How come Hannah wasn’t listed on that police report? Was she not involved in that one?

Acorn has lied constantly during this. How they go from 20 something to several is hilarious. If they had had numerous attempts they would have gotten a message out to all locations to be on the lookout. I don’t think anyone is going to fall for their attempts to try and cover up their crimes.

I have questions about the police report from the Philly office.
The police report I have seen online does not support ACORN’s claims about them calling the police for what James and Hannah were doing (prostitution, child trafficking, soliciting tax fraud assisstance, etc). It simply says the problem was that he ’caused a verbal disturbance.’
Is this how you would characterize “Asked us to help him cover up a crime?”

The police report names James O’Keefe by name. In the other tapes I have seen, Hannah uses a pseudonym. Did James really use his own name, or does this indicate the police report was filled out, at least partially, after the tapes were released?

Only James is mentioned in the police report- not Hannah.

In the article I have seen, an Acorn spokeswoman does not claim Hannah was with James, she says it was him and ‘another girl’ Does that not indicate that Hannah is telling the truth when she says she wasn’t turned away? Because so far ACORN is claiming ‘dozens of offices’ turned them away and called the cops, but they are only showing us one police report that doesn’t mention Hannah at all and that still doesn’t quite support the rest of their narrative.

I also find it interesting that originally ACORN was very specific in their claims:
“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”

And then we saw the NY tapes, and suddenly ‘New York’ was simply disappeared from their claim. and then we saw the disgraceful SD tapes, and it appears that the above statement has been scrubbed from their website, and they have resorted to the far more vague ‘dozens of offices,’ and they won’t specify which offices.

So we have cold, hard proof that ACORN lied, and then tried to cover up the lie, then lied again, and then tried to cover it up again.
There is no evidence that Hannah lied, and ACORN’s ‘evidence’ actually supports Hannah, since they themselves say it was another girl, and they don’t even mention the girl in the police report.

There is enough evidence to question whether or not James was telling the entire truth (did he go to Philly with a different girl?), but given ACORN’s proven track record, the questions about that police report, it’s still an open question.

Did this police report actually come from the police department, or is this from ACORN?

How and when did ACORN get his name to put on the report? Did he really give them his real name?
Is it possible that the report actually left the name of the culprit blank, and ACORN filled that in later, after learning the film-maker’s name?
Is it *possible* that this report isn’t even about James O’Keefe at all? Is it possible some other guy caused a ‘verbal disturbance’ and then left, ACORN filed a report, and then, when they learned of James O’Keefe’s work and his name, added that to the report?

And I agree with Captain America- if they really had ‘dozens’ of offices reporting on such a scam, they would have sent out the word to other offices to watch out. There are questions about James, but ACORN has demonstrably lied and attempted cover ups.

Incredible how the spotlight turns on these two young people, who shed more light on ACORN than the entire journalistic establishment bothered to do in the past 18 months.
I’d suggest everyone poor mouthing Fox and defending ACORN simply view Jon Stewart’s piece on the matter Thursday.
The media would be all over this story if it were a right wing group counseling tax evasion, covering up prostitution, helping conceal a sex slavery ring and other atrocities.
But it is a “progressive” group (which receives many millions in federal funds and was to have been a player in the 2010 Census) being “defamed” and so the media either ignores the story entirely, or vicciuosly challenges the messengers.
Let me make this clear: In my mind, Fox News is far from perfect. There are thousands of right wing nutcases out there. Some of the President’s opponents are racially motivated.
But what has any of that got to do with uncovering corruption in an agency which has accepted many millions of federal dollars, had numerous offices try to help people they believed to be a pimp and hooker stay clear of apprehension and tax liability, and then lie about tapes being doctored, etc?
I don’t know if every single syllable of what Hannah and James have said is true. I don’t know if Andrew Breitbart is being totally upfront. (But he did talk to Mr. Christopher for 40 minutes.)
What about the initial ACORN threats to sue Fox? What about the initial ACORN claims the tapes were doctored? What about the continuing ACORN claims that James and Hannah were turned away from “dozens” of offices to a brief email mentioning “several”?
This kind of smear-the-messenger tactic is all too familiar to those of us who consume media. And sadly it happens from both sides of the political spectrum all the time.
But to have much of the media simply ignore the story and/or then try to discredit it shows why so many Americans simply don’t believe what they read, hear or watch.
And, as this story shows so clearly, it is tragically obvious that they shouldn’t.
Had the situation been reversed, and a conservative group been found engaging in such reprehensible action by, say, ABC News or the Washington Post, the Peabodys, Pulitzers and Emmys would be getting engraved at this very instant. The rest of the media would be faling over themselves trying to play the catch up gane.
But in this case: almost total silence: except to scurry around defensively trying desperately to discredit the messengers. The anchor/managing editor of ABC news hadn’t even heard of the story at mid-week!
The story here is why and how the media missed this one.
The answer seems to be all too routine: the media sat this one out simply because of its general disdain of all things conservative, and its total abhorrence of all things Fox.
And one question: James and Hannah so easily got several different ACORN offices to help with their phony illegal scam. But how many REAL illegal operations has ACORN helped, without cameras running?
Anyone in the traditional media planning to tackle that question?
Of course not.. It is easier to attack these youngsters.
So shame on all in the media who have played this silly, shallow, self-serving game. And don’t expect tears when the next dozens of newspapers go under or the first network decides to cancel its evening newscast.
Because, based on your fifth-rate, sniveling, “journalistic “performance, the nation will do just fine without you.

