CNN Investigation of Acorn Prostitution Rings

[kdj0172]

so the response is "yeah, any political activist can show up with a camera, so groups like Acorn should really watch what they say".... Holy crap woman... How about acknowledging the fact that these offices are supporting horrible and unlawful practices. Your advice to them is to "watch what you say, someone might have a camera"? What is wrong with you...

[vpassenheim]

Candy Crowley,

What this means is that you, as a reporter, are NOT DOING YOUR JOB - keeping us citizens abreast of misuse of public funds.

Have you ever heard of a citizen's arrest?

You are a disgrace to your profession.

[UCSanPano]

Its hard to believe the blatant hypocrisy of people here freaking out about this apparent case of detestable verbal endorsement of fictional prostitution, while real kids are being forced to suck adult penises for $1 apiece under the direct supervision of the president of Blackwater, a US contractor getting billions in US tax dollars.

While you all scream about ACORN, real kids are being abused now by real sex slave rings under US contractors.

ACORNS funding is cut off, Blackwater/XE's hasn't

[UCSanPano]

"Acorn Prostitution Rings"?! Did you watch the report? There was no prostitution ring! It was a lie, a made up story, a fiction invented by the video makers and the kids who made the video admit that. There were no prostitutes, there were no pimps. Only costumed video punksters.

If it's real, why do we only get to see a few chosen edited moments? Why can't we see the un-edited video?

Do you want to shut down the Red Cross? They have had far bigger and more criminal scams than any group.

[FixedNewsChannel]

Calm down.

I agree it was BS. The title camde directly from CNN.

[UCSanPano]

Ha! I am pretty much frothing at the mouth with outrage on this whole thing. Just to clarify, I didn't mean to aim all that at you, but rather at those promoting this non-story as fact while they ignore the very real cases of child sex slavery with real human child victims, being conducted by the leaders and owners (not low level employees) of government contractors with much more taxpayer funding; KBR and now Blackwater/XE.

[jensen1901]

This is so obviously a hit job that the right is going to try and pin on Obama forever.

[theedge202]

Gotcha Journalism - Isn't that what Micheal Moore does?!

Left-wing hypocrisy yet again.

The brave whitsleblowers should be thanked for revealing to the American taxpayers how their money is being funded to corrupt organizations.

If you listen to this pathetic CNN report they're afraid of the truth, They're afraid of independent journalism . They only want coporate institutionalized propgandist that refer to themselves as journalist.

[theedge202]

Conservative activist = people who want to expose corrupt organizations that support tax evasion and child prostitution.

[UCSanPano]

If you really care about child prostitution, why are you attacking ACORN, where the kids, the prostitutes & the pimp were all imaginary made up fictional characters, not real human beings, yet you ignore the contractors making billions per year in taxpayer dollars, KBR, convicted for running a REAL sex slavery ring, or XE/Blackwater, whose high level employees say in sworn testimony (not their opponents with a hidden video cam) their boss keeps REAL live human children as sex slaves w. $1 BJ's.

[Ls2GTOmurder]

fixed news channel? Just to make it even Communist news network. he he

[Ls2GTOmurder]

2 weeks late CNN.

[jrewert]

Who is John Galt?

[jussisello]

The man who stopped the motor of the world.

[UCSanPano]

The main character from the Ayn Rand "novel" Atlas Shrugged, beloved by many especially the wealthier segments of the right wing who fancy themselves as "libertarians" (as opposed to left leaning libertarians, of which there are just as many.)

In this book the fictional Galt is an architect who leads a movement of the entire ruling class (or the top creators artists and innovators as they see themselves) to go on strike, refusing to do any of their "work" until society bends to their whims.

[jrewert]

Oh, I know. It's just throughout the book people would utter " who is John Galt" whenever the government commited continued madness. I am a Libertarian.

[EESASTORM]

You prefer of course to ENSLAVE those who produce so the low lifes can feed off them.

Disgusting.................

[drew335533]

I deny that there was no unicorn in this video. Therefore, according to the reporter's logic is correct.

[steverogers21]

Wow, that was a nice little psa there at the end. "So the moral of the story is, we're all going to have to be a lot more careful when we're committing crimes now, because there might be an activist filming us."

[buckj54]

You can see how these ACORN employees feel like they are above the law for any number of reasons; implied or otherwise...soooo, what about politicians and Wall Street tycoons? Is it a stretch to think that they feel above the law and participate in corrupt activities? Freedom and choice are just an illusion and have been for quite some time. Washington has long since been bought and paid for. Corporations are considered people for cryin' out loud!!!

