Question by _______: What do you think will happen if ACORN files a lawsuit against Fox News?
Let’s say this sting operation in which ACORN employees are caught advising how to falsify tax forms and set up a child prostitution ring was illegal….and that the video can’t be considered evidence.
Well, doesn’t the fact that we KNOW it happened mean ACORN should be fully investigated just to be sure they aren’t doing more crap like this?? Didn’t they get BILLIONS of dollars from the stimulus?? And weren’t they slated to be involved with Census 2010 (until 3 days ago)??
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/us/politics/12acorn.html
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27139.html
ACORN is alleging that the filmmakers committed a felony by shooting the footage of ACORN employees in the act of providing advice on how to falsify tax forms and set-up a child prostitution business—to a man and a woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute.
A lawyer for ACORN said Monday that statutes in Maryland and the District of Columbia made the undercover filming illegal and that the same laws should prohibit the rebroadcast of the tapes by the Web site BigGovernment.com, where they were first posted last week, and on Fox News, which aired clips of the videos.
BigGovernment.com, which launched last Wednesday, is a project of Andrew Breitbart, the founder of Breitbart.com. The videos show James O’Keefe, a conservative activist, and Hannah Giles, who is listed as a contributor on the right-leaning website, TownHall.com, visiting ACORN offices in Baltimore and Brooklyn and an ACORN Housing Corporation branch in Washington, D.C.
“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,’ ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis said in a statement over the weekend. “And, in fact, a crime it was—our lawyers believe a felony—and we will be taking legal action against Fox and their co-conspirators.”
Best answer:
Answer by So. Hamton Institute of Tech LLC
They lose and pay court costs
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