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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.
It first aired on October 14, 2009, in the United States on Comedy Central. 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
On September 7, 2022, at an event honoring Obama's official portraits unveiled at the White House, Obama joked about the tan suit incident. [ 27 ] On August 19, 2024, the first day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention , Vice President and party nominee Kamala Harris made an appearance sporting a tan suit, which was also reported as a jab ...
A scandal is "loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual, accused, or apparent violation of morality or propriety." [7] Scandal is not the same as controversy or unpopularity. Misunderstandings, breaches of ethics, and cover-ups may result in scandals, depending on the amount of publicity generated and the seriousness of the alleged behavior.