[goldy4209]

LMAO @ Glenn Beck creaming his pants!

[rich4444hrsm]

Wait, there's more!

"one of the workers"... yeah, one of them that isn't shown in the video tape...

Both workers fired!? THAT's RACIST! It is because they were african american, wasn't it!!

2:34~ "specific guidelines" wasn't followed? Laundering money for child prostituion is "not following" guidelines?

"Have not yet called us back" ~ did you leave a return number or try twice?

WHOA... DC workers fired as well? Wait, these are doctored tapes man!

[FixedNewsChannel]

Hi, billy mays here.

[goldy4209]

I'm a liberal. I think ACORN needs to just go away. What an embarrassment. I am disgusted. They can never be taken seriously after this and need to just shut themselves down. You idiots gave these psycho conservatives just one more reason to hate liberals. How stupid can you be? ACORN blames the employees but you should have trained your employees better. Because you can't take this back...it's out there now.

[rich4444hrsm]

HAHAHAHA how pathetic of reporting. You should see ACORN's response on their website... "She didn't take them seriously" SURE she didnt ; )

"conservative activist"... I don't know that is true. Quote sources to back up?

"liberal community organizing group" ... I thought they were not partisan?

Doctored? But they said on the website the woman didn't take them serious? I wonder which is true... OH NEITHER thats right :p

Oh, they are considering legal action. Better watch out!

[kpieczyn]

I''m glad they have been exposed.

[GenevaPilgrim]

I remember when this story first broke-Acorn (& CNN) were saying that Hannah and James also visited offices in DC, New York, etc-never realizing that those offices too, would end up on TV as offices that also wanted to help the prostitute and pimp/law student set up a ring. HAHA. came back to bite them in the booty!

[thapymp]

This is the beginning of the end for the mainstream media. It's funny Candy Crowley downplays "Activist Journalism" when CNN as a journalistic business is dead. She then she goes on to say that ACORN reps "need to be careful cause there's no putting the genie back in the bottle". When she really means: If you're an ACORN rep and white people come into your office you should not talk about anything illegal so you can continue to overthrow American order and create brothels and crack houses.

[jasonla85]

What gets me is that instead of prosecuting these high level ACORN criminals, they are going after James O Keefe. it seems it has become common place to hate people for exposing corruption and to have no problem with those who are emersed in it. I hope that this is the undoing of the Obama corruption machine.

[JAMRAND]

STOP SPENDING OUR FUTURES TO GET YOURSELVES ELECTED.

We are broke , That means work and save.

Acorn is no different than any other criminal organization. They all have a legitimate store front.

[dub2]

This is activism at it's best!! Wow it only counts when it's againts republicans? Or "The Man". Or when liberals have the government backing them up. Ha bitches all you are on notice!! Be accountable or be held accountable!!!! SHEEPLE-DUMMIES-LEMMINGS.

[batourey]

Hey - ACORN - did you think it was Aston Kutcher?

[batourey]

Two white people "acting black" - wouldn't that have been a giveaway.

[rcdcdancer]

8.5 bil initially!!!!! The media bias, and willful ignorance, could lead to violence. Woe is you when Americans realize the deception perpetuated by media. Thank God Fox is responsible! Screw CNN NBC CBS ABC.

[Hammers65]

Go Fox News, the only news to trust.

Acorn gets our taxes, and was give 8 billion in the "stimulus" by BO. who today is heading to the Stock Exchange to celebrate the fall of Capitalism, but could not attent the deaths of three thousand people last week.

[SUNSHINEWAGON]

WHAT CRAP CNN PUTS OUT.

How can ANYONE actually believe the drivel cnn shows?????

Of course if cnn and nbc etc are the only so called "news" the naive public watches, HOW WOULD THEY KNOW THE TRUTH~

[StoogeWatcher]

It took Fox News to CNN to even mention this story.

[RodgersRevolution]

How can it be liberal when they have republicans involved? This Acorn thing has lost enthusiasm because of dragging out shit stories like this. Everytime the stories are blasted because of lies and distorted info.

[FixedNewsChannel]

***Very good point.

[michaelpshipley1]

translation: cnn has ceased being a news organization so they FORCE average citizens to do their job for them. cnn is on its way out just like the corrupted newspapers.

[sevendayz1980]

So ACORN has a PROTOCOL to not to give advice to a PIMP and a whore..... WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO COMMON SENSE?

AND CNN please shut the F*CK UP.

