The right wing's favorite political football, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, has announced that it will be closing down. What brought down the once-strong force for justice for low-income Americans?
Concerted attacks from the right were the main cause, but, Jim Naureckas notes, inaccurate reporting by the nation's major news outlets didn't help. Naureckas is the editor of Extra!, the magazine put out by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the media watchdog organization, and he joins Laura to talk about the problems with the newspapers' accounts of the ACORN saga.
My Daughter went to the caucus here in MN. When she got to the site, she found it was surrounded by ACORN members, replete w/shirts and signs supporting Obama. They were yelling and screaming and blocking the entrance. She is a young woman, and was determined to vote. She had to literally fight her way to get inside. After voting, there were to be meetings and discussions, but she said there was so much yelling and noise from the Obama/ACORN supporters, that she just wanted to leave and go home. Daughter told me that as she was leaving, she noticed that several elderly persons looked at the mob outside the entrance, and just turned around and left w/o trying to fight their way inside. I wonder at how many places this occurred????
This was her second ACORN experience. While walking on her way to work several weeks before this, she was surrounded by persons dressed in ACORN shirts and waving Obama signs. They demanded to know “Why she had that Edwards button on her coat” and “Why was she going to vote for that WHITE MAN”? The campus police saw what was happening, and came over and told them to get away from her.
So as far as ACORN is concerned…good riddance to bad rubbish!!!!
By barb on March 26th, 2010 at 6:18 pm