Like radical fabulist Eric Alterman, small-c communist Amy Goodman is the latest left-wing propagandist to attempt to spread the lie that ACORN was set up by a vast right-wing conspiracy. They claim that the undercover videos showing ACORN employees offering advice on establishing a brothel for pedophiles were doctored.

“Democracy Now!” anchor Goodman, who makes a guest appearance in my book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, claims in a Guardian (UK) column that the criminals of ACORN were set up.

“While Acorn was ultimately exonerated by a congressional investigation, the attack took its toll, and the organisation lost its funding and collapsed,” she writes. [emphasis added]

In fact ACORN has never been exonerated by any congressional investigation. The House Oversight and Government Committee issued many reports harshly criticizing ACORN.

And even if the group had been cleared, just a few weeks ago ACORN was convicted in a massive voter fraud conspiracy in Nevada.

Both Alterman and Goodman are taking a cue from ACORN executive Nathan Henderson-James who last year urged those on the left to push the fairy tale that ACORN was done in not by its own criminality and corruption but by boogeymen such as Fox News and Andrew Breitbart.

Expect these lying leftists to continue pushing their dishonest storyline.