You knew this was coming:
The Acorn employees in Brooklyn who were captured on a hidden camera seeming to offer conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute creative advice on how to get a mortgage have been cleared of wrongdoing by the Brooklyn district attorney's office.
District Attorney Charles J. Hynes said in a statement on Monday that “no criminality has been found” in his investigation of the three employees, who had appeared to advise the woman, who was scantily dressed and identified herself as an “outcall” specialist, not to tell prospective lenders that she was a prostitute and to funnel her earnings to her “pimp” through a third party so that he would not be tied to her.
Obviously this won't help ACORN much, since the damage has already been done. Although it seems that ACORN's enemies at Big Government have moved on to a different line of critique -- that ACORN is somehow comparable to the Ku Klux Klan (via Dave Weigel):
Like ACORN, the Ku Klux Klan operated with impunity until Republican politicians and journalists sounded an alarm. In 1869, Nathan Bedford Forrest, the KKK’s Grand Dragon, ordered the Klan disbanded. Why? The national organization was getting too much attention, so Klansmen would have to soldier on in state-level organizations, such as the Red Shirts in South Carolina and the Men of Justice in Alabama. Nonetheless, most members of these spin-off groups considered themselves to be Klansmen.
That would be Michael Zak, the "historian" who wrote the biographies on the RNC's "GOP Heroes" page, comparing ACORN to an organization that spent decades murdering people in order to terrorize others out of voting. These people really don't want ACORN to go away.
This is the kind of thing the mainstream media decided needed more attention in the aftermath of those ACORN tapes, which have thus far exposed no actual legal wrongdoing. I await their acknowledgment of Andrew Breitbart's latest expose.
-- A. Serwer
