The Harshbarger Report:A Microcosm of the Right’s Wilfull Misinterpretation of the ACORN Story
Here’s all you need to know about the Harshbarger report. It laid most of the blame for ACORN’s current troubles on former chief organizer Wade Rathke even though no one that worked on the report even attempted to speak to Wade Rathke. Furthermore, most of the problems and solutions identified by the report were first identified by ACORN 8 or members of the organization and yet, again, no one that worked on the report talked to ACORN 8 or any single member of the group. Worse than that, the report congratulates ACORN for taking tangible steps toward correcting the problems since Rathke’s removal even though members of ACORN 8 were removed from the board of ACORN when they tried to sound the alarm on all of this. That all happened after Wade Rathke was removed.
There’s not a single so called leader in the conservative media world that’s saying all of this even though the sphere has written hundreds of thousands of articles about the report. It’s a sad display of total journalistic competence.
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