Posted on 09/18/2009 11:32:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I’ve always admired the work of ACORN and thought right-wing attacks on the group bordered on the hysterical, but that was a terrific undercover sting mounted by the two young conservatives. Sorry, but it’s a serious matter when at least three different ACORN offices, in Washington, Baltimore, and New York, offer to help a 25-year-old “pimp” wearing a derby hat and chinchilla shoulder throw and his “prostitute” lie about their business in order to buy a home. And even more so when the preposterously dressed duo suggested that they’d be bringing in underage girls from Central America to work at their brothel.
ACORN has said that its offices in four cities declined to take the bait. Terrific, that means that only three out of seven ACORN offices were willing to commit fraud to help people set up a brothel.
Liberals have been attacking the videos by saying that the two videomakers, James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, are right-wing advocates. Who cares? O’Keefe and Giles got some important things wrong, like the amount of federal money received by ACORN, but there’s no denying the central claims and power of their work. Nor does it matter that the case is now being picked up and exploited by Fox News, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity, which in no way undermines the journalists’ work.
Elsewhere you hear that this is only the kind of work trained professionals in the mainstream media should do. Except of course no one in the mainstream media would have done the story. The most idiotic defense came from Robert Borosage, co-director of the liberal Campaign for America’s Future, as reported in the New York Times. Borosage, said the newspaper, described the tactics used against Acorn as “McCarthyite,” adding, “This is dangerous stuff. I don’t think progressives will sit back and let this gain momentum.”
So it seems that progressives will sit back and politely watch Obama gut his own health care reform bill, and also sit back and say very little about him inheriting the Bush strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, they have to draw a line in the sand somewhere and here it is: If you want to open up a whorehouse for underage immigrant girls, we will oppose anyone trying to stop ACORN from helping you out.
where’s the ‘barf alert’??
Did you actually read it?
“If you want to open up a whorehouse for underage immigrant girls, we will oppose anyone trying to stop ACORN from helping you out.”
It must be terrible to be a ditzy Lib.
Always somebody wanting to make sure government and its croney offshoots never get held accountable.
Harpers isn’t exactly the bastion of conservative print media...
Never forget yhat Obama told this nefarious group that they would have a strong voice in his agenda as President!
Yes, but this article is pretty fair, and it actually lauds the sting.
Ha! Even when they start to understand, they’ve still got to do the name calling thing. Too funny. They just can’t help themselves. ... (seems like a lot of them are stuck in the 5th grade ‘ugly talk’ mentality)
I can only hope that more than a few of his liberal readers can understand that, yes, what these young journalists did IS, indeed, relevant! Every single lib whose eyes are opened, is a good thing.
Refresh my memory -- what did Borosage have to say about the Food Lion "sting", where the reporter got a job undercover to prove FL was relabeling and selling meat past its sell-by day. Unfortunately, FL wasn't doing that, so the reporter had to do it himself to get the story. I forget which network it was.
And did he condemn the ginned-up "exploding gas tank" story?
I believe the number has gone from three to five, as far as has been reported.
That’s not the whole sentence, you need to stare with the part BEFORE the colon.
start, not stare
did he only see three vid’s or is he only admitting to three of five vids from around the country???
By golly, I think its beginning to snow in hell!
Mr. Silverstein appears to be a journalist. What's he doing working for the MSM -- now known as the state controlled American media (SCAM)?
A liberal who actually thought that his buddies disapproved of such things as smuggling children to be used as sex toys for profit.
Now he knows different and is upset. A possible convert, even. A liberal mugged by reality....
But now he's getting the drift. The truth about his "friends" is that they not only don't care about this, they actually approve of it.
The first words elicit a strong barf alert:
“I’ve always admired the work of ACORN ...”
The rest of the article is somewhat balanced but the first words are a mouthful.
I couldn't agree more. An Independent Council needs to have an investigation of ACORN and find out the truth. They could be completely innocent.
That was my take.
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