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Remember those videos showing Acorn employees openly flouting the law to encourage a pimp and prostitute to flout the law and even helping to smuggle underage girls into the U.S.? You might be surprised to find that the states who have investigated these crimes have declined to press charges. Why? Perhaps because all the video you saw on TV was bullshit - more heavily edited than primetime "reality" TV to frame Acorn employees.

Rachel Maddow has a lot of the details:

I'm waiting for Fox News to clarify that the Acorn employee who was supposedly going to help smuggle underage girls across the border, actually called the police to report an imminent crime immediately after the Republican operatives left the office. To be clear: this man was convicted on national TV for a crime he acted to prevent.

But Rachel is right, the right-wing media has totally destroyed one of the strongest advocates for poor people in the country -- by inventing a bullshit story. Who will they go after next?