Filed under: hookers | Tags: acorn, blackwater, jeremy scahill, politics, prostitution, rachel maddow
Dreamy Jeremy Scahill made an appearance on Rachel Maddow’s television program this evening to talk about the government’s plan to take money away from ACORN and what the implications of that are, exactly.
For those of you that don’t pay attention to national news, or to those of you in other countries, what it amounts to is this:
Both houses of congress voted to strip money from ACORN after a couple pretending to be a prostitute and a pimp asked members at various local offices to help them start a brothel. (Hidden cameras were involved, obviously.) In three instances, ACORN reps fell for the trap, giving the couple advice on what to do, what to say to whom and how to say it. The videos leaked and the government panicked, stripping the organization of its federal funding. (In general, ACORN registers people to vote, helps with housing for the poor, and generally behaves like a ramshackle service agency. My one encounter with the organization’s Providence office was almost accidental, but it appeared to be run by well-meaning though very disorganized hippies; in their defense, though, the ACORN folks were also doing lots of poor people’s income taxes at the time, which would probably turn anyone into a disorganized hippie.)
