Career Counseling

In the past week there have been revelations that a couple of "conservative activists" pulled a scam on some employees at ACORN offices. In the scam the couple, posing as a prostitute and her pimp, seek assistance from the good folks at ACORN to establish their business in each community. Of course they videotape the whole thing including advice on how to conduct their activities and avoid the IRS and the local constabulary. The count to date are five of the ACORN offices across the country have had employees implicated. There is no telling what the final count will be as it appears that they have an endless number of employees familiar with pimpin' and hoin'.

ACORN, a community activist group, entered the national spotlight during the campaign last year. In reality they have been a major player in Democrat Party politics since 1994, receiving over $53 million from the federal government, presumably to activate the the community. They registered dead people to vote, made up names and registered them, and became very creative in pursuit of their purpose. So creative a number of their employees have been indicted for voter fraud during the last election. These allegations have been going on for years but are just now beginning to grow legs. The Senate really has their panties in a wad over this and are making all sorts of noise about cutting off federal funds from the organization. Whether this will happen to one of the president's favorite group remains to be seen. I'm sure if they do it will be because the senators are a bunch of racists. Just ask Jimmy Carter.

Just so you don't think I'm making this up here is an article from the NY Post:

The two conservative activists who captured ACORN employees giving advice on the sex trade and money-laundering only play a pimp and prostitute on video.

In real life, Hannah Giles, 20, isn't a lady of the night. She's a minister's daughter studying journalism at Florida International University.

And James E. O'Keefe III, 25, a Fordham MBA student from New Jersey, isn't a pimp so much as a provocateur -- determined to expose what he sees as the hypocrisies and moral lapses of liberals by employing their own tactics against them.

The pair met last year on Facebook after O'Keefe posted his own gotcha videos, showing Planned Parenthood employees agreeing to his request to earmark his donations for the abortions of African-American babies.

William Farrington

UNMASKED: Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe are the conservative activists who posed as a pimp and hooker to sting ACORN.

After Giles proposed the ACORN video-sting idea, O'Keefe -- who started making the videos while a student at Rutgers University -- pounced on it. "Why go after ACORN?" Giles asked. "Because I love America, I love God, and corrupt institutions don't help that."

After six weeks of research, Giles said they scavenged together their costumes from friends, except for the pimp coat, which was on loan from O'Keefe's grandmother.

In total, the project cost them $1,300.

They did the job entirely on their own and paid for it themselves, they said.

The two never became romantically involved, Giles said. "We're too good as business partners for that -- and besides, he has a girlfriend," she said.

O'Keefe contends their tactics are "the future of activism and investigative reporting."

"This is now my full-time job," he said.

Okay. So now we now grandma was fronting the operation by supplying the pimp coat. Either that is one bodacious grandma or O'Keefe was one goofy looking pimp! And Giles, the mastermind of the project, utilized all the skills learned in Sunday school to get over on these street savvy ACORN employees. And what about his "posse"? Everyone knows a good pimp always travels with one to help him keep the ho's in line. The only reason I can think that these employees were fooled was that O'Keefe had a very pimped out ride that defined his "pimphood".

Enough fun for now. It really would be funny if this was some penny-ante organization that would die of embarrassment and go away. The problem is that they are not and, with the political connections they have, they will continue to spend our tax dollars giving such career counseling advice. I just hope that they continue to be duped by such people as Giles and O'Keefe. The entertainment value is priceless!