Yeah, yeah, I know: you’re all broke up about it:
Well, try to control yourselves. After all, there are hordes of bloggers — OK, a couple — who staked their reputations on the idiotic “gotcha” of whether James O’Keefe actually wore the famous “pimp cape” in ACORN’s offices, and fell on their faces, so let’s show a decent respect to the opinions of mankind for their inconsolable grief.
In the end, much of the defense of ACORN, such as it was, boiled down the fact that Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes — whose impartial commitment to justice has been questioned before — did not actually indict the organization. Since the Brooklyn DA could have, as the saying goes, indicted a ham sandwich with less effort, the ACORN apologists — some of whom work at least indirectly for this man, although they lamely deny it with the same literal-mindedness that characterizes all of their work — took this as a major victory.
You know, like Big Jule in Guys and Dolls:
Well, I used to be bad when I was a kid, but ever since then I’ve gone straight, as has been proved by my record: Thirty-three arrests and no convictions!
So good-bye, ACORN. And good-bye, to you too, Media Matters. You bet on the wrong horse. Wasn’t the first time, and probably won’t be the last. After all, a sucker is born every minute.
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