Damnit ACORN, why you gotta give liberal social service organizations a bad name?!?

As I am sure most of you know at this point, two very inspired young conservatives on a shoe-string budget set out with nothing but a fake pimp coat and some very revealing skirts to take down the non-profit organization ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). ACORN is an organization that helps with voter registration, housing, immigration, taxes, health care, wage reform, and many other things for underserved and needy populations. It has been the notorious target of many conservative organizations and has been thought of generally by conservatives to be kinda shady in the past, particularly when it came to voter registration drives.

Thus, it is unsurprising that two enterprising young wannabe conservative reporters would chose to target this organization in some sort of sting operation. What is surprising is what they were able to show. In office after office (Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn, San Bernardino, Calif., and San Diego) the two young wannabes posed as a politician pimp and prostitute looking to create a brothel using underaged girls trafficked in illegally from El Salvador. They then caught on tape ACORN staff more then willing to help them set up their "business" and work out ways around any legal issues they might have. Some of the videos and the things that the staff say in them are just downright amazing.

Naturally there will be an investigation, but ACORN has already fired most of the people in the videos and is taking steps towards better training for the people who do work for them. They have also lost a lot of the government funding that they have received. All of which does seems to point to at least some sort of culpability to what is being shown in these here videos and most importantly ACORN has definitely lost a whole heck of a lot of face with these videos coming out whether they are true or not. And in a time where the county I live in is considering cutting all of the funds of legit and wonderful human service organizations, it makes me terribly sad to see such a widely know liberal human service organization giving the rest of us liberals and our organizations a bad name. Seriously people, WTF?

Place to see all of the videos and the back story as they tell it

ACORN Website

Washington Post Article on how the two wannabes got together