ACORN Stung Again! Target Philly [Video] at Ironic Surrealism v3.0

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ACORN Stung Again! Target Philly [Video]

Oh what a tangled web you weave, when first you practice to deceive.

**UPDATE 2:24 PM EST** We muted the audio of the ACORN employees on the video released today due to ACORN’s legal attack upon us. We call upon ACORN to state publicly now that it has no objection to the public release of any its employees oral statements to us. If they are interested in the truth, why wouldn’t they do so?

I see this video is just a teaser… That explains the much edited version.

Ed Morrissey

Big Government will air the full, unedited video and audio streams later today or tomorrow, in order to demonstrate the poor performance of the media in this story. Bertha Lewis and ACORN will be shown to have lied, and outlets like the Washington Post and Philadelphia Inquirer will have to scrape the egg off of their faces for accepting their word at face value.

Update: ACORN fights back.

You can’t fix the terminally stupid.

For Immediate Release Contact:
Barbara Maynard or Erica Zeitlin
(213) 387-0780; Zeitlin cell (310) 968-0367

Communities Standing Together
Powerful Coalition of Clergy, Community, Labor Leaders to Hold Press Conference Denouncing Attacks on ACORN and Other Organizations Working for Change

A powerful new coalition of educators, clergy, civic, labor, and other leaders, “Communities Standing Together” – will hold an important press conference to denounce the recent slew of smear campaigns, factual distortions, and ugly attacks on ACORN and other organizations and individuals working for justice.

The press conference will take place at the home of Tommy and Debora Beard in Watts, longtime residents who saved their home of 24 years from foreclosure by organizing with ACORN. Civic leaders will denounce the attacks on ACORN and others – attacks that are clearly part of a broader coordinated effort to weaken the power of diverse groups working to level the playing field in America. As unemployment, foreclosures, and other problems continue to rise, community, faith, labor, and other leaders are standing together to restore the issues that matter to Americans, and to proclaim, “We will not be divided.”

Coalition members and event participants do not condone the behavior of several ACORN employees seen on videotapes circulated recently, but know that the value and vital contributions that ACORN makes toward improving the lives of working families is much greater than the unprofessional acts of a few individuals.

Who: Coalition of ACORN Allies: “Communities Standing Together”
What: Press Conference Denouncing Attacks on ACORN
When: Thursday, October 22; 9 a.m.
Where: Home of Tommy and Debora Beard
1544 E. 101st St., Los Angeles, CA 90002

The following is a partial list of tomorrow’s participants and supporters:

· Rev. Cecil “Chip” Murray, Senior Pastor (Ret.) First AME Church
· Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Exec. Director, Community Coalition
· Angelica Salas, Exec. Director, CHIRLA
· Father Richard Estrada, CMF/La Placita Church
· Rabbi Jonathan Klein, Exec. Director, Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-LA)
· Father Greg Boyle, SJ, Exec. Director, Homeboy Industries
· Maria Elena Durazo, Exec. Secretary-Treasurer, LA County Federation of Labor
· Mike Garcia, President, SEIU Local 1877 (Justice for Janitors)
· Rev. William Monroe Campbell, Senior Pastor, Mt. Gilead MBC
· Arturo Ibarra, Director, Watts Century Latino Organization
· Betty Day, Director, Watts Gang Task Force
· Mari Lopez, California Partnerships
· Joshua Pechthalt, Vice President, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA)
· Celes King IV, Director, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
· Michael Bilbrey, First Vice President, CA School Employees Assn. (CSEA)
· Keisha Stewart, Deputy Trustee, SEIU United Healthcare Workers West
· Tim Watkins, Watts Labor Community Action Committee
· SEIU United Long Term Care Workers (ULTCW)
· Ralph Miller, President, AFSCME Local 685 (LA County Deputy Probation Officers)
· Frank Torres, Political Director, SEIU Local 99
· Kim Duran Portello, Housing Developer, Mercy Housing California
· Noreen McClendon, Exec. Director, Concerned Citizens of South Central LA
· Marilyn Johnson, Exec. Director, SCOPE
· Rev. Mark Whitlock, Christ Our Redeemer AME Church
· Saira Soto, Community/Political Director, SEIU Local 721
· Rev. Eric Lee, Exec. Director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
· SEIU Workers United
· Roxana Tynan, Deputy Director, LA Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)
· Rebecca Thornton, Co-President, National Lawyers Guild, LA Chapter