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The Baltimore employees were fired by ACORN after the video was released. [23] [24] Tresa Kaelke, a California employee on the videos, stated she believed the activists were joking and made a variety of absurd or joking statements to them. [25] [26] She said they were "somewhat entertaining, but they weren't even good actors."
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 2012, Obama attempted to hand a coin off to Sgt. Kristie Ness just as the president was about to board the Marine One helicopter. Ness awkwardly dropped the delivery of the coin, and, as shown ...
Stars took major risks this year with hip-high slits, nude dresses, and sheer paneling being the biggest trends on the red carpet. But with hot trends comes nasty wardrobe malfunctions, and some ...
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 ...
O'Keefe first gained national attention for his selectively edited video recordings of workers at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offices in 2009, his arrest and misdemeanor guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of ...
When “Scandal” came out in 2012, Washington was a member of President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett in Missouri in 2009. AFP via Getty Images