MediaMatters: Right-wing agenda-driven journalism nothing new when it comes to ACORN — Media Matters for America recently released a report documenting the obsessive attention Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck have devoted to ACORN — due, of course, to their self-professed determination to expose taxpayer-funded waste, fraud, and abuse wherever it appears. As such, Media Matters compared the focus each host’s television programs have given to the story with their coverage of well-documented political scandals involving Jack Abramoff and Bob Ney, as well as massive corruption scandals engulfing Halliburton, Blackwater, and KBR — corporations which have received thousands of times more money from the government than ACORN ever has. The results were shocking: taken together, Beck and Hannity have been approximately 35 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors, and 24 times more likely to reference ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney. [ READ MORE ]

and Clarence Page writes:

Most of the right’s recent obsession with ACORN, founded in 1970 in Arkansas as an organization for poor people, does not grow out of concern for poor people. It grows largely out of a faint hope that bringing down ACORN will help them to bring down Obama. Back in 1995, young Harvard Law grad Barack Obama helped ACORN and a team of Chicago attorneys — along with the U. S. Department of Justice — win a lawsuit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal “motor-voter” bill. The organization and the former community organizer have not had much contact since, other than connections that have been alleged or exaggerated by conservative media. [ READ MORE ]

On Maddow, Scahill says “ACORN got pennies compared to” war contracting firms linked to “murder,” “child prostitution,” “misconduct against American personnel“

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