Krauthammer: ACORN Has Tainted Obama

TRANSCRIPT–Guest-host Guy Benson discussed ACORN with Charles Krauthammer on Friday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show”:

Guy Benson: Charles, I want to quickly shift, as we have just a little over a minute left here, to the home front, and a domestic story that is breaking within the last few minutes, which is the Census Bureau citing the brewing and growing scandal at ACORN, they have cut ties with ACORN entirely when it comes to the 2010 Census. Your reaction?



Charles Krauthammer: ACORN has all of the appearance of a criminal racket. This is graphic appearance, incredibly strong evidence, but it’s at the end of a long list of evidence going back years and years. I’m glad that the Census is cutting its ties. What I’m worried about is that the Stimulus package had millions of dollars, and there are loopholes in there which would allow it to end up in the hands of ACORN, and that’s what people ought to be looking at right now.

GB: Yes.

CK: That’s where our investigative journalism ought to be headed. Are they now going to be getting our tax money in large doses to continue their, what appear to be racketeering operations?

GB: Yeah, and billions, potentially, of dollars.

CK: Exactly. Huge, I mean.

GB: And again, you also cannot separate ACORN from the President of the United States. He was one of them.

CK: He was. I mean, I’m not sure that that is a tie that was in any way racketeering at the time. I don’t think there’s any evidence of that.

GB: Correct.

CK: But there was a tie, and I think it tainted him to a large extent because of what ACORN did subsequently.