ACORN Redeemed, FOX Revealed

by Nathan Walpow

Remember those young people who posed as a hooker and pimp to "infiltrate" ACORN and get all sorts of info about how to further their prostitution business, like smuggling underage girls from Mexico? Turns out (as if we didn’t know) the footage was heavily edited. And info, like the fact that one of the ACORN employees, after seeming to help smuggle said girls, called the cops the minute the two left the office, was omitted. California Attorney General Jerry Brown (and the Times says he’s behind Meg Whitman in the governor’s race, which proves the populace has a short memory) did some research, and Rachel Maddow reports.

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