Andy Breitbart Explains It All For You (The ACORN "Pimp" Hoax)

[pandasftuw]

How after SEVERAL investigation ALL coming to the same conclusion can he STILL be lying. ACORN GOT INFORMATION AND HANDED IT TO THE POLICE THERE WAS NO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!!!!!!1111

[Kate123060]

Breitbart really needs to get himself to rehab. He is high as a kite in this video. He always comes off as a pompous ass but this is one of the worst I've ever seen. Why does any media outlet gives this nutjob a voice? He's one of the least credible individuals I've seen along with O'Keefe, Hannity, Palin, Limbaugh, and the other right wing loons. After seeing 3 interviews, all of them contradicting the other, Breitbart reveals his insanity.

[hoya03]

Beatbart is a fucking asshole

[TheFallenWon]

I still wonder how Americans can be led so easily down one of two blind alleys. How long have people been bouncing back and fourth between the same two corrupt parties. They divide the populace on nonsensical issues and the vocal minority drowns out the interests of the majority. While the rabble in the streets are busy fighting each other they rob you blind for Trillions upon Trillions of dollars. White, Black, Hispanic, Asian gay, straight, religious, atheist, you're getting hosed!

[gombis666]

It's completely irrelevant what Hannah and James were dressed like. The corrupt, immoral people at ACORN were enabling prostitution, human trafficking and other disgusting things. They were caught and you're splitting hairs. Why not focus on what ACORN was peddling?

[eaodak]

Wow, is it me or does Andrew Breitbart come off as a total scum bag?

[gombis666]

@eaodak - He does. So do the people at ACORN. 

[rileinc]

"I did not know..."

"I did not know..."

Breitbart sounds like an Enron executive.

[BrettDunbar]

@caterpillar23445 ALL RIGHT WINGERS ARE EVIL RACISTS

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH

LOL do you realize how fucking retarded you sound? Just shut the fuck up already you morons.

Holy fuck.

[michaelm677]

@BrettDunbar Watch your language! What would fucking jesus goddamn mother of fucking god say you idiot right wing closeted fucking faggot.

May GOD be with you Brother........at the local glory hole while you suck an aids filled prick

[BrettDunbar]

FUCK YOU AUTHORITARIAN LIBERALS!! ENJOY YOUR STATIST PROPAGANDA

[boubs91y]

wait a minute the guy wasent wearing a pimp suit????

[neerajamb]

My god, why is that every right wing hack is a kooky, ruddy faced psycho!

[BrettDunbar]

@neerajamb Why is every left winger ugly and lazy?

[whoo689]

The question that I'm not sure has been asked (or answered) is, "Why ACORN?" Are we to believe that Hannah and James, total unknowns before this video, got some kind of anonymous tip from someone inside or close to ACORN saying it's real corrupt and shit? Where did they get the idea to do this video in the first place? Or was their original motive all along just to smear ACORN by any means possible?

I mean, what kind of moron says "I'm gonna pretend to be a pimp at ACORN"?

[leesagrrl]

@whoo689 askes:

"I mean, what kind of moron says "I'm gonna pretend to be a pimp at ACORN"?"

The kind of a moron who wants to frame an innocent corporation by editing a film that uses his younger boyfriend pretending he's an innocent college yuppie asking really inane, stupid questions to make it look like the innocent corp did something illegal.

Breitbart's love monkey was never dressed as a pimp.

[Luinreg]

You know Breitbart actually has a huge tell and the worst poker face I've ever seen. Everytime someone actually gets close to explaining to Breitbart why his work is misleading he gets worked up and starts throwing stones accusing other people. He even did it in the recent NAACP mess he brought up where he attacks John King for not getting the whole story even though Breitbart himself didn't have the entire story.

[Sentinel3D]

The amazing thing is that wingnuts can watch this and still not know that O'keefe lied about going in dressed as a pimp. Wingnuts are just blind on this issue.

[rumisouth]

I've been blogging about this man for months. He's of a feather with O'Keefe. Astoundingly, this video has fewer views than the newest O'Keefe "phenomenon." But he's a big sack of fail and I am stealing this for remix in a "Banter Media" production.

