Know who else has ties to ACORN? The conservative blog RedState, among others. At least if you use the same convoluted right-wing logic that ties ACORN to everything to do with Obama:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909230030
I wonder if they’re going to distance themselves from ACORN as well, seeing as how they’re tied together and all.

According to a recently released study, there was never one instance of actual “voter
fraud” associated with ACORN. The detailed analysis found that MSM never fact checked much of the information they picked up from the right wing smear machine.
The reported instances of voter registration problems were reported by ACORN as required by law, such as Mickey Mouse being registered.
It all goes back to the Republicans not liking ACORN because they register voters that rarely vote for Republicans.
Manipulating the Public Agenda:
Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong
Download the Full Report (PDF) http://tinyurl.com/y9cp8nz
Using the controversy over ACORN as a case study, this report illustrates the way the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped. It describes how “opinion entrepreneurs” (primarily business and conservative groups and individuals) set the story in motion as early as 2006, how the “conservative echo chamber” orchestrated its anti-ACORN campaign in 2008, how the McCain-Palin campaign picked it up, and how the mainstream media reported these allegations without investigating their truth or falsity. As a result, the relatively little-known community organization became the subject of a major news story in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, to the point where 82 percent of the respondents in an October 2008 national survey reported they had heard about ACORN.
The mainstream news media failed to fact?check persistent allegations of “voter
fraud” despite the existence of easily available countervailing evidence. The media
also failed to distinguish allegations of voter registration problems from allegations of
actual voting irregularities. They also failed to distinguish between allegations of
wrongdoing and actual wrongdoing.
Executive Summary Highlights.
• The activities of the community organizing group ACORN became a high profile news story in 2008, particularly toward the end of the presidential election campaign, when the Republican candidates and other conservatives attacked ACORN. More than 60% of all stores about ACORN during 2007 and 2008 appeared in the single month of October 2008, creating a well-orchestrated “October Surprise.”
• Although the 2008 presidential election is long over, conservative opinion entrepreneurs and the conservative media echo chamber remain fixated on ACORN, and poised to inject their frame about ACORN as an issue in the 2010 and 2012 national elections.
• Since Obama took office in January 2009, conservatives have continued to attack ACORN and tried to link ACORN to Obama and the Democrats. Criticism of ACORN has been a consistent story on Fox News and conservative talk shows, and in conservative publications, websites, and columns in mainstream newspapers.
For example:
. In early 2009, GOP allegations that the Democrats in Congress specifically targeted billions of stimulus funds for ACORN became news stories despite the fact that it was not true
. In July 2009, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released a report, “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?” that repeated many of the allegations made during the 2008 campaign and that generated media attention
. On August 11, 2009, the House Judiciary Committee released over 5,000 pages of White House and Republican National Committee e-mails, along with transcripts of closed-door testimony by Karl Rove, former Bush senior advisor and deputy chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, former White House counsel.
The documents revealed that Rove played a central role in the firing of David C. Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, for failing to help Republican election prospects by prosecuting alleged instances of voter fraud by ACORN.
Nearly every major news organization reported on the Judiciary Committee’s unveiling of the e-mails and transcripts, but none of them—including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal—mentioned that Rove was specifically focused on attacking ACORN for its voter registration efforts in New Mexico and other states, even though ACORN is mentioned frequently as a Republican target in the investigative documents.

Michele makes more misleading/false statements, “Not surprising that the IRS would sever ties with an organization that helps clients defraud the government out of tax revenue:”
Where is your support that ACORN actually helped clients defraud the government out of tax revenue?
According to a recently released study, there was never one instance of actual “voter
fraud” associated with ACORN. The detailed analysis found that MSM never fact checked much of the information they picked up from the right wing smear machine.
The reported instances of voter registration problems were reported by ACORN as required by law, such as Mickey Mouse being registered.
It all goes back to the Republicans not liking ACORN because they register voters that rarely vote for Republicans.
Manipulating the Public Agenda:
Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong
Download the Full Report (PDF) http://tinyurl.com/y9cp8nz

If Senator Reid doesn’t have time for investigation of Xe, who used to be Blackwater, and the claims of murder and kidnapping in Iraq, or Halliburton, and the claims of manslaughter for their shoddy electrical work, or their serving adulterated food in Iraq, then I can understand why he doesn’t have time for a group that has a much lower level of funding through the American government.
It just sounds like more of the conservatives IOKIYAR.

Will House “De-Fund ACORN Bill” De-Fund Military Contractors?
By Jake Tapper, ABC (Michele has previously said he is not one of the lapdog White House Press)
“ACORN should be held to the same high standards of every other government contractor,” says Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Florida. “But there are bigger fish to fry.”
Before being elected to Congress, Grayson was a former government contracts lawyer and brought False Claims Act cases on behalf of whistleblowers against contractors, including many in Iraq. He now sits on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees of both the House Financial Services Committee and House Science and Technology Committee.
“We can’t have a situation where the laws of justice are applied to one organization and not to any of the others, particularly when there are organizations that are polluting water for our soldiers and electrocuting them,” Grayson says.
Contractor KBR installed electrical wiring in Iraq that led to electrocution deaths of US soldiers. One such death, of Green Beret Sgt. Ryan Maseth, was classified by the Army Criminal Investigations Division as a “negligent homicide,” though the Pentagon ruled it would not pursue criminal charges.
The Florida Democrat says that the legislation the House passed characterized as banning federal funds from ACORN is actually much more broadly written than that, and could impact hundreds of companies if signed into law.
The House bill, offered by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., bans Federal contracts, grants, funds, and agreements from any covered organization — including “(a)ny organization that has filed a fraudulent form with any Federal or State regulatory agency.”
“De-fund the crooks,” he says. “The numbers of those who have filed fraudulent forms with the government — it’s like a who’s who of government contracting.”
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Company, Raytheon, General Dynamics — major companies are cited on the Project on Government Oversight’s “Contractor Misconduct” website, Grayson points out.
http://tinyurl.com/y897d5l
Top 100 Contractor Misconduct
http://www.contractormisconduct.org/

Manipulating the Public Agenda:
Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong
ACORN Study by Professional Journalism College SEPTEMBER 2009 (61 page report that demonstrates the Republican organized attacks against ACORN for political purposes and the false or misleading MSM reporting, even by the supposed liberal media)
Using the controversy over ACORN as a case study, this report illustrates the way the media help set the agenda for public debate, and frame the way that debate is shaped. It describes how “opinion entrepreneurs” (primarily business and conservative groups and individuals) set the story in motion as early as 2006, how the “conservative echo chamber” orchestrated its anti-ACORN campaign in 2008, how the McCain-Palin campaign picked it up, and how the mainstream media reported these allegations without investigating their truth or falsity.
. On August 11, 2009, the House Judiciary Committee released over 5,000 pages of White House and Republican National Committee e-mails, along with transcripts of closed-door testimony by Karl Rove, former Bush senior advisor and deputy chief of staff, and Harriet Miers, former White House counsel.
The documents revealed that Rove played a central role in the firing of David C. Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, for failing to help Republican election prospects by prosecuting alleged instances of voter fraud by ACORN.
Nearly every major news organization reported on the Judiciary Committee’s unveiling of the e-mails and transcripts, but none of them—including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal—mentioned that Rove was specifically focused on attacking ACORN for its voter registration efforts in New Mexico and other states, even though ACORN is mentioned frequently as a Republican target in the investigative documents.
http://tinyurl.com/y9cp8nz

“61 page report that demonstrates the Republican organized attacks against ACORN for political purposes and the false or misleading MSM reporting, even by the supposed liberal media”
no disrespect, julie, but… duh. i think everyone that’s not a right-wing hack or a complete brainless boob already knew that. still, thanks for the link.