Wait, I Thought These Were Smears?

Just the other day one Bertha Lewis, CEO of Barack Obama's ACORN, weakly claimed the videos exposing their criminal enterprise were "smears" by evil right wingers, who turn out to be a couple of twenty-somethings who've already earned a Pulitzer Prize while running rings around the antique media.

Lewis squealed:

Bertha Lewis, Acorn's chief organiser, said the sting was an attempt to smear Mr Obama. "It is no coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction."

She added: "We are the boogeyman for the Right wing and its echo chambers."

Cut to today.

The embattled community organization ACORN abruptly suspended some programs and ordered new training for its workers this afternoon in effort to stem growing outrage over its activities.

ACORN announced the steps one day after top city and state officials moved to freeze funding to the sprawling community group while Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes probes questionable conduct by its employees.

The furor was ignited last week when two employees in ACORN's Brooklyn office were caught in an nationwide hidden-camera sting giving illicit financial advice to a young couple who said they wanted to start a brothel.

"We have all been deeply disturbed by what we’ve seen in some of these videos," Bertha Lewis, CEO of the national ACORN group, said in a statement. "We will go to whatever lengths necessary to reestablish the public trust. We must get this process right, so the good work can go forward."

Uh, but I thought these were smears out to derail ObamaCare, Bertha? Why are you disturbed now over the videos when you weren't the other day?

Lewis said an independent advisory council appointed earlier this year by ACORN would name an outside investigator "to conduct a thorough review of all of the organizations relevant systems and processes."

An independent council appointed by ACORN. Hmmm. Who exactly is on this council that was (ahem) appointed by ACORN?

No, what we need is a special prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Eric Holder, who's been conspicuously silent the past week.

Meanwhile, another bomb is set to drop tonight at 9 ET.

Stay tuned.

Update: Here's their panel.

“A Soros hack, an SEIU thug, someone who pleaded to lying to the FBI, and a Kennedy.” All that’s missing are a few pimps and prostitutes for “technical expertise.”