[Pellegrino80]

Andy Breitbart looked like he was on drugs or something, he kept hopping around like he was going to kill the guy holding the camera... Andy is one crazy clown...

[rumisouth]

Remix. This is the guy with the "project."

[fgdesign2]

Check out my remix video of JamesOkeefe!!!

[Bigleg75]

So where are the full videos you fuck? This guy is not to be trusted.

[nafaidni]

I'd advise every single member of ACORN to file lawsuits for the Supreme Court regarding the Congress' pass of that Bill of Attainder that defunded them.

The law was entirely Unconstitutional and ACORN needs to sue the goddamn corporate-run government for every penny that they lost in granted funding.

The fact Obama signed this into law (if he did) shows he is unwilling to use his veto like Washington was... He needs to learn how. And now.

[Trollmaster21]

That guy acts like most people did when they were 6 years old.

If this tape is a pure hoax than ACORN should have the right to sue the shit out of someone.

And if the GOP points to this as an example of corruption, then I'll easily pick the Dems over all the corrupt things the GOP did recently without a second thought.

[TheLittleJohnny]

This guy thinks hes the second coming of William Randolph Hearst...

[deucelittle]

i love your editing, and your meager 13000 hits. haha, have fun defending a company that tries to help child prostitution rings you sickos

[melora72]

The whore said that targeting ACORN was her idea. She said she was jogging and strayed into a bad neighborhood briefly. She noticed an office with poor people hanging around outside. She said "I didn't know what ACORN did,  I just knew I didn't like them."

She actually said that on one of the interviews on TV!

[frackle123]

@melora72 Actually, dear retard, she also claimed there was something "thuggish" about their presence in the neighborhood.  Which you conveniently omitted.

[psychicwhoosh]

Deep in the dark soul of the conservative party is a deranged creature that looks exactly like Breitbart. It used to be human but it wore an evil ring for much too long and so over time it degenerated into something very very sick which perverted and corroded anything noble or good remaining within it.

And while I may be a bit hyperbolic, if you really study the dirty tricks of conservative politics and the lengths they will go to to smear their enemies with shit, I am not far off.

[neerajamb]

@psychicwhoosh Awesome! I think this may be the most accurate descriptive of that twisted, mentally ill Breitbart.

[psychicwhoosh]

@neerajamb Thank you. I forgot even writing that, but reading it again just bolsters my feelings and feeds my rage over this fucker's latest slime maneuver. There is no conscience with these scumbags. Their philosophy is destroy your opponents by any means necessary. I think the thing which enrages me the most is the complicity of FOX News in pushing propaganda that was so easy to refute and prove the exact opposite of the accusation. Not surprised by it. Just angry he can get away with it.

[BrettDunbar]

@psychicwhoosh Shut the fuck up you evil indoctrinated piece of shit. You people are single handedly responsibly for creating most of the poverty in america. Just die you creationists.

[psychicwhoosh]

@BrettDunbar Ok, first where are you getting "creationists" from? Clearly if you do not mean that in the traditional sense of the word than you should probably not use it or at least clarify your meaning.

Secondly I think it is funny to consider all those "liberal" Wall Street bankers with their "liberal" agendas and their "liberal" voting records exercising their "liberal" philosophies as they liberally ripped off a nation and sent it careening off the edge. If they had only been conservative

[harveysuperboy]

The media as a whole played this story up. The Punk who played the PIMP and the Slut who played the hooker.Went on T.V and said that they enter Acorn Office dressed that way.Everyone belived their lies,both right and left.The media has been very Quiet because this will only prove that they have no problem liying on poor blacks and the people that defends them.This country is still very racist. And the media help keep this shit going.

[bcbusinesslist]

The New York Times is equally disgusting for perpetuating this hoax. New York Times editor Clark Hoyt is a bare-faced liar and a coward.

[melora72]

rhis is disgusting. Imagine all the TAXPAYER money that was spent because of this hoax. Republicans like to spend TAXPAYER money trying to discredit Democratic Presidents. Remember Bill Clinton? Republicans are sore losers.

