Maddow on ACORN Again: Details Actual Fraud, Child Prostitution, Murder by Federally-Funded Organizations NOT Defunded by Congress

Submitted by Anna on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 07:02

The BradBlog
September 28, 2009

Following on Rachel Maddow’s tremendous coverage last Thursday of the GOP’s years-long witch-hunt of ACORN, and the media’s abysmal job at telling the truth about the lies used to smear the community organization, the MSNBC journalist calls it an “outrage” and kept her promise of following up with another episode on Friday.

Maddow continued her long-overdue exposé, by examining the “Defund ACORN Act of 2009”, which recently passed both houses of Congress by large margins, after sting videos showing low-level ACORN employees behaving stupidly (but breaking no laws) were created and posted by rightwing operatives. As she notes, the Congressional bill appears to be both unconstitutional, and incredibly hypocritical given that other, still-federally funded organizations —- such as Halliburton, Blackwater and many many more —- often receive far more federal funding in a single day than ACORN has received during the organization’s entire lifetime.

Furthermore, those other organizations which still receive billions from the U.S. government, were actually found to have committed actual crimes, such as millions of dollars worth of fraud, have been charged with murder and the deaths of U.S. troops, and even involve child prostitution and sex slavery!...

FULL STORY, VIDEO: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7437