FLG Loves How The AP Is Framing The Acorn Issue

The third paragraph in an article about how the senate is denying ACORN funds sets up the context:

The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C

Let's break this down sentence by sentence to see what they are really saying.

The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income.

The group is suffering bad publicity. Why? I ask. Oh, because two conservative activists posed as prostitute and pimp with hidden cameras. That doesn't seem fair to ACORN. And then the got advice from ACORN employees on how to buy a house and how to file their taxes. What's the big deal? Seems like they were only trying to help.

Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.

Two other videos? Is there some sort of pattern going on here that I need to worry about. Oh, wait. It's that silly Fox News Channel again. They're always causing trouble. **Shaking fist angrily at the computer screen**

In all seriousness, who pointed this all out is entirely beside the point. ACORN acted as accomplice, well the employees would have been accomplices if the crimes had been real. They didn't just offer tax advice. They were talking about tax fraud. They didn't just help with house buying tips. They were talking about how to setup a cathouse, including, mind you, human trafficking for sex.

I've heard some say this was entrapment. Well, I have little patience for that argument. If somebody comes in to your office and says they're Auric Goldfinger and they'd like to rob Fort Knox and you go along with it, that's not entrapment. You are an idiot and morally retarded. The actual scenario isn't too far off.

If this only happened once, then I'd accept that ACORN had a couple of idiotic, morally retarded employees. Ah, but when it happens at multiple offices, then the entire organization is idiotic and morally retarded. Given the people from the organization that I've heard on the radio articulating the organization's policy positions, I cannot say that I'm surprised.

And it pisses me off that the media is whitewashing this.