Patterico’s Pontifications » L.A. Times Columnist Uncritically Quoted Star of Latest ACORN Video

In September, L.A. Times columnist James Rainey wrote a column in which he uncritically quoted ACORN worker Lavelle Stewart suggesting that she had turned Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe out of her office:

[V]isits to other ACORN offices have gone almost entirely unmentioned. Lavelle Stewart, a fair-housing coordinator in the group’s Los Angeles office, told me this week that she tried to get the “prostitute,” who claimed she had been beaten by her pimp, to go to a women’s center.

“The fact she was not taking the help I offered her made me think something was not right,” Stewart said. “It raised a red flag.”

Media Matters gloated: LA Times report further undermines ACORN videographers’ credibility.

You’d think the imperial liberalfascists at the LAT would have learned to take Patterico seriously by now. Apparently not, and they will pay a price for it.

Breitbart has released a new video that covers that encounter: Here’s a pullquote from the video, which has the “righteous” Lavelle Stewart saying:

I mean, I think you have to hook up with someone who is on that international sex business level. . . . 14 and 15 year-olds been traveling overseas for years. that’s not something that’s brand new. You know what I mean? . . . I could do research for you I could find out what we can do — how to get you in that door. . . There are ways, people do it all the time.

In other words, “here, let me do the research to help you get your illegal-alien child prostitution business set up right.”

I hope Breitbart has very good personal security. The Chicago Boys (and Girls) who did so much to elect Prexy Butt-Up would probably like to reach out and touch him.

Here’s the complete vid:

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