"You Can Tell a Lot About People by Who[m] They Choose to Demonize"An incisive analysis of the attacks on Acorn and the Senate vote to defund them. Take a look.http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2009/09/you-can-tell-lot-about-people-by-who.html(ht: Glenn Greenwald)Update: The Times has a profile of the provocateur who made the video of Acorn workers. He is the pimp in the videos andhas provokedbefore. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/us/19sting.htmlPatrick Molloy has helpfully posted this link to the New York Post story on our budding journalists andtheir plans:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/duo_who_turned_this_trick_2sjQ58MdtwmSXxhfVELmZLHappy are they who grind the faces of the poor. They shall have a career and prosper.And here, The typical American solution to the problem, "Acorn Sues Makers of Video"http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/23/us/AP-US-ACORN-Lawsuit.html?_r=1&hp

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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