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The ever-reliable MediaMatters has released its findings regarding the ACORN “Prostitution” story:

Let us now turn to the content of the videos themselves. Again, it does appear that in certain cases, ACORN employees willfully broke the law, and they should be punished accordingly. But all of a sudden, these videos — four, thus far — are being promoted as unimpeachable proof that all of ACORN is equally corrupt — all 1,200 chapters and thousands of ACORN employees. This is literally the opposite of how a credible investigation is supposed to function. Sweeping conclusions should only be drawn after all the facts are in. By comparison, here, the conservative media has a few isolated facts but is willing to extrapolate an entire thesis from them.

MediaMatters is, of course, right, but they’re also wrong, or at least, failing to look at the wider picture in pursuit of defending a Democratic cause célèbre. Continue reading…

Apparently, ACORN is considering a lawsuit against the entire right-wing noise machine.

I’m not even going to bother getting into the fine print here. It may be that ACORN has a point on this; that this event was to one degree or another staged, or whatever.

Instead, I’m just going to point out what should be totally obvious to one and all. ACORN is a non-profit. ACORN, in fact, stands for Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. ACORN has been caught on some silly stuff before, and this most recent allegation takes the cake. Continue reading…