{"id":3928,"date":"2010-02-23T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2010-02-23T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T15:51:28","slug":"acorn-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3928\/acorn-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"ACORN By Any Other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith of politico.com <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0210\/ACORN_dissolved_as_a_national_structure.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> yesterday that \u201cthe embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Consistent with what the internal recommendations have been, each of the states are developing plans for reconstitution independence and self-sufficiency,\u2019 said the official, citing ACORN\u2019s \u2018diminished resources, damage to the brand, unprecedented attacks.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To this unsurprising development, we can only add that, to corrupt an old adage, manure by any other name smells the same.\u00a0 Weren\u2019t those local offices that James O\u2019Keefe and Hannah Giles exposed in their undercover videos?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Smith of politico.com reported yesterday that \u201cthe embattled liberal group ACORN is in the process of dissolving its national structure, with state and local chapters splitting off from the underfunded, controversial national group, an official close to the group confirmed&#8230;. \u201c\u2018Consistent with what the internal recommendations have been, each of the states are developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}