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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 ...
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 ...
ACORN mostly registered people from Latino and African American communities. [81] The videos were recorded during the summer of 2009 [82] and appeared to show low-level ACORN employees in six cities advising Giles and O'Keefe on how to avoid detection by authorities of tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution. [83]
Former President Barack Obama's family was the subject of a recent article stating a man had filed a lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
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 ...