the acorn case? that was a situation where people were running after the cars asking for contributions. the driver had to reach in his or her wallet, get the money, give it to them, take any change that, and the like. moreover, it was applied as a challenge, was it not? >> it was both. they also ask the court to determine if the appointments were unconstitutional. specifically indicated that it was not this court, and indicated that it was a content- neutral ordinance. >> you content, i gather, this is content neutral? >> absolutely. even the district court at a lower level agreed that it was content neutral. acorn has indicated a proving that it is content neutral, speaking in june 2009. >> r a n be any different -- are a and b any different? the language -- b is not an entire flick said. it is more limited as to certain activity to the employer. >> the city was trying to address the actual problems that the city was having. it was an equity situation so that the employee was violating the ordinance

>> that's right. >> acorn doesn't have -- >> there were two parts that were not in acorn. they be part and the definition of street or highway in a that covered sidewalks, curbs, et cetera. >> at the very least acorn is really distinguishable for the b. part, because here, i mean this is every bit as much the fault of the proposed employer as it is as the proposed employee, if not? >> yes. that's correct. >> what i mean is that these people come to the place for the purpose of hiring. >> yes. there's a willing employer, willing employee. they're both at the site when it occurs. i a great acorn existing which will even afford to remain good law. largely because of the decisions we have identified. >> it seems to me it cuts against you. >> why is that, your honor? >> it seems to me that makes it much more business transaction. the guy who's providing answers give me a dollar because i'm hungry, you know, really it's just stopping at a stoplight. when you have both sides to engage in a commercial transaction. this suggests this is a marketplace. this suggests this is an activ

now this week james o'keefe the now notorious prankster who took on acorn struck again with n.p.r. it's video of ron schiller the then fundraiser for n.p.r. who has since resigned went viral. this. story takes time thank you. i fully. expect. white. america. stares. thank you. i'll say n.p.r. president vivian schiller resigned after reportedly being pushed out by the board of directors and this all comes at a time when the republican led congress is actively pushing the cut n.p.r.'s on the next ask is n.p.r. a liberal elitist now peace that all taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for or doesn't even really matter is this just a larger push by the g.o.p. to take down everything associated with the other party and its issues join me to discuss it as benjy sarlin capitol hill reporter for talking points memo and christopher the president of the young conservative coalition gentlemen thank you both for joining me tonight first of all what do you think of this move by n.p.r. with a wise decision are they showing to everyone that they do have i think they're not exactly p.r. geniuses i mean

of acorn. we shut off the funding to acorn for that reas. of all the data we put out on acorn, you couldn't be convinced to shut off the funding until you saw the reality of the video, and then we looked into planned parenthood, of all the data that was brought out here to the floor of the house, mr. speaker, and i compliment my friends for doing so, and all those who stood with him, still the american people didn't understand the real culture of planned parenthood until they saw the video. . of all the data we have seen, we still have not absorbed the real culture of n.p.r. until we saw the video of those two hours that day. and so i stand in support of this act and this resolution and i believe it's time for us to draw a line in our budget and cut this funding. i'll be voting to adopt the cutting of the funding as will my colleagues. i thank you very much. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance his time. the gentlelady from tennessee reserves the balance

three separate investigations, incidentally, later cleared acorn of any wrongdoing. a report by the congressional research service found that mr. o'keefe's undercover videotaping may have broken laws both in california and maryland. mr. o'keefe obviously is not too concerned about breaking the law if he thinks he is going to come up with a sensational video. he was convicted in louisiana, as i mentioned earlier. the "new york daily news," not exactly a liberal news organization, concluded -- quote -- when it came to the acorn incident, "they had edited the tape to meet their agenda." as california's then-attorney general jerry brown said after they investigated the acorn video, "things are not always as partisan zealots portray them through highly selective editing of reality. sometimes a fuller truth is found on the cutting room floor." mr. o'keefe appears to be engaged in creative editing again, and this time his target is national public radio. that's not just my opinion. the website of none other than fox news' own glenn beck -- that's right, glenn beck -- compar

