ACORN Sues Breitbart: ACORN Falls into Another Breitbart Trap?
ACORN CIVIL SUIT MAY PULL BACK THE CURTAIN
ON ACORN ITSELF
Remember less than two weeks ago, James O’Keefe dared ACORN to sue?
On September 13, during an appearance on FOX News, O’Keefe, the young independent filmmaker who went undercover with partner, Hannah Giles, demanded an ACORN apology and practically called the tangled web of community organizers “wimps”–or worse.
The independent filmmaker whose hidden-camera videos prompted the firing of four ACORN workers is demanding an apology from ACORN for calling his work a fabricated “scam” and daring the activist group to take legal action against him.
“Bring it on,” filmmaker James O’Keefe said Sunday on FOX News.
–Filmmaker Demands Apology From ACORN for Claiming Undercover Video ‘Doctored’
Today ACORN complied. [It's On! ACORN Sues O'Keefe, Giles And Breitbart]
Was this part of the carefully-orchestrated roll-out of the videos by Andrew Breitbart?
Breitbart certainly seems to have thought this through a lot more thoroughly than ACORN’s Bertha Lewis, whose story has changed almost daily in response to a continuing onslaught of damning information.
BACKGROUND: Big Government Exclusives: The ACORN Sting videos and transcripts
MORE:
* ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis Email: FOX New’s Poisonous Propaganda Got to Congress!
* ACORN: IRS Axes ACORN over Child Sex Slave Tax Help
* War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles
Breitbart, in BREITBART: The politicized art behind the ACORN plan:
Videos of five different ACORN offices in five separate cities would be released on five consecutive weekdays over a full week – Baltimore, Washington, New York, San Bernadino and San Diego. By dripping the videos out, we exposed to anyone paying attention that ACORN was lying through its teeth and that the media would look imbecilic continuing to trot out their hapless spokespeople.
Back to the ACORN Trap Theory.
From Acorn’s Lawsuit :
Fourth, even if the defendants don’t plead any counterclaims, the scope of discovery against ACORN will be incredibly broad, as it almost always is in civil litigation. ACORN has far, far more to lose from what could come out during discovery than what they are asking for in this suit.
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In short, Learned Hand once said that he feared a lawsuit more than death or taxes. With good lawyering from the defendants (which I’m sure their going to get), ACORN is about to find out what Hand meant. ACORN has very little to gain and a lot to lose
Put aside for a moment that ACORN lost their corporate charter in Maryland and is no longer registered there (but still conducting business? hmmm….how did they pull that off?).
Might not the public finally be exposed to the myriad threads ACORN has woven into a seemingly never-ending web of chapter, locals, offices, off-shoot groups, interlocking boards and money-shuffling?
Might the discovery in a civil suit product information that Attorney Generals in the many states (who are rated by ACORN) and Congress has thus far been unable or unwilling to go after?
Might this information finally make its way into the public consciousness about the corrupt organization that has been gobbling tax dollars and which spawned the career of our current president?
Perhaps all this speculation gives Andrew Breitbart more credit than he deserves for being a Byzantine mediameister.
But, then again, perhaps not.
by Mondo Frazier
image: Boing Boing!
UPDATE @ 2330 092409:
So much for thinking that perhaps I had a novel theory. While I was working on this article, Instapundit published some of the same speculation. Just discovered it.
Oh well…it’s validation!
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Likely a Counterclaim by Breitbart will be filed to prevent dismissal. The Breitbart can use the case to commence an investigation, particularly if Acorn alleged financial losses. As for the Acorn suit, the kids were in a public area, talking to government funded employees about tax policy. There can be no expectation of privacy on the part of Acorn, only the kids. Suit would be over in minutes other than the corrupt Judges one expects to find in Baltimore.
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