Here is a little more on the whole O'keefe ACORN story. As I said, O'Keefe heavily edited the videos, making the videos quite misleading. This discredits much of what was on the videos, but not everything. Here is the truth about the unedited O'Keefe videos:
"By December 2009, an external investigation of ACORN was published that cleared it of any illegality, while noting that its poor management practices contributed to unprofessional actions by some low-level employees.[42][43][44][45] In March 2010, ACORN announced it would dissolve due to loss of funding from government and especially private sources.[46] On March 1, 2010, the district attorney for Brooklyn found that there was no criminal wrongdoing by the ACORN staff in New York.[6][47] In late March 2010, Clark Hoyt, then public editor for The New York Times, reviewed the videos, the full transcripts and the full audio. Hoyt wrote, "The videos were heavily edited. The sequence of some conversations was changed. Some workers seemed concerned for Giles, one advising her to get legal help. In two cities, Acorn workers called the police. But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context."[48]"
Read that last sentence very carefully. I think I will repeat it. "But the most damning words match the transcripts and the audio, and do not seem out of context." That is from the New York Times after reviewing all the transcripts and all the unedited O"Keefe videos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe