Categorical Aperitif

With fortuitous timing, Jim Hightower offers a great cut-the-crap overview of the manufactured controversy surrounding ACORN—right before the dirty-tricks apprentice who shot (and carefully edited) covert video in a lame takedown attempt last year gets busted trying to bug a Congressional office.

Anything that seeks to empower the poor must be demonized by any means necessary, up to and including outright mendacity. Judging by their reactions to public health care, organized labor, voter registration drives, etc., this seems to be a credo for some on the right.

// posted by nash @ 10:20 AM