New York Times scrubs ACORN statement

Shocking !! Except that it is really not. Duane Patterson details how the Times omits ACORN's claim that they rebuffed O'Keefe and Giles' requests for assistance in starting an underage Salvadoran brothel in New York. Of course this was before the released video proved otherwise.

Scott Shane is the writer, and he reports on the story, seeing this series of video stings as another example of how modern day conservatives fight against Barack Obama and the Democrats. The facts Mr. Shane uses in his story are true, and include portions of a statement released last Saturday by ACORN chief organizer, Bertha Lewis. Here's one graph.

In a statement over the weekend, Bertha Lewis, the chief organizer for Acorn, said the bogus prostitute and pimp had spent months visiting numerous Acorn offices, including those in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, before getting the responses they were looking for.

Here's what the statement by Bertha Lewis actually said. I would give you a link to the citation from ACORN's website, but the statement has been disappeared. So instead, I refer you to Big Government's website, which reprinted a copy of the statement before it vanished.

This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we’ve all recently seen.

Notice any cities in Ms. Lewis' litany of failed attempts by O'Keefe and Giles that do not appear in Mr. Shane's list? I'll give you a hint. It's the largest city in the nation. Need a second hint? It also is the city that the Times is purportedly in business to serve. That's right, New York.

Why is this important? After the release of the first two videos in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., Ms. Lewis wrote the statement on Saturday trying to reassure supporters that this was nothing but a racist smear campaign by Fox News, and tried to leave the impression that this stunt had failed far more times that it had succeeded, and in doing so, mentioned some pretty high profile big cities, including New York. Two days after her statement, the New York videos were made public, making the heart of Ms. Lewis' claim inaccurate

Should we consider it progress that the Times reported the story at all??