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ACORN Paste

You may recall that several weeks ago I noted a Patterico post wherein he demolished the lies that were being perpetrated on behalf of ACORN. Latest news is that ACORN is disbanding permanently, although the administration has tried to come to their aid while the HCR debate was at its hottest. At any rate, they're supposed to be closing their offices nationwide on 4/1, though that being April Fools Day, I will believe it when their hydra-headed self-revisions haven't raised their head for longer than Osama bin Laden.

Clark Hoyt of the Times, having researched the evidence, finds that James O'Keefe did indeed pose as a pimp when he went into ACORN offices with "prostitute" Hannah Giles. We've noted that the defense has been to suggest that because he wasn't wearing outlandish pimp gear when he went to those offices, he was not posing as a pimp, though the unedited transcripts have been made available and clearly establish otherwise, and Breitbart has offered to sit down for a viewing of the unedited videos and auditing of the unedited tapes with anyone from the MSM who has been trotting out this red herring. So Hoyt's declaration has caused a great deal of gnashing pseudo-consternation on the part of Brad Friedman, who has greatly invested himself in peddling these falsehoods. Indeed, he wants his readers to deliver their OUTRAGE that such OUTRAGEOUS truths could be conveyed by The NYT.

Meanwhile, Friedman continues to claim that ACORN Housing is an entity separate from ACORN, though the use of shell corporations and slushing of funds has been documented. ACORN's housing wing was a clearinghouse for fraudulent mortgage applications; ACORN's voter registration activities were frequently fraudulent, and its treatment of its employees was abusive and invited fraud; it was fraudulent for ACORN to represent any of its political activities as non-partisan. Yet despite all of this fraud, and counseling to fraud, Friedman claims that O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart are dishonest.

There is something frankly diabolical about such a one as Friedman.

Dan Collins

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