Anyone who saw the ACORN tapes should be disturbed. Three workers–one each in Baltimore, DC, and NY–calmly coached a supposed pimp and his whore on how to gain housing assistance illegally. On top of that, the *way* they coached these guys was unsettlingly similar.

Yes, the sting was contrived. Yes, they probably edited out offices where no one coached them to do anything illegally. But they got three workers to do it fairly casually.

I agree with Rachel in that we shouldn’t do anything unconstitutional, and I agree that all government contractors should be held accountable for their actions. But let’s not let ACORN off the hook. They need to clean up their house.