At National Review, Wendy Long reports that nominee to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals David Hamilton once worked as a fundraiser for ACORN. Naturally, the entire right wing freaks out because ACORN is the new communist party--any minor affiliation denotes a radical ideology and secret desire to overthrow the government and install Hugo Chavez as dictator. Long suggests that there's some quid pro quo involved between the president and ACORN over Hamilton's nomination, perhaps because ACORN fraudulently produced the nine-million vote margin between Barack Obama and John McCain.
But as Kyle points out at Right Wing Watch (via Steve Benen), Long left out some fairly important details. Like the fact that Hamiliton was a fundraiser for ACORN in 1979. For a month. Right after he graduated from college.
Naturally, Long hasn't updated her blog to note that crucial bit of information. She did however, correct a minor error involving Hamilton throwing out evidence based on the fact that law enforcement coerced information out of the defendant's daughter through a high school social worker.
Newsbusters, Powerline, and several other right wing blogs linked to her original post on Hamilton and ACORN. Long couldn't ruin her big "scoop" now could she?
-- A. Serwer
