Comments on: About ACORN

By: ACORN Folds - Joshua Malbin

ACORN Folds - Joshua Malbin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:41:30 +0000

[...] Joshua Malbin on Mar.22, 2010, under Politics As I’ve said before, community development groups will be careful to steer clear of politics from now on, leaving poor [...]

By: More ACORN - Joshua Malbin

More ACORN - Joshua Malbin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:49:10 +0000

[...] Josh K-sky on Sep.22, 2009, under Politics 1. The “Defund ACORN Act” passed by 173 Republicans and 172 Democrats, prohibits “Federal funds from going [...]

By: John B. Cannon

John B. Cannon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:23:15 +0000

Glenn Beck made it quite clear he’s going to keep redbaiting … now 2 for 2 with Van Jones and ACORN, why would he stop?

Incidentally, I think that ACORN is the one left-of-center group on a national basis which actually did effective work around the economic crisis and grew as a result. Chilling stuff.

By: Josh K-sky

Josh K-sky — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:34:58 +0000

You keep beating me to my posts. Well said. I'm okay with a certain amount of loss-cutting; Van Jones is much more effective an activist outside the White House than a target within. But throwing ACORN under the homicidally driverless bus is, as you point out, dumb in addition to cruel. Commenting at Unfogged, Witt had this to say:

I also think that the anti-ACORN folks are benefiting from the fact that most people have not had the experience of being in a storefront nonprofit in a bad neighborhood. You never know who is going to walk in the door, what kind of hair-trigger reaction they're on, and what's going to set them off. I think it was someone at Pandagon who said "Don't tick off the crazy people" was probably part of the mindset. Humoring crazy people* can be an important part of keeping your staff and your other clients safe.

...which I think is exactly right, and all the perspective you need to "defend" ACORN against this absurdly effective attack. Also, Conason.