Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010 3:30 PM UTC
Right tries, fails to tar Obama appointee with ACORN
Conservatives' attack on new head of Corporation for National and Community Service based on shoddy reporting
Topics: Acorn, Matt Drudge, War Room, Politics News
For some people on the right, it seems, there’s nothing that can’t be connected in some way to nefarious doings by ACORN. Matthew Vadum, who works for the Capital Research Center and writes for outlets like the American Spectator and David Horowitz’s Newsreal, is one of those people.
Vadum’s latest ACORN-related exposé, written for Newsreal, had to do with Patrick Corvington, who President Obama appointed (and the Senate recently confirmed) to head the Corporation for National and Community Service. Vadum dubbed Corvington a “friend of ACORN,” writing:
Corvington was a senior official at the left-wing Annie E. Casey Foundation of Baltimore, Md., which granted funding to ACORN and other radical groups during his tenure. If Corvington didn’t share the views of the foundation, which promotes racial disharmony and opposes placing juveniles charged with crimes in pretrial detention, he almost certainly couldn’t have gotten a job there.
Since 2001 the Annie E. Casey Foundation has pumped at least $1,705,500 into the ACORN network, according to philanthropy databases.
This little scoop got picked up by the Washington Examiner’s Mark Hemingway, who commented, “Democrats just can’t stay away from ACORN. Even as scandal piles on top of scandal, they continue to embrace the organization.” And, in turn, Hemingway’s item was picked up by the Drudge Report.
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