The videos that O 'Keefe made were not an investigation. They were conceived of, planned, carried out, and edited specifically with the explicit purpose of smearing acorns set in stone from the jump.

Those videos were manipulatively edited to such an absurd extent that the one thing Alex remembers about the video isn't real. James O'Keefe didn't go to Acorn dressed as a 70s pimp with a girl dressed like a prostitute. They showed up and talked to people in what you might call business casual attire, but later edited in footage of them dressed as a pimp and prostitute in order to make the viewer think that all the interviews, as they were happening when they were talking to the Acorn worker, they want you to think that they were dressed as a pimp and that this person was engaged.