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Kaelke was fired by ACORN after the videos were released. In the San Diego office, edited video showed ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera telling O'Keefe he had "contacts" in "Tijuana" to help get underage girls across the border. [30] But, after the discussion with O'Keefe, Vera reported O'Keefe's fabricated plan for human smuggling to police.
During the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary, ACORN's national political action committee, ACORN Votes, endorsed Barack Obama. [31] Obama, with several other attorneys, had served as local counsel for ACORN more than a decade earlier in a 1995 voting rights lawsuit joined by the Justice Department and the League of Women Voters.
The scene in which Butters visits the ACORN office seeking benefits for his prostitutes is a reference to the real-life 2009 scandal in which activist James O'Keefe secretly filmed himself posing as a pimp during meetings with ACORN employees. The scene generated the greatest amount of media attention for "Butters' Bottom Bitch" after its ...
In another hot mic moment that ended in viral infamy in 2010, then-Vice President Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb to describe the historic nature of President Barack Obama’s landmark health care ...
Michelle Obama, the show’s executive producer, did a great job with this series and did a service to the public by not just letting her and Barack’s love story be the end of her storytelling ...
After the release of the first video, Beck began to devote large portions of his program to publicizing the alleged "underhanded dealings" of ACORN. [24] The story immediately had a disparaging effect on the organization, with one reporter from the New York Times proclaiming that the videos "caught ACORN's low-level employees in five cities ...
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The same day, the videos were posted on Donald Trump's Instagram account. [174] Jones said that O'Keefe had deceptively edited the video to take his remarks out of context and was attempting to "pull off a hoax", adding that he believed that there probably was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.