Watch how they spin this "conservative activist targeting the liberal group"

"the investigation was done not by police but conservative activist"

"ACORN should be careful incase someone is recording their actions" PLEASE WOLF GO F YOURSELF.

[ForTehNguyen]

lol @ CNN spinning the story "pimp sting targets liberal group"

[Garlannd]

Lol oh Crowley doesn't like freedom of press apparently.

[unclej1979]

"Protocol of the organization"......ROFL!! No investigation because it would lead right to the Oval Office......Washington is so corrupt it makes me sick! Crowley is such a moron and she misses the WHOLE point! Its about who the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is surrounding himself with.......pay attention and STAND UP AMERICA!! DEMAND ANSWERS!!

[suedi52]

Our tax dollars at work

[Garlannd]

you mean woik you have to throw in that goonish slang to it.

[jeffmagic32]

Crowley is just so darn angry that she and her pals can't totally control the flow of information thanks to that no good internet.

[fredzepp1]

Is reporter Crowley insane? Did she watch the entire video? It's as though cancerous tumors have been discovered in a patient and instead of focusing on the hideous deadly cancer, Crowley decides to bemoan the method in which the cancer was discovered and by whom. What's wrong with that picture? How about some objective journalism? I give credit to CNN for at least covering this bombshell of a story. The rest (except Fox) have thus far chosen to bury it.

[Garlannd]

Let us ignore than bad things and go straight to the good! Murder, drug rings, and prostitution aren't bad if they do other stuff to help people right?

[UCSanPano]

No one was murdered, no one was involved in any real criminal rings or prostitution.

This was a made up story these kids invented. They were filmmakers, not real pimps. There was no prostitution.

And if you really care about child abuse, why no outcry against tax $ contractors KBR & Blackwater/XE who kill real American soldiers to save money and keep real human victims in real live prostitution and sex slavery rings, including real live human children, not fictional made up imaginary ones?

[Garlannd]

1. They were real employees of ACORN.

2. Just because they were pretending doesn't make it any different. If I came to your house and said Hi im a child rapist can i take your kids to a theme park? Would you? Even though I was just pretending?

[UCSanPano]

Hey, I hereby decry the actions that appear to be portrayed in these video clips, heavily edited though they are, the words depicted are reprehensible.

Now why won't you decry the actual human child sex slave rings run by Republican linked gov't contractors such as KBR and XE/Blackwater? Not imaginary made up child sex slaves, real ones!

When real children are forced to give $1 bj's to the buddies of the president of Blackwater, sponsored by billions of tax dollars, not millions like ACORN.

[Garlannd]

No, but should we let either slide? Both should be dealt with. As far as I am concerned PMCS should be outlawed in the US.

ACORN should also be punished as well. Just because someone was playing pretend and you go along wiithout knowing they're playing pretend doesn't make it right.

Stop trying to change the subject away from the fact what some of the staff of ACORN did was horribly wrong.

[UCSanPano]

I condemn both, and so do the majority of commenters here.

The congress has now cut off 100% of all federal funding to ACORN before any investigation has been done. The states involved are investigating the imaginary prostitution case as are the feds.

So now is it ok to let the courts do their work and start changing the subject to contractors getting much more tax dollars who are enslaving real kids for sex?

How long should the real child sex slaves under XE/Blackwater wait for justice?

[Garlannd]

It is unfortunate this is the hypocritical world we live in. I agree cutting all funding is a bit extreme ACORN originally did do a lot of good. I think if anything a third party should monitor them.

War is unfortunately a huge commodity in the current economy. PMCs are a very disturbing trend and I think there really needs to be a whole lot of regulations and laws slammed against them.

[thosecomputerguysnj]

Substantiate. Source your claims. if not it's just very obviously partisan rhetoric.

[UCSanPano]

Do I understand correctly that you are endorsing the real live actual factual child sex rings run by KBR and Blackwater/XE with billions in taxpayer contract dollars?

Are you saying it's more important to go after those who seem to be endorsing imaginary made up stories of child prostitution and we should shut them down before we deal with the actual real world child sex slavery conducted by the president of Blackwater? Why?

Perhaps because Blackwater and KBR are Republican and ACORN is Dem?

[ShaunaDDye]

Interesting that the guest giving analysis did the same thing the ACORN workers did- she didn't reprimand the behavior or tell politicians to make sure they're on the straight and narrow...she warned people not to get caught. Don't do anything outrageous like this unless you feel completely confident that a reporter is not present. Interesting also that journalism = activism if you're a conservative. I'd love to hear CNN refer to Michael Moore as an activist instead of "film maker."

