Beyond threatening FOX News with a lawsuit, ACORN, the organization that has been under fire for allegedly helping a pimp and prostitute evade taxes, has issued a statement of their own:

Today the videographer James O'Keefe's hidden camera "interview" with San Bernardino ACORN organizer Tresa Kaelke, airing repeatedly on Fox "News", including the Glenn Beck show, and on BigGovernment.com, has been caught out in an obvious set of lies and manipulations. When the actors approached Ms. Kaelke with their provocative costuming and outlandish scenario, she could not take them seriously. So she met their outrageousness with her own personal style of outrageousness. She matched their false scenario with her own false scenarios."They were not believable", said Ms. Kaelke of the two actors. "Somewhat entertaining, but they weren't even good actors. I didn't know what to make of them. They were clearly playing with me. I decided to shock them as much as they were shocking me. Like Stephen Colbert does – saying the most outrageous things with a straightface." While her sense of humor might not be funny to many people, the fact is that she spun false scenario afterfalse scenario and the videographer ate them up.

To read the rest of the ACORN Statement, click here.

I appeared on KISS-FM in New York City yesterday, along with the Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan. Part of the conversation revolved around the ACORN situation. When it comes to ACORN, the bottom line is this:

1) ACORN should file a legal challenge. The video used by FOX News was heavily edited and not properly certified to be authentic. There may have also been privacy laws violated in the manner by which the filmmaker went about getting his video. ACORN should not take this lying down, although their political allies have abandoned them.

2) The organization needs a major overhaul, but should not be disbanded. With all the good ACORN has done, I hate the idea of such an impactful organization going down over one incident. At the same time, there is evidence that there are serious problems within the ACORN organization and that these problems may be systemic.

3) We are in the middle of political gang warfare, and the American people are becoming victims of "political drive-bys": The attacks on Fox News by ColorofChange.org have led to the firings of Van Jones and the dismantling of ACORN. I argue that all of this is a massive counter-attack by Fox in response to their losses in revenue. Similar to the movie "The God Father," taking someone's money will get you "whacked." As I learned when Bill O'Reilly attacked Syracuse University in response to our online protests last year, you better be ready for the consequences of your actions when dealing with FOX. We were bunkered in pretty good and ready for the fight.

4) Liberals have to fight back. The comfort of controlling Congress and the White House has led to the Democrats becoming incredibly lazy and weak. Republicans are fighting as hard as black people did in the 1960s. The Left Wing must possess the same degree of determination as the Right if they wish to save their president.

This battle has gotten ugly and it's only going to get uglier. Let's not even start to talk about the racism in all this. That's another conversation.

Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Distinguished Scholar with the Barbara Jordan Institute for Policy Research and a leading African American Speaker. To have Dr. Boyce commentary delivered to your email, please click here.