File this under "mind-bogglingly stupid" ideas, said Patrick Edaburn in The Moderate Voice. ACORN has filed a lawsuit against filmmaker-activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles (and conservative website Breitbart.com, which posted their work) for secretly videotaping "various ACORN workers seemingly supporting the importation of underage sex slaves." Does ACORN really want to open its records to lawyers working for its enemies (watch an undercover video shot in an ACORN office)?
ACORN gets "points for chutzpah, I guess," said Kevin Drum in Mother Jones. But, with this ill-advised lawsuit, the community-organizing group is just "extending the news cycle on this whole debacle, making fools of themselves with transparently petty arguments, and just generally showing less common sense than your average mafia don caught on a 60 Minutes sting." When you're caught in the act, "shooting the messenger" is a bad idea.
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