gotcha journalist james o'keefe the same go dressed up like the world's most ridiculous pimp to bust acorn was caught trying to seduce a c.n.n. anchor it was arrested for trying to tap senator mary landrieu his phone lines are real class act guy here's how he described himself and his form of journalism in the n.p.r. video. tape is very powerful he was very honest the tape cuts to the core of who these people are so shows their hearts and minds and it's had such an effect of course it was right everything is honest and true except for one thing the video was taken completely out of context the full version was posted online over the weekend what it reveals is the n.p.r. fundraiser wasn't expressing his opinion of the tea party he was actually relaying a message there were republicans had told him take a look i will work for that stuff a person who was. so very highly placed was another course that was one of. the top priority people told me they voted for across which they never believed. that they could ever be perfect. and take your. belief. that. it's. striking to keep right on. the fac

gotcha journalist james o'keefe the same go dressed up like the world's most ridiculous pimp to bust acorn was caught trying to seduce a c.n.n. eight here was arrested for trying to tap senator mary landrieu his phone lines are real class act guy here's how he described himself and his form of journalism in the n.p.r. video. tape is very powerful it is very honest the tape cuts to the core of who these people are so shows their hearts and minds and it's had such an effect of course it was right everything is honest and true except for one thing the video was taken completely out of context the full version was posted online over the weekend what it reveals is that the n.p.r. fundraiser was expressing his opinion of the tea party he was actually relaying a message there were republican ads we'll take a look. but it's a person that's worth. so very high places because it's not a person that was part of. the party probably they voted for probably never believed they could record because. after they had peaked. at. the right. this. strikes. me. so he had it all the first part of that and just

by coming up with more and more theories so he started out with you know stuff like van jones and acorn and he got some attention for that and then basically you know to bring people back because he's a controversy figure he had to basically keep kind of new conspiracies and to make them interesting he had to make them more and more elaborate and going to point out where you know it's everybody who's basically not glenn beck who is conspiring i you know it's it's i mean his conspiracy theories a lot of people seem to take very seriously. i get i've been doing a radio program for eight years of progressive radio shows on air america for years and i get a fair amount of hate mail and read not a reasonable number of death threats i guess for the business that i'm in but back opened one of his shows with a quote from me about a month ago and i've never gotten in my life so much hate mail and forty eight hours i mean and so and so many death threats i mean it was you know we turned one over the f.b.i. i mean it was serious stuff and we had on franks's frances fox pivots on our program here.

. >> she has selected the bridal rose symbolizes happiness, the oak and acorns symbolizes strength andance. we have a long list. all lot of these are actually within the architecture. sweet william we haven't made that yet. we will be. >>reporter: william will be working cliff his own take as well. in a break from tradition he'll have a crew of cake. guess what? it's made of chocolate cookies. this rich tea biscuits, mixed with chocolate into a cake mix that william has grown up with. >> it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. absolutely delighted. we were asked by the palace if we would make a cake that was one of prince william's favorite. the it is the palace recipe and were sworn to secrecy. it's literally going to be covered in chocolate decorations. >>reporter: both wedding cakes will have multiple tiers in the be big enough for the 600 guests to have a slice of beech. as to what that looks like, that's a surprise. >>vicki: fans of britney spears line the streets of san francisco today. why the pop star's fans were super excited for the civic center concert. (cheering & applause)

o'keefe has previously gone after the community action group acorn with hidden cameras and last year,was arrested and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempting to bug the oficesf losiana democratic senator mary landrieu. this afternoon, a spokeswoman at pbs, the tv side of public broadcasting that operates separately from npr said one of its executives also met with people who claimed to be with the same fake muslim organization. those discussions ended when pbs couldn't confirm the group's credentials. for more on all this, i'm joined by brian stelter, media reporter for the "new york times." brian, you talked to vivian schiller and others today. tell us about the decision to end her tenure. >> the decision happened pretty quickly yesterday. all about 12 hours after this video emerged on the internet. it was seized upon by conservative blogs and also generally by the media as yet another setback for npr. and by about 7:00 p.m. on tuesday vivian schiller was on a phone call with npr's board of directors, many of whom are managers at local stations who have been frustrated f

