The New York Times, a helpful instrument in the right’s war on Acorn, which, along with the spinelessness of Congressional Democrats has now driven the group to bankruptcy, does not even have the grace to change its reporting in the face of the overwhelming evidence:
This week, the Maryland chapter announced that it would not reopen its offices, which were shuttered in September in the wake of a widely publicized series of video recordings made by two conservative activists, posing as a prostitute and a pimp, who secretly filmed Acorn workers providing them tax advice. In the videos, Acorn workers told one of the activists, James E. O’Keefe III, how to hide prostitution activities from the authorities and avoid taxes, raising no objections to his proposed criminal activities.
The article mentions the fact that the group was cleared of wrongdoing, but never mentions the fact that O’Keefe did not pose as a pimp, he just pretended to pose as a pimp on Fox TV shows. Nor, for that matter, did the Acorn people advise them on how to avoid taxes. But why bother to change a good story just because it’s not true?
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