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How the ACORN 'pimp and hooker' videos came to be - 9/23/2009 8:46:17 PM

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We've heard about Obama's service corps ideas and how they are going to indoctrinate our children.

But how much conservative indoctrination is actually taking place?

If any one saw the interviews of the "hooker and pimp" on Fox then you must realize these aren't the two brightest bulbs on the string.

Hannah Giles, who played the prostitute, delivered this eloquent commentary:

Giles told Beck in her first interview that she concocted the undercover video plan after taking a wrong turn during a jog in May, soon after arriving in Washington.

Her running route that day led her past the Washington office of ACORN, a group which, according to one mentor, she had read about but had not researched extensively.

"I was like, you know, I'd never seen them before. I don't like them," Giles told Beck. "And I came up with the idea."

So she was out like running, you know, and she just happened to like go by the Acorn offices and said omigod, I don't know who these people are but I don't like them.

Her partner James O'Keefe, which she curiously had never met before this event, was equally lacking in credibility in his response to whether any Acorn employees had rebuffed him. And put on the spot by an interviewer from Fox News, no less, he stuttered and stammered his way through a response.

Fast forward to the 7 minute mark of the video:
ACORN Filmmaker James O'Keefe On ACORN

So we are to believe that these two thought this up on their own with no coaching and direction from politically motivated sources?

How the ACORN 'pimp and hooker' videos came to be

LOS ANGELES – Much of America discovered James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles through their hidden-camera, make-believe pimp and prostitute videos of ACORN employees giving advice about establishing a brothel with underage hookers.

But as far back as 2006 — well before the videos became a national sensation and conservative rallying cry — the fresh-faced O'Keefe and Giles connected with a pair of Washington conservative institutions that boast programs training ideological journalists.

Now, due to coordinated promotion of the undercover sting footage by influential players in the conservative media, Giles and O'Keefe have gone from part of the pack to movement superstars.

Giles, a 20-year-old sophomore at Florida International University, spent the summer on a $1,200-a-month internship with the National Journalism Center, a training organization whose alumni include conservative commentator Ann Coulter.
Immediately after graduating Rutgers University in 2006, O'Keefe, 25, was paid to set up magazines and newspapers on university campuses for the Leadership Institute, which recruits potential conservative public policy and media stars.

......................There's no proof of a coordinated effort to commission the project, but O'Keefe and Giles did discuss it with several conservative activists starting at least a month before its Sept. 10 premiere. One key result of those discussions was phenomenal promotion.

The mastermind behind the release strategy was Andrew Breitbart — a Web impresario, Washington Times columnist and critic of Hollywood liberalism who was readying the launch of a new Web site, biggovernment.com.

O'Keefe approached Breitbart with his video; Breitbart said he shopped the material to a prominent network news personality at least a week before the eventual launch, but was told the network would never air it because of the politics behind it. He said he then gave Fox News the exclusive.