. >> chris: that was james o'keefe in 2009, marveling of the impact of his undercover acorn videos.ow he has a new scout. stay tuned. our panel will be right back. >>> across the board, we are slowly tightening the noose on gaddafi. he is more and more isolated internationally, both through sanctions, as well as an arms embargo. >> chris: that was president obama on friday, claiming some gains in the effort to oust libyan leader muammar gaddafi. but reports from the front lines tell a different story. we're back now with the panel. so yesterday, the arab league called on the united nations to impose a no-fly zone and said that gaddafi, the gaddafi regime has lost its sovereignty. bill, what are the chances that that will increase the likelihood of the international community intervening militarily? >> i think no one will do anything unless the united states does anything. it's humiliating for the arab league, which has always been dictators to now be further along in calling for serious actions to remove gaddafi, enemy of ours with american blood on his hands. presumably we start a

of acorn. we shut off the funding to acorn for that reason. of all the data we put out on acorn, you couldn't be convinced to shut off the funding until you saw the reality of the video, and then we looked into planned parenthood, of all the data that was brought out here to the floor of the house, mr. speaker, and i compliment my friends for doing so, and all those who stood with him, still the american people didn't understand the real culture of planned parenthood until they saw the video. . of all the data we have seen, we still have not absorbed the real culture of n.p.r. until we saw the video of those two hours that day. and so i stand in support of this act and this resolution and i believe it's time for us to draw a line in our budget and cut this funding. i'll be voting to adopt the cutting of the funding as will my colleagues. i thank you very much. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from tennessee reserves the bal

of acorn. we shut off the funding to acorn for that reason. of all the data we put out on acorn, you couldn't be convinced to shut off the funding until you saw the reality of the video, and then we looked into planned parenthood, of all the data that was brought out here to the floor of the house, mr. speaker, and i compliment my friends for doing so, and all those who stood with him, still the american people didn't understand the real culture of planned parenthood until they saw the video. . of all the data we have seen, we still have not absorbed the real culture of n.p.r. until we saw the video of those two hours that day. and so i stand in support of this act and this resolution and i believe it's time for us to draw a line in our budget and cut this funding. i'll be voting to adopt the cutting of the funding as will my colleagues. i thank you very much. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from tennessee reserves the bal

worker right wing james o'keefe his previous exploits include dressing up like a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman to bug the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison like his republican cohorts in congress o'keefe decided n.p.r. was public enemy number one and set out to dress up like a potential fundraiser and see what kind of dirty could provoke with this amre and sure enough it worked so this the new way the right is trying to bring down their political opponents organizations that they simply don't agree with and more troubling is this the new norm of journalism in america for more on this issue i'm joined by jamie weinstein there be editor of the conservative leaning daily caller erica community democratic strategist welcome to both of you thank you for having let me let me first because i don't see this is much like a left right to beat thing. scott walker got point. is this is this is not. the the the o'keefe videos so far right wing territory but there's. if we added a n

well could this enfranchise legitimate voters and that's exactly what republicans are doing as in see acorn in reality voter fraud is virtually nonexistent back in two thousand and four george bush's justice department launched an investigation into voter fraud they were very worried about and convicted a mere eighty six people of some sort of fraud out of one hundred twenty two million voters in other words republicans are chasing a problem that at most exists in just point zero zero zero zero seven percent of the voting population on the other hand unlike voter fraud election fraud is rampant like when about eighty thousand people in florida were barred from voting in the two thousand election bush v gore because republican stooge katherine harris the secretary of state contracted with a company in texas to scrub her states voting rolls of novelist entirely african-americans and those democratic voters whose names just happen to be similar only similar to convicted felons who lived in the state of texas or when the wisconsin republican party and the koch funded group americans for prosper

of acorn. we shut off the funding to acorn for that reason. of all the data we put out on acorn, you couldn't be convinced to shut off the funding until you saw the reality of the video, and then we looked into planned parenthood, of all the data that was brought out here to the floor of the house, mr. speaker, and i compliment my friends for doing so, and all those who stood with him, still the american people didn't understand the real culture of planned parenthood until they saw the video. . of all the data we have seen, we still have not absorbed the real culture of n.p.r. until we saw the video of those two hours that day. and so i stand in support of this act and this resolution and i believe it's time for us to draw a line in our budget and cut this funding. i'll be voting to adopt the cutting of the funding as will my colleagues. i thank you very much. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from tennessee reserves the bal

