How conservative links helped ACORN 'pimp and hooker' undercover ...

by Justin Pritchard

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.

Each has other credentials that place them squarely in the network of activists who believe liberal-leaning mainstream media willfully ignore stories that illustrate the failings of the political left and its leaders.

O’Keefe and Giles insist that no one helped them conceive, execute or finance their video project, which with remarkable speed has devastated the activist community service group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, commonly known as ACORN.

They have said a shoestring $1,300 budget was all it took to shoot video in at least five ACORN offices.

In the footage, workers at various ACORN offices advise Giles to list her occupation on financial documents as “freelancer,” ”performance artist” or “entertainer” instead of prostitute, offer tips on how to claim the underage girls — who were to be trafficked in from Central America — as dependents on her tax return, and give their opinion on the best place to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

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