Sometimes it takes an outsider like Andrew Breitbart to show the press corps the way.

Slate by Jack Shafer | Sep. 24, 2009 (Opinion)

sometimes it takes an outsider to show the press corps the way

... Andrew Breitbart is a conservative... and Matt Drudge protégé. Lately, he has distributed a series of videos... in which the duo visits various ACORN offices with a hidden camera, pretending to be a pimp and prostitute seeking advice on setting up a brothel. Full Story »

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by Kim C. Maynard - Sep. 25, 2009

Shafer provides a fair, if not somewhat bland overview of the suddenly everywhere story of ACORN's fall from grace, a fall that, following many months of relentless bashing from the Right, was a mere stepstool from the hard, cold ground. While the story appears factual, this is the stuff of screen plays and made for TV Monday night specials, opposite footbal. I would have liked to see a little bit more about why, while under such intense scrutiny, the ACORN management didn't. Manage that is. Overall a calm and reasoned read.

The Right was out to hang ACORN, because gave voice to the poor and disenfranchised, and because the voices of these same poor are seldom raised to the benefit of the Right. ACORN abligingly stuck out their neck and handed them the rope.