ACORN CEO Slams "Relentless Attack" By Fox News

ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis tells CNN's Rick Sanchez how he plans to "reestablish the public trust" in her organization in the wake of undercover videos of a fake pimp and prostitute obtaining ill-mannered advice from ACORN employees.

"This is a well-orchestrated, well-funded, concerted relentless campaign to attack this organization," Lewis said.

Lewis also thinks the tapes are doctored, and the footage was "outrageous" and "indefensible." "I will not tolerate unprofessional [behavior,]" said Lewis, who "took swift action" and fired four employees who appeared in the films.

Meanwhile, Sanchez calls out ACORN's credibility problem in the wake of a voter fraud scandal, and Lewis immediately denied "sloppy voter registration," claiming they turned in hinky votes.

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[samuraent]

the Acorn stories with James Okeefe have been PROVEN to be blatant and outright LIES!! These were right wing activists that made a movie which fake news, faux news, Fox news ran with. people believed it because they are dumb.

[natashiapelouski]

Acorn standards HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YAAAA  you dimwit POS

pleeease lady. you are full of crap and SPEWING DEFENSIVE BULLCRAP. SHOW US YOUR BOOKS!!

IF YOU WON'T TOLERATE THIS BEHAVIOR IN YOUR ORGANIZATION THEY WHY ARE YOU THERE???? YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU EMPLOYEES DO.

DID YOU KNOW THAT?? DUHH DEEE DA DEE EEE.

[Budney420]

Lewis is an avowed socialist and anti-constitution. Federal funding cannot, must not be provided to any group, right or left, pursuing a political agenda. Weather or not the video was edited shouldn't be an issue as it at least called attention to the organization's true nature.

[ninjachipzanuff]

cry me a fucking river, you dumb black cow

[melora72]

They go to inner city urban poor, of whom many are black.

[melora72]

The guy who funded them now admits that O'Keefe did not go into those offices posing as a pimp. He posed as a lawyer trying to help the prostitute get away from her abusive pimp and protect the underage girls. They cut the tapes and overdubbed them to get what they wanted. They claimed that ACORN got "billions" when they only got about 3.5 million ave in the last ten years. There are full transcripts available now. Of course Fox and Hannity have covered none of the new developments.

[LesPaulCustom79]

@bnjones28 "If ACORN is breaking up, then it must be corrupt!!!" The late Johnny Cochran would have said. ACORN stands for this slogan:

(A)ll (C)ommunist (O)rganized into (R)evolutionary (N)uts

[bnjones28]

She said helping people of color. So everyones taxes go to acorn to help negros only?

[lordhighexecutioner]

Ms. Lewis made a big mistake in being so defensive... played right into their hands. The videos were fakes, they were doctored, the people behind them are without credibility - Breitbart for example with his "hear our prayers Obama" video hoax... I think she was advised to react in this way because had she been truthful, people would have branded her as another black conspiracy theorist claiming that whitey is out to get her and her group... sort of like OJ claiming the shoe pictures were fake.

[Intelligentparadigm]

menteuse peut être mais pas complètement ,  Je crois que il y a les problems dedans cet organisme mais c'est pas toute le monde