Joe Conason asks if it’s time to reopen Breitbart’s ACORN fraud — and get the story right.

Why, yes. Yes, it is.

Real justice, as I suspect Sherrod would agree, also requires due process for Andrew Breitbart, the Internet impresario who framed her on his Big Government website. In these circumstances, that means a fair, thorough and tough examination of the media fraud that launched his operation last year: the ACORN tapes, whose misuse by Breitbart closely parallels his behavior in the Sherrod affair.

Yes, there certainly is more than a passing resemblance; the race-baiting aspect, the targeting of an organization that helps poor minorities, and the smears directed against innocent people.

There’s also more than a passing resemblance to a certain Republican Senator from Wisconsin, but with an ugly racial intent.