Do you remember all the shouting and finger pointing at ACORN after some young Republicans decided they were going to to get the goods on the evil, communist, Jihadist organization masquerading as community organizers?

It turns out — why am I not surprised? — that an independent report, led by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, has found that:

While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographers.

Harshbarger’s investigation further found that — gasp! — those young Republicans played fast and loose with the videos.

The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O’Keefe’s and Ms. Giles’s comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding. A comparison of the publicly available transcripts to the released videos confirms that large portions of the original video have been omitted from the released versions.

Clearly, these young Republicans, raised on the rape, pillage, plunder and burn philosophy of Karl Rove and Dick Cheney, have learned their lessons well. Nothing, absolutely nothing, is off the table if you are to save the Republic for the likes of Democrats and President Barack Hussein Obama.

And, by the way, ACORN is now suiing the federal governmet. I only wish there were a way a judge could deduct settlement from the pay of every Congresscritter who voted for the silly law.

Via TPM…