The official White House blog blasted Fox News and Glenn Beck for disregarding the facts. Specifical, the White House was attempting to refute reports that Patrick Gaspard, the White House Director of Political Affairs, was formerly the right-hand man of the current head of ACORN.
Well, here's the support they cited, the St. Petersburg Times Politifact, a fact check blog. Read carefully and you'll note that ultimately, they were relying on an article which relied on ACORN founder, Wade Rathke's own blog posting, which he later disavowed. Still, Gaspard worked with SEIU in New York, which shares its corporate headquarters with ACORN (along with a number of other groups) here in New Orleans and the two organizations are nearly interchangeable. Seems like if the White House had better evidence, they wouldn't have reached for what is, at best, a technical error.
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