acorn. we shut ofthe funding to acorn for that reason. of all the data we put out on acorn, you couldn't be convinced to shut off the funding until you saw the reality of the video, and then we looked into planned parenthood, of all the data that was brought out here to the floor of the house, mr. speaker, and i compliment my friends for doing so, and all those who stood with him, still the american people didn't understand the real culture of planned parenthood until they saw the video. . of all the data we have seen, we still have not absorbed the real culture of n.p.r. until we saw the video of those two hours that day. of this act and this resolution and i believe it's time for us to draw a line in our budget and e much time we have left on our side? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlady from california has 13 minutes remaining. the gentlelady from tennessee has 11 minutes. ms. eshoo: thank you. i now would like to call upon congressman ed markey. who i think possesses the broadest and d

be on the lookout for an acorn with eyeballs.nd then there's this woman who offered what i think is probably the best explanation of all of them. >> others find it hard to believe and have come up with their own theories and explanations for the image. >> could be a crackhead. it gets up in the tree and play a leprechaun. >> jimmy: delusions of playing a leprechaun is one of the side effects of crack, so -- i watched that video, i'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of 40,000 times, and -- so, i thought it would be fun to revitalize it, by taking the audio and combining it with video from a classic cartoon, and i think america finally has the animated st. patrick's day classic we've been waiting for. >> curiosity leads to large crowds in mobile. many of you bring binoculars, camcorders, even camera phones to take pictures. >> to me it looks like a leprechaun to me. you got to look up in the tree. who else seen the leprechaun, say yeah. >> yeah! >> witnesses say if you shine a light in its direction, it suddenly disappears. others

the video was made by the same activity who made embarrass the housing group acorn. >>> seeking to findsts in the government, army and hollywood. critics called it a witch hunt and that is what some islamic americans are are saying about a hearing tomorrow and capitol hill. john hendrop explains. >> muslim americans say this is the new mccarthyism. outside a fundraiser for muslim charities in california's kirt orange county, prohe testers targeted muslims as communists were targeted by congressional investigations in the 1950s. they say this is the new senator mccarthy, new york republican congressman peter king. he is chairing a hearing entitled radicalization of the muslim community in the house. >> the house and american activities committee was the essential ingredient in the mccarthyism that senator mccain now plans to emulate. >> when the major is coming from al-qaeda and they are attempting to recruit in the country. >> king was a backer of the irish republican army which carried out a bloody campaign in northern ireland and britain. he is shown here with the irs political arm. h

the credit union is acorn from the ashby bart station.nd they will also prepare tax forms for free for low income taxpayers. >>> there is another way to get quick cash if you have an ipad. the market for used ipads is exploding in anticipation of the ipad 2 releases friday. georgia he will.com the buyback website reports it handled more than 2500ipad trades on the very first day of trade-ins. the most popular model is the 16qigipad. the original costs about $500. a used top of the line 3g with wireless may be worth $510. not bad considering the original was just over $700. ebay and net worth.com also report record ipad trade- inactivity. and finally as we mentioned earlier, fraudulent activity at the gas pump is up. so when we got this e-mail from our viewer jack, we had to check it out. is it true that unless you hit the clear button after a transaction, someone can charge gas to your credit card? apparently an e-mail has been circulating claiming the gas station attendant can keep charging your card unless you hit clear. well, it turns

it is saving of acorns for the winter. that is a countercyclical policy. we seem to have a problem with that in the mortgage finance industry and we tried to line up properly. also provide market transparency and we have a number of suggestions. with the steps in place, we think the housing market will flourish and these will be supplanted as the wind down in a natural fashion. we lay out in detail how this would be done. we rely on existing entities and definitions that can -- that are well known, fico scores, things of that nature. we consulted with participants and we have been advised once it becomes clear that this is an approach that might be embraced, the mortgage insurance industry will become the recapitalized and the necessary capital in order to become an adequate counterparty to investors and bond issuers will develop rapidly and will be telegraphed to the rest of the market in clear terms. we consulted with members of the mortgage insurance industry and security issuers to look at pricing. this is one of the issues that is brought up. how much

