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ACORN Threatens, Thanks 'Pimp'
ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis says she appreciates filmmaker James O'Keefe's help in cleaning up a few bad apples, but that's not stopping her from suing the undercover "pimp." CNN
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September 16, 2009 | 5:07pm
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VagrantPhilosopher

Yeah, sue the people who helped clean out the "bad apples" out of your organization, that'll really help weed out corruption in the future.

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5:15 pm, Sep 16, 2009

SweetHomeAlabama

Its not the actions they are suing, its the method... you can't legally record conversations without both parties being disclosed. Its entrapment, thus illegal. If they were true journalist, they would have written a blog/new article exposing what they had discovered and thus opened the doors to more fact checking and research.

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6:02 pm, Sep 16, 2009

KrlyQ518

Then I guess Chris Hansen should be worried that the pedophiles he caught on tape may sue him. And considering ACORN didn't have a legal right to do business in the State of Maryland, the lawsuit is baseless. And it will do the organization a lot of good to use tax payer money to sue citizens who exposed them for misusing taxpayer money. Let us not forget the discovery process of the suit. ACORN didn't want to justify their finances before Congress, but they are willing to offer that same information in a court of law; I think not. It's an attempt to intimidate. This is to be expected from a generation of people who have been surrounded by corruption for so long they have become desensatised to it and only know of a media that has abandoned real journalism decades ago.

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12:16 pm, Sep 25, 2009

clearthinker

Thank the people and then sue them. hmmm

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6:06 pm, Sep 16, 2009

sophia5

$8.2 Billion taxpayer money wasted on a partisan organization.

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7:44 pm, Sep 16, 2009

hemingway37

Wow only four comments. Were is all the hate, people? Oh yeah I forgot this is a liberal website. Let's just ignore this Acorn thing and our liberal media friends will sweep it under the rug.

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