What About ACORN-gate?
December 8, 2009 at 5:24 PM Leave a comment
The media — thanks to Fox “News” pushing it — is all over “Climate-gate” today but so far, I haven’t seen any reports about what should be called “ACORN-gate.”
The Massahussetts Attorney General released a report yesterday about the scandal created by two right-wing activists who posed as a pimp and a prostitute and filmed rogue ACORN employees giving them “advice” on how to break the law. The AG’s report found that while the employees did nothing illegal, they did act unprofessionally and inappropriately.
The AG also found that the videos appeared to have been edited, “in some cases substantially:”
including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O’Keefe’s and Ms. Giles’s comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.
Responding to the report, Robert Borosage, of the progressive Campaign for America’s Future, declared that, “an organization that has done remarkable work organizing and empowering the poorest Americans was targeted and slurred by a right-wing hit team, then persecuted by legislators who should have known better.”
Amen. I still can’t believe Democrats went along with that. They’re still afraid of their own shadow despite the message voters sent them last November.
So anyway, where’s the outrage?
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