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California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown said in a report Thursday that the community organizing group ACORN engaged in “highly inappropriate behavior” in the state but violated no criminal law.

Brown’s office launched an investigation of ACORN’s California operations at the request of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in September, after the release of videos that appeared to show ACORN employees advising people about how to engage in prostitution and other illegal activity.

ACORN, the Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now, disbanded Thursday after months of controversy over the videos and various government investigations.

You can continue reading more about being guilty until proven innocent in America over at the LA Times.

Last night, the New York Times issued a pathetic “correction” in which the paper finally admitted it had gotten one very important element of the ACORN “Pimp” Hoax story wrong by reporting on at least four occasions that Rightwing activist James O’Keefe had dressed in his ridiculous 70s-era blaxploitation “pimp” get-up while secretly video-taping low-level ACORN and ACORN Housing workers last Summer. He didn’t. That was a lie by O’Keefe and his publisher Andrew Breitbart, and it was forwarded uncritically by the New York Times over and over again.

The “correction” came six months after the Times first damagingly misreported the story, and was followed by repeated similar misreports. It also came on the same day that the four-decade-old community organization announced it had been forced to close shop in the wake of the phony scandal, which was helped along by the gross misreporting by the Times and many others that followed suit.

But the Times’ correction still made it a point to include the false notion that, while O’Keefe didn’t dress as a pimp in ACORN offices, he still “represented himself” as one, by “posing” as a pimp.

Well, no, as we’ve shown time and again, he didn’t do that either. He posed as the law school student (or sometimes a banker or politician) boyfriend to Hannah Giles who was dressed similarly to a prostitute. During the secretly-taped interviews, they both told the low-level ACORN and ACORN Housing workers they were trying to save her from an abusive pimp who had attempted to stalk and kill her.

Yet, the Times is still standing by its inaccurate reporting.

Brad Friedman of the BradBlog has been all over this story. You can read the rest of this article, including transcripts here. Since ACORN is shutting down its operations, it looks like media outlets like the Times will have to find another organization to kick around to help them sell papers. I’d suggest they check into Sean Hannity’s so-called charity. And poor James O’Keefe will have to find another group to make cleverly-edited videos of, once he’s done serving his sentence for the felony he committed, of course.