The ACORNS Are Stealing The Election!
by digby
At a short press availability in his campaign office here, NY-23 Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman said that a GOTV volunteer’s tires had been slashed, and all but blamed Democrats for the dirty trick. “There are reports that they’re bringing in the troops and they’re bringing in ACORN,” said Hoffman. “I think the Democrats are doing anything they possibly can to steal this election away from the 23rd district.” The campaign gave reporters the name and phone number of Jeremy Kain, the volunteer who claimed to have his tires slashed, but asked to confirm whether he was accusing the Democrats of supressing the vote, Hoffman started to backtrack: ‘We’ve called in the police and the police will be investigating.” The campaign is pushing this story hard after a wave of morning reports that Hoffman’s grassroots supporters were misbehaving. Attacks on ACORN, and allegations that Democrats are trying to steal this election, have been striking components Hoffman’s hard-edged late-game messaging.
Click over to find out what really happened with the tire…
I just hope that all the major networks and newspapers assign a special reporter to look into these accusations by the teabaggers’ darling. Certainly Fox will be running with them and everyone knows that the mainstream press has been remiss by failing to follow up on such important Fox investigations.
It’s actually a smart move. Since Fox has intimidated the pants off of the other news organizations, they will bend over backwards to be “fair and balanced” thus lending credence to the ACORN meme.
I just hope they don’t end up accidentally arresting Hoffman’s African American staffer in their zeal to reveal the ACORNs in the woodpile.
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