Now we know what community organizers do

Bruce Tyson:

"Ever since Sarah Palin highlighted the nebulous 'Community Organizer' credential, we’ve been learning about what exactly Community Organizers do."

Indeed:



From the Baltimore Sun's Second Opinion blog, Andy Green:

Yes, taped with a hidden camera, two Baltimore ACORN workers give advice to a man and a woman identifying themselves as a pimp and a prostitute on how to evade the authorities and cheat on their taxes, including how to claim 13 underage El Salvadoran sex slaves as dependents. At no point in the video do the ACORN workers bat an eyelash or give any impression that they find this unusual.

Once the video became public, ACORN promptly fired the two workers, though it's hard to know how seriously to take the organization's reaction. Baltimore ACORN board chairman Sonja Merchant-Jones told WJZ-TV that "We've investigated and we found nothing that they did to be illegal. Absolutely zero." Really? Advising someone to claim girls trafficked into the country illegally as sex workers as dependents on her tax returns?

Green was willing to give ACORN a break and chalk it up as an isolated incident until a second video, this one shot in the Washington, DC ACORN office, showed ACORN staffers proposing a way for the supposed hooker to set up a phony business to hide earnings from prostitution:

"For those of you criticizing me for defending ACORN here, I'd like to say the existence of the second video has erased what little benefit of the doubt I was willing to extend before."

The Census Bureau figured out that it probably couldn't get away with cutting ACORN slack either, and the Director sent a letter to ACORN's National Headquarters saying that the Bureau is severing all ties with these community organizers for all work ACORN was doing for the 2010 census.

Too bad ACORN doesn't still have that sharp young lawyer, Barack Obama, who used to represent them. Tyson concludes:

"Oh yeah! Don’t forget that Obama is one of these people. No wonder he’s such a thug!"

The 'Crat Culture of Corruption: It's the Chicago Way...

First Update: The young lady playing the role of Kenya the "prostitute" is in real life the daughter of Doug Giles, Townhall.com columnist, Clash Radio host and Christian youth pastor. More from Stacy McCain, who interviewed Doug.

Second Update: Oops, they did it again! This time in Brooklyn.

Third Update: ACORN Loses On Housing Funds in Senate, 83-7.

- JP