Friday, September 11, 2009

Census Bureau Boots Obama's Pals From ACORN

After a second embarrassing revelation of pimping today, the U.S. Census Bureau is severing ties with the criminal enterprise known as ACORN.

I saw Bret Baier note this on FNC a few minutes ago and the story is developing. I know Glenn Beck has been hammering away at the absurdity of the outfit working on the census, so this will make it a third triumph for him over Obama in less than a week.

Keith Olbermann was unavailable for speshul komment.
The Census Director has sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that the Census Bureau is severing all ties with the community organizing group for all work having to do with the 2010 census. ACORN had previously been tapped to help with low level data gathering. A copy of the Director's letter has been sent to Congress and relevant committees, as well as ACORN.

This latest news comes as two more ACORN officials were fired Friday after a second video surfaced showing staffers in the community organizers' Washington office offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute acquire illegal home loans that would help them set up a brothel.

The firings came less than 24 hours after another pair of ACORN officials from the group's Baltimore office were canned for instructing the "pimp" and "prostitute" how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that pair said they wanted to import to work as child prostitutes.

Both of the encounters were videotaped on a hidden camera wielded by 25-year-old independent filmmaker James O'Keefe, posing as the pimp — tapes that have ignited calls for investigations of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

The group's leaders said Friday they were "appalled and angry" at what their staffers had done, but insisted the videos were part of a political "smear" campaign and not representative of the institution as a whole.
Good grief, here we go again with the smear nonsense. The same lame claptrap used by the recently departed Communist Truther Van Jones.

Weak. Very weak.

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