Brilliant Sting Strategy: Exposing ACORN and The Fringe Media (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 21, 2009
OBAMACORN | Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti
Knowing how the fringe media leaps like snarling, saliva-dripping jackals on anyone who even mildly threatens a member of the left-wing (remember the media lynching of Joe the Plumber?), or arrogantly ignores breaking White House scandals (remember Van Jones?), this careful strategy outlined by Andrew Breitbart on rolling out the damning ACORN videos was pure genius in its effectiveness.
Kudos to you, Andrew… I knew you wouldn’t place James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles in the middle of a bloodthirsty media shark feeding frenzy without ample protection.
In this case, that protection is the indisputable TRUTH.
Brilliant.
A portion of Andrew Breitbart’s article at Big Government, Planting the Seeds: The Politicized Art Behind the ACORN Plan:
Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.
They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet. Stay tuned.
When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came to my office to show me the video of him and his friend, Hannah Giles, going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN – the nation’s foremost “community organizers” – dressed as a pimp and a prostitute and asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities, he sought my advice. In the past, Mr. O’Keefe created brilliant social satire that rocked his college campus and even made its way on to the talk-radio and cable-news shows, but the magnitude of his latest adventure had the potential to rock the political establishment.
I was awed by Mr. O’Keefe’s guts and amazed by the footage, but explained that the mainstream media would try to kill this important and illuminating expose about a corrupt and criminal political racket, and that the well-funded political left would go into “war room” mode, with 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs. I felt I had a moral obligation to protect these young muckrakers from the left and from the media, and to devise a strategy that would force the media’s hand.
Once the American public saw with its own eyes the grotesque, common practices of ACORN’s housing offices, Mr. O’Keefe and Miss Giles could no longer be a legitimate focus of media scrutiny. Kill the messenger doesn’t work with the American people when they realize that the message is so devastating and honest. I think the video exposed the misuse of public funds and systemic manipulation of the tax code in the name of “helping the poor.”
If Mr. O’Keefe dumped the videos on YouTube, the political powers would have killed the expose before it got traction. I half-joked that he should secretly tape pitching the major television networks exclusive use of his videos for their nightly news broadcasts. But a simpler, less controversial method proved as fruitful.
I told him that in addition to launching his compelling and stylized Web videos, we needed to offer the full transcripts and audio to the public in the name of transparency, and to offer Fox News the full footage of each video before each was released.We had to devise a plan that would force the media to see the evidence before they had enough time to destroy these two idealistic 20-something truth seekers. Mr. O’Keefe agreed to post the full audio and full transcript of his video experiences at BigGovernment.com.
Thus was born a multimedia, multiplatform strategy designed to force the reluctant hands of ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post.
Videos of five different ACORN offices in five separate cities would be released on five consecutive weekdays over a full week – Baltimore, Washington, New York, San Bernardino and San Diego. By dripping the videos out, we exposed to anyone paying attention that ACORN was lying through its teeth and that the media would look imbecilic continuing to trot out their hapless spokespeople…
Video encore from last week…
FOX: Andrew Breitbart – ‘Something Desperately Wrong’ | September 2009
From Ace of Spades HQ: Breaking: ACORN Off Census Duty, Finally, According to Bret Baier:
…Ahem. We have only their word for it that five offices turned them away.
Furthermore, who cares? At least two offices (and probably more to come) helped child sex slavers get right with the IRS.
This is not “one bad apple.” This is four bad apples– and counting…
It is clear and not coincidence that every single time a minority or minority organization gets caught dirty they scream it’s just “raaaaaacism” to blame.
Keep riding that horse, guys. Keep riding it. Yeah, the charge just gets more and more potent every time you use it to excuse inexcusable behavior.
ACORN audacity… read Matthew Brouillette’s article on Big Government: ACORN Got over $200K of PA Taxpayer Money… Probably Getting More!
UPDATE, OCTOBER 21, 2009:
Breaking from Big Government’s O’Keefe: **BREAKING** ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in Philadelphia, PA Part 1…
Also Breaking: Repercussions from ACORN exposé: Matthew Vadum, Big Government: PHILLY VIDEO IS MORE PROOF: Liberal Smear Merchants ‘Media Matters for America’ Will Slime Anyone Who Takes on ACORN
More ACORN information:
Big Hollywood: Breitbart Uses Netroots Tricks to Take Down ACORN
John Nolte, Big Government: Propaganda, Health Care and ACORN: Full context of NEA Conference Call Reveals Disturbing Pattern
US News & World Report: ACORN Story Shows How Internet Reporting Is Beating the New York Times
Mike Flynn, Big Government: ACORN Recap Video: Pictures Worth Two Weeks of News
Kevin Kane, Big Government: ACORN’s Tax Problems
The Lonely Conservative: Audio: White House and NEA Employees Illegally Push Partisan Agenda
Jefferson’s Rebels: The Media’s False Shield of “Objectivity”
Cogent Nirvana: ALARMING: EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO Reveals White House Using NEA to Push Partisan Agenda
Frugal Café Blog Zone: The Dying Mainstream Media = “Fringe Media” (political cartoons, video) and ACORN: “We’ll Help You Get Away with Stuff” — Jay Leno, Bill O’Reilly, & Dennis Miller Weigh In (video) and ‘Big Government’s’ Breitbart Lets Major TV News Media Have It for Lying, Ignoring, or Distorting ACORN Child Hooker-Tax Fraud Scandal (video) and ACORN “Pimp/Ho” Exposé: James and Hannah Interviewed by Hannity, Discuss How They Came Up with Sting Operation Idea (video) and Bring Your Sunscreen… James & Hannah Go to Califonia to Sting ACORN with Pimp/Ho Undercover Child Prostitution Operation (video, Part I) and ACORN Sex Exposé Blockbuster Continues: Parts II and III of ‘Bring Your Sunscreen… James & Hannah Go to California to Sting ACORN with Pimp/Ho Undercover Child Prostitution Operation’ (video) and ACORN Sex Scandal, Now a Triology: O’Keefe Exposes Again, in New York City (video) UPDATE: ACORN Claims It Will Sue FOX News & Filmmakers… Bring It On, Baby
John Nolte, Big Hollywood: Mainstream Media Fears Where Stories They Ignore May Lead
Kathryn Lopez, Townhall.com: ACORN Scandal Has Deep Roots
Bret Jacobson, Big Government: Would Red Cross Pimp Out Children?
