Posted on 12/08/2009 7:15:58 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
The newly released "independent" review of the ACORN undercover prostitution video saga is a breathtakingly audacious work of fiction.
There is hardly a word of truth to be found anywhere in the document's 47 pages. The report unveiled yesterday by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger is an all-you-can-eat buffet of lies and distortions that faults ACORN only for poor management practices.
No wonder those who organized the news teleconference yesterday kept the event so brief. The call lasted just 36 minutes, an amazingly brief period considering the level of public interest in ACORN's ongoing scandals and the complexity of the issues involved. Within that, the question-and-answer session was barely 23 minutes long.
Only five reporters were called upon and four of them lobbed softballs. One of the so-called reporters was actually politics professor Peter Dreier of Occidental College, a consultant to ACORN who wrote a report blaming the media for the group's woes. In "First They Came for ACORN," one of Dreier's over-the-top Huffington Post op-eds, the radical academic likened ACORN critics to Nazis.
....the teleconference was abruptly cut off after John Fund of the Wall Street Journal asked a series of tough questions.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
This is so laughable that only it invites scrutiny and further investigation.
The sad part is that many in the state-run media are acting as if this were an independent, objective, report.
A sizeable portion of the people do not believe the media and their hypocrisy only stokes the ire of the voters.
An ACORN lawyer investigates ACORN?
I investigated myself and found myself not guilty.
This is on one side laughable and on the other infuriating, but folks, we won’t stop a Chicago thug with words.
That's right.
Not quite long enough to touch the ground.
Shoot the messenger?
Saul Alinsky would be proud.
Typical Liberal Lies. Liberals live in “constant victim-land.” Even when they’re the perpetrators, they try to finagle victim status.
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