ACORN the Victim?

" This is performing arts. Okay I'm not. Hopefully. A -- of both the crane. Just one of the many clips there from a couple of freelance journalist who exposed problems at. Acorn the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Since these first aired acorn has lost all kinds of funding and backing and support from both government and private sectors. Now some in the media are defending acorn. Take a look at this from our recent USA today front page story titled. For acorn controversy now a matter of survival that was the headline and in the body of the peace. Acorn which has received about 53 million dollars in federal funds since 1994 has long been a target of conservatives. Because of its ties to Democrats. A tax increase after its aggressive voter registration and get out the vote efforts for President Obama last year. I might point out that a tax increase -- after a couple of acorn employees were seen in what seemed to be you know promoting prostitution and those under government."

" what you say they said was exactly right that the tax increase once it was seen or thought to be seen that they were engaged in fraudulently registering voters all to the benefit of the Democrats now it has. Escalated I think John. In recent days given these videos because what you -- is not only has the US congress voted to spend their connections Census Bureau everybody -- and in the."

" The direction. -- And conservative groups that are promoting policies they disagree with in the 1980s there was outfit called the Legal Services Corp. -- still around. That supposedly was -- help poor people. The conservatives try to get him to funded because they were a lot of money was going out to a lot of places that conservatives thought that the federal government had no business in helping to promote that didn't go anywhere so -- he was very supportive. A Legal Services Corp. Just as they are the goals objectives set acorn but that's a conservative group. Then the whole media approach is something totally different. Why do some people think that acorn has been a victim here of media company."

" I for exactly that reason cal set and that they sympathize state on Saturday they think acorn does good work. And I think -- the servers are being mean picking on them. One of those people doing the picking and his that he is it any justice in winnable surprised me John fund of The Wall Street Journal. Who has been all over acorn for years on below normal book on vote fraud. And he told me just -- today there's a lot more coming all right."

" Well it is very quickly before ago I think that -- a number of people in terms of journalistic effort if they ever wanted. To focus on fraud should go after Blackwater should go after these Wall Street bankers. And when you look at -- court I think that's what people think wait a minute these folks are trying to help poor people. Get a house. Are we putting in not journalistic resources into scandal that. Pays off in large negative 53 million over like fourteen years that's a margin of error Dana I don't know elections is a more -- battling in the money all right."