The ACORN Lawsuit: Compounding Folly

Seen at American Power:

This lawsuit is damage control of the worst kind. It hasn't been well thought out, will do nothing to squelch the firestorm and Lord only knows what could come out about ACORN during the 'discovery phase' of the suit.

Even those on the far Left aren't claiming that the various ACORN employees caught on film are innocent. Mainly, the Left's reaction has been , "yeah, so?" It is doubtful that the lawsuit will rouse the Left one way or another?

ACORN would have been wiser to take their lumps and move on.

The American Power story is here.

ACORN Files Suit In Maryland

Via Memeorandum:

ACORN has filed suit against filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles as well as Breitbart.com. In addition to ACORN, employees Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams are listed as plaintiffs.

Bertha Lewis, head of ACORN, speaking to Chris Wallace of Fox this weekend:

We've made sure since I've become the CEO that affiliates have firewalls
between them. I know that back last year we were outraged that the board didn't
know about the previous chief organizer's activities.

I've completely overhauled all of our finances, all of our controls.
And he was fired immediately, just as in this instance with these tapes we
terminated folks immediately.

... and making sure that our corporate structure is aboveboard,
it is open. The "R" in ACORN stands for reform. And not only do we think we want
to reform public policy, but internally let's have some reform...

If Lewis is honestly intent on ensuring that ACORN is "aboveboard", why are they suing the filmmakers and Breitbart rather than thanking them for bringing the corrupt employees to the organization's attention? Further, if the employees were not acting on behalf of ACORN and within understood parameters, why have they been allowed (invited?) to join ACORN in its lawsuit?

I am not sure that a lawsuit is necessarily a bad thing. It is my understanding that the suit opens ACORN to the discovery process. That could make things very interesting.

What Does Breitbart Have Up His Sleave?

Via Memeorandum:

Breitbart Promises New Bombshell from “Left Field” according to Patterico's Pontification. If the "ACORN tapes" have shown anything, it is that Breitbart is the go to guy when it comes to exposing corruption. Not to downplay Breitbart's tremendous work, but the MSM's "see no evil, hear no evil" attitude towards the Obama administration and its buddies at ACORN, has pushed Breitbart to the forefront.

Patterico's take:

If you’re trying to figure out what the next big shoe to drop might be, I
suggest that you consider re-reading his column to see what he identified as the
second story that demonstrates the media’s complicity with the Democrat party.
Namely, the NEA...

Well the NEA scandal certainly has been ignored by the MSM. The White House participating in a teleconference with the NEA where it promises funding, i.e., taxpayer money, in return for favorable treatment certainly would be scandalous in any other administration. In this administration it strikes me as right in line with the decades old, Chicago way, corruption.

However, I would not be surprised if the next bombshell is even bigger than ACORN, which would make it far bigger than the NEA. So I'll throw in my two cents, or in this case , two words: Big Labor. Either way, we will all know next week.