Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Bunch

Jay Tea:

Well, gosh golly, does it get more fun than this?

The whole ACORN video sting story just keeps getting better and better. It started off with Baltimore ACORN employees trying to help an admitted pimp and prostitute buy a house to turn into a brothel, complete with illegal-alien underage girls brought into the US as sex slaves. ACORN responded by saying that the stingers had tried their scam at several other offices and were turned away, and the Baltimore "rogues" were promptly fired. They also threatened to sue the filmmakers and Fox News, and Baltimore officials (staunch Democrats) muttered about bringing criminal charges.

Then the filmmakers dropped shoe #2 -- a second video, at a second ACORN office (this one in DC), and a second set of ACORN employees advising them on how to set up their brothel for underage illegal alien sex slaves. This led to a second round of firings and more legal threats.

Apparently the filmmakers are part millipede, because shoe #3 fell over the weekend -- a third ACORN office (Brooklyn) with more "rogue" ACORN employees eagerly helping set up the brothel for underage illegal alien sex slaves. I'll go out on a limb and predict ACORN's response: more firings, more legal threats.

The filmmakers won't say how many more ACORN offices they visited, or even if there are more videos. They are content to release one, then sit back and wait for ACORN to issue their pro forma repudiations, then drop another in a few days. It's simple, but brilliant strategy -- it keeps the story going, and gives ACORN plenty of rope to hang themselves with between tapes.

So, how about those legal threats?

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The state's case is much cleaner. If prosecutors choose to push it, then the filmmakers could be in a bit of hot water.

But any victory by the state's Democratic machine would be purely tactical. Strategically, it's a huge loser.

First up, you KNOW these kids will have a legal defense fund set up. And you KNOW that fund will break seven or eight figures in very, very short order.

Second, it will do precisely what their "death of a thousand cuts" release strategy has been doing -- keep the story going. But it'll do it far, far better than letting the videos out in drips and drabs.

Third, it will subject ACORN to the whole "legal discovery" mess, as the filmmakers' attorneys will be going over every single document within ACORN with a fine-toothed comb.

Fourth, it will encourage the now-fired employees to turn on ACORN, as they will be hard-pressed to show that what they did was not simply them going off on their own, but following ACORN's rules -- both written and unwritten. Rules such as "don't ask too many questions" or "sealing the deal is foremost" or "we're not the police, and we're not here to judge" or the like.

So far, this whole mess has cost ACORN its deal with the Census Department (and good riddance). It's led to more and more calls for Congressional investigations into just what they're doing (especially with taxpayers' money), and sooner or later even the Obama Justice Department (which chose to drop a voter-intimidation case against the Black Panthers after they had won a conviction) will have to start answering questions why ACORN is NOT the subject of a RICO investigation.

Until then... pass the popcorn, please. I'm fresh out.