ACORN has taken a lot of heat in the last few days, thanks to the efforts of a couple of daring conservative activists and the multiplying power of Beck, Hannity, Rush, et. al.  And it looks like they've managed to crack the nut, so to speak.  ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis is "immediately ordering a halt to any new intakes into ACORN’s service programs until completion of an independent review," according to a press release sent this afternoon.  It looks like the bell is tolling on ACORN, and all thanks to a couple of young, motivated conservative activists.

You have to love what the left does when confronted by controversy. Let's have a training! I'd say ACORN's staff needs more than just training to get past accepting the idea of child abuse and child prostitution, as the fourth video shows.  Lewis has dictated the following actions:

* No new intakes will be accepted into ACORN’s offices for service programs, effective immediately;

* An immediate in-service training for all frontline staff has been ordered within 48 hours;

* ACORN’s independent Advisory Council will help select an independent auditor/reviewer no later than September 18th to review all of the systems and processes called into question by the videos.

It will be interesting to see how and even if this step is covered by the MSM.  I mean, the story was totally ignored on some major outlets, like MSNBC. Jon Stewart had some fun with the story - and who can't see the hilarity in an organization with a serious government (read: taxpayer-funded) contract hiring hookers and encouraging prostitution?  I certainly can, when you consider just how seriously we're supposed to regard ACORN and their "services."

So now we have word that ACORN is going to conduct an investigation and halt services, perhaps Congress can get down to the business of firing them for good.  Unless they're still preoccupied with dictating the language used to criticize the president. 

Priorities of the left never cease to baffle me.