THAT is what Journalism Really Looks Like!

I take a certain sense of pride as I watch the brou-ha-ha developing in the States this week.

ACORN, that bastion of hope and righteousness, rescuers of the downtrodden and forlorn, is now in the media cross-hairs.

Is it the voter fraud indictments in Miami-Dade? Nope.

How about this reason (Wall Street Journal):

In Ohio in 2004, a worker for one affiliate was given crack cocaine in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey. During a Congressional hearing in Ohio in the aftermath of the 2004 election, officials from several counties in the state explained Acorn's practice of dumping thousands of registration forms in their lap on the submission deadline, even though the forms had been collected months earlier.

Nope.

Could it be this episode after Katrina:

In the following weeks, I was made aware of the fact that ACORN had reopened its New Orleans office (several months after the storm). Various groups from around the city informed me that Acorn was upset with us because we were in “their” community and had not sought approval from ACORN to operate there. I was told that ACORN said that we were “privileged white people who had come to a Black community as saviors and we refused to work with local Black leadership.”

It has to do with a series of videos made by Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe.

(BTW: if you're a knuckle-dragging lout looking for those Giles Bikini Pics, you'd best be prepared to see what the family does for sport, first.)

You may have seen their work by now...

They visited Baltimore, and D.C. and New York...

Black community organizers counseling a white "pimp and prostitute" how to defraud the government. To do what? They counseled these journalists on the "correct" way to marginalize, and sexually exploit 13-16 year-old girls (of ethnic minority) for personal gain.

Buckle up: we're told that the most provocative footage is yet to come.

There was a time when this was journalism. Where the reporter went undercover, asked questions, sought answers, and made even powerful people squirm.

That was the power of the press, from Colonial times, and (before that) the Reformation.

Mainstream Media: I hope you're taking notes. Stories don't come to you, you go find them.

I really hope they get a Pulitzer.
I really hope they shut down Acorn.
I'm really very proud to have once known her.

God Bless you Hannah... enjoy the fruits of your labour.