[Prophetess7]

I knew it was a lie from the beginning. Anyone with an once of street smarts (or anyone who has seen a HBO doc about pimps) can tell that he wasn't a real pimp costume or no costume. The pants and the shoes give it away. Real Street Pimps wear suits (from what I have seen in documentaries and from driving by them on the street) not slacks and polo shirts. I knew he didn't wear that outfit.

[JiroRoboto]

Andy Breitbart has got to be on Coke. He's out of his F#$KING MIND. Normal people don't act that way.

[spleenblender]

Seriously, I know coke eyes. He has coke eyes.

[JiroRoboto]

I know several addicts and they all act like him. He's gotta be on coke or meth. That would explain his irrational thought process and his erratic mood swings.

[spleenblender]

He's too fat for meth.

[neerajamb]

@spleenblender Too funny- I believe he does:)

[TrollBuster9090]

I'd say a combination of oxycontin, jetlag, five cups of Starbuck's coffee and three lines of coke in the men's room to pump himself up before going on stage.

[matt81874]

I found the advice from Acorn to be disgusting and shocking.

I find little importance on the outfit of the film makers at the time of their interaction with acorn.

In fact, I find the film more damning if he wasn't in "costume" at the time of the Acorn interview.

[spleenblender]

You never saw the unedited videos though.

[matt81874]

True.

But unless the clips of the Acorn employee's advice, or the questions that prompted it were different, then I have no problem with edits made elsewhere.

See, my problem is specifically with the advice and candor of the employee.

[spleenblender]

Your caveat seems to be precisely what the investigations conclusion implies. We won't know until we see them unedited.

And I consider ALL people innocent until proven guilty. Even Breitbart for his alleged funding of the news crew who tapped the phone lines of that office.

I find it unlikely that the videos as I've seen them reflect the reality of their answers. Plus there is the fact that the ACORN employees called the cops after they left.

[TheBRADBLOG]

"But unless the clips of the Acorn employee's advice, or the questions that prompted it were different, then I have no problem with edits made elsewhere."

Then I think you'll have problems.

As Rupert Murdoch's NYPost reported this week, the tapes were said by the Bklyn DA to have been a "'Highly edited' splice job ... with seemingly crime-encouraging answers...taken out of context so as to appear more sinister"

[TheBRADBLOG]

"I found the advice from Acorn to be disgusting and shocking."

What advice? (Hint in advance before answering: you've been scammed by Brietbart and O'Keefe)

[gombis666]

@TheBRADBLOG - ACORN = Voter fraud, human trafficking, prostitution....3.5 million a year funded by the American people is way too much for that kind of tomfoolery. I can give a shit less about who was wearing what

[eaodak]

@gombis666 Is that what Glenn Beck told you to say today?

[gombis666]

@eaodak - No, that's just what I think. I don't listen or watch Beck. As hard as it is for you to believe, It is possible for someone to think that ACORN was a criminal organization perpetrating criminal activities w/o having to get those points from Beck. Funny, even the president Congress etc agrees with me and has hence, stopped funding ACORN.

[America47000]

How exactly is the Harshbarger investigation "independent" as the video claims when that investigation WAS FUNDED BY ACORN. Harshbarger may be a stand-up guy, but there's no reason to misrepresent his involvement as "independent."

[blogegog]

It's funny that, to prove that Breitbart edited the videos, you post a video so heavily edited that it sometimes look like he's answering a different question than the one you asked.

[spleenblender]

That is only in the first few seconds of the video you jackass. The rest of it is not editing or manipulating his statements.

[blogegog]

Heh. You probably should watch the video again. The author made more than 15 cuts (not including the opening sequence) before I stopped counting them ~the 3 minute mark. The video is very heavily edited.

Hey, did you just call someone you don't know and have never even met a jackass? Way to raise the level of the discussion.

[aluxeterna]

great job Brad Blog! This needs to be seen by more people. Andy makes your case for you. Brilliant!

[caroliner3435]

I was immediately suspicious that they posted only audio. Even if the transcript is authentic, there was no crime committed. I have always thought that the ACORN staff just went along with the ridiculous scenario out of boredom or incredulity.