i want to know if they will be paying acorn or any other companies to sign up voters. host: next, hollywood, florida. leon on the republican line. good morning. caller: by a mayor republican, yes. i have been following the 2012 presidential symposiums and the conservative action committees. i am kind of this made it -- kind of dismayed with the choices we have so far. i am wondering why we have so many conservative republican the coming out and they are afraid that the tea party which i am a part of, will promote only the two-party candid itate. host: who would you like to see in the race? caller: if i had a choice, christie and newt gingrich as far as being a conservative and in my years. whenever baggage he has we have overlooked many other candidates with similar baggage and i do not think it would be relevant in his campaign so i will go with newt gingrich. host: newt gingrich one of five potential candidates speaking at the conservative principles conference. it is online on the c-span.org. here is in the thickest part of this segment about what the calendar will

he and his cronies, the unions and acorn and barney frank and chris dodd, they're the ones that cause the mess. host: thank you for your call. do you want to react? guest: an interesting observation as to spreading the wealth. the president did talk about his philosophy, his economic philosophy, which is let's spread the wealth. here we are in wisconsin, which you can argue certain things about scott walker, but one thing they are saying, it is not fair what these union members are getting as a relates to pensions and benefits and salary and all of that. and if you look at this way, they want to spread the wealth. here is predicated obama saying, well, no, i do not want a spread the wealth there. very interesting about talking about spreading the wealth, but at the same time when scott walker and others want to do that, the president is not buying into that spread the wealth philosophy. guest: that came from ohio and joe the plumber. that became the phrase of the moment. one of the things the president has done in the last few months, he has shifted on some of this rhetoric. the bigge

acorn or other community organizers or perhaps other special interest allies of the administration backs-- administration? we need to know. as trouble some of the -- as the proposal is, it is far more concerned that the proposed settlement would fundamentally alter want to regulation of our banks, yet this would be done without congressional involvement by this committee. instead, it would be gone by executives, intimidation, threats and regulatory sanctions. the administration and our france for regulators are clearly hoping that the banks will consent -- the administration and our financial regulators are hoping the banks will just consent. the should be a concern to all citizens, especially the members of this committee. if this can be used on financial is a tuitions, these tactics can be used on any business. i want to be very clear. if that person was harmed by the actions of these banks, i believe they should be compensated to the full limits of the law. as everyone knows, i did not vote to bail out the banks. i strongly opposed tarp. i believe banks should be responsible for their

a very i think some thought an attractive candidate for the presidency but we didn't realize that acorn was attached to him sol lynn ski was at least by book his mentor and we are living right now with the tenets of sol lynn ski guiding our government and it is outrageous. [applause] well we have good standup leaders and we brought a lot of them. our pac as well as the work of the people on this panel here and other organizations. we brought a good conservative group to washington and we're certainly hoping that mike pence's bill, i think it's h.r. 127 which defunds planned parenthood. why are we paying our federal tax dollars for an organization that is the lead abortion clinic not only in our country but in the world. [applause] so we're behind mike pence and we're behind a lot of the people that we helped to bring to this conservative house and of course now we have to do what we can do to bring a conserve ti senate. we're targeting 16 new seats in the next round to try to complete complete the opposition to this sole lynn ski and i refuse to call it anything else. it is the solosink

he and h cronies, the unions and acorn and barney frank and chris dodd, they're the ones that cause the mess. host: thank you for your call. do you want to react? guest: an interesting obrvation as to spreading the wealth. the president did talk about his philosophy his economic philophy which is let's spread the wealth. here we are in wisconsin, which you can argue certain things about scott walker,ut one thing they are saying, it is not fair what these union members are getting as a relates to pensions and benefits and salary and all of that. and if you look at this way they wt to spread the wealth. here is predicated obama saying, well no, i do not want a spread the wealth there. very interesting about talking about spreading the wealth, but at the same time when scott walker and others want to do that, the president is not buying into that spread the alth philosophy. host:guest: that came from ohio and joe the plumber. that became the phrase of the moment. one of the things the president has done in the last few months he has shift on some of this rhetoric. the biggest evidence of t