ACORN CLEARED OF WRONGDOING BY NEW YORK PROSECUTORS

You have got to love the crowd that comprises Andrew Breitbart’s internet entourage. See, they can never be wrong, even when we play by the rules they are setting for everyone else. That means conservative propagandist James O’Keefe can be busted with photos at a white supremacist forum, and Breitbart will throw a temper tanrum at a prominent political conference whining about the audacity of associating the two of them with racism saying that doesn’t mean anything, but one of Breitbart’s websites will feature an article afterwards saying that the group ACORN is akin to the Ku Klux Klan. And typical of the modern-day McCarthyists, they will brand anyone that does something they don’t like as a member of ACORN, a title a Brooklyn, NY prosecutor has been bestowed with when he cleared the organization of any criminal wrongdoing after O’Keefe and his partner Hannah Giles posted videos on YouTube of them going into ACORN offices to catch them engaging in criminal behavior. The spins over in Breitbartland are coming fast and furious, but the biggest problem over there is that fewer and fewer people care what they think. It is truly going to be a gas when that crowd has to sit with ACORN in a courtroom as the group gives them their comuppance, and let us not forget that O’Keefe is still dealing with his charges for attempting to tamper with a US Senator’s phone lines. Now, we can’t see little Jimmy going away for any real time, if he does any time at all, but that doesn’t mean he will not spend the rest of his life paying for his BS. The freefall continues.

Reuters

NEW YORK – Employees at the U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN who were caught on video giving tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, New York prosecutors said on Monday.

The organization has been reeling since a YouTube video was disseminated last September showing ACORN workers giving advice on how to flout the law to two conservative activists who posed as a pimp and a prostitute.

The U.S. Congress then voted by wide margins to prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau ended its partnership with the group.

Following a five-month investigation, no criminal wrongdoing was uncovered, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a statement.

The employees involved in the incident at the group’s Brooklyn office were fired and the New York chapter left ACORN and set up a new organization, ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.

Republicans have long accused the group of fraud in registering voters and improperly mixing political and nonpolitical activities. ACORN has denied the allegations.

ACORN plays a significant political role in low-income neighborhoods and in 2008 signed up 1.3 million people to register to vote in areas where Democrats poll well.

The group promotes affordable housing and fights home foreclosures as well as giving tax advice