Time to Get Real About ACORN “Controversy” -- and Republican Double Standards

by Robert Creamer via Beyond Chron

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 6:42AM

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 : It's time to get real about the Republican distraction du jour - the great ACORN controversy. The bottom line is this: if the same standard used to prevent ACORN from receiving federal contracts were applied to many large corporations -- Boeing, financial institutions like AIG and CitiCorp, not to speak of private military contractors like Blackwater -- they would all have been barred as federal contractors long ago.

But instead of being blacklisted, many of them actually received billions of taxpayer dollars to bail them out.

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