[TNTony]

haha, this is the real shock report, it actually made it to CNN!!! They must be really hurting for ratings to compromise "their principles" like this and actually post a real news story!

[calimar28]

ACORN should even exist...teaching people how to vote? Man, I dont want those people voting if they need to be taught how!

But then, ACORN breaking the law by pushing for liberal canadates with taxpayer money. And fraud by getting people to sign their name 80 times in 23 states?

But now, A POSTITUTION RING! Not one dollar more should go there, ACORN needs to be dismantled. Show the liberals in 2010 elections!

All ACORN is, is a company ot employ negros...nothing more.

[StoogeWatcher]

If anyone else did what ACORN did, they would be in jail.

[FixedNewsChannel]

Like Blackwater, who actually DOES service their employees with under-age kids.

I suppose because they are foreign kids it doesn't really matter though, right?

[jeffmagic32]

The underage prostitutes mentioned in both Acorn videos are from El Salvador.

[UCSanPano]

Except they didn't really exist. The people who said they had them were the filmmakers. They are costumed kids, not real pimps. There were never any prostitutes in this story. Just actors, and they admit that.

[jeffmagic32]

I was responding to another person's post that "because they are foreign kids it doesn't really matter" to those on the political right. In this case, it is the right wingers supporting the rights of the fictional children being discussed, while the leftist ACORN employees clearly have no regard for the rights of foreign born children.

[xychr0]

ACORN lost its census ties today. Also, I wonder if MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and the Daily Show, et al, will even mention this - even once.

[kelseywall]

Republican assholes.

[Inquisitor53]

LOL! And to think in just over a year there's going to be a majority of them back in the senate because the liberals screwed up big time. They failed to recognize the american citizen can be lied to only so much before everybody eventually catches on to them. When they do catch on they become pissed. Remember townhall meetings & all the union thugs being bussed in at up to $16.00 an hour per person? Who paid for them? Answer honestly, if you can.

We made our voices heard in spite of them.

[Inquisitor53]

Then there are those nagging questions about voter fraud. Now pandering to faux prostitution ring. We have had enough. We have informed our elected leaders the bullshit stops here and stops now! Do what we put you in office to do or lose the seat! We, the people, have risen in unison against the illegal act of depriving us of a choice in how we want to run our lives with OUR money.

If you want a govt. big enough to care for you then it's big enough to control you.

Long live the Republic!

[BoycottCentral]

Now you're getting the picture, CNN.

BOUT TIME!

[TenRoc382k9]

ccn did a good job covering the story theres alot of questions for the so called film makers we cant follow fox news and freak out with this the guy is in hiding and wont anwser questions from police

[dangolingo]

Bumbling idiots

[aussite]

A little slow on the uptake over there at CNN. and a few others. Interesting how they seem to have been a little late with this report. I wonder if they will give credit to the original organization that reported this first? I'm just wondering, that's all ??

[FixedNewsChannel]

As far as I am aware cnn were the original reporters of this.

I have an upload coming up soon about how they scanned a radio frequency and caused widespread panic.

[threeddd33]

It would be hard for CNN to be the first, since they are reporting on the two videos in the same segment.... and the videos were released a day apart.

Right FixedYouTubeFixedNews?

[FixedNewsChannel]

Wrong, I was talking to that gentleman about todays incident on the Potomac River when CNN erroneously claimed that there was an 'alert'.

The gentleman has since rescinded his post.

[aussite]

Actually that other news org. has been regularly reporting on the corruption @ Acorn for a couple of months. CNN has been a johnny come lately to this story. Im sure if you look hard enough you can find many clips featuring Acorn and their corruption. Just my observation, that's all.

[bpoutsider]

Yes he is "creaming his pants" ,as I am. It's only a matter of time until this POS organization gets cut off from the Billions in tax dollars that fund these clowns. Youze funna getz cut off yo! lol!!

[Moveontonumber2]

What noone is talking about with regards to CNN is Why / HOW they were listening in on Government frequencies and what laws were broken in doing so.

Not to mention the "Shouting of FIRE" in a public place.

[FixedNewsChannel]

I have an upload coming up in about 20 minutes reviewing this.....stay tuned, it looks good ;)

[ComradePatriot]

Elliot Spitzer could have hired these prostitutes and get more bang for his bucks.

[obamadidit2008]

wasn't david vitter doing the hooker thing too