I am very suspicious of ACORN and James and Hannah should keep quiet, let ACORN continue to make claims that later turn out to be false. The complaint is dubious at best. Every time ACORN makes a claim, Biggovernment.com releases another tape that proves that ACORN is lying. James and Hanna are turning “Rules for Radicals” right back in ACORN.

I love how you wing-nuts are afraid of Acorn because they are predominantly led by black people. Please, just come out and say that and not hide behind your hatred for black people. We would all respect you that much more! right-wing hatred for minorities is more of an issue than some faux prankster going into Acorn offices and specifically targeting black people. Sad, sad bunch of clowns you are…

I really appreciate you asking these questions. I tend to agree with most of your commenters that the reason you aren’t getting an answer from Breitbart is that if they give you the answers you seek, they don’t get the “cliffhanger” effect of keeping folks waiting on more videos and information. Statistically, in the end, I feel certain we will get a complete sweep. In any case, Ms. Lewis has certainly lied through her teeth in accusing these guys of editing the vids. I understand the thought process that perhaps 5% of ALL employees are probably dopes, but maybe I can give you another vantage point? Do you think that if this were a sting operation where they went into Bank of Americas and caught tellers in five offices on tape calling people racist names that Ms. Lewis would be giving this same song and dance? Or, do you suspect, as I do, that Ms. Lewis would be demanding the heads of BofA be delivered on pikes to Jesse Jackson on National TV?

@tjl
Are you trippin? All clear thinking Americans, regardless of party affiliation or ethnicity are fully aware of ACORN’s corrupt behavior. The videos are only the latest proof of that. We all know that if these two young people had provided a text only type report of their findings with no video or audio, it would have been their word against ACORN. Who do you think would have won that argument? Videos don’t lie, that’s why those employees involved were fired. Also, every American is aware that ACORN has multiple cases of fraud and other corruption they’ve been busted for across the USA. Louisiana is aggressively going after them.
Right Wing hatred for minorities, you say?
I hate to use the term “minority” because I’m an AMERICAN, but I’ll make an exception here because of the stupidity of your statement. I’m of Mexican descent (“minority”) and an Independent. Trust me, there’s no hate toward “minorities”, as you put it, from the Right or anyone else. If there is, it’s the same small core group of haters (you sound like one) you’ll find within ANY group of people. Hate goes both ways.
“right-wing hatred for minorities is more of an issue than some faux prankster going into Acorn offices and specifically targeting black people.”
faux prankster going into Acorn offices and specifically targeting black people?
If Blacks are the only people working in the ACORN office, then how can they be “specifically targeted”?
The dude working in the San Diego office was Latino, I guess they specifically targeted Latinos in that office too, huh?
I would advise you to step back and look at the big picture. ACORN IS CORRUPT and needs to be cleaned up or permanently barred from receiving anymore of our tax dollars. AG Eric Holder should be on this, as it’s so obvious that ACORN has been screwing taxpayers for years. Instead, Holder is too busy going after CIA Agents who didn’t coddle terrorists and inmates at Gitmo.
Bottom line…the people who suffer the most because of ACORN, are the legitimate community based organizations who work hard to help the elderly, disabled and truly needy people of our country. I wonder how many poor people were used by ACORN to fulfill their own selfish and greedy needs.

To say Mr O’Keefe is at fault (and turning a blind eye to the corruption of ACORN [insiders know ACORN is currently being investigated in 14 states for voter registration fraud and is a main reason for the housing meltdown a year ago]) is to say Mr Christopher’s article is false because he writes, “While no-one disputes that the behavior in the videos is unacceptable,…” when, in fact, 7 senators and 75 representatives voted to keep funding the criminal operation.
To help the disadvantaged of ACORN is to break it up by prosecuting the white plantation owners: Andy Stern (SEIU), Wade & Dale Rathke.

That report is laughable to say the least. Talk about a Doctored Document. First off James wasn’t using his real name at any of those ACORN offices! The report that is shown here states that the person causing the problem was not there when the police showed up, so that makes me wonder how the police knew to put down James name when he wasn’t using his real name!!!!!

OMG just another sad attempt to take the attention away from this very corrupt organization. I hope that dumb Bertha Lewis trys to use this fake police report!

So you are disputing this Philadelphia ACORN employee’s story? She seems pretty credible to me….watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QjyIiDUyoY

@shootfromthehip

“So you are disputing this Philadelphia ACORN employee’s story? She seems pretty credible to me….watch it.”

shootfromthehip……I just watched the youtube you linked to. She seems credible to you because she’s a homely looking white girl reading a prepared statement. ACORN knows if they put a white face on their defense, folks like you will fall for it. Don’t you feel like a sucka now?

First of all, how do you know I’m white?

Second of all, how do you know she didn’t write the statement?

No, I don’t feel like a sucker because I investigate stories from all sides (Fox, CNN, MSNBC and multiple blogs on both the left an the right). I usually find the truth in the middle and I like to think I have a good BS detector.

She seems very sincere to me and her story is backed up by local Philly media reports.

@shootfromthehip

“No, I don’t feel like a sucker because I investigate stories from all sides (Fox, CNN, MSNBC and multiple blogs on both the left an the right). I usually find the truth in the middle and I like to think I have a good BS detector.”

Fair ’nuff :-)

The problem with these video’s is the time stamp on these video’s show the tape’s made in 2005. No one has addressed this. Also, as Dan Abrams I’m sure would tell you, there was no law broken. No one got past the front door. No forms were filled out. No Money passed hands. Also, in some states it is illegal to record someone without their permission. So this is allot of hoopla over nothing.