Throwing ACORN under the bus...

Well, now I believe I’ve seen everything. From the comments to this post at Jake Tapper’s ABC blog (where a different commenter accused him of racism for quoting Ice Cube in the post title), comes this:

bah

The BBC did a really good piece on the truth about ACORN saying that:

ACORN IS THE SMOKE SCREEN FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY... KNOWING THAT THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE RATHER THAN ADMIT THAT THEY HAVE BAD POLICIES AND IDEAS THEY INTEND TO BLAME IT ON ACORN...

SHOULD THE ELECTION BE CLOSE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL TRY TO USE THE COURTS TO ELECT THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES INTO OFFICE...

THIS IS THE GAME PLAN FOX IS SETTING THE GROUND WORK

Posted by: Kellie | Oct 13, 2008 12:00:14 PM

A search of the BBC site didn’t yield any result resembling this story, but plugging "acorn “smoke screen” Republican" into Google turned up a bunch of links to lefty sites that variously claimed the Republicans are using the ACORN issue to

“...create a smoke-screen to mask their [the Republicans'] larger drive to suppress Democratic voters across America”

As an excuse for

“new photo ID restrictions at the polls”

As

“a useful scapegoat for Republican culpability in the current financial meltdown”

And, again

“to distract the media from the voter disenfranchisement that the GOP is busy quietly instigating.”

(All of which, by the way, cast ACORN as a well-meaning, innocent victim of Republican machinations.)

But, alas, no “ACORN is really a secret Republican plot.”  At least, not yet.

That must be tomorrow’s talking point. 

Tomorrow:  When the rising uproar over ACORN’s fraud makes its links to the Obama campaign a damaging liability.  When the Obama campaign decides to throw ACORN under the bus.


HT: “Slublog” (at Ace), for pointing me to the Tapper post.

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