Big Government’s Maura Flynn points to NPR’s coverage of the ACORN pediatric prostitution counseling scandal currently rocking the progressive world. Specifically, she highlights a tremendously bigoted (the soft, low expectation kind) passage in a report by NPR’s Frank James.
“It’s also important to keep in mind that ACORN’s workers are coming from the same low-income neighborhoods the organization serves, with all that entails — poor schools, high crime and the sorts of social problems that have been documented for decades.”
“So the flaws conservatives are pointing out about ACORN are not so much problems associated with that organization per se but more about the problems of being poor and minority in urban America.”
NPR: ‘What more can you expect from the great unwashed’
One could correctly assume that ACORN has done very little to solve the problems of inner-city neighborhoods, even after recieving millions of taxpayer dollars.
How about this one: People who are rich are corrupt because they are raised to be corrupt. Sadly, they are stuck in their corruption. It is part of their neighborhood and their culture to keep their wealth and power, so we should excuse them from corruptions because they can’t help it. It is just the way it is without hope of change. Let us not make them feel bad by pointing it out to them. Think NPR would follow the logic?
The question is just screaming to be posed: How many ACORN locations did these “investigators” (Inquisitors?) have to infiltrate before they were able to implicate three corrupt officials?
Has anyone bothered to ask that question?
I smell a rat. Better still, I smell a FOX.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Why, Tom, how brilliant of you. I’m sure you asked the same important question when the Catholic Church (since you brought up Inquisitors) was rocked by scandal in recent years, right? After all, it is an organization that has been around for 2000 years and has millions and millions of members, but a few bad apples made for a media feeding frenzy despite the fact that it is not tax payer funded. You still hear about it (and the Inquisition) ad nauseum.
How much corruption would it take to sway you? How much human trafficking would it take to become ACORN’s fault instead of Fox’s?
Corruption is corruption where ever or whoever finds it!
You’re right, I smell Fox News, too, and it smells like a hot cup of coffee in the morning, so wake up!