Et Tu Rupert?
by digby
Here’s how the NY Post reports on the results of the Brooklyn DA’s investigation of the ACORN “stings”
ACORN set up by vidiots: DA
The video that unleashed a firestorm of criticism on the activist group ACORN was a “heavily edited” splice job that only made it appear as though the organization’s workers were advising a pimp and prostitute on how to get a mortgage, sources said yesterday.
The findings by the Brooklyn DA, following a 5½-month probe into the video, secretly recorded by conservative provocateurs James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, means that no charges will be filed.
Many of the seemingly crime-encouraging answers were taken out of context so as to appear more sinister, sources said.
Coming from Murdoch’s empire, that’s pretty impressive. (Maybe they’re jealous of Breitbart?)
Any glee, however, must be tempered by the comments, of which this is sadly representative:
If it looks like a bourough that produces nothing but crime, and everyone there looks and acts like a criminal, and the entire area is merely a parasite on manhattan’s hiney that produces nothing but crime and criminals, then its a given that the DA from this crimeridden cesspool is one of those more responsible for its creation then its elimination. Once we tighten up the welfare laws in this city (and we had durn well better do that soon before all the taxpayers leave), these entitled, criminal, protected, uneducated, incompetent ACORN types will continue to SCAM US ALL with impunity. Try feeding yourself for once in this life before you put your lips to the teat of social services and gubment money.
Any more questions about what motivated Breitbart or all the other “constitutional conservatives” to go after ACORN?
h/t to Eric Martin at Obsidian Wings who added:
Even the headline is worthy, “ACORN Set Up by Vidiots.” Only, it wasn’t only ACORN that was played by the “vidiots.” You’d have to include in that hall of shame the New York Times (who, after the faux revelations, decided to dedicate personnel to following “issues that are dominating Fox News and talk radio” more intently so as not to miss the next ACORN-esque bombshell…or dud) as well as the Democrats in Washington, who defunded a legitimate, valuable community organization based on nothing short of malicious fraud.
Exactly.