ACORN Throws Rove "Under The Bus?"

Eschaton comment rescue ~

Joseph Curl(Washington Times): POLITICAL
THEATER

Bertha Lewis is all done with apologies.

Fresh off her ACORN Apology Tour, the group's CEO on Tuesday kicked of her new Denial Tour, charging that nearly every accusation lodged against the embattled community organizing group in recent weeks is not only false but downright racist. And for good measure, she threw in former President George W. Bush's adviser Karl Rove, arch villain and longtime whipping boy of liberals nationwide.

"For many years, there've been folks who've disagreed with our ideology or methodology that have gone after us," Mrs. Lewis said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington. "I mean we, back going to 2004, we now see through e-mails from Karl Rove from the previous administration that ACORN itself was targeted, targeted to go after us so that we would stop doing voter registration because it was said that we were moving too many minorities to vote, changing the power dynamics on the local election and that we needed to be stopped."

It's not Mrs. Lewis's fault that a right-wing pimp and a right-wing whore tried to corrupt some ACORN workers.* The blame lies with the wingnut provocateurs. - Lime Rickey 10.07.09 - 9:09 am #


Meanwhile, Media Matters writes (via facebook) ~ Wash. Post Beck beat: Paper follows Fox host's lead in tying SEIU to ACORN

Plus, Eric Boehlert writes ~ The WashTimes has a Joseph Curl problem

*My theory is that the ACORN scandal-props were a primer for the GOP's push against Charlie Rangel that's coming to a head today on the Hill :-)

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