The latest meme to roll off the conveyor belt at the Fox News hate factory is that community organizations such as Acorn are responsible for the subprime debacle.  Of course, Barack Obama has "ties" with these "radical allies."  The Fox News ticker was reporting only on this topic for like ten minutes.  This aspect of the crisis literally does not exist in the world of MSNBC.

Acorn and other groups supported laws that would make it easier for the poor to buy homes.  So they are the real culprits in this mess, not the banks or the loansharks or the real estate boosters.  Ann Coulter agrees, of course.  I got this message in my inbox the other day: THEY GAVE YOUR MORTGAGE TO A LESS QUALIFIED MINORITY

And the hawk-eyed conservatives have also noted that unqualified Hispanic employees were responsible for the collapse of Washington Mutual.  I guess they must be the reason why WaMu ran all those ridiculous ads in which their plucky young employee - a black man - torments the stuffy, aristocratic old white male bankers for the sake of the common people.  Poor bankers!  If only they had been able to run their companies without the interference of incompetent minorities, maybe this whole mess would never have happened.

Reading up on the extreme hostility of the business press and right-wing blogs toward Acorn and other community groups is truly eye-opening.  It puts Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin's jeering of "community organizers" at the RNC in a whole new light.   The foolish speculation among liberals that denouncing community organizers was mere code language for racism completely missed the point -- something that I sort of vaguely, instinctively sensed while watching Palin's RNC speech.  They don't hate Obama-the-community-organizer because he's black or urban, per se.  They revile the idea of these organizers as mini bureaucrats, proxies of the liberal nanny state who want to come in and tell you what to do.  Obama the busybody.  "It's a community, and it doesn't need to be organized!" Palin said, to uproarious applause. 

As you can tell from reading the articles below, conservatives basically see liberal community organizations as the bastard lovechildren of the Community Party and the mafia, training cadres to tamper with the system and bilk taxpayers.  They are "corrupt."

Check it out:

The Investor's Business Daily: Democrats want to use profits from the bailout as a slush fund for liberal activist groups, even those involved in vote fraud to help elect Barack Obama...

Renew America: B. Hussein Obabma was at the center of ACORN. As a community organizer he was right there with the corruption. He trained ACORN workers and they in turn worked on his campaign in Illinois...