Two young Borat-like pranksters -- one pretending to be a pimp and one a prostitute -- targeted the anti-poverty nonprofit ACORN and succeeded in getting advice from from ACORN workers in some offices for their fictitious prostitution/tax evasion plans. In other words, ACORN workers -- who are supposed to give advice to poor people on housing and taxes -- seemed to be aiding and abetting criminal schemes. "Activist filmmaker" James O'Keefe (who pretended to be the pimp) was behind the videotaping.
The video has been picked up huge on Fox News and elsewhere, leading to a move in Congress to cut off future federal funds to ACORN, which reportedly has averaged several million dollars per year. Now ACORN is suing O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the actress pretending to be the prostitute.
The website behind the effort, BigGovernment.com, was launched by Matt-Drudge protege Andrew Breitbart, praised here by Slate's media critic.
(H/t to Laura G.)
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