Andrew Breitbart: ACORN Stalker
November 23, 2009 4:10 pm ET by Brian Frederick
Breitbart's tired ACORN smear campaign took an even lamer turn today with BigGovernment's attempt to manufacture a "San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal." "Licensed" investigator Derrick Roach dug through the garbage of the San Diego office and found some sensitive documents. To be clear, the documents he purportedly found - a few of which BigGovernment provides in the post - contained sensitive employee and donor information and should have been shredded rather than just dumped in the trash dumpster so that such information couldn't be used by anyone else (e.g. rabid right-wingers with an ACORN obsession).
That said, the information found in the documents BigGovernment provides in the post appears to be so inane that the only scandal promises to be if the conservative media actually continues to run with this tired charade. BigGovernment does promise that "[o]ver the weeks and months ahead, BigGovernment.com will continue to release information from this shocking document dump by ACORN, slowly revealing the ugly truth of ACORN: the fact that their stated mission of helping the poor and downtrodden is just a ruse and a cover for an organization that is highly partisan and highly political, and thus rotten to the core." But if there was really anything that damning in the documents, would BigGovernment really wait weeks and months to release it?
And if the information Breitbart and crew found did show hard and fast evidence of anything criminal, isn't Breitbart ethically - if not legally - obligated to turn over such information to the authorities?
But Breitbart's investigation takes a turn toward the bizarre and downright creepy with what Roach claims is a video shot from outside the San Diego ACORN office, showing several purported ACORN employees talking around someone's desk. Roach explains: "[T]he video clip, from the evening of the document dump, shows ACORN operatives clearly engaged in some kind of discussion - likely related to the activities of that evening." Activities of the evening? Like where to grab dinner and drinks? Or maybe they were discussing whether to see "Zombieland" or "Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself." Who knows? But we can be certain that they were discussing something.
Breitbart should do one of two things (or both) immediately: Release everything to the public - tapes, (redacted) documents, etc. - and/or hand everything over to the proper authorities. Unless, of course, it's all just smoke and mirrors...
Pot, kettle.
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The only problem with that observation, is that Breitbart has never denied being a Republican/Independent or what ever he is.
He has certainly never claimed to be bi-partisan, and I doubt he's ever said he was un-biased. He's on a "crusade" against a group he feels is wrong and corrupt.
And don't forget, ACORN was up to its neck in scandals before Breitbart came along, Voter Fraud, Embezzling, and such. So of course its gonna be a big target to any one that thinks it deserves a little more scrutiny.
But I must say I love how the liberals clap and applaud when Micheal Moore tries to trap, what he believes are, corrupt businesses and such. Then they boo, cry, and yell foul when its done to an organization that they back.... curious.
But I must say, when someone brings down the house on ANY business/organization its almost always some kind of person vendetta. Again, look at Moore, you think he truly cares about anyone but himself? Everything he does is a personal vendetta to make money. The whistle blowers at Enron wouldn't have done what they had done if they hadn't been screwed. You'd be hard pressed these days to find someone who is spending their own time and money to "root out corruption" for purely altruistic reasons. For Breitbart I'm sure he sees fame as "The Man Who Brought Down ACORN" or other such "Communist" Orgs.
ACORN's primary mission is advocating for and assistance of the poor, including financial assistance and voter registration. That there may be problems in quality control, and in sufficiently vetting their staff, should not be construed as damning of the organization in general.
And it's positively ludicrous the way that Hannity and the smear brigades have attempted, without basis in fact, to link Obama to the supposedly nefarious scheming of ACORN. It's patently absurd, and frankly quite embarrassing to watch this petty charade play out every night on FOX NEWS.
Whose dirty work is Norah O'Donnell doing when she beats up on a 17-year old girl in line for a book signing?
Of course Breitbart is from the right. What's wrong with that?
As far as Obama putting ACORN in the mess its in, or basically "OKing" the mess its gotten itself into, that I don't entirely believe. All I know about his link to them is he was their lawyer, and he's donated TONS of $ to them. But you can't dismiss the fact that there is obviously some rotten people within the organization. Does that damn ACORN in total? I don't know, I guess it depends on how high up the corruption goes. Although having one of their CEO's, or what ever the guy was, embezzling tons of $ doesn't bode well for them.
My only question is that, is corruption ok as long as its within an organization that "helps the poor" but not ok when its in a big corporation? Personally, I think corruption is corruption regardless of company/organization. Because, with the exception to not having feature length "documentaries" it seems these folks are just the "Right's" answer to Moore. I mean, isn't this how Micheal Moore started? Although I'm not sure he did undercover work, but he would go to corporations and try to harass them, and show them in a negative light? To me it just seems Breitbart and the two kids seem to have just taken Moore's playbook, and expanded on it is all.
BTW, I have not yet made up my mind on Breitbart, he does seem a bit shady, but that just may be my typical conservative skepticism. Ya know, "Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see."
"...but that's just my opinion, I could be wrong..." --Dennis Miller
Breitbart just said that an organization that is partisan and political is THUS rotten to the core.
If Breitbart doesn't deny being partisan and political, then he's admitting to being rotten to the core. By his own logic.
Mediamatters . . you do NOT matter.
The papers document many aspects of corruption, not the least of which is that they were dumped illegally -- illegally because they contain personal info like SSNs and other data, but also illegally because they were dumped in the middle of an investigation.
In the past, ACORN has done nothing but lie, and Breitbart and Co. have done nothing but tell the truth. And Media Mutters will stand idly by, mocking and jeering, but contributing nothing of substance to this story.
There are actually papers found in the trash that say they were put there illegally? You guys are really going off the deep end, aren't you?
Look out ! Over there! ACORN !!