WTF is with the RW obsession with ACORN? [View All]

I was listening to Monica Crowley's radio show for a few minutes yesterday and she was going on and on about ACORN, which, by reading various headlines here and elsewhere, seems to have become the right-wing's current all-consuming obsession at the moment. Crowley was ranting, I guess, about the most recent "scandal" involving ACORN and underage illegal immigrants(?) and demanding a Congressional investigation into the organization because she claimed that they are receiving billions and billions of taxpayer dollars and mentioned something about "graft". What is with this "crusade" or, more appropriately, "jihad" against ACORN, exactly? I know that Beck seems to have become the "frontman" of this effort but it appears other tools like Crowley are jumping on the bandwagon as well.
First, as I recall from John McCain, ACORN was supposedly "threatening" American Democracy during last year's election by submitting fraudulent voter registrations even though, as I understood it, they were required, by law to submit EVERY registration they do and flag the questionable ones, which, I believe, they did. Of course, that didn't satisfy the righties.
Now, ACORN is being accused by the right-wing of basically being some kind of vast left-wing criminal enterprise condoned, financed, and supported by Obama and the Democratic Party. I don't know all of the details of the current "scandal" but it seems strange to me that an entire organization is now suspect simply because SOME of its members may have engaged in criminal wrongdoing- for which AFAIK the offending parties were immediately terminated (and may even be prosecuted). I have never heard of an entire organization suddenly becoming suspect simply because of wrongdoing by some of its employees (assuming the leadership is not involved). If that is the case, it would seem to me that practically no organization would be able to exist. Of course, we all know about the right-winger "standards" for Democrats and liberal organizations as opposed to their own organizations. :eyes: I also read that, as a result of pressure from the wingnuts and some of these "scandals", ACORN was removed from helping with the 2010 Census and apparently some right-wingers are even calling for the feds to try Acorn under RICO, a law designed to break up organized crime.
I just don't get it. Can somebody explain this sudden obsession that right-wingers suddenly have with ACORN? I had never even heard anything about them until last year. Is it because of Obama's past as a community organizer that they are suddenly focusing on ACORN- as though they believe that this is somehow one way in which they believe that they can discredit Obama? :shrug: