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People are pretty p-o'd about The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, aka ACORN, and the recent videos that have been released showing undercover conservative activists posing as a pimp and ho pair getting a bit too much help from staffers at several of the group's locations. Anti-ACORN activists expressed their dismay through graffiti left on the exterior walls of Studio No. 1 here in Los Angeles, which is the commercial design studio behind Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama HOPE posters, explains the Washington Post.
Says a Studio rep of the message and its medium:
"While we support free expression, it is ironic that...the conservatives and right-wingers who called pro-Obama art propaganda and if it was posted publicly, they called it vandalism, are now vandalizing private property in their campaign against ACORN," said Jay Strell, a spokesman for Studio Number One and Fairey. The graffiti has been removed, he added.
Studio No. 1 is a strange target, indeed, since they are not affiliated with ACORN, and are not government-funded. The relationship with the arts and the Obama administration has come under much scrutiny lately; Fox News' Glenn Beck singled out former LA-resident Yosi Sergant, who served as the PR rep for Fairey and the Obama art campaign, in a pot-stirring discussion focused on the National Endowment for the Arts, where Sergant currently works.
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wow...no offense, but you're clueless or your smart enough not to watch Fox and aren't enlightened by Glenn Beck's brilliant conspiracy theory of which Fairey plays a side role.
Fairey's building was a target b/c to the misinformed labotomy patients watching Fox he's apart of "Obama's Army." Seriously, they've said this. That's why the studio was targeted.
It's also important to know that all this ACORN bru-ha-ha is totally bogus. If you go to the ACORN website you will see an article intertviewing the ACORN employee who was videotaped. She states that she didn't know she was being taped, figured the people who portrayed themselves as the pimp and prostitute were play acting to get a reaction out of her, so she made up a bunch of outrageous lies to shock them and run them off. They in turn edited the tape in such a way as to make her look like as much a scumbag as possible.
The San Bernadino Police Dept. have alredy investigated her to see if her claim about killing her husband was correct, and found out that the man happens to be alive and well and living in Bakersfield.
So what about the other 4 locations? Are those tapes bogus too?
How you can honestly sit there and try to defend these ACORN workers who enthusiastically instructed the filmmakers how to best operate child sex slavery brothels outside the law is just beyond comprehension.
If you're going to hitch your liberal outrage wagons to a cause, at least pick one that's worthy of a fight.
Even known right-wing talk show host Jon Stewart is asking why the media has chosen to drop the ball on this story.
As for the poster's comments on the Anti-ACORN graffiti... good work on taking the bait.
Stay tuned for more ironic right-wing vandalism. Same bat-time, same bat-channel.
"So what about the other 4 locations? Are those tapes bogus too?"
Probably. So James O'Keefe and a friend go around the country with a hidden camera and try to bait ACORN employees into looking like human scum. It's not that hard to do especially if you are in control of editing the tape the way you want, getting just the right words, just the right phrases, cut it just the way you want, you can make it look like anything.
The way right wingers have been after ACORN they'll do anything they can, make up any lies, make any and all charges, true or not, just to bring them down or make them look bad. WHY? Because they register voters. Specifically poor people who will be Democratic voters.
Can't have an organization that encourages poor people to vote in their own best because the Repubs just don't represent the interests of the poor.
Just read in the Times that another ACORN employee was fired for speaking to this O'Keefe character, and this ACORN employee DID report the pimp and prostitue to law enforcement after the encounter.
Just thought someone should know.