Does Hannah Giles want to amend her ACORN pimp spin?
February 21, 2010 9:31 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Her recent declaration was quite definitive:
"We never claimed that he went in with a pimp costume," said Giles. "That was b-roll. It was purely b-roll. He was a pimp, I was a prostitute, and we were walking in front of government buildings to show how the government was whoring out the American people."
Of course, 'never' is a dangerous word in terms of making sweeping denials, especially in the age of Google, and especially when Giles and her ACORN partners, James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart, were so talkative last year about their ACORN sting. (I've already documented how both men pushed the phony dressed-as-a-pimp storyline.)
So before I write anything else on this topic, and as a courtesy to Giles, I'll ask again: Does she intend to stand by her claim that she and her cohorts "never" suggested O'Keefe was dressed as a pimp when he entered the ACORN offices?
O'Keefe, in response to her comment about their clothing, pointed out in a video... the one that has no audio of the Philadelphia employees and is narated by O'Keefe himself... attempts to suggest that the clothes he and Hannah were wearing should have been a clue to the ACORN employee... especially the outfit that Hannah was wearing.
He tried to call her a liar by suggesting that they did indeed have clothes on that should have raised the ACORN employees alarm. They are guilty of this false narrative and I can't wait to see what Eric Boehlert has in his holster on Ms. Giles.
Alas, I was wrong. Not because such an explanation doesn't make sense, but rather because I didn't count on O'Keefe being such a dirty liar about the whole thing.
Mea culpa...
Ah well. She's young. Perhaps there's time for her to take an objective look at the current crop of female role models the conservatives are embracing and perhaps rethink her ways.
http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2009/06/the_15_hottest_conservative_wo.php
Yep...just what I've been saying. Wait until Sarah Palin's butt gets wider than a Humvee and those lines in her face get deeper. Let's see how wonderful shallow right wingers think she is then...
Something only a pig would say about a woman.
Liberals always think they're exempt with these kinds of things. "What, me???"
Yes, you.
Like all conservatives, Palin is quick to jump on Obama on anything he tries to do, yet what is their plan?
Tax cuts to fix the economy are nice and dandy, when you actually have a job.
Privatizing Health Care sounds nice, when there is actual competition and you don't have 'Death Panels' denying you coverage because you have a 'pre-existing condition.'
So the world is getting hit with heavy winter storms, that doesn't mean global warming is not real, because it seems to me that the Summers are getting hotter with people dying in the heat waves.
And finally, last I checked Jesus Christ, who Conservatives love and adore, said a lot of things that sound pretty Socialist/Communist because he certainly did not advocate charging for his services. Maybe we should ban Christmas since it is about Socialism (giving to those who have nothing who are most likely like that for being lazy) and has a obese Socialist giving away brand new, top of the line toys to children for behaving (or being indoctrinated as Hannity would say).
It ain't just a liberal thing, but you always want to tag it as so. Again, as a fellow ex-Hoosier, I'm embarrassed for you.
Conservatives make fun of Michelle Obama's looks (I've seen comparisons of her to monkeys, neanderthals, bush women, etc) and Pelosi (this just never stops) because that's all conservatives have. They can't find make any real arguments against the policies, so they fall back on personal attacks. Pelosi has staked her professional career on politics and policies and failing a cogent argument against them, conservatives will attack her looks. The attacks on Michelle Obama are just racist.
See th difference? If not, you're a moron.
I was rather strongly conservative myself back at that age. Conservative enough to have tried some of these dirty tricks myself had I been in the company of like-minded peers.
The key to getting such people to embrace sanity lies in showing them how deep their misconception of us liberals really runs.
They don't oppose us because they have better ideas. They oppose us because voices on the right have convinced them that we are devils incarnate.
When one perceives one's opponents to be devils incarnate, all actions and lies are justifiable.
Well gosh, every single person who came into any contact with your message somehow missed that. It might have something to do with the fact that you didn't hint at it in the tiniest way until after you brainstormed for days on how to BS out of your lie.
At this point we should just assume that the ACORN workers were responding to "some weather, huh?" until proven otherwise. And we won't be proven otherwise because Breitbart by his own rules is aiding and abetting child prostitution by refusing to release the videos.
Still, after all of that deception on the part of the "filmmaker" the independent investigators concluded that the tapes show no illegal activity on the part of any ACORN employee, while excoriating the organization for not being... well, very organized. It harshly criticizes their hiring and management practices... and rightly so.
These videos may have been the best possible thing for ACORN, because now they can see what they need to do to get their house in order.