It’s Tuesday and it’s already started out badly considering I had a 1.5 hour commute because of a huge I-95 traffic jam. Let’s open thread.
This is interesting – was ACORN framed?
Harshbarger also notes that the videos were sometimes less than perfect representations of the events they depict. He writes:
The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O’Keefe’s and Ms. Giles’s comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.
In the wake of the scandal, Congress voted to cut off all federal funds from ACORN. In response, the group is suing the US government, arguing that the measure is a bill of attainder, and therefore unconstitutional.
Will the media cover this as assiduously as they covered the video? I doubt it, IOKIYAR you know.
Today is primary day in Massachusetts. Here’s a look at the primary field, one of whom will probably be Massachusetts’s next senator:
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has comfortably led in both public and private polling throughout the race, and state Democrats believe it would take an upset of significant proportions for any of her three challengers — Rep. Michael Capuano, community service activist Alan Khazei or Boston Celtics co-owner Steve Pagliuca — to emerge victorious.
Khazei was endorsed by the Kennedy family. Capuano is a member of the House Progressive Caucus.