[caroliner3435]

How can we find the full transcripts? I found transcripts posted by OKeefe on Breitbart's blog, with the "full" audio posted separately and no full video.

[TheBRADBLOG]

The transcripts u found, on Breitbart's blog are the only ones that have been released. So you can either accept them as legit or not. They've not been authenticated because both Breitbart and O'Keefe refuse to release the unedited vidoes for some strange reason.

As to the "unedited audio", same thing. Not authenticated, even as its very easy to edit audio to have it say anything ya like w/out detection. But even comparing their transcripts w/ the videos shows what a scam it all was.

[cogedaddy]

I would take this video down Brad...

It makes you look like you want to keep doubling down on failure.

[TheBRADBLOG]

"Failure" of what? Demonstrating that Breitbart and O'Keefe lied about their hoax "pimp" tapes? If you say so, chief. Have another sip of kool-aid on me.

[Junebug1960]

Mike Stark is a delusional left wing koolaide consumer.

[TheBRADBLOG]

Yes! That explains why Breitbart and O'Keefe lied about their ACORN "pimp" hoax.

Thanks for clearing that all up, Junebug!

[Junebug1960]

Get real dipshit. By no stretch of any reasonable person's imagination does this reduce the offense of the ACORN workers. I agree with COGEDADDY, this was a rather pathetic, sloppily edited piece of, well, nothing.

[TheBRADBLOG]

"By no stretch of any reasonable person's imagination does this reduce the offense of the ACORN workers."

What offense? Feel free to be specific, Junebug!

[SobrietySobriquet]

@TheBRADBLOG I'm not Junebug but ahh: Oh maybe instead of reporting prostitution to the authorities, something like helping what they thought was a prostitution business, and advising the parties involved to lie to police in the event that a questioning were to take place. I'm sure I'm missing some but I watched the videos like oh, 1 1/2 ago.

[TheBRADBLOG]

@SobrietySobriquet Right, but that didn't happen. There were no instructions to "lie to police" or anything like it. Yes, you are missing something. The truth. But as O'Keefe and Breitbart left most of that on the cutting room floor, you can hardly be blamed for having been fooled by them.

[SobrietySobriquet]

@TheBRADBLOG O'Keefe "I personally know where it's coming from."

ACORN person "Right but when the police ask you, you don't know where it's coming from, is what we're trying to tell you."

[TheBRADBLOG]

P.S. Be careful you don't make the same fool of yourslef that dijhili did in the comment thread below!

[nafaidni]

@Junebug1960

Nah, it actually does. It proves much of it is complete rubbish and complete bullshit.

Even so, the ruling to defund ACORN was unconstitutional. So I'm done believing the Republicants have any respect for this Constitution when it doesn't bolster their ideals.

[MQAblog]

A great example of how the Right Wing enriches themselves by misleading Americans. I don't know who is worse, the people who made the video or the dumb asses who still believe the right wing media. The Conservative Movement is built on falsehoods. That's why people like Briebart are so richly rewarded for misleading people. Briebart and his BF Matt Drudge, know they are running a big con on the most gullible of our citizens and they are laughing all the way to the bank.

[RawFoodKevin]

But in this case, real financial damage has been done to ACORN caused by Breitbart's less than professional and moral actions.

Brietbart could easily loose a libel and slander suit brought by ACORN.

In that case, he will go crying all the way to the bank to pay for it!

[melora72]

The targeted  employees should sue too.

[dijhili]

You people should read the full transcripts. He not only told them he was a pimp but also told them about using HIS prostitution ring to aid his campaign funds. READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPTS.

[bobklahn]

@dijhili

You need to think it through. Few people much care about him being a pimp. As long as it's consensual few really care. That's the libertarian position. It was the absurdity of the costume that made it look bad, cause Acorn didn't catch on.

[dijhili]

The absurdity is how ACORN was suggesting to hide the money and break the law ! I could care less about prostitution if that is what you want to do.

[TheBRADBLOG]

When did ACORN suggest they "hide the money and break the law"?

