I'm not accusing the above poster of gossip and smear mongering. I am accusing the people who are generating the gossip and smear mongering that the above poster has taken as facts.

I don't have to prove ACORN's innocence. In the United States of America, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, it is the burden of those who are making the accusations to prove them. If they do not, we can safely say that the accusations have no basis in fact and are nothing more than gossip and smear mongering.