For It’s One, Two, Three Strikes. . .

James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles made some video tapes.

They went to Baltimore and showed ACORN workers who were totally at ease and very helpful to who they thought were pimps and prostitutes looking for some community help setting up an illegal business and tax fraud.

We were assured that

the employees “did not meet ACORN’s standards of professionalism.”

These were the only two bad apples in the whole ACORN universe.

Uh, no.

In an amazing coincidence there were two more ACORN employees, in D.C. this time, who also were willing to help set up a local “Underage Salvadorian Ho’s R Us” franchise.

In spite of the undoubtedly rare circumstance of finding this second set of employees who did not meet ACORN’s amazingly high standards of professionalism, the reactionary Census Bureau severed their ties with the group.

Shocked by the activity of the poor misunderstood ACORN enablers workers, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy is looking into prosecuting — O’Keefe and Giles.

Bertha Lewis, ACORN’s Chief Organizer, issued a statement that explained it all.

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.

O’Keefe has demanded an apology.

They obviously found the only four people in ACORN who would do such undefensable things. As Ms. Lewis explained to all of us, they tried this in a number of other cities and were rebuffed. Cities like New York. This would never happen in a city like New York.

Not so fast, Sparky.

ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in New York, NY

It is well past the time that this group should be investigated and held to account. They are frauds and should never receive another dime from the U.S. Treasury. If the Community Organizer in Chief doesn’t denounce them, now, we need to know why.

I just wonder if there is a strike four, five, or six out there.

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