[dijhili]

Baltimore transcript again: Tonja: No you have to pay taxes on the money you make OKeefe: Is there any way around that though  Tonja: Yeah dont file them and you continue doing cash

[TheBRADBLOG]

Why did u forget to post the lines from the transcript just before that ones u posted, dijhili? Here they are:

===

Tonja: in order for you to file a return for business

Kenya: whats a return

Tonja: a tax return. In order for you to file a return for the business, you have to

Kenya: so I am returning taxes to the government

Tonja: no you have to pay taxes on the money you make

===

That part didn't fit your agenda?

[dijhili]

Cant paste too much.

James: so who we gotta be afraid like of from federal government

Tonja: because you are not gonna use all of them you are gonna use three of them they are gonna be under 16 so you is eligible to get child tax credit and additional child tax credit

Kenya: I am turning 20 soon so I will be a little older

[TheBRADBLOG]

I see no evidence there of advise to "hide the money and break the law".

You got nothing, do ya, dijhili?

[dijhili]

Not right yet as I am at work and cannot spend too much time looking.'

Advising them on a TAX code for the "prostitution" is still illegal. Bottom line.

[TheBRADBLOG]

Telling they must PAY their taxes, rather than EVADE them is "illegal"? Really?

As you clearly don't seem to understand -- though the ACORN workers did -- you must pay taxes on ill-gotten gains, even though it was gained from an illegality. Rather than tell them to NOT pay taxes, they told her she must. And since the tax-code forms don't have a code for "Prostitute", they found a code that was close-enough ("Performance Artist") by which she could PAY HER TAXES as she's legally required to do.

[RawFoodKevin]

But 'advising them on a TAX code for the "prostitution"', never, ever happened! ACORN has been cleared of any wrong doing. No tax fraud, no voter fraud, and no election fraud.

Take your own advice and read the transcripts.

[dijhili]

Sorry I don't site around all day on a blog. But feel free to bash me since I have no time to chat here all day. Much more important things to do.

[TheBRADBLOG]

As I thought. You've got NOTHING to back up your claims. That's a big FAIL for you dijhili. But thanks for playing (and being played by O'Keefe and Breitbart).

[RawFoodKevin]

Who is bashing you?

Relevant, reasonable, logical and civil counter arguments are not bashing.

Better take a course in critical thinking.

[bobklahn]

@dijhili

Acorn did not suggest hiding money from the government. One office offered advice on how to hide money from her abusive pimp. That's not breaking the law.

Giles and O'Keefe said they were already hiding money from the government. Acorn told them they had to pay taxes if they wanted to get a mortgage.

[dijhili]

ACORN still advised them on illegal activities from importing under aged girls to hiding income. ACORN is still corrupt.

[bobklahn]

@dijhili

Wrongo! One office was informed about the under aged girls and tried to help. Giles said she wanted to establish a safe place for them. Those people got fired. All the others they were told Acorn would not help, or they said they were saving them, or they didn't mention them, or Acorn called the cops. And that is the only important part. Read the transcripts.

[dijhili]

READ THE TRANSCRIPTS ! you cannot just say it is not true when the TRANSCRIPTS tell all.

[RawFoodKevin]

Are you reading the full transcripts or the misleading edited transcripts with dub overs? Because the full transcripts show no signs of any illegal activity on the part of ACORN.

Read the FULL transcripts.

[bobklahn]

I have the transcripts. That's how I know you just said nothing at all.

[dijhili]

OKeefe: coming over from El Salvador. In addition to protecting them and getting their feet on the ground so that they can you know perform the tricks and you know learn the how LA prostitution scene is I was also wanting to um use some of the this is very lucrative and potentially we can use a lot of the money were getting from the underaged girls from El Salvador and use some of the money for campaign one day . . . .

[RawFoodKevin]

If I am not mistaken, this is one of the offices that played along and then called the police right after fraud OKweef left.

[bobklahn]

Again, they didn't care about Giles and prostitution and what they did that was consensual. And that woman told O'Keefe that acorn does not get involved in that sort of thing. She said she could *personally* do some research. Notice they were in the hall way out back, not in the office?

Acorn would not do it, that doesn't mean some workers might not be stupid.

[bobklahn]

@dijhili

Oh, and Acorn told Giles and O'Keefe they had to start paying taxes, they were already hiding it. Acorn said they had to file taxes and have a bank account to get a mortgage.

IOW, stop hiding income.

[dijhili]

that is a liberal myth spread by Brad Friedman.

Read the Baltimore and San Bernardino transcript again.

One ACORN rep told them to bury the money in the backyard !

[TheBRADBLOG]

"Bury the money in the backyard" to hide it from whom, dijhili?

Obviously, you didn't bother to read the transcripts, but instead watched (and uncritically believed) the doctored videos.

Anyway, feel free to answer my question. Thanks!

[bobklahn]

That bury it in the backyard was not to hide from the Feds, the rep said they had to pay taxes if they wanted to get a mortgage. They said hide it from her abusive pimp by burying it in the back yard. That is not illegal. It's not illegal to bury it no matter why you do it, as long as you pay your taxes.

Remember, Giles was already not paying taxes, she didn't need advice on not paying taxes. Acorn said, Pay your taxes.

[RuinousRight]

Someone on the right trying to mislead the public?!?!

Fox does it all the time so I guess it's now acceptable.

[Mapman923]

What's wrong with him? He's been all about how he's going to change online media, and here he is dancing around like an 8 year-old who not only has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, but really has to go to the bathroom. Stick a fork in him; he's done.

[RawFoodKevin]

Breitbart looks like a perfect candidate for a course in Jack Nicholson's School for Anger Management... the extra long course!

[baudiirocz]

Breitbart little freak out reminded me of Glenn Beck's sensationalist bullshit.

[trancewe]

It looked to me like he really had to pee.

[TrollBuster9090]

Was it the description of the drug-induced hallucination of Nixon as a lizard on the wall of Air Force One that made you think of Beck?

[sirfith]

So when is Mike Stark going to release the whole unedited video? Since that is the standard of Journalism Brad Friedman claims should be followed.

[mrblifil]

@sirfith Maybe after O'Keefe agrees to? That's sort of the point. Plus I really don't think you want to see the unedited product, if what made it to Final Cut is this damaging to your hero.

[milesy49]

Breitbarf is slurring his speech...LOL! Shouldn't have a 6 martini lunch before you speak, bro.

[chiapit]

It's not just going after the poor (many of whom are black). They doctored a video which the mainstream media, like whores, unquestioningly broadcast. This led to Congress to cut funding to ACORN. The dubbed and doctored video was made appear that a pimp and prostitute showed up at ACORN office. NEVER happened. He was dressed as a college boy wanting to save the girl from an abusive pimp.) Heavy editing and dubbing made it it look like ACORN advised illegal activities. DAs concluded otherwise

[caroliner3435]

Why does he keep comparing this so-called piece of investigative reporting to Borat?

[bobklahn]

@caroliner3435

Because both are fiction.

[maplespak]

A bunch of rich white guys going after poor minorities...real "American Heroes"! FU, BrightFart! You're no one to look up to . YOU are unAmerican! Why don't you do a "sting" on a rich white guy company like Halliburton? No way! Right?

[RawFoodKevin]

Very telling that Bleitfart hates Michael Moore, who is best known for his multiple "stings" on rich, white guy companies.

[charlesvan13]

Michael Moore is a rich white guy, who runs a film company.

[RawFoodKevin]

Are you comparing Moore, who made his money honestly by outing dishonest companies and politicians, to the dishonest rich white guys who run dishonest Halliburton, the dishonest company who is responsible for killing several U.S. servicemen so dishonest Halliburton could make more dishonest blood money?

HA! How sad that you cannot differentiate between the two.

[maplespak]

When BrightFart said: "do you go after Michael Moore, ...." etc...and went on a litany, you should've said: "Do YOU go after anyone EXCEPT BLACKS AND THE POOR???"

[jomoco7]

That the NYT's has not retracted their misleading and inaccurate reporting on this story says it all, the MSM is corrupt.

Thanks Brad for delivering the truth.

[kjboy27]

Thank you, Mike, for a very enlightening video. Breitbart appears to be taking "acting" lessons from Glenn Beck. They are both corporate whores - and scary ones at that.

[carynstl]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!

It does MATTER Andy