 merrie says: posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend, soliciting advice about a possible housing loan from workers in the Philadelphia office of ACORN Housing Corp. Previous videos showed the same pair, also posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend, visiting ACORN offices in other cities. The Philadelphia visit is significant because of a dispute over statements ACORN has made defending what took place when Giles and O'Keefe visited the Philadelphia office last summer. Supporters of O'Keefe and Giles said ACORN has lied about whether the two were thrown out of the Philadelphia office, how much time they spent there and whether they explicitly told ACORN workers that Giles was a prostitute. At a news conference, O'Keefe went through an edited version of what he said was a 32-minute visit to the Philadelphia office. "At no point were we kicked out, at no time were we asked to leave," O'Keefe said after playing the video. http://biggovernment.com/ ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring said: “We’ve always been clear about Philadelphia. We got them out of the office as quickly as possible, and filed a police report on them within hours.” Kettenring said that ACORN’s political enemies are trying to keep the controversy alive. “In this era of journalism-lite, plenty media are willing to oblige,” said Kettenring. At the news conference, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, spoke out on behalf of O’Keefe and Giles, saying that ACORN is a corrupt criminal enterprise and that he has been trying for four or five years to get Congress to stop funding it.... |
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