Pundit & Pundette: Jay Leno doing his job and ACORN’s friends in the House
Kristina Rasmussen, Big Government: Illinois Grant to ACORN Housing Under Review
Nice Deb: Video: Glenn Beck Notices Lack Of Media Coverage On ACORN Story
Billy Hallowell, Big Hollywood: Michael Moore: Mainstream Media Boosts Dishonesty
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: ACORN: The Movie
Ztower: Obama – ACORN not worth talking about (Video). On the other hand, flying to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago Olympics?
VotingFemale Speaks!: Katie Couric? BigGovernment.Com is coming for you; Run, Fringe Media Socialist, Run
Publius, Big Government: WSJ: Andrew Breitbart Taking On the ‘Democrat-Media Complex’ and ACORN Scandal Immortalized on ‘South Park’ and Is Breitbart More Powerful than ACORN? and AP: How the ACORN Videos Came To Be and Slate: Two Cheers for Andrew Breitbart and Maryland ACORN Official: It’s Racism and Bombshell: House Amends Bill with ‘Defund ACORN Act’ – Full Text and Breaking: Rassmussen Poll on ACORN Scandal and *BREAKING** House Votes to Cut all Funds to ACORN and Bertha Lewis Media Blitz: ACORN ‘Chief Organizer’ Says ‘We’re Gonna Go After This Videographer and Fox’ and ACORN Co-founder Defends Group’s Integrity, Blasts ‘Unfair’ Critics
Diary of a Mad Conservative: A must read blog and blogger: Anita MonCrief and Enter the ACORN apologists and ACORN BLOCKBUSTER – HERE IT IS…
Bill O’Reilly, Townhall.com: Obama and Us
Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters: Media Ignore ACORN Giving Business Advice to Pimp and Prostitute
SFGate, San Francisco Chronicle: Nut falls near the ACORN tree
Evan Coyne Maloney, Big Government: ACORN, Kanye West and the Hierachy of Multiculturalism
UrbanGrounds: ACORN and Their Democrat Enablers and ACORN: Here’s the Best Way to Smuggle Underaged Sex Slaves into the Country
RightWingSparkle: Please Let This Be The End of ACORN
Chris Muir, Big Government: The Company We Keep
Another Black Conservative: Leno lampoons ACORN
Dana Loesch, Big Government: Taxpayer Funded Serve.gov Filtering Activists to ACORN
Big Hollywood: CNN Anchor Bombs on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’
Michelle Malkin: Video: Leno goofs on ACORN and Another pipeline closed off: House cuts ACORN funding, 345-75 and What’s missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN and NBC (the network that rigged crash tests, staged racism stings & faked flood coverage) criticizes ACORN “entrapment” and Senate votes on Johanns amendment to cut off ACORN housing funds; Update: Amendment passes, 83-7 and ACORN/prostitution sting, Part II: D.C. edition and ACORN Watch: Big pimpin’
Chris Moody, Big Government: Exactly How Much Taxpayer Money Went to ACORN?
FOX News: ABC’s Gibson: ACORN Scandal a Mystery to Me and ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling ‘Pimp,’ ‘Prostitute’ How to Lie to IRS
Matthew Vadum, Big Government: Once Upon an ACORN: Why ACORN’s Internal Audit is a Sham
Hot Air: Breaking: House votes to suspend payments to ACORN and ACORN Videos: San Diego and Tijuana Dreaming
Common Sense Journal: John Stewart Finally Acknowledges Media Bias: Case Study: Acorn
IDB Editorials: Acorn’s Cash For Hookers
LA Times: From ACORN, a mighty controversy grows
WQQW TV Eau Claire, WI News: Minn.’s Pawlenty orders review of state ACORN ties
James O’Keefe, Big Government: ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in San Diego, CA: and ACORN Prostitution Scandal: California Here We Come!
Big Hollywood: ‘The Audacity of Hos’: ‘Daily Show Skewers ACORN
Ken Blackwell and Ken Klukowski, Big Government: ACORN = RICO and Shocking Audio Could Incriminate ACORN Affiliates
Liberty Chick: Tea Parties: Calling Out Irresponsible Media Bias
Don Loos, Big Government: SEIU: ‘One of the Pillars of the ACORN Family’
About the author
Obama has been painted into a corner, and the conservative Americans are wielding the tools.
100 times voting “present” in the Senate just won’t make it.
He bludgeoned America this past weekend about his health care plan, but has “limited knowledge” of ACORN. BS !
LIAR !
Arrogant, egotistical, and married to a woman that has attained the power over the country
that she has DETESTED in the past.
My Lord folks,… Let’s take our Country Back.
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