WHITHER VITTER'S VENDETTA AGAINST ACORN?

From Think Progress last year:

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is the self-proclaimed “most outspoken critic of ACORN.” Following the release of incriminating videos showing ACORN workers giving advice to undercover conservative activists inquiring about how to start a brothel and not get caught, Vitter and other Republicans called for investigations and audits of the organization.
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Vitter’s outrage over the latest ACORN scandal seems extraordinarily hypocritical, in light of what he went through in 2007:

A woman accused of running a Washington prostitution ring placed five phone calls to David Vitter while he was a House member, including two while roll call votes were under way, according to telephone and congressional records.

Vitter, a Louisiana Republican now in the Senate, acknowledged Monday that his number was on the woman’s call list and apologized for a “very serious sin.”

Vitter, of course, kept his federal funding, and remains in the Senate.


COMMENT: Yes, to the great misfortune of the people of Louisiana, Vitter remains in the Senate. The word around in Senate circles is that even his Republican colleagues don't much like Vitter because of his lack of collegiality. Of course, the senators who don't care for Vitter won't say so publicly, because the Republicans hang together and don't criticize each another, except behind closed doors.


From Media Matters also from last year:

Today, in light of mounting questions challenging the credibility and the legality of the ACORN surveillance videos, Media Matters for America calls on Andrew Breitbart to release the full, unedited, and unauthorized footage shot at various ACORN locations across the country -- including locations where the two filmmakers may have been rebuffed. ACORN has said that the surveillance effort failed in "at least seven other locations," including Philadelphia, where ACORN filed a police report against James O'Keefe, and the ACORN worker says that she asked him to leave.

"Given the increasing number of questions about the credibility of these tapes and the people behind them, there is no reason that anyone should accept this footage at face value," said Eric Burns, President of Media Matters. "Anyone committed to responsible journalism would have already released all the unedited tapes in their entirety."


COMMENT: Even more so now than last year, because "filmmaker" James O'Keefe and his associates, the "telephone repairmen", have been arrested for allegedly participating in "a plot to tamper with phones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans....", we should be permitted to see the full unedited ACORN tapes of the "filmmakers" to view the sort of editing that took place.

Lots of other links at Media Matters, if you want to know more.