Maybe you haven't figured this out by now, but video and sound recordings are fairly easy to edit. Anyone who beleives everything that appears on their TV screen is a fool.
And the video that FoxNews has shows a lot of blank office wall and not very much of people talking. It wouldn't be difficult at all to re-dub the video to make it seem that the ACORN people were behind the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby.
We've seen what FoxNews has to say about this. All we really know from them is that they've broadcast a news story alleging ACORN staffers are crooks.
Here's what the folks at ACORN have to say:
http://acorn.org/index.php?id=12066&...F%BD&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=22581&tx_ttnews[backPid]=12065&cHash=b735bbfbb1
Statement from Bertha Lewis, Chief Organizer, ACORN Regarding Recent News Reports
The relentless attacks on ACORN's members, its staff and the policies and positions we promote are unprecedented. An international entertainment conglomerate, disguising itself as a "news" agency (Fox), has expended millions, if not tens of millions of dollars, in their attempt to destroy the largest community organization of Black, Latino, poor and working families in the country. It is not coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction. It is clear they've had these tapes for months.
We are their Willy Horton for 2009. We are the boogeyman for the right-wing and its echo chambers. If ACORN did not exist, the right-wing would have needed to create us in order to achieve their agenda, their missions, their ideal, retrograde America. This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we've all recently seen. I am appalled and angry; I cannot and I will not defend the actions of the workers depicted in the video, who have since been terminated. But it is clear that the videos are doctored, edited, and in no way the result of the fabricated story being portrayed by conservative activist "filmmaker" O'Keefe and his partner in crime. And, in fact, a crime it was - our lawyers believe a felony - and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.
We will not be intimidated by this international conglomerate, which has made as its mission the destruction of our organization. ACORN members are committed to the empowerment of their communities - Black, Latino, poor, and working families – at the deepest level. We are an organization committed to halting the foreclosure crisis and keeping people in their homes. We are an organization committed to ensuring quality, affordable health care for every American. We are an organization that will not be stopped in our commitment to our members and our communities which has included:
- Helping hundreds of thousands of African-American and Latino voters register to vote and get to the polls in recent years;
- Preparing, since 2004, approximately 150,000 free tax returns totaling $190 million in refunds and increased earned income tax credit participation;
- Providing effective foreclosure prevention advocacy saving thousands of American families from losing their homes to foreclosure.
[Ailes/Fox Letter 1 PDF]
[Ailes/Fox Letter 2 PDF]
12-09-09 15:22
So what we've got so far is a "He-said, She-said" dispute. ACORN claims FoxNews had been going around the country trying to find an ACORN employee to fall for their scam, and FoxNews admits that it was a scam. ACORN says they fired the people who fell for the scam, claims the people who were behind the scam committed a crime and have filed charges against the people responsible. ACORN says FoxNews have been trying for quite a while to dig up dirt on ACORN, and having failed, set up something similar to entrapment.
I don't know how this will all turn out. Time will tell.
But IMHO, FoxNews should content itself with reporting news, instead of busying itself with making news. Given its previous history of falsifying news stories, I doubt FoxNews will reform itself and become a force for good . . .
Originally Posted by Tock
Maybe you haven't figured this out by now, but video and sound recordings are fairly easy to edit. Anyone who beleives everything that appears on their TV screen is a fool.
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