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ACORN Undercover Investigative Reporter James O’Keefe’s First Project – Planned Parenthood

September 17, 2009 By: Cal Skinner Category: Acorn, Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, Margarent Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Racism


The original target of independent undercover investigator film maker James O’Keefe was Planned Parenthood.

Not as sexy as his ACORN project, but quite revealing about Planned Parenthood.

Thanks to Illinois Review for bringing this YouTube presentation to my attention:

When O’Keefe calls he says he wants to make a donation designated to be used by African-Americans.  He says he wants to make the donation in his son’s name, the purpose being for his son to have fewer affirmative action competition problems in college.

“There’s definitely too many black people in Ohio.  I’m just trying to do my part,” he says.

 O’Keefe’s investigation on Planned Parenthood, of course, was more suppressed by the Left Stream Media than the most recent one on ACORN.

And, have you heard that the founder of Planned Parenthood’s predecessor organization, Margaret Sanger, was a racist?  I picked one of the references that turned up when I Googled, “Margaret Sanger, racism.”

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The photo is from the New York Post article I wrote about three days ago.

Dick Durbin and Roland Burris 2 of 7 U.S. Senators to Side with ACORN

September 15, 2009 By: Cal Skinner Category: Acorn, Barack Obama, Community Organizer, Glenn Beck, James O'Keefe

I’ve just finished watching Glenn Beck’s Fox News show.

He had another undercover video shot by James O’Keefe.  The first two were in Washington, D.C, and Baltimore.

Instead of investigating ACORN, Maryland authorities are threatening prosecution for eavesdropping.  Five years in jail.

O’Keefe told Beck he would be willing to go to jail to protect his country, which is what he thinks he is doing by exposing the corruption in the mega-community organizing group.

Today’s footage is from California.

The ACORN worker admits she shot her ex-husband.

Really.

Here’s the transcript of the program: “ACORN REPRESENTATIVE:
‘I in my life have been abused, also. I mean just with an ex‑husband, a husband, you know, that just beat the hell out of me, you know, a few times and then, you know, I killed him. But it ‑‑ I don’t think that that’s a nice thing. I don’t think that ‑‑ ‘

“JAMES: ‘You killed him emotionally?’

“ACORN REPRESENTATIVE: ‘No, I shot him.’”

I can’t wait to see if ABC World News runs anything tonight.

And there’s even an Illinois angle.

Of the seven United States Senators who did not vote to deny ACORN federal funds, our two were among them.

Given how close former community organizer President Barack Obama is to ACORN, I guess I should not be surprised that Dick Durbin and Roland Burris were two of the seven.

Nothing on ABC, but the San Bernardino Sun posted at about 7 PM this article in which

ACORN office supervisor Christina “Spach said Kaelke pretended to cooperate with O’Keefe and Giles because she feared for her safety…

“‘She was in an office all by herself,’ Spach said. She felt unsafe in their company…’

“‘Her husband is alive and well,’ Spach said.”

Let’s see what happens next.

New York ACORN Offers Pimp and Prostitute Housing Advice

September 14, 2009 By: Cal Skinner Category: Acorn, Bertha Lewis, Fox News, Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, New York Post, Pimp, Planned Parenthood, Prostitute, Underage

I like to work on the computer without background noise.

My brother-in-law, on the other hand, listens to Fox News.

Friday, the story of the day was how two employees of the community organizing group ACORN counseled a young woman and a man to get financing for a home out of which they were going to pimp 13-year old Central American girls.

Among other things, they were advised to claim the girls as “dependents.”

It was so ridiculous, I was laughing out loud.

You couldn’t write a situation comedy that funny.

Today, the top of the front page of the New York Post looks like this:

The non-media investigative reporters have done it again.

You’ve heard about the New York Post, right?

It loves scantily clan women and this story clings to that reputation.

“(James) O’Keefe and (Hannah) Giles were garishly dressed as a stereotypical pimp and prostitute. O’Keefe was decked out in excessively snazzy flesh-peddler couture, and Giles, going by the name ‘Eden,’ wore almost nothing.”

But to see how little, you’ll have the go to the original and/or watch the video.  (The video of the interview plus some introductory shots are embedded on the web site.)

ACORN is the community organizing group that was accused of vote fraud in more than one location last fall.

Among the advice on the video linked to the article:

“Say you’re freelancing.

“Day one you make a sale.

“Day two you make another sale.

“You’re self-employed. You’re free lancing.

“Honest is not going to get you the house.”

And, the advice about where to hide the illegally gotten gains sounds like it came from someone intimately involved in the business of prostitution. The video reveals the correct answer from the list below.

There I go, laughing out loud again.

No wonder there were anti-ACORN signs at the Randall Road Liberty Trail demonstration on Saturday.

I wonder how many other cities, if any, these two young people have drawn into their web.

And, to think, the Barack Obama administration wanted this group to play a major role in taking the U.S. Census, which, of course, is a big determinant in how many congressional seats each party will get in 2012.

O’Keefe has read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.”

“He has been targeting and exposing the ‘absurdities of the enemy by employing their own rules and language,’”he told the New York Post, adding,

“This kind of undercover, guerrilla tactic is the ‘future of investigative journalism and political activism.’”

In 2008, he made a series of videos of Planned Parenthood visits, which have been featured on Illinois Review.

ACORN responded by accusing Fox News of trying to make them the Willie Horton of 2009.

“This 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,” a statement from Bertha Lewis, Chief ACORN Organizer, said.