on their own dime? Apparently, to listen to Levenson’s spin, the fraction is somewhere in the realm of 4/5ths.
On CNN, yesterday, panelists said that the conservative film makers may be guilty of entrapment:
…Joe Conason from Salon went on to say, “it’s propaganda” , not journalism, if the film makers don’t disclose that they went to more than one office and were thrown out at all the others, and filming people without their knowledge is illegal in Maryland, so they could be in trouble.
I think we all have a pretty good idea who Conason believes the real wrongdoers are.
It remains to be seen if the pair were actually kicked out of the other offices they tried this at.
September, 11, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Glad that slimy Scottie spoke too soon! Shows what a LIAR he is!
The first time I saw Scott Levenson interviewed on Fox News by Glenn Beck – I could see what an absolutely creepy and slimy sleaze-bag he was! Gave me the heebie-jeebies!!
September, 11, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Oh. you don’t know creepy unless you saw him during the 2008 election, defending the voter registration fraud as it was happening.
September, 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Thanks for that reminder! I did see him interviewed by Megyn Kelly prior to his appearance (fumes & all…heh heh) on Beck’s show. He was creepy then, too!
September, 11, 2009 at 1:01 pm
If you are a child molesting terrorist, tax evading bank robber, and like to torture small animals, as long as you have a (D) behind your name….anything and everything goes. It’s beyond logic, the Dems have really gone over the edge.
September, 11, 2009 at 1:54 pm
What’s beyond belief to me is that not a single news agency, not even Fox, is asking anyone in the Obama administration about this. Obama wasn’t tangentially connected with this organization, he worked in it and they were some of his biggest contributors and supporters.
After all the questions that were asked about Cheney and his relationship with Haliburton is it too much to ask for someone to ask Obama about this corrupt organization?
September, 11, 2009 at 1:58 pm
If a conservative does it, it’s propaganda; if Michael Moore does it, it’s art and a documentary. No double standard there, no siree bob!
September, 11, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Jackstraw, that would be raaaaaaacist.
September, 11, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Fine. I’ll ask. Mal already told me I am one.
September, 11, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Scott Levinson is the public relations world’s version of Bagdad Bob. The greater his outrage, the greater the levity.
As for these sessions being “entrapment”, a key component of entrapment is that it is done by law enforcement personel. Private individuals acting as agent provocateurs do not count.
September, 11, 2009 at 2:54 pm
What about the law about not videotaping people without their consent?
September, 11, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I don’t know if that gives the nonconsenting parties the right to pursue civil damages, or if it is something that is treated as a criminal act and pursued by a prosecutor. I haven’t seen the law.
September, 11, 2009 at 7:25 pm
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September, 11, 2009 at 9:12 pm
nicedeb, it depends.
Are they conservatives or lefties?
Where have you been?
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