It's Hard Out Here for a Pro-Choice Pimp

To understand the latest media-manufactured noncontroversy of February 2011, it is necessary to go back to September 2009. The month started lousy for liberals, and it got lousier. On the 6th, White House "green jobs czar" Van Jones resigned, mortally wounded when a conservative blog found a 9/11 conspiracy petition with his name on it. Four days later, Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com released a hidden camera video, filmed by young conservatives who pretended to be a prostitute and a pimp concerned for her welfare and who asked for tax advice from the community group ACORN. More ACORN tapes followed; on the 17th, the day that the last one went online, the House of Representatives—then controlled by Democrats—voted to ban any government funds for ACORN.