Posted on 10/24/2009 7:26:36 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature
I have sent the following e-mail to Nick Goldberg, the Editorial Page Editor for the Los Angeles Times:
Nick,
A recent op-ed in your paper defending ACORN makes at least two factual misstatements: 1) that ACORN staff offered to help shield an underage prostitution ring at only two offices, and 2) that no voter fraudulently registered to vote by ACORN had ever actually cast a ballot. Furthermore, your paper failed to disclose that the author of the op-ed, Peter Dreier, has been a (presumably paid) consultant for ACORN in the past . . . something that might help explain how he botched the facts so badly.
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This e-mail will be a little long, because Im showing my work. While it might seem like an imposition to ask you to read such a long e-mail, I believe Im doing you a favor, because Im laying out the research necessary to show that corrections are warranted.
Lets start with Dreiers false claim that only two offices offered to help shield an underage prostitution ring:
Two gotcha right-wing activists showed up at about 10 ACORN offices hoping to entice low-level staff to provide tax advice for an illegal prostitution ring. In most ACORN offices, the staff kicked the pair out. In a few cities, staffers called the police. In two offices, however, the staff listened and offered to help. That was wrong. But ACORN immediately fired the errant staffers.
Two offices? Try at least five, if not more. Lets start with the two that Dreier appears to acknowledge.
More at link...
More fine work by Patrick Frey. No one who regularly reads Patterico trusts anything they read in the LA Times.
Excellent.
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