Gee, it's too bad it isn't the media's job to determine whether public accusations have any objective merit. I mean, doing something like that would require journalistic motivation and integrity.

I read the entire PDF. I don't expect that there will be any word of this report on the shows that trashed this organization, despite their claims of being "fair and balanced" and their claim to be a news network. We know who they are. They don't practice journalism, and failed to investigate.

Lawyergate...Bush/Rove firing Republican attorneys because those attorneys would not prosecute ACORN=because there was no evidence that ACORN had done anything wrong. ACORN is there to protect the rights of the ones without legal staff; protect the rights of those who shower after work, the blue collar, the elderly. Those on the right are threatened by this group. Why? Voter registration. The right would prefer that the poor don't vote, (especially since those numbers are growing) because the right wants to legislate for the rich, corporate interests.
It's called class warfare.

The creation of "NEWS" by FOXNoise and the Right has become an epidemic. From Hannity's nightly mash-up of right-wing red meat to actual broadcasts and publication by, you know, the "NEWS" divisions, they have no qualms whatsoever in letting the ideologues into the editing suite and the news pages to chop, assemble, voice-over, take out of context, and redact the facts.

And you know what? To FOXNation, it makes absolutely no difference. Know why? Those edits were done to PROTECT the narrative that they have already embraced, and hold dear to their twisted, ugly hearts.

1. The Gummint sucks
2. Lib-Progressives suck.
3. Obama sucks.
4. Nancy Pelosi sucks
5. Harry Reid sucks.
6. ANYTHING and ANYBODY associated with ANY PART of the above sucks big-time, by extension.

And, by corollary,
7. FOX and HateRadio and the WSJ and the Wash Times and Drudge and POLITICO are the only source of "fair and balanced" news you won't get anywhere else.

ERGO,

ANY narrative or fact that counters any part of the above must be destroyed.

Simple. Question is, what can we do about it?

I really hope ACORN sues these people for defamation and takes everything they own or ever will own. This type of malicious mendacity needs to be punished severely.

Tight larynxed, pre-edited Rethugs worried about 'liberals being shoved down their throats' should take a tip from the roomy throats of corporate media...

I watched the first 22 seconds of the Figgelhorn video -- it doesn't seem germane; indeed, it seems like a promotion, which is a violation of the terms of use.

I felt this story should have had some response from the videographer.

Also, it's not clear how ACORN's investigator could have seen that the audio was lain over when this was not reported widely when it was first being promoted. I suspected the video was carefully edited, but that audio was replaced? What's my media filter for if not to tell me exactly that sort of thing?

I am so happy that ACORN has been exonerated. I hope they go back to registering tons of Democrats.