An email:

Further to your comment on the patronizing aspect of the NYT, Kathryn.
The first two paragraphs are so accurate and so self-damning. Those two paragraphs could have been the word-for-word lead on a Corner post! The NYT article begins and ends with the same news, specifically, we aren`t on top of the news.
“Don`t just tell us what`s going on, you dummies. You can tell us for months and months. It`s not going to work! Get amateur actors… posing as a PROstitute and PIMP!!! THEN we`ll notice.”

The opening:

WASHINGTON — For months during last year’s presidential race, conservatives sought to tar the Obama campaign with accusations of voter fraud and other transgressions by the national community organizing group Acorn , which had done some work for the campaign.
But it took amateur actors, posing as a prostitute and a pimp and recorded on hidden cameras in visits to Acorn offices, to send government officials scrambling in recent days to sever ties with the organization

Shameless, but transparently so.