For months during last year’s presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn, which had done some work for the campaign.At the video, Bill O'Reilly, "The Collapse of ACORN."
But it took amateur actors, posing as a prostitute and a pimp and recorded on hidden cameras in visits to Acorn offices, to send government officials scrambling in recent days to sever ties with the organization.
Conservative advocates and broadcasters were gleeful about the success of the tactics in exposing Acorn workers, who appeared to blithely encourage prostitution and tax evasion. It was, in effect, the latest scalp claimed by those on the right who have made no secret of their hope to weaken the Obama administration by attacking allies and appointees they view as leftist.
The Acorn controversy came a week after the resignation of Van Jones, a White House environmental official attacked by conservatives, led by Glenn Beck of Fox News Channel, for once signing a petition suggesting that Bush administration officials might have deliberately permitted the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Even before Mr. Jones stepped down, Mr. Beck had sent a message to supporters on Twitter urging them to “find everything you can” on three other Obama appointees.
Conservatives believe that they have hit upon a winning formula for such attacks: mobilizing people to dig up dirt, trumpeting it on talk radio and television, prompting Congress to weigh in and demanding action from the Obama administration.
See also, Big Government, "The Science Behind the Acorn Sting." (Via Memeorandum.)
4 comments:
Wow, kinda like the last 8 years in reverse!
The question is just screaming to be posed: How many ACORN locations did these "investigators" (Inquisitors?) have to infiltrate before they were able to implicate three corrupt officials?
Has anyone bothered to ask that question?
I smell a rat. Better still, I smell a FOX.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Yes, Tom Degan, somebody did ask that question. That somebody was Glenn Beck, and I heard him ask it on his radio show yesterday.
And James O'Keefe answered that is they only visited the ones in the videos, and they only spoke with the people in the videos.
But even if they had visited a dozen or more offices to get these videos, what difference would it make? None.
Let's be clear - this is not some sting operation going to tax advisors and grilling them on the tax code, and then "gotcha" if they get one wrong.
O'Keefe and Giles presented themselves as pimp and prostitute, and said they were going to import 13 year old girls to use in their prostitution business, and the ACORN employees didn't bat an eye.
Couple that with all of the voter registration fraud and you have a criminal organization.
The Democrts stoop to creating a "grass roots" gang of criminals and thugs who intimidate voters, advise on tax and voter fraud and ways to scam the banks and government, and enable crime in the pursuit of ready cash.
Common people object, but they are ridiculed. Inevitably the abuses become so obvious that anyone can see (and document) them. Eventually, many people do and are outraged.
And this is described as "Conservatives Find Winning Formula in ACORN Attacks" ...
Have these people no shame? No shame at all?
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