ACORN Hammered Again

But it's not an institutional problem, you know:

Patterico adds:

The White House is already distancing itself from ACORN. Obama, both as a candidate and as President, has a history of throwing allies under the bus when they become inconvenient. ACORN has become very inconvenient.

ACORN, by the way, has really stepped up to the plate and called an audit of itself to root out all those bad apples. Of course, it's simply a ruse to get some of the pressure off. Case in point:

Who will conduct the “independent review?” Round up the usual suspects:

The Council includes many prominent Democrats, including the man who helped President Obama Transition Team, John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress; former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; Andrew Stern, International President of the Service Employees International Union; and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.

Cisneros, who worked regularly with ACORN as HUD Secretary, would later plead guilty to lying to the FBI to cover up a political embarrassment. Perfect choice. Townsend is so inependent that she called the stories of ACORN’s frequent involvement in voter fraud a “desperate smokescreen maneuver” masking an extensive coast-to-coast GOP push to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in 2008. No bias there. Stern heads SEIU, which has a very cozy relationship with ACORN. How cozy? ACORN controls or significantly dominates several SEIU chapters. And Stern hand-picked ACORN’s Wade Rathke to direct SEIU’s nationwide organizing projects. He could not be more independent. And Podesta runs the Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which has been coordinating the public defense of ACORN this summer. He might be even more independent than Andy Stern.

Glad to see that ACORN is taking this all so seriously.

By the way, who are these two investigators who have gone such a long way toward bringing down a gigantic, corrupt, radical Left-wing group, thus saving literally billions of taxpayer dollars? Just a couple of kids on a mission, really. Cool. Good for them!

So how's the mainstream media coming along on their coverage of this obvious scandal? Surely they've picked up the story and run with it by now, right?

[crickets]

Apparently, they haven't yet figured out a way to spin this into something positive for ACORN, so they're still ignoring it.

Jon Stewart says it all with this awesome shelling of the MSM:

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Bottom line: ACORN is on the ropes, and the mainstream media is once again proven to be merely the propaganda department of the Obama administration.

There's my two cents.


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