ACORN Thanks Rachel Maddow

For weeks, FOX News has been hammering away at our reputation. They've been playing the "undercover" videos and repeating anti-ACORN talking points. But to the other networks, this story simply wasn't news (after all, the "undercover" agents were agents of attack media - not government, not journalists). Nobody except FOX and related "news" organizations were reporting this story. That kind of silence turned out to be poison. Glenn Beck and friends dominated the public discourse regarding ACORN. When they told their audience to call Congress, their audience listened and lobbied their leaders against ACORN. And when members of Congress felt that the majority of public opinion was turning against ACORN, it was because the only information people were expressing opinions about was fed to them directly by FOX and their followers. But not any more. Rachel Maddow reported the truth about ACORN this week, day-after-day, during a mult-part segment of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show called "The Truth About the Lies About ACORN." Thank you, Rachel Maddow. If you haven't seen Rachel Maddow's ACORN segments, watch one now. Then sign our thank you note to let Rachel Maddow know you appreciate her standing up for the truth -- when nobody else will. Here's one of Rachel Maddow's quotes that you won't hear anywhere else: "What you might not know from all the breathless ACORN damnation coverage is what ACORN actually does. They do things like advocating for a higher minimum wage. They do things like helping low-income families file their taxes. They do things like helping low-income families find jobs. They do things like registering people to vote. That kind of work, as you might expect, has the tendencies to rile up the kinds of industries that really don't want the minimum wage to go up and really aren't that psyched about lots of poor people being registered to vote." It's a simple thing she's doing, just providing critical analysis of the news. But when the public debate is being drowned out by the shouting heads of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, then I, for one, am very thankful for Rachel Maddow. Please watch the video and send Rachel Maddow a note of thanks for her work. We've all got a lot of work to do, but if we don't stop to thank each other once in a while, then we're missing the point. Thank you, too. In solidarity and strength, Bertha Lewis ACORN CEO and Chief Organizer