ACORN behind "Occupy" movement?

[Kingcreek]

I don't s'pose we should be too surprised.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/26/exclusive-acorn-playing-behind-scenes-role-in-occupy-movement/

[dogmush]

They're providing the South American hookers exchange students?

[longeyes]

Shocked. Shocked.

But, Santa, there IS no ACORN, right???

[Jamie B]

Egads, a conspiracy confirmed by "anonymous sources"!?

I'll pass on legitimacy at this point.....

[Perd Hapley]

If they gave a left-wing protest, and ACORN wasn't involved, would it actually take place in this space-time continuum? I mean, who else is going to plan your arrestables?

Oh, and talking about a political agit-prop .org having a part in a sympathetic political agit-prop movement isn't exactly a conspiracy theory. 

[Matthew Carberry]

Substitute "behind", which I think is overstatement that casts unnecessary doubt on the credibility of anything that follows, with "buttressing" or "subverting" or any number of other verbs that more accurately reflect how the Left deals with populist movements and I think it is at least following up on.

[slingshot]

ACORN fits perfectly with the general anti-business anti-individualism aspect of the "wall street" protesters.  It appears that the thrust of the whole deal is the participants want a more socialistic USA with more income redistribution.  Don't we have enough now?

But I don't think the organization that was ACORN is behind the demonstrations.

[MechAg94]

I do recall someone on the radio reporting that one of the organizations hiring protestors was a former ACORN umbrella org or at least funded by the same people. 

[longeyes]

I just heard three OWS members on KFI radio in Los Angeles.  Don't blame ACORN, blame our public education system and over-indulgent parents.  This trio sounded as the Founding Fathers might have if they had been educated at Whatever H.S. and were B- students full of themselves and fuller yet of mashed-up ideas someone told them were brilliant too many times.