Jodi, help me out here.  From what I can tell from the Maddow clip is that O'Keefe didn't dress up as a stereotypical pimp while claiming to be one.  Is that the big lie?

Nice work of editing there though.  You reposted one part of a sentence that you feel is important, but leave out the one that says "But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context."  It's almost like you were using only part of story that leads to the conclusion you want people to draw.  Very similar to the video editing you were complaining about before.

Individual ACORN workers, not a "pattern of illegal conduct" gave the illegal advice to O'Keefe and Giles.  I'm fairly sure that ACORN didn't have a written policy to help pimps find safe houses for underage foreign girls to work as prostitutes.  But, we could always use a broad brush to say if one person did it, it means the whole organization does it and condones it.

Jodi, I promise you that man who called Pelosi was not me nor a
relative. Wasn't able to watch the video (there's got to be an App for
that I haven't downloaded yet) but the link showed a still of his face.
Why do all the crazy guys all have the same look?

As for ACORN, there was enough dirty laundry there that our
"undercover journalist" and his fake news really detracts from the real
story of voter registration fraud where there have been convictions.

Just heard Stupak is not running again. No surprise there. I would
have hated to be his campaign manager. ("We focus group tested 'I
was against Healthcare before I voted for it' and that really isn't
working with swing voters...")

Best get off the iPad and off to breakfast. Big day today for me and
the lad. Off to the Reagan Library. And don't worry, Mr. O'Brien, I will
make sure to give the boy the "other side of the story" if the museum
gives only the --dare I say it? -- the Hollywood version...

Defending what?  Just pointing out that every story is edited in one way or another.  That's just the way it is.

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If you edit a video to make it look like someone is helping you engage in human smuggling of underage girls for prostitution, you're a fucking douchebag.

If you compare that to the editing done by MOST* news organizations, as if they routinely try to slander people who did nothing wrong, then you're a fucking douchebag.

*The word MOST does not include Fox News, of course.

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Well, even with that, there has been a huge misrepresentation. What you had going on there was voter registration fraud with low-income workers trying to get out of work by submitting fake voter registrations (which were subsequently flagged as problematic) and some ACORN offices fostering the environment for this to happen by setting illegal quotas for their employees. The way this was presented by some of the media and politicians on the right was that this was a vast conspiracy of voter fraud in order for the evil socialists to get their candidates elected. Because no one would question Mickey Mouse voting Marxist.

"If you edit a video to make it look like someone is helping you engage in human smuggling of underage girls for prostitution, you're a fucking douchebag."

Then it's a good thing that's not what was done then